When I make coffee it sounds like sets of cymbals and high hats being played by demons.
That's the stage when I've left the jug to brew on a gentle heat, gone out for a moment, and come back to find untamed forces lobbing tarry chunks of super-strength coffee concrete round the room as the jug and element meld in a red-hot fusion and the whole sinks slowly into its hollow on the top of the cooker like a dying sun. The kitchen is densely shrouded by steam as I stumble over the bodies of the lifeless further in to this ghastly real-life Turner scene. Every time. I keep thinking, "This should be the next Turner Prize. *I* should be the next Turner Prize, in fact" - but I never get round to it. All I can think of is capturing the ruinously strong remnant of the coffee somehow or other, and getting it into my system before I do something extreme.
Whether or not there is a tune about this predicament, there must surely be a song about it. But I do not know one.
Oh, dear, nicholas, you really must investigate automatic electric coffee makers. They are quite common and reasonably priced nowadays. Life is too short...
Surely "burbleburbleburble" is the sound coming from the bodhran section of the orchestra?
"Oh, dear, nicholas, you really must investigate automatic electric coffee makers..."
Done that, probably had the tee-shirt once.
A friend of my mothers had a huge and formidable metal structure, grim with vents and excrescences and spouts, which was a very early postwar Italian espresso machine. I was always glad to see it on visits when I used her place as a flop-house on trips to London or when going / coming back from abroad. Its violently bitter thick black product was superb for dispelling the hangovers I usually had when I'd been meeting up with this or that school chum, or whatever.
Until I was given leave to use the premises in this friend's temporary absence.
I stuffed it with ground coffee and turned on knobs and taps and things. Nothing dramatic happened. The house-owner returned. I mentioned what I'd done so far. She moved at the most incredible speed to disconnect and defuse everything in sight. Wailing steam jetted from wherever it could, vapours curdled over the crippled boilers etc. of this fearsome tract of apparatus. I had melted it down, or at any rate in some way made it unusable. It was probably Bird's Instant for me that morning.
Song of the coffee?
Song of the coffee?
Hi there!
I just got a CD from the band called The good ear, there is a jig called Song of the coffee. Would anyone know it by an other name?
Thanks
# Posted on November 12th 2011 by nik nak
Re: Song of the coffee?
Sounds like a send up of Amhrán an Tae
# Posted on November 12th 2011 by Prof. Prlwytzkofski
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Does it sound like the noise my stove-top expresso machine makes when the coffee is ready?
*burbleburbleburbleburbleburbleburbleburble"
# Posted on November 12th 2011 by DrSilverSpear
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"*burbleburbleburbleburbleburbleburbleburble""
That would be the Jabberwock, Spear.
# Posted on November 12th 2011 by Piece
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Probably a composition by one of the musicians, so unlikely to have other names yet. Maybe some day. See the comments at http://www.thesession.org/recordings/display/2303
# Posted on November 12th 2011 by GaryAMartin
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When I make coffee it sounds like sets of cymbals and high hats being played by demons.
That's the stage when I've left the jug to brew on a gentle heat, gone out for a moment, and come back to find untamed forces lobbing tarry chunks of super-strength coffee concrete round the room as the jug and element meld in a red-hot fusion and the whole sinks slowly into its hollow on the top of the cooker like a dying sun. The kitchen is densely shrouded by steam as I stumble over the bodies of the lifeless further in to this ghastly real-life Turner scene. Every time. I keep thinking, "This should be the next Turner Prize. *I* should be the next Turner Prize, in fact" - but I never get round to it. All I can think of is capturing the ruinously strong remnant of the coffee somehow or other, and getting it into my system before I do something extreme.
Whether or not there is a tune about this predicament, there must surely be a song about it. But I do not know one.
# Posted on November 13th 2011 by nicholas
Re: Song of the coffee?
Tea is nice, too.
# Posted on November 13th 2011 by Piece
Re: Song of the coffee?
Oh, dear, nicholas, you really must investigate automatic electric coffee makers. They are quite common and reasonably priced nowadays. Life is too short...
Surely "burbleburbleburble" is the sound coming from the bodhran section of the orchestra?
# Posted on November 13th 2011 by oldstrings
Re: Song of the coffee?
Thanks Gary for your suggestion , I found what I was looking for.
# Posted on November 13th 2011 by nik nak
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Nik Nak:
What was the tune, BTW? Is it here at the Mustard?
# Posted on November 13th 2011 by Piece
Re: Song of the coffee?
"Oh, dear, nicholas, you really must investigate automatic electric coffee makers..."
Done that, probably had the tee-shirt once.
A friend of my mothers had a huge and formidable metal structure, grim with vents and excrescences and spouts, which was a very early postwar Italian espresso machine. I was always glad to see it on visits when I used her place as a flop-house on trips to London or when going / coming back from abroad. Its violently bitter thick black product was superb for dispelling the hangovers I usually had when I'd been meeting up with this or that school chum, or whatever.
Until I was given leave to use the premises in this friend's temporary absence.
I stuffed it with ground coffee and turned on knobs and taps and things. Nothing dramatic happened. The house-owner returned. I mentioned what I'd done so far. She moved at the most incredible speed to disconnect and defuse everything in sight. Wailing steam jetted from wherever it could, vapours curdled over the crippled boilers etc. of this fearsome tract of apparatus. I had melted it down, or at any rate in some way made it unusable. It was probably Bird's Instant for me that morning.
# Posted on November 14th 2011 by nicholas
Re: Song of the coffee?
The tune is The hearty boys of bally mote. Thanks.
# Posted on November 14th 2011 by nik nak
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Ah...I was going to suggest that it was 'I'll take you home again Caffeine'.
# Posted on November 14th 2011 by Weejie
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The Mills Brothers don't seem to be available, but
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzbyrzvcnAc
# Posted on November 14th 2011 by oldstrings