Hi Vi, and all ...
In message dated 15/09/99 23:08 (GMT) Violeta Balhas wrote:
>Not having heard nor read lyrics to JTH, what's it about? I remember
>reading on MIS a little while ago about the lyrics needing to be made more
>PC
>before it was released as a single. Why?
Here's a section taken from an interview on the official Madness web site
where Carl explains about the meaning of the song. The full interview is at:
http://www.madness.co.uk/interview/index.html
"It's a sort of generic term, you get down and outs with nicknames. There
was a couple of guys who used to drink down the end of my road, there's an
old fire station and they used to sit on the wall and drink cheap booze and
stuff and I'd stop and chat with them and they'd offer me the drink, which
I'd turn down. One day one of them who was there was crying because his
mate had been kicked to death in a derelict house. And there was another
article I read in the Independent about this guy who was taken into
casualty by a policewoman and checked himself out and died on a bench... So
it was that sort of thing, about the sort of people who aren't really
missed by society, like down and outs... but they can have a life, you
never know what their pasts were... I talked to one dosser outside the Cube
Bar in Swiss Cottage and he used to work for someone like the Saatchis, he
was in advertising and now he's sitting there begging. And it's funny how
people's lives can unravel y'know. So that's what it's about. Who remembers
them, they've had a life and then sort of fall between the cracks."
For now,
Kev.
-
Visit the Total Madness Mailing List website for:
The Nutty Times, sub/unsub info, news, ICQ info, games, charter, etc.
http://members.xoom.com/totalmadmail/
Contact the TMML Moderators at: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
and in the message body put:
unsubscribe total-madness <your e-mail address>
