Clifford T. Ward "Jayne From Andromeda Spiral"

[beddoes]

This song is so great.

[jakartajive]

If I asked you really politely, Mark, would you change your avatar?

Every time I see it, I imagine you howling in the darkness of your flat . . . overcome by the demon drink and existential angst, listening to impossibly sad songs.

I would personally recommend a bit of a makeover.
This, for example, might suit you:



Pretty please.

[The Divine One]

Pretty please.

Yoink!

[nlgbbbblth]

is it on a 45 or LP?

[pitch]

is it on a 45 or LP?

here you go....

[ROCKPROF]

here you go....

I pressed play and got an orrible casio version.

[nlgbbbblth]

here you go....

cheers Pitch

[The Toad]

I liked Clifford T. He always seemed to craft his lyrics, to work words into them with were out-of-the-everyday; which is what you'd expect from a teacher of English. So often lyrics just seem to be thrown together, with no effort or imagination behind them. It's always a comfort to turn to songs like 'Jayne' and be reassured that there are still songwriters out there whose vocabulary extends to more that a couple of hundred words. Were still songwriters, I mean. RIP.
That said, I'm not sure how closely his record company listened to his lyrics. When I was working in a record shop, back in the Seventies, they packaged up a song called 'Someone I Know' as a Valentine's Day record, complete with a hearts-and-flowers sleeve. But as the song goes on it becomes obvious that the relationship has broken down; the last verse went, "Someone I know is setting you free, someone who should have been happy to be, with someone like you, but he couldn't be true, someone I thought I knew, someone called 'me'." I wonder how many romances were torpedoed by that particular Valentines Day gift...

[emperor tomato ketchup]

have been happy to be, with someone like you, but he couldn't be true, someone i thought i knew, someone called 'me'." i wonder how many romances were torpedoed by that particular valentines day gift...

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[Sie-Fly]

This song is so great.

Ace title - never heard it - should i ?

[beddoes]

Ace title - never heard it - should i ?

Well... only if you like great songs.

And, Hugh --it took me a year to GET an avatar. How I accomplished it is a mystery.

It depresses me, too, the avatar... But I love that man.

[jakartajive]

Well... only if you like great songs.

And, Hugh --it took me a year to GET an avatar. How I accomplished it is a mystery.

It depresses me, too, the avatar... But I love that man.

His facial expression perplexes me.
Is he exasperated?
Or are his eyes simply rolling back into his head?
Is he going into some kind of a trance or conducting an Acte of Magick?
Is he in pain?
Has his fag end burnt down and scorched his fingers?
Is there a flicker of evil pleasure in his eyes?
And the ghost of a smile?
Has his last lightbulb just gone and he's now onto the candles?
Are they scented?
These questions bother me.

[beddoes]

His facial expression perplexes me.
Is he exasperated?
Or are his eyes simply rolling back into his head?
Is he going into some kind of a trance or conducting an Acte of Magick?
Is he in pain?
Has his fag end burnt down and scorched his fingers?
Is there a flicker of evil pleasure in his eyes?
And the ghost of a smile?
Has his last lightbulb just gone and he's now onto the candles?
Are they scented?
These questions bother me.

All that AND he's not sure he's not dead.

[Bud Peyote]

yes he's litten his scented candles, filled up the tub and added some bubbles and bathing oils, and is just about to have a bit of what he calls "me-time".

Hope that helps you Hugh.












Haha "you Hugh" sounds funny.

[Ian Townsend]

This song is so great.

Blimey! Blast from the past. My older brother used to play that constantly. Lovely song, not a million miles away from his hit song 'Gaye'....though technically the Andromeda spiral is further than that.