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Being a duo, Phil Collins Naked often performs songs that are little more than glorified dialogues. This is the tune that started this pernicious trend. How I did it was as absurd as the song itself: We talked over a scratch track of the bassline, and then recorded the dialogue. Then I went back and wrote down the length of each line and the length of the pause following each line, and wrote a drum and guitar part that responded to each line as if we were a real band of many live people improvising a call-and-response tune.

lyrics

DUDE # 1: Well. Um.
Mackerel?
DUDE #2: I think you mean ‘flounder’.
DUDE #1: Could be.
Could be ‘flounder’....
Could be mackerel.
DUDE #2: I think you mean ‘flounder-for-sure.’
DUDE #1: Could be ‘smelt’.
DUDE #2: It could be ‘smelt’ but I think you mean ‘flounder.’

DUDE #1: Could be tuna..

DUDE #2: Could be.
DUDE #1: What about ... ‘trout?’
DUDE #2: It’s possible, but I doubt it.
DUDE #1: Could be a ‘fine’, a ‘fine’, a ‘fine’ ‘trout’.
DUDE #2: I ‘DOUBT’ THE ‘TROUT.’
DUDE #1: You ‘doubt’ the ‘trout?’
DUDE #2: ....Even as we speak.
DUDE #1: What about ‘cod?’
DUDE #2: Could be ‘cod.’
DUDE #1: I see.
DUDE #2: Could be ‘cod,’ but I think you mean ‘flounder.’

DUDE #1: Well, I’m definitely not seeing a ‘flounder.’
DUDE #2: Could be ‘flounder.’
DUDE #1: What if They wanted us to think it was a ‘flounder?’
We’d be falling right for it!
DUDE #2: If They wanted us to think it was a ‘flounder,’ They’re doing a very good job.
DUDE #1: Could be a haddock.
DUDE #2: I think you mean ‘founder.’
DUDE #1: I think you mean ‘flounder.’;
DUDE #2: Yes, I mean ‘flounder.’
I think I mean ‘flounder.’
I think I mean ‘flounder.’
I ‘doubt’ the ‘trout.’

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from Phil Collins Naked (a real letdown), released June 30, 1989

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