Listen to Intensive Care! IV

Quoted from: http://www.whatsyourfuture.com/

'Random acts of kindness

Random acts if kindness is a song about magic. In the two years Robbie worked on 'Intensive Care', he also found the time to develop an interest in magic and the occult, studying the published works of occultist Aleister Crowley and dabbling in spells of his own. He likes to describe this particular song as 'mystical and magical', one made for the inner Gandalf in us all. 'I am just a simple man with simple expectations,' he sings, perhaps somewhat disingenuoulsy.

The Trouble With Me

It is, by now, common knowledge that few people write self-lacerating songs with the unflinchng eloquence of Robbie Williams, and 'The Trouble With Me' is one of his very best. Written by a man of maturity now desperate to find the woman of his dreams, he begins it thus: 'You see the trouble with me/I've got a head full of fuck/I'm a basket case/I don't think I can love.' Stephen Duffy, the album's producer, points to these lyrics - which, like all of Robbie's lyrics, come straight off the top of his head with the minimum of architecture - as confirmation of his genius wordplay.'