Fractionals

I'm listening to Asleep At The Back now, and I think maybe half my problem with the album as a whole is the fact that 'Any Day Now' (as good as it is), opens the disc. You're pulled in slowly - with 'Ribcage' once I'd heard it a few times the beginning made me anticipate the highs to come, whereas 'Any Day Now' would make a better closer (and coming after 'Scattered Black And Whites' it would have packed even more of a punch). Imagine if 'Red' had opened the disc! That shuffling drum and that piano riff!

Anyway, another thing I like about Elbow that I forgot to mention is that their lyrics are make good use of homophones (think I've got that right). Until I'd read the lyrics sheet I didn't know whether 'Any Day Now' referred to "some of my youth" or "sum of my youth", and similarly on Cast Of Thousands with have 'Crawling With Idiot' and "Your/you're blue collar pride / And your/you're white cotten cool". In each case it was interesting to note the "correct" answers, but crucially either (or both) would have done.