English Rose

[Bent Fabric]

I suppose I'd only be piling on at this point.

[Goat Boy]

You can just imagine him singing it to some lass whilst chewing gum.

What a cunt

[clive gash]

I suppose I'd only be piling on at this point.

Plenty of room up top.

[clive gash]

VIth form garbage with an added spice of Little-England boot-boy-ism. Stick it up your arse.

Little England boot boy ism?

It’s got “English” in the title.

Griff prefers Spanish Harlem.

[Goat Boy]

I hope they speak English in Spanish Harlem

[Darkness_Fish]

It's quite poor, would almost be completely unremarkable if not for the use of the sound effects team from The Archers. They mustn't have been able to get the guy who does the footsteps on gravel, or creaky door.

[clive gash]

[Rayge]

VIth form garbage with an added spice of Little-England boot-boy-ism. Stick it up your arse.

Little England boot boy ism?

Dougie, where's your hyphens? - I can hear Andy Stewart singing it now

[pig bodine]

I was one of those douchey American Jam fans back when it was released, but it always made my skin crawl. “No bonds can take me from “she.”” Get fucked.

[Quaco]

Just listened to it again yesterday. It's still just fine. Much worse is the angry-for-no-actual-reason "Mr. Clean". Hearing Weller get bitter and angry at mister businessman catching the morning train and getting drunk at office parties is embarrassing and just silly. Let him do his thing! Lyrical low point of the album. (The music's fine.)

[The Modernist]

Just listened to it again yesterday. It's still just fine. Much worse is the angry-for-no-actual-reason "Mr. Clean". Hearing Weller get bitter and angry at mister businessman catching the morning train and getting drunk at office parties is embarrassing and just silly. Let him do his thing! Lyrical low point of the album. (The music's fine.)

It's fantastic! You're criticising it from the perspective of middle age, but it's a young man's song and one, as someone who also grew up in a commuter town, I can relate to.

edit: I see we've had this discussion before. viewtopic.php?f=1&t=135034&p=3866716&hilit=mr+clean#p3866716

[Quaco]

Just listened to it again yesterday. It's still just fine. Much worse is the angry-for-no-actual-reason "Mr. Clean". Hearing Weller get bitter and angry at mister businessman catching the morning train and getting drunk at office parties is embarrassing and just silly. Let him do his thing! Lyrical low point of the album. (The music's fine.)

It's fantastic! You're criticising it from the perspective of middle age, but it's a young man's song and one, as someone who also grew up in a commuter town, I can relate to.

edit: I see we've had this discussion before. http://www.bcb-board.co.uk/phpBB2/viewt ... n#p3866716

Hilarious! Aw man, feels like old times!

[clive gash]

‘Come Along’ meanwhile has a gorgeous but simple nursery rhyme feel, married to some of Weller’s most erotic lyrics yet.

*schwing*

https://www.clashmusic.com/reviews/paul ... e-meanings