Heartland

Not my strongest subject, interpreting lyrics, and this has probably been said many times before, but my hearing aids playing up. Could the idiot children be a reference to fans of Iggy Pop's The Idiot?

As the song is widely supposed to be about The Phono, what we need is someone to tell us whether much Iggy used to be played in there back in Von's time.

They were definitely playing The Passenger & Lust For Life there in '83.

Crumbs, they were still playing The Passenger in '91!

Probably still playing it these days

markfiend wrote:Crumbs, they were still playing The Passenger in '91!

Probably still playing it these days

Not last Saturday. At least not during the two minutes it took me to realise that as well as looking old and out of place, I now actually felt old and out of place. Full of kids who looked like they'd just come straight from Otley skateboard park. Runaway!

Ye-e-e-es. As I recall, it did seem a little youth-club-esque last time I went. Although there were still a few old familiar faces propping up the bar.

Pipe and slippers corner, eh, Thrash?

I can't remember if this comes up on 1959 and all that, but 'I sing the body electric' is a line from a Walt Whitman poem. See, it's not all TS Eliot, you know!

MrChris wrote:I can't remember if this comes up on 1959 and all that, but 'I sing the body electric' is a line from a Walt Whitman poem.

There's certainly a reference to Whitman on there, cos I remember following a link when my interest was re-awakened a few years ago. Sisters lyrics. Never new there was so much to 'em. Never wanted to know before but since The Smurphs have got me dancing in a dungeon in Dodge, Dan's got me comparing early live performances and I've discovered I used to look like Ben Gunn, I may as well just hold my hands up and surrender now.

Be gentle with me, please.

It's also a Weather Report (one for all you jazz buffs out there) album