Track nine of
The Fall's brilliant 1980 album
Grotesque (After The Gramme). (Track thirteen on the
Castle Communications re-issue)
This song is about
drugs, but like many other songs by The Fall, it is more about the person you are when you are a
drug taker, rather than the drugs themselves. The song itself starts off with a thin
guitar sound and
Mark sounding quiet and strained. It quickly brightens up to a
cruisey
laid back pseudo-
swing tune, but keeps reverting back to the
uneasiness of the opening bit.
There are excellent
mental images present in this song; darkened hallways with shadowy characters, weary from hunger with only the
speed to keep you going, being
plagued by
indecision. Seeing how this track follows on from the
musicless
W.M.C.-Blob '59 and is followed immediately after by
The N.W.R.A. (a big, big, slice of the album), this shortish track may seem reasonably
forgettable. It's definitely not a song that stands out, but it's one that will lodge in the
back of your mind and make you think.
The name of this song was an option for myself and
Keithy G McD's short-lived
radio show, had it been
scheduled on a Friday. We didn't go with it, as we didn't think those in charge of
programming would want any
overtly
drug orientated shows. Not that ours was...
GRAMME FRIDAY
The
people I like
The people I like live
The people I like live
in
kitchens and halls.
I can't reach a decision on this.
Can I come back to you on this?
Hitler lost his nerve on it.
Dr. Morel prescribed it well
It's fast debts.
I am Robertson Speedo
and this is my
Gramme Friday.
Skin drops slow to the bones
But I've got my
hunger anyway.
I'm on Gramme Friday.
Work and eat spontaneous
Enter the house of weariness.
It's Fastnet
Look out
Look down
Look out
Look now
The hunger....
Friday .
Cheers to
Fall Lyrics Parade," by Jonathan Kandell & Jeff Curtis, still the best place for Fall lyrics