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Post by BiteUrLip on Aug 9, 2020 15:14:54 GMT
Music: Elton John
Lyrics: Bernie Taupin
Keyboards and vocals: Elton John
Bass: Romeo Williams
Drums: Jonathan Moffett
Guitar: Davey Johnstone
Guitar and keyboards: Fred Mandel
Keyboards: Guy Babylon
Backing vocals: Marlena Jeter, Natalie Jackson, Mortonette Jenkins, Davey Johnstone
I won't see you 'till Christmas
I breathe coal dust, I get blisters
But the foreman he don't worry
He say work boy there's no hurry
Don't that big red sun
Look a lot like fire
When you come out of the ground
After forty eight hours
Going down down down down down
Going down in Durban deep
Going down down down down down
There's no mercy in my sleep
I just hear that drill and hammer
I feel the killing heat
Going two miles down to the heart
Of Durban deep
I was born on amen corner
I pound rock face, I get lonely
But my family they go hungry
Sill the boss man he call us lazy
Don't the old blue heaven
Look a lot like your eyes
When you're blinded by the brightness
Of the Transvaal sky
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Post by BiteUrLip on Aug 9, 2020 15:16:11 GMT
Sorry I've been absent for a week, my mobile USB internet was missing but today I found it.
The song - I love it! But I don't like the production. The piano has too much reverb and I don't like the sound of drums.
5 stars.
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Post by dougs on Aug 9, 2020 18:09:59 GMT
"Durban Deep" from SLEEPING WITH THE PAST:
After so much inconsistency in the 80s, Elton & Bernie had decided that it was time to release new music worthy of the best of their efforts. They also decided to make the music an homage to those great soul and R&B singers of the 60s and early 70s. The result was 1989's SLEEPING WITH THE PAST recorded in Denmark and produced by Chris Thomas with EJ's recently assembled new band. The opening track for the album is "Durban Deep." The song has a stylized connection with the 1966 hit "Working in the Coal Mine" performed by Lee Dorsey. Chris Thomas' production is contemporary and clean for the time with certain effects for this specific track. The lyric is about South African miners that also incorporates an anti-apartheid sentiment. The song also incorporates a slight reggae feel in its rhythm. The song drives along effectively and is a bit of a step out of the box for Elton, musically. One music author has described "Durban Deep" as "hard and repetitive but also velvety and well structured."
"Durban Deep" is a musically and lyrically interesting song. Too bad that EJ never played this one live in concert. It was a definite breath of fresh air from the duo and is one of their solid over-looked tunes in their vast catalogue.
Rating: 5 stars
Doug
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Post by nix on Aug 11, 2020 13:33:39 GMT
4 interesting
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Post by Commodore Orpington on Aug 15, 2020 7:10:33 GMT
So good, I don't even mind the land mine drums.
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Post by newloneranger on Aug 19, 2020 20:04:35 GMT
Nice opener, never heard it live.
5 stars
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Post by rocketman on Aug 21, 2020 17:37:48 GMT
4.5 stars...Elton's 1980's albums, as much as those from any other decade, featured good to excellent opening songs, and this was no exception, following suit too in being at least somewhat uptempo, which again was a characteristic of the openers on the majority of his 1980's albums. The excess reverb actually works, as does the almost ringing guitar riff and easily recognizable bass line.
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