Samples Small Faces's "Lazy Sunday"!
The bit about his grumpy next-doors objecting to the noise of loud fun - "wouldn't it be nice to get on wiv' me neighbours? / but they make it very clear they've got no room for ravers"
Features the phrase "mustn't grumble" - the soul of Englishness (pre-ravers, at any rate) quintessenced
There is also a blink-and-you'll-miss-it comb-and-paper quotation of a Stones song - "Satisfaction" it says at Wikipedia, although it sounds almost more like "Let's Spend the Night Together" to me
I should have put "Lazy Sunday" in my list of Greatest Number Twos
The album as a whole I've never quite clicked with except for the opening title track with its amazing colorized bass and phased drums and keyboards.
And of course enjoy the Stanley Unwin element
Got this album
"Lazy Sunday" is very much rooted in the same oh-so-English world as Carry On
A-wouldn't it be nice to get on with me neighbors?
But they make it very clear they've got no room for ravers
They stop me from groovin', they bang on me wall (what's going on in there?)
They doing me crust in, it's no good at all, ah
Lazy Sunday afternoon
I've got no mind to worry
I close my eyes and drift away
Here we all are sittin' in a rainbow
Gorblimey, hello, Mrs. Jones
How's old Bert's lumbago? ("He mustn't grumble")
I'll sing you a song with no words and no tune
(Tweedle-dee bite) to sing in the khazi while you suss out the moon, oh yeah
Lazy Sunday afternoon, ah
I've got no mind to worry, ah
Close my eyes and drift away, ah
A-roo-dee-doo-dee-doo
A-roo-dee-doo-dee-die-day
A-roo-dee-doo-dee-dum
A-roo-dee-doo-dee-doo-dee
There's no one to hear me
There's nothing to say
And no one can stop me from feeling this way, yeah
Lazy Sunday afternoon
I've got no mind to worry
Close my eyes and drift away
Lazy Sunday afternoon
I've got no mind to worry
Close my eyes and drift
Close my mind and drift away
Close my eyes and drift away
You probably essay an, er, essay that claimed for Ogden's Nut Gone Flake what Greil M claims for The Band, i.e. the ravers (Sixties version of) generation mending the breach with the parent generation....
Which (despite "She's Leaving Home") already started happening on Sgt. Pepper's, to some extent
Or perhaps simply that for all the trips and the dabbles with Eastern spirituality and all the other neophiliac stuff, you still wake up in England, embedded in centuries of history...
Tale "Itchycoo Park"
Spiritually hungering Ronnie Lane got into Sufism by 1968, but he lifted the melody or part of it from a 16th Century hymn, "God Be In My Head" while "the theme to the words" came from "a hotel in Bath or Bristol. There was a magazine in the room with a rambling account of some place in the country and it was about ‘dreaming spires’ and a ‘bridge of sighs’ – there was a write-up on this town – and I just thought they were nice lines.”
Steve Marriott meanwhile said lyrical inspirations come from stinging nettles and an actual park in Ilford:
"Ronnie Lane and I used to go to a park called Itchycoo Park... We used to bunk off school and groove there. We got high, but we didn’t smoke. We just got high from not going to school. Itchycoo Park is the nickname of Little Ilford Park in London. An “Itchycoo” is slang for a flower found in the park called a Stinging Nettle, which can burn the skin if touched.”
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