The other day we had Don't Bring Me Down, and now we have Don't Fall by the Chameleons. Two don'ts make a do. I am reminded of the Simpsons episode where Bart joins the Junior Campers and he has to read the book called The 10 Do's and 500 Don'ts of Knife Safety. It features the confusing instruction: Don't Do What Donny Don't Does.
The song begins with dialogue from a 1946 film called Two Sisters from Boston. It's not nearly as unsettling as the voice at the beginning of The Rising Storm's Frozen Laughter, but it adds an element of mystery as it leads into the song's great guitar riff. Bassist and lead vocalist Mark Burgess reminds me so much of Julian Cope, especially his early years with The Teardrop Explodes, his voice has that great wide open British accent. The overall atmosphere is reminiscent of The Cure's A Forest - a gothic landscape of nightmares and disconnected reality, the main character lost in a parallel world that makes no sense. Freak out, nothing's familiar. It's all dark and dreamy, layers of reverb, cool little picked guitar section at 2:42.
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