Tape Recorder Man-Momus

[ti:Tape Recorder Man] [ar:Momus] [al:Folktronic] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Tape Recorder Man - Momus [00:06.90]Tape recorder man [00:07.59] [00:08.63]Come all ye rounders if you [00:10.54]Want to hear the tale [00:11.63] [00:12.25]Of a tape recorder man [00:13.35] [00:14.40]Tape recorder man [00:15.18] [00:16.11]He travelled far and wide [00:17.53]Through the dusty countryside [00:19.10] [00:20.04]The tape recorder man [00:21.03] [00:22.11]Tape recorder man [00:22.86] [00:23.81]Collecting songs of love [00:25.14] [00:25.70]Collecting songs of blood [00:26.87] [00:27.73]Sometimes songs of evil men [00:29.60]And sometimes songs of good [00:30.79] [00:31.51]And sing irie aritty ardie and [00:33.13]Sing irie arrity anne [00:34.75] [00:37.60]Tape recorder man [00:38.42] [00:39.11]He said the age of the machine [00:41.00]Would make us all the same [00:42.21] [00:43.26]The tape recorder man [00:44.17] [00:45.28]Tape recorder man [00:46.40] [00:46.94]And we should tape record the [00:48.32]Songs the old men sing [00:49.88] [00:50.52]The tape recorder man [00:51.80] [00:53.02]Tape recorder man [00:54.02] [00:54.65]Because when the old were gone [00:56.50]There'd be no more songs [00:58.26]Just mechanical din [00:59.97] [01:00.85]Tape recorder man [01:01.79] [01:02.41]And sing irie aritty ardie [01:03.58] [01:04.17]And sing irie arrity anne [01:06.09] [01:08.68]Tape recorder man [01:09.52] [01:10.15]At a music festival he presented to [01:13.06]The world some of the folk greats [01:15.03] [01:16.34]Tape recorder man [01:17.07] [01:17.75]Then with a condescending smile [01:19.10] [01:19.90]He introduced us all to [01:21.79]Some electronic fakes [01:23.34] [01:24.10]Tape recorder man [01:24.89] [01:25.54]Saying 'The old folks don't need [01:26.88]Gimmicks to make the music new [01:29.57]But here's a group of college [01:31.29]Kids who apparently do [01:32.52] [01:33.31]And sing irie aritty ardie and [01:35.08]Sing irie arrity anne [01:36.62] [01:39.56]Tape recorder man [01:40.45] [01:41.12]And he left the stage to seek some nerdy [01:43.88]Boffin geeks who sounded like the Pogues [01:46.90] [01:49.24]Singing like the BeeGees dancing [01:51.55]Like freaks playing modular Moogs [01:54.01] [01:56.85]I met him in the dressing room [01:58.57]At the end of the show [01:59.70] [02:00.56]I said you used to be my hero [02:02.21]But tonight you've fallen low [02:03.69] [02:04.28]And sing irie aritty ardie [02:06.13]And sing irie arrity anne [02:07.63] [02:10.56]Tape recorder man [02:11.96]I said tape recorder man [02:13.35] [02:14.09]Damn your Memorex [02:15.39] [02:16.29]What about innovation man [02:18.07]What about art and sex [02:19.36] [02:19.99]He couldn't share my point of view [02:21.83]And he freely said so [02:22.90] [02:23.71]So me and the tape recorder [02:25.06]Man quickly came to blows [02:27.40]I hit out at his shoulder where [02:29.61]His tape recorder hung [02:30.78] [02:31.33]It slipped to the floor with a crash [02:33.42]The strap must've been undone [02:34.85] [02:35.39]And sing irie aritty ardie [02:37.01]And sing irie arrity anne [02:38.88] [02:41.51]Tape recorder man [02:42.49] [02:43.10]It exploded like a bomb from [02:45.32]The first world war [02:46.39] [02:47.33]And seven spools of folk [02:48.76]Recordings rolled across the floor [02:50.37] [02:50.97]A random burst of yodelling [02:52.54]Rubbed up against the heads [02:54.14] [02:54.79]That woozy crazy spool was [02:56.81]Like John Cage or Varese [02:58.49]I cried 'Tape recorder man [02:59.74] [03:00.83]This I won't forget [03:01.73] [03:02.77]This is folk music concrete [03:06.22]And sing irie aritty ardie and [03:08.10]Sing irie arrity anne [03:09.57] [03:12.47]Tape recorder man [03:13.52] [03:20.25]Tape recorder man [03:21.06] [03:28.03]Tape recorder man [03:28.86] [03:29.82]And sing irie aritty ardie [03:31.35]And sing irie arrity anne [03:32.89] [03:35.78]Tape recorder man [03:36.58] [03:43.43]Tape recorder man