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What does FALAA mean?
Posted: 03 Feb 2008, 12:55
by AlistairCookie
Wayne told me and some friends outside of Hammerjacks in Baltimore in 1987...wondering if his answer was common knowledge or not...or if it was just a horsepoop...or if there were other ideas.
Posted: 03 Feb 2008, 13:04
by mh
Loads of guesses. I'd assumed that it was at least partially a reference on Von's part to his "I knew it wasn't going to last" thing, so it was both their first LP and their last LP. Doesn't explain the "Always" though.
Posted: 03 Feb 2008, 13:28
by Dark
I thought it just sounded like a pretty cool name for an album. Everlasting, and all?
Re: What does FALAA mean?
Posted: 03 Feb 2008, 16:51
by Silver_Owl
AlistairCookie wrote:Wayne told me and some friends outside of Hammerjacks in Baltimore in 1987...wondering if his answer was common knowledge or not...or if it was just a horsepoop...or if there were other ideas.
Come on then. Put us out of our misery.
Posted: 03 Feb 2008, 16:52
by TheBoyNextDoor
mh wrote: Doesn't explain the "Always" though.
They are still here in sense aren't they?
Posted: 03 Feb 2008, 16:59
by Silver_Owl
TheBoyNextDoor wrote:mh wrote: Doesn't explain the "Always" though.
They are still here in sense aren't they?
Or at least
he is.
Posted: 03 Feb 2008, 17:01
by lachert
falaa refers to god obviously
Posted: 03 Feb 2008, 19:18
by Bartek
lachert wrote:falaa refers to god obviously
never thought like that about it.
Posted: 03 Feb 2008, 19:53
by AlistairCookie
sorry, didn't mean for it to be a "I know and you don't" moment...didn't realize I left the answer out.
"True Love" was the answer that Wayne gave
Posted: 03 Feb 2008, 19:54
by Silver_Owl
AlistairCookie wrote:sorry, didn't mean for it to be a "I know and you don't" moment...
"True Love" was the answer that Wayne gave
Is that it?
I was expecting a lengthy diabtribe detailing Von's innermost thoughts.
And don't worry - Almost any comment gets that kind of response.
And welcome by the way....
Posted: 03 Feb 2008, 19:57
by paint it black
Bartek wrote:lachert wrote:falaa refers to god obviously
never thought like that about it.
the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End
etc...see also: everlasting love
Posted: 03 Feb 2008, 21:03
by Bartek
now it's obvious. but to be frank i've never tried to figured out what dose it mean - or could mean.
Posted: 03 Feb 2008, 22:53
by stufarq
The album is named after the song, which is fairly clearly a love song - first, last and always you're mine ie we're forever. Always seemed pretty straightforward to me.
Posted: 04 Feb 2008, 02:54
by AlistairCookie
The album is named for the song????
Really.
Posted: 04 Feb 2008, 08:53
by Dark
Well, why wouldn't it be? Title tracks are hardly a rare thing.
Posted: 04 Feb 2008, 16:50
by lachert
red skies disappear dosn't sound good as album title, so they changed words and all the human love goes away to marian and then we have falaa about love to the supreme eternal being. i tell you
Posted: 04 Feb 2008, 17:12
by paint it black
lachert wrote:red skies disappear dosn't sound good as album title, so they changed words and all the human love goes away to marian and then we have falaa about love to the supreme eternal being. i tell you
I don't know about Red Skies Disappear. I'm told it's like a bootleg song, but I've never written well, as far as I know a song with that title. So you would have to discount that one.
Plus it’d be a s**t acronym
Posted: 04 Feb 2008, 20:55
by BillyBadBreaks
paint it black wrote:
Plus it’d be a s**t acronym
A pity they didn't go with Some Hits In Time
PS I love the record really
Posted: 10 Feb 2008, 20:20
by eastmidswhizzkid
Dark wrote:Well, why wouldn't it be? Title tracks are hardly a rare thing.
very true; however apart from black sabbath i cant think of another eponymous album title track.
oh yeah, and motorhead.
Posted: 10 Feb 2008, 21:15
by Dark
My Vision Thing comes slamming through...
Posted: 10 Feb 2008, 22:21
by eastmidswhizzkid
no, you misunderstand me.i know zillions of album title-tracks...but
eponymously titled albums have the same name as the band. hence: black sabbath is track one on the album black sabbath by the band black sabbath.
Posted: 10 Feb 2008, 22:35
by Dark
Ah right. Hm, you have a point there.
Posted: 10 Feb 2008, 22:45
by James Blast
Eponymous by REM?
and while I'm at it "sophmore" is another banned word here
Posted: 11 Feb 2008, 03:30
by 6FeetOver
That's sophomore, Mistah Blast.
Posted: 11 Feb 2008, 04:22
by 6FeetOver
eastmidswhizzkid wrote:Dark wrote:Well, why wouldn't it be? Title tracks are hardly a rare thing.
very true; however apart from black sabbath i cant think of another eponymous album title track.
oh yeah, and motorhead.
...and Icehouse...Public Image Ltd. ("Public Image")...Art of Noise ("Who's Afraid (of The Art Of Noise)?")...