🎵 We Transcribe Jonesy's Songs From His Old Band 'Bad Element'

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
And Amanda jam Nation, bad Element. That's all anyone can
talk about right now.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Is that true?

Speaker 1 (00:07):
It's so true. This is a band that you were
in when you were eighteen or nineteen. You played the drums.
You're a co songwriter, You're a singer, a backup singer.
You were everything, Brenda, you are a lot of things
in that band. You found your old cassette, you spliced
it back together. There are four songs you say, we've
only been able to hear too, one of which is
this no lies here we go. Let me just say this.

(00:34):
I'm someone. I'm someone who loves a lyric. If I
love poetry, I love the words to a song funnily enough.
And I've asked Meg to listen to the cassette because
you just said you didn't have a copy of the
words and couldn't remember a lot of us.

Speaker 2 (00:49):
You couldn't listen to the cassette because the cassette we
don't have one. Here.

Speaker 3 (00:53):
I fix the tape, but the cassette player that I
have at home, the dual cassette player is busted.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
But Meg's mum has come to the rescue. She's going
to drop the cassette player.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
In so tomorrow we can hear them other two missing songs.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
So what we've got is one and a half songs.

Speaker 1 (01:08):
Well, let me read the lyrics. She's tried to transcribe them.
This is no lies, no lies. You're telling me what
to do, no lies, you're telling me what to be,
no lies. I'm gonna see it swing.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
Let's see it through.

Speaker 1 (01:21):
I'll see it through. No lies, no lies, no lies,
no lies. Yeah, you could lie to a priest, you
could lie to a nun, a little white nye never
heard anyone. Sorry, sorry, Brendan. Well then also there's some
question marks here because of course she's saying here she
can't understand what you're saying, because she's got so take
this racket out of here. I'm not listening to question mark,

(01:42):
question Marke, question mark. What's it saying?

Speaker 2 (01:46):
Take this rap? Get out of here. I'm not going
to listen to no more of your lies.

Speaker 1 (01:52):
Doreesn't even rhyme. And what's the rap?

Speaker 2 (01:55):
It was before rap?

Speaker 1 (01:57):
And then there's no lies, no lies.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
Ahead of time.

Speaker 1 (01:59):
How about let's have a listen now to a snippet
of Forgetful Night. There's even more torture. See I can
understand a single word that's being sung there.

Speaker 2 (02:14):
That's I know.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
Well he needs another go in the washing machine.

Speaker 2 (02:19):
Here we go.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
These are the lyrics according to Meg for Forgetful Night.
I got out of my bed and shook my head,
scratched my head. Well that's not what she heard. My
eyes were stinging, my ears were ringing. Oh I was lost.
I couldn't remember what i'd been, or what i'd seen.
Where i'd been, or what i'd seen. The sun is crisp.

(02:40):
The birds were singing.

Speaker 2 (02:41):
The sun is shining.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
The birds were singing. Question mark, question, Question. Were in
my walls.

Speaker 3 (02:47):
A lawn mower echoes through the walls. It's the lament
of the young person coming home on a Friday night,
had a big night the night before, and they wake
up in suburbia on a Saturday morning.

Speaker 1 (02:59):
The world outside focused on me. They all wondered where
the hell I've been. It's just another one of those.
She's written here Unforgetful Nights, and she's written next to
the extremely off tune. Then she said, you better, you
better stick to that when your face turns white. And
she says, I think he's referring to drugs. Is that right,

(03:21):
there was.

Speaker 2 (03:22):
We were you know, we used to partake, explains.

Speaker 1 (03:25):
The lyrics and the voice.

Speaker 3 (03:27):
Well, I'm looking forward to do it again.

Speaker 1 (03:31):
You'd better stick to that. It's another one of those
unforgetful nights. You better stick to that. When your face
turns white.

Speaker 3 (03:39):
When your face, when you're when your eyes are sticking in,
your face turns when your bed, when your bed is
spinning and your face turns white. Your bed is spinning
and your face turns white.

Speaker 1 (03:50):
That makes sense, you understand the night before you.

Speaker 2 (03:54):
I get it, you get it.

Speaker 1 (03:55):
I get it.

Speaker 2 (03:56):
Bloody brilliant. It is bloody brilliant.

Speaker 1 (04:00):
Maybe could write one of those, well, I look forward
to tomorrow. Were two more songs.

Speaker 2 (04:04):
When missus Meg brings the tape, When she.

Speaker 1 (04:06):
Brings the tape in and we can do you not
in the names of the other two songs.

Speaker 2 (04:09):
There was too Young, Too Pretty, Yeah.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
And what's the other one? Okay, Well, I can't wait
till tomorrow at Brendan Stay tuned Australia. Here it comes.