Something For The Weekend is taken from the 1996 album Casanova. iTunes: / casanova-2020-reissue Amazon Store: www.amazon.co.uk/stores/page/... #TheDivineComedy #NeilHannon
I've been to Slovenia several times on caving expeditions. Some of those mountain roads are pretty slippery. Two of the cars I've been travelling in have had problems going around some of those hair-pin bends and we weren't going that fast. On one occasion we were going at less than 20mph in a large 4x4 but we still managed to aquaplane and the only thing that stopped us going over the edge was crashing into a road sign. Bit of a brown trouser moment!
@@ivanleg what a small world it'd be. Strange little coincidences happen all the time. I'm from the midlands myself but made a friend in Nottingham. When I went on holiday to the U.S, we stayed at a hotel with a pool and I heard an English accent, they told me they were from Nottingham and I jokingly asked if they knew the one person I knew from there. They were friends with her sister. 3 years later I was on holiday in Tunisia and on a tour bus to Carthage, the person sitting in front of me turned round and addressed me by name. She was in my year at school but with a totally new image, the face was unmistakable though. Life is strange and wonderful sometimes, no?
Thanks to everyone who voted for *Something For The Weekend* in 6Music's Britpop poll! We made it to number 15 :-) #NeilHannon #TheDivineComedy #BBCBritpop
Never really considered you guys as Britpop. That was 1995/1996 with Blur pretending to be The Small Faces, Oasis pretending to be The Beatles, Elastica & a bunch of cheap knock-offs jumping on the 'Cool Britannia' sound bandwagon for a few years. This is not generic or derivative in any way-just great pop/rock music .
I remember hearing this song back in 1996 on San Francisco modern rock radio. I thought it was a great tune back then, and my friends and I would use "There's something in the woodshed" as a non sequitur during conversations in bars and clubs. Makes me chuckle remembering. I forgot about the song in the years since, but recently Spotify recommended I listen to The Divine Comedy based on my music tastes. The name sounded vaguely familiar but meant nothing to me. I gave the album CASANOVA a spin and "Hey! 'Something for the Weekend'! I remember that song! There's something in the woodshed!" CASANOVA led me to A SHORT ALBUM ABOUT LOVE and ... I'm hooked. I'm sad and frustrated The Divine Comedy doesn't have the audience it deserves in the States, but goddam!, I'm glad I get to feed my ears with the music now. I've got 30 years and 11 albums to catch up on, and it's all a fresh discovery for me. My new favorite is past perfect. Thank you!
Lyrics She said "There's something in the woodshed And I can hear it breathing It's such an eerie feeling, darling" He said "There's nothing in the woodshed It's your imagination End of the conversation, darling" Something in his heart told him to come clean He was not who he claimed to be Something in his genes told him to pretend 'Twas something for the weekend But she said "There's something in the woodshed I know because I saw it I can't simply ignore it, darling" So he said "Now baby, don't be stupid Get this into your sweet head There ain't nothing in the woodshed (except maybe some wood)" Something in his heart told him to come clean He was not who he claimed to be Something in his jeans told him to pretend 'Twas something for the weekend "I'll go all the way with you, if you'll only do the same for me, go and see If it's nothing like you say, then you can have your wicked way with me" He went down to the woodshed They came down hard on his head Gagged and bound and left for dead When he woke she was gone with his car and all of his money
Neil Hannon est la façon dont vous dites en anglais, l’un des écrivains et chanteurs les plus novateurs et originaux. Dire qu’il est un génie n’est pas un euphémisme. J’adore cette piste.
If this was the only song The Divine Comedy ever did I would still like them. I dare you not to sing along to this song. One of the catchiest songs you will ever hear. Thank you Neil Hannon and (in this video only) the incredibly sexy woman he's chasing through Venice.
I lived in an cottage with a woodshed when this came out back in the 90s!! I love this song soooo much, it means so much to me. Thank you Divine Comedy :))
Oh my goodness, the memories...I was a DJ on my little college radio station in the late 90s and I played this song all the time! I literally just listened to it again for the first time in probably close to 18 years...I kind of feel like crying!
I remember seeing The Divine Comedy on Chanel 4 in 1996 when they were showing the legend that was Gay Byrne's Late Late Show. They also did the Father Ted theme. They were great.
I loved music and I still do but I wasn't one for buying albums but I bought the cassnova album. Totally amazing album. Becoming more like Alfie and Charge were excellent.
Wow. I remember over 20 years ago when this won a telephone poll on the Radio One Saturday breakfast show, when Neil and another musician gave a short pitch as to why their record should get their first daytime radio one play. Neil pitched this mostly on the syncopated repetition of "something for the weekend". ❤️❤️❤️
I had this song playing in a dream last night and had to listen! Something about the year of 1996. In fact, the mid-nineties, living thru them was hard and now im nostalgic for those mad, crazy times.
This song could well afford to be re-released. It was on the radio a month ago and it's been on my daily playlist since. In my humble opinion my opinion is the most valid.
I bought the CD Casanova when it was released but I have never seen this video-clip before! Thank you for this upload. This record is still my favourite LP twenty years later... and I've heard a thousand LPs.
