Sebastiano Boina wrote:
PJ commented on the recently released tracks:
Nina in ecstasy:
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"Nina in Ecstasy"- i had purchased the small but mighty Yamaha QY20 (which i still use today), and here i am finding beauty in the lower octaves and soft flute sounds. "Nina in Ecstasy" sounds like a porn film, maybe it was, but my Nina is also lovely, sad, lost lady looking for her mum
That final statement AHAHAHAHH...
during one of my usual evening marathons of PJ's live performances, i came across an interesting and funny finding. in this "white chalk"-era performance,
https://youtu.be/hYLknYDSVw0 , Polly is quite talkative and explains the actual origin of the " Nina in ecstasy" title. quoting from 30:29 bookmark:
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okay, this is one of my favorite songs, which when i wrote it i didn't like it at all, so i put it on the b-side. But now i really really like it (giggles) and its title came from a porn movie... which i wasn't choosing, i was in a hotel and you know when you flip through... and i just flipped and said "eew, what's that?!" and it was called "Nina in ecstasy". so, often... it's a true story, and that's often where songs come from and i spoke to other writers they say the same, in fact maybe if you are probably writers you'd know it you might see a title or something and think "ugh... that could be a song, Nina in ecstasy" U2 are really good at that because sometimes when you go down the street you go "it's a beautiful day!" and (general laugh) "it's very quiet on new year's day", that's another one " it's all quiet on new year's day", we can keep doing this as the evening goes on we can keep thinking of a few titles of everyday phrases... (couldn't get what the last sentence was)
this changes completely my approach to Polly's post:
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"Nina in Ecstasy"- i had purchased the small but mighty Yamaha QY20 (which i still use today), and here i am finding beauty in the lower octaves and soft flute sounds. "Nina in Ecstasy" sounds like a porn film, maybe it was, but my Nina is also lovely, sad, lost lady looking for her mum
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it wasn't an understatement, it wasn't Polly cracking a joke, it was the factual reality on how this song was born. Good Lord what a woman.