Win Fall CD 2088 AD

Lyrics

(1)

Check the record
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Check the guy's track record (2)

Appreciated - guy's

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Check the record
Check the guy's rock record

[WIN FALL CD
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William william
William William
William william
William William (3)

Check the record
Check the record
Check the guy's track record

Appreciated
WIN FALL CD
Appreciated
WIN FALL CD
William william 
Appreciated
And they say:
Rock the records 
WIN FALL CD
William william

Lord Guide me Soft  (4)

 

 

Notes

1. I went with the title on the original CD. Confusingly, however, this is called "C.D. WIn Fall 2080 AD" on the vinyl version of I Am Kurious Oranj, sometimes "Win Fall CD 2088AD" and sometimes "C.D. Win Fall 2088 AD" on cassette, and "Acid Priest 2088" on 458489 B Sides, although the MP3s available for downloading from the latter album seem to have it as "Acid Priest 2008." Reformation gives us the lowdown on this number: "A song of samplings and voice effects, based mainly on Hip Priest, which rambles on quietly in a not unpleasant way. A sort of summing up so far of the ballet with some keyboards, synth drums and some vocal improvisation from Mr Smith."  

The refrain and (sometime) title seem to refer to some sort of promotion. Note that AD could be attached to 2088, as the capitalization suggests (Anno Domine), but also could be short for advertisement.

Macca points out that thiis song was described as "A dig at the label" (Beggars Banquet) in an October 30 1988 Radio Lancashire interview. He posts a Youtube link to the interview below, it's in comment 4 for as long as it lasts...Moccal think posits that the "dig" is that it would take the label 100 years to get the CD out.

Lochfess notes that this is rather directly based on Kraftwerk's "Metropolis," and comments: "Maybe this has something to do with the 'dig' at Beggars Banquet, who were putting out albums by the likes of Gary Numan and other synth pop groups that Mark supposedly was not very big fans of. Just a thought."

At 2:06 the keyboard briefly plays "Taps," the melody that is played at lights out and at funerals in the United States Military (thanks to the27points).

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2. Many of the lyrics are the same as on "New Big Prinz" which, while we're at it, we might as well mention is also called "New Big Priest" and "Big New Prinz."  

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3. As in "of Orange."  

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4. On the original CD and the cassette verions of I Am Kurious Oranj which, we might add, is sometimes called I Am Kurious, Oranj, "Guide Me Soft" is the title of the previous song.

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More Information

C.D. WIn Fall 2088 AD/Acid Priest 2088: Fall Tracks A-Z I wonder how they decided on those two for the heading. 

Comments (7)

dannyno
  • 1. dannyno | 23/07/2014
Whoever first transcribed this obviously gave up halfway through. There's much more than is supplied above, but it's the same words repeated over and over ad infinitum and it all gets a bit *difficult* when you try to write it down.
the27points
  • 2. the27points | 22/11/2018
There's a musical phrase played on keyboard/synthesizer for about 5 seconds at around 03:55 which sounds like a section of the military bugle call "Taps". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taps
bzfgt
  • 3. bzfgt (link) | 01/12/2018
Huh, the version I have (CD version of I Am Kurious Oranj is only 2:44 although I'll check if I have a different version on 5436789 whatever. I get "Taps" at 2:06...
Mecca
  • 4. Mecca | 23/02/2020
The tune was described as "A dig at the label," (Beggars Banquet) in a October 30 1988 Radio Lancashire interview.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApSn1eI2gW0
Lochfess
  • 5. Lochfess | 10/04/2020
The melody is straight up lifted from the song Metropolis by Kraftwerk... Maybe this has something to do with the "dig" at Beggars Banquet, who were putting out albums by the likes of Gary Numan and other synth pop groups that Mark supposedly was not very big fans of. Just a thought.
bzfgt
  • 6. bzfgt (link) | 17/04/2020
Yeah this is definitely "Metropolis"...can't believe it took us this long to figure it out
MoccaI think
  • 7. MoccaI think | 14/12/2020
I think the dig at the label is that it might take them 100 years to release the CD.

(A common MES complaint to record companies was being to slow to release records)

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