Get Flash to see this player.
Description
Another off-the-cuffer. I just improvised through the guitar parts and bass ONCE then set about cut and pasting what I had.
The lyrics were all made up on the spot too, although verses that were meaningless were dropped half-cooked verses spliced with other half-cooked verses to form luke warm verses.
Anyway, the song is about the insane debt-fuelled consumer boom that has ravaged the UK for the past 5 or 6 years, turning every town into a bland expanse of glossy retail units, while hyperinflation in rents and housing has economically cleansed the poor , the young and the elderly.
Don't worry - the song isn't as po-faced as it sounds, although the 'Gordon Brown as consumerist temptress' is pretty damn cringeworthy'. I also don't know if you can say 'economic cycle' in a song without it being a major afront to art.
Limahl, of course, was an 80s pop singer who I barely remember and only think about now because every fashion victim has his haircut - usually from hair-chain Tony and Guy.
The lyrics were all made up on the spot too, although verses that were meaningless were dropped half-cooked verses spliced with other half-cooked verses to form luke warm verses.
Anyway, the song is about the insane debt-fuelled consumer boom that has ravaged the UK for the past 5 or 6 years, turning every town into a bland expanse of glossy retail units, while hyperinflation in rents and housing has economically cleansed the poor , the young and the elderly.
Don't worry - the song isn't as po-faced as it sounds, although the 'Gordon Brown as consumerist temptress' is pretty damn cringeworthy'. I also don't know if you can say 'economic cycle' in a song without it being a major afront to art.
Limahl, of course, was an 80s pop singer who I barely remember and only think about now because every fashion victim has his haircut - usually from hair-chain Tony and Guy.
Leave a Comment
You must be registered and logged-in to comment.
Lyrics
They said they’d mastered the economic cycle
Replaced it with s-s-sustained growth
What a lot of drivel. What a lot of bollocks.
Now we’re facing a recession
How you doin?
Dontcha wish you never bought all that
…. Chinese tat
Now you gotta pay it back
And your flexible friend’s broken off the friendship
This consumer nation is fucked
Sticking it into landfill – when will it stop?
Shouldn’t you have saved a bit like your grandmother?
In the good times put some pennies away?
Oh my god the money supply is
…. Contracting today
You gotta pay it back with interest
NatWest always have their way
Didn’t you think that big mortgage was cool?
Boasted about it at the dinner parties
… and the BBQs
Now the interest rate is on the climb
And hello debt-slave – what you doing this time?
Don’t you wish you’d never climbed on board
… the consumer trap
Is it really worth having shit
You gotta slave to pay back?
Gordina Brown had a booming bust
And she jiggled it in your face?
She said it’s Christmas every day!
And encouraged you to masterbate
What we call a recession is the rich man’s
…. Bargain sale
Where he hoovers up everything
And leaves you feeling pale
It’s like the 80s all over again
Everybody’s got a haircut like Limahl
And everyone’s obsessed with the price of their houses
They’re gonna be pissed off when they fall
Let’s hold a free festival
\Build something better again
To act like reminder that we’re not just
…. Bean counters’ data
Replaced it with s-s-sustained growth
What a lot of drivel. What a lot of bollocks.
Now we’re facing a recession
How you doin?
Dontcha wish you never bought all that
…. Chinese tat
Now you gotta pay it back
And your flexible friend’s broken off the friendship
This consumer nation is fucked
Sticking it into landfill – when will it stop?
Shouldn’t you have saved a bit like your grandmother?
In the good times put some pennies away?
Oh my god the money supply is
…. Contracting today
You gotta pay it back with interest
NatWest always have their way
Didn’t you think that big mortgage was cool?
Boasted about it at the dinner parties
… and the BBQs
Now the interest rate is on the climb
And hello debt-slave – what you doing this time?
Don’t you wish you’d never climbed on board
… the consumer trap
Is it really worth having shit
You gotta slave to pay back?
Gordina Brown had a booming bust
And she jiggled it in your face?
She said it’s Christmas every day!
And encouraged you to masterbate
What we call a recession is the rich man’s
…. Bargain sale
Where he hoovers up everything
And leaves you feeling pale
It’s like the 80s all over again
Everybody’s got a haircut like Limahl
And everyone’s obsessed with the price of their houses
They’re gonna be pissed off when they fall
Let’s hold a free festival
\Build something better again
To act like reminder that we’re not just
…. Bean counters’ data
Rebsie
I'm glad someone is taking a stand against the
homogenisation of our town centres and an economy
based on marketing overpriced junk to the gullible.
Not a bad song, either.
Improvising lyrics is a very brave thing to do ... but
gives it a nice spontaneity.