Yes, I am talking about that horrendous, side spoiling piece of garbage "Benny The Bouncer" off of Brain Salad Surgery. I recall buying the LP and enjoying side one to the max for the first time through it - and then - Kabam!!! It sounds like a bunch of drunken non-musicians doing their best to destroy a great, majestic album side with a 2 minute, 15 second ode to crappiness. And, as if the barroom brawling "music" wasn't enough to send the listener reeling, there were these unbearable lyrics, which look like they were penned by a pre-pubescent delinquent:
"Well, they dragged him from the wreckage of the Palais in bits.
They tried to stick together all the bits that would fit.
But some of him was missing
And "part of him" arrived too late,
So now he works for Jesus
As the bouncer at St. Peter's Gate..."
Even if it was a tongue-in-cheek one off, it was completely uncalled for on this classic prog album. What were those three thinking?
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