Weird thing this morning. "No Go (For Louis MacNeice)" by The Cleaners From Venus was suggested to me by Spotify. Not a band I'm very familiar with, but I was struck how the phrasing really reminded me of The Blue Aeroplanes. Once this occurred to me it was hard to get the thought of Gerard Langley singing it out of my head.
And of course, the common link between this 1990 track and The Blue Aeroplanes is Langley's favourite poet, Louis MacNeice. The song itself is based on a MacNeice poem called Bagpipe Music, but when I listened to a recording of MacNeice reciting it, it doesn't particularly remind me of Langley at all.
Seems like being inspired by MacNeice just seems to lead pop musicians to intonate in the same way.
― Alba, Tuesday, 30 November 2021 12:36 (two years ago) link