(Funny -- I've never liked Hostess Twinkies snack cakes but I love the Hostess Ding-Dongs. Who knew Hostess was so gay-oriented. Ha!)
UPDATE ~ I added, somewhere in this thread with you and Lago, an essay I just noticed for the first time in the CD booklet for "Big Night Music" - - if you get a chance, give it a read -- I think you might find it interesting. :)
This post was edited by WelbyQuentin at April 1, 2017 4:09 PM MDT
"All muddy moan all Billy bolly all wobble why all shilly " Try saying that three times realfast. I had to go find the lyrics for this one and still had a little problem figuring out what it is about. What is t about, welby?
I really am unsure of the meaning to much of Shriekback's lyrics. Lago, but they strike me as very sensual and sexual for some reason. It may be the sound of their music. And lyrics like "Pornographic implosion." :)
I just typed out the lyrics to the song directly from my CD booklet in WingedWonder's reply and I'll copy them here for you, too, even though you most likely have found them yourself with the quote you quoted in your comment. :)
"An elliptical movement With the attitude of a snake Then make our incisions Stand on one leg and deviate All American action All lemonade high Old and cold and going gold
A fanatical schism As impeccable as a swan Psychedelic exactions that lay me down or lead me on In the ballet of Black-Light And the agony of the fly We divide and then collide
IN THE BLACK-LIGHT-TRAP We make all our mistakes IN THE BLACK-LIGHT-TRAP We fool around but that's ok IN THE BLACK-LIGHT-TRAP in the black-light-trap. . .
Pornographic implosion Sticky animals in the air An implaccable suction That pulls us in and keeps us there Cryogenic excitment: Dionysian repartee Creamed and steamed and quite obscene
All chemical all funny-man and belly-flop all dilly dally
All muddy moan all billy bolly all wobble-y all shilly shally"
This post was edited by WelbyQuentin at April 2, 2017 4:55 AM MDT
Perhaps the black light trap is where the forbidden lives you know. It brings images up of red light districts and hedonism and . . .you know. . Wrongness. . .Maybe . . Thanks welby, thank you for sharing.
You're welcome, Lago. You may be on the right track there. Any more I wonder at equating wrongness with such things. I don't know, though -- it may just be early morning blues on my part. Perhaps the lyricist was feeling the same way when he wrote the song. I think the entire group wrote all the songs - - hey, I just found a short essay in my CD booklet - - the essay seems to explain the album. Why I missed this for years and years, I don't know. I'll retype it here later- - I have to go to work now, sorry.
I do love that song. And the whole album, as I keep saying too often! Ha! :)
Here is the little essay I mentioned that's in the CD booklet of "Big Night Music" -- the album that opens with "Black Light Trap"
"Big Night Music - songs to sing in your sleep. SHRIEKBACK celebrate the blessed dark - the place where they were always most at home. . . Big Night Music is the shape and rhythm of two different kinds of nights - nights of heat and weirdness in which we alone are awake, humming with forbidden energy; nights into which we would not send our dogs - wild sea and wet forest and eyes and teeth - or those other nights - fragrant with blossom, incandescent with moonlight and dreams, possessed by a cool beauty which evaporates with the dew. . .
It is, perhaps, worth mentioning that Big Night music is entirely free of drum machines, sequencers, Fairlight Page R's - digital heartbeats of every kind. Seductive though they are, SHRIEKBACK have opted to make a different kind of music - one which exalts human frailty and the harmonious mess of nature over the simplistic reductions of our crude computers.
We Shrieks are well pleased with our record, (this side of smugness and occasionally the other) and we obviously hope you will buy it voraciously. But we also want to leave you with an intimation that the universe, all its horrors notwithstanding, is strange and marvellous; that love is the law and the drug and the pull and the push of all we do; that the pursuit of beauty is useful, honourable and healing; and that our actions in this time, in choosing forgiveness over vendetta, brilliance over mediocrity, the clean difficult way over the dubious easy option, will determine whether or not we will realise the wealth of possibilities implicit in our existence.
As for SHRIEKBACK, we have a suspicion that it's all going to be fine, just fine. With this in mind; here is SHRIEKBACK'S fifth album - Big Night Music - and it's as good as we could make it. Now, it's all yours. . .
SHRIEKBACK, LONDON AUGUST '86 "
I have to admit I've never read this little essay in detail at all until now - I just always threw the CD in the stereo and enjoyed. Now I like the album even more - - which is saying a lot! I recommend the entire album highly. :)
That is certainly a bold one. :) Whatever happen to R kelly anyway, seems like he was everywhere during The nineties. Thanks, Sapphic, I always appreciate your comments.
This post was edited by Benedict Arnold at March 30, 2017 12:01 PM MDT
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