We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

When Jad Fair Wrote A Song About My Brother

from The Future Knows Best by Santa Sprees

/
  • Streaming + Download

    Includes high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. Paying supporters also get unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app.
    Purchasable with gift card

      name your price

     

about

Answer song to 'Graham' by Jad Fair. Used as gallery music in Graham Dolphin's 2016 show at the Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art.

lyrics

When Jad Fair wrote a song about my brother, it took a while
He was working with Kramer. He was stopped in the middle by thunder
He rhymed Britain with smitten because he can
He is Jad Fair
And it’s all good, it’s all fine

And he knows what a brother is: Jad and David. Me and Graham.
Art and music. Music and film
Me and my brother, we go back a way
We used to make tapes. Make their covers
Lying on the floor entombed in music, wrapped in paper
From paper / cuts from Jad to me to Graham
When he first heard Half Japanese, he found them funny
For one song, for one song
Then he knew, then he knew, then he knew
There would be no more Beatlemania
And we never wanted to be like them.
Being awkward was a badge
We could not join in with anyone only with each other.

Art, he has it made. He has made it
Music, he has it made. He has made it
Film, he has it made. He has made it
Family, he has it made. He has made it
He is a good man
It’s not a charmed life. He has made it

When Jad Fair wrote a song about my brother,
He hardly knew but he knew
Yeah, he knew

credits

from The Future Knows Best, released September 7, 2018
written and recorded May 2016
at Longwood House

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Santa Sprees

The Anglo-Japanese band Santa Sprees have been advancing the art of unpopular song since 1994. Making questionable progress from the low-skilled, no-fidelity, no wave of their earliest cassettes to the largely futile primitive avant bubblegum of today, releasing ten collections to date on a trail of defunct labels and media. ... more

contact / help

Contact Santa Sprees

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this track or account

Santa Sprees recommends:

If you like Santa Sprees, you may also like: