I love this album, I need read trough this.
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Baxter Dury's new, third album, Happy Soup, is a low-key yet compelling set of dark-hued kitchen-sink musical dramas that is far more reminiscent of his famous punk father, Ian, than any of his previous output. Baxter gave us an exclusive track-by-track guide to what it all means…
Isabel
Best line: "I think my mate slept with you, while you were in Portugal."
BD: "This album contains a lot of honest diary entries about my emotional encounters over the years. Some of the songs allude to things that have happened in my life in an abstract way but to be honest this one is very specific. Will the girl that I'm writing about know that it is about her? Yes, probably, but she won't like it because she doesn't care for this genre of music."
Claire
Best line: "Don't waste your life, Claire, and the things that you might do."
BD: "This is another song about a girl that I went out with, but we have lost touch now. It's quite a patronising statement to tell somebody to sort their life out so maybe I had better not say any more about this one. When you try to analyse things too much you can get into a right tangle."
Leak
Best line: "I was a sexual forest fire, but my flame had been dampened by the monsoons of fear and age."
BD: "Ha! It happens to all of us! When you are young, you spend so much time in cheesy discos trying to pull because, well, you have to have something to pursue, don't you? I'm glad to say I don't hang around cheesy clubs now I'm on the verge of turning 40. Am I OK with that? No, I'm dreading it! I would far rather still be 33!"
Afternoon
Best line: "I lay down on daddy's chaise longue/The day that you broke all the rules/Did it matter to you?"
BD: "Everybody has a first time and this is a song about mine. I was 18. Was it over quickly? Well, it was fairly haphazard. The girl and I haven't exactly kept in touch but we send each other occasional Facebook messages. I still hold grudges 23 years on. I know it's not very mature, but what can you do?"
Happy Soup
Best line: "Badger just scored, barking in the dark, face like a basking shark"
BD: "I met some posh girls in a club once and had got off with one of them when this guy called Badger, who I'd only met that night, came butting in and ruined everything. The posh girls left and I ended up asking Badger to tell me some poetry. Do I think there's a bit of a Common People angle to this song? Maybe, but I'm not as well qualified to talk about that as Jarvis. I was brought up in Chiswick."
Trellic
Best line: "Golborne Road scrubbed up well/Mr Travis looks awfully proud"
BD: "Trellick Tower is this huge block of flats that looms over west London. It's got a really interesting history: the geezer who designed it was called Goldfinger and was a bit of a psychopath. Ian Fleming named his Bond villain after him and originally he was going to call him Goldprick! Trellick Tower was this big social experiment but now it's a semi-privatised block with a bohemian enclave. Mr Travis is Geoff Travis from Rough Trade, who has his shop on Golborne Road. People have always claimed that Morrissey wrote Frankly Mr Shankly about him, but Geoff says that's not true."
Picnic On The Edge
Best line: "She calls her mummy, he's a f***ing psycho."
BD: "Again, this is about me and an old girlfriend and we had a relationship that seemed really nice but was very dangerous and was always on the verge of falling off the edge of a mountain. But we had some good times along the way; some picnics. At least we got some good food."
Hotel In Brixton
Best line:
"The lights go on and the lights go off, and the ladies walk and the ladies talk."
BD: "The Hotel In Brixton is an imaginary place where you get trapped. It's sort of a prison term. There are a lot of songs on this album about people getting trapped and they all seem to have a seedy romance about them."
The Sun
Best line: "Johnny doesn't like the sun, sits at home playing with his gun."
BD: "Johnny is another person who is still trapped and is not growing. He sounds like a maladjusted loner who could go off the edge but that's a bit too obvious. In a funny way, this is like an old traditional song."
Trophies
Best line: "Underneath your eyes are the trophies of your life"
BD: "We all collect trophies through life, the blemishes that reflect your years. This song is about the things that you are left with, in good and bad ways. The sole advantage of getting older that I can see is you have more experience to deal with life and you have to use that knowledge to your advantage – if you can…"