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The Charlatans - The Only One I Know
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Only_One_I_Know
"The Only One I Know" is the second single by English rock band the Charlatans. It was their first top-10 hit, reaching No. 9 on the UK Singles Chart. In the UK, it was the highest-charting single from the Some Friendly album. Its best showing in the United States was on the Modern Rock Chart, where it reached No. 5 in September 1990.
The song contained lines directly lifted from the Byrds' 1967 song "Everybody's Been Burned,"[1] while the melody prominently features an organ riff lifted from the Deep Purple rendition of the song "Hush".[3] In addition, Martin Blunt has described Jon Baker's guitar part as resembling that of the Supremes' "You Keep Me Hangin' On".
Tim Burgess has described the song as being "about teenage feelings: I like somebody, why do they not like me? I was 21 or 22, but still had those powerful emotions". According to him, the band initially intended to record a different song, "Polar Bear", for release as their second single, but after both a friend of Burgess' and their record label Beggars Banquet Records suggested that "The Only One I Know" would be a better choice they changed plans. Burgess has described the song as having an unusual construction: "I’m still not sure which bit is the chorus. The title and main hook is in the verse, but the intro – before the main song crashes in – gives people just enough time to get on the dancefloor". Blunt has said that the breakdown to his bass part after the second verse was influenced by funk and Stax Records' southern soul sound. After the band recorded the track at The Winding Studios in Wrexham, it underwent further mixing by Chris Nagle at Strawberry Studios in Stockport.[4] but filming resumed after brief negotiations.
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A music video was released for the song and was directed by Kim Peters in her directorial debut, a friend of the band's then-manager Steve Harrison whom previously worked as a graphic designer with no prior experience of filming music videos,[5] and depicts the band performing the song at a warehouse in Sandbach, owned by a friend of Harrison, which was filmed in the evening with an audience of friends and fans. Police officers, having been informed that an illegal rave was allegedly happening at the venue, arrived,[6] and filming resumed after brief negotiations. Some of these officers appear in the final video.[7]
The song contained lines directly lifted from the Byrds' 1967 song "Everybody's Been Burned,"[1] while the melody prominently features an organ riff lifted from the Deep Purple rendition of the song "Hush".[3] In addition, Martin Blunt has described Jon Baker's guitar part as resembling that of the Supremes' "You Keep Me Hangin' On".
Tim Burgess has described the song as being "about teenage feelings: I like somebody, why do they not like me? I was 21 or 22, but still had those powerful emotions". According to him, the band initially intended to record a different song, "Polar Bear", for release as their second single, but after both a friend of Burgess' and their record label Beggars Banquet Records suggested that "The Only One I Know" would be a better choice they changed plans. Burgess has described the song as having an unusual construction: "I’m still not sure which bit is the chorus. The title and main hook is in the verse, but the intro – before the main song crashes in – gives people just enough time to get on the dancefloor". Blunt has said that the breakdown to his bass part after the second verse was influenced by funk and Stax Records' southern soul sound. After the band recorded the track at The Winding Studios in Wrexham, it underwent further mixing by Chris Nagle at Strawberry Studios in Stockport.[4] but filming resumed after brief negotiations.
-snip-
A music video was released for the song and was directed by Kim Peters in her directorial debut, a friend of the band's then-manager Steve Harrison whom previously worked as a graphic designer with no prior experience of filming music videos,[5] and depicts the band performing the song at a warehouse in Sandbach, owned by a friend of Harrison, which was filmed in the evening with an audience of friends and fans. Police officers, having been informed that an illegal rave was allegedly happening at the venue, arrived,[6] and filming resumed after brief negotiations. Some of these officers appear in the final video.[7]