"You shout it while you're dancing on the-er dance floor"

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Um, dancing on the dance floor? And what's going on with the "the-er"? Is this line classic or dud?

― the politics of dancing, Tuesday, 27 September 2005 11:44 (twenty years ago)

They bleeding should-ah have bloody tried-ah the "-ah"

― Mark E. Smith, Tuesday, 27 September 2005 11:48 (twenty years ago)

It's a gloriously stoopid line from an otherwise accomplished, erudit lyricist. I've always heard it, however, as "...thuuuuuUUUUUUUuuuuuuhhh dance floah"

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 12:19 (twenty years ago)

erudite, even

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 12:19 (twenty years ago)

The song is ironic, and the line is intentionally dumb. Obviously he could have found a suitable two syllable word between "the" and "dance floor" if he'd wanted to. But he didn't. The line is classic, the song is ûber-classic, as are all the songs on the first side of this on-the-whole classic album.

― jz, Tuesday, 27 September 2005 12:23 (twenty years ago)

Being intentionally dumb is nearly always dumb.

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 12:25 (twenty years ago)

Being intentionally dumb is nearly always dumb.

I cite 'Boys Keep Swinging' for the defence.

― jz, Tuesday, 27 September 2005 12:27 (twenty years ago)

I wasn't knocking it, by the way.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 12:28 (twenty years ago)

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