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Siobhan
Posted by Paddy O on May 16, 2013 at 17:03 0 Comments 0 Likes
Dear Edwyn and Grace,
Please take Siobhan under your AED wings
http://siobhanwilson.bandcamp.com/
Thanks
Yours sincerely,
Paddy
Bass players
Posted by Paddy O on May 8, 2013 at 0:02 0 Comments 0 Likes
Tha Fall O2 Glasgow
Posted by Paddy O on May 7, 2013 at 23:21 0 Comments 0 Likes
What a band! Mark E was ok too
Check
Posted by Paddy O on May 1, 2013 at 0:37 0 Comments 0 Likes
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Belfast gig
Started by Sam Hastings in General Discussion on Monday. 0 Replies 0 Likes
What a blast on Friday night in Belfast. Low Expectations was very moving.Congrats on the new album. I dont know how you keep coming up with the goods?? Genius I suppose.Keep on burning Edwyn!! Continue
Archived Footage!
Started by Gregory William French in General Discussion. Last reply by Gregory William French on Monday. 25 Replies 0 Likes
Hey folks! my name is Greg, and being 17 I am probably the youngest Edwyn Collins/OJ fan around! People my age generally don't have a clue how much influence their music has had on the current indie…Continue
Still trying to.......
Started by Lesley Lee in Songs & Tabs. Last reply by Grace Maxwell May 4. 1 Reply 0 Likes
Absolutely love "You'll never know" but am unable to find out who sings on the track with Edwyn, it's been driving me mad.....can someone please put me out of my misery??????Continue
TWO TICKETS I CAN'T USE FOR UNION CHAPEL
Started by Lindo in General Discussion Apr 24. 0 Replies 0 Likes
I have a pair I can't use that I bought through Seatwave under the name L IRVINE. I can't get tickets to Chapel and I don't need money. The say they can't transfer, but presumably that at least means…Continue
"I heard the blue boy"
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Permalink Reply by Edwyn Collins on -
When he spoke she smiled in all the right places
In her smile he saw the poison she tasted
She wasn't listening to the sweet words
He wasn't listening to her lying tongue
He was listening to the words being sung
By the blue boy
Friends told him of her young heart's passion
Down by the sea where the blue waves crashing
She wasn't listening to the sweet words
He wasn't listening to her lying tongue
He was listening to the words being sung
By the blue boy
Oh curse and bless him with the gabardine which surrounds him
See him writhe at the sight of your eyes which repel him
Whoa whoa whoa whoa
She won't be listening to your sweet words
He won't be listening to your lying tongue
He'll be listening to the words being sung
By the blue boy
Whoa whoa blue boy
Whoa whoa blue boy
Whoa whoa blue boy
Cheerio, blue boy
That's them, ignore all other versions!
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Permalink Reply by Robert_S on -
Edwyn? Are you sure? On listening to the original recording, it sounds, perhaps, like the words being sung are as follows (changed lines italicised):
When he spoke she smiled in all the right places
In her smile he saw the poison she'd tasted
He wasn't listening to her sweet words
He wasn't listening to her lying tongue
He was listening to the words being sung
By the blue boy
Friends told him of her young heart's passion
Down by the sea where the blue waves crashing
He wasn't listening to her sweet words
He wasn't listening to her lying tongue
He was listening to the words being sung
By the blue boy
Oh curse and bless him with the gabardine which surrounds him
See him writhe at the sight of your eyes which repel
Whoa whoa whoa whoa
He won't be listening to your sweet words
He won't be listening to your lying tongue
He'll be listening to the words being sung
By the blue boy
Whoa whoa blue boy
Whoa whoa blue boy
Whoa whoa blue boy
Cheerio, blue boy
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Permalink Reply by Sheila Uscier on -
Oh, my gosh- I've been looking all over the internet for these lyrics. Thanks so much for posting them!
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Permalink Reply by dermot on -
Well , there great lyrics and dosent the intro sound like the start of "Bonanza" .......".down by the sea where the blue waves crash in" pure class, cheerio!
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Permalink Reply by Grace Maxwell on -
Correct..crash in and not crashing...my mistake.
Oooh it's hard this. And Edwyn's aphasia doesn't hep. If asked now he says "something like that!"
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Permalink Reply by Robert_S on
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Hi Grace, where do you stand on the question of He/She?
I think that the 's' sound at the beginning of the third line may be a near silent contraction of because (or as), or even a sibilant artefact of the recording process. Or perhaps he does sing 'She' in the first chorus?
Having viewed the various online clips of Edwyn performing the song, it certainly sounds (to me) like he's singing 'He'. I do hope so, as I prefer to think of the song as relating to a moment of teenage-angst-abating Catcher in the Rye style clarity, (prompted by witnessing Pete Shelley performing live), rather than, well—if the chorus is 'She' throughout—an ode to a bickering couple who go first to a concert, then to the beach . . . or am I having a Hamish The Tangerine Man moment?
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Permalink Reply by dermot on
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thanks! Edwyn, " we all know pop is shite and the only artiste worth mentioning is Philip Glass " thanks again man
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Permalink Reply by Grace Maxwell on
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He had a good chortle at this Dermot. Remembered it well....
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