
The Jazz Butcher
Lyrics
Girl-Go
Lyrics
Girl-Go
sample: [Tu as vu toutes les étoiles?]"have you seen all the stars?" - the tune is stolen, of course, from All The Stars by The Perfect DisasterI'm my father's own stupid son
Sit watching the T.V. when it's time for me to run
You wrote a song about going to sea
When things got tough you were so kind to me Chorus:Oh, look at her goEverything she used to do was wrong
Won't you look at her go
Won't you look at that girl go
Oh, look at her go
Won't you look at her go
Won't you look at that girl go
The time was too short
And the words were all too long
Everything she used to do was wrong
I never dreamed she'd turn up in her own song Chorus And I've been dreaming
God knows I've been dreaming Chorus Won't you look at her go?
I've just got to watch her go now
Watch her go downtown
[live: What's the point of a suicide note, anyway?]if you want to start adding live variations we'll be here all week...
Found On
Buy These Records
Spooky EP
Thanks for the money. We'll be spending it on weapons and drugs. The first thing that you have to understand about this disc is that it is not an L.P.: it is a single and a radio session nailed together for your amusement.
Cult Of The Basement
If things seemed weird back in February 1989, when we made this baby, the Weird were going shopping on bikes. In a farmhouse in the dead of winter, in personal circumstances too bizarre and complex to relate, we set about making our "commercial suicide" album. For the first time, I felt, we had made an album that really sounded like us. This record does have personality. One of my favourites, this.
Edward's Closet
So you've got a CD player, have you? I've got a headache and an abiding dislike of expensive food crews in dumb baseball hats. I've been in Edward's Closet and he wasnt't in. "That JBC", they mutter at the bus-stop, "turned left at the light a Long Time Ago".
Unconditional
One of the better Creation-era compilations. Canadian release.
Western Family
For loonie completists only, for sure, though, if you listen through the muck, you'll see that we did our bit.
¡Excellent! The Violent Years
Millions of years ago, dinosaurs ruled the Earth. Today the Galileo Space Probe orbits mighty planet Jupiter. The Jazz Butcher Conspiracy first appeared in June 1982 in the back room of the Black Lion in Northampton. They finally drank the bar dry in a small town in in Mallorca on the 20th August 1996
The Jazz Butcher's Free Lunch
"You're not a band. You're a crack team of international restaurant critics" - Curtis E. Johnson
VA: American Pensioners On Ecstasy
Contribution:
Girl-Go
Another track from that L.A. babe, Deirdre O'Donoghue's radio show.
Brave New Waves Session
The Jazz Butcher’s Brave New Waves session was recorded on June 5th, 1988 in CBC Studio 13 in Montreal. The recording is taken from CBC Archives reels and remastered at Grey Market Mastering in Montreal, by Harris Newman.
The Violent Years
Expansive book-styled package of the first four albums from The Jazz Butcher’s early Creation Records’ years – 1988-1991. Featuring the much praised ‘Fishcotheque’, ‘Big Planet, Scarey Planet’, ‘Cult Of The Basement’ and ‘Condition Blue”.
Dr Cholmondley Repents: A-sides, B-Sides and Seasides
Four CD box set gathering A-sides, the would-be hits along with B-sides, tangential 12-inch tracks (the C-sides), and an excellent session for Los Angeles radio station KCRW from 1989. Includes over a dozen indie chart hits including ‘Southern Mark Smith’, ‘Girl Go’, ‘The Human Jungle’, ‘16 Years’ plus a host of truly eclectic Butcher tunes from his early Glass recordings through his time at Creation.
Pat Says
The Butcher Says..
Tu as vu toutes les étoiles? The JBC lush out in tribute to the (sadly departed) The Perfect Disaster, featuring a superlative example of the Richard Formby guitar assult. The lead vocal was recorded in the studio garden at one in the morning in mid-January. The reasoning escapes me now. Probably, I had been very bad.
Source:
Unconditional liner notes
Girl-Go is for my friend Phil (ip of Walshingham) Parfitt, singer & writer with The Perfect Disaster and class A-! human being. It is about a number of things, with special emphasis on the popular chord "E". Listen and pass out.
Source:
Spooky liner notes
Live Stats
47 documented performances (click to explore)
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Media
Official Video
Rough studio mix
2 Recorded Live Performances
1989-12-09 Roxy Theatre - Los Angeles, USA West Coast '89 Cassette
1988-06-12 Odd Rock Cafe - Milwaukee, USA One of first performances
Credit: Douglas Buege
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Girl-Go
christopher.m.keen[at]-remove-gmail.com - Chris - Dundas, Canada
9Sep2022 1:12 PM (1 year 17 days ago)One of my all-time favourites. Reminds me of so much.
RIP Pat.
Long live Max et al. -
Pain
aq[at]-remove-admiralquality.com - Admiral Quality/Toronto
16Jan2018 2:28 AM (5 years 254 days ago)Not my favorite JB song by any means but it's making me cry so badly.
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stupid daughter
velocityjones[at]-remove-yahoo.com - stephanie (floss angeles)
19Dec2007 6:36 PM (15 years 284 days ago)my favorite J.B. tune...and I want that green-paisley'ed blanket in the video, please.
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live
bubba[at]-remove-aol.com - ludicrust
8Feb2007 1:48 PM (16 years 234 days ago)......as with several other less-than-pristine renderings, the live version on Western Family grows on one with time, 'til other versions are o'er taken in order of favoriteness,to wit,delicious reverb and postiviely wicked guitar that are nothing short of mind-blowing.........
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loook at her go
ken.h[at]-remove-optusnet.com - sydney
14May2005 9:43 PM (18 years 138 days ago)Possibly my favourite JBC song. The opening sax work is near perfect. The vocal delivery is perfect. The guitar refrain hits me the same way as the Smiths How Soon Is Now. The sax is as good as the Laughing Clowns Eternally Yours.
Excellent site!!
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Girl-Go, Betty
tissue_tiger[at]-remove-hotmail.com - Yokohama, Japan
6Oct2001 3:09 AM (21 years 360 days ago)I think there are some songs inspired by motion pictures in the Buther's songs. This song gives me a scenery of "Betty Blue". Has Pat ever contributed his tunes for films? If he has, it must be a good one.