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Author Topic: (17) Don’t Suck Me In ##* Spoiler Lyrics *##  (Read 48359 times)

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Re: (17) Don’t Suck Me In ##* Spoiler Lyrics *##
« Reply #120 on: December 11, 2018, 12:28:25 AM »
Disagree with your interpretation of the first verse, appears to be about a session musician of some sort.
Yes I agree Dusty. On 2nd thoughts the Jap-pop & bubblegum rock era was well before the Deptford times. Almost certainly another muso though, but  :think hard to come up with a likely candidate, specific to the 60's and early 70's?
Someone who was popular in the pop/rock scene in Japan and France?

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Re: (17) Don’t Suck Me In ##* Spoiler Lyrics *##
« Reply #121 on: December 11, 2018, 01:28:56 PM »
I don't think it's about Alan at all. Sounds like he's talking about some session musician from the 1960's or 1970's he met or heard of who'd record anything he was given in order to make a living but wasn't really good at any particular style, just average overall.
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« Reply #122 on: December 11, 2018, 01:34:23 PM »
Disagree with your interpretation of the first verse, appears to be about a session musician of some sort.
Yes I agree Dusty. On 2nd thoughts the Jap-pop & bubblegum rock era was well before the Deptford times. Almost certainly another muso though, but  :think hard to come up with a likely candidate, specific to the 60's and early 70's?
Someone who was popular in the pop/rock scene in Japan and France?

I wouldn't be so literal, my guess is it's metaphorical, a musician who'd take any session he came across. And even if it was literal, as a session musician (just another gun) he wouldn't be popular, he'd just be playing for artists who were.
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Re: (17) Don’t Suck Me In ##* Spoiler Lyrics *##
« Reply #123 on: December 13, 2018, 11:19:47 AM »
Yes Eddie,
You may well be onto something there. In many of Mark's works, I still find it difficult to know when he literally has someone specific in mind, like the guy in the store on MFN or the Brexit guy in MBR, and then we have the guy with 2 fingers not working and a crook back in MM. I think this is what makes Mark such a formidable storyteller.

The way he crafts these stories reminds me of a quote that he made eons ago, and it was about how his songs “work on so many different levels”. Here we are all these years later with some of his most enduring fans are we are still finding these same levels of difference he referred to back then. I think this may, actually be at the crux of my “obsession” (via my pretty average attempts at putting some of these stories onto a visual level), for editing these videos I try to upload on AMIT TV.

 

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« Reply #124 on: May 12, 2019, 06:59:15 PM »
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« Reply #125 on: January 31, 2020, 11:46:44 AM »
Hi everyone.

Just discovered this forum. Great!

Had a question about 'don't suck me in'. First of all, another gem! does anybody know on which album this song can be found? i'm keeping the cd era in honor so I'm looking for an album that contains this song. Looks like an impossible search.

Greetings from Holland.

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Re: (17) Don’t Suck Me In ##* Spoiler Lyrics *##
« Reply #126 on: January 31, 2020, 12:18:13 PM »
Hi everyone.

Just discovered this forum. Great!

Had a question about 'don't suck me in'. First of all, another gem! does anybody know on which album this song can be found? i'm keeping the cd era in honor so I'm looking for an album that contains this song. Looks like an impossible search.

Greetings from Holland.

Welcome onboard  :wave

Don't suck me in and the other bonus songs can be found on the limited edition Boxset, which contains both CD and vinyl. If i remember right there was a download option too, can't remember if it was for the boxset purchases or any of the other editions.


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Re: (17) Don’t Suck Me In ##* Spoiler Lyrics *##
« Reply #127 on: February 01, 2020, 11:31:53 AM »
Hi everyone.

Just discovered this forum. Great!

Had a question about 'don't suck me in'. First of all, another gem! does anybody know on which album this song can be found? i'm keeping the cd era in honor so I'm looking for an album that contains this song. Looks like an impossible search.

Greetings from Holland.

Welcome!

Greetings from Holland ;)
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Re: (17) Don’t Suck Me In ##* Spoiler Lyrics *##
« Reply #128 on: February 01, 2020, 10:45:57 PM »
Hi everyone.

Just discovered this forum. Great!

Had a question about 'don't suck me in'. First of all, another gem! does anybody know on which album this song can be found? i'm keeping the cd era in honor so I'm looking for an album that contains this song. Looks like an impossible search.

Greetings from Holland.

Welcome onboard  :wave

Don't suck me in and the other bonus songs can be found on the limited edition Boxset, which contains both CD and vinyl. If i remember right there was a download option too, can't remember if it was for the boxset purchases or any of the other editions.

Tnx for the words of welcome and hit towards finding the song. If I search on the limited boxed set, I only get the song on vinyl:

Bonus 12" Vinyl:
Side 1:
1. Drovers' Road
2. Don't Suck Me In
Side 2:
3. Sky and Water
4. Pale Imitation

Deluxe CD:
1. Trapper Man
2. Back On the Dance Floor
3. Nobody's Child
4. Just A Boy Away From Home
5. When You Leave
6. Good On You Son
7. My Bacon Roll
8. Nobody Does That
9. Drovers' Road
10. One Song At A Time
11. Floating Away
12. Slow Learner
13. Heavy Up
14. Every Heart In the Room
15. Rear View Mirror
16. Matchstick Man

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Re: (17) Don’t Suck Me In ##* Spoiler Lyrics *##
« Reply #129 on: February 04, 2020, 09:22:39 AM »
There is a download code with it where you can download the songs.
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Re: (17) Don’t Suck Me In ##* Spoiler Lyrics *##
« Reply #130 on: August 12, 2021, 08:53:18 PM »
This is still a storming track, especially having not played it for a while!!
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Re: (17) Don’t Suck Me In ##* Spoiler Lyrics *##
« Reply #131 on: July 28, 2022, 02:02:12 PM »
Listening again today:

1st verse: Holly Beth Vincent?
2nd verse: Phil Palmer?
3rd verse: Ed?
4th verse: Dunno, Uncle Kingsley?!
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« Reply #132 on: July 29, 2022, 09:38:02 PM »
Another good questions, but no journalist will ask that:(
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Now come on woman, come follow me home

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« Reply #133 on: July 29, 2022, 10:41:41 PM »
Another good questions, but no journalist will ask that:(

I highly doubt MK would ever answer these questions. He'll be like "your guesses are as good as mine" :lol

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« Reply #134 on: July 29, 2022, 10:53:14 PM »
That's possible. But I am bored with the same questions.
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Now come on woman, come follow me home

 

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