Four skinny indy kids, drinking weak lager in a camden boozer

[sojourner]

She died with her telly on. 87 and confused.
There's not enough hospital beds because all the money's been used
On the end of the century party preparations
And they reckon that the last thing she saw in her life was
Sting singing on the roof of the Barbican


Like a game-bird reserve short on pheasants,
Weavers cottages devoid of tenants,
A market town that lacks quintessence,
That's Chatteris without your presence


We've just been performing a guerilla gig
In the middle of another group's guerilla gig
Well, surely that's the ultimate guerilla gig
But still they cried like girls


I could have put my head in a bucketful of porridge
And moaned about the hospital parking scheme.
I would've saved 14 pounds that I just splashed out on your second album,
For that's what it's akin to
And furthermore
You've got a shit arm
And that's a bad tattoo

 

[souljacker]

They didnt choose their cat
the cat chose them
And whaddayaknow its got its own website


They treat the Mercury Music
Prize with awe
But obviuosly thats just jealousy on my part

 

[Dubversion]

She died with her telly on. 87 and confused.
There's not enough hospital beds because all the money's been used
On the end of the century party preparations
And they reckon that the last thing she saw in her life was
Sting singing on the roof of the Barbican

My favourite Nigel verse (ish) ever. He's so much better when he's REALLY fucked off...

 

[sojourner]

My favourite Nigel verse (ish) ever. He's so much better when he's REALLY fucked off...

Indeed. Venom backed with political awareness and a dose of huge intelligence... it's a win win situation

 

[Velouria]

You lot are all going for the later albums. I only know the first two

Should I get me to a record store?

Hugh Pugh Barley McGrew Cuthbert Dibble Grub!

Let it happen bass player ...

Time flies by when you're the driver of a train
Speeding out of Trumpton with a cargo of cocaine
I get high when I'm the pilot of a plane
Touching down in Camberwick I'm stoned out of my brain

Under bridges, over bridges, to our destination!
Careful with that spliff Eugene it causes condensation!

 

[sojourner]

Vel, I don't have Cammell Laird and MTD never really did it for me. I prefer the later stuff, and Achtung Bono is possibly their best album ever, for me.

Anyway, yet another off AB, cos I love it so much


you call Glastonbury 'Glasto'
You'd like to go there one day
When they put up the gun towers
To keep the hippies away.
December sees Kitzbuhel
Clad in Lowe Alpine
Your children are painfully soulless

 

[sojourner]

Should I get me to a record store?

[/i]

Don't give the money to anyone else but Probe Plus or Action Records mate...

 

[souljacker]

you call Glastonbury 'Glasto'
You'd like to go there one day
When they put up the gun towers
To keep the hippies away.
December sees Kitzbuhel
Clad in Lowe Alpine
Your children are painfully soulless

Ralphs in Brize Norton!

 

[Velouria]

Don't give the money to anyone else but Probe Plus or Action Records mate...

Ah, bloody Action Records!

Put my name down at a Fall gig once and every week they email me with a list of stuff.

I very rarely look at it

 

[sojourner]

Ah, bloody Action Records!

Put my name down at a Fall gig once and every week they email me with a list of stuff.

I very rarely look at it

Here's a radical thought - you could always unsubscribe

 

[sojourner]

Ralphs in Brize Norton!

 

[Genghis Cohen]

James Dean was just a careless driver.
And Marilyn Munroe was just a slag.

 

[sojourner]

They are scum, and they'll die
Because their wives are too fuckin bubbly
And they say lacksadaisical
And they'll get back from Copenhagen
And they will say
That statue's quite dissappointing
Not very big


And it feels like I've just been seen by me mates
Feels like I've just been seen by me mates
Seen by me mates comin out of a Styx gig
...
Don't wear stripey kecks babe
Don't wear stripey kecks



(I also love the phrases used to go into a riff...)

Ok boys, let's pedestrianise the high street!


edit to add: sorry...just got home and decided the only thing I wanted to hear was HMHB

 

[Genghis Cohen]

Outside goldsmiths coughing up blood
Turner prize judge gasps christ thats good
Leave it as is, It'll get first place
We'll call a full shift at the coal face

I want to meet howard marx if I can but they say that I cant, I need four different wristbands.

The britpop refugee
Walking upto me
And his face is hollow
From seasons of disappointment
And he starts blathering on about his latest project
Already being dismissed by the unlikeliest of cable stations
Its a dot com sitcom
About a hip hop chip shop.

 

[sojourner]

So I'm walkin down the road
and heading towards me is somebody I know
but not like a brother
He's seen me and we've both realised
that we're going to have to put into operation
the tricky maneouvre that is
acknowledgement without breaking stride
So I keep my eyes fixed firmly on the ground
til i get within ten or so feet away
with a nod of the head
and a timely hello
I can carry on walkin don't wanna get talkin
Rule number one carry on walkin
And anyway I don't know his name
and if I were to guess I'd guess it all wrong
and I'd be there for a long time
hows it going where are yer living
do you still see much of Steve
Are yer married, are yer working, do you still drink in the Swan

 

[Badger Decoy]

of course, there's lot of melancholy to Nigel as well (not so much on the first two albums which i think pale in comparison to the rest, good as they are).. he'll write some really moving lines (often paired with a dumb daytime TV reference for fear of being taken seriously.."

"and the low drone of the treadmill
Is the sound of my hopes being shattered"

my favourite - in one of my favourite songs, Quality Janitor - is

"I still remember the 5 o'clock teatime smell of the estate"

I love HMHB- was got into them by a mate of mine years ago who was a big fan. I, like dubversion, always thought they had a dark melancholy side but the mate who got me into them said i was misinterpreting it so im gald to see im not alone on that point. "Turned up, clocked on laid off" is a good example i reckon "Sign on, with no hope in your heart, When you walk through a storm you get wet".

"we sat and decided as the seaons collided
that our love was fairly utopian
if it wasnt for my pills, my psychiatric bills
and your unreliable fallopian"

on a more cheerful note though...

"i'd rather talk to plankton than to dance with you,
i hope your plane back home's a DC-10!"

"Sainsbury's security, like im dead scared,
Oh what a frightening world it can be"

"is this new labour mr blair,
is this new labour mr blair?
if this is new labour mr blair, should anyone need me i'll be over there!"

 

[Badger Decoy]

and finally,

"i asked you if you wanted to go along and see the rocky horror picture show,
you said you'd love to so i murdered your family,
cos i hate the rocky horror picture show,
and besides im going browsing round hardware shops"

 

[mauvais]

If Jesus came to Earth today,
They'd crucify him straight away,
Upon a cross of MDF,
And they'd use No Need For Nails

and

Reservoirs are colder and deeper than you think,
Well stop wait a minute Mr Spokesman,
You don't know what I think,
Is your lake about... hmm, let's see..
A hundred miles deep?
And ninety below?
...and is it home to sharks?

and

A million housewives every day
Pick up a can of beans and say
'What an amazing example
Of synchronisation'

 

[sojourner]

"Sainsbury's security, like im dead scared,
Oh what a frightening world it can be""

Aye, there are heartfelt lyrics in HMHB, touches of pathos littered in amongst the scorching social commentaries...

And what you just don't get with reading the lyrics, is the wonderful delivery...like that line above, if you hear it, it imparts so much more

 

[sojourner]

If Jesus came to Earth today,
They'd crucify him straight away,
Upon a cross of MDF,
And they'd use No Need For Nails

A favourite snippet of mine

/derail

Ey - you coming to the Manc drinks or wha?

derail over/

 

[mauvais]

No, for its arrangement was so slow that the dinosaurs died, the Messiah popped in, there was a bit of fighting for a while and then I moved away. To Nottingham.

 

[Termite Man]

There are too many good ones and they are getting mixed up in my head

 

[Lad]

If Jesus came to earth today,they'd crucify him straight away,upon a cross of MDA and they'd use No Need For Nails. from Upon Westminster Bridge

and from Tending the Wrong Grave for 23 years
Curse those in charge of plots
Curse these forget me nots
I've been sharing my innermost thoughts with an Edward McGray
Only she won't know she's 200 metres away-------let's complain.

I hadn't seen them for years until last year at the Carling Liverpool which was part of Peel night.One of the best shows I've been to.

 

[sojourner]

There are too many good ones and they are getting mixed up in my head

I submitted a gig review to the site, and included at least one track that they hadn't actually played...cos I'd been listening to them all the way to Sheff and back

(they didn't play country practice, for example )

 

[sojourner]

I hadn't seen them for years until last year at the Carling Liverpool which was part of Peel night.One of the best shows I've been to.

You lucky bastard


I completely missed that..was too busy organising me own peel night

Gutted that I missed them on such an important night.

How was it for you?

 

[Termite Man]

Neil Morrisey is a ...

 

[Lad]

You lucky bastard
I completely missed that..was too busy organising me own peel night
Gutted that I missed them on such an important night.
How was it for you?



It was a great night.Great selection of songs which included old tracks right through to Achtung Bono.I thought the songs were even better live than recorded.
The audience surprised me a little.It was a real mix of people with a lot more young(under say 22-23) than I'd thought,students who knew all the lyrics,clubbing type couples,dupla Prague kits,Joy Division oven glove wearers,right through to lads I know in Liverpool and a good few of Tranmere Rovers and Birkenhead scals.Tiffany's cover I Think We're Alone Now,Thems the Vagaries ,Deep House Victims Minibus Appeal what more could you want.It was boss.