Pin Point Eyes

PIN POINT EYES
 
 
Greg Shaw continues in the liner notes for the Wild Love album:  “But there were other songs, also endlessly rehearsed, that never seemed to get beyond the practice stage, though some have every bit as much potential as the ones taken on the road.  Among these I would include Wild Love, ‘Pin Point Eyes’, ‘Hey Baby’, and ‘How it Hurts’.  Most interesting of all is ‘I Come from Nowhere’, a fairly well developed song with impassioned vocals and very personal lyrics, and some magnificent instrumental parts.  It’s a pity that they never played this one in their live show (that I know of).  Though several rehearsal versions exist, this is the only one that is complete.”
 
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If I had to pick out my favorite song on Wild Love, it would be “Pin Point Eyes”; the couplet “She looked into my pin point eyes / and she cried” is hard to top in the Stooges oeuvre.  It sure would have been nice to hear this one on Open Up and Bleed!, but maybe it was just too unfinished.  Greg Shaw speaks of this song in the liner notes:  “Never before released in the U.S., Pin Point Eyes might well have evolved out of a jam on ‘St. James Infirmary’, until Iggy grafted his own graphic addiction story over it.  Some great crazed piano on this one from Bob Sheff.  Gotta love the lazy mood in which Iggy starts off urging them all to join in, then to take their solo parts.  It’s almost the kind of party that Dylan threw on ‘Rainy Day Women’, set in perhaps-ironic contrast to the really harrowing story he’s telling.  (Did he really say he traded his girl for a bag of snow?).” 
 
(December 2017)
 
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