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| starmekitten |
Posted - 04/19/2005 : 18:25:41
Hello!
I know you'd thought I had gone away but no. Couple more things. If anyone can shed light on these I will love you forever. Unless I don't like you already, they I guess I'll be grudgingly appreciative :P
Ludwidshafen
Snake Oil
are there any "official" lyrics to these?
do we know anything else about them? i am sure I have seen reference to snake oil somewhere on this forum at some point?
also for consistency:
Take What You Want
Down In The Hole
also, remnant points from the other threads
Massif Centrale
Two people have said that Frank has mentioned the misspelling in a German interview in 2004, do we know any more about this interview? What was said? Who the interview was for?
Everything is New
A brief google suggests the club on hermosa strand is the lighthouse club, a couple of links to this.
.....at the Lighthouse in Hermosa Beach, buying drinks for the likes of Chet Baker and Art Pepper....
http://www.thelighthousecafe.net/history.html
http://www.jerryjazzmusician.com/shop/shopmain.cfm?CatalogName=lighthouse
What do you think? Is it?
Manitoba
We have the story of the woman in the snow (and excuse my ignorance here please) who should I credit it to
Nadine
The U.K. ep has a catalouge number, the US does not, that sound right?
The Snake
We are happy with the astrological references here?
THIS THREAD IS A WORK IN PROGRESS - I MAY ADD MORE AS I THINK OF IT
Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something. |
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| MajorKey |
Posted - 11/04/2007 : 16:54:47
"Snake Oil" as transcribed by moi.
I need snake oil to rub my feet
Because they're sore, walkin' the floor
My face is pale, mind gone stale
Law's on my tail and a wild wild woman
Wants me put into jail
chorus:
Snake oil, snake oil
Snake oil, snake oil
Yeah, yeah, yeah
I need snake oil
I need snake oil to rub my head
To ease the pain in my brain
Society is not for me
Got me drinking chablis with a wild wild woman
Trying to put the clinch on me
chorus
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| Mickey |
Posted - 11/01/2007 : 14:01:47
quote:
Originally posted by hammerhands
Has this come up before?
In Massif Centrale, the "Madames at night" sounds to me
like Madame Someone maybe Zedni.
I think it's "Madame's at nine"
-Mickey |
| hammerhands |
Posted - 11/01/2007 : 13:10:38
Has this come up before?
In Massif Centrale, the "Madames at night" sounds to me
like Madame Someone maybe Zedni. |
| billgoodman |
Posted - 04/21/2005 : 23:37:26
snake oil is a cover right
cause it says Copyright control instead of Spime Songs as the publisher
 "I joined the cult of Jon Tiven/Bye!" |
| starmekitten |
Posted - 04/21/2005 : 22:26:22
thanks toba!
listening to the clip (over and over :P) holiday son sent me (thank you again so much for that) I get this:
Interviewer: Now coming back to this song because I like this song very much, the Massif Centrale...
Frank: I spelled it wrong on the record, it's spelled wrong. I spelled it "Centrale" I don't know why
Interviewer: Oh, but well it sounds nice
Frank: Yeah.
and I got:
quote:
Originally posted by frnck blck
quote:
Originally posted by Ten Percenter
Hi Frank - great new album, and some very good reviews this time (ignore those fuckers who work at Q magazine). On the offchance that you hold court in Edinburgh, some more scraps for you:
1. Is Snake Oil a cover of the Steve Earle song?
2. Is the person commemorated in Ed is Dead and Adda Lee the same person? In fact, does this person appear in SMYT - Nadine, perhaps?
3. You said that Blood on the Tracks was not your favourite Dylan album, which is your favourite Dylan record - Blonde on Blonde perchance?
4. You have great taste by choosing Edinburgh to rehearse in! Any warm-up gigs planned - Charlie Thompson's Rush tribute band maybe?
Great new album - cannot wait until the 26th!
PS - Jonathan Ross said that he wanted you to appear on his radio show again after playing My Favorite Kiss last Saturday...
No man is an island, unless he is in the bath
snake is fb. no warm-up.. maybe open mic somewhere...
b on b
yet....
http://forum.frankblack.net/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=7230
lots of conjecture here, do we know for sure it's a cover anyone? I'm still digging?
and I need a moderator to tell me if the chinese astrlogy should go in as well.
thank you!
Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something. |
| tobafett |
Posted - 04/21/2005 : 21:28:39
quote:
Originally posted by starmekitten
Nadine
The U.K. ep has a catalouge number, the US does not, that sound right?
That's correct...my copy doesn't have a cat. # anywhere...
great job on the db, smk! |
| kathryn |
Posted - 04/20/2005 : 19:27:39
Yeah, Frank. Can we get some help? If you have a moment,
that is. Thanks! 
 I still believe in the excellent joy of the Catholics |
| fbc |
Posted - 04/20/2005 : 15:34:47
found this, but only FB would know if it's relevant , sorry.
http://home.comcast.net/~burtdabard/snakeoil.html
There's a group out there too called Snake Oil Medicine Show |
| starmekitten |
Posted - 04/20/2005 : 10:45:09
Thanks fbc, I don't know anything, am pretty ignorant in all these things so everything is welcome!
Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something. |
| fbc |
Posted - 04/20/2005 : 10:23:08
Will all your money
Buy you forgiveness
Keep you from sickness
Or keep you from cold?
Will all your money
Keep you from madness
Keep you from sadness
When you're down in the hole?
'Cause you'll be down in the gutter
You'll be bummin' for cigarettes
Bummin' for nylons
In the American Zone
You'll be down in the hole
Yeah, down in the hole
No escape from trouble
Nowhere to go |
| fbc |
Posted - 04/20/2005 : 10:18:14
(sorry if you have this info,tre)
Take What You Want is a Reid Paley song
down In The Hole was written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards |
| fbc |
Posted - 04/20/2005 : 10:11:10
'Snake Oil' is a term used for fake, fraudulent, and usually ineffective potions and nostrums. The expression is also applied metaphorically to any product with exaggerated marketing but questionable or unverifiable quality
The term is used in many fields to denote something sold without consideration of its quality or its ability to fulfill its vendor's claims. This term originally applied to elixirs sold in traveling medicine shows. The salesmen would claim their elixir would cure just about any
ailment that a potential customer could have.
I read somewhere this song is a cover. If it's true,i can't track down the original anywhere
The Nadine single just says - Snake oil copyright control. |
| starmekitten |
Posted - 04/20/2005 : 04:04:52
Thats ace! Your a star! You, I will love forever
Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something. |
| The Holiday Son |
Posted - 04/20/2005 : 02:24:45
quote:
Originally posted by starmekitten
Massif Centrale
Two people have said that Frank has mentioned the misspelling in a German interview in 2004, do we know any more about this interview? What was said? Who the interview was for?
The interview was from 11/11/03.
Frank just said "It spelled wrong on the record.(...) I don't know why."
It's a video interview that was linked on this forum.
I saved it in mp3 so if you want the clip about MC I could send it to you. |
| Jordo |
Posted - 04/19/2005 : 23:30:19
Ludwidshafen
All I know about this is the piano part during the chorus is the same (or very similar) as the piano part during "Pray for the Girls" when Frank starts going "in sleep we searched behind the sun..."
I kind of assumed he took one from the other..
Jordan
my music! my music!
www.jordancooperLaLaLa.com
www.myspace.com/jordancooper |
| starmekitten |
Posted - 04/19/2005 : 23:04:58
Thank you Dean, I am grudgingly appreciative.
I jest
(maybe)
haha no I do
jest that is
Anyway, mister Potter is now credited, Hermosa strand is now added.
Just the Snake, confirmation of the lack of Nadine number (I can't find one anywhere and I looked) and a source for the Frank Black misprint interview!
oh and the B sides if anyone can shed any light there.
Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something. |
| Cult_Of_Frank |
Posted - 04/19/2005 : 21:20:53
I might put it as Eric Potter so that non-forumites can still find that he's credited on the album and so is pretty knowledgable.
 "I joined the Cult of Frank / Wooteenie!" |
| kathryn |
Posted - 04/19/2005 : 19:23:20
Echo met The Man more than once and sings
on the song ("Manitoba"). I dunno how the forum big-wigs
feel but that's good enough for little ole me.
I still believe in the excellent joy of the Catholics |
| starmekitten |
Posted - 04/19/2005 : 18:42:14
yes, it's referenced now to echo park in the db, I just don't know if thats correct etiquette?
etiquette was never my strong point hehe
Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something. |
| kathryn |
Posted - 04/19/2005 : 18:30:35
Wasn't it Echo Park who related the Manitoba story?
I still believe in the excellent joy of the Catholics |
