Stout Man

Just after first two "big fat man" lines:

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

"Shit in your pram"

Definitely "Shut your trap, skinny, go and shit your bran" to these ears. Bran is good roughage, keeps you regular, if you know what I mean.

Gross but OK, it's probably right. I'll fix it up.

This may surprise you but I suspect "Asiatic Seth" may not be right either. Too bad, it's my favorite line...

Alas, Seth has been purged.

I'm hearing 'crack' rather than 'peg'. Where'd 'peg' come from?

Same place "crack" came from, someone's ears. In this case I think they were mine, and mine aren't that good, plus "crack" makes more sense, and finally I don't want to listen to it right now, so I'll take your word for it and change it.

It's "I'm a wife problem of a pot-bellied Elton John" Elton once had a female wife of course, his current 'wife' has prams to push (or would have if they didn't have a nanny. Also check this out!http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2335119/David-Furnish-dotes-Elton-Johns-mini-mes-holiday-Venice.html Mini M.E.S. ha ha.

"And my kids are behind asiatic tech" Is what I keep hearing.

Why not?

On some live versions of this he clearly says "stout man" in some lyrics instead of "big man" - but the pronunciation is so soft and hoarse sounding I wonder if originally he sang/wrote it to be STOUT MAN in lyrics but found it difficult to sing and changed in the studio to big man, in the studio version I only hear "big man" in the lyrics
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" ;)

I guess it's natural, given the lyric, to think that stout=fat. And that's the most likely thing. However, I think it's worth recording that "stout" is also a dark beer, and so a "stout man" might also be someone who likes drinking stout. There's no textual reason to take this thought any further, but, you know...

Maybe...it's a shame that the granular level of accuracy it would take to distinguish "or" from "of" is completely beyond any of us at this point!

you are my new flavourite site!
but
bran it is not
it's BRAIN
MES doing his best Rod Stewart faux yankee accent!

'Go and shit your brain' instead of 'bran'? Is this really the consensus? 'Go and shit your brain' is such a bizarre and meaningless, non-existent phrase and 'bran' is perfectly audible. . . I'm confused.

Hi @bzfgt, I'm just wondering which pressing/format or other edition your tracklist for this album is from? My 2015 Cherry Red pressing (2xLP) has "Venice With The Girls" as the first track, "Fibre Book Troll" as track 10, "Snazzy" track 9, Black Roof as track 2....it shouldn't be too much of a slog checking Discogs but I'm not in the mood for cross-referencing etc with more tabs open than is necessary!

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!

I obviously meant: "the chair nearest the door was next to mine"

It ain't 'brain', don't be daft.

Brain is bran but with a Deeply Southern accent.