This sets a heavy Stooges-style bass-and-drum backing - and a tune that reminds me of Rocking All Over The World by Status Quo, oddly enough - against some mumbling about being fooled by a lover and fooled by the city. BERLIN 1.37 Ah, that old rock chestnut - the bleak, walled city of Lou Reed and David Bowie's '70s dreams. 'I took out a loan on my empty heartbeat/I took out a loan from my patient soul', Peter Hayes sneers, a less romantic financial transaction than Robert Johnson's with the devil at the crossroads, sure, but hopefully he gets decent terms and conditions.Ģ. I TOOK OUT A LOAN 0:26 Watch out HSBC! For today's APR-friendly rockers are BRMC, back for album number 4, and by the skronky, fuzzy, dirty bassline opening proceedings - imagine Love Spreads by the Stone Roses on crack cocaine - it's back to the nasty fuzz of their first album, Love Burns, not the restrained folk of last album Howl.
