"King Midas in Reverse" is one of the most braindead songs I've ever heard

Excellent pop song. "Storm in a Teacup" that is, not "Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep".

 

I keep watching that clip tho' - Sally Carr in her hotpants somehow makes it worth the torture of the song - 'Chirp' !

 

I know right! Like when Dylan sang "You Ain't Going Nowhere", which is a double negative, A DOUBLE NEGATIVE! So the whole song doesn't make no sense. These lyricists I tells ya.

 

You were lucky. We had to put up with this. Thank-you so much.

 

Sorry, I keep getting distracted by drummer's combover.

 

Astonishingly, at the time there were no fewer than THREE versions of Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep on the airwaves at one time. As if one were not more than enough.

 

Well actually, I started that thread and I also think lyrics are very key to defining the essential nature of an artist, in fact I’ve argued that point many times in this forum before. I hate it when people say lyrics are unimportant.

However I made sure to qualify my post by acknowledging the difference between the Hollies and Smiths lyrics in the intro to my post, as I was making the point that they arguably had several things in common worth discussing outwith lyrical outlook. Please don’t use this one instance to lump me in with the ‘lyrics aint sheet’ brigade as I’m very much not one of them!!!!

 

Our house
Is a very very very fine house
With two cats in the yard

Doesn't Nash understand that if you let cats out, they aren't going to stay in your yard? They roam. Dog might stay in your yard (if you have a fence). But cats will not.

Ruins the song for me.

 

10/10 sir!

 

She lived an amazing life. There's a huge Wikipedia entry. She lived with (and wrote songs with I think I read) James Coburn in the early 1980s. I remember her from UK TV in the 1970s but was surprised about how much she did when I researched her relatively recently.

 

"She wrote the song "Sugar Me" for Peter Noone, but her boyfriend at the time, Dudley Moore, suggested that she should take a demo version to Gordon Mills, who urged her to record it herself"

 

All the Americans on this forum are going.....WHO?......WHAT?......HOLLIES?

 

Ah, but the cats will generally come back. Nash at no point says that they stay in the yard the whole time. For that matter, the song says nothing about a fence or lack thereof, so they may well be fenced in for all you know. Before you object, there are people in this country who keep cats and have a cat enclosure in their yard, to stop the cats from roaming, getting hurt or killed, and to stop them from killing wildlife. Cat enclosures are quite popular in Canberra, I believe.

 

"There's one thing I don't understand. The thing I don't understand is every [mf-in'] word you're saying." DEA Agent (Bill Duke)

 

He's a real dog himself, so he doesn"t understand cats.

 

Nobody understands cats. And that's the way cats like it.

 

A talented woman. She wrote many hits for other people. I had a boyish crush on her at the time of Storm in a Teacup. Luckily, I didn't know about James Coburn.

 

Maybe they're not his. Cats like to visit neighbours.

 

...but there was worse than Donny Osmond. He had a little brother called Jimmy.

Don't worry, I am NOT going to search for and post the clip.

 

it just keeps getting worse

 

Lovely.

 

True, but I couldn't use him as an example, because I think his hit single may have been written by a British person.

 

Or maybe they are statues of cats. Those will stay in the yard. Unless someone steals them.

 

Great post by Billo, but, at the risk of being a trainspotter, the lack of success of the album Butterfly couldn't have influenced Nash's sense of unease in writing Midas, which was released in September 1967; Butterfly didn't come out until late the following November. You could clearly sense on the album the ever increasing creative distance between Graham and the others; if you don't believe me, just play Charlie and Fred, and follow it with Try It and Elevated Observations. I saw the Hollies perform in support of the record at the end of the year, and the distance between Nash and the others onstage was also evident. Too bad they couldn't patch up their differences; IMO, his harmonies with Clark and Hicks were never bettered by those with the California ego boys. Wasted on the way. Plus, Joni eventually broke his fickle little heart.