My Top 1000 Songs #196: Southern Mark Smith
The song has two versions, but the must-have is that organ & xylophone-driven single (not the jangly, still charming 1984 "Big Return" album version). Because the opening "Thousands of people are queing in the rain to meet the Pope. Meet the Pope! Meet the Pope! Meet the Pope!," inexplicably dropped from the remake, is an essential part of a wholesome life.
Does that song make a lick of sense? No! Does it have anything at all to do with The Fall's Mark E. Smith? Not as far as I can tell! Does it guarantee a sense of joy and happiness? Abso-freakin'-lutely!
Compare and contrast... the album version:Pat & company, live in 2018:
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