Blur: Parklife

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Now on the album you've got pictures of dog
racing and you had your albumlaunch at a dog race, yeah.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
What's the appeal?
It's just another facet of partlife, really the dogs.
It's a night out, actually.
You can eat and you can have adrink and watch dogs going
around on the circuit.
Simple lines intertwining allright.

Speaker 4 (00:34):
Thank you for listening the greatest non-hits.
I'm chris and playing like akind of of this Is A Low and
Clover Over Dover is my co-host,tim.
Thank you so much for listeningto the Greatest Not Hits.
It's been a few weeks sincewe've done an episode, so thank

(00:56):
you for joining us.
We're getting back in the swingof things.
This is a nod to the Brits outthere.
This is Blur.
This is from Blur, the Parklifealbum, and it was released in
April 25th in 1994.
And Blur is one of those bandsthat's they're Britpop, but I

(01:17):
mean they have a long, like ahuge range of different genres
that they can go to.
I mean there's elements of punk, there's brit pop, there's
shoegaze, there's there's allkinds of stuff going on on this
album and I think it's one oftheir best ones.
I would say um, huge, huge inbritain, not so much everywhere

(01:42):
else, but we've seen all, we'veheard all their songs from the
90s.
Everybody's heard at least oneor two of them, like on MTV back
in the day there was Song 2.
That was a favorite of mine.
Boys and Girls is on this album.
That's a hit.
This is considered to be theirbest album.

(02:03):
It's the third album, thirdstudio album by Blur 1994.
It's also an album thatcritical acclaim.
It was the lead singer.
What's his name?
Damon Albarn, considered one ofthe best writers of all time by
huge performers such as EltonJohn.

(02:27):
They think he's the bee's knees.
He's a great songwriter, veryprolific indeed.
Formed the Gorillaz back in1998 with another writer.
I'll get the guy later.
Anyway, there's a number ofhits on this, singles, releases
of singles that ended up beinghits in Britain Girls and Boys,

(02:51):
the song called To the End, thesong Park Life is probably the
biggest, I think, by far and Endof a Century.
There was also Tracy Jacks,which was released as a single
but never reached, you know, hitstatus.
So for the purposes of our show, you know, getting back to our
roots, we're a.

(03:12):
We're a sort of like a, like amovie, like a book club, but
we're more of like a album club,and at the end of this we're
going to rank our top threenon-hits, and those four that I
mentioned are not going to beconsidered.
We will consider Tracy Jacks,though.
I think we agreed on that.

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So it's going to be everythingbut Girls and Boys to the end
Park Life, end of a Century, andthen we'll get into it.
We've got hilarious sound clipson the way.
We're going to listen to allthe songs.
We're going to talk about Blur,the band, the personnel, the

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accolades.
This one, I think, went fourtimes platinum.
I think this is theirhighest-selling album too.
But you know what the lineupthey're like, one of those bands
that doesn't change out peopleeither.
It's always been the same fourguys, which are, you know, damon

(04:21):
Albarn there's my man.
What's his name?
Coxon.
Where are we at here?
It was on food records, too,which got swallowed up by EMI.
There was a guy named DavidBalf who was the head of food

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records, with another guy namedAndy Ross, and this was the last
time that they collaboratedwith Blur and the rest of these
guys.
So Alex James is on bass who arethe other guys on here.
Let's get back to the personnelhere.
Let's get back to the personnel.

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We've got Dave Roundtree ondrums.
This guy's a great drummer.
I guess he's also like a.
He was in Parliament.
He ran for Parliament in 2024and lost as a Labour candidate.
That's interesting.
He served on the Norfolk CountyCouncil from 2017 to 21.
The drummer's got somepolitical chops there.

(05:29):
See Graham Coxon, who I wastalking about.
He's a guitarist, singer,songwriter.
He and Damon Albarn are likethe main guys.
I think they're the ones whostarted the band.
And then I think Alex James wasthe last to come aboard.

(05:53):
I think Dave Roundtree andGraham Cox knew each other in
college.
You know that kind of thingLate 80s.
I guess the band officiallystarted in 1990.
Their first album was LeisureLeisure, whatever you want to
call it and this is the thirdone.
What else?
There's a lot of simple linesintertwining.

(06:19):
Simple lines intertwining andTim is more of a lines
intertwining and Tim is more ofa blur guy than I am.
He likes the gorillas.
I know that he knows thehistory.
We're doing a lot of Tim.
This is Tim's wheelhouse righthere.
Interestingly, I think withthis album it comes out right

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after Kurt Cobain dies.
For me it represents the end ofafter Kurt Cobain dies and it's
from.
For me it represents like theend of the grunge era, because
this is like April of 94.
Cobain dies and then there'sall this other stuff and so this
kind of comes in cause.
It kind of borrows from it, butit's this is mostly a British

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thing.
Oasis is kind of like a aroundthis time definitely maybe comes
out at the same time, and sothey're like the two.
They're sort of competing withone another, but there's like a
mutual respect.
But anyway, tim is going tochime in here.
He is how you doing, bud?
Oh, doing well, thanks, good,yeah, what do you think about?

Speaker 5 (07:20):
uh, like the characterization of the time
it's um, right after grunge,when you say yeah this kind of
feeds into, like the nextchapter of of music, on music
from the decade yeah yeah, andand damon really steps up and I
and I think I went reverse intohis catalog, like a lot of

(07:42):
people after the gorillas whenthat was started, and then start
to started to go into blur as aresult of being like who is
this guy?
And he's, he's got his handsand everything and right Uh yeah
, no, it's good stuff, man.
We're going to start off with acomposer, yeah.

Speaker 4 (08:01):
Well, we're going to go right into it Like girls and
boys.
We've all heard this one.
Right, this is the non hit, butit's the first track, so
there's going to be a couplemore that are going to be
intertwined.
That's going to be a themegoing forward, so we're going to
start off right from thebeginning.
This is girls and boys.
We're going to get right intoit.

Speaker 5 (08:20):
All right there we go , it's technical.

Speaker 3 (08:31):
All right.

Speaker 4 (08:36):
Shout out to Mrs Garrett.

Speaker 5 (08:48):
It's like a four on the floor beat.
Is that right?
It's popping.
It's popping floor beat.
Is that right?
It's popping.
It's popping right here.
That's some space.

Speaker 1 (08:59):
Streets like a jungle .
So call the police, call thefire department.
Follow in the herd.

Speaker 5 (09:10):
Down to Greece.
I've never been to Greece.

Speaker 4 (09:14):
It's a beautiful country.
I need to go.

Speaker 1 (09:38):
Yeah, oh crap.

Speaker 4 (09:45):
It kind of sounds like Duran Duran.
A little bit too, it does.

Speaker 1 (09:48):
In new order.

Speaker 4 (09:51):
This is the Manchester coming out.

Speaker 7 (10:01):
Hey, mrs Garrett, can I ask you something?
What, what is it, joe?
Is it a problem if your penisand your vagina touch each other
?
Whoa, hey.

Speaker 4 (10:14):
What was that all about?
What?
I can't wait to hear what thisskit's going to say next.

Speaker 6 (10:20):
Well, I try to keep them separated, but I woke up
this morning and they were sortof together.

Speaker 7 (10:30):
I just didn't know, is that okay?

Speaker 3 (10:33):
Hot fingers.

Speaker 1 (11:05):
You have both.
Well, yeah, doesn't everybody?
No, go, go Go.

Speaker 4 (11:10):
This song is a lot more fun at the club, you know.
Oh, you've got to be in theclub.
Yeah, you've got to be dancing,you've got to be popping around
.
Yeah, it's just hard to justget into this with a bro like in
the studio.

Speaker 5 (11:20):
You need a little Roxy music, maybe I don't know,
sort of poppy like that.

Speaker 1 (11:32):
Yeah, hey, I got the body of a taut pre-teen Swedish
boy.

Speaker 5 (11:38):
Is that cream?

Speaker 4 (11:41):
There's a reason you got cancer.

Speaker 1 (11:57):
No fear, just love, it's catchy.

Speaker 5 (12:04):
The boys, they like they do girls.
Yeah, I get it, I'm a man.
What about men and women?
When does that transitionhappen?

Speaker 4 (12:28):
This subject is out of my wheelhouse.

Speaker 1 (12:34):
Why are boys jerked?

Speaker 4 (12:40):
I like that scratching with the guitar.

Speaker 5 (12:43):
It sounds like an airplane lifting off.
Yeah, exactly, it's lift off.
That's the pick scrape Down the.
Is that what it's called?
That's the pick scrape down thedown the.
Is that what it's calledtechnically down the yeah, go
down the wire.

Speaker 4 (12:58):
Yeah, it's well placed it's a well placed.
You don't often pull that offwith well, shout out to Graham
Cox and seems like that's hisbig move.
Al Barnes playing thevibraphone, the melodica.
Okay, all right, this one iscalled Tracy Jacks.

(13:23):
Okay, that sounds who-ish.

Speaker 5 (13:34):
Squeeze box.
It's a squeeze box, raga.
It is, excuse me, russell.

Speaker 1 (13:42):
Tracy Chan works in civil service.
Tracy Chan is steady employment.
Tracy Chan is a golfing fanatic.
Tracy Chan is a party director.
Tracy Chan saw Harley's bigdoctor Tracy Chan prescribed

(14:11):
help with living.
Oh bitch, you got jacked, tracyChan, but he's getting past
ball day, tracy Chan, and allthe seams are splitting.
Every day you go closer, dude,I've jacked it twice since I've
been here.
Are you kidding me?
Why not?
I'd love to stay here and benormal.

Speaker 5 (14:29):
Normal.

Speaker 1 (14:30):
But it's just so overrated.
Try to say Jack Left homewithout warning.
Try to say Jack, oh, bitch, youbought Jack.
Try to say Jack Got on thefirst train to Walter.
Try to say Jack, I'm still onthe seafront.

Speaker 5 (14:48):
Seafront, Are you laughing by the seafront over
there?
Yeah, it's one of my favoritepastimes.
I love laughing by the seafront.
Run around naked okay.

Speaker 2 (15:06):
Running with the police.
Two lines 8 for 20.

Speaker 1 (15:24):
Simple lines intertwining.

Speaker 7 (15:27):
Oh, bitch, you got jacked, bitch Billy.

Speaker 1 (15:33):
Billy, billy.
And then it happened on Tuesdaymorning, tracy Jack's bulldozed
down the road.

Speaker 5 (15:46):
She began saying he's just so overrated.

Speaker 3 (15:51):
Oh, I love this little whammy ball delay.

Speaker 4 (15:59):
I'm liking that.
It's all.
It's something different.

Speaker 5 (16:08):
It's Lukather-esque.
Yes, lukather the Grand Coxonis the Lukather of.
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (16:11):
That's Tim's line-esque.
Yes, lukather the Grand Coxonis the Lukather of.
Yeah, that's Tim's line, that'snot mine.
He said it right before that.

Speaker 5 (16:18):
No, I'm glad you brought that.
I would have forgot.

Speaker 4 (16:20):
No, I agree with you, sort of build up tension.

Speaker 5 (16:23):
You're right, change the chords, come back.
Yeah, you know, simple linesintertwined.

Speaker 1 (16:45):
This song has the body of a Swedish boy.
Dude.
I've jacked it twice since I'vebeen here.
Are you kidding me?

Speaker 7 (16:54):
Why not?
Well, I think this calls forthe old Billy Baru.

Speaker 4 (16:58):
Get a golfing.
Oh yeah, there's like.
There's like golf, like Well,tracy Jacks is a golfing fanatic
, so, but his putt is erratic.
It's time for the Obele Beru.
Oh, obele Beru, this is abiggie Spalding.

Speaker 7 (17:21):
Oh, bitch, you got jacked bitch.

Speaker 3 (17:28):
All right.

Speaker 4 (17:29):
Some strings, all right.
That was sort of like abuilt-in palate cleanser, that
little thing there.

Speaker 5 (17:34):
I like how they did that yeah we don't need to do
one now.

Speaker 4 (17:37):
Okay, so this is called End of a Century.
This is one of the hits.

Speaker 1 (17:45):
Tracy Jacks was a pretty good song.
She says her son's in thecarpet Dirty little monsters.

Speaker 4 (17:53):
Eating all the morsels.

Speaker 1 (17:55):
Picking up the rubbish.
Give her effervescence.
She needs a little sparkle.
Good morning TV.
You're looking so healthy.
We all say Don't want to.
We wear the same clothes thechord is heavier in this one,
very Oasis-esque.

Speaker 4 (18:14):
Yeah, the chord is heavier in this one.
It's kind of psychedelic alittle bit.

Speaker 1 (18:23):
Yeah, everybody's at it.
Wine gets dirty, clean it up.

Speaker 5 (18:45):
Love that line.

Speaker 1 (18:55):
I love that line.

Speaker 4 (18:56):
You're not a big TV fan, kiss my grits.

Speaker 5 (18:59):
That's what I say to TV.

Speaker 1 (19:03):
Kiss, my grits.

Speaker 5 (19:06):
I mean, yeah, except all the sounds, some footy every
once in a while.

Speaker 4 (19:11):
Yeah, the one-liners are good.
Otherwise, yeah, if you startgetting into Football.

Speaker 5 (19:18):
Yeah, Wingers aren't the same Wingers yeah.

Speaker 1 (19:42):
There's no big wingers anymore.

Speaker 5 (19:44):
What do you say?

Speaker 1 (19:46):
Well, isn't that special.
Dry lips Well isn't thatspecial.
It's a dry lift when we saygoodnight and I'm a centriole.
Dry lifts, it's nothing special.
And I'm a centriole, it'snothing special.
Well, isn't that special?

Speaker 4 (20:11):
I hear the horns at the end, kind of Beatles-ish.
It.
Does Brits love that?

Speaker 5 (20:17):
The wrap-up the bow.

Speaker 4 (20:20):
All right, this is park life.

Speaker 5 (20:25):
We're going to hear from Saul on this one he likes.
He's a big Blur fan.

Speaker 4 (20:33):
This is their big one .
He likes he's a big Blur fan.
This is their big one.
This one more listens by farthan the others, so I can see
where Saul's coming from.
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (20:44):
Confidence is a preference for the habitual
voyeur of what is known as amorning soup can be avoided if
you take a route straightthrough.
What is known as A morning soupcan be avoided if you take a
route straight through what isknown as Dave Roundtree's Canada
.
Job's got brewers through andhe gets intimidated by the dirty
pigeons they love a bit of it,dirty pigeons.
Who's that couple all marching?

(21:06):
You should cut down on yourpork life, mate.
Get some exercise, oh.

Speaker 5 (21:13):
Is pork high in fat or something?

Speaker 4 (21:17):
I think that's the insinuation.

Speaker 5 (21:25):
Ham and ham yeah.

Speaker 4 (21:27):
I like the plan where it's pork life, pork life.
I don't know who's that Gutlord marching.
You should cut down on yourpork life, mate.

Speaker 6 (21:37):
Except on Wednesdays, when I get rudely awakened by
the dustman.
I put my trousers on, have acup of tea.

Speaker 4 (21:45):
Shout out to the tea drinkers you beat me too.

Speaker 5 (21:49):
We could have said it together.
Yeah, jinx.

Speaker 6 (21:51):
I sometimes feed the sparrows too, we could have said
it together, jinx.

Speaker 5 (21:56):
Just not white bread right.

Speaker 6 (21:59):
Shout out to the people in the park.

Speaker 5 (22:09):
Any park, yeah.
People in private parks can canfuck off, but public parks
shout out, yeah they all go handin hand I guess the night
outers, yeah, salt, salt whathappened?

Speaker 1 (22:33):
Yes, yes, All the the whole.

Speaker 6 (22:35):
Oh, no, yes, the whole railway, the technique,
you know.
Oh, and it's not about youchumpers.
You could go round and roundand round, and I was holding my

(22:55):
cat Salt.

Speaker 5 (23:03):
He's a good park, lad , yeah.

Speaker 6 (23:06):
And we were going up and the whole oh my God, the
whole goddamn thing went into aflip out and it flipped and bent
the whole railing and it musthave gotten caught on the carpet
on the stairs.

Speaker 4 (23:21):
Saul, you've got to be careful with those chairs
that go up the stairs.
All right, this is called BankHoliday.

Speaker 1 (23:33):
All right, this is called Bank Holiday.
This is kind of a punk song.

Speaker 4 (23:40):
I think we were just sort of like fuck this song.

Speaker 1 (23:45):
This is like way too much.

Speaker 4 (23:55):
Yeah, it's drinking barbecue day, barbecue punk day.
Yeah, all right.
Five, four off, all right, bye,okay, we got bad head here.
Yeah, okay, now this is calledbad head simple lines
intertwining.

Speaker 1 (24:35):
This is Get Closed and Smoochie, smoochie music
that today.
I'll get up around soon From alack of anything to do, and I
might as well just grin and bearit, cause it's no other trouble
.

Speaker 3 (24:47):
I'll learn how to play, and you.

Speaker 4 (24:53):
You tell him Starowski.

Speaker 5 (24:59):
It's a little country Almost.
Yeah, no surprise.

Speaker 1 (25:07):
Little, I'll get up around two With nothing to do
Except get a touch of, and Imight as well just grin and bear
it Is bad head supposed to bethe same thing as bad head.

Speaker 4 (25:24):
We have bad head.
You wake up.
Your hair's all messed up.

Speaker 5 (25:27):
That's bad head.
You hang out in bed.

Speaker 4 (25:30):
Yeah, I didn't know.
In Britain it was just referredto as bad head instead of bad
head.
I don't know, in Britain it wasjust referred to as bad.
It's kind of a French.

Speaker 2 (25:47):
Oh yeah, Do not come with me to see Casbah.
We shall make beautiful musictogether.

Speaker 3 (25:56):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 5 (25:59):
Nice Sing it.
This is good.
Yeah, it's nice.

Speaker 4 (26:08):
It's like a vibraphone.
Yeah, there's a vibraphone.
There's a mood synthesizer, AlBarnes doing it all.

Speaker 5 (26:17):
A depth of sound here , Just saying let it out, Give
it some air.

Speaker 1 (26:22):
Man Play with it.

Speaker 4 (26:26):
There's some other people out here too.
Shout out to Stephen Street onthe synthesizers.

Speaker 5 (26:31):
Vintage keys.

Speaker 4 (26:33):
he's the vintage key guy shout out to phil daniels.
He did a new narration onparkland.

Speaker 5 (26:40):
We missed that something about argument, you
know just you're going to arguejust try to put yourself in
their shoes.

Speaker 4 (27:00):
Yeah, just try to be a partner who listens.

Speaker 5 (27:03):
Yeah, a little bit more.
Take the ego down a notch.
Yeah, give that ego some air.

Speaker 4 (27:10):
Yeah, give the guy a break.
He's got a bad head.
Yeah, you know what?
He's perfect Okay.

Speaker 3 (27:19):
Okay.

Speaker 4 (27:20):
All right, that song was all right.

Speaker 3 (27:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (27:22):
This is called the Debt Collector.
I count Mississippis in theback.
No words on this song.
This is kind of like an Oopa.

Speaker 5 (27:40):
Oopa.

Speaker 4 (27:50):
I don't know what to do with this.
I don't know what to do withthis.
I don't know where to go.
Maybe this is part of like the.
This is part of park life.
You know, that's the aestheticthis kind of has like a.

Speaker 5 (28:10):
The debt collector.
Yeah, this is the debtcollector.

Speaker 4 (28:13):
Yeah, this is the debt collector, you put all your
bets up and yeah, after you'velost at the track, all of a
sudden the debt collector comes.

Speaker 3 (28:23):
Don't you pay ahead?

Speaker 4 (28:24):
of time yeah exactly.
You don't have to claim if you,yeah, so we have a little debt
to settle.
You had Santa's Little Helperand Santa's Little Helper.

Speaker 7 (28:37):
The Magical man Gumdrop hosts a lollipop lane.
You're making people happy.
I'm the Magical man fromHappyland, not the deck like

(28:59):
that yeah.

Speaker 4 (29:05):
Oh Fat Tony.

Speaker 3 (29:09):
Billy, Billy, Billy, Billy, Billy, Billy.

Speaker 4 (29:18):
I think Coxon is playing saxophone on there.
What Something.

Speaker 5 (29:25):
He's a guitarist though.

Speaker 4 (29:27):
I know that's the thing.
What, yeah, yeah.
It says here right here GrahamCoxon saxophone's the thing.
What, yeah, yeah, it says hereright here Graham Cox and
saxophone percussion.

Speaker 1 (29:34):
What yeah I?

Speaker 4 (29:35):
think that was him on that, I don't know.
There's other people.
This is called Far Out, sothere's some weird stuff going
on here.
Ready.

Speaker 2 (30:01):
I spy in the night sky don't I V-B-I-O-L-R-L-A.
De Callisto Sinope, janus Diony.

Speaker 1 (30:13):
Porsche.
So many moons Quiet in the skyat night.
Hearts in the Milky Way Outsidein.
I'm sorry, Dave, I'm afraid Ican't do that.

Speaker 4 (30:35):
It does kind of have like a spacey kind of a vibe to
it, right.

Speaker 2 (30:44):
If I'm here and you're here, doesn't that make
it our time?

Speaker 1 (30:48):
One, two, three, four , five, nine me to the juice.

Speaker 2 (30:52):
Sun, sun, sun sun, Our time.

Speaker 3 (31:00):
Excuse me, holmes, what it is, bro, we're from out
of town.

Speaker 4 (31:06):
No shit, yeah, that was good.
There's some far out stuff here.
I kind of like that for one ofthe short songs.
That was really good.
There's some Far Out stuff here.
I kind of like that for one ofthe short songs.
That was really good.
Far Out was enjoyable.
It was like a palate cleanserin and of itself.

Speaker 5 (31:19):
Now we've got some Burt Bacharach going on.
Yes, this is like ElvisCostello.
Yes.

Speaker 4 (31:28):
This is one of the hits, though.
This is one of the ones that.

Speaker 2 (31:32):
We need that extra push over the cliff.

Speaker 1 (31:34):
You know what we do.
Put it up to 11, exactly Onelouder.
Why don't you?

Speaker 5 (31:42):
Oh, this is the Pepe song, yeah.

Speaker 1 (31:44):
Yeah, I like these.
Like Been drinking far too much.

Speaker 4 (31:53):
I like these like spy movies from the 60s.

Speaker 5 (31:57):
It is like spy yeah.

Speaker 4 (31:59):
Like in, like Flint Q yeah.

Speaker 5 (32:02):
Shout out Q.
That's right, have a cup of teaon me.
Q Be Q.

Speaker 4 (32:18):
And it looks like we might have made it If he were
alive, he'd be one of the teadrinkers.
Is that like a xylophone Shoutout to the strings?

Speaker 5 (32:35):
I it's the duke strings.
This is like if anybody, if allthe youngsters wanted like a
frank sinatra-esque song, butmodern, but modern and English.
Right, this is what it is, ohyeah.

Speaker 4 (32:53):
It's classy, yeah, a lot of good use of strings, the
string arrangements, the cello,the viola, the violins, really.

Speaker 1 (33:09):
It's got horns, it's a dame.
A dame Looks like we might havemade it yes it looks like we
made it to the end when you andI collapsed and fell.

Speaker 5 (33:26):
Well, it looks like we might have made it.
Yes, it looks like we made itto the end, an amorphous blob of
love.

Speaker 4 (33:38):
Is this supposed to be celebratory or is it just?
Is it like they made it to theend of a relationship and now
it's over?
Oh good question, I don't, Ican't, or is it?
Whatever you want it to be.

Speaker 5 (33:51):
Maybe let's ask Pepe.

Speaker 2 (33:56):
It is love at first sight is it?

Speaker 5 (33:59):
No, I don't know.
I think it's the first one.
Yeah, it is just a celebration,maybe.

Speaker 4 (34:07):
Yeah, we made it to the end of something that we've
been looking forward to and itwas successful.

Speaker 5 (34:16):
I'm going to look up this French word here.

Speaker 1 (34:20):
I'm going to look up this French word here Looks like
we've made it to the end.

Speaker 3 (34:37):
Not no.

Speaker 2 (34:41):
Do not come with me to the Casbah.
We shall make beautiful musictogether right here.

Speaker 5 (34:50):
In broad daylight.
What's that?
Oh okay, that's wow, that'snaughty that is naughty broad
daylight simple linesintertwining.

Speaker 4 (35:17):
Okay, we're going back to Matt Chester now.
London loves.
Oh, this is London.

Speaker 7 (35:25):
I'm the magical man.

Speaker 4 (35:30):
Not quite there yet, all right, not quite there yet,
alright, it's got a nice rockand roll.

Speaker 1 (35:39):
Beat to it.
It's a little David.

Speaker 5 (35:43):
Bowie-esque.
Yeah, I like this.
I've gotten some good speedingtickets over the years.

(36:17):
Good times, it's love you likeand everyone's out there.
I don't speed anymore, though.

Speaker 4 (36:22):
And where's the change and the mind?
These are like love metaphors.
Yeah, the car.
So see together Speeding carBefore Speeding car, speeding
car.
That's supposed to have been agreat song, like back in the

(36:54):
clubs in London during that time.
It's like an anthem.

Speaker 1 (37:01):
Call the fire department.
This is out of control.

Speaker 3 (37:23):
Fire out man.

Speaker 1 (37:32):
If I'm here and you're here, doesn't that make
it?

Speaker 5 (37:36):
our time Just saying let it out, Give it some air.
Man, this is great.

Speaker 1 (37:45):
This is out there.

Speaker 5 (37:47):
Yeah, it's growing on me the falsetto and then the
low voice and then growing on methe falsetto, and then the low
voice and then the high voice,kind of, yeah, it feels like an
80s song almost.
How is this not a hit?

Speaker 4 (38:11):
Yeah, I mean I would take this over.
Tracy Jett they could have atleast released it as a single.

Speaker 5 (38:19):
Yeah, it's got a little more edge to it it's
hooky yeah.

Speaker 4 (38:27):
I just wonder if there's just something that
Graham Cox could have done.
It's wonderful there's justsomething that Graham Cox could
have done.
He's done some Lucanair kind ofthings just to push it over the
cliff.

Speaker 5 (38:37):
You should have played clarinet on this one.
Yeah, this looks like a weatherreport or something, a traffic
report.

Speaker 4 (38:47):
Oh that narration in the back, yeah, that Phil guy.
Yeah, oh, that narration in theback, yeah, that Phil guy.

Speaker 1 (38:57):
Just looking at credits, maybe that's a fact,
Jack.

Speaker 4 (39:12):
That's a fact, Jack.
Yeah, I can't find anything.
Let's see as to who's doing thenarration of the weather report
?

Speaker 5 (39:24):
It's probably TV like actual TV, maybe yeah.

Speaker 4 (39:28):
It sounded real.
Or some radio Sure, All right.
What have we got next?
Trouble?
Or some radio Sure, All right.
What do we got next?
Trouble in the Message Center.

Speaker 5 (39:37):
Interesting.

Speaker 4 (39:38):
Interesting.

Speaker 6 (39:45):
We didn't delve too much into this one.

Speaker 4 (40:02):
Okay, I am the message center.
Yeah, this sounds like ValleyGirl.
This is like new wave early 80sRoom to room an operator, no
calls.

Speaker 1 (40:16):
Today dear, they just have to wait.
Dear, I call and I collect.
So just put something away fromthe morning.
Too late, too shy, too dull andso much trouble.

Speaker 4 (40:40):
What's a jazz?
Listen what?
Yeah, this song's not as softas the last couple.

Speaker 6 (40:56):
It sounds like Devo mixed with like local delegator.

Speaker 5 (41:01):
Shout out to the anesthesiologists out there.
Yeah, if you're puttingyourself under, I recommend a
good anesthesiologist.

Speaker 4 (41:24):
A new type face.
A new type face, a new day.

Speaker 1 (41:33):
It's a new day.

Speaker 4 (41:35):
Yeah, I hope this song is not about anything
plastic surgeon, plastic surgeryrelated, is it no?

Speaker 5 (41:44):
It's rhinoplasty.

Speaker 4 (41:52):
It's rhinoplasty.
Okay Okay, Coxon.
Okay Okay yeah.
Coxon is channeling his innerLucifer.

Speaker 5 (42:00):
Ah, not all Lucifer songs are good.
No, yeah.

Speaker 4 (42:18):
In my opinion this one.

Speaker 5 (42:22):
It's falling flat for me, me too.

Speaker 4 (42:30):
I did kind of like the guitar that they had going
on a little bit earlier.

Speaker 5 (42:33):
It's a little heavier , which I do like.

Speaker 4 (42:51):
Yeah, this is good for me.
It is a little too loud, isn'tgood for me?
It is a little too loud, isn'tit?

Speaker 5 (43:01):
It's a lot of laws yeah.

Speaker 4 (43:08):
Let's save 30 seconds of our life.
Ready to go?
All right, we're going to thenext one.
All right, okay.

Speaker 3 (43:14):
Ooh.

Speaker 4 (43:16):
Okay, oh, this is.
It was worth the reward.
Clover over Dover, littleharpsichord going Right, it's
kind of Baroque.

Speaker 2 (43:48):
We need that extra push over the cliff.
You know what we do Put a.
We need that extra push up.

Speaker 4 (44:01):
Oh geez, what was that?

Speaker 5 (44:03):
What happened there?

Speaker 4 (44:06):
It's technical difficulties.
It was a cautionary tale For me.

Speaker 5 (44:31):
Oh, oh, oh, Technical difficulties.
It was a cautionary tale for me.
Shout out to the clover lawnowners out there.
Yeah, it's better for theenvironment, but you know, lawns
are nice too, and this littlelawn, little putting green.

Speaker 4 (44:50):
There's some golf references in here.
You got Tracy Jacks littleputting green.
Some golf references in here.
You got Tracy Jacks bad putter.
The Brits love golf.

Speaker 5 (45:00):
They love clover.

Speaker 4 (45:01):
Yeah, I think Judge Smales and Caddy Sheckson, they
used to pronounce it golf, golf,golf Golf.
It's like the Straits of Dover,the Dover Channel.
Yeah, southern, I guess this isthe sound of southern England,

(45:29):
southern Britain.

Speaker 5 (45:34):
Or heavy Down where the seagulls are.
Yeah, the dogs.
Dags, dags, you like dags.

Speaker 4 (45:41):
It's not Irish, it's not British.

Speaker 1 (45:46):
It's.
I taste the fact that, inactual fact, there's no bear
inside and it's all love.
I taste the fact that, inactual fact, there's no bear
inside and it's all love it's inhere Mesmerizing.

Speaker 5 (46:07):
Really it's over the cliff, really it's over the
cliff.
I could just round and roundrepeat most of this one.

Speaker 4 (46:22):
Yeah, yeah, that was lovely, it's good.
All right, we got Magic America.

Speaker 7 (46:33):
I'm the magical man, okay.

Speaker 4 (46:34):
All right, this got Magic America.
I'm the magical man, Okay.

Speaker 1 (46:41):
All right, this is Magic America.
Okay, here's plan B, when thereare buildings in the sky and
the air is sugar free andeveryone's very friendly.
Well, plan B arrived on aholiday, took a cab to the

(47:06):
shopping malls, bought an ATCould do neither anymore Loss,
but tonight Take it to Neitheranymore.
Then found love On channel 44La La, la, la la.

Speaker 5 (47:22):
Another La yeah La song.

Speaker 4 (47:24):
There's like a lot of La la la going on.
It's a.
It's a popular La La, la, la laFiller.
It's a popular Filler.
Yeah yeah, a lyric, a filler.
Yeah yeah, popular lyric forDamon.

Speaker 7 (47:43):
The magical man, the magical Ghosts of the night.
Ghosts of the night.
Ghosts of the night.
Ghosts of the night.
Ghosts of the night.
Ghosts of the night.
Ghosts of the night.
Ghosts of the night.
Ghosts of the night.
Ghosts of the night.
Ghosts of the night.
Ghosts of the night.

Speaker 1 (47:53):
Go drop home to Nani Pumlee Shout out to the Simpsons
fans out there.
From the people who care howyou feel La la, la, la la.
They want Steve Jobs to matchAmerica.
La, la, la, la la.

(48:15):
That's the fact, yeah.

Speaker 7 (48:22):
Go, go go.

Speaker 4 (48:32):
I'm the magical man.
It's like chill out.
Oh wow, who's doing that?
I think this is like theHammond organ, I think.

Speaker 5 (48:42):
David said this Vintage organ.

Speaker 1 (49:14):
Vintage organ.
We'll see you next time.

Speaker 5 (49:17):
It's not the worst song, it's not.

Speaker 4 (49:25):
I'm not sure if it's in the camp.
I mean it wasn't a hit or asingle.

Speaker 5 (49:31):
I think you could just get away with not saying
anything in those la-la-la parts.
Yeah, it cheapens it.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (49:44):
And this song could be even shorter.
It is.

Speaker 4 (49:53):
Okay, point taken.
I don't know, there's some goodstuff in there.
There's almost too much, but Iliked it.
It was okay, is it top three?
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (50:08):
Well, keep it going.

Speaker 4 (50:09):
We'll see.

Speaker 3 (50:11):
We'll see.

Speaker 1 (50:28):
This is called Jubilee.

Speaker 5 (50:32):
He's got a TV watching.

Speaker 1 (50:32):
Yeah, he watching 24 hours of rubbish.
He got beauty, he got plasticbags.

Speaker 5 (50:35):
His eyes are going square, oh yeah.

Speaker 1 (50:39):
He no right, but just antisocial.
He not going to cut his hair.

Speaker 3 (50:46):
Hey, Jesse, take it right.

Speaker 4 (50:48):
This sounds a little Bowie-inspired.

Speaker 1 (51:01):
He not being enough.
Hey, jesse, take it right, thissounds a little Bowie-inspired.
Billy, billy, billy, billy,billy, billy, hopefully, billy
Bill.

Speaker 5 (51:24):
I don't need a job.
He's cool bud, tasty ways.
Bolling this calls for the old.

Speaker 1 (51:32):
Billy Baru.
But you just don't get outenough.
Hey, just say, say correctly no, I'm Tony Tony, tony, tony,
tony.
Hey, just say say correctly no,I'm Tony 17.
He not keen on being likeanyone else, so he just plays on

(51:54):
his computer.
Wow, this is all over the place, kiss my crickets Just saying
let it out, give it some air,man Play with it.
They just say say correctly, no, I'm totally 17, let it out,

(52:15):
give it some air, man Play withit.

Speaker 4 (52:29):
Where'd it go?
I think there's a whole wholesection of horns too.

Speaker 5 (52:33):
The kick horns Richard Edwards on trombone,
roddy Lorimer on frugal horn,flugelhorn Yep flugelhorn.

Speaker 1 (52:46):
Tim Sanders tenor sax soprano sax.

Speaker 4 (52:50):
David Sandsborn.
Yeah, sad to say, yeah,sandsborn.
No, david Sandsbourne.
Yeah, sad to say, yeah,sandsbourne.
No David Sandsbourne.
Sighting Simon Clarke AlthoughI shouldn't talk, my hair's
getting a little shaggy too.
Okay, this is a low.

(53:28):
All right, I'm on board forthis one Again, shout out to the
tea drinkers.

Speaker 1 (53:47):
Just find a taxi.
Wreck, sail by with the tide.

Speaker 4 (53:56):
It's a second reference to a taxi I've seen in
this album and the radio singsthis is a love.
But it won't hurt you.
The radio says this is a love,but it won't hurt you.

Speaker 1 (54:14):
When you're alone.
It will be now, and you'refinding ways to stay so long.

Speaker 4 (54:41):
What?
What is that?
Cramity.
I'm a time forth in Cramity.

Speaker 5 (54:47):
Time is the river.

Speaker 1 (54:48):
Oh, okay, there's a low in the high, oh, okay.

Speaker 3 (54:53):
There's a low in the high 40s.

Speaker 4 (54:55):
Okay, I'm going to brush up on my English geography
.

Speaker 5 (55:11):
Blackpool has all the little amusement parks.

Speaker 4 (55:16):
Oh yeah, yeah, I do remember that, yeah.

Speaker 1 (55:22):
Right here, but it won't hurt you when you're alone
and we'll be there with youfinding ways to stay so long.

Speaker 4 (55:51):
And shout out to Jethro Tull from Blackpool.
I knew we did an album.
Somebody from Blackpool thatwas big.
Yes, jethro Tull.
Oh yeah, robert Smith from theCurious from Blackpool.

(56:15):
Graham Nash, screwdriver yeah,forget, I even brought that up.
Yeah, jeffrey Hammond, bassplayer for Jeff Rotel.

Speaker 3 (56:45):
This is a lie, but it won't hurt you when you're
alone it.

Speaker 4 (57:07):
it won't hurt you when you're alone, it will be
there.
It's kind of a positive song,in a way.

(57:29):
Like this is a low, but itwon't hurt you.

Speaker 3 (57:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (57:37):
Only a heartbreak.

Speaker 3 (57:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (57:42):
Right Linda.

Speaker 3 (57:43):
Anyhow, if you think that I'm just sitting around
waiting for you, you can forgetit.

Speaker 4 (57:46):
That's right, finding ways to stay solo.
Linda, she's putting onpepperoni pizza at the mall.
Oh, this is kind of a coolending.
It was a little intense attimes, but I came around.
All right, we got one more.
Oh yeah, lot 105.

(58:07):
I came around, alright, we gotone more.
Oh yeah, lot 105.
This is like a Sprockets littlevignette.
There's a lot of la la lyinggoing on here.

Speaker 5 (58:22):
Should we start the top three?
Yeah, what's your?

Speaker 4 (58:25):
top three.
What's your number three?

Speaker 5 (58:29):
My number three, coming in London Loves.

Speaker 4 (58:39):
London Loves.
Okay, that was a good one.
I like that.
That's a good number three.
I'm going to say this Is A.
Love is going to be my numberthree Okay, because I got a
couple more.
That was a.
Is going to be my number three,okay, because I got a couple
more.
That was a really great song.
It was good yeah.
But I got a couple others thatI liked just a little bit better
.
Okay, what about your numbertwo?

Speaker 5 (59:02):
I'm going to say Clover Over Dover.
It's just mesmerizing.
That could be up there with alot of good 90s songs.
Yeah, I agree, it's MarkKnopfler-esque.
It's great, absolutely.

Speaker 4 (59:17):
Yeah, it's your two.
My two is going to be LondonLoves.
Nice, it just struck me at theright time.
That could probably be mynumber three, but today it just
hit me the right way.
So I'm going to say LondonLoves is my number three, but
today it just hit me the rightway.
So I'm going to say Leonardloves, my number two.

Speaker 5 (59:36):
Nice.
I have always had this Is A Lowstarred on this album and I
listen to it occasionally with abunch of other sad English
songs together and it's great.

Speaker 3 (59:50):
Yeah, it kind of gets you right there.

Speaker 4 (59:55):
Yeah, it gets you.
Yeah, yeah, I guess you reallyhave to feel it.
You know like it wasn't quitethere for me, but I'm sure I
don't know.
It's been a long time sinceI've gone through the heartbreak
thing, but nevertheless I'mgoing to say my number one is
going to be Clover over DoverNice, that's a hell of a song
right there.

Speaker 5 (01:00:13):
Makes you feel good.

Speaker 4 (01:00:14):
Yeah, I'm imagining being on the cliffs of Dover and
there's a mood to it.

Speaker 5 (01:00:23):
That's right, yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:00:24):
Yeah, and you feel like you're there.

Speaker 5 (01:00:27):
He does a good job of describing the atmosphere.

Speaker 4 (01:00:29):
Yeah, there's a little bit of danger because of
the drop off cliff and all that.

Speaker 5 (01:00:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:00:33):
Yeah, it's, it's very charming.

Speaker 5 (01:00:35):
He's a good storyteller.

Speaker 4 (01:00:36):
He is he's a good writer.

Speaker 5 (01:00:37):
The band is great yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:00:39):
And they had four other songs that you know
Skyrocketed, you know so.

Speaker 5 (01:00:45):
Some on the album are Not, you know, palatable again
Potentially, but that's okay.

Speaker 4 (01:00:51):
And fillers too.
Deck Collector, what was?

Speaker 5 (01:00:53):
that yeah, lots of fillers, yeah a lot of 105.
I mean yeah, it was a good deal.

Speaker 4 (01:00:57):
But yeah, it's a solid album 16 tracks, good call
man.

Speaker 2 (01:01:02):
Very good, Good call yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:01:03):
We're coming up on our third year.
We're going to be winding upthe 90s soon.
I think we've got another inthe chamber, even though this is
uh.
Yeah, this is.
We're at the.
You know we're at the the endof the third year, but we're
going to do a couple morenineties and then uh, and then
uh see where it goes.
So thanks for listening.
Deeper and deeper Any uh, anylast thoughts.

Speaker 5 (01:01:24):
Tim Just getting way down, you know, get out there um
do your thing All right, allright Thanks.