Re-issues reviews

[Urpal]

Welcome, Jay Aich. It's good to hear from you. I hope no one here has said anything they now regret about your reviews. Good job

You might be right about the lyrics to Crucifixion Speech. As you say, there are no "official" lyrics for the song published anywhere that I know of.

There are some semi-official guesstimates of many of the song lyrics on the main thetriffids.com website. Follow this link:

http://thetriffids.com/sitefiles/lyricsa.shtml

The history of how the "non-staple" songs came to be compiled on there develops on this thread of the forum:

http://thetriffids.com/forum/index.php?topic=571.0

It makes quite interesting reading, as a number of songs are transcribed on there which have yet to receive any release anywhere outside a few of Dave's close friends and relations' stereos.


Although there is no definitive answer, Graham Lee's contribution on the past discussion favours the toin' rather than the doin'

http://thetriffids.com/forum/index.php?topic=571.msg8220#msg8220

I still favour "whose favour" over "these favours", but I'm a pedantic bastard....rarely willing, but always able, to be mistaken

[Bro]

The page quoted above has nothing to do with the Triffids (in so far as it is possible that there is something that has nothing to do with the Triffids, I add).

That's very good, I liked that. 

[glee]

I'm of the opinion that it is definitely "whose favours I'm to win".

[jay aich]

I'm of the opinion that it is definitely "whose favours I'm to win".

well, you certainly have inside knowledge and i would not want to argue with you, but then i don't understand the grammar - what is the antecedent for whose? (i stay awake worrying about these sorts of things ... )
Also, if the narrator is winning favours, then i really don't understand the title (unless he is comparing himself to Christ). But then that would be hubris in a song that is clearly about sacrifice, so that does not seem to work either.
Anyway, a brilliant song, and i love your guitar work on that track - so evocative, opening huge spaces as always.

[Mark_from_Perth]

A review of the latest re-issues in local street press this week.

http://www.box.net/shared/f0vzbk2m8c

[Miss Haversham]

I remember when the song was written and it's ' whose favours I'm to win' . The other lyric doesn't make much sense
for a start and  both Graham and I have had to sing back ups
to it. I don't know where the other lyric came from but Dave
was not above forgetting the words on occaision. Like Ringo's
version of "It don't come easy' from The Concert for Bangladesh:
" Nah nah nah nah growing all the time and you know it dont come easy."
Mistaken lyrics can be a fun parlour game. Dave thought for
years that the opening line of 'You can't always get what you want' was " Well I was so Portuguese at the reception" and I
still am not certain if there is a line in Lily, Rosemary & the Jack
of Hearts: " Rosemary combed her hair and took a cabbage into town." I know carriage makes more sense. Also in Lou Reed's own book of collected lyrics it quotes from 'She's my best friend' : "Here's to Mulberry Jane, she met Jim when she came' rather than 'she made jam when she came.'

[Miss Haversham]

The Triffids ' cousins of Lloyd Cole!' If you really wanted to disgust David to his core then that would do the trick. Nausea
in heaven!