Black Hearted Love wrote:
Instrumental #1 is in Sarah Miles's A Bunny Girl's Tale - 1998
If that's what I think it is, it appears what "Instrumental #1" is a variation of "Nina in Ecstasy"s melody with a slight drum machine.
Teclo25 wrote:
The buried track has always sounded like "Send His Love to Me". The percussion sounds the same.
That's pretty much my conclusion, too.
And since that's a topic about B-Sides and our conclusions, I want to talk about "
The Northwood" ("A Perfect Day, Elise" single, CD2): the male vocals on there sound exactly like
Nick Cave to me. Now, "discogs.com" says that male vocals are by some "
James Lynch", and also it says that this song is the only thing he ever done (
http://www.discogs.com/PJ-Harvey-A-Perfect-Day-Elise/release/1005687). Kinda suspicious, don't you think? My guess is that Polly Jean and Cave recorded this while they were dating, but later, in 1998, she wasn't sure if she could release the full song without his permission or something, so she made up this name, and made this "sample" (that is, of course, assuming what THERE IS a longer version, and it should).
The fact what right after "The Northwood" there goes "
Sweeter Than Anything" makes even more sense of all of that to me (this song is also about their relationships IMO). "
Now he talks in his sleep, says I (Polly)
have never known peace," – that's probably about Cave's interviews ("She's no woman, she's a freak of nature! One big trip", or "She only went out with me because I was famous"). "
And I don’t know him now, he's a stranger to me".
And, as I know, a lot of fans also think what "
No Girl So Sweet" is about them, too, which once again makes even more sense in context with my previous conclusion / speculation (probably, "
sweet / sweetness" was some sort of their "little secret word" to refer to their relationships).
And on top of all that, another Cave's quote: "
Is This Desire?"
was an uncomfortable record to listen to." So I'm just curious, have mr. Cave heard all of the B-Sides to the album as well? )))