OPO: Jilted John

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"Jilted John" - Because Gordon is a moron.

― Tim DiGravina, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

oh wow i was just wondering if i still have a copy of this song!

― unknown or illegal user, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah i have, cool!

― unknown or illegal user, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i owned the LP! but it was rub and i sold it lo these 38845198475 yrs ago (i am even oldah than unknown or illegal usah believe it or not)

― mark s, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i just act younger

"yes but he's no puff!" she cried

― mark s, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Fancy Mice" off the True Love Stories LP was my favourite...

― baxter wingnut, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"She's a tart. He's very cheap."

― Jody Beth Rosen, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I forget the title, but the B-side to "jilted John" was very good as well. "yeah, yeah, I love Sharon/yeah yeah, she loves me/yeah yeah, we love each other/ and we're so hap-pyyyyy" went the chorous. It was not as good as "beware of the flowers, coz I'm sure they're going to get you, yeah" by Otway & Barrett though

― Norman Phay, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

norman you are wrong it was bettah

"he's more of a man than YOU'LL evah be..."

also: "yeah yeah! it's not fair! yeah yeah! it's not fair!"

― mark s, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

oh no i'm not mark
"I go with her to watch telly/
the kids are horrible and the house is dead smelly/
but it's all worth it coz when they go to bed/
we start snogging on the so-o-faaah"!

"yeah yeah - it's not fair" is pretty good though.

― Norman Phay, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Produced by M.Hannett of course. Who was in the backing group - I can't remember and this is troubling me greatly! Was it Hannett and his Invisible Girls or was it The Freshies?

― Dr. C, Thursday, 27 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

three years pass...

does this anticipate or is it concurrent w/the first television personalities singles? b/c the sensibility is remarkably similar.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 1 June 2006 22:06 (nineteen years ago)

"Who was in the backing group - I can't remember and this is troubling me greatly! Was it Hannett and his Invisible Girls or was it The Freshies?"

The guitarist was definitely John Scott of the Invisible Girls. Not sure who else (if anyone) played on it, although I do have some vague recollection that the "drums" were actually Martin Hannett hitting an old cardboard box (???).

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 1 June 2006 22:26 (nineteen years ago)

But it doesn't sound anything like a cardboard box. It opens with a cymbal crash for starters.

Jilted John came after the TVPs. The album is a bit different from the single though. It's a real concept album with a pretty eclectic sound. A lot of it sounds more similar to the Monochrome Set. "Jilted John" is easily the most abrasive thing on it.

Obviously "Jilted John" is the all time classic but I'll mention "Baz's Party" as an alternate.

― everything, Thursday, 1 June 2006 22:38 (nineteen years ago)

-- Norman Phay (k-ra...), June 26th, 2002 11:00 AM.

Going Steady.

Obviously it's Jilted John.

Now, has anyone heard Gordon's Not A Moron recorded by Gordon & Sally? I know of it, but have never seen/heard it.

― S- (sgh), Friday, 2 June 2006 01:30 (nineteen years ago)

Only pick one?

Mrs Pickering.

About tormenting a school teacher, during class...

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 2 June 2006 07:41 (nineteen years ago)

I always loved Where's Karen - final track on the album.
Has an elegaic feel you'd never have expected from the orig. single.
"And now you're in, I'm positive, a squatters' den
Where junkies live, taking heroin,
Oh I know it's true."

― eyesteel (eyesteel), Friday, 2 June 2006 09:05 (nineteen years ago)

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