The title refers to rewinding the backing tape to a certain point, which was 120 before zero, i.e. Walk energetically in rubber dungarees does conjure up an image, doesn’t it?Ĥ.) 120 Before ZeroThe lyrics were generated randomly from a music paper, NME or something. The lyrics were generated by randomly picking words out of a dictionary, with a bit of selection to keep the strangest or, to us, the funniest sounding ones.
Rather than send a written entry we wrote a song. Ralph Records was running a competition for the best suggestion for what the acronym WEIRD meant. The Loaf Tells Us About Some Specific Tracks: There were a group of us sitting in a pub one Saturday night talking and somehow the phrase the elbow is taboo came into the conversation, either I or Brian actually said it and we looked at one another and said, ‘that would make a good song title.’ It was only later that we decided to make that the name for the album as well.Ĭlick any underlined track for a 30-second, 64kbps MP3 sample Personally important is that each song is also a distinct memory of a time, place or observation a diary of the odd scenarios and obtuse thoughts that, back then, went buzzing through our heads.- Brian 1993 Similarly, 'Extracting the Re-re' was prepared for a touch tapes (UK) project on ritual.Įach song attempts to tell its own story, be it a child's desire to control (A Street Called Straight), the ridiculous purdah of an innocent part of the body (The Elbow is Taboo), a call for help in times of angst (Here's To the Oblong Boys), the rigours of a bread fetish (The Bread Song), the anger of a dance teacher to the terminally inept (Critical/Dance) or a ritual call to prayer, somewhere (Extracting the Re-re).
'Boule!' was recorded for a project by the French band Ptose, who invited us to produce a cover version of their song about an itinerant dog. In the instance of 'Hambu Hodo' that was seen on the side of a distressed fast-food wagon where some of the letters from 'Hamburgers/Hotdogs' had fallen off so, naturally, the lyrics had to be equally distressed.
We were fired up by intriguing phrases like 'The Elbow is Taboo', 'Here's To the Oblong Boys' and 'A Street Called Straight'. Now, these instances can be few and far between that's how it was for some of this, Renaldo and the Loaf's final album, which took over 3 years to put together despite the advantage of 8 track recording and early digital effects to help us on our way. You know how it is sometimes when you're looking for inspiration - maybe, every once in a while you catch a snippet of conversation or read a choice phrase that kick-starts an idea for a song title or lyric and suddenly it's playtime.
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