(This is) the Thrilling Conversation You’ve Been Waiting For
Recorded
Release history
Credits
- Written by Harvey Danger, © But Mom I Love Music (ASCAP)/
Famous Music - Recorded at Bearsville Sound Studios
- Aaron: bass, baritone guitar
- Jeff: guitars
- Sean: lead and backing vocals
- Evan: drums
- Ken Stringfellow, Ben Gibbard: backing vocals
Alternate versions
Lyrics
There is a price tag on everything
A dying language beat down like a featherweight, staggering
Once you’ve had bad credit
you’ll never forget you had itDim innuendos are spoken aloud
And supermodels are super-endowed
Fashion is the art of brainwashing the proud1The shocking inclination
(The vulgar ostentation)
The group inoculation
(The sketchy motivation)
The holy exaltation
(The misappropriation)
The underestimationThis is the thrilling conversation you’ve been waiting for
Ears down to the noise floor
Just to hear the sound
The adjectives are everywhere
I stand downIs this the fascist expurgation?
The people’s liberation?
The teen emancipation?
The tintinnabulation?This is the thrilling conversation you’ve been waiting for
Disassociate if you can’t support it
Don’t try on the suit if you can’t afford it
Footnote #24 in the KJV CD liner notes:
No ingress or egress. ↩
Quotes
SCN: Another massive title, another case of lyrical importantitis, built on the trusty AAAA rhyme scheme; LOVE the distorted bassline, love the second set of “ation” rhymes, culminating in “tintinnabulation” (and a little ringing on the cymbals to underline it), and love the Stringfellow/Gibbard Beach Boys harmonies; label president derided song for being
too clever by half, like XTC(specifically “Respectable Street”), which sounded like victory to me.10A
Notes
- This song was originally the front half of a medley whose back half became “The Same as Being in Love”.10A