(posted by quarsan)
Number Three: Eine Symphonie Des Grauens – Monochrome Set (lyrics)
One of the funniest bands ever, the Monochrome Set epitomised the word quirky, and had a lovely sense of self-depreciation. Here’s a quote from their title song:
I fascinate, infatuate
Emphatically
You’re dreary, you’re base, deary
But your face is weary for me
I’m heaven sent, so eloquent
And curiously
I entertain your tiny brain
So spuriously
The Monochrome Set, Monochrome Set, Monochrome Set
Now, who could fail to be charmed by lyrics like that. I got into the set in my first flat in Edinburgh,one I shared with members of the Scars and Another Pretty Face. We had an almost nocturnal existance, sleeping during the day and speeding every night. We’d come home around 10 am from partying and put on a couple of discs to come down to.
There was something about the Set that gave me something good and strangely innocent to hang my psyche onto whilst my mind slowly crumbled into a daze that passed for sleep in those days. Eine symphonie seemed to fit into the mood with it’s comically dark lyrics, and it’s eccentric melody just made it a good track to wrap your psyche around.
Time has been kind to this most English of bands, their jollity is as lively as ever, their humour hasn’t faded and their charm is as infectious as ever. They managed the trick of being clever enough you admired them without being self important or pretentious.
Take your sense of fun for a walk and listen to their debut LP Strange Boutique.
troubled diva 