Gelatin silver print titled "Space Needle and Monorail" by Tod E. Gangler, 1980
I'd like to address a couple issues here before talking about the great bridge of the day. First, if you've been counting on your fingers at home, you've probably noticed that this is the eleventh "We Love Great Bridges", when I originally stated that it would be a ten-part series. Yeah - I lost track. That's what happened there. Second, you may notice what looks like a typo in the subject line of this post. You say you're quite familiar with "Click Click Click Click" by Brooklyn indie band Bishop Allen - you saw it in a Sony commercial or something. You say I'm missing a "Click" in that title. Well, here's what I have to say to you about that....
SHUT THE HELL UP YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT. Here's the deal - in 2006, Bishop Allen released a CD EP every month to fans, and each monthly EP contained four previously unreleased, original compositions. The July EP had a picture of a Polaroid camera on the cover, and its first track was called "Click Click Click". When the song was re-recorded for the band's 2007 album The Broken String, they added a fourth "Click" to the title, and that's the version most people are familiar with. AND HERE'S THE PART THAT MAKES ME REALLY CRAZY. When you look up the song online these days, there is no record AT ALL that it used to be called "Click Click Click" - even quasi-official track lists for the original Bishop Allen July EP call the song "Click Click Click Click", not "Click Click Click". Blog posts FROM THAT TIME PERIOD call the song "Click Click Click Click". BUT GUESS WHAT? I went down to my basement and spent an hour in the middle of the night digging out my Bishop Allen EP archive, and I confirmed beyond the shadow of a doubt that the song was called "Click Click Click" when it came out. I'M NOT CRAZY.
So, here for your listening pleasure is the rare original version of Bishop Allen's "Click Click Click" from the July EP. It's got a great bridge.
"Click Click Click" by Bishop Allen
3 comments:
Where is Bishop Allen? Web site is "down", etc. Are they still together? NOTE: Bishop Allen played a private party concert in my home in December of 2003 for $750... the best $750 I ever spent. They covered Charm School from start to finish and ended with a rendition of "Ring of Fire". Seems like things were coming together for them. Thanks...
I'm pretty sure that Bishop Allen will reappear in some form before too long. That period when they played at your house (HOW COOL IS THAT?) - the "lost" years trying to get the follow-up to Charm School released - would have broken a lesser band, but they came out of that with their strongest work, the EP project of 2006.
After some quick research, it looks like they're playing a free show this week in Kingston, NY, they recently contributed music to a documentary called The Bully Project, and their record label says that new Bishop Allen demos should surface soon. So it sounds like they're still pretty active!
Thanks for the follow up! I am looking forward to hearing their new material. At the house party they also played a "new" song that they were working on, "Middle Management" as featured in "Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist". The version that they played was a "work in progess". It had the same hook..."Alright, Alright...", but obviously not as complete as the final version.
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