These Foolish Things
A generation of fortysomethings is saddled with decrepit parents, each one a shuffling guilt-trip. Costly, clinging, embarrassingly old-fashioned - the old can't die soon enough these days.
Go east, old folks
Ravi's wheeler-dealer cousin Sonny has a brainwave: What country has a peculiar empathy for British charm and 50s decor? What country is cheap enough not to drain an inheritance which would otherwise enrich an old person's deserving children?
- These Foolish Things.
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The bravest of Britain's most unwanted are soon being bundled on to eastbound planes. At the front of the queue is Norman, followed by Evelyn, who "doesn't want to be a burden", Jean and her despairing husband, Douglas.
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New friends and new philosophies await them, not to mention a dramatic change of climate. Moggach is too fond of colour and comedy for social realism, but neither does she dabble in faux spirituality, and so the India of These Foolish Things is not the country that Ravi accuses his wife of falsely romanticising - "You British go there - oh the poverty, oh the sunsets! You all come back with your bazaar bargains, mouthing a lot of mystic tosh. Nobody could accuse Moggach of mystic tosh.
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The India she invokes is messy, modern, entrepreneurial; a land of sharp suits and legless beggars, a turbulent melting pot where to be old or even a trifle deaf is not considered to be remotely troublesome, let alone a crime punishable by permanent isolation. And some will presumably dislike it for the wrong reasons though I hope the general point of it will be understood. Reviewing for AllMusic , critic Ned Raggett wrote of the album "Throughout Ferry's instantly recognizable croon carries everything to a tee, and the overall mood is playful and celebratory. Wrapping up with a grand take on "These Foolish Things" itself, this album is one of the best of its kind by any artist.
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Along the way, he also establishes " It's My Party " as a protest song. And just in case we're getting any highfalutin ideas, the title track reminds us that pop is only, well, foolish things, many of which predate not only Andy Warhol but rock and roll itself.
Ferry views pop as a kind of continuum, extending through all sorts of Tin Pan Alley and Brill Building craftsmanship and incorporating visions as radical as Dylan's and as banal as Gore's. Within such a sensibility discerning what deserves to be dismissed as "trash" and what deserves elevation as "art" is not a simple problem.
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And such designations are so often determined by context that their order can be reversed almost at will. By altering tempos and singing every song with the deadpan emotional blankness he largely avoids with Roxy, Ferry exposes these issues as effectively as any pop singer in history. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The Bryan Ferry Orchestra.
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These Foolish Things