{"id":82649,"date":"2019-03-03T14:00:04","date_gmt":"2019-03-03T13:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/03\/03\/wrote-for-luck-selected-lyrics-by-shaun-ryder-review-unique-hilarious-vicious\/"},"modified":"2019-03-03T14:00:04","modified_gmt":"2019-03-03T13:00:04","slug":"wrote-for-luck-selected-lyrics-by-shaun-ryder-review-unique-hilarious-vicious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=82649","title":{"rendered":"Wrote for Luck: Selected Lyrics by Shaun Ryder review \u2013 unique, hilarious, vicious"},"content":{"rendered":"

The words of the Happy Mondays and Black Grape frontman are utterly singular and never less than entertaining\u201cIt\u2019s almost like I\u2019ve got a mad cartoon running through my head and the lyrics are oddball captions describing what\u2019s happening in each frame,\u201d writes Shaun Ryder in the preface to this book of his selected lyrics with Happy Mondays and Black Grape. When he was young, the mad cartoon was often his actual life. You can\u2019t imagine many other songwriters unpicking their lyrics (for Moving in With) like this: \u201cWe were selling drugs at the time, so I had all sorts hidden in the loft, 8 bars, acid, smack, and then the E when it arrived\u2026 The two bent pigs were coppers who we used to serve up\u2026 They just used to pull up in their panda car and buy it off us.\u201dRyder\u2019s lyrics \u2013 or oddball captions \u2013 are never straightforwardly descriptive. He captures scenes in little details, or moods. Holiday, about one of the times he was stopped going through customs, mixes the form-filling customs officer with the stash and the porn Ryder was stopped for: \u201cYou put a circle round this and a circle round that\/ You put one in the front and one in the back.\u201d He starts with something he sees, or that\u2019s on his mind, then mangles it and mixes it with lines nicked from films, adverts, rehab doctors, friends. Some of his most famous lines are straightforward steals: \u201cYou\u2019re twistin\u2019 my melon man, you know you talk so hip man,\u201d from Step On, is taken directly from a documentary called Man on the Edge about Steve McQueen; \u201cCall the cops\u201d, from the same song, is from Bobby Gillette, who\u2019d stand in the Mondays\u2019 corner of the Hacienda, \u201coff his nut\u201d, whistling and shouting. Some of Ryder\u2019s earlier lyrics catch the mad euphoria of clubbing and ecstasy. \u201cI\u2019d like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony\/ Cut it up in tiny little bits and give it all away for free\u201d (Harmony). Continue reading…
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The words of the Happy Mondays and Black Grape frontman are utterly singular and never less than entertaining\u201cIt\u2019s almost like I\u2019ve got a mad cartoon running through my head and the lyrics are oddball captions describing what\u2019s happening in each frame,\u201d writes Shaun Ryder in the preface to this book […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}