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Anecdotes+Antidotes in B#
Lyrics
And if chewing gum is chewed
The chewer is pursued
And the smoker is pursued
In the Plaza hotel with audio wrist around
Antidotes
And those that vote
Shouting
Anecdotes
And those that vote
It was doazy votes
I saw an evil life in the Plaza, yes
And the chair in the mirror
Combs over and over
And I live an evil life
On the populace of the continents of Australia and America and Arabia
Ah...
Antidotes
Antidotes
Antidotes
You got
And I’m moving down a train over and over and over again
And the cost of tobacco is chewed
The chewer is pursued
I’m walking round the street again and again and again
And you’re set in your chair pleased
And the mirror is looking at you
From Antidotes that infract you
Antidotes and
And dozy votes
Antidotes
And those that vote
Antidotes
And cooking anecdotes
Antidotes
And the chewing gum is chewed
The chewer is pursued
And smoking is forbidden again and again and again
And the better you have got is meatloaf and chops
Notes
1. B# is a strictly notional key (in practice it is identical to C natural). For more information on the lyrics, see the entry for "(Jung Nev's) Antidotes."
Dan:
From this song, Knitting Factory, LA, 14 November 2001:
And if liberty is screwed, the sports teacher rules. The sports teacher rules. And so secondary modern British Carry-On film, 'Carry On, Sir', 'Carry On, Sir'. No more inner city for you, Jimmy.
Comments (53)
http://annotatedfall.doomby.com/pages/the-annotated-lyrics/jung-nev-s-antidotes.html
And the smoker is bestewed"
I'm hearing:
"The chewer is pursued
And the smoker is pursued"
I'm also hearing "and dozy doats" after some of the "antidotes" - nowhere to be seen above....
'dozy doats' ( I can't tell cos I dot have this record!) could be from the formerly famous nonsense song .... followed by' a kiddly-divey too, wouldn't you?' from the 1940s: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mairzy_Doats
I have the "doazy doats" stuff on the "Jung Nev" page, which I lazily linked to rather than pasting the notes here.
it's a key only in theory, but that's sometimes necessary for musicologists and composers (like the sq root of -1 is for mathematicians)
The key of B# major is extremely complex and quite unnecessary because it sounds like C major. And that by using two sharps and five double sharps. But it exists: in the field of philosophy. The following quotation from the book »Ketzereien« (heresies) of Günther Anders is a nice example of the use of musical terms in communication. Using B# major as a paraphrase for complex speaking is answered with B# minor as a paraphrase for discretion.
but yeah, it's the same sound as C major, instead of having no accidentals, it has three sharps and five double sharps. yes indeed.
https://sites.google.com/site/reformationposttpm/pithy-smithyisms/in-the-2000s
The repetition is an essential part of the line's poetic quality. MES would not arbitrarily change and ruin it.. Chewing Chewed Chewer reflects the literal act of impulsive chewing. Who'd have thought Groucho was so clever with word play?
This sense of an impulsive act is mirrored with the repetition of 'Pursued'. You know, pursued, pursued, relentlessly pursued. These poetic devices don't need any 'Grammarly' suggestions.
He also regularly often what would otherwise be straight quotations. This means you can't just assume the accurate quotation is the lyric.
However, I still agree it's "chewer" not "truant" throughout.
...and it seems the original lyrics are credited to 'Bert Kalmar', still a great line that depends on the repetition...blah blah blah... I realise there's no rules to these things, but even some crazy decision-flow-chart system for deciding these things would be better than a highly prompted collective ear.
You're saying ~MES has ruined the poetic qualities of quotations~ Bold claim. Care to say it to his f... I mean, demonstrate?
And there are 5-year old comments from me above saying it's not "truant". I wasn't alone either.
Distorting quotations, examples thereof - just see this list: https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/thefall/mes-lyrical-magpie-list-in-first-posts-t42183.html
Comment #20. In what sense is "poetry" a bourgeois term or "middle class praise"? Is "bourgeois" a bourgeois term? What on earth are you on about?
Maybe bourgeois is a bourgeois term now! I thought it was republican or anti-establishment term for the middle class, middle class is more of an academic term. Bourgeois being the edgier.
I think I was trying saying although he may not call himself a poet - everyone thinks of posh people poncing around in frilly shirts and tights - but he might secretly like to be called a poet, even though it is the kind of thing an effeminate middle class person like me would say.
He's pretty down on the whole middle class thing you know.
I don't think MES had much of a political, let alone Marxist, understanding of class. I'm not sure you do, despite your "edgy" pose.
'Middle-class revolt' is a good one, 'Bourgeois Town' too.
If only to err on the side of caution, something there's normally too much of here.
Bunging 'truant' in there suggests it's about kids, why would he change it to that?
There's nothing that can be said about 'bestewed', just gibberish.
"...again and again and again
And the cost of tobacco is dutied/duties (can't remember which one now)
The chewer is pursued"
the again and again re-enforcing the need for 'chewer' again, and again.
duties/dutied... any smokers in the rich west? Too much price... enough to make you wanna light up more.
"saw an evil laugh" - needs to be more closely considered
"And those that vote" - Pretty sure this is said maybe once. Danny was on to something with 'dozy'
"And what the fuck is" - I could say the same
similarly with "an army of Aristo-men" - which is?
and "the chair in the mirror Comes over" - whowha?
"Arabia" - more likely 'Anglia'
'Have you got' - seems a bit weak, I thought 2 words anyway
'sat' - what else would he be doing in a chair? 'set',
"Antidotes and Antidotes" - I smell a cop out here, clearly the second word.words rhymes with 'chew'
"And the better knew that God is meek" - creative... wildly wrong, and it's the clearest line in the song, except for the last two words.
plus the already mentioned truant, bestewed tobacco cost chewed truant
I think this is probably not entirely wrong.
How about "Junkman lend a hand help me clear this track" or a high percentage of "Just Waiting"? "Jerusalem"? For anything more than a line or two keeping it the same would be the exception.
Aristo-men," I don't know how anyone came up with that. It sounds like "with on your wrist around." Even though that makes no sense that's what it'll have to be for now until we figure it out because it's phonetically much closer than the aristo-men stuff.
And if chewing gum is chewed
The chewer is pursued
And the smoker is pursuant
In the Plaza hotel with an audio [rest abound/wrist band?]
Antidotes and dozy votes
It’s got shards in
Antidotes and dozy votes
Inward dozy votes
I saw an evil life in the Plaza, yes
And the chair in the mirror
Combs over and over
And I live an evil life
What the fuck is on the continents of
Australia and America and Arabia-ah-ah?
Antidotes and dozy votes
Antidotes, to you God
And I’m moving down a train over and over and over again
And because tobacco is chewed
The chewer is pursued
We're walking round the street again and again and again
And you’re sat in your chair pleased
And the mirror’s looking at you
From the antidotes that fract you
Antidotes and dozy votes
Antidotes and dozy votes
Antidotes, antidotes and cooking anecdotes
Antidotes
And chewing gum is chewed
The chewer is pursued
And smoking is forbidden again and again and again and again
And better you have God is [meedle on your shar-boose]***
***Yeah, I know
And the chair[man] in the mirror
Combs over and over
Jesus, this is about Trump. Dozy votes...
Feliz Navidad
All the lyrics attest to this.
A general issue with Mark, we're left to infer the word based on an intended meaning
I'd have to check, but it sounds more like ~pop'lus~ I seem to remember
I have:
an' you’re set in your chair pleased
an' the mirrors looking at you
from a...
Antidotes infract~you
(an' being 'and')
"The better you have got?" "The bitter you have got?" Neither makes sense...