Find me a song which is the exact midpoint between "Therese" by the Bodines, and New Order's "Regret"!

Maybe no-one gives a shit about this any more, but Played just got reissued:

http://www.cherryred.co.uk/cherryred/artists/bodines.php

i do! yay

wow my recommendations upthread are dumm

Is it crappily transferred from vinyl, with some tracks faded early? Cherry Red, can't love 'em can't kill 'em...

I've heard of Cherry Red fucking up but nothing sounds too bad on their reissue of the Brilliant Corners (band).

That's good to hear (I got those Brilliant Corners albums the first time they came out on CD, fortunately). I'm still a bit bitter by the corner-cutting on otherwise brilliant stuff like the Cherry Red Singles box.

can anyone make out all the lyrics to "Heard It All"? the best I can come up with is this:

first we were friends, then we were enemies
now it ends with backs of familiar faces again
I can't see and end to the (????????)
to what which people say we tend
incline my head to find your gaze
hear you down (????????)
but in your (????????), you may find that it pays

it's changed, it's different now
the seasons come and go and nobody told me
how it gets different now
just sit and frown while the words disown me

how then can hell be compared to limbo?
hour after hour by the phone, the window
if my hands could write a recompense
"up in arms" would come to your defense
for all the things it might incur
there's two different things that I know about her
when you think she's lonely, you phone just to make sure

it's changed, it's different now
the seasons come and go and nobody told me
how it gets different now
just sit and frown while the words disown me

sorry it had to be you again, old friend
falling into harder times again
I see it through to the bitter end
this is bigger than I can stand

the question marks are the parts I'm trying to fill in, although I may have misinterpreted some of the other lines too. I'm American btw.

"Heard It All" by the Bodines, that is.

first we were friends, then we were enemies
now it ends, we're back to familiar faces again
I can't see and end to this anonymity
to what which people say we tend
incline my head to find your gaze
hear you damn me with feint praise
but in your semblance of ???, you may find that it pays

I can't see and end to this anonymity

hour after hour by the phone, the window

Always heard this line as "hour after hour by the phone IN the window"

I can't see and end to this anonymity
hear you damn me with feint praise

ah thanks, these seem so obvious now.

I hear the part before "you may find that it pays" as "in your sudden list of circas", which makes no sense at all. janglepop dudes really need to learn to enunciate better.

They're from Manchester, what do you expect?

well I guess you should be thankful that I'm not calling upon people to decipher Fall lyrics.

Ha!

Listening to it now and it does sound like 'sudden list' of something.

Sherpas!

(I wish)

There is a youtube user called bodinesdrums btw. Might be worth a shot?

Sorry, it's "bodinedrums"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8baTzAP_mA

^ live version of 'Heard It All' starts at 4.25 and it's clearly "incline my head to find avoid your gaze"

Still none the wiser on *the mystery* though. Circles?

"in your sublist of certains"

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_hHUxIaScvcE/SaPbRllM9wI/AAAAAAAAAB8/w7iXLGi2oy0/s400/cat-pigeons-web.jpg

hmm, that could be it (xpost)! and I definitely hear the "avoid" now.

I don't plan on stalking any ex band members or losing any much sleep over this. it was just bugging me a little.

("any much", that is)

It's "two or three things I know about her", rather than "two different".

first we were friends, then we were enemies
now it ends with facts and familiar faces again
I can't see and end to this anonymity
toward which people say we tend
incline my head to avoid your gaze
hear you damn me with faint praise
but in your sublist of certains you may find that it pays

sorry, "an" rather than "and".

cool, thanks. that seems about right, though I'm sticking with "back of familiar faces" (right or wrong) because I like it better that way.

Years ago a friend's band covered this song and we went over it tons of times trying to work out the lyrics. The last line there is the only one I'm not 100% sure of. The rest makes decent grammatical and literal sense, whereas the last line is much more poetic/metaphorical, if correct.

Walk out to winter by Aztec camera

could it be "subtlest of certains" rather than "sublist"? that makes some sort of sense in an abstract way, and it seems like there should be three syllables there.

I feel like almost all Bodines songs about being alienated from & having trouble communicating with friends. but seeing as I have so much trouble making out the words it's also possible that all their songs about fluorescent unicorns. lyrics aside, I wouldn't like this band nearly as much if they didn't have such a tight (for this kind of music) rhythm section.

*almost all Bodines songs are about*

at first we were friends
then we were enemies
now it ends
we're back to familiar faces again

i can't see an end
to this anonymity
toward which
people say we tend

incline my head to avoid your gaze
hear ye damn me with faint praise
but in your subtlest of circles
you may find that it pays

it's changed
it's different now
the seasons come and go
and nobody told me
how it gets different now
just sit and frown
while the words disown me

how then can hell be compared to limbo?
hour after hour by the phone and the window
my hands could write a recompense
up in arms to come to your defense

for all the things
it might incur
there's two or three things
that I know about her
when you think she's lonely
you phone just to make sure

it's changed
it's different now
the seasons come and go
and nobody told me
how it gets different now
just sit and frown
while the words disown me

sorry it had to be you again old friend
fallen onto harder times again
i'll see it through to the bitter end
this is bitterer than I can stand

heard it all now
i've heard it all now

^omg, thanks!