![]() ![]() Reading the graffiti about slashed-seat affairs Two lovers missing the tranquility of solitude Two lovers kissing masks a scream of midnight Waking up from bad dreams and smoking cigarettesĬuddling a warm girl and smelling stale perfumeĪ hot summer’s day and sticky black tarmacįeeding ducks in the park and wishing you were far away Watching the telly and thinking ’bout your holidays PAUL WELLER CHILD WINDOWSOpening the windows and breathing in petrolĪn amateur band rehearsing in a nearby yard Watching the news and not eating your teaĪ freezing cold flat with damp on the walls Pissing down with rain on a boring Wednesday Paint-splattered walls and the cry of a tomcat The screech of brakes and lamplight blinkingĪn electric train and a ripped-up phone booth It was easy to write, I drew on everything around me.“ “I wrote it in 10 mins flat, whilst under the influence, I’d had a few but some songs just write themselves. In an interview with Absolute Radio he said: “I was in London by the time I wrote ‘That’s Entertainment’,” said Weller, “writing it was easy in a sense because all those images were at hand, around me.” ![]() The screech of brakes and lamp light blinkingĬulminating in the laconic and ironic refrain of “That’s entertainment, That’s entertainment” The minimalist, slice-of-life lyrics list various conditions of British working-class life. The only electric guitar part in the song is played backwards over one of the verses, a hallmark of psychedelia. Like much of Sound Affects, the song has strong undercurrents of pop-psychedelia. The song uses an almost entirely acoustic arrangement with only very light percussion. It consistently makes similar British lists of all-time great songs, such as BBC Radio 2‘s “Sold on Song” 2004 Top 100, at No.43. “That’s Entertainment” is the group’s lone entry, at No.306, on Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Songs of All Time list released in 2004. ![]()
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