From a December 2015 blog post by Barry Andrews himself:
"Going Equipped is, of course, a list song. I love a good list song. I’m writing a piece at the moment which examines that whole area between Making Sense and Not: how far can you go into nonsense before it just becomes completely opaque and pointless? This song, I think, walks the line successfully, on the whole. List songs, though, by their nature, have a tendency to step into the surrealist, not-making-sense camp very easily: ’raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens…brown paper packages tied up with string etc’ is not, I think, any less nuts than ‘ we got the plasma, we got the chrome..we got the litmus, we got the trowels’. Surely?"
From a December 2015 blog post by Barry Andrews himself:
"Going Equipped is, of course, a list song. I love a good list song. I’m writing a piece at the moment which examines that whole area between Making Sense and Not: how far can you go into nonsense before it just becomes completely opaque and pointless? This song, I think, walks the line successfully, on the whole. List songs, though, by their nature, have a tendency to step into the surrealist, not-making-sense camp very easily: ’raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens…brown paper packages tied up with string etc’ is not, I think, any less nuts than ‘ we got the plasma, we got the chrome..we got the litmus, we got the trowels’. Surely?"