The Words of Mark E. Smith

[Corpsey]

A Man down South, he did go out and he did kill fifteen
What the papers could not grasp or work out, was his life
in a Flea brain;

 

[Corpsey]

This really reminds me of "Greenwich" by Luke Davies

 

[Corpsey]

With the balding man
You went to the Netherlands

 

[Corpsey]

It's a really powerful stance, being a smirking pisstaker of absolutely everything, and nobody can really tell what you mean or if you're being serious

John Lydon had a sort of similar thing going on

 

[Corpsey]

And luka now i think about it

 

[Corpsey]

i suppose you'd describe this as 'the smart arse'

 

[Corpsey]

i think i have or had the mental faculties to be a smart arse but i'm too conciliatory, too non-confrontational and anxious, i need to be loved or i feel like i'm about to be shot

 

[Corpsey]

I was listening to "victoria" and that one about the north yesterday and it seems to me that they both sounded a lot like The Clash (London calling era)

 

[Benny Bunter]

Detective instinct

The man at the bar had a v-neck vest on
No, it was a v-neck waistcoat
Accurate

Detective instinct
That's detective instinct
Always got it

 

[woops]

found it quite interesting to compare our selection with those made by this pitchfork man

Rebellious mistakes occur again, everything moving in a circular fashion (“Hotel Bloedel”)

People only need me when they’re down and gone to seed (“Hip Priest”)

We are frigid stars (“Crap Rap/Like 2 Blow”)

Who is not irascible, he is no genius (“A Figure Walks”)

Strife is life, and that’s it, and that’s it (“Hexen Definitive/Strife Knot”)

 

[kid charlemagne]

 

[IdleRich]

I was listening to "victoria" and that one about the north yesterday and it seems to me that they both sounded a lot like The Clash (London calling era)

Victoria was written a long time before The Clash existed though.

 

[blissblogger]

Things that were 'out' according to Mark E. Smith in 1987:

• Brown bread with bits in
• All Sunday papers
• Mature guys with pony tails
• Scotch pop groups featuring pseudo intellectuals
• All fruit juice
• British science fiction
• Rock on television
• France (permanent)

Not the complete list

Some self-explanatory but other entries need annotation

I like the irrevocable nature of the anti-France edict - nothing they could ever do to redeem themselves

 

[blissblogger]

Things that were 'in' according to Mark E. Smith in 1987:

• Sliced white bread with additives
• Mancunian rap groups
• Saul Bellow
• Boer War
• Homebrew
• South London
• Woody Woodpecker
• The Mothers of Invention

Not the complete list

Some self-explanatory but other entries definitely need annotation (were there Mancunian rap groups in 1987?)

Quite a few surprises - the Zappa love, Saul Bellow, South London

 

[bassbeyondreason]

Some self-explanatory but other entries definitely need annotation (were there Mancunian rap groups in 1987?)

 

[Corpsey]

Things that were 'in' according to Mark E. Smith in 1987:

• Sliced white bread with additives
• Mancunian rap groups
• Saul Bellow
• Boer War
• Homebrew
• South London
• Woody Woodpecker
• The Mothers of Invention

Not the complete list

Some self-explanatory but other entries definitely need annotation (were there Mancunian rap groups in 1987?)

Quite a few surprises - the Zappa love, Saul Bellow, South London

Luka must be raging about this list

 

[blissblogger]

 

[version]

Stop eating all that chocolate, eat salad instead
In fact, you're a halfwit from somewhere or other
Why don't you bog off back to Xanadu in Ireland

 

[version]

His veins are full of evil serum

 

[version]

Helen Duncan was accused of being a fraudulent medium
They burst into a seance over in Portsmouth, over a chemists' shop
A length of ectoplasm or a suit of cheesecloth was grabbed but it got away
The Witchcraft Act 1735 was used to give her nine months' gaol
The vibrations will live on