I think I got some of its lyrics figured out. But I also wonder, what does he mean by "spelled sell" in this case? I kind of figured, he is a deranged man in a position of power, and he is selling his image smartly and also in a sense placing people under his "spell", right?
I haven't a clue what any of it might mean really, or what percentage of accuracy these ones represent. The slightest alteration to a word here or there could drastically change the meaning anyway. 'Lesson one, four letter word, one who speaks, words work for you' could be someone who makes money from their words, either verbal or written, a writer, author, orator perhaps, especially if the 4 letter word is actually 'sell'.
@@wirewehear7254 No worries, I wondered that for 20 years and so far no lyrics to this track could be found online anywhere. It doesn't help also that most versions of "The Crackdown" album had it confused with "Moscow". But yeah, you could for one clearly hear "spelled sell" in the lyrics including at the end "its called spelled sell" and I wonder what it might mean or from where they wrote those lyrics?
I lie helpless, wake up, still sleep, still sinking Weeks go, tropes, back signs Only when, wake up, reflections Time to kill takes a piece of silver Like a big chance to change Words, repose too, set the buildings Lesson one, four letter word, one who speaks, words work for you No more noise and set shooting Little taste his brothers ah (?) Action, motion, speaks so badly Yourself won't break ah Things make back hard Its a sting, feels lost Spelled S.E.L.L. A sell A sell A sell A sell A sell A sell A sell A sell A sell A sell A sell Oh semantics oh words won't satisfy them Held in only time holds them Water Water behind the head bald still sinking Words, wake up, assets, tryst for action Falling, kneeling, these following extra pieces Swakes so badly, head in hair comes soon, times two, plot Lie open spring still sleep still sink weeks go tropes back signs Where it leads, where it - reflections Time to kill takes piece of silver Change roams A four letter word, to speak words work for you No noise and set shooting Feels like spelled sell, spelled sell, spelled sell Sell won't break, it glances It will end or, still sinking, assets, lost, lost Spelled sell spelled sell spelled sell spelled sell Its called spelled sell.
Yeah it's a bit of a hidden away rarity. I'm not too sure of the chronology, but their 1985 resurgence lasted until 1991 or '92, just after the very modest at best 'The First Letter' LP. This song was recorded at Orf Vienna 7 > 9 Feb 1993 (altho' it wasn't released til 1997). So it would appear that this originated from right at the very end of Wire Phase 2. Like the LP of the same name it was released under the Wir moniker, Robert having left due to their penchant for artificial percussion at this time, but it's nothing like the LP, this being a hundred times better (notwithstanding there was a long intro of vague random sounds as I recall that I left off).
@@wirewehear7254 Ah! Well, thx! I still skipped a bit. Had the CD back then, must say I enjoyed the slighty quieter approach to the sozns-wise sometimes overachieving Manscape - of which I had bought the vinyl first and then the CD because I wanted to hear all they had to say back then. Extra tracks. This piece here really sounds quite end of the line, I think. Reuters X IBTABA, reminded me of some criticism of The The's Sweet Bird Of Truth production overkill, too. ABIAC thus probably remains their most elegant solution to the 80s sound problem. Must say I like the attempt towards the 90s on TFL, though it didn't work out for them. They never tried sth like this again.
@@c.i.z.recordings8325 I wish they'd done more that sounded like this, it's got plenty of vim & fire that I find a bit lacking post - 'Send'. Personally I really like 'Manscape' now, tho' I confess it took me some time to really come round to it.
Thankyou. I've done the same thing for all The Ants' stuff & loads of Adam solo in case you wanted to give any others a look.. Anyway, glad you enjoyed this one.
Well young 'un, back in the olden golden days, when everything was powered by gas & hydro, we had these discs of plastic called gramophone records & one had to stick a needle into the bugger in order to extract the music from it. Now these discs, you see, could be acquired in different sizes, or formats, with music available on each side of the disc, but you had to actually get up & turn the darn thing over with human hands in order to access the music on the other side of the little rascal. Anyways, the smallest ones came in a circumference not exceeding 7 inches, or 7". Now these little chaps would come with a main song, you see, known as the A-Side, that they hoped would be played on the radiogram to public people, and invariably they would also have a second song on what was sometimes known as the flipside that you weren't meant to play, you see, there were stiff penalties in place for anyone caught playing these 'flipsides', more formally known as the B-Side, or 7" B. Of course The Boer War came along and put an end to all that, but for some of us, that was our youth. Yours sincerely wirewehear esq.
I clicked on this, basically because I'm besotted with Diane. (her wit and intelligence.. nothing simpish) Then I listened, and as is usual with good, intelligent humour based on real events. There's the truth just under the surface of "laughs". I'm not really an intelligent man, prone to looking too deep maybe, and I'm not completely on top of the nuances of world events, but, for example the despair, the hopelessness of genuine refugees tears at me. The corruption of that for their own gains by others (refugee based and those already "secure") just kills me. Confuses me to the point Io just don't know what's "right". The true skill of a comedian is to make you laugh, AND to make you think about the bigger picture, the real event, and in this Diane is a genius. Makes me laugh and cry in the same breath. And those eyes.. my gods those eyes.... OK, I may be a bit of a simp ;-)
Subtitle/Lyric file now added to the upload. For anyone that doesn't know, just click/unclick the text icon 5th from the right at the bottom of the video to select/de-select the lyrics.
There is an anecdote that while observing the London skyline, the then prince Charles remarked, "You really have to hand it to the Luftwaffe. When they bombed London they didn't replace it with anything more offensive than rubble."
I would agree with both comments. Funnily enough there was another, possibly American, band with the same moniker operating at the same time I think...
