Flaffer wrote:I've got a very rough demo recording of The Stonk, as one might have guessed it is a stompy number with crashing percussion. But by jiminy if you find buying a copy of Attitude/Casanova ... embarrasing imagine picking this record up.
"He turned away from his partner,
sensing a growing friction,
his eye suddenly caught,
a chap with the most stonking erection
It made him blush,
he felt a rush,
'cause he knew over there lay lurking
something that would put to shame even the 'erotic gherkin'
The rest of the track is instrumental although it does cry out for a catchy chantable chorus
Q1. - Was there really a track called The Stonk?
Q2. - Are those actually the lyrics?
Maybe this is The Stonk. PSB told in some interview they were supposed to release CIH as first single from Fundamental.
Interviewer:
-What would you tell someone about yourself if you wanted to impress them?
i think getting upset over one word in a song is silly.
i really think this is one of their best albums. the production is wonderful and ties it all together nicely. the lyrics are funny, sad, and moving. there are several choices for followup singles. hopefully the remixes will live up to the songs.
i wonder if the b sides will be TH productions as well?
"Steely Blue eyes with no love in them, Scan The World" STOP BUSH
dgraysn wrote:
i wonder if the b sides will be TH productions as well?
Very unlikely. Horn is a very expensive guy - hiring him for b-side sessions would be something of a waste. Plus the b-sides were recorded after the album, for which the sessions with Horn ended November 14th.
CroMagnon wrote:I adore Fundamental; it's beautiful. But Casanovia in Hell is torturing me. I want to love it. I love the melody, the music, the arrangement. But I just can't get over the fact that the word "erection" is in there. An alarm rings in my head that says "no, no, that word should not be in a pop song, let alone a beautiful ballad like this!". (I almost wrote that it "sticks out like a sore thumb" there . . .)
Least they got out of the song the word 'masturbate' (according to Literally 29). Thanks God my parents don't know English good enough to understand the lyrics
I have some sympathy with the "tell it how it is" attitude expressed by some posters, but ultimately, try as I might, a part of me hates the lyric and almost tries to blank it out, or pretend it's not obvious.
I think that, once the dust has settled on the new release, the joke will have worn a bit thin.
Love comes quickly, but is a catastrophe and a bourgeois construct etc.
boyjohn wrote:I thoight that only we americans were prudes anymore
It's not about being a prude, it's about having the songs theme pointed out to you in such an obvious way. I prefer the Pet Shop Boys songs where you have to think about the lyrics and can interpret them in several ways.
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CroMagnon wrote:I think that, once the dust has settled on the new release, the joke will have worn a bit thin.
But that's just it... the line ISN'T a joke... it's very serious, at least to Casanova.
As usual, the Petties break our hearts with Casanova's diminished status, a man past his prime, in denial... and then they twist it and pull the rug from under us. Wonderful.
Which, of course, could be a metaphor for many things...
PSB told in some interview they were supposed to release CIH as first single from Fundamental.
