jake thackray 'on again on again'

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i was trying to download this (the album) on soulseek but my entire queue wa smysteriously erased. i don't seem to be able to fint it again. would any of you good people have it on your lists?

― matthew james (matthew james), Thursday, 10 June 2004 13:44 (twenty-two years ago)

He's great, but 'On Again On Again' is a remarkably sexist song. 'She could bore the balls off a buffalo' etc.

― Momus (Momus), Thursday, 10 June 2004 14:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Classic opening lines, though:

I love a good bum on a woman, it makes my day
It's positive proof of God's existence a posteriori

― Momus (Momus), Thursday, 10 June 2004 14:15 (twenty-two years ago)

(Jake goes on to say 'It's the tongue I can't stand'...)

― Momus (Momus), Thursday, 10 June 2004 14:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Anyway, the answer to your question is 'no'.

― Momus (Momus), Thursday, 10 June 2004 14:16 (twenty-two years ago)

That album also has 'i stayed off work today' - it took me forever to realise how completely affecting that was. nice as a companion to 'on again' as well, old jake's subject to his old girl - "they can do me, do me darling, do me darling as they choose / but since you took my eyes i do not do as others do"

― matthew james (matthew james), Thursday, 10 June 2004 14:33 (twenty-two years ago)

i was in the pub the other day with some guy who just went on and on. every single thing anyone'd say he half listened but never responded, just used it to propel some opinion with a sheen of originality. it was tiresome, i can tell you!

"give some women a ghost oif a chance..."

― matthew james (matthew james), Thursday, 10 June 2004 14:40 (twenty-two years ago)

It's certainly rather sexist, but the lyrics are, as indicated above, very dexterously written; and as always his accented delivery is fantastic. And it's a perfectly jocular tune, with that winsome guitar playing; which all makes me slightly conflicted. Though such lines are the following at least suggest a self-awareness:

'Please understand I respect and admire the frailer sex,
And I honour them every bit as much as the next... misogynist [...]'

― Tom May (Tom May), Thursday, 10 June 2004 20:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Matthew, if it's any use I've the compilation La-di-da which features 'on again, on again'.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Thursday, 10 June 2004 20:44 (twenty-two years ago)

i have that same compilation, but i found one user with the full original album. never downloaded until yesterday, got halfway then all my list disappeared. galling!

it's an uncomfortable song but we have a base and uncomfortable truth that there are some traits common to many women, which while not exclusively or universally held by women are largely associated with women for just reasons, and the same is true of men. and spaniards, or any group of people. as such it's worth writing any song on such topics.

― matthew james (matthew james), Thursday, 10 June 2004 20:56 (twenty-two years ago)

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