Apr 13 2009
Tryptizol, Librium, Carbrital
Kara and I went to see Robyn Hitchcock again on Thursday, the first time he’s been in our area since the Birchmere last year. Robyn was amazing, as always, but the venue (the Black Cat in DC) sucked. We bought tickets for “Robyn Hitchcock and the Venus 3 8:00pm,” but it ended up being doors at 8:00pm, undeclared lame opening act at 9:00pm, and Robyn at 10:20pm. Since it was a weeknight and we had taken Metrorail to the club, we and several other concertgoers were forced to leave after an hour and 15 minutes in order to catch the last train. This makes me a sad panda, because I missed the encore that likely included some solo songs — my favorite parts.
Anyway, I could go on about how fantastic Robyn Hitchcock is, but we’ve already covered that here before. I just hope he never plays the Black Cat again.
Now that my complaining is out of the way, the real reason I’m writing this post is to provide correct lyrics for the refrain of the song “TLC” from “Goodnight Oslo.” The lyrics that are floating around online didn’t seem quite right to me, and after much Googling I finally dug up the correct drug names. It’s more difficult than you might think, since the names are brand names for medications sold in the UK in the 1960s and medicine brand names have a fairly short half-life.
Anyway, the correct lyric is:
Tryptizol (amitriptyline)
Librium (chlordiazepoxide)
Carbrital (phenobarbital and carbromal)
In particular, it’s Carbrital, not Carbitol. Some people online are hearing “Carbitol,” which is some kind of solvent and not a drug. Besides, I heard Robyn sing this song live and he definitely does not say “Carbitol.”
If you haven’t heard “Goodnight Oslo” and this sounds like complete gibberish, now would be a great time to go listen to the album.
Testing Telnet commenting. Nice blog. Phlog… sorry.
I’d say it looks like we have some problems with the telnet comment feature.