| Sleepytime Gorilla Museum – Babydoctor Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Unless the liner notes write the lyrics out, 'halal' is something else entirely, meaning 'lawful' but most often pertaining to the proper slaying and preparation of meat in accordance with Sharia. The closest thing we might find to tie in with other imagery, say, that of Pelton & Crane, is that the company seems to be most notable for its production of a sterilizer that went on to be stocked as military medical hardware. This is a loose association of course, but perhaps most helpful is to bear in mind related acts to Sleepytime Gorilla Museum. The Book Of Knots is the widest-reaching project amongst SGM and friends, and this pays particular attention to the mechanization of labor, the tapering of industrial progress, and the horror which results from the obsolescence of the working class, which is easily read into this song and perhaps the entire album Of Natural History. The Book Of Knots has a habit of invoking companies and products often seemingly for their own sake, perhaps to inspire research (a bent of historical materialism?) and perhaps also to demonstrate the transience and seeming inanity of life via the uselessness of old company names in our minds. Pelton & Crane were people once; now they're a company. |
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