man...the lyrics for "new number order" are really difficult for me to understand. could someone possibly type those up or something?
whoooa mammy!

has anyone got a transcription of 'the idea of north'?

O/T kind of, but does anybody have a recording of the Glenn Gould radio broadcast "the idea of North"? Was it ever available?

Jay

Sorry to drag up an old topic, new here (hello!) just stumbled on this forum while looking for shellac london gig info.

Any way re: Song of the Minerals this I what I can hear at the end...

Nickeline: under ???? gives off garlic fumes
Halite: rock salt tastes salty
Cinnabar: ?????????????????
Dolomite: effervesces slowly if powdered
Hornblende: breaks/makes half wedge shapes
Willemite: turns green with cobalt nitrate
Feldspar: ??????????? stasis? <-not sure
Galena: perfect cubic cleavage

O/T kind of, but does anybody have a recording of the Glenn Gould radio broadcast "the idea of North"? Was it ever available?

CBC archives: http://archives.cbc.ca/IDCC-1-68-320-17 ... enn_gould/


While your @ the CBC, you might as well watch the interview w/ Iggy Pop from 1977 too: http://archives.cbc.ca/IDC-1-68-555-280 ... op_gzowski

I seem to recall a line that said "rock salt tastes salty"

alexdamon wrote:man...the lyrics for "new number order" are really difficult for me to understand. could someone possibly type those up or something?
whoooa mammy!

okay
here's what we're going to do
we all know the numbers, right?
from zero to infinity
whatever
some other number with a mess of zeros behind it
here's what we're going to do
we're going to change the order of these numbers
to make things in-ter-res-ting
okay here we go
one million and one
sixty six
one billion twenty-five seventy-five thousand
one billion six eight something
zero
one million one
twenty-two
seventy-five
eleven
eleven
okay
that's the new order
the new number order

man...the lyrics for "new number order" are really difficult for me to understand. could someone possibly type those up or something?
whoooa mammy!

This fellow's not serious, me thinks. That song/recording probably has the most easily decipherable lyrics in the entire Shellac canon. Pitchfork called it pretentious. Teehee. But I have to say, without the music the lyrics look like a Radiohead outtake.

As this thread is the official site of discussion on Shellac's lyrics, whatta people think of them? Anybody ever find people who take offense to the seemingly misogynist strand in Steve's work? I mean, Rapeman is an offensive name for a band, regardless of the music or lyrics. Everyone knows, is related to, married to, or at least works with someone who's been raped - and, unless you've got connex in the joint, that person's a woman. It's really stupid to trivialize rape for the sake of shock value, and I've gotta say, a close reading of Steve's lyrical output wouldn't put many feminists at ease. What say the Forumees?

LAD wrote:

As this thread is the official site of discussion on Shellac's lyrics, whatta people think of them? Anybody ever find people who take offense to the seemingly misogynist strand in Steve's work?

I think most of the detractors (especially when it comes to the old Big Black era stuff) are misunderstanding the narrative tone of the songs. They assume that the first-person POV is an endorsement of the behavior, when I for one believe that it's a conscious choice to make the point a little more personal. The first-person perspective also keeps the song from becoming preachy, which has always been my main complaint about most "message" songs.

PS> Is there a single female participant on this message board?