Behind the Songs: Jigsaw

Photo: Michael Halsband

Richard Fortus (on being asked his favorite Love Spit Love songs): "'Jigsaw'. Because it is different to anything else out there right now. There is nothing out there that can also relate to it either. It is also like a weird hybrid type of a song. It is like Tom Waits meets a British cabaret." (Highwire Daze 1994)

Richard Fortus: "I think people who know my playing realize songs like 'Green' and 'St. Mary's' and 'Jigsaw' and 'Wake Up' are songs that are a big part of my thing." (St. Louis Post Dispatch 1994)

Richard Butler (on the music): "I keep getting this vision of this German SS soldier staggering down a dark alleyway at 4 in the morning, with lipstick on, and a garter over his uniform leg." (Unknown source, 1994?)

Richard Butler: "The kind of music that triggers me to do something is likely in some ways to be similar, it doesn't matter who it is. Some things obviously bend in a very different direction, I don't think 'November 5' would ever have been written by the Furs. Maybe 'Jigsaw' too, I'm not sure, and 'More Than Money'. I would say the real difference is Richard Fortus, more importantly than anything else." (Goldmine 1998)