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Old 01-11-2010, 09:52
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The Future Has Been Here 4ever
Please note that, according to the album sleeve, there is no space between the '4' and 'ever'.

And what's more, 'ever' should therefore start with a lower-case 'e'.


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Old 01-11-2010, 11:09
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the sleeve also doesn't warn that it's a complete pile of shit of a song, either. record sleeves can deceive you, they are not to be trusted.
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Old 01-11-2010, 12:18
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i disagree, its probably one of the best songs on the album in my opinion
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Old 01-11-2010, 12:21
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It's pretty naff, but I can't help but keep singing it in my head randomly. Mostly the trumpet part and Godfather 3 line
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Old 01-11-2010, 12:31
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that line has to be the worst thing Wire has ever written, "IMO".....
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that line has to be the worst thing Wire has ever written, "IMO".....
It's up there but I think he still has a way to go before topping 'the subject of this song, well I haven't really thought of one' etc
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that line has to be the worst thing Wire has ever written, "IMO".....
I agree but it's so stupid it's funny and always makes me laugh / smile to myself when I hear it.
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that line has to be the worst thing Wire has ever written, "IMO".....
It's a bad line, but the music makes it acceptable to me rather strangely.

I love the song, one of the few songs that has some lasting appeal and sincerity to it from the album.
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It's a bad line, but the music makes it acceptable to me rather strangely.
i confess when it started playing i thought "this sounds pretty good". then the signing and that line came along, and i was a bit like that bit in Bad Lieutenant where Harvey Keitel shoots the stereo in his car.
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that line has to be the worst thing Wire has ever written, "IMO".....
Worse than "The world is full of refugees / They're just like and just like me"?

The Godfather 3 reference may have also come about whilst watching telly. Maybe he was inspired by that "I like old movies / like The Godfather / Three" song from match.com!
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Worse than "The world is full of refugees / They're just like and just like me"?
that's no classic, but the reference to Godfather 3 made me cringe. cringe, i tell you, like no song since the heyday of Stock, Aitken & Waterman has made me cringe. it's the first time ever i have felt embarrassed for someone having to sing shit, it's no wonder James was having nothing to do with the vocals for it.
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I was just coming in to say I liked "The Godfather 3" film (and I watched it once... without seeing the other two...) but SeveredJoke has beaten me to the punch over

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The Godfather 3 reference may have also come about whilst watching telly. Maybe he was inspired by that "I like old movies / like The Godfather / Three" song from match.com!
I was just thinking that before. Seeing as getting an I-Pod ad seems to be Nicky's pet hates, he shot himself in the foot if he used this as inspiration.

But I still like the song. And even the album.
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that's no classic, but the reference to Godfather 3 made me cringe. cringe, i tell you, like no song since the heyday of Stock, Aitken & Waterman has made me cringe. it's the first time ever i have felt embarrassed for someone having to sing shit, it's no wonder James was having nothing to do with the vocals for it.
Some of the true shockers are on the b-sides. On the way to work I listened to 'Dying Breeds' with such gems as 'Like a dinosaur / who has lost his home / where the dodos roam / with no place to go / I believe in you / do you believe in me'.

On a separate note the 'I like old movies' ad really annoys me. The Godfather 3 was released in 1990! That's not old!
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One of the best songs with long-term appeal on the album.
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Godfather III is routinely accepted as a shameless cash-in. FFC only made it as he needed money, they fucked it up by refusing to pay Robert Duvall $500,000.00 to come back as Tom Hagen (Al Pacino got $5 million to mumble like he had throat cancer through it, George Hamilton cost less than half what they offered Duvall) and thus a disjointed mess that merrily masturbated over the two brilliant originals was delivered. why on earth would anyone wish to reference it?
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