Sinister: I was Bacharach to your David

[Robin Stout]

Do you know they way to San Jose?
Yes it's over there.
Oh right.


The Dairy Fairy said:

>Girls are hardly ever allowed to be smutty are they? And I think they 
> >should be, because sex is just so funny.

Yes, where *is* Archel?


Brenda Milton-Bradley, did you invent Connect Four and Guess Who? I know you 
didn't invent Monopoly because I once met the man who did. He was living in 
an old boot on the corner of Old Kent Road* and was mumbling something about 
wanting to buy a house for fifty pounds. I gave him two pounds, just to shut 
up the blathering old tramp, who kept on growling, in-between the hiccups, 
that 'I own this street', and demanding 'rent', obviously thinking I was a 
sailor. I knew I shouldn't have worn those trousers in that part of town. I 
made hasty exit back to my flat in The Strand* wearing my shiny pork pie 
hat.

After my comments about liking the Yellow album over the Green one, I have 
tried to work out what I actually meant, because I was pretty confused about 
it myself. I think what it is is that even though the songs on the Green one 
are mostly better, the Yellow one is more charming. It has a story and a 
funny picture and it is the colour of cowslips. And, when B+S appear on Rock 
Legends, this will be the "troubled fourth album", with its wierdness of 
songs, that preceded the "magnificent fifth album": A controversial song 
about rape, Stevie having a funny turn in Beyond the Sunrise, and an album 
being pulled apart by the twin buffaloes of kitchen sink misery and high 
plains escapism. And even then lots of songs that didn't make it. It's a 
series of experiments, some of them exploding and others fizzing, that were 
precursors to the inventiveness we've been hearing lately. I think it's much 
more *interesting* too. For example Chickfactor=boring, whereas Beyond the 
Sunrise=oh my god they've gone barmy. It's an angry misfit, the sounds of 
discontent, and, I still don't really know why, but I like it.


Robin x

* Americans should substitute different street names here. West Forty 
Seventh and East Eighty Second are two of my favourites. I doubt if it will 
make any more sense, though.

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