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The Song I Want To Be Remembered For

 

Robbie Williams “Feel”, 2002

“The lyric’s good, it’s a good pop song, it’s got a universal feel to it, but the lyrics aren’t pony, they make you think. They’re as clever as I’m gonna get, and being clever’s a stretch for me. [i wrote it when] I was the most depressed I’ve ever been, I felt awful. And out of that despair came this beautiful song. My first five albums were absolutely massive and I was completely and utterly depressed, which is such a weird dichotomy, to be receiving this much success but actually feeling dreadful. But I wrote about it and people seemed to respond to it.”

 

 

I think Guy Chambers has said Feel is the song he's proudest of too.

 

I must admit while I could quite happily skip Rock DJ or Come Undone on a tour, I never tire of listening to him singing Feel. It is a beautiful song and always a gorgeous moment on tour.

It is funny how different all of us are. I was never a huge fan of Feel, but always loved Come Undone.

Some weeks ago there was a show about the most played radio songs in Germany since 30 years and you would not expect the outcome.

It is a Robbie song this was clear in between from the tips they gave for the audience to quiz. I tipped it would be Feel.

It was Supreme though.

I had not been a fan when this was a hit and I am still not keen on that song. But was it also that hige in your countries back then?

Come Undone I love, Feel has fabulous lyrics , Rock DJ not in my top 20
Listening to No Regrets on LIT last Saturday on the BBC , made me think what a great song it is

The Song That Makes Me Cry

 

Robbie Williams “David’s Song”, 2016

“David [Enthoven]’s my manager who passed away a few months ago. The song existed before he got ill, it was triggered from a moment in Australia where I was onstage and I thought to myself, if I die right now, I’m happy. This is blissful. And then it was like, I don’t want to die! Then I thought about my dying and wrote a song about it, and then Dave passed away and in tribute to him I called it ‘David’s Song’. I can’t listen to it right now.”

 

 

Yes - that would explain why it came out so soon after David Einthoven passed away. I thought it couldn't have been written and got it on the album in such a short space of time. Dedicated to him - that's nice. It is a lovely song. One of my favourites on the album.

 

This is a sad lyric - "Are yours the last eyes that I'll ever see, staring into me?" :(

It's one of my favourites on the album as well

The Song I Want To Re-Record

 

Robbie Williams All Of Them

“I wish I could re-record all of my hits. Because Universal own the copyright, so if I re-record them I get paid. I just left Universal to go to Sony, and Universal piggybacked on the promotion [of my new album] in the UK and re-packaged my Greatest Hits and put it out two weeks before my album came out. When something happens like that you’re like, ‘Right, OK, this is business. I’m gonna do this!’”

 

 

Oh - so the fact that the GH has just gone 8 x platinum - he doesn't benefit from then? :huh:
Hopefully he will record funky house versions of his hits and then I might buy the album :)
Hopefully he will record funky house versions of his hits and then I might buy the album :)

 

Have you tried Rudebox the album? You might like that? :)

 

 

Have you tried Rudebox the album? You might like that? :)

 

 

It got the best reviews ever by those in the know <_<

The Song That Reminds Me of School

 

Public Enemy “Rebel Without a Pause”, 1988

“We used to go to an under 16s nightclub on a Sunday, and the black boys would look menacing on one side of the dance floor to “Rebel Without a Pause’, and the white boys on the other side had their hip-hop moment with [beastie Boys] ‘No Sleep Till Brooklyn’. And I was like, I want to be with the black dudes and the white dudes! I went with the black dudes, cos ‘Rebel Without a Pause’ was more appealing to me.”

 

 

Where are you getting all these snippets from Tess? I'm enjoying reading them.

The Song That Makes Me Homesick

 

Elton John “Rocket Man”, 1972

“There was a period where it used to make me cry, and I didn’t know what I was crying about. But there’s a period before you get famous, and then there’s famous. And I think why it brought a tear to my eye was, there’s a separation between normal and abnormal, and grieving the loss of being a civilian. I remember sitting down thinking, ‘I’m a rocket man, burning out his fuse up here alone.’ You get isolated when you become famous, and I think I recognised the isolation of fame in that song and grieving the loss of being the young person I was in Stoke On Trent.”

 

 

 

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