From a brilliant collaborative album by the witty, iconoclastic songwriter Cathal Coughlan (of Microdisney, Fatima Mansions and more) who very recently sadly passed away, and acclaimed producer Jacknife Lee, this is a mischievous experimental postpunk electro-pop examination of Irish history and pop culture, one they call "a corrosive nostalgia". Telefís is the Irish Gaelic word for Television (pronounced Tele-feesh). To explore more of the duo’s work, including the album a hAon, see the embedded Bandcamp and and Spotify links below, including an EP of various versions and remixes of this track.
We used to be
And we believed
It's plain to see
Toxicology
From the devotional freakout
of Archbishop Beardmouth:
ChemOlympics! ChemOlympics!
Don't call it chemo
These toxins are for fun!
These altered states and altered bodies are telegenic holy relics
We used to be...
And we believed...
It's plain to see: toxicology
The common sense
(doesn't matter, doesn't matter)
Raped by events
(doesn't matter, doesn't matter)
Back in your trench
(doesn't matter, doesn't matter)
The games won't relent, won't relent
Culvert, truck-bonnet, crazed mob,
crowbars -
we're not going out like poor Muammar
Gollies next to eagles next to crosses
on the aprons of the ungiven tosses
We used to be...
And we believed...
It's plain to see: toxicology
The medals gleam
(doesn't matter, doesn't matter)
The nostrils steam
(doesn't matter, doesn't matter)
COPD
(doesn't matter, doesn't matter)
Google, Pepsi, epilepsy!
Doesn't matter.
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