Hermann Loves Pauline

Of course it's about Hermann Einstein and Pauline Koch who gave birth to "little German" Albert and his sister.

You have to love a band that uses counterpoint well.

What's counterpoint? Is that when they're all singing different things at once?

we have ways of making you think, possibly the best line, ever.

"Marie Curie was Polish born but French bred (HAH! French bread!)"

Love that line. SFA are one of the few bands who can throw a funny line in a good song and still make it work!

SFA OK!

Apparently counterpoint is where 'two melodic strands occur simultaneously' - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterpoint

Which in this song would be all the "bah bah bah"s in the bridge.

i luv this song!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i just got an MP3 4 my 12th birthday, on sunday, this is the first thing that whent on it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

LOL

I relate to this. I used to sit and stare up the ceiling at school as well. Hah!! French breeaaad!!1

Actually, the song's about Gruff buying cheap factual books from motorway service stations and the information that they've taught him: so the first verse is from an Einstein biog and the second from some crummy Marie Curie biography, both of which came from service stations in the late 90s. The video is set in a motorway service station.

It's also a swipe at education: i.e. that it teaches you nothing useful and that actual geniuses underwhelm at school.

The song was not successful and was not popular- SFA were leaving it out of their sets during the tour to promote the single, that's how well it was going down live. It stalled at #27 in the UK Top 40.