Do you remember watching the Disney Movie "The Jungle Book" as a kid? I certainly do. As a matter of fact someone must have bought the soundtrack for me back when I was a mere sprog. I surmise this having found the soundtrack LP amongst the pile of records I had left behind in England as a kid last time I went back to visit. I have spent some time listening to it since then having subsequently brought it back to the States with me. Recently I picked up an American version from Goodwill along with a video cassette of the actual movie. Disney has never short changed the consumer when it comes to options for purchasing their output suffice to say....

While the whole soundtrack is noteworthy for its timeless appeal and straight up grooviness, ("Bare Necessities", "I wanna be like you" etc) I find myself drawn to the down-tempo stylings of "Trust in me", when it comes to picking a favorite track. This soporific, string laden, jazz/blues inflected track is graced with lyrics that can be interpreted innocently or from a more worldly perspective.

"Slip into silent slumber....slowly and surely your senses will cease to exist" ..... (excerpt from lyrics)

The accompanying scene in the movie is one in which a treacherous snake hypnotizes Mowgli, the young boy who is the hero of the story with his ever spiraling eyes. It does this with a view to ultimately eating him once he is thoroughly subdued. It does not take too much imagination to see how this could symbolize the passage of an individual from drug user to drug abuser to addict to deceased...The seductive and increasingly disabling nature of heavy narcotic experimentation represented by the snake and it's efforts to engage and dispatch Mowgli.

"Adam and Eve meets Drugstore Cowboy as envisioned by Damian" {future Hollywood Pitch for a remake}

"Trust in me" has a similar feel to "Perfect Day" by Lou Reed in terms of musical temperament and pacing . Its underlying semi-covert subject matter may well be the same too methinks...

"Your gonna reap just what you sowed" and all that....

"Ahhhhh ... a run of the mill heroin lullaby/funeral dirge from our friends at Disney. One for the wee kiddies out there."


YR IMAGINEERINGLY

Phonic theE Bomber

p.s. I might be wrong about all of this