"Fire in the Head" is a song by
Canadian rock band
The Tea Party. It was released as a single in Australia and a
promotional single in Canada, the UK and the USA.
[the edges of twilight er]
The Tea Party a visual discography
Accessed 16 April 2007 The music video, directed by
Dean Karr, was shot in Los Angeles while the band were recording ''
The Edges of Twilight
''The Edges of Twilight'' is the third album by Canadian rock band The Tea Party, released in 1995. The album features many instruments from around the world, giving various songs a strong world music flavour in addition to the rock/blues inf ...
''.
"Fire in the Head" is a standard three-piece rock composition and features a broken
mellotron
The Mellotron is an electro-mechanical musical instrument developed in Birmingham, England, in 1963. It is played by pressing its keys, each of which pushes a length of magnetic tape against a capstan, which pulls it across a playback head. A ...
, it was written during the band's first cross Canada tour with
Roy and
Nick Harper with Jeff Martin intending to use the song on Roy Harper's next album until the band jammed it with loud drums, bass and guitar. Lyrically it is influenced by Tom Cowan's book "Fire in the Head".
[Stuart Chatwood, In Tangents The Tea Party Collection 2000, CD, EMI Music Canada, Mississauga.]
Track listing
#"Fire in the Head (edit)"
#"Fire in the Head"
#"Inanna"
#"Drawing Down the Moon"
Charts
References
1995 singles
The Tea Party songs
Song recordings produced by Ed Stasium
1995 songs
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