Trouble Kid (PURE123S)

 Seven inch and promo-only CD released 22nd October 2001 on Too Pure

Trouble Kid (Battersea mix by Darren Hayman), Trouble Kid (Maproom mix by Appliance)

Trouble Kid

He is sixteen going on seventeen,
He got splinters from raising high the roof beams,
Living it, loving it, got to keep speaking it,
He don't feel it like we need it,
When his grubby face shows we know how the song goes.
Trouble Kid, Just look at what he did.
Something in the weather says I'm not so clever,
Why didn't I figure out that you're eyes weren't telling me what I thought they were.
Trouble Kid's not evil, He has got his reasons,
But I'm going to squash him flat, like a bug,
With my new timberlands

Other Information

This was a mistake. After We Love the City, a lot of the staff left Too Pure. We were inherited by a label boss who wanted to keep us in but had no real passion for the group. This record is typical of the compromised ideas going round the band at the time. What exactly is the point of a 7 inch edition seven inch remix? I was as much to blame, I was doing a lot of things that I didn't really want to around this period, I should have stood up for myself a bit more. That said the remix I did of Trouble Kid ambles along and raises a smile at least. The song Trouble Kid itself remains my least favourite of all the Hefner songs. It was the only time I wrote a song with the cynical intention of trying to do something that would sell. It shows in the result and I'm quite ashamed of it now.

The picture above is of Stereo-morphofonium a spin off band I formed with my friend Joel, we did two fairly hilarious shows which did nothing to win me any favours with the Hefner fans that showed up.

It was weird freak out synth rock with no vocals. All of the Stereo Morphofonium songs were recorded, so if any small label out there wants to release the great 'lost' Stereo Morphofonium album they should get in touch.