However you can tell we were grasping for something vaguely resembling a meaningful lyric which was totally against how we usually wrote. I’m just not sure how I lost sight of my exotic boast of our lyrics being an “action painting of 200 television channels“. The lyrics of the first album never made sense, but just sounded brilliant when you heard them, like a glorious stream of consciousness with a neon pink glow. They always looked great written down or scrawled on a T-Shirt because they painted such colourful visions in the listeners head. It was so hard to recapture that vision on the “difficult” second album and the cliche is right. The first album was so pure, so focused, the songs all so brilliantly similar, that it was an elegant minimalist masterpiece even though I say so myself. Critics might say that it is in fact ludicrously similar and all the tracks sound the same because we had no other ideas. How wrong they were. I’m sticking with genius of clarity myself. The songs were like a stripped down rock and roll racing car. And I cannot tell you how difficult it was to come up with another set of songs in the same vein! We were trapped by our own genius tunnel vision. How to progress but not lose the simplistic essence of the early material? To ponder this dilemma with more insight we would go to the Spanish wine merchants shop across the road and buy bottles of San Miguel beers for lunch, secure in the knowledge that another day of inspiration would surely come.
Deg came in later but nothing clicked and we didn’t come up with any more lyrics or ideas although the “I’ll be your Hoover Groover Baby” line was surely one of his catch phrases. I wonder what that was about? As far as I recall there is no version or recording with Degs vocals on it so this recording languished with its Neal X guide vocal conjuring up what might be. We kept coming back to it, but for some reason back then we just could not find a way to finish it and so the cassette stayed in the box. Shame, a great track and what fun this might have been to play live.
