Originally recorded May 2002 by SHCP.
Album:
Discography, 2004,
Amoebic Productions
Music:
J. Erm
Lyrics:
Tom Dissonance
Lyrics
The lust for the purchase set your heart racing
The value on offer got you salivating
The advertising looked so fine
And pleaded, tempted you to buy
Consumer ideal you'll be forever chasing
Whatever you want, you got it
Whatever you need, you got it
At whatever the cost, you got it
Whatever you want, you got it
And you keep all your worries and doubts at bay
By joining in the line to pick and pay
The market answers questions you never knew you had
Keeps your lifeblood flowing day by day
Repeat chorus x3 to end
About [im]pulse
One of the biggest questions is: why the square brackets around the 'im'? From the horse's mouth:
The brackets issue: The music was written before the lyric and originally had a much more rattling, rhythmic beat. The lyrics essentially an extended metaphor between the 'pulse' of the body, the trance of the supermarket, and the joy of the impulse purchase.
The brackets were trying to preserve the metaphor which is still present in the lyrics as they were written with the rattling beat in mind.
Also, we're really big fans of brackets... I just love punctuation, really.
--Tom Dissonance
It's an ironic look at how buying products has been
eroticised, turned into something which is both necessary for individuals
day to day existance, brings a false hope of
joy which is seldom, if ever fulfilled, of how it attempts to fill the shopper's inner lonelyness with merchandise, how the shopper is urged on by a
skilled practitioner of the practical aspects of human psychology.
On the copyright issue
How the fuck can you stake a claim of ownership to intangible patterns of sound?! Duplicate, imitate, replicate, eradicate, masturbate, Mercyful Fate (for non-profit, non-fascistic purposes) at will, shitface. We don't give a crap.
-- Propagandhi sleevenotes, How to Clean Everything, 1993
-- quoted by Tom Dissonance, 2004.
More to the point, Tom's told me I can node it. And upload it onto my university file space, and let all you lucky people hear what it sounds like.
http://www.durham.ac.uk/d.n.mckee/impulse.mp3
And if you're looking for more
Saigon High Chair Pirate sounds, try looking for
sky_baby on
SoulSeek and asking him nicely for a download. Or leave him a /msg and see if you can persuade him to send you a nice shiny CD.
Oh, and a special bonus is a available at
http://www.amoebic.co.uk/limpulse.jpg ...