Justin Winokur - You Took It All Away (2004) - Video
PUBLISHED:  Sep 17, 2014
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From Justin:

I wrote this upstairs at the house of my friends Dave Oppenheim and Ray Spears. I had this idea that I would write ten songs in ten days just to see if I could do it. This was one of them.

From Christoffer:

I haven't told Justin this but this song sounds a lot like one of my favourite artists, Peter Hammill, and his band Van Der Graaf Generator. I love this song. So, I decided it needed a string arrangement like those of one of my other favourite artists, Nick Drake. So I wrote what I considered to be The String Arrangement Of All Time. I recorded it with a mellotron sound, then sent it to Justin for approval. In return he sent me a music example of some syrupy shallow crap with nothing going for it at all and a suggestion that maybe I should think a bit more in this direction instead? Can you believe that? It took weeks of hateful mails, emotional blackmail and general unpleasant behaviour on my part to finally have it my way. Normally the producer's role would be to please the Artist and bring out the best in him, but this only applies as long as the Artist is not STUPID.
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