Adrian barked:

I for one think "Me & the Major" (sorry if it's wrong song-title..too much cyder does the memory banks no good at all) is totally uninspired...it's just there, and drags IYFS down.

This is rubbish and I shall explain why, in the popular top ten format. I considered doing it as a Socratic dialogue, but it just seemed too much work for a brain trained on flabby boy's anal obsessions. 1. It involves a character who is not a schoolgirl. Schoolgirls are great but people will start talking if *every* song I listen to involves them. 2. The "Because the snow is falling falling falling" coda is the most heart-wrenchingly romantic since... something else really good 3. It's a clever reworking of the "Ballard of the Thin Man" for the younger generation who grew up fast. Possibly. 4. The friend of someone on the list friend thought it he was singing about "Me and the Midget", which made the "don't see eye-to-eye on it" line impossibly wonderful. 5. It storms in and kicks bugle ass after the gay boy foppery of "Seeing Other People". 6. It is possibly the fastest tempo song that has the capacity to make me openly weep. Oh no, I'm confusing it with 2-Unlimited's "No Limit" again, aren't I? 7. The line about rememerbering Roxy Music in '72 reminds me of an ex-army neighbour of mine who had a collection of 70's rock albums in his basement that I helped him sell at a car boot sale. 8. The way the song unites the Major, Stuart Murdoch and *us* in a vague sense of having having been left behind somewhere along the line. Apologies for the new seriousness (TM) suddenly injected into this reason. Feel free to tell me I've totally missed the point or should restrict myself to talking about the best newt drum solo ever. That's only eight, but taking espadrille's complainta of number basism on board, there's no reason to go on. And I think eight suits majors. Either eight or five. It always seems inappropriate that it's track number three. nick xxx _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". . For unsubscribing, list rules, Tigermilk and sessions tapes, . please see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister@majordomo.net . *** B&S new LP worldwide release 7th September, tour news etc. at *** . *** http://www.majordomo.net/sinister/news.html *** . Coinini athasach ata muid - ag canuint amhrain na . coinini - nach bhfuilimid? -----------------------------------------------------------------------