Happy Mondays "Tart Tart", originally from the "Squirrel and G-Man Twenty Four Hour Party People Plastic Face Carnt Smile (White Out)" album (1987), produced by John Cale. My personal favorite, and quite possibly one of the best songs the Mondays ever recorded. Video taken from the Pills n Thrills special edition CD/DVD. Many sources describe how the first verse is about Martin Hannett leaving factory records (Tony Wilson describes it on the "24 Hour Party People" DVD commentary). As for the second, this is taken from Bez' "Freaky Dancing": " 'Tart Tart' was the single that was goin to make us massive. It was a personal favourite of mine an I was counfounded as to why it didn't do better than it did. It was met with pretty decent reviews, but maybe the public needed a little longer to acquire the taste for X's growlin, cryptic lyrics an the rawness of the musical accompaniment. I had a special affinity for the tune because of the references to one of the very first people we had met in the early Haçienda days. Her name was Tart Tart. She was a strange type of woman, an old groupie from the 60s, somethin she wasn't adverse to admittin. The drug culture of the hippie era hadn't treated her too well an she was lookin pretty rough an haggard by the time she met me an X, but we liked her friendly disposition an slightly kooky ways. She looked upon herself as an abstract artist but I think her main way of carvin a livin was by wheelin an dealin on the darker side of life. The ...
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