Say Something / Carousel

Say Something is track five on the 1993 James album Laid.

A “New” Version accompanied the release of the song as a double A-side with Jam J in the UK in March 1994. It was also remixed by Utah Saints for a US single release and by Mark Hunter for the Saying Nothing mix on the 2001 reissue.

A live version recorded for BBC Radio 1 appeared on a second Laid cd single in November 1993. Another live version appears on the 2002 Getting Away With It Live CD and DVD.

Originally entitled Carousel, Say Something was written at a time when Larry and Tim were barely on speaking terms. It was debuted at Hamburg Grosse Freiheit on 29 April 1992 and very quickly became a fixture in James set-list. It lost the “hoolaheyray” part in the middle eight stolen from Crescendo and appeared on the Laid album.

Two videos were made, one with Tim in a gorilla outfit in a cage and then a second with the band singing the song at passers by in New York, made at the request of MTV as they felt the original was inappropriate.

The early demo entitled Carousel was given away as a digital download with CD copies of The Morning After album in 2010 and appeared on the Deluxe and Super Deluxe versions of the Laid album.

It fell out of favour with the band until the Best Of tour and is now a regular crowd-pleaser at James gigs, often causing Tim to venture out into the audience.

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