Desparate Journalist (in a meaningful ongoing review situation)

Hey mister a review
A word for salad
Is written by my friend
In penman

He uses long words
Like semiotics and semolina
But I counted
With
Enigma and metropolis

The lads go rampant on insignificant symbolism
And compound this with rude soulless obliqueness

Everything's coming to a grinding halt
I use such long words

It's all clever stuff
All this charming childish fiddling about aims for the anti-image
But it naturally creates the perfectly malleable image

Tantalizing enigma
Of the Cure
They try to take
Everything

But the Cure really
They're just trying to sell us something
Their product is more artificial than most
This is perhaps part of their
Masterplan
But it seems more like their naivity

Everything's coming to a grinding halt
Everything's coming to a grinding halt
Everything's coming to a grinding halt

Note how really songs what are made of (?)
Murk and marshes
Tawdry images
Inane realisations
Dull dull dull epigrams
Sometimes they sound like an avant-garde John Otway
Or an ugly spirit

Toy drumming
Sprightly bass
Limited guitar riff

Check the sheet out of my favorite book

People don't forget the penman
It's just that in 1979 people shouldn't be allowed to get away with things like this

I say.

 


  10.15 saturday night
the 13th
2 late
39

  accuracy
adonais
all cats are grey
all i have to do is kill her
all i want
all mine
another day
another girl, another planet
another journey by train
apart
ariel
at night

  babble
the baby screams
bananafishbones
bare
the big hand
birdmad girl
the blood
bloodflowers
boys don't cry
breathe
burn

  carnage visors
catch
the caterpillar
cats like cheese
a chain of flowers
charlotte sometimes
close to me
closedown
cloudberry
club america
cold
cold colours
coming up
cut

  descent
desperate journalist
disintegration
do the hansa
do you wanna touch me?
doing the unstuck
the double crossing of two faced fred
doubt
the dream
dredd song
dressing up
the drowning man

  the empty world
end
english rose
the exploding boy

  faded smiles
faith
faith (sydney, 1981 lyrics)
fascination street
fear of ghosts
a few hours after this
fight
the figurehead
the final sound
fire in cairo
a foolish arrangement
a forest
forever
foxy lady
friday i'm in love
from the edge of the deep green sea
the funeral party

  give me it
gone!
grinding halt

  halo
the hanging garden
happy birthday (simon)
happy the man
harold and joe
heart attack
hello, i love you
heroin face
hey you!!!
high
the holy hour
home
homesick
hot hot hot!!!
how beautiful you are

  i dig you
i need myself
i want to be a tree
i want to be old
icing sugar
if only tonight we could sleep
i'm a cult hero
i'm cold
in your house
inbetween days
it used to be me
it's not you

  a japanese dream
journalist jive
jumping someone else's train
jupiter crash
just like heaven
just one kiss
just say yes

  killing an arab
the kiss
kyoto song

  lament
last dance
the last day of summer
the last thing you should do
let's go to bed
a letter to elise
like cockatoos
listen
the loudest sound
love will tear us apart
the lovecats
lovesong
lullaby

  m
a man inside my mouth
maybe someday
meathook
mint car
more than this
mr. pink eyes

  never enough
new day
a night like this
numb

  object
ocean
off to sleep
old england
one hundred years
one more time
open
other voices
out of mind
out of this world

  the perfect girl
pictures of you
piggy in the mirror
pillbox tales
a pink dream
pirate ships
plainsong
plastic passion
play
play for today
pornography
prayers for rain
primary
purple haze
push
pussy wussy

  quicksand

  radio call sign
a reflection
the return
round & round & round

  the same deep waters as you
scared as you
screw
secrets
see the children
seventeen seconds
shake dog shake
shiver and shake
a short term affect
siamese twins
a sign from god
sinking
six different ways
slvvy
the snakepit
snow in summer
so what
speak my language
spilt milk
splintered in her head
stop dead
strange attraction
a strange day
subway song
sugar girl

  tape (intro)
there is no if
this is a lie
this twilight garden
a thousand hours
three
three imaginary boys
the three sisters
throw your foot
to the sky
to wish impossible things
the top
torture
trap
treasure
trust

  untitled
the upstairs room
uyea sound

  wailing wall
waiting
the walk
want
watching me fall
the weedy burton
wendy time
where the birds always sing
why can't i be you
world in my eyes
world war
wrong number

  yeh yeh yeh
yesterday's gone
you really got me
you're so happy (you could kill me!)
young americans
young ones