Phil explains why Abacab left out
Ixkorr Oxkarr
tried playing Abacab in rehearsals and halfway through the first
verse, he said, "I don't really want to sing this. I don't know what
it's about."
[see middle of article]
Some other funny tidbits in here. When asked what the biggest
difference is between touring in the 1970's and touring now, he said
that when the stage lights tilt and hit the audience, the band gets
blinded by the reflection from all the bald heads in the
audience....BWAHAHA!
Chuck
> According to this short interview with Phil in Rolling Stone, they
> tried playing Abacab in rehearsals and halfway through the first
> verse, he said, "I don't really want to sing this. I don't know what
> it's about."
LOLOL!! Even Phil thinks Abacab sucks! Love it!
CB
jren57
Can he please explain what the fuck "Sussudio" means then!
Mark Rae
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Straight from VH1 Storytellers (1997): "This is one of those examples of
improvising lyrics. You know, sometimes you can use the lyric, other times
you're in big trouble, because what you write doesn't mean anything. So I
set up this drum-machine pad, and I got some chords, and I started to sing
into the microphone, and this word came out, which was "sus-sussudio." It
just literally came out, at the time... that was back when I could dance, so
I kind of knew I had to find something else for that word, then I went back
and tried to find another word that scanned as well as "sussudio," and I
couldn't find one, so I went back to "sussudio." Then I thought OK, let's
give it a meaning, what is it? The lyrics are based on this schoolboy crush
on this girl at school. It's happening with my daughter now, she's 8 years
old and she loves this boy, but she won't tell him, like in the lyrics this
boy loves her but they don't talk about it... how do they know? 'I know she
likes me, I know she likes me, doesn't know my name, doesn't know I exist,
but I know she likes me'... So that's what the song is about, so "sussudio"
became a name for this person, and since it's become a name for a horse. My
older daughter's got a horse called Sussudio, and I'm sure there are
children all over the world with the name Sussudio, so I apologise for
that."
Incidentally, this is the same Storytellers where Phil finally puts to rest
the notion that "In The Air Tonight" was either about his first divorce or
that he had witnessed a man drowning...
brufy
Sussudio, so I apologise for that."
what? LoL!
Godolphin&fellow
> According to this short interview with Phil in Rolling Stone, they
> tried playing Abacab in rehearsals and halfway through the first
> verse, he said, "I don't really want to sing this. I don't know what
> it's about."
I'd long suspected that song didn't mean anything... I could never
figure it out. Collins' comment in the interviews for the box-set...
that the title came from the original order of the song (a,b,c =-ing
verse, chorus and middle), basically confirmed what I'd thought. Seems
it doesn't cohere because it was designed that way.
Chuck
> I'd long suspected that song didn't mean anything... I could never
> figure it out. Collins' comment in the interviews for the box-set...
> that the title came from the original order of the song (a,b,c =-ing
> verse, chorus and middle), basically confirmed what I'd thought. Seems
> it doesn't cohere because it was designed that way.
I remember a radio interview with the trio circa '82ish... a caller
asked what the middle part of 'No Reply At All' meant. "My back is
up... with all the excess"... whatever. None of the three had a clue.
I think the whole "album" in meaningless! lol... In my world,
anyway... also *nonexistent* in my collection.
CB
Bassplayer12
"Chuck" <ShorT...@aol.com> wrote in message
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Er, he said he didn't know what it is about. Didn't say it sucks.
Actually, the Live version is pretty good.
Jim Mason
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Michael A. Clem
> Rock is full of meaningless songs.
>
Exactly. And nonsense lyrics. Since when has this ever been a problem??
brufy
wrote:
> Jim Mason wrote:
> > Rock is full of meaningless songs.
>
> Exactly. And nonsense lyrics. Since when has this ever been a problem??
ain't that the truth!
Chuck
> > Jim Mason wrote:
> > > Rock is full of meaningless songs.
>
> > Exactly. And nonsense lyrics. Since when has this ever been a problem??
Since this thread started
jren57
> Jim Mason wrote:
> > Rock is full of meaningless songs.
>
> Exactly. And nonsense lyrics. Since when has this ever been a problem??
"...semolina pilchard climbing up the Eiffel tower."
The man who wrote that ended up with an airport named after him!
XP-38
Didn't know Robin Hood wrote it!
Steve Turner
> On Sep 1, 8:54?am, Godolphin&fellow <g4...@netscape.net> wrote:
>
> I remember a radio interview with the trio circa '82ish... a caller
> asked what the middle part of 'No Reply At All' meant. "My back is
> up... with all the excess"... whatever.
I do believe it's:
"But my back is up; I'm on my guard, with all the exits sealed"
--
"Here Sarge, let me show you a picture of my wife."
"Ah, she's a bit ugly though, isn't she Sir?"
"Umm, ugly, Sarge?"
"Yes Sir. As in 'not attractive to men' Sir."
To reply, eat the taco.
Probert
"jren57" <jre...@googlemail.com> wrote in message
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Yeah, Ronald Reagan's 'bon mots' at their finest, man.
Cheers,
Probert.
Godolphin&fellow
> On 1 Sep, 23:01, "Michael A. Clem" <macsnafuatintergatedotcom> wrote:
>
> > Jim Mason wrote:
> > > Rock is full of meaningless songs.
>
> > Exactly. And nonsense lyrics. Since when has this ever been a problem??
>
> "...semolina pilchard climbing up the Eiffel tower."
Having never heard of the (rather richly knotted compacted) phrase
'semolina pilchard' to my ears it became 'sitting in a wheelchair'.
Seemed to me those lyrics were all about word-play. Lennon had used
the word sitting 3 times elsewhere in the song. And 'semolina...' is a
similar usage... 'sitting on a cornflake', 'sitting in an English
garden.' Throughout the song words cling-and-clang off one another.
There's probably no other song of his where the lyric's rhythms
dominate in such a manner. I'd come to think that was probably his
main enjoyment in writing those words. A while ago I read the analysis
of the song on wiki... wild and crazy stuff.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_the_Walrus
Proboscis
Hmm. Probably that explains why they left out Sussudio also?
Mark Rae
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> Hmm. Probably that explains why they left out Sussudio also?
That, and the fact that it's not actually a Genesis song...
Scotto of www.tuesdayafternoonshow.com
> According to this short interview with Phil in Rolling Stone, they
> tried playing Abacab in rehearsals and halfway through the first
> verse, he said, "I don't really want to sing this. I don't know what
> it's about."
>
> [see middle of article]
>
>
> Some other funny tidbits in here. When asked what the biggest
> difference is between touring in the 1970's and touring now, he said
> that when the stage lights tilt and hit the audience, the band gets
> blinded by the reflection from all the bald heads in the
> audience....BWAHAHA!
Why does Phil have to be such a twerp. Wasn't the point of ABACAB
that it was an Abstract style? Couldn't he have PUT a new meaning to
the song? Or couldn't they have picked another song from the album?
As much as Chuck hates the album, it could have been one less WCD
track. (OK, they probably would have taken away another oldie, but
damn!) And more importantly, has anyone found out yet about the
omission of Duchess?!??