The Big Bright Green Pleasure Machine - Gerry & The Pacemakers ( 1966 ) video free download
Recorded in Sept 1966 but never released in the UK , this Paul Simon composed song was released in October 1966 by Gerry & The Pacemakers as their final USA single . It failed to chart.
Do people have a tendency to go for you?
Does your group have more cavities than theirs?
Do all the hippies seem to get the jump on you?
Do you sleep alone when others sleep in pairs?
Well there's no need to complain
We'll eliminate your pain
We can neutralize your brain
You'll feel just fine
Now
Buy a big bright green pleasure machine!
Do figures of authority just shoot you down?
Is life within the business world a drag?
Did your boss just mention that you'd better shop around
To find yourself a more productive bag?
Are you worried and distressed?
Can't seem to get no rest?
Put our product to the test
You'll feel just fine
Now
Buy a big bright green pleasure machine!
You'd better hurry up and order one
Our limited supply is very nearly gone
Do you nervously await the blows of cruel fate?
Do your checks bounce higher than a rubber ball?
Are you worried 'cause your girlfriend's just a little late?
Are you looking for a way to chuck it all?
We can end your daily strife
At a reasonable price
You've seen it advertised in Life
You'll feel just fine
Now
Buy a big bright green pleasure machine!
Comments
10 years ago
Klaus Bergmaier
In the booklet of the 1994 Repertoire Records CD-reissue of the Ferry Cross The Mersey album, this is added as a bonus track and (!) is credited to Marsden instead of Simon. Strange! Anyway a great song and a nice version of it.10 years ago
Mark Sherer
TO this day Gerry Marsden still performs as "Gerry and the Pacemakers" but his songs have been rearranged to the point of not doing any justice to the sound Gerry had with Freddy Marsden, Les Mcguire and Les Chadwick. 11 years ago
RollingSlyFunk
Billboard Magazine of 7 January '67 on Looking for My Life and Green Machine: (..) while the flip is a driving rhythm number with off-beat lyric. A discotheque winner. With play, should prove a giant.14 years ago
rslitman
I'm thinking of putting together a playlist of "Songs You May Know By Simon and Garfunkel", and if I do it, I'll add this song to it.15 years ago
amylNRG
A martian with something entertaining...15 years ago
eydie sanders
grow up? never! as john mellencamp says, "growing up leads to growing old and then to dying, and dying to me never seemed to be all that much fun." let's agree to disagree. it's just opinion, anyway. songs are very personal to me and i see meaning in everything. if you don't, then that's you and that's cool. truce.15 years ago
amylNRG
@eydie57 Oh, grow up! If that's the best you can come up with, what's the point? Asserting that there's some hidden meaning that neither you nor I can observe is like a child asserting the existence of the Easter bunny: you can't see him, but you say he's there because to believe otherwise would require you to face a truth that doesn't fit your world-view. Look at the facts you can observe, rather than asserting some fiction unsupported by evidence.15 years ago
eydie sanders
@amylNRG if meaning only exists when it is communicated between two minds and paul wrote the song for a special someone, then that's two minds, thus, meaning. we just don't happen to understand the meaning because we weren't in on it.15 years ago
eydie sanders
@amylNRG the funny thing is, i don't even like this song, but i'm starting to feel protective of it.15 years ago
eydie sanders
@amylNRG so it doesn't have a meaning for you. i maintain that many awesome songs don't chart and one look at today's music illustrates that garbage does plenty of charting.15 years ago
amylNRG
@eydie57 Nonsense, of course I can say that it doesn't have a meaning, because it doesn't. It may have a _private meaning_ to the writer, but that doesn't give it meaning in the general sense of the word. Say I type the phrase "blah-di-blah". Any rational person would say this has no meaning, even if I give it the private meaning of "I want a banana". Meaning only exists when it is communicated: the process of ascribing meaning requires two minds communicating. This song doesn't do that.15 years ago
eydie sanders
@leonaofficial thank you, now that's info i was looking for. and it's written by paul simon and i know for sure that he doesn't write stupid anything.15 years ago
eydie sanders
@amylNRG well, since you didn't write the song, i don't think you can say for absolute certain that it doesn't mean anything. and lots of really good songs don't chart and lots of horrible songs do chart, so that's not valid either. but thanks for writing.15 years ago
amylNRG
It's not code for anything. It's just another stupid 60s song, and the "big bright green pleasure machine" is just more or less nonsense syllables like "ding-a ding-a dong" in a Eurovision song. It has no meaning, which is why the song failed to chart and is now forgotten.15 years ago
eydie sanders
precisely what is the big green pleasure machine? is this code for something? what am i missing?15 years ago
rslitman
I thought I had remembered "Girl on a Swing" coming out in the U.S. near the tail end of 1966, which would have made it later than this one, but I just looked that one up, and it entered the Billboard Hot 100 on Sept. 10, 1966. (I almost typed it in U.S. abbreviated date form as 9/10/66, but for some people, that is October 9, which makes a difference in this case.)15 years ago
45rpmSINGLES
Yes I agree quite often the songs that havent charted are more interesting than those we are all familiar with.15 years ago
YCSMusic
Possibly not commercial enough to chart, which makes it all the more interesting to listen to in my book, I thought it was a very decent track.Related Videos
