The Fall Of Saigon
1979 · Piano THIS-1 · UK: England
- Artist
- This Heat
- Title
- The Fall Of Saigon
- Release
- This Heat
- Year
- 1979
- Label
- Piano # THIS-1
- Format
- LP · Album
- Language
- English
- Country
- UK: England
- Genre
- Rock · Art Rock
- Primary theme
- Post-War
Annotation
Fall of Saigon, The (This Heat) Track Formed 1975, Camberwell, Greater London, United Kingdom Disbanded 1982
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Lyrics
English: We ate Soda, the embassy cat / Poor Soda's coda / No more da capo, she's decapitated / Running 'round the room, half-baked / The other half is bacon and sizzling in the frying pan / We ate the TV / We ate the armchair / We ate the telephone / We ate the styrofoam / My God how we got so far only to reach so low / The Russians saved the janitor / Soda was a little tough to eat / No wonder she was hard meat / Out on the roof with the feline goose / But Soda had a heart of gold / The ambassador's wife had the liver / "Please deliver us from evil," she cried / "I know all about cats and their heavy vibes" / She was a very hip ambassador's wife
Notes
Released September 1979. Recorded February 1976 to September 1978 at The Workhouse and Cold Storage, Camberwell; 2 and 24 track recordings; includes live performances; side B ends in a locked groove. Producers Anthony Moore, David Cunningham, This Heat. Members: Charles Bullen (guitar, clarinet, viola, voice, tape), Gareth Williams (keyboards, guitar, bass, voice, tape), Charles Hayward (percussion, keyboards, voice, tape). Published by Blackhill Music. There are two other 1979 UK pressings and a German one. From the debut album released September 1979 and recorded 1976-78 at Cold Storage, Camberwell; a grotesque scene of the embassy staff eating the embassy cat during the fall of Saigon.
About the artist
Experimental group formed in 1975 in Camberwell, London, of Charles Bullen, Gareth Williams and Charles Hayward, disbanded in 1982.
Themes
Fall of Saigon · Saigon · Satire · Russia