Next time someone's interviewing Mick or Tops

[Wolter]

Wow...is "bairn" common usage? Because I don't think I've ever heard it in my life.

It's used in Trainspotting. I assume it comes from the Scots.

Still haven't seen that. Everytime it's on cable I think, "Nah, too hip for my current mood."

I meant the book. [/nerd]

Man, what a bitch of a book that was. Took a good fifty pages for me to properly hear the dialogue in my head to make sense of it.

Yeah, it's right up there with A Clockwork Orange in the "You're going to have to go back and reread this section 3 more times" category. But then, like ACO, everything suddenly clicks and it makes sense.

[Dr. Medulla]

It's used in Trainspotting. I assume it comes from the Scots.

Still haven't seen that. Everytime it's on cable I think, "Nah, too hip for my current mood."

I meant the book. [/nerd]

Man, what a bitch of a book that was. Took a good fifty pages for me to properly hear the dialogue in my head to make sense of it.

Yeah, it's right up there with A Clockwork Orange in the "You're going to have to go back and reread this section 3 more times" category. But then, like ACO, everything suddenly clicks and it makes sense.

A very weird and cool feeling when suddenly the dialect seemingly translated itself automatically in my head. That said, tho I've picked up a few other Welsh novels along the way, I've been antsy about tackling them.

[Heston]

Shy bairns get nowt, as my Grandpappy used to say.

What the fuck does that mean? Does it say "Shy barn's getting out" or is it Gaellic or Welsh?

"Shy children get nothing" would be my guess.

Correct, "bairn" is a very common word in Scotland and Northern England, and I thought you'd all have heard the word "nowt" before.

[Flex]

Correct, "bairn" is a very common word in Scotland and Northern England, and I thought you'd all have heard the word "nowt" before.

We usually spell it "naught."

[Bankrobber]

Correct, "bairn" is a very common word in Scotland and Northern England, and I thought you'd all have heard the word "nowt" before.

We usually spell it "naught."

Which looks more English than "nowt".

[Heston]

Wow...is "bairn" common usage? Because I don't think I've ever heard it in my life.

It's used in Trainspotting. I assume it comes from the Scots.

Still haven't seen that. Everytime it's on cable I think, "Nah, too hip for my current mood."

I meant the book. [/nerd]

Well the answer's still the same...too hip.

It's a brilliant and surreal film and I hate hipsters.

[Flex]

It's a brilliant and surreal film and I hate hipsters.

FLESTON

[Heston]

Ask about Fulham Connection/Idle in the blah blah blah//Beautiful People/Kill Time!

And the Casablanca connection!

This seems a good place as any to ask about the lyrics to Kill Time....

Shout, everybody shout: hey waiter!
I want in, I want out, hey jailer!
Run, walk this way, that way, buy a paper
Or reach easy down on your knees, for later
Go cat go!
That message you run
Is gonna be a make-or-breaker
Zoom zoom!

Now I am a one man survey team from Labour
I am studying you city types' behaviour
Hey girl, this opinion poll, you can't wait, huh?
Perhaps I'll flee my bench to chase her
Go cat go!
In bitching hour
Go grab your wings to chase her

You've sold your time but I still got mine
I'm from the spare-part pile, wanna see my
Licence to kill time?

The shows tonight will close tonight, see you later
The efficient sweep will wash the streets safer
From the rush-hour crush to the empty square I'll wait here
And the b-line c-line d-line three-line breaker
Go cat go!
In the spillage hour
Everybody's going as if they'll get there later - yep!

You've sold your time but I still got mine
I'm from the spare-part pile, wanna see my
Licence to kill zime?
Kill time
Dali melts it

Arnie Pauly
To be an agitator
Arnie Pauly
And someone's left the paper
Arnie Pauly
To be an agitator
Arnie Pauly, Pauly
Someone's left their paper
And the b-line c-line a-line free-line hard-line best-line left-line fine-line breaker

Who the fuck is Arnie Pauly?
How does Dali melt it (I always thought it was "garlic melts it")?
What the fuck is this song about?

[Rat Patrol]

Who the fuck is Arnie Pauly?
How does Dali melt it (I always thought it was "garlic melts it")?
What the fuck is this song about?

The lyric sheet is like a window into the mind of 1981 Joe:

[Heston]

I like the tune, surely better than at least four songs on Combat Rock. I think its lyrical weakness is probably why it never made the album, ditto The Beautiful People.

[Flex]

I like the tune, surely better than at least four songs on Combat Rock. I think its lyrical weakness is probably why it never made the album, ditto The Beautiful People.

Yeah, those songs would have taken up precious space that was needed for lyrical masterpieces like Overpowered by Funk.

[Heston]

I like the tune, surely better than at least four songs on Combat Rock. I think its lyrical weakness is probably why it never made the album, ditto The Beautiful People.

Yeah, those songs would have taken up precious space that was needed for lyrical masterpieces like Overpowered by Funk.

There's some great imagery in that song, Tarzan on a ticker tape!

Ooooowwwww!

[Dr. Medulla]

I like the tune, surely better than at least four songs on Combat Rock. I think its lyrical weakness is probably why it never made the album, ditto The Beautiful People.

Yeah, those songs would have taken up precious space that was needed for lyrical masterpieces like Overpowered by Funk.

There's some great imagery in that song, Tarzan on a ticker tape!

Ooooowwwww!

Asinine, stupefying. Love it when the lyrics provide their own critique.

[Heston]

I like the tune, surely better than at least four songs on Combat Rock. I think its lyrical weakness is probably why it never made the album, ditto The Beautiful People.

Yeah, those songs would have taken up precious space that was needed for lyrical masterpieces like Overpowered by Funk.

There's some great imagery in that song, Tarzan on a ticker tape!

Ooooowwwww!

Asinine, stupefying. Love it when the lyrics provide their own critique.

You just ain't reggae for it!

[Still216]

The lyric sheet is like a window into the mind of 1981 Joe:

Actually reading the lyrics (for the first time) it doesn't seem too far off from 1989 Joe either. Although you can at least attach specific images to some of the Kill Time lyrics. Most of EW's lyrics are way too stream-of-consciousness-driven for that.

How have I heard this song at least 100 times and not known half the lyrics until now?