let's talk about ... the shamen, "ebenezer goode" (AGAIN)

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now that i think of it a bit more, maybe ebeneezer WAS wearing a cape in the video. i dunno, i haven't seen it for such a long time.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 2 January 2005 21:42 (nineteen years ago) link

assuming a vital connection here between Mr. Goode and XTC (the drug) but I might be wrong.

― lovebug starski (lovebug starski), Sunday, 2 January 2005 21:43 (nineteen years ago) link

He was, I'm sure. (x-post)

― music mole, Sunday, 2 January 2005 21:44 (nineteen years ago) link

E's are good!
what else is there to say?

― phunktion, Sunday, 2 January 2005 23:33 (nineteen years ago) link

There was a lengthy debate about the meaning of 'Salmon' in the great lost thread.

― The Horse of Babylon (the pirate king), Sunday, 2 January 2005 23:38 (nineteen years ago) link

one year passes...

here was a lengthy debate about the meaning of 'Salmon' in the great lost thread.

-- The Horse of Babylon (jamiefak...), January 2nd, 2005.

so what DOES "salmon" mean in the context of this song?!?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Saturday, 23 September 2006 08:17 (seventeen years ago) link

so what DOES "salmon" mean in the context of this song?!?

rhyming slang: Salmon-trout : 'snout' = de ganga maaan.

PS Ebeneezer (comedian Gerry Shadowitz) in the video wore a top-hat and had a cane, can't remember the cape, but it was basically just his stage gear.

― lexurian (lexurian), Saturday, 23 September 2006 11:22 (seventeen years ago) link

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Only pic I can find. Looks a wee bit like a cape. I had the Boss Drum video too, but threw it out a couple of years ago.

― Griff Sheridan (Griff Sheridan), Saturday, 23 September 2006 11:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Besides the chorus, considering the verse lyrics as well, did anyone actually believe The Shamen when they said it wasn't about E's?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Saturday, 23 September 2006 12:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Also, was L.S.I. (Love Sex Intelligence) supposed to be about LSD?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Saturday, 23 September 2006 12:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Es are good.

My dad went to college with the drummer(?) from the Shamen, he died by drowning while on holiday just before they got big, I think.

― struttin' with some barbecue (jimnaseum), Saturday, 23 September 2006 13:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Bassist even.

― struttin' with some barbecue (jimnaseum), Saturday, 23 September 2006 13:23 (seventeen years ago) link

After they got big-ish.

― Dedicated to Jaggers Who Do Drive-Bys (noodle vague), Saturday, 23 September 2006 13:24 (seventeen years ago) link

I reckon this is the inspiration for Ebeneezer Goode :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2lcEohUCac

― Dave Dixey (Fishman2), Saturday, 23 September 2006 22:06 (seventeen years ago) link

rhyming slang: Salmon-trout : 'snout' = de ganga maaan

Umm, I thought I recalled reading somewhere (S. Reynolds, maybe) that one of yr more popular contemporary manufactures of E was coming in off-pink pills, hence "salmon" as slang for 'em.

― nabisco (nabisco), Saturday, 23 September 2006 22:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Salmon= salmon and trout= snout. Which is just normal tobacco I always thought?

― gekoppel (Gekoppel), Sunday, 24 September 2006 15:02 (seventeen years ago) link

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