CUTTOOTH (5:03)
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notes from ed's diary: its got a 'neu' thing about it - long and hypnotic.... (03-08-99)

the song with little structure and the only certainty is a bass riff. it makes you wonder how 'neu' did their thing - it always sounds spontaneous on those 12 minute epics, but did they have to rehearse intensely? did it require a degree of editing? (31-08-99)

we're like fucking lasers, us. we spend almost the entire rehearsal working on 'cuttooth' (the song with no arrangements up until now) and surprise, surprise, it already sounds a lot better. when you have a song that does not have the usual distinction between verse/chorus/middle eight, there need to be other markers that define the way the song progresses. and we're getting there. (3-9-99)

spent an hour playing around with cuttooth. came in and heard phil on drums and thom on rhodes going through it. it's one of those moments when you hear something being played and all you want to do is pick up a guitar and join in. so i did......it's only three chords so not too taxing even on my very limited music theory. (07-12-99)

started by playing 'cuttooth' again - the song needs stamina - sounding better than yesterday....just have to keep playing it. (08-12-99)

nigel wants to get his teeth stuck into mixing, so we decided to set up and record 'cuttooth'. this at eight and a half minutes (by the end) is the long one - did five or six takes of which a couple are pretty good. will review further tomorrow. (21-2-00)

listen to 'cuttooth' and it sounds fucking great. (23-2-00)

more good things added to 'cuttooth'........sounds. its one of those classic situations where the temptation is to continually embellish whats on there and it's one of those songs that you could get away with it. but in doing that, you often lose the essence of what was great about it in the first place. i guess the trick is to be absolutely ruthless on what is added................so at five in the morning having not savagely edited some of these overdubs the track sounded too overcooked.............. (25-2-00)

nigel was sidetracked last week by 'cuttooth' so he really really wants to do some mixing this week. (28-02-00)