The boy is like a tape loop.

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That line in "Middle mass" where Smith says: "The boy is like a tape loop". is the next line "for he loves soft mints"?

What's your favourite couplet in a Fall song and can someone confirm that im not mishearing the above?

― Kris England, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

they pass you at night/oh they are NOT all right/ten times your age/but half your height (city hobgoblins)

i had a jar of coffee/and then i took some of THESE (fiery jack? my memory = fukt)

― mark s, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

coffee/THESE line = Totally Wired

― electric sound of jim, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

the entire of Pay Your Rates!!! is my favourite.

― electric sound of jim, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

'The sound of the window blind was like a cackle
A pterodactyl cackle'

From 'No Mithering'

I always thought the tape loop line was followed by 'he loves soft mitts'.

― Momus, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

oh, I'm sorry, I thought this was about George Gossett

― M Matos, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

'have you ever seen Captain Beefheart imitators with zits? Who is the king shag corpse?' Fortress/ Deer park' off Hex Enduction Hr

― owen hatherley, Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I think there actually are several Fall songs about George Gosset.

― , Thursday, 4 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Get out the pink press threat file/and Brrrptzzapapatttapap the subject/It's de-louse, safe-house time!!"

― Douglas, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Every day it's my pleasure to meet, The great league of bald-headed men.

― Quigley, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

When what used to excite you does not
Like you've used up all your allowance of experiences
Head filled with a mass of too-well-known people

― Alex in SF, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Mark'll nick our answers!

― RickyT, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"I feel trapped by mutual affection / And time moves slower when you count it" belongs in some other recent thread but it leapt out alright.

Theres that great bit in "Various Times" about the beer being so weak "since they abolished time", can't remember exactly how it goes. Great creepy pun - that song goes on the menace thread, too.

― Tom, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three 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

― gareth, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I think the funniest bit in any fall song comes in 'Dr Buck's Letter' where he's reading the Pete Tong interview out: "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 spent more time getting it turned down."

and then he yells

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

Great, though thats a bit more than a couplet.

or the quite sarcastic bit in 'Birmingham School of Business School'

"In the heart of Britain... The BIG heart, of England"

But maybe thats just because I live there

― Kieran, Saturday, 6 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"the north will rise AGAIN!/not in TEN THOUSAND YEARS! "
"and they 'see yer mate', 'yeah, see yer mate', 'see yer mate', 'yeah, see yer mate'"

Now here's a JOKE
to cheer you UP:
Old times no surgeon
Just magicians and dungeons
There they take your heart out
with a sharp knife
It wasn't fake
They had no anesthetic.
That joke's ah-PATHETIC-ah.

― mark s, Saturday, 6 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

this is my real answer

― mark s, Saturday, 6 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The Arab in
Chiselers
He is short
PINK FLOYD ARE SHORT!
(Internet)
9th richest country in the world bar none
Dry hump, in the hip club
Basically
Chiselers
Chiselers
Chiselers

― mark s, Saturday, 6 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

We are the Fall Northern white crap that talks back We are not black. Tall. No boxes for us. Do not fuck us. We are frigid stars.

― brian quinn, Monday, 8 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

one month passes...

that song about CB radio hams is suitable for application to cyberspace -- "A New Face In Hell" ?

― George Gosset, Friday, 10 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"On the way back to my slum canyon
I SAWN turrets of victorian wealth"

― Norman Phay, Friday, 10 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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