SINGER: Negativland

SONG:Smelly Water

Wow! what a team!
Right. pleasure being together like this.
We've a real challange on today, right.
Two days to crack the formula of how to sell
Water plants across europe and right here in the
Uk by direct marketing.

Drip, drip, drip.

Ok, on the elective side: fear, fear.
You make her brush her teeth, you tell her not to
Talk to strangers, so why do you put arsenic in her
Orange juice?

It's quite a powerful proposition, quite a powerful catch.
Yes, so say it.


Another cup of java.

Stinko. blotto.

Another cup...

Have smelly water.

Drip, drip, drip.

You see me as....
You see me as.... as, as, as...

Are you on? are you switched on?

Another cup of java.
Get me some nickels, barney.

Drip, drip, drip.

Give me a cup of coffee.

Drip, drip, drip, drip.

You better settle for a hamburger.

Drip, drip, drip.

Another cup of java.
Give me a cup of coffee.

You must like our coffee.

It stinks.

It had a distinct odor. distinct odor.
Drip, drip...

I notice you're drinking your seventh hamburger.

Drip, drip, drip.

Well, um. well, um...

Drip, drip, drip.

Well, um.

Drip, drip, drip.

Well, um, here in our part of the country we have
A problem with our water.

Drip, drip.

It's that our water smells; we have smelly water.

Drip, drip, drip.

We have smelly water.

Drip, drip.

I notice you're drinking a hamburger.

Drip.

Another cup of java.

Barney, get me some nickels.

Anything else?

Barney.

Anything else?

Yeah, what else?

Yeah, what else? java.

Drip.

Yeah, what else you got today but coffee?

How about anything else?

Give me a cup of coffee.

Drip, drip, drip.

Another cup of java. java.

You see me as...

Java, java.

You see me as...

Java, java.

You see me as...

Java, java.

As, as, as, as...

It stinks.

It had a distinct odor.

A magic looking glass. who does?

Libido.

They're told to watch channel 4 at eight o'clock in the morning.

Stinko.

They're going to watch this tv commercial and discover....

Stinko.

...the collected impurities in the water.

Drip, drip, drip.
Drink, drink, drink.
Drip, drip, drip...

Drip, drip, drip.

And words will appear.

... goes the water.

Stinko.

Drip, drip, drip...

You could have arsenic...

... goes the water.

Stinko.

...asbestos...

Drip, drip, drip, goes the water.

Stinko.

...all the nasties...

Drip, drip, drip, goes the water.

.. all the nasties in the water, suddenly appearing.

Stinko, blotto, free love...

Arsenic...


Bathtub gin...

...asbestos....

...monkey glands, karl marx...

...arsenic..

...cubisms, slits,

...asbestos...

...neurotic...

...all the nasties...

...heterosexual.

My, my, my, what an eager little mind. you won't need some of these
Words for months and months.

Well, um. well, um. um, um, um,...

It's that our water smells, we have smelly water. and, and.
It's that our water smells, we have smelly water.

And by judicous questioning we have to find and assosiate the kind of
People who are interested in this.

Drip...

It's trickle-down theory.

The tv-campaign, several tv campai