This track is fairly unsettling to listen to these days, as it relies heavily on several soft-synths we’d been toying with around the studio, and also, the vocals aren’t mixed very well, but on the other hand, it’s a really cool curiosity piece.
Driver Down (trip-hop) cover art - this track was never released, but we figured it was time.
So, go ahead and get yer Driver Down (trip-hop remix) right HEAH.
We didn’t really know what we were getting ourselves into on this one, and it shows, for certain, but on the other hand, WHAT A KILLER SONG. (I say that knowing full well how biased I am towards this sort of thing.)
Who cares if the mix is shot, the vocals are a mess, and the studio masters were lost in the Great Hard Drive Massacre of 2004? We sure as hell don’t!
Anyway, give it a try. If trip-hop’s your thing and you just couldn’t get enough of Portishead’s Dummy when it came out, you might just like it.
If not, well, it’s free, so maybe just delete it or something. That’s what we do with stuff we don’t like around here.
- Jack Merlot & Johnny Osmosis
As Manny sits by the side of the road and waits
Sits by the side of the road, tempting fate
She slows down and looks through her rearview mirror
says, “he don’t look so bad” and he has no reason to fear her
he said, driver, take me back down, down
back to the city of lovers
I’ll be acquainted with angels
you’ll share me with no other
I had just gone down to listen to traffic and play
My mind wasn’t entirely gone, despite what they say
Glass in the bushes, streaks on the pavement etched
forever in my mind, I wonder what kept them together
driver, take me back down, down
back to the city of lovers
I’ll be acquainted with angels
you’ll share me with no other
driver, take me back down, down
back to the city of lovers
I’ll be acquainted with strangers
you’ll share me with no other