Stout Man
Lyrics
Jump that train school laughed
Jump on train that kids at school laughed
Time of defeat
Time of disease
Time of deserts (2)
I’m a big fat man pushing a little pram
I’m a big fat man pushing a little pram
Shut your trap skinny go or I'll shit in your brain ram it up your crack
Shut your trap skinny go and shit your brain
Go and shit your brain (3)
Big man big man big man push pram
Big man big man big man push pram
I’m a big fat man pushing a big pram
I’m a wide problem or a pot-bellied Elton John
I never did nothing ‘cept I’m only one
All my kids are behind Asiatic tech
Big man go push a fucking pram
Big man push pram
Hey shut your trap skinny go and shit your cram pram
Big man push pram
Big man push pram
Jump that train at school man
Jump that train and scoot back
Notes
1. This is highly speculative, watch this space for improvements.
The song is, musically, identical to "Cock in my Pocket" by the Stooges. On Sub-Lingual Tablet, the song is credited to "Iggy Pop/James Williamson." However, the lyrics are completely new, and in cases where MES has written new lyrics to existing music I have included the songs here; this is no less an original song than "Breaking the Rules," to give one example among several possible candidates. Certainly, there is a lot of grey area, and MES changes the lyrics of songs he covers virtually 100% of the time, so eventually I may get around to annotating everything they've recorded...
Here is the entry from Reformation on "Stout Man":
2. This would of course be a pun so I could have spelled it "desserts" with as much justification.
"Pledge" also mentions a "time of disease."
3. There is a difference of opinion here whether it's "brain" or "bran." I do not have a clue which one it is. Clearly the last time I listened to it I thought it sounded more like "brain," but that doesn't mean it's correct.
Comments (32)

- 1. | 28/07/2015

- 2. | 30/07/2015

- 3. | 03/08/2015

- 4. | 08/08/2015

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- 7. | 12/08/2015

- 8. | 25/08/2015

- 9. | 25/10/2015

- 10. | 03/03/2016

- 11. | 19/03/2016

- 12. | 25/04/2016
very weird
the line about elton I hear as
"I'm a wide problem of a pot-bellied elton john" which I took as a diss on elton's current "wife" ;)

- 13. | 29/04/2016

- 14. | 19/05/2016

- 15. | 04/05/2018
but
bran it is not
it's BRAIN
MES doing his best Rod Stewart faux yankee accent!

- 16. | 09/07/2018

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- 18. | 22/07/2018

- 19. | 09/02/2019

- 20. | 21/02/2019

- 21. | 21/03/2019

- 22. | 13/04/2019
I need to get "bran" in the notes at least I guess. who the fuck knows what it really is.

- 23. | 13/04/2019

- 24. | 18/05/2019

- 25. | 07/06/2019

- 26. | 07/06/2019

- 27. | 19/10/2020
N.B--From 2009 to 2012 I did a lot of voluntary work with Addaction, one of the UK's main substance abuse charities. We did loads of work for the organisation, mediating between clients and members of staff, redesigning the complaints procedure and generally pushed for more "client" representation at every level of the charity.
Anyway, before all this a charity-wide memo was released to all branches of the organisation and I was put forward from my local Addaction (I was in treatment at the time--it wasn't like a rehab, think of it more as a court-ordered mandatory "outpatient rehab", with the focus being on group work and one-to-one counselling sessions with your key worker, and weekly urine tests! Also had to appear in front of a judge once a month who would track your progress--there was a real danger of you getting chucked in jail if you didn't play along).
Okay, so I got chosen to represent my hometown's Addaction branch in this new "Service User Group" and was interviewed by two ladies in the charitie's base in Farringdon, London--and one man, a Brummie, whose dress, although not ostentatious at all, screamed "muso". You can see where I'm going with this, can't you?
Well, the Brummie fella was introduced to me as "Darren" (not knowing it was only spelled with one "r") and as part of the interview we had to give an extemporised answer of between five and ten minutes, an "off-the-cuff presentation", I suppose, to the question: "what are your main interests?". So I said: "alternative/underground comics, drawing my own comics in that sort of style, music, film and reading, everything from comics to James Joyce" (sorry folks gonna be a long comment!). Shook hands with everyone, got re-imbursed for train journey and told my branch of Addaction would be notified in a week whether my application for The Service User Group had been successful.
Long story short, I was accepted, and the next meeting was in Newcastle to meet our fellow, newly-chosen members and erstwhile "directors/bosses" (though they ABSOLUTELY discouraged the latter designation!). Daren was about two minutes late and the closest empty chair to the door, wouldn't you know it, was mine. So we all made our (re) introductions and went through a long-assed meeting. But I got to talk to Daren in the cig breaks. Turned out he WAS a muso, into all the bands I was--and he was in the process of recording an LP with a group called "The 'Gales", as he called them--The Nightingales, who I'd heard a few times via Peel. And he kept talking about his producer "Joe". He'd told me he was the drummer but not an original member (Daren of The Nightingales, I mean). Anyway, Daren said some more stuff about their being "legal problems with a couple of members in Joe's old band so we've got a few weeks rest while he goes back to Germany to sort all this legal shite out." And I'm thinking: "Joe? Was in a band that's fractured into two camps? Quite possibly German?" when Daren referred to him as Joachim and the "lightbulb came on"--I said: "Fuck! I'm a bit slow--you're not talking about Joachim Irmler from Faust, are you?!?!". And he replied in the affirmative, I was, like, "FFFUUUUUCKING HELL!!!", starstruck by the proximity of this substance abuse counsellor (although his position was a lot higher than that--he got his start voluntarily advising speed-injecting punks about harm reduction practices during the twilight of punk/early days of new wave)--btw I must point out I'm not doxxing Daren; all this info is out there online, much of it posted by Daz himself, there's even an interview with him on YT about how he started in substance abuse counselling and the organisation he went on to found (The Methadone Alliance)---to his connection to a legendary kosmiche musician.
I saw him a month later, he played me mixed and mastered songs from the album, he had about four or five (?) completed, it was really good stuff too ("This one's our Tom-Waits-circa-Rain-Dogs rip off", "this is our Gang Of Four rip off", "this is our attempt at "Doc"-era Beefheart" etc! In truth they weren't "rip offs" at all, just captured the feel of those records wonderfully, with maybe the odd riff "nicked" and a whole new song built around it)!!!
I'd go on to see him at least one out of two Service User Group meetings; he and "the director" of the group who worked for Addaction were long-time friends and colleagues; we did all the big DDN conferences, ended up travelling all over on Addactions dime, it was a wonderful time and I made some great friends. Unfortunately all good things must come to an end and the Service Users Group ceased to be operational around early-mid 2012--a lot of members ended up getting jobs, some went into the field, some pursued their passion (there was a lad who was a talented mechanic--wasn't nothing he couldn't do to a car!). Daren was the only guy apart from the bosses assistant and a few members who I didn't stay in touch with. I don't even remember him having a Facebook tbh. I DO recall getting a Facebook message from my former "boss" and I asked about Daren; "haven't seen him for a while, he's concentrating on his music" (this would have been during his tenure in The Fall--my "boss" wouldn't know The Fall from The Summer--she was an old school b-girl, breaker, graffiti artist etc under the aegis of her big brother; she always said she was "the crew's mascot as a little kid"). I remember going on at Daz to buy Through The Eyes of Magic--next time I saw him he'd bought it and was like: "it's bloody great, I'm glad I took your advice, all my mates have been going on about it!", over a hung-over breakfast in a posh Liverpool Hotel.
Anyway sorry, again, for the blogpost--but that's the story of how I met Daren Garrett, one-time drummer for The Fall (and member of the semi-legendary Pram!),I thought maybe at least one Fall "stan" may appreciate it! Cheers for reading if you got this far, lol!

- 28. | 23/10/2020

- 29. | 06/02/2021
I didn't realize Garrett was in Pram.

- 30. | 18/10/2021

- 31. | 30/10/2021

- 32. | 03/02/2022
Shut your trap skinny or I'll shit it your bran, ram it up your crack-uh.
Shut your trap skinny, go and shit your bran.
:S