[Pa33anger]

The very first b-side:





Me and a Gun 12" single (21-Oct-91):



USA Winter Ltd Edition (24-Nov-92):
god i love to turn my little blue world upside down
god i love to turn my little blue world upside down
inside my head the noise
chatter, chatter, CHATTER, chatter, chatter
you see i’m afraid i’ll always be
still coming out of my mother upside down


don’t you love to turn this little blue girl upside down
oh i know you love to turn this little blue girl baby upside down
but my heart it says
you’ve been shatter, shatter, shatter, SHATTER, shattered
and i know you’re still a boy
still coming out of your mother


but when you gonna stand on your own
i say the world is sick
you say tell me what that makes us darlin’
you see you always find my faults
faster than you find your own
you say the world is getting rid of her DEMONS
i say baby, what have you been smokin’

well i dreamed, i dreamed, i dreamed i loved a black boy
my daddy would scream oh yeah

don’t you love to turn this little blue girl upside down
any kind of touch i think is better than none even upside down
but you see i’m tangled up
got a kitten, kitten, kitten, KITTEN in my hair
cincinnati, i like the word
it’s the only thing we can’t seem to turn upside down


well i found the secret to life
i found the secret to life
i’m okay when everything is not okay
i said i found the secret to life
i found the secret to life
i’m okay when everything is not okay
is not okay


oh, we turn and we turn our
little blue world upside down
i said, don’t we love to turn our
little blue world baby upside down
inside my head a voice
chatter, chatter, chatter, chatter, chatter
and it says girl you’re all the same
still coming out of your mothers
still coming out of your mothers upside down


I think it set the template for a perfect Tori b-side beautifully. A song whose lyrical and musical themes swoop around each other, where each bridge could bring you back to the last one or suddenly dart up to another level.

The lyrics have naivity and wisdom in balance, exactly capturing the ingenue part of the spirit of the LE period songs I think - more reflective and less firey that most of the album tracks. The low-fi production suits it perfectly, demo-ish synth strings and church bell tolling. I think grandiose Flying Dutchman style orchestration would miss the point of this quietly determined little song. And the backing vocals at "I found the secret to life, I'm OK when everything is not OK" are sublime, as is everything about that bridge.

It's one of those songs that always leaves me thinking "oh, is it over already?" as it breezes right through and off into the distance after what seems like just a couple of minutes.

BRB, got a kitten kitten kitten kitten in my hair.


(All The Girls Hate Her) / Upside Down - live in Boston, 1994