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Pulling Mussels: (From A Shell) or (From The Shell)?
gladsadmad
Posts: 815
gladsadmad Posted Mon 09 Jul, 2007 2:58 PM Quote
Because I think that Travis have got the title of their Squeeze cover wrong going by this and elsewhere online:-
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e6/Squeeze_pulling_mussels_cover.jpg

If it is a cover then surely it should be 'the' instead 'a'.
On the vinyl which I received in the post this morning and everywhere around here it is spelt differently, as in;
Pulling Mussels (From A Shell)
Although those are the lyrics, the actual song is 'the', as confirmed here:-

Pulling Mussels (From The Shell) Lyrics
They do it down on camber sands
They do it at Waikiki
Lazing about the beach all day,
At night the crickets creepy
Squinting faces at the sky
A Harold Robbins paperback
Surfers drop their boards and dry
And everybody wants a hat
But behind the Chalet
My holiday's complete
And I feel like William Tell
Maid Marian on her tiptoed feet
Pulling mussels from a shell

Shrinking in the sea so cold
Topless ladies look away
A he-man in a sudden shower
Shelters from the rain
You wish you had a motor boat
To pose around the harbour bar
And when the sun goes off to bed
You hook it up behind the car

Two fat ladies window shop
Something for the mantelpiece
In for bingo all the nines
A panda for sweet little niece
The coach drivers stand about
Looking at a local map
About the boy he's gone away
Down to next door's caravan


Incidentally, You Bring Me Down on the Selfish Jean CD is excellent, well worth buying.

I bought the vinyl bundle but can't play them, but I just found Pulling Mussels (From The Shell), spelt incorrectly, in the UK iTunes store, sounds a really good cover worth checking out.

Has anybody found a link to download Is That Love? anywhere yet please?


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Re: Pulling Mussels: (From A Shell) or (From The Shell)?
elodie
Posts: 399
elodie Posted Mon 09 Jul, 2007 3:13 PM Quote
it doesn't work with me... I've got iTunes but the french version.

do you have another link?
 
Re: Pulling Mussels: (From A Shell) or (From The Shell)?
paul_c
Posts: 4170
paul_c Posted Mon 09 Jul, 2007 4:46 PM Quote
Fran's vocal is awesome on this track
 
Re: Pulling Mussels: (From A Shell) or (From The Shell)?
Tracey982
Posts: 982
Tracey982 Posted Mon 09 Jul, 2007 6:19 PM Quote
elodie wrote:
it doesn't work with me... I've got iTunes but the french version.

do you have another link?


It doesn't work with me either!
 
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