Ole Black 'n' Blue Eyes
"Ole Black 'n' Blue Eyes" is a song by The Fratellis. It was the fifth and final track to be released from their debut album Costello Music. This single was released as an EP with 3 b-sides.
The single charted at #168 in the UK Singles Chart, making it the lowest charting single by the band to date although considering the fact that it was released as the fifth single (let alone a limited edition EP) from the band's highly successful, big-selling debut album. The single received some airplay on radio stations, but not much.
The Music Video for the song is a cartoon that shows the band in a western style city. They are catching some sort of crazy woman monster all throughout the video but she always gets away. The woman has black and blue eyes, most likely a reference to the song title. In the end, we learn that she also bails the Fratellis out of trouble and they eventually let her run off into the open desert freely.
The song "Mon Yous, Mon Us, But No Them" tells a story using names of the members from The Fratellis' official website. It is also used as a sign off when Jon Fratelli posts on the site and is also in the footer of the website since the revamp in 2008.
Read more about Ole Black 'n' Blue Eyes: Tracklisting
Famous quotes containing the words ole, black, blue and/or eyes:
“Go down, Moses
‘Way down in Egypt land,
Tell ole Pharaoh,
To let my people go.”
—Unknown. Go Down, Moses (l. 1–4)
“...I always said if I lived to get grown and had a chance, I was going to try to get something for my mother and I was going to do something for the black man of the South if it would cost my life; I was determined to see that things were changed.”
—Fannie Lou Hamer (1917–1977)
“That air would disappear from the whole earth in time, perhaps; but long after his day. He did not know just when it had become so necessary to him, but he had come back to die in exile for the sake of it. Something soft and wild and free, something that whispered to the ear on the pillow, lightened the heart, softly, softly picked the lock, slid the bolts, and released the prisoned spirit of man into the wind, into the blue and gold, into the morning, into the morning!”
—Willa Cather (1873–1947)
“The rose and poppy are her flowers; for where
Is he not found, O Lilith, whom shed scent
And soft-shed kisses and soft sleep shall snare?
Lo! as that youth’s eyes burned at thine, so went
Thy spell through him, and left his straight neck bent
And round his heart one strangling golden hair.”
—Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882)