Favourite lines from Fall tracks

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it's often kinda hard to work out why you like a particular line from The Fall - sometimes it's about the delivery, the strangeness of the words, the peculiar incongruity of them can be hilarious. sometimes I get the references but more often than I don't. In spite of this they can rattle around in your head for weeks at a time anyway. I sometimes sjip back the cd a minute of so so i can hear a particular line again, again, again...

"He had a kingdom of evil book,
under a German history book.
he was! contrived! like that!"

(Garden, my favourite fall song)

"take your fleecy jumper, you don't need it anymore,
it is in the car-boot moving away"

(Theme from Sparta F.C.)

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 20:38 (twenty years ago)

sjip = skip

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 20:39 (twenty years ago)

Hotel maids smile in unison
Then you know in your brain
You know in your brain
LEAVE THE CAPITOL

― (Jon L), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 20:43 (twenty years ago)

Pretty much all the choruses from Eat Y'rself Fitter; e.g. "What's a computer?!? (Eat y'rself fitter!) WHAT'S A COMPUTER! (Eat y'rself fitter!)" Oh and also "G-O-H-O-H-O-I-O, G-O-H-O-H-O-I-O!"

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 20:44 (twenty years ago)

Mother-Sister! Mother-Sister! Why-did-you-put-your-head-in-ah

PYYYYYYYYY-LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONARGHHHHHargghharghh

― Michael Philip Philip Philip Philip Philip Annoyman (Ferg), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 20:48 (twenty years ago)

"Th-th-the house is filled with ecstatic midges-uh"

― Loose Translation: Sexy Dancer (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 20:52 (twenty years ago)

"Your Clearasil produces Richthofen rashes,
Sideboard-like on mountains
Clearasil is in conjunction"

and

"Stop eating all that chocolate
Eat salad instead
In fact, you're a half-wit"

from Glam Racket

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 20:55 (twenty years ago)

I only think of Fall songs one line at a time..

God damn the pedantic Welsh.
Get down to the fuckin liquor store, boy.

except
I hate the prisoners
I hate the officers
There's no fight
I think I'll join,
a red rose,
Leave Belsen
I'll go to Switzerland

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 20:55 (twenty years ago)

"New puritan! You shook me! I wash every day! But still it's, ah... but still it's, ah... UNCLEEEEAN-ah! UNCLEEEEAN-ah!"

"They got a Safeway there! They got a fuckin' Safeway everywhere!"

― Douglas (Douglas), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 20:58 (twenty years ago)

ha - whats the safeway one from?

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 21:56 (twenty years ago)

"Touch my shoulder and ignore my dogmission."

Oh, boy.

― Burger Kong, Tuesday, 19 October 2004 21:57 (twenty years ago)

there are so many, even in one song. i would like to give it up for the climax of "mere pseud mag ed."

He showed he was a big fan of double-entendre
Saw Not the Nine O'Clock News History of the World Part One
Twice each at least
Twice each at least
Twice each at least

oh fuck it, an earlier part too...

Real ale, curry as well - sophisticate!
Spanish guitar doesn't get far
In computer teaching job
His dreamgirl sings adverts for the Weetabix
A fancied wit that's imitation of Rumpole of Bailey

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 22:10 (twenty years ago)

all of "Stop Mithering"

― roger adultery, Tuesday, 19 October 2004 22:12 (twenty years ago)

That's why you eat crap food
That's why nobody talks to you
That's why you messed up everything you do

― paranoia is the hipster's disease (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 22:43 (twenty years ago)

Drink the long draught down
Drink the long
Drink the long draught

― Salim "Off to the pub" Diggity (salim), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 23:21 (twenty years ago)

i always thought it was 'dan', as in mark and dan are discussing the hip priest..

― chris andrews (fraew), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 23:39 (twenty years ago)

ROWCHE RUMBLE CHSS CHSSSS

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 23:45 (twenty years ago)

CHECK THE RECORD CHECK THE RECORD CHECK THE GUY'S TRACK RECORD CHECK THE RECORD CHECK THE GUY'S TRACK RECORD...HE...IS...NOTTTAHH!!!

― r4nd0m g00gler, Wednesday, 20 October 2004 00:22 (twenty years ago)

Pay your rates
Pay your own rates
If your rates too high
You'd better sign this letter
If you don't pay your rates
You're gonna end up here
Or end up on debtors retreat estate
Or debtor's retreat escape
Debtor's escape estate

― the surface noise (slight return) (electricsound), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 00:46 (twenty years ago)

Meanwhile
in the
sticks
proles
rich (uh)
dance
in
card
board pants

― Graeme (Graeme), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 01:06 (twenty years ago)

Dr Annabel Lies
On the colour page
French fries spread on her face
On the future autolytic enzyme son

― Graeme (Graeme), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 01:10 (twenty years ago)

simple and obvious, i know, but i get so much joy from these lines:

"Hey there fuck face!
Hey there fuck face!"

― frankE (frankE), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 01:53 (twenty years ago)

And I feel like Alan Minter
I just ate eight sheets of blotting paper
And I tripped out on the Alka Seltzer

― joseph pot (STINKOR™), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 03:52 (twenty years ago)

No belts in this flat
The former tenant was anti-corporal-punish
Meant well, but it came to nothing

― a. begrand (a begrand), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 04:05 (twenty years ago)

"Where are the obligatory niggers?"

― Mr. Snrub, Wednesday, 20 October 2004 04:13 (twenty years ago)

simple and obvious, i know, but i get so much joy from these lines:
"Hey there fuck face!
Hey there fuck face!"

-- frankE (frankeeeeeeee...), October 20th, 2004.

I wholeheartedly second that.

― David Allen (David Allen), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 06:59 (twenty years ago)

"Winston Churchill had a speech impuh-puh-pediment
And look what he did... razed half of London."

― Dr Benway (dr benway), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 07:32 (twenty years ago)

I too like "hey there fuck face!" but am never 100% comfortable with that N-word (no matter how innocuous) immediately after. So I gotta go with:

"I got my last clean dirty shirt out of the wardrobe-ah! I got my last clean dirty shirt out of the wardrobe-ah!"

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 07:39 (twenty years ago)

Oh, and:

"Do not fuck us - we are frigid stars!"

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 07:43 (twenty years ago)

and you're dying for a pee
so you go behind a tree
and a Star Wars police vehicle pulls up...
I say "Gimme a taxi"

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 08:22 (twenty years ago)

Or alternatively, from the Peel Session version

The best thing is to stay home
And have a wank

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 08:23 (twenty years ago)

all of 'i am damo suzuki'

― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 08:28 (twenty years ago)

When what used to excite you does not
Like you've used up all your allowance of experiences

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 08:49 (twenty years ago)

This is the three R's
The three R's:
Repetition, Repetition, Repetition.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 08:55 (twenty years ago)

The X in X-mas is a substitute crucifix for Christ

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 11:21 (twenty years ago)

Er, what's this song about?
Er, nothing.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 11:21 (twenty years ago)

"What a dynamic entrance!"

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 12:15 (twenty years ago)

We're still one step ahead of you
I still believe in the R and R dream
R and R as primal scream

Tied to the Puritan Ethic
Non-sympathetic to spastics
After all this, still a lonely bastard

Eggheads, boneheads, queue
Queue for them

We were early and we were late
But, still, live at the witch trials

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 12:23 (twenty years ago)

Is this a branch on the tree of showbusiness?

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 12:27 (twenty years ago)

From Mess Of My: "It's the same old cabbage" and "Fill the rest in yourself" for the total attitude in the delivery.

― everything, Wednesday, 20 October 2004 15:56 (twenty years ago)

"Er, what's this song about?
Er, nothing. "

RIGHT ON! That line still kills me.

― everything, Wednesday, 20 October 2004 15:58 (twenty years ago)

how he laughed at the greek god pan

i didnae! i didnae!

― peter smith (plsmith), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 16:00 (twenty years ago)

"Er, what's this song about?
Er, nothing."

what's the track?

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 16:14 (twenty years ago)

um, right before "industrial estate" or something on Live at the Witch Trials.

― peter smith (plsmith), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 16:15 (twenty years ago)

Mah frenz don't add up to one hand
Mah frenz cannout count on one hand
Tell ya 'bout mah frenz.

― Rick Massimo (Rick Massimo), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 16:17 (twenty years ago)

what's the track?

'Mother-Sister!'

― Graeme (Graeme), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 16:17 (twenty years ago)

so many..but this is probably the one that pops into my head most often (recently anyway)

"10 times my age/1/10th my height!" from City Hobgoblins

― chris besinger (chris besinger), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 16:23 (twenty years ago)

BAZDAD. STATE COG. ANALYST.

― Loose Translation: Sexy Dancer (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 17:04 (twenty years ago)

In 1978
I was in a hotel in Notting Hill Gate
Now its 1992
I'm staying in a hotel in Notting Hill Gate

― neil tacus (tacit), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 17:31 (twenty years ago)

I've been bunged up, I've been banged up
I've been moved up, I've been banged up
I said ba da ba da ba da badaaaaa

there are twelve people in the world; the rest are paste

former fan at the bus stop,
treads on the ball at his feet in the christmas rush
had in his hands, two lager cans

There's a blood silhouette through the ceiling sky

the nylon leaves are falling from the twisted shell of your cranium

multicoloured sweets in bottom of white sweet pack..?
the realization burns into my back: the joke, five years in a PC camp
the joke... violent food descends over you

― mig (mig), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 17:36 (twenty years ago)

'they are part IIIrrrrrrrrrrrrish-uh, they have no conscience'

When what used to excite you does not
Like you've used up all your allowance of experiences

What's this from? It's one of my favourite ones too but I can never remember what it's off.

― Michael Philip Philip Philip Philip Philip Annoyman (Ferg), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 18:44 (twenty years ago)

good ones here

― (Jon L), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 18:47 (twenty years ago)

"communists are just part-time workers"

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 18:51 (twenty years ago)

God, hundreds.

First one that springs to mind:

"Unfortunately, this being East Germany,
Gert patriotically volunteered to be sent on a labor
beautification course of the countryside north-west of Dresden.
And never seen again.
And never seen again."

And as Roger says, pretty much all of 'C n Cs Mithering'.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 18:55 (twenty years ago)

from Mountain Energi:

"So I went fishing
A note from a fish said:
Dear dope, if you wanna catch us
You need a rod and a line
Signed the fish"

― chris besinger (chris besinger), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 19:08 (twenty years ago)

"How dare you assume I want to parlez vous with you, Gretchen Franklin" (okay that's actually Mark E Smith guesting with Coldcut but it's a good 'un)

"Cat gut violator! Cat gut violator!"
(okay, that was actually some convoluted NME parody about Brix running off with Nigel Kennedy, but I like it)

― john lewis (johnnylewis), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 19:53 (twenty years ago)

other way 'round: "Telephone Thing" was a Fall single, with Colcut guesting. You're thinking of "Plug Myself In".

― Loose Translation: Sexy Dancer (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 20:04 (twenty years ago)

Look out! Lovers of fads
It's MES in shoulder pads

― grapeshine (grapeshine), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 20:39 (twenty years ago)

other way 'round: "Telephone Thing" was a Fall single, with Colcut guesting. You're thinking of "Plug Myself In".

no, that was D.O.S.E. You're thinking of I'm In Deep!

― kit brash (kit brash), Thursday, 21 October 2004 00:44 (twenty years ago)

I'm still not convinced

― alfalfa romeo (natepatrin), Thursday, 21 October 2004 02:31 (twenty years ago)

"Cheer myself up
Put the radio on, get the magazine out
And read about the ‘Essence of Tong’

Checklist:

I never leave home without:
1. Sunglasses - I wear them all year around, and seem to need them more often, it’s a habit
2. Music - cassettes, CDs
3. Palm Pilot - it’s my lifeline. I think it’s my P.A.’s computer, she rules my diary and I download it
4. Mobile phone
5. Amex card - they made such a fuss about giving it to me but I spend more time getting it turned down

I was in the realm of the essence of Tong."

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 21 October 2004 02:42 (twenty years ago)

xxpost: aw crap.
Turn that bloody, blimey Space Invader OFF!

― Loose Translation: Sexy Dancer (sexyDancer), Thursday, 21 October 2004 02:48 (twenty years ago)

Those flowers, take them away
They're only funeral decoration
This is The Fall and this is the drudge nation
Your decadent sins will reap discipline
New puritan

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 21 October 2004 07:55 (twenty years ago)

ha yes i love "the realm of the essence of Tong!"

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 21 October 2004 12:06 (twenty years ago)

eleven months pass...

You post out sixty page computer printouts on the end of forests.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 20 October 2005 02:50 (nineteen years ago)

Saw the Holy Ghost
I swear
On the screen.
Where's the cursor? Where's the eraser?
- Eat Y'self Fitter

I used to have this thing about Link Wray
I used to play him every Saturday
God bless Saturday
- Neighbourhood of Infinity

You thought it'd be great
But a good mind does not a good fuck make
- In The Park

― Edward III (edward iii), Thursday, 20 October 2005 03:10 (nineteen years ago)

"I said to him
It's about time you started thinking
About the black dog on your back
Said it's about time you started thinking
About the rerun which is your life
Moveable backdrop"

― etc, Thursday, 20 October 2005 03:17 (nineteen years ago)

The mad kid had 4 lights, the average is 2.5 lights
The mediocre has 2 lights, the sign of genius is three lights
There's one light left, that's the one light
That's the science law

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 20 October 2005 03:20 (nineteen years ago)

"...with famous British attention
to the wrong deTAIL."

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Thursday, 20 October 2005 04:54 (nineteen years ago)

THIS IS THE HOME OF THE VAIN!
THIS IS THE HOME OF THE VAIN!
I just left the Hotel Amnesia, I had to go there
Where it is I can't remember,
But now I can remember...now I can remember
HAFTA! HAFTA!
MESSAGE FOR YER! MESSAGE FOR YER!

― Brakhage (brakhage), Thursday, 20 October 2005 12:10 (nineteen years ago)

Shaun and Petula Macabre. Here are your wedding pictures. They are black. AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Thursday, 20 October 2005 12:27 (nineteen years ago)

"so i turn my TV on
people jumping up and down
then they have the panel on"

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 20 October 2005 12:34 (nineteen years ago)

oprah winfrey...she studied bees

― terry, Thursday, 20 October 2005 12:36 (nineteen years ago)

I never felt better in my life

― k/l (Ken L), Thursday, 20 October 2005 12:38 (nineteen years ago)

my latest favorite:

"YOURE TALKING Uh-BOUT YOUR SELF"

― bb (bbrz), Thursday, 20 October 2005 13:05 (nineteen years ago)

He had a parka on and a black cardboard Archbishop's hat
With a green-fuzz skull and crossbones
He'd just got back from the backward kids' party
Anyway then he seemed the young one
But now he looked like a victim of a pogrom

― Dr. Gene Scott (shinybeast), Thursday, 20 October 2005 14:21 (nineteen years ago)

This is my happening and it freaks me out.

― owen moorhead (i heart daniel miller), Thursday, 20 October 2005 14:43 (nineteen years ago)

"Oh how flair is punished"

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 20 October 2005 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

"Now yr w/ some hippy half-wit/Who think's he's Mr Mark Smith"

― chris besinger (chris besinger), Thursday, 20 October 2005 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, the double entendre in that one ("thinks he's Mr. Marksmith" - and he's singing to an ex-girlfriend) is awesome.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 20 October 2005 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

ex-girlfriend? ex-wife, man!

― Old School (sexyDancer), Thursday, 20 October 2005 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

Are you sure? That's from "The Reckoning" from around '94. It seemed like there were some songs about post-Brix girlfriends before that like "Bill Is Dead" and "Gentleman's Agreement."

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 20 October 2005 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

Creosote tar fence surrounds it
Those razor blades eject when I press eject

― xero (xero), Thursday, 20 October 2005 15:38 (nineteen years ago)

not a great line by itself, but the intonation on "it was one of the best shows ever seen" couldnt be delivered by anyone else in quite the same way.

― mark h (mark h), Thursday, 20 October 2005 15:43 (nineteen years ago)

and a new one...

Open the box. Open the box. Open the goddamn box.

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Thursday, 20 October 2005 15:44 (nineteen years ago)

xxpost:
For me, use of the word "Mr." implies an ex-wife. Smith was married a for the second time in the years between his relationships with Brix and Julia.

― Old School (sexyDancer), Thursday, 20 October 2005 15:44 (nineteen years ago)

Speaking of a line that no one else could deliver as well ..

"Operation ..... mindFuck."

― when something smacks of something (dave225.3), Thursday, 20 October 2005 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

"Some time ago, heard the Ramones in '81; heard a Spanish guitar."

― owen moorhead (i heart daniel miller), Thursday, 20 October 2005 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

"So now I sleep in ditches
And keep away from nosy kids
The wings rot and feather under me
The wings rot and curl right under me."

"Sometimes life is like a new bar
Plastic seats, beer below par
Food with no taste, music grates
I'm living too late"

― Nöödle Vägue (noodle vague), Thursday, 20 October 2005 16:04 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, and

"I thought I lived in England"

― Nöödle Vägue (noodle vague), Thursday, 20 October 2005 16:07 (nineteen years ago)

"You lecture on sweets and propose salad"

― Old School (sexyDancer), Thursday, 20 October 2005 17:27 (nineteen years ago)

The mad kid said "Gimme the lead! Gimme the lead! GIMME THE LEAD!"

― Venga (Venga), Thursday, 20 October 2005 17:29 (nineteen years ago)

It's approaching
600 pounds gas and flesh
Robes in tatters
It's approaching
Lips and tongue abhorrent
Flickering lexicon
Or a stray dog pack leader

― Venga (Venga), Thursday, 20 October 2005 17:32 (nineteen years ago)

Who is Mr. Karlheinz Stockhausen? Introduce me! I'm Damo Suzuki!

― owen moorhead (i heart daniel miller), Thursday, 20 October 2005 17:34 (nineteen years ago)

Computers infest the hotels
Cops can't catch criminals
But what the heck, they're not too bad, they talk to God

― Venga (Venga), Thursday, 20 October 2005 17:35 (nineteen years ago)

Was embarrassed but stuck with them
Walked, at shoulder, down the street, ridicule
They couldn't tell Lou Reed from Doug Yule

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 20 October 2005 17:40 (nineteen years ago)

Turn that bleepy, blimey space invader off!

(followed by bleepy, blimey space invader being turned off)

GENIUS

― Zack Richardson (teenagequiet), Thursday, 20 October 2005 17:51 (nineteen years ago)

It was me, the Hoover, and the OAPs

― Old School (sexyDancer), Thursday, 20 October 2005 17:52 (nineteen years ago)

Hey Mark, you're messin up the paintwork!

― TRG (TRG), Thursday, 20 October 2005 18:04 (nineteen years ago)

"Now yr w/ some hippy half-wit/Who think's he's Mr Mark Smith"
-- chris besinger (fakefak...), October 20th, 2005.

How about best misheard Fall lines? I used to think that one was "Who thinks he's Mr. Marksman" and it cracked me up, for some reason less funny as Mr. Mark Smith.

― Edward III (edward iii), Thursday, 20 October 2005 18:13 (nineteen years ago)

misheard? "and that wine that you call bourgoius" when it's actually "that wine that you call bulls blood".

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 20 October 2005 18:36 (nineteen years ago)

Idiot groups with no shape or form
Out of their heads on a quid of blow
The shapeless kecks* flapping up a storm
Look at what they are: a pack of worms
Idiot Joy Showland

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 20 October 2005 18:37 (nineteen years ago)

Paper local
Drunken scandal
Publish your address as well
Locals surround where you dwell
Old ladies confiscate your gate railings
For government campaigns
Its tough in home country
Councils hold the ring
D. Bowie look-alikes
Permeate car parks

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 20 October 2005 18:40 (nineteen years ago)

Says "Die Latin this is is your fall
I've waited since Caesar for this
Damn Latin, my hate is crisp
I'll rip your fat body to pieces."

Y'see I get no kicks anymore
From wife or children four
There's been no war for forty years
And getting drunk fills me with guilt

I drank a jar of coffee
And then I took some of THESE

― RickyT (RickyT), Thursday, 20 October 2005 19:27 (nineteen years ago)

Gonna tell ya about my friends:
My friends ain't enough for one hand.
My friends ain't enough for one hand.
My friends ain't enough for one hand.
My friends don't amount to one hand.

― Special Agent Dale Koopa (orion), Thursday, 20 October 2005 19:37 (nineteen years ago)

I used to really like that part in "Leave the Capitol" where he says, "I been there! I been there!" - a concise and trenchant mockery of everyone who has ever assumed that the experience of having travelled to distant places afforded them a certain level of social status - except that I later looked up the lyrics on-line and discovered that he was actually saying "I didnae! I didnae!", which must be some sort of Northern slang, the meaning of which eludes me.

― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 20 October 2005 19:49 (nineteen years ago)

Speaking of misheard lyrics, I always thought it was "Do not cross us/we are frigid stars", not "do not fuck us".

My vote:

"I curse the copulation of your lousy record collection
new puritan says coffee table LPs never breathe"

― sleeve (sleeve), Thursday, 20 October 2005 20:08 (nineteen years ago)

Frank Skinner has just introduced McFly onto his chat show to the accompaniment of "Jawbone and the Air Rifle" as played by his house band of old geezers.

What the fuck is that all about?

― Venga (Venga), Thursday, 20 October 2005 21:14 (nineteen years ago)

"I didnae! I didnae!", which must be some sort of Northern slang, the meaning of which eludes me.

"I did not! I did not!" as said in a Scottish, and more specifically Glaswegian (I think), dialect.

― Venga (Venga), Thursday, 20 October 2005 21:17 (nineteen years ago)

2001
Also Sprach Zarathustra
Proliferating across the earth
Pressure guilt
Grudge match
12 cm flak unit
Range 1 stroke 35

This is the spring without end
This is the summer of malcontent
This is the winter of your mind

― Sasha (sgh), Friday, 21 October 2005 00:12 (nineteen years ago)

Like mountain climbing
or skiing in the alps
Think of it.
I don't.

(so called dangerous)

― Marcel Verhoeven (Marcel Verhoeven), Friday, 21 October 2005 00:48 (nineteen years ago)

He aims the highest bestest powered rifle at the stars
Orion
It bounces off the satellite

(Midnight in Aspen from the recent 'Fall heads roll')

― Marcel Verhoeven (Marcel Verhoeven), Friday, 21 October 2005 00:50 (nineteen years ago)

Cary Grant's wedding
Hail new puritan, righteous maelstrom
Have you ever heard a Bill Haley LP?
What is this shit?
Everybody go Cary Grant's wedding!

― Special Agent Dale Koopa (orion), Friday, 21 October 2005 01:04 (nineteen years ago)

Californians always think of sex
Or think of death
Five hundred girl deaths
A Mexico revenge, it's stolen land
They really get it off on
"Don't hurt me please"
Rapist fill the TVs
And the secret of their lives
Is S.E.X..

― Earl Nash (earlnash), Friday, 21 October 2005 01:43 (nineteen years ago)

"She's crazy like a fool.
What about Daddy Coool?"

― nicholas de jong (nicholas de jong), Friday, 21 October 2005 02:09 (nineteen years ago)

I was walking down the street
When I tripped up on a discarded banana skin
And on my way down I caught the side of my head
On a protruding brick chip
It was the government's fault
It was the fault of the government
I was very let down from the budget
I was expecting a one million quid handout
I was very disappointed
It was the government's fault
It was the fault of the government

― jon dale, Friday, 21 October 2005 02:59 (nineteen years ago)

Frank Skinner is a recent Fall convert. "Jawbone" is the only song they play for arriving interviewees now.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 21 October 2005 08:02 (nineteen years ago)

"Two hours!
With four left wing kids
I spent time in Nazi Fortress
Much discussion in room C-H-1-O-C-H-11

I did not understand why
Could not accept the fact
that I'd accepted the contract
Much discussion in this institution
Much discussion in boiled beef and carrots
Room C-H-1-O-C-H-2-O-11"

It's the "boiled beef and carrots" bit that's the winner

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 21 October 2005 11:20 (nineteen years ago)

... tho to be honest I don't think MES wrote anything between 1978-83 that wasn't tinged with genius, diminishing returns thereafter (less drugs?!??!)

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 21 October 2005 11:26 (nineteen years ago)

Come unto me, all ye that labor, you that are heavy laden

― Brakhage (brakhage), Friday, 21 October 2005 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

They say music should be fun
Like reading a story of love
But I wanna read a horror story

― rentboy (rentboy), Friday, 21 October 2005 16:52 (nineteen years ago)

FANS! ! ! "Remember, you are abroad!
Remember the police are rough!
Remember the unemployed!
Remember my expense account!

-also-

Snow on Easter Sunday
Jesus Christ in reverse
I tell ya, the Dutch are weeping
In four languages at least

― space2k (space2k), Friday, 21 October 2005 18:28 (nineteen years ago)

My family's a weird lot
My stepsister's got a horrible growth
Listens to all this muzak shit
Reads Smash Hits while she's eating her tea
To me it sounds like bad CB

― righteousmaelstrom (righteousmaelstrom), Friday, 21 October 2005 20:07 (nineteen years ago)

roffle

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 21 October 2005 20:09 (nineteen years ago)

When I'm dead and gone
My vibrations will live on
In vibes of vinyl through the years
People will dance to my waves

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 21 October 2005 20:14 (nineteen years ago)

Sodomized by presumption

― righteousmaelstrom (righteousmaelstrom), Friday, 21 October 2005 20:27 (nineteen years ago)

Intelligentsia
Although your radio has been jammed
I heard talk about by chance
You educated kids know what you're on about
You've been oppressed for years
(marquis cha cha)

― 6335, Friday, 21 October 2005 22:04 (nineteen years ago)

The people I like live in kitchens and hallways.

― Dan Floss (Dan Floss), Saturday, 22 October 2005 04:29 (nineteen years ago)

The people I like live in kitchens and HALLS...

― Bimble The Nimble, Jumped Over A Thimble! (Bimble...), Saturday, 22 October 2005 04:59 (nineteen years ago)

Everyday you have to die some
Everyday you have to cry some

Oswald Defense Lawyer
Embraces scruffed corpse of Walt Whitman
Oswald Defense Lawyer
Embraces the scruffed corpse of Mark Twain

― phantoma, Saturday, 22 October 2005 06:43 (nineteen years ago)

Sodomized by presumption OTM.

God, I love this thread.

― sleeve (sleeve), Saturday, 22 October 2005 17:15 (nineteen years ago)

All the robots descend from the bus-ah
There's a freakout brewin' at-ah my house, my house-ah
In the basement-ah...

'Cause Daft Punk is playing at my house-ah, my house-ah

that's by the fall right? unless some band is completely ripping off the fall vocal stylings. i'm pretty sure that's the fall.

― say wah!, Saturday, 22 October 2005 19:01 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

LONGHORN

LONGHORN BREED

Revive becuz of the singles poll thread.

― sleeve, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 15:41 (eighteen years ago)

... whole lyric is genius

― Tom D., Tuesday, 29 May 2007 15:43 (eighteen years ago)

Like your psychotic big brother who left home
For jobs in Holland, Munich, Rome
He's thick but he struck it rich, switch

― Edward III, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 16:04 (eighteen years ago)

condescends to black men
very nice to them

― Edward III, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 16:04 (eighteen years ago)

"He... was the first... to wear an idiotic jacket in a club."

("Look, Know" lyrics variation on the Live In Rejkavik album.)

― Jon Lewis, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 16:10 (eighteen years ago)

OTM the money about C'N'C's Mithering...

Best line from that song

"All the English groups. Act like peasants with free milk"

― Jack Battery-Pack, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 16:16 (eighteen years ago)

THERE'S A FUCKING SAFEWAY EVERYWHERE EVEN IN MANCHESTER

― sleeve, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 16:24 (eighteen years ago)

D. Bowie look-alikes permeate carparks.

― Jon Lewis, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 16:25 (eighteen years ago)

The Manchester regiment of the Stuarts
Would not tread on your patch
Got nearly down to Derby you know
Was stopped by stinking Billy

― Sandy Blair, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 17:47 (eighteen years ago)

the only reason you know this
is that it was well-documented

― edb, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 18:19 (eighteen years ago)

seven months pass...

Forget the act
Read the lit-crit first
You wouldn't even know the sun was up
Unless there was a press release on it

― Drugs A. Money, Saturday, 19 January 2008 06:34 (seventeen years ago)

oh, and never forget "this hideous replica"

― Drugs A. Money, Saturday, 19 January 2008 06:34 (seventeen years ago)

"It takes guts to play the second fiddle well"

― Bimble, Saturday, 19 January 2008 07:04 (seventeen years ago)

Do you want a motorBIIKE?

― RabiesAngentleman, Saturday, 19 January 2008 08:53 (seventeen years ago)

i thought it was "a jew on a motorbike"

― sleepingbag, Saturday, 19 January 2008 10:04 (seventeen years ago)

Is it?!

― RabiesAngentleman, Saturday, 19 January 2008 10:05 (seventeen years ago)

It is

― Tom D., Saturday, 19 January 2008 11:30 (seventeen years ago)

three weeks pass...

The Observer magazine just about sums him up, eg self-satisfied, smug

― Venga, Sunday, 10 February 2008 20:02 (seventeen years ago)

remember when I used to follow you home from school babe?
before they picked me up for pedophilia

― jessie monster, Sunday, 10 February 2008 21:28 (seventeen years ago)

"I may be the big shot original rapper/
and it's time for me to get off this crapper"

- U.S. 80's - 90s

― Bimble, Monday, 11 February 2008 14:21 (seventeen years ago)

It is
I think that just ruined its appeal for me. :\
Not that that isn't a GREAT line.

― RabiesAngentleman, Monday, 11 February 2008 14:28 (seventeen years ago)

And so is..

Do you want a motorBIIKE?

Let's give it all the formatting!

― Mark G, Monday, 11 February 2008 15:22 (seventeen years ago)

Do you want a motorBIIKE?

― Mark G, Monday, 11 February 2008 15:49 (seventeen years ago)

I don't get it. (I'm daft?)

― RabiesAngentleman, Monday, 11 February 2008 15:51 (seventeen years ago)

eight months pass...

A packet of three-five fives
555
A packet of those over there
And 20 special offer cigars

Found talking to the cigarette machine

― Dr X O'Skeleton, Saturday, 1 November 2008 21:21 (sixteen years ago)

Walked downstairs
Got my hat and corny brown leather jacket
Street bloody clean for a change
Must have been the rain

― Kramkoob (Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃), Saturday, 1 November 2008 22:17 (sixteen years ago)

i've never felt better in my life

― Kevin Keller, Saturday, 1 November 2008 22:20 (sixteen years ago)

Damnit! I was just thinking of a particular Fall lyric the other day. I'll have to think about it, I can't remember right now. NO I got it!

"A HOOP NOW TRYIN' TO FIND
A BELT IN THE EARLY MORN
WHEN YOUR HOME IS A TRASH MOUNT
...OVER BUT YOUR RIGHT OUT"

It's one of those songs on "Wonderful & Frightening World Of The Fall", you know. Can't remember the damn title right now.

Some beautiful person will have to fill in the ellipses in that lyric. Maybe a British person knows what he's saying.

If the road to hell is paved with Republicans, then the road to heaven is paved with Fall fans...

Wait...I didn't post this on Drugs A. Money's thread? Must rectify.

― The Ungrateful Dead (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Saturday, 1 November 2008 22:35 (sixteen years ago)

those are from 'no bulbs'

― edb, Saturday, 1 November 2008 22:53 (sixteen years ago)

and so they are. Gonna add that album to my iPod in 3...2...1...

― The Ungrateful Dead (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Saturday, 1 November 2008 23:04 (sixteen years ago)

Glass of lager in his hand,
Silver microphone in his hand.

― snoball, Saturday, 1 November 2008 23:42 (sixteen years ago)

And basically all of "Crap Rap/Like To Blow"

― snoball, Saturday, 1 November 2008 23:43 (sixteen years ago)

Hate wide for dog breeder
in the town of purport
A never seen dog breeder
This is the tale of his replica.
Name was J. Temperance
Only two did not hate him
Because peasants fear local indifference
Pet shop and the vet, Cameron.

So, let's get this right. This is not about a dog breeder, it's about an artificially created replica of a dog breeder.

He's just so much better than everyone else!

― Sven Hassel Schmuck, Saturday, 1 November 2008 23:52 (sixteen years ago)

Okay look, you people are going to make me pull out Witch Trials. This isn't funny anymore.

― The Ungrateful Dead (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Sunday, 2 November 2008 00:35 (sixteen years ago)

Ungrateful--I thought the line started "I HATE NOW TRYING TO FIIIIIINND..."

My personal fav (although there is no shortage of great lines: WHO MAKES THE NAZIS???

― brightscreamer, Sunday, 2 November 2008 05:26 (sixteen years ago)

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