Heartland

AE: "I was living above the chemist (as the Mekons put it)." [---]
"We hooked up with Craig Adams, probably because he lived above the chemist too."

Now my very lame and ignorant question, sorry... (As English is not my native language and I'm not very familiar with the Mekons )

So - does 'living above the chemist' mean 'being on drugs'? (If you are afraid that Interpol - not the band Interpol - could do harm to mr AE, send your reply in private )

DRUGS DRUGS DRUGS DRUGS

Interpol won´t mind anymore, came downstairs a long time ago..

Woo hoo, let's do the war above the chemist

What? I thought he had a little apartment above a chemist shop, going down every morning to collect his post from the small old man who ran the shop, that sort of thing.
I assumed Craig Adams lived in the bedsit opposite or something.

Maisey wrote:What? I thought he had a little apartment above a chemist shop, going down every morning to collect his post from the small old man who ran the shop, that sort of thing.
I assumed Craig Adams lived in the bedsit opposite or something.

I thought that too...

...and when I grew older I thought it meant "living above the drug dealer". Also wrong.

Yeah, a friend of mine thought so too but could never find the chemist's on Village Place.

But in all seriousness, "living above the chemist" isn't a term I'd ever heard until reading the cover notes of SGWBM. An invention of Eldritch's (or the Mekons)

TheBoyNextDoor wrote:

Maisey wrote:What? I thought he had a little apartment above a chemist shop, going down every morning to collect his post from the small old man who ran the shop, that sort of thing.
I assumed Craig Adams lived in the bedsit opposite or something.

I thought that too...

...and when I grew older I thought it meant "living above the drug dealer". Also wrong.

Hehehe that is so funny!

markfiend wrote:But in all seriousness, "living above the chemist" isn't a term I'd ever heard until reading the cover notes of SGWBM. An invention of Eldritch's (or the Mekons)

so - was I right about the drugs reference?
(at first, back in 92, I thought also that AE had lived upstairs of a chemist shop but what does the 'as the Mekons put it' means this case?)

pikkrong wrote:

markfiend wrote:But in all seriousness, "living above the chemist" isn't a term I'd ever heard until reading the cover notes of SGWBM. An invention of Eldritch's (or the Mekons)

so - was I right about the drugs reference?
(at first, back in 92, I thought also that AE had lived upstairs of a chemist shop but what does the 'as the Mekons put it' means this case?)

Yeah, you're right.

the Mekons, they're an arty punk band from Leeds (uni), featuring Jon Langford among others.

pikkrong wrote:

markfiend wrote:But in all seriousness, "living above the chemist" isn't a term I'd ever heard until reading the cover notes of SGWBM. An invention of Eldritch's (or the Mekons)

so - was I right about the drugs reference?
(at first, back in 92, I thought also that AE had lived upstairs of a chemist shop but what does the 'as the Mekons put it' means this case?)

google 'Charlie Cake Park' maybe add lyric: mekons etc...

my oh my...

And you boys thought "You can stand all night
At a red light anywhere in town" is about working in a store for halogen light bulbs, right?

dinky daisy wrote:my oh my...

And you boys thought "You can stand all night
At a red light anywhere in town" is about working in a store for halogen light bulbs, right?

Are you saying it's not so?
My world is tilted for the second time this week then..

paint it black wrote:google 'Charlie Cake Park' maybe add lyric: mekons etc...

You da man

google charlie cake park lyrics

"twenty-five whores in the room next door
twenty-five floors and I need more.."

is about real estate, refugees and the urge to buy a house

dinky daisy wrote:"twenty-five whores in the room next door
twenty-five floors and I need more.."

is about real estate, refugees and the urge to buy a house

It is not about a swinger club in a skyscraper?

markfiend wrote:

paint it black wrote:google 'Charlie Cake Park' maybe add lyric: mekons etc...

You da man

google charlie cake park lyrics

http://www.wacobrothers.com/lyrics/charlie.htm

In a flat above the chemists
Andy and Claire are dressing to kill
But they don't come out till after dark

oo where can we find that song?

EDIT - aha

The Green Lantern wrote: the Mekons, they're an arty punk band from Leeds

I know... to be true - I know only 2 songs of them (from They Shall Not Pass!) LP. Yes, my education is too much Sisters-orientated

markfiend wrote:google charlie cake park lyrics

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I never knew about that till I clickied mark
a prophesy fulfilled...

pikkrong wrote:I know... to be true - I know only 2 songs of them (from They Shall Not Pass!) LP. Yes, my education is too much Sisters-orientated

Wasn't that the Three Johns?

robertzombie wrote:oo where can we find that song?

EDIT - aha

and on that same album there's a little ditty called Prince of Darkness. Could it be about a certain chap we know?! Wel, I guess so:

"He is the Prince of Darkness
He holds old friends in such high esteem
He sees a red town and wants it painted black
For the Catholic girls at Halloween

Well you know he said to me I've waited 7 years
And I am a very patient man
After all those things that we've gone and done
I still need someone to tell

His pleasures were a mistery to us all
You'd never see him out after dawn
In a German sea-port town
He takes coffee in the red-light
And now he is the Prince of Darkness."

radiojamaica wrote:

robertzombie wrote:oo where can we find that song?

EDIT - aha

and on that same album there's a little ditty called Prince of Darkness. Could it be about a certain chap we know?! Wel, I guess so:

"He is the Prince of Darkness
He holds old friends in such high esteem
He sees a red town and wants it painted black
For the Catholic girls at Halloween

Well you know he said to me I've waited 7 years
And I am a very patient man
After all those things that we've gone and done
I still need someone to tell

His pleasures were a mistery to us all
You'd never see him out after dawn
In a German sea-port town
He takes coffee in the red-light
And now he is the Prince of Darkness."

I love the way mysteries get solved/made in this thread

James Blast wrote:

pikkrong wrote:I know... to be true - I know only 2 songs of them (from They Shall Not Pass!) LP. Yes, my education is too much Sisters-orientated

Wasn't that the Three Johns?

there're 3 songs of The Three Johns and 2 of Mekons