"And now, the end is near, and so I face, the final curtain ... "
In Welsh,of course, tin = arse. And "cur" = pain, trouble.
So in that venerable language, cur-tin means "a pain in the arse".
" And now, the end is near, and so I face, the final pain in the arse."
That puts a whole ( hole) new light on the song ... especially "the end" bit.
Although quite how he "faced" it I don't want to think about.
I can't help thinking that the Welsh Parallel Universe has been sadly overlooked by music critics over the years. I dread to think what that hub for pop music, Tin Pan Alley, might really mean.
I've already told you about Bing Crosby = Punishment Alley
Blimey ... that changes your whole view does it not ?
Then there's Sandy Shaw.... Sant isio of course ..
I thought that saints were supposed to have abandoned worldy goods.
Chwarae teg though, she did perform without shoes.
I'm sure that from now on you'll all listen to those English songs in a totally new way ... but actually this next one is a Welsh one ...it's a rotten soggy day today, cat soaked, dog soaked, me too .... so we'll have a bit of fun .... you've probably seen it on here before .... a sort of lovely sub-Genesis sub Howard Jones time-warp of a performance ... "Doot doot" .. whatever happend to Freur ?
Here's more ...
Minor UK indie pop band which is most notable for featuring Carl (later Karl) Hyde (b. 10 May 1957, Worcester, Worcestershire, England) and Rick Smith (b. Richard Smith, 25 May 1959, Ammanford, Wales), who would go on to release some of the most seminal dance music of the 90s as Underworld. Hyde and Smith originally worked together in the early 80s as the Screen Gemz, having met while at college in Cardiff, Wales. They formed Freur with guitarist Alfie Thomas. Their name was actually written as a hieroglyphic squiggle, to the amusement and bemusement of writers and chart compilers everywhere. ‘Freur’ was the phonetic pronunciation. They expanded their line-up with drummer Bryn Burrows (ex-Fabulous Poodles) and keyboard player/video guru John Warwicker. The quintet signed to CBS Records in 1983 and enjoyed a minor UK chart success with ‘Doot Doot’. Its popularity was made all the more unlikely by the fact that their record company had issued the original demo version rather than the recording the band had made with Conny Plank and Holger Czukay in Cologne. The record was also a big hit throughout Europe and topped the Italian charts. A second album Get Us Out Of Here was withheld from release in the UK by CBS, after which Warwicker was replaced by Baz Allen. The quintet re-emerged in 1988 with a different recording contract and a new name, Underworld.
Well... there we are. I've been looking for the other stuff I've written about looking at Pop Music and its Artists through the Welsh lens .... and I've found one ... here it is .....
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