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Speak When I'm Spoken To

from Speak When I'm Spoken To by Roy Møller

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The first line and the riff comes from a song written by Rob Smith while were in a band called Meth OD. One Sunday afternoon Rob bought a guitar from Victor Morris Music, Argyle Street, Glasgow, where you could also buy ammo, crossbows etc, if you so desired. Rob brought the new axe straight from the shop to rehearsal, the riff emerged immediately and applied it to a song called Skunkweed which we recorded rather limply under another title on our second album, Dry Riser. I thought there was more potential to the riff and so it became the bedrock of Speak When I’m Spoken To.

The night before the session I was in a taxi on Argyle Street picking up drums from somewhere to take them to the recording studio when a ned rushed out of a low budget hotel, tried to force the doors of the taxi open while yelling racial abuse at the driver. A little shaken, I made it home to spend the night wired up to monitoring equipment the Royal Infirmary had lent me to measure my sleep problems. I came to the session straight from a return visit to the hospital where the nurse told me the results were useless as I hadn't managed to fit the equipment properly.


If this doesn’t suck you in and have you falling head over heels in love then by rights you shouldn’t own a record player. ..Add in an army of serenading strings, melting arrangements and the euphoric pop brain of Pete (“look I know how to create a memorable epic to floor the listener”) Wylie and you have a cut so irresistibly fetching and sun dazed you swear the wax it’s cut into is melting. Mark Barton, www.losingtoday.com, UK 31.05.05

lyrics

I’ve been out & I’ve been driving
To make the music come alive in
The night time world that surrounds me
I’ve been this way girl since you found

Chorus:
And though I might want you
And though I might need you,
And though I might love you
I just speak when I’m spoken to

My moves I had to borrow
Will I feel this way tomorrow?
I know I will but I can’t say
When ev’rything goes back to grey

(Chorus)

Speak to my babe, to my babe, to my babe…

credits

from Speak When I'm Spoken To, released March 7, 2007
Written by Moller/Smith.

Produced by Stevie Jackson. Engineered by Brian McNeill at Gravity.

Guitars - Roy Moller, Stevie Jackson, Bill Wright
Bass - Bob Kildea
Drums - Stef Le Batteur
Keyboards - Brian McNeill, Roy Moller
Percussion - Stevie Jackson, Roy Moller, Brian McNeill
Backing vocals - Ulric Kennedy, Dannie Vallely, Stef Le Batteur

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