I laughed at the great god Pan

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There are various moments in one’s various subsumed cultures when you realise that one of your skeletal girders is a fragment from a song. For over 20 years I have found myself dwelling on Mark E. Smith’s “Leave The Capital” from the “Slates” 10-inch EP. The lines “I laughed at the great god Pan” and “I will leave this fucking dump” are cornerstones that I keep coming back to. Am I alone?

― John Fleming, Thursday, 18 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Given that Camden Joy and Colin B. Morton wrote a novel about the Fall called "Pan," evidently not.

― Douglas, Thursday, 18 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Hi John. You are certainly not alone, Slates in paticular, but Hex, Grotesque and Dragnet all contain many of these little pearls and I've had occasions where lines of songs have popped into my mind at crucial moments and influenced many of the biggest decisions in my life.

"Too many people, cowards and criminals, and Government crap, the estates lit up like stacks"

Even worse, in the depths of a paticularly bad dose of flu a few years back I halucenated "The villagers dance round prefabs and laugh through twisted mouths" for the best part of a day and it was very, very scary.

Such is the depth of our obsession.

― Kris England, Friday, 19 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

darn, i thought this would be a thread about arthur machen.

― your null fame, Friday, 19 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Californians always think of sex Or think of death Five hundred girl deaths A Mexico revenge, it's stolen land They really get it off on "Don't hurt me please" Rapist fill the TVs And the secret of their lives Is S.E.X..

― earlnash, Friday, 19 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"some people can't hold their drink, have to tell you what they think"

― UOIU, Friday, 19 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

three years pass...

It is about Arthur Machen,we nicked the plot of "The Great God Pan". Then that guy nicked the plot pf "Pan" for the Da Vinci code.

― Colin B Morton, Sunday, 14 May 2006 18:12 (twenty years ago)

Notebooks out, plagiarists.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Sunday, 14 May 2006 18:28 (twenty years ago)

I think it's great the way these things will suddenly fall out of your head sometimes (no pun intended). The only problem is when you can't figure out what song they're in, and with a discography that large, it's like a needle in a haystack. It took me years to figure out that what I was hearing in my head came from "New Puritan" for example.

― honorary joy division roadie (Bimble...), Sunday, 14 May 2006 18:34 (twenty years ago)

Dude, Colin Morton! I'm so happy! :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 14 May 2006 18:37 (twenty years ago)

Re: thread title - http://monsterblog.oneroom.org/stories/?story=pan&page=1

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Sunday, 14 May 2006 19:02 (twenty years ago)

it took four years for someone to point out the arthur machen connection?

― GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Sunday, 14 May 2006 21:09 (twenty years ago)

strange but Leave the Capital had the same effect on me, that same line. The other Fall song that does it to me is Tempo House.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Monday, 15 May 2006 01:37 (twenty years ago)

welsh camp caravans... grey blackish cream.....

this has long been a favourite of mine. What's so funny about the great god pan is that it's pure demented tabloidese, perhaps a bizarre crosshead in a scoop about white witches in rotherham?

― dr x o'skeleton, Monday, 15 May 2006 08:01 (twenty years ago)

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