White Town – Your Woman

WhiteTown

Going back all the way to 1997  and featuring a muted trumpet line taken from “My Woman” by Al Bowlly (jazz cat famous in the 1930′).   This track was in heavy rotation here in Los Angeles on KROQ,  This was when KROQ actually played all kinds of music and not just the Top 40,  that it now plays.  Yes, a bit bitter about that station but nothing last forever.

A Bit of Background on the track (according to Wikipedia):

White Town’s sole band member and writer of “Your Woman”, Jyoti Prakash Mishra, has stated that the lyrics could stem from or be related to multiple situations. He says “When I wrote it, I was trying to write a pop song that had more than one perspective. Although it’s written in the first person the character behind that viewpoint isn’t necessarily what the casual listener would expect”.[2] The lyrics could mean “Being a member of an orthodox Trotskyist / Marxist movement. Being a straight guy in love with a lesbian. Being a gay guy in love with a straight man. Being a straight girl in love with a lying, two-timing, fake-arse Marxist. The hypocrisy that results when love and lust get mixed up with highbrow ideals.”[2] Many listeners also likened the song to a breakup letter, where the man reading the breakup letter imitates the woman’s voice.[2]