I Feel Like We All Know A Geoffrey Ingram

A track by one of my favourite post-punk/indie pop bands the Television Personalities. "Geoffrey Ingram," from their first album And Don't the Kids Just Love It (Rough Trade, 1981) is simple, catchy, jangly and lo-fi with mundane lyrics with just-above-drab delivery - so much of what I love in music. I just love the way frontman Dan Treacy drops off on the lyric "Geoffrey is that kind of guy / Who always gets away with that sort of thing":


Geoffrey's got a nice new suit, he bought it yesterday
Ten pounds in an Oxfam shop near Hammersmith/Broadway
All the kids admire him, Geoffrey is the face
Geoffrey is the kind of guy
Who always gets away with that sort of thing

Geoffrey shops at Safeways, it's got everything he wants
He fills up his pockets with baked beans and blancmange
And all the girls on the tills smile at Geoffrey
He's the kind of guy
Who gets away with that sort of thing

Just like Geoffrey Ingram (Geoffrey Inngg-raaam!)
Just like Geoffrey Ingram (Geoffrey Inngg-raaam!)
Just like Geoffrey Ingram
Geoffrey always gets home as it starts to rain

Me and Geoff went to a jam gig, we got there too late
The Marquee was sold out, and it was only five-past-eight
But Geoffrey got us on the guest list, please don't ask me how
Geoffrey is the kind of guy
Who always gets away with that sort of thing

Geoffrey gets away with that sort of thing

Just like Geoffrey Ingram (Geoffrey Inngg-raaam!)
Just like Geoffrey Ingram (Geoffrey Inngg-raaam!)
Just like Geoffrey Ingram (Geoffrey Inngg-raaam!)
Just like Geoffrey Ingram (Geoffrey Inngg-raaam!)
Just like Geoffrey Ingram (Geoffrey Inngg-raaam!)
Just like Geoffrey Ingram (Geoffrey Inngg-raaam!)