Under the Coke Sign

[boardsofdublin]

to me it sounds like a slow chilled version of skyliner.

Yeah and that too.

I remember saying this when I first heard the ep and I think everyone thought I was nuts.

when you said it i thought it too but never said anything about it till now.

so steve-o my main man, thank you for pointing it out.

[ross adey]

Digging up this topic as I happened upon something very interesting that may or may not be related to this track...

I'm currently re-reading Susan Sontag's encyclopedic 'On Photography' - a collection of wonderful essays, tremendously broad in scope, written with all the conscientious zeal Sontag was renowned for.

The range of artists and works, referenced and compared throughout is considerable; but one image that caught my attention this time around is 'Spectre of Coca-Cola' by Clarence John Laughlin:



From the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston:

Laughlin was fascinated by the sometimes disorienting aspects of everyday things, in this case the spectral image encountered in an old Coca-Cola sign. The effect of the raking light falling across flecks of rust on the corroded tin sign conjured up for the photographer a ghostly image of a more benign past.

The photo could also be interpreted as a visual metaphor for free-market capitalism which tends to favour policies designed to serve the interests of huge corporations rather than the nations’ citizens.