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Posted: **Mon 05 Jun 2006, 11:25 am**

very moving

Posted: **Mon 05 Jun 2006, 11:58 am**

This song spooks me

Posted: **Mon 05 Jun 2006, 5:35 pm**

CBA wrote:I like the elephant just before Neil starts singing.

Hey! Maybe it's an elephant going 'Bleurgh!'

Posted: **Mon 05 Jun 2006, 5:57 pm**

Too many buns I suspect.

Posted: **Mon 05 Jun 2006, 7:28 pm**

this song reminds me of Neil making fun of Madge in that book PSB vs America. he made fun of her employment of cliches.

hmm... "awkward as an elephant", really, Neil!

Posted: **Tue 08 Aug 2006, 5:02 pm**

sorry to bring this back up but I've been listening to this track a lot lately and Rent found this thread for me. so there's this sound right at the end, AFTER the music dies down. it sounds to me like a child crying (but it's a quickly strangled cry) or maybe a seagull or something? anyone know what I'm talking about? what IS that noise? could it be a chair being pushed back-screetch? *scratches head* it's been driving me batty lately. and what elephant at the beginning? or was that a windup?

'tis a beautiful song though. I'm in luuurve with it atm.

Posted: **Tue 08 Aug 2006, 8:52 pm**

Yeah I spotted it the other night.. Sounds like a baby laughing.

Posted: **Tue 08 Aug 2006, 10:13 pm**

It does, I thought of that sound at the end like a child's squeal or something.

Can't hear a 'blurp' or 'bleurgh' in the intro though

Posted: **Tue 08 Aug 2006, 10:15 pm**

I thought the 'elephant' noise you refer to was a door slamming - just before the vocal starts.
I love this song so much!

Posted: **Wed 09 Aug 2006, 2:37 am**

thanks guys, I feel better. I thought I was hearing things.

wonder what it actually is...

Posted: **Wed 09 Aug 2006, 2:57 pm**

At first listen, the intro made me think that it would be another classic in the vein of "It Couldn't Happen Here"; but alas the song dissolves into an ordinary ballad with lyrics being more interesting than the music.

Indefinite Leave to Remain is still my favourite slow number in the album. It is simply beautiful.

Posted: **Wed 09 Aug 2006, 3:02 pm**

ArseSpanker wrote:Are you sure you aren't confusing it with the 'Bleugh' noises?

I assumed it was Timmy Mallett.

Ah, Timmy Mallet, what an odd little man. He must have been well into his thirties in 1986.

Posted: **Wed 09 Aug 2006, 4:52 pm**

raggatwin wrote: Ah, Timmy Mallet, what an odd little man. He must have been well into his thirties in 1986.

Bet you watched him every day in the school holidays. What was that program after it? Something to do with school kids and projects.

Dave

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