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Old 06-06-2017, 21:42
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Die in the Summertime

I feel like this is a waste of a post since it's such an unimportant question but 'I wanna die in the summertime' how do you interpret that? I suppose the obvious conclusion is that that's the season the writer would like to die in but I always wonder if it's that season that makes the writer want to die, the band always spoke about how much they loathed summer in early interviews after all.
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I feel like this is a waste of a post since it's such an unimportant question but 'I wanna die in the summertime' how do you interpret that? I suppose the obvious conclusion is that that's the season the writer would like to die in but I always wonder if it's that season that makes the writer want to die, the band always spoke about how much they loathed summer in early interviews after all.
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Old 06-06-2017, 22:27
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Ah in the summertime of life? Never even considered that one but now that seems the most likely.
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Old 06-06-2017, 22:30
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Yup - die young.........die when everything is still light and bright, before the metaphorical nights start closing in
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There have been two things mentioned about it:
* Richey said it was about wanting to die 'a happy death', and that the is from the point of an old man reflecting on his life
* Simon Price suggested, maybe cheekily, in Everything that the Manics literally hate summer and heat, so he thinks it's a possible meaning.
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Is it true that the first time they played DITS live was Glastonbury 2003? Saw that stat on Setlist.fm. That can't be right surely?
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Old 11-06-2017, 13:25
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Is it true that the first time they played DITS live was Glastonbury 2003? Saw that stat on Setlist.fm. That can't be right surely?
Pretty sure that was the first live performance. I saw them in Carlisle in Oct '96 and listened to James playing it in soundcheck but no performances until Glasto '03.
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I've often wondered about the instrument at the start that sounds Indian Shamanic? I don't think it's on the live versions though perhaps it was played on THB tour.
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I've often wondered about the instrument at the start that sounds Indian Shamanic? I don't think it's on the live versions though perhaps it was played on THB tour.
I'm sure its actually a guitar with a vibrato effect added.
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I'm sure its actually a guitar with a vibrato effect added.
Ok thanks that makes sense. The lyrics and music are amazing. I think they probably didn't play it much because of Richey leaving.
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I'm sure its actually a guitar with a vibrato effect added.
I thought it was James screaming "awoooo" with such an effect applied
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I thought it was James screaming "awoooo" with such an effect applied
Sorry. I got it slightly wrong. According to Alex Silva it was made by switching pickups while the guitar was feeding back.
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Ah in the summertime of life? Never even considered that one but now that seems the most likely.
Yeah, think that's probably most likely.. first couple of verses seem to be bemoaning getting older and having to dye your hair, and a bit of nostalgia chucking sticks in streams without a care in the world.. After that, the song's pretty much disgust and despair at the world heh.

Wonder what Richey would've made of summat like Rewind The Film, which I dare say, in my opinion, is their most beautiful album. Not that they typically do beautiful albums...

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Is it true that the first time they played DITS live was Glastonbury 2003? Saw that stat on Setlist.fm. That can't be right surely?
Yep, was there for that one meself, wish I didn't know they were going to play it but read they were in a Teletext Planet Sound interview. Bloody spoilers in 2003, long before Twitter... Would've been a brilliant surprise, that.
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