But what we have been able to ascertain is the track’s general meaning. I know you want to come back with personal responsibility, but if that’s all you see every day when you look out of the window, well, that’s what you see. View by: Highest Rated; Most Recent; Oldest First; No Comments Add your thoughts . Sleeping Satellite (Tasmin Archer cover) song meanings Add your thoughts No Comments. Don't post personal interpretations. Obviously it contains SPOILERS for the day’s matches so if you’d prefer to be surprised read no further!… A single that’s good for one thing, at least: “Which group got to No.1 with Take On Me?” is a reliably sneaky pop quiz question. Most simply of all, is it for potential (ie Most Promising) or having done such a lot so early? Learn more. Comment and share your favourite lyrics. Matt Fraction/Howard… With “Pray” I made the case for Take That being – visually at any rate – something new in British pop. A deep understanding of the lyrics will help you conect to the song. It’s because of that, it is ripe for review and then criticism.On a quick look back you can pick stuff out like A1 beating Coldplay, but when Kula Shaker won it, it was pretty open (you could put a decent argument for “Ash” but only in hindsight) Most years change the winner for a nominee and I am not sure there’s a difference.I do not think there is a curse, but like Joan Armatrading, I’m open to persuasion .A large part of me thinks over the years the Brits have been all over the place, with so many changes to their outputs, most of which are in their control. Talk:Sleeping Satellite.
For at the end of the day, some decades after this track has been released, the highly-poetic nature of its lyrics has lent to different understandings even amongst actual fans of the tune.
I’m so glad you made time to post these comments, and so sorry you weren’t able to comment at the time the discussion was liveliest.Re the curse of the Best Newcomer Brit, I think we can sort subsequent careers into three categories, working back from 2008 to give perspective:Longlasting success: Arctic Monkeys (if you squint a bit), Keane (ditto), Will Young, Belle & Sebastian, Stereophonics, Oasis, Wet Wet Wet, Human League Made it to album two as a force but then faded: Busted, Blue, S Club 7, Supergrass, Gabrielle, Lisa Stansfield, Bros, Housemartins, Go West, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Paul Young, YazooOne album wonders: Duffy, Mika, Fratellis, a1 (good grief), Kula Shaker, Tasmin Archer,Beverley Craven, Betty Boo, Julie CovingtonSure you could quibble with where some of those sit. And the writers themselves seem to have never expounded on the precises meaning of the individual lines of the song. Tasmin Archer has said that the song is about the race to the Moon in the 1960s and the loss of enthusiasm afterwards. Without this friction, you might have had Annie Lennox in tears on telly every week instead of every year, or Nick Cave/Swans/Arcade Fire/uncommercial artistes on the radio all day long. Ideally Aphex would’ve won twenty years ago heh.That said this’s year’s nominations seemed odder and more lacking than usual (no Robbie at least). Note that any fair use images lacking such an explanation can be deleted one week after being tagged, as described on I have removed this text from the article as original research.
Archer is an English singer of West Indian descent. She wrote "Sleeping Satellite" in 1988 with John Beck (who also co-wrote "Put Your Records On" by Corinne Bailey Rae) and John Hughes, whom she met while working at Flexible Response Studios in Bradford, England.They became members of her band and her writing partners - every song on her first album is a collaboration amongst the trio.