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Bing Eldritch
Posted: 24 Oct 2004, 19:24
by Lars Svensson
The following interesting factule may already be well-known to those in the know, but I just had a 'now fancy that!' moment while listening to the radio...
For some reason they just played a bit of Bing Crosby's Brother, Can You Spare A Dime...
They words run thus:
"Once I built a railroad
I made it run
Made it race against time.
Once I built a railroad
Now it's done
Brother, can you spare a dime?"
As I say: Now fancy that!!!!
Another piece of the Lucretia jigsaw falls into place. Sort of...
Posted: 24 Oct 2004, 19:28
by Quiff Boy
beautiful!
stylistically it fits in with the bob dylan references in "dominion" too
well found
Posted: 24 Oct 2004, 19:50
by Lars Svensson
Not me...the lovely BBC radio four..!!!
Amazing what you can discover...
Posted: 24 Oct 2004, 21:16
by James Blast
Radio 4 is Boss!
standby for something that 'Fades Out' Lars
Posted: 25 Oct 2004, 00:11
by Lars Svensson
James Blast wrote:standby for something that 'Fades Out' Lars
Tee hee! ta Mr B!
Posted: 25 Oct 2004, 11:11
by boudicca
"I was studying at Oxford, then I got hijacked by ....... Bing Crosby."
Posted: 25 Oct 2004, 12:11
by Red_Kola
Everybody here has
seen 1959 and All That, right?
It's a
treasuary.
Just checking. Move along now...
Posted: 25 Oct 2004, 13:03
by MrChris
Aha, they got there first again. Well, they never update, so we keep trying...
Posted: 25 Oct 2004, 13:24
by Quiff Boy
Red_Kola wrote:Everybody here has
seen 1959 and All That, right?
It's a
treasuary.
Just checking. Move along now...
yeah but a lot of what they suggest is such ar£e
they're guilty of some real 6th form analysis and rarely come up with conclusion that anything he writes is coincidence or accident - they analise things to death
anyone care to tell me about the 52 daughters?
Posted: 25 Oct 2004, 13:35
by Loki
Quiff Boy wrote: anyone care to tell me about the 52 daughters?
Simply a passing of time. 52? 52 weeks in a year. Daugther? Female off-spring of Old Father Time. Revolution? From new year to year end. A passing of time.
Posted: 25 Oct 2004, 14:05
by Black Biscuit
Just when I began thinking that the "1959 and all that" webmaster must have too much spare time on his hands (and this is not an oblique reference to any historic, tragic figure with blood on his hands) I notice how sparse the 1959 website's overall content is. Fill in the blanks, please webmaster (and this is not an oblique reference to Russian roulette). Thanks!
Posted: 25 Oct 2004, 14:09
by Lars Svensson
Posted: 25 Oct 2004, 14:37
by claws
I have always thought that Eldritch's lyrics have been over analyzed. After all, much of his lyrics are inspired (stolen) from other lyrics and poems.
Posted: 25 Oct 2004, 15:42
by MrChris
Well, that's true, but the official story is that these thefts act as hyperlinks to whole new layers of meaning, and show that the meaning is wider and deeper than we thought. They set up resonances for those who can identify them, that tell us something more. At least, that's what Von's PR told me.
Posted: 26 Oct 2004, 19:18
by Black Shuck
MrChris wrote:Well, that's true, but the official story is that these thefts act as hyperlinks to whole new layers of meaning, and show that the meaning is wider and deeper than we thought. They set up resonances for those who can identify them, that tell us something more. At least, that's what Von's PR told me.
Or perhaps Mr. goth simply chose deliberately arcane lyrics to make himself sound all deep and intellectual.
Bet he never realised, though, that two decades later, people would still be sleuthing about trying to decipher every last line of his songs.
Posted: 26 Oct 2004, 19:41
by paint it black
Red_Kola wrote:Everybody here has
seen 1959 and All That, right?
It's a
treasuary.
Just checking. Move along now...
your avatar
i just keep thinking floodland, or am i being slow with the joke again
Posted: 26 Oct 2004, 20:18
by Quiff Boy
paint it black wrote:Red_Kola wrote:Everybody here has
seen 1959 and All That, right?
It's a
treasuary.
Just checking. Move along now...
your avatar
i just keep thinking floodland, or am i being slow with the joke again
OMG! just realised
deserves a
even i it was unintentional
Posted: 26 Oct 2004, 22:25
by Red_Kola
Quiff Boy wrote:
deserves a
even i it was unintentional
I haven't had the time to do it properly yet, but the minute I saw the original picture...
All I have done is a wee bit of editing to the sky and mirrored it so the fat one is on the left. There is a lot more still to do...
Posted: 26 Oct 2004, 22:29
by Hojyuu-obi
Is Patricia hatching an egg ?
Posted: 26 Oct 2004, 23:05
by Shadow_Smile
did any record this ? I would like to listen to it !
Posted: 27 Oct 2004, 16:02
by boudicca
