Shriekback - Nemisis

[Dudley]

I rather enjoyed that.  What a great rhyme for "Nemesis"!

In a jungle of the senses
Tinkerbell and Jack the ripper
Love has no meaning, not where they come from
But we know pleasure is not that simple
Very little fruit is forbidden
Sometimes we wobble, sometimes we're strong
But you know evil is an exact science
Being carefully correctly wrong

Chorus
Priests and cannibals, prehistoric animals
Everybody happy as the dead come home
Big Black Nemesis, parthenogenesis
No one move a muscle as the dead come home

We feel like Greeks, we feel like Romans
Centaurs and monkeys just cluster round us
We drink elixirs that we refine
from the juices of the dying
We are no monsters, we're moral people
and yet we have the strength to do this
This is the splendour of our achievement
Call in the airstrike with a poison kiss

Chorus
Priests and cannibals, prehistoric animals
Everybody happy as the dead come home
Big black nemesis, parthenogenesis
No-one move a muscle as the dead come home

How bad it gets, you can't imagine
the burning wax, the breath of reptiles
god is not mocked, he knows our business
Karma could take us at any moment
Cover him up.....I think we're finished
You know it's never been so exotic
but I don't know, my dreams are visions
We could still end up with the great big fishes

Chorus
Priests and cannibals, prehistoric animals
Everybody happy as the dead come home
Big black nemesis, parthenogenesis
No-one move a muscle as the dead come home

[johnnystress]

see now, put that to some good music and itd be a winner

lets reform the 2000ad message board band that never was

[dweezil2]

What a spiffing idea! There's a site called Bolt.com, which basically assembles tracks from various users to form one unified recording. The results are often variable, but it's a fun idea.
Might as well pimp our band while I'm here!
Check out the T-Shirt in the live video.
Doing my bit for promoting 2000AD to the uninitiated.
Check out our new track, Slave! It's all about having sex with robots-which, come on, we've all thought about once!
Savalas.

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[House of Usher]

It occurred to me that it's entirely possible the inclusion of a performer in a Nemesis the Warlock costume was the idea of the video's director or one of the costume designers, rather than at the band's request.

Songwriter: (thinks) "Big black Nemesis... cool lyric. I think I'll rhyme it with parthenogenesis."

Video director: (thinks) "Nemesis... that's a comic book character from 2000ad, innit? I'll get the costume designers to knock up a costume for the video."

[Max Kon]

Josh (that guy who was baned) says "'This Big Hush' is better and that they're a great band".

and that their lead singer used to be a 2000ad fan!

and "dreadful song? I'll kick their asses!"

[Max Kon]

PS for Dr Knight: "The video was definitely the bands decision. They're 2000ad fans. One of their songs has the line: I wanna live with Halo Jones"

Josh was telling you about them at Bristol.

[House of Usher]

Oh.

Thanks for the clarification, Max. Say hello to Josh for me. What a curious thing it is, Josh knowing the work of Shriekback when he was not even born at the time, whereas I'm older and yet I totally failed to register their existence in my youth.

I am quite fond of both mainstream and 'alternative' pop from that era, but I'm still filling in gaps in my collection. I recently picked up a copy of Fire Dances by Killing Joke (but wasn't greatly impressed), and there are still a few Nitzer Ebb CDs I want to track down at very little expense.

[Art]

I wonder if this was made around about the time Pat Mills decided to have Nemesis live in a bedsit with some goths.

[Art]

Big Black Nemisis...

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