“His wicked sense of humour suggests exciting sex”
Yes I am playing Venus As A Boy by Bjork for the first time in years.
But bloody hell, that’s a damn good opening line!!!!
Great Opening Lines (again)
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He believes in beauty.
Indian strings, space, pulsing… gaahhhhd that’s just one of the best tracks of the nineties.
I love the (less fashionable) Post too.
PS. In a footnote, I have a wicked sense of humour, so that’s Bjork’s theory f***ed.
And I don’t have a sense of humour at all. So yes I agree, her theory doesn’t stand up.
“I don’t believe in an interventionist god”
Alright then.
“Rock and roll music is a thing of the past, and all you long-haired faggots can kiss my ass”
– Schoolly-D.
More tea, vicar?
Also from Schoolly:
“Pussy ain’t nuthin’ but a meat on a bone/ You suck it, you f*** it, you leave it alone”
…makes Trump look like Andrea Dworkin.
“After I had killed my wife
And by the jury been acquitted”…….
is a jolly start to a song, I think. Sussex Ghost Story, by John Wesley Harding.
I would commend spotify over youtube to source, as only live versions on the latter, the strings being essential to the overall joie de mort therein.
“Distant cousins, there’s a limited supply.
And we’re down to the dozens, and this is why:
Big Eyed Beans from Venus! Oh my, oh my.”…
“Allo”
from Ian Hunter’s “Once Bitten, Twice Shy”.
I prefer “Allo” from Public Image by Public Image.
“I’m Charlie, you know.”
“Bless my cotton socks I’m in the news”
The correct answer.
Magazine – Song From Under The Floorboards
I am angry I am ill and I’m as ugly as sin
My irritability keeps me alive and kicking
It’s just occurred to me that that song is probably based on Dostoevsky’s Notes From the Underground.
Other mordant Russian novellas are available.
You are correct in your assumption.
Joins a long list of post-punk songs inspired by Russian writers. I believe Classic Penguin magazine are doing a poll for next month’s issue. I won’t list them but we all know the same old suspects that we’ve heard time and again will be represented.
The Idiot by Iggy for one.
And then there’s… er… Ra Ra Rasputin?
“There are nights when I think Sal Paradise was right” – Stuck Between Stations, The Hold Steady
…said song also has the line “she was a really cool kisser and she wasn’t all that strict of a Christian” which is basically the essence of rock n roll right there.
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