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June 26 2005
 

How did you end up writing "If I Could Talk I'd Tell You" with Eugene Kelley [Eugenius, The Vaselines]?

We were at a certain renowned and rich family's apartment in NY, and they had Napolean Bonaparte's drafting table, and we were doing blow off Napolean Bonaparte's pure gold drafting table and that's when we wrote that song. That explains the weird references to totalitarianism [Khmer Rouge, Mein Kampf]. We're like, what are we going to do next, smoke crack though Hitler's underpants? Then we found out that the guy from Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark, his first band was called Hitler's Underpants. With a Z. With a Zed, as Eugene would say.

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