Greenway

1. The music for this is taken from a song called "Gameboy" by Greek heavy metal band Anorimoi. Greenway, of course, is Peter Greenway, the Fall's guitarist, who says the song is not about him as he really is, but as MES would like to imagine him, as some kind of badass. The song doesn't, on the face of it, seem to be about Greenway at all; his name scans the same as "Gameboy," but the rest of it seems to be about the narrator (MES?) being grumpy about other bands, a familiar enough theme. Live versions seem to indicate the band in question is These New Puritans, who are named after a Fall song, which fact alone is probably enough to attract Smith's bleary raptor gaze.

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2. "It's good enough for me" is a quote from "That Old Time Religion," which is also quoted by Captain Beefheart in "Moonlight on Vermont."

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3. "Richard" and "Richie sounds" are probably a permutation of Richer Sounds, a retail chain in the UK that sells home entertainment equipment (thanks to Stephen below).

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4. Zack:

"The Fall's most recent music video at the time was 'Bury! Pts 2 + 4' (2010) which features artfully lit slow-motion shots of all five members of the group. 

Sure enough, These New Puritans made at least two music videos in a similar style from the same era: 'We Want War' (2009), and 'Attack Music' (2010). TNP singer Jack Barnett does maybe bear a passing resemblance to a young MES."

On the other hand, as Dan points out, the narrator could be a fictional version of Greenway, rather than MES...

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5. It's hard to imagine them adopting a snotty and offensive tone while cowering in their hotel room behind a barricade of chairs, but perhaps they were confident enough that the chairs would hold that they began taunting MES. As usual, he is misunderstood; he just wanted to borrow their CD player...

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6. This is almost a quote from "But I've Got Texas" by Jon Wayne, a "Cowpunk" band formed of session musicians playing under assumed names, in which the relevant line is "I had to jack off the dog just to feed the goddamn cat." The opening lines of "Ol' Gang" also seem to echo the opening to "Texas Funeral" (as well as Hank Mizell's "Jungle Rock"). 

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