Travels in Nihilon

[allynh%miro@berkeley.edu (Allyn Hardyck)]

Something I discovered about this song lately which I thought interesting...

Well y'know, since I bought _Black Sea_ in high school, I've always interpreted
it as sort of XTC's 10-years-later answer to songs like "Gimme Shelter" and
"Won't Get Fooled Again", i.e. disillusionment following yet another youth-led
attempt to change society perverted and commercialized by corporate interests.

Turns out it was also the name of a book by Alan Sillitoe, one of the 
"angry young men" writers of late 50s Britain (_The Loneliness of the
Long-Distance Runner_, _Saturday Night and Sunday Morning_).  The books of
this era seem to have provided titles for quite a few songs in the
past few years...

allyn