"The original version is hilarious
- it's so funny. I remember when we did it I wanted it to
be the first song on the record - I think I wanted it to
be the title of the record at some point, but a woman at
the record label thought that somehow might be chauvinist.
That version is probably the most involved production I've
ever had on a record, it's like a little mini opera. It
literally has four or five different sections. The arrangement
is exactly the same as the one on Indiana but it's
totally jacked up - I don't know how many tracks it ended
up having. At the time I was sad to see that one go - it
kind of expressed something about a direction that I wanted
to go that I think was important to me at the time because
I sort of saw it coming and it's probably something that's
being more fleshed out with Tangerine and maybe
a little bit with Indiana. At the time I got a
lot of pressure from the record company to try and focus
the album as much as possible, though it still ended up
being one of the more eclectic things I've done anyway.
I just love that big theatrical aspect of music and I felt
like it captured it really well. It's so big, in retrospect
it may have overshadowed me." |