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Super Furry Animals lyrics - Golden Retriever Golden Retriever

"Hey!" said the Devil
When I met her at the roundabout
She's got powers magnetic
Devours you of everything you've got

She's a golden retriever
Retrieves your oldest coin
Leads you blindly down every dark alley
And then she'll cream you dry

Wow!

"Stop!" said the puppy
When I met him at the zebra cross
Said "you'll need protection from every direction
But she'll get you anyhow"

Coz she's a golden retriever
Retrieves your oldest coin
Leads you blindly down every dark alley
And then she'll cream you dry

Wow!

She's a golden retriever

Golden retriever (X7)

(Golden retriever) (X4)

Quote (1) (Gruff):
"It's about a dog/bitch. It was fun releasing a plastic soul record (Juxtapozed With U) in the middle of a garage rock revival last time. This is different, but it's still got a Furry sound. There's never gonna be a song that represents the whole album, but we talked about it and agreed on this one."
Quote (2) (Gruff):
"I listen to a lot of people like Davey Graham, a lot of British folk and bluesmen and European acoustic musicians from the fifties and sixties, and musically Golden Retriever has that kind of feel. The lyrics are a blues parody - 'I met the devil at the roundabout'. I tried to update blues vocabulary, because I think that one of the things that bothers me most about rock and roll music is that people keep regurgitating the same words. I try to make my own clichés, you know? It also coincided with passing my driving test a few years back, which had a great effect on my life. In studying for my theory test I had to absorb a lot of road sign and driving theory vocabulary, which has made its way into songs like Golden Retriever and Valet Parking."
Quote (3) (Gruff):
"Well I wrote it in a car park in Willesden North London when I was locked out of a studio. The golden retriever is a very special dog in my life, my girlfriend's got two of them - a male and a female. The song's written from the perspective of the male dog. Funnily enough the golden retriever is the second most popular dog in the USA. But the black Labrador is number one."
Quote (4) (Gruff):
"It's a really simple song but we were trying to make a head banging song from the golden age of heavy rock. My girlfriend had two golden retrievers and one of them sadly passed away since the making of the song. But it is about a male and a female dog told through the male dog's perspective."
Where:
Monnow Valley Studios/Rockfield Studios
When:
2003
Source:
Track 16 (Songbook): 2 minutes, 28 seconds
Track 3 (Phantom Power): 2 minutes, 28 seconds
A-side (Golden Retriever): 2 minutes, 28 seconds
Status:
Complete!
Video director:
Jim & Jake
Video sequence director:
Pete Fowler/Neil McFarland
DVD director:
Dylan Jones
Remixed by:
Killa Kella - Track 5 (Phantom Phorce): 2 minutes, 33 seconds

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