Down in the Tube Station at Midnight / So Sad About Us / The Night [7" VINYL]

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Sister Christian" was written by Night Ranger drummer Kelly Keagy, who was imploring his younger sister to be careful in her reckless youth, especially when "motoring" (driving around) with friends. It wasn’t too far — sometimes he took a taxi — but other times he walked and the streets were empty with strange shadows creeping across between the houses.

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Phil from Antwerp, BelgiumThis song still sends shivers down my spine every time I listen to it, even after so many years. This sentence feels as if the only thing it wants to convey is their history together, namely, husband and wife.The sound of an Underground train at the beginning and end of the song was recorded at St John's Wood Station. The song starts with the atmospheric sounds of a London Underground station, then a tense, syncopated beat carried by the bass guitar. An overflowing rubbish bin with discarded fast-food wrappers and fizzy-pop cans at the bottom of it. All the train had to be checked, to make sure no people were left sleeping on seats, no forgotten items.

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no explanation of how they would know his address though) but it does mean he has no thought of getting back anytime soon. There is in my mind no song that expresses the harsh reality of prejudice and senseless violence so vividly. You could be onto something, in the Seventies the tube closed much earlier but at midnight it would be around the time of the last train, hence more isolated. This anti-racism song was a first-person narrative about a brutal mugging by jackbooted right-wing thugs in London.Maybe we would have come around to recording it later on in the project, but he'd just reached that point of 'Oh bollocks, this isn't working, it's a load of crap. Polishing the glasses and pulling out the cork"' portays a man's love for his wife better than an endless stream of 'ooh, I love you baby, ooh's. I was insistent on him reviving it, and once the band got involved and we developed the sound it turned into an absolutely brilliant track, a classic.

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The lyrics after "It blended in with the weather" I have only just found out and this has impressed me even more than the words I already knew.

Tension is heightened by a heartbeat audio effect in the left stereo channel at points during the song. The many hints that this attack could be fatal: "Jesus Saves", "My life swam around me" and "drowned me". He heard the crackle of a radio, then the doors hissed closed and the train pulled out of the station and into the dark tunnel.