The Miller's Daughter

Infobox Album
Name = The Miller's Daughter
Type = Album
Artist = The Drones


Released = 2005
Recorded = Atlantis Studios
Genre = Rock
Length =
Label = Fuse Records (Australia)
Bang! Records (UK/Europe)
Producer = Locki Lockwood
Gareth Liddiard
Reviews =
Last album = "Wait Long By the River and the Bodies of Your Enemies Will Float By" (2005)
This album = "The Miller's Daughter" (2005)
Next album = "Gala Mill" (2006)

"The Miller's Daughter" is the third album released by Perth band The Drones. The album was also released as a limited (500 copies) vinyl edition and included an extra track, "Well Well Well".

"This isn't really an outtakes or b-side record...its just that when we recorded 'Here Come The Lies' and 'Wait Long By The River' we did them six months apart and we had a huge pile of songs....those two records were both really long and we had to ditch some of the stuff we were doing to keep them reasonably timed....most of the stuff is recorded straight up live in the studio....so basically if I fucked up a lyric it didn't go on the record. we didn't have the time or money or patience to correct anything....all I can remember about these sessions is just being tired and drunk and hoarse and broke and way too loud for a recording studio...it seems like 20 years ago. But I really like this record...it's got everything I like about rock n roll in there so I'm totally cool with it..... even though it's a little messy and rushed. lots of people think we are shit and I hope this makes them think we are even worse after hearing it cause we are just doing our thing and doing a thorough job of it......I hate to sound trite but this is what we think punk sounds like you know??? and any band worth anything knows that you are just there take what you think is most valuable in good music and then show it to everybody... kinda pervert it a little to suit... then you try to enjoy it more than everyone else" [cite web |url=http://www.jbhifionline.com.au/music/id/860455 |title=Gareth Liddiard interview |publisher=Guitar & Vox|accessdate=2007-11-09 ]

On the record liner Liddiard provides the following description for each song:Album liner notes - The Drones : "The Millers Daughter"]
* "Someone On Your Bond" - name kinda taken from a Blind Willie Johnson song, the last contract you'll ever make.... so don't fuck it up. "wait long" sessions.
* "Bird In A Church" - people who sing or have sung that dreadful song "sometimes I feel like a motherless child" should be killed. simple. came out as the A-side of a 7" issued by infidelity records 2003ish.
* "She Had An Abortion That She Made Me Pay For" - regrets, I've had a few... Brendon plays bass, Crisso has pneumonia. recorded September 2000 at Cavalier Studios in Research (???). then it just sat there.
* "The Miller's Daughter" - I think a couple of these lines appear in a song "Death on the Installment Plan" by Louis Ferdinand Celine. kind of up back somewhere. it may be part of a real song, who knows. I made the rest up.
* "I Believe" - based on an Alan Vega song of the same name, Coltrane's 'love supreme', a Blind Willie Johnson song I can't recall and a couple of lines some bloke was singing to himself on the street... Warren on drums, Rui on Hammond and Zipzichord, and me and James on guitars. recorded in our lounge room in east perth 1999.
* "Meanstreak" - you can't put a .303 against your forehead without first removing your shoes, everyone knows that. "here come the lies" sessions.
* "Slammin' On The Brakes" - real showbiz this... I'm talking about the end. oldest trick in the book that one!! a Spencer Jones masterpiece. came out as a B-side to "Bird In A Church" around 2003??
* "Henry Ford" - unfinished recording of an unrecorded, finished song. containing the greatest analogy for the eternal question in song today...... 'G.M.H or Henry Ford?'
* "Stop Dreaming" - name taken from John Lee Hooker song called that or something else.... the best advice in the world really. "wait long" sessions.
* "The City" - spot where tape runds out. "here come the lies" sessions.

Track listing

All songs written by the Drones, except where noted.cite web |url=http://www.apra.com.au/site/public/searchworksresult.stm |title=Australasian Performing Right Association |publisher=APRA|accessdate=2008-03-07 ]
# "Someone On Your Bond" - 2:25
# "Bird In A Church" - 3:00
# "Well Well Well"
# "She Had An Abortion That She Made Me Pay For" - 5:03
# "The Miller's Daughter" - 6:48
# "I Believe" - 6:58
# "Mean Streak" - 4:41
# "Slammin' On The Brakes" (Spencer P. Jones) - 5:07
# "Henry Ford" - 5:42
# "Stop Dreaming" - 4:17
# "The City" - 10:07

Personnel

* Gareth Liddiard - vocals, guitar, keyboards
* Rui Pereira - guitar, keyboards
* Fiona Kitschin - bass
* Christian Strybosch - drums
* James McCann - guitar
* Warren Hall - drums
* Brendon Humphries - bass
* Steve Hesketh - Hammond, Wurtilzer ("Stop Dreaming")

References