Warwick Avenue – Duffy
Warwick Avenue – Duffy
This week it was the twelfth anniversary of me moving to where I live now, previous to this I had always lived in my childhood home so it was a big deal at the time. Around then Duffy had released her ‘Rockferry’ album and I bought the CD and really liked it’s jazzy and soothing sounds. She had a few singles out at that point but the one she had around the time of the big move was this song ‘Warwick Avenue’. It just so happened the road I was moving to had a very similar name so it felt like fate had played a part in all of this. To the point we were waiting outside the estate agents to get the keys of our new place and I had the radio on in the car and guess which song came on next.
The song is about meeting someone at the tube station to tell them goodbye and confront them how much they have hurt you, mixed in with a longing that it didn’t have to be this way. The whole concept of it being the last time they would see each other matched how I was feeling about my old home, never been back there, so it really was a goodbye. I really like the vibe of Warwick Avenue, to me the backing almost sounds like a clock ticking away time, the way the strings build up through the song you get a sense things are changing and moving on.
From recent reports it sounds like Duffy has had a horrible time, but she should be so proud of her music, this album was head and shoulders musically above most of the other stuff out around that time. It had a proper produced, thought through sound and each track stands on his own as a quality tune. Simple songs like this one are the hardest to create, the gaps are the most important part. Other songs on that album like “Mercy’ and ‘Stepping Stone’ were so cool, Duffy’s vocal always has a sadness and vulnerability to it. The whole album sounds more like one of the female singers of the 1960s to me.
Each time I hear ‘Warwick Avenue’ I think of the day I moved and how my life changed leaving my childhood behind, at that time I didn’t want the train to come. But now I’m glad it did.
Favourite lyric : But I didn't want the train to come / Now it's departed, I'm broken hearted
The song is about meeting someone at the tube station to tell them goodbye and confront them how much they have hurt you, mixed in with a longing that it didn’t have to be this way. The whole concept of it being the last time they would see each other matched how I was feeling about my old home, never been back there, so it really was a goodbye. I really like the vibe of Warwick Avenue, to me the backing almost sounds like a clock ticking away time, the way the strings build up through the song you get a sense things are changing and moving on.
From recent reports it sounds like Duffy has had a horrible time, but she should be so proud of her music, this album was head and shoulders musically above most of the other stuff out around that time. It had a proper produced, thought through sound and each track stands on his own as a quality tune. Simple songs like this one are the hardest to create, the gaps are the most important part. Other songs on that album like “Mercy’ and ‘Stepping Stone’ were so cool, Duffy’s vocal always has a sadness and vulnerability to it. The whole album sounds more like one of the female singers of the 1960s to me.
Each time I hear ‘Warwick Avenue’ I think of the day I moved and how my life changed leaving my childhood behind, at that time I didn’t want the train to come. But now I’m glad it did.
Favourite lyric : But I didn't want the train to come / Now it's departed, I'm broken hearted
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