GOT MILK?: Herman's Hermits' "No Milk Today"
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Track:No Milk Today
Written by that zany Limey, Graham Gouldman, late of 10cc.
I first heard this at an age when each novel recording was greeted as the Greatest Song of All. I had a cruddy little 45 of this, inherited from my babysitter, that I listened to endlessly, never fully plumbing the mystery of the song's appeal.
Comments (12)
The bells section is cool..The guitar shots are cool. It was my first time hearing it and I can see how you felt that way. That is one snappy number.
I like the vid I guess. **Herman's Hermits** ? C'mon!
Gouldman (and his 10cc mates) have quite the creative history. Never heard this catchy bit. Thanks!
I have heard ABOUT this song for some 40 years, and always assumed that somewhere in my life I'd heard it. Nope. Thanks!
"No Milk Today" is beautiful. Another one is from their There's a Kind of Hush All Over the World LP, "Little Miss Sorrow, Child of Tomorrow."
I love this song and I never knew who was singing it. Thank you for that.
There is just something so grabbing about it. I feel the exact same thing with Zombies' She's Not There.
The Hermits left a nice little bundle of songs I'm always happy to hear when I do. Here's another of them:
"There's a Kind of Hush"
I'm unable to watch this now (video unavailable), but I will find it otherwise. Merci!
PS No Milk Today is stuck in my head...darn it! :)
Then you should definitely have the correct lyrics:
I woke up today with the song still in my head. And you made it even worse with the video. You are pure evil...
Just doing my duty, ma'am. Just doing my duty.
I hate the paperwork as much as the next flatfoot on the beat. But Gouldman has committed the perfect crime in penning this one: a perfectly infectious pop song.
The lyrics are unusually elegant, but the rapid clip of syllables (and the highly puzzling use of English colloquialisms [and proper grammar]) makes some lines virtually indecipherable.
My picks for most hard-to-grasp phrases:
"The bottle stands forlorn, a symbol of the dawn"
"A terraced house in a mean street back of town"
"Just two up two down"
"How could they know the palace there had been
Behind the door where my love reigned as queen"
"As music played the faster did we dance
We felt it both at once, the start of our romance"
"The company was gay, we'd turn night into day"
...Perhaps it would be easier to list the lines that I did not need a crib sheet for. I had a whole set of imaginary lyrics created for this when I was a lad, pre-internet ("The bottle stands for love, a symbol of the dog" being one of the less embarrassing).
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(There are worse songs to have stuck in one's head. But the informal title given this phenomenon well suggests its torment: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earworm )
"The bottle stands forlorn" was something I would NEVER get without the lyrics.
I love my earworms! I'm more than happy to let them devour me.
Today I'm stuck with Soft Cells' Tainted Love (don't ask, no idea why).
I'm only annoyed when I don't have the song to listen to it on repeat (had to watch your videos MANY times). But luckily, I found the song now. ;) It really is unbelievably catchy.......