“Slow Emotion Replay” by The The

"Slow Emotion Replay" was the second single from Dusk, the 1993 album by The The, and it's Matt Johnson at his most rueful: a man who can list everything wrong with the world but can't make sense of his own head. Johnson wrote it, sings it, and plays acoustic and electric guitar and percussion, while Johnny Marr adds electric guitar, harmonica and backing vocals over James Eller's bass and David Palmer's drums. Bruce Lampcov recorded and mixed it and produced it with Johnson, and the sound is warm, rolling and a little weary.

It reached 35 in the UK. Tim Pope's video turned into an accidental documentary, with Pope roaming New York to ask strangers what was going wrong with the world, and settling on a man he met in a bar on Houston Street.

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