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| "Endless Art" | |
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| Single by A House | |
| from the album I Am the Greatest | |
| Released | 1992 |
| Genre | Indie rock |
| Label | Setanta Records |
| Songwriter(s) | A House |
| Producer(s) | Edwyn Collins, Dale Griffin |
"Endless Art" is a song by Irish indie rock band A House, released initially as the lead track on the Bingo EP (1991), and then as a single from their 1991 album I Am the Greatest. It was later included on the greatest hits album The Way We Were.
After the commercial failure of their 1990 album I Want Too Much, A House had been dropped from their label Blanco y Negro Records, to be picked up by the indie label Setanta Records. They quickly released the EPs Doodle and Bingo at the end of 1990 and in 1991. The latter included the first appearance of "Endless Art", which A House recorded with Edwyn Collins as producer.[1] Collins went on to work with them on I Am the Greatest from which "Endless Art" was re-released as a single, accompanied by a video.[2]
Although the song did not enjoy huge chart success, it reached number 46 in the UK - an achievement by A House's standards - and it gained a certain amount of airplay on MTV Europe. The lyrics to "Endless Art" begin with the line "All art is quite useless according to Oscar Wilde" and for their remainder are mostly a list of the names and birth and death dates of artists from various fields, with the chorus remark: "all dead but still alive, in endless time and endless art". This "list" style of song is characteristic of many of Dave Couse's songs. The majority of the lyrics are declaimed rather than sung, over a repetitive electric guitar motif. Melodically, the song features a quotation from Beethoven's Fifth Symphony in the chorus.
- ^ "Listing for "Bingo" EP at Discogs.com". Discogs.com. Retrieved October 10, 2011.
- ^ "Listing for "Endless Art" single at Discogs.com". Discogs.com. Retrieved October 10, 2011.