2 Jun 2008
Here’s Judie Tzuke to take us up to the news
When The Evening Sun Goes Down is one of those great songs which brings together a stack of brilliant but unrelated lines. Almost every one is a gem. Thanks to Patrick, gnick and eskimoeric
See lyrics to When The Evening Sun Goes Down
19 Letters Sent:
steve
Isn’t it
I’m ending on this rhyme deep in injury time.
Maybe not but that’s what I always thought it was what with that being the end of the song
Jun 23rd, 2008
Bob
I hear “attending on this rhyme” ??
Jun 27th, 2008
Mr Larrington
“sending on this rhyme” over here. Connotations of sending on a substitute in a foopball match.
Jul 11th, 2008
Andrew Daley
This was used as the theme tune for Ross Noble’s Radio 4 series. He is a fan.
Sep 2nd, 2008
Paul F
I’ve always heard it as “ending”.
Sep 4th, 2008
Chris The Siteowner
Definitely “sending on” IMHO. As in sending on a sub deep in injury time.
Sep 4th, 2008
paulie
“sending” – imho
Sep 5th, 2008
Informant
The “deep in injury time” points towards “sending” I’d say. As in sending on a sub deep in injury time in a football match.
Nov 12th, 2008
Neil G
How do the road gritters get to work? That’s a question I’ve been asking quite a few people recently? One suggested that they sleep in their lorries all night. I hadn’t thought of that.
Jan 13th, 2010
TWO FAT FEET
Don’t the road gritters get to work BEFORE the snow to grit the roads in preparation?
Actually no, they probably don’t and it shows.
Had this song as my ringtone for a bit, then I changed my phone and couldn’t work out how to program it in again.
Apr 5th, 2010
Norbert D
I always hated that road gritters line, as it really did seem like the kind of whimsical, bad-stand-up line HMHB usually manage to steer clear of (hence the radio DJ patter that comes after it, maybe).
But it’s a fair point, isn’t it? I still don’t know how the road gritters get to work.
Apr 9th, 2010
Charles Exford
Given the contents of the adjacent lines, I’ve always assumed it’s a piss-take of people (particularly people like stand-ups & DJs) who think it’s original to say things like “How do the road-gritters get to work ?”, which you hear every bloody winter from people who think it’s original, when it’s fairly obvious that the gritters usually go out before the snow falls, and that if the roads were truly impassible they wouldn’t get to work.
After all, NB57 himself is not actually in a position to give out a cruise, wheras the kind of DJ who plays Judy Tsuke might be.
Apr 9th, 2010
TWO FAT FEET
I have to say I felt much the same as Norbert, the road gritters line seemed like a rare slip from Nigel. It was only when I heard him do the song on an Andy Kershaw session that it clicked, that the whole verse was a send-up of crass DJs. Pity Judie Tzuke had to be denigrated by association though, I quite like that song she had.
Apr 9th, 2010
Norbert D
Yeah, that’s what I thought/hoped. Still grates a bit for me, though, anyway.
It’s that “questions in corners of my mind that lurk” bit too, like the bad comic on an episode of The Simpsons – “I think about weird things. Like what if ET married Mr T? Then you’d get Mr ET, wouldn’t you? ‘I pity the fool that doesn’t phone home’.”
I’d have thought NB57 would be quite into Judy Tzuke. Not sure why.
Apr 9th, 2010
TWO FAT FEET
Probably cos it’s a great name.
Apr 9th, 2010
Dave Cooper
Utterly pedantic but I think “Judy” Tzuke should actually be “Judie”.
Apr 19th, 2010
Chris The Siteowner
Oh bloody hell, thank you. What a howler.
Apr 19th, 2010
Dave F.
After the Pat Boone line he sings it as “dow-wow-wow-wown”
May 29th, 2010
Chris The Siteowner
Indeed he does. But I’d still contend that’s spelt “down”.
May 29th, 2010
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