Laid

Laid is the fifth studio album by British alternative rock band James. It was released on 5 October 1993. It was the first of several collaborations between the group and Brian Eno, who produced all but one of the album's tracks – in Stuart Maconie's authorised biography of the group, Folklore, they admitted that Eno didn't like the song "One of the Three" so they recorded it when he took a day off. The sessions also resulted in the experimental Wah Wah album.

Track listing

All songs written by Tim Booth, Larry Gott and Jim Glennie; except where noted.

remastered 2001 reissue adds:

Personnel

Laid (song)

"Laid" is the title song from Manchester alternative rock band James' 1993 album Laid. Emotionally evocative and featuring the risqué lyrics "This bed is on fire with passionate love, the neighbours complain about the noises above, but she only cums when she's on top", it quickly gained popularity on American college radio and remains the group's best-known song in the USA. Because of the lyrics, in America the music video of the song replaced the infamous line with "she only sings when she's on top" (although Tim Booth clearly lip-syncs the original line, and is accompanied by a subtitle reading "hums"). Today, a number of alternative rock stations, including Boston's RadioBDC, WBOS, Maryland's WRNR-FM, Chicago's WXRT and Philadelphia's WRFF will play "Laid" with the original controversial line.

While the song did chart on the Billboard Hot 100, its initial peak was #61. It made it on to the chart thanks to its cult status as a popular college song, which is what helped it to peak at #3 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart. The song was much more successful in the band's native United Kingdom, where it peaked at number 25, becoming another Top 40 hit for the band before it was released in the United States.

Laid (disambiguation)

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Transition

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Transitions (The Wire)

"Transitions" is the fourth episode of the fifth season of the HBO original series, The Wire. The episode was written by Ed Burns from a story by David Simon & Ed Burns and was directed by Dan Attias, who won the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Drama Series for the episode. It first aired on January 27, 2008.

Production

Title reference

The title refers to the several transitions seen during the episode, mostly Ervin Burrell and Cedric Daniels at the Baltimore Police Department, Roger Twigg and Scott Templeton at the Baltimore Sun, and finally Proposition Joe and Marlo Stanfield.

Epigraph

Though Scott Templeton is lamenting the dwindling job market in journalism, there is also a noticeable resonance regarding the local drug trade.

Oscar Requer also says, "It's a buyer's market," when talking to Jimmy McNulty and Lester Freamon. Requer is joking about selling McNulty a condominium, but the comment also carries an implication about the availability of bodies in unsolved homicides for McNulty and Freamon to work into their investigation.

Transitions (linguistics)

Transitions are words or phrases that show the relationship between paragraphs or sections of a text or speech. Transitions provide greater cohesion by making it more explicit or signaling how ideas relate to one another. Transitions are "bridges" that "carry a reader from section to section." Transitions guide a reader through steps of logic, increments of time, or through physical space. Transitions "...connect words and ideas so that your readers don't have to do the mental work for you."

Definition

Coordinating transitions

Elements in a coordinate relationship are equal in rank, quality, or significance. To show a link between equal elements, use a coordinating transition.