'Frontier Psychiatrist' / The Avalanches

Buen tiempo hace conocíamos ya del flemático y apreciable blog 'Frontier Psychiatrist', distinguido súbdito él de la Corona Británica. Al poco tiempo, vinimos a enterarnos de que ostentaba el nombre de un famoso tema de la banda australiana 'The Avalanches' (fue el tercer sencillo de su álbum debut 'Since I left you', publicado en el año 2000).

Recién hemos tenido noticia de la desopilante naturaleza de 'Frontier Psychiatrist' pues en la grabación del tema, arduo y logrado ejercicio de collage, se emplearon fragmentos de pistas sonoras de más de 30 distintas procedencias. Sin duda ello no es novedoso pero, todos lo sabemos, 'postmodernité oblige'.

Se hicieron dos videoclips del tema, cada cual más estrambótico y empapado en la peculiar atmósfera de los sueños, que nuestros lectores más sensibles sabrán apreciar. Aquí adjuntamos ambos, benévolamente surreales.

La letra de 'Frontier Psychiatrist' no requiere traducción. Delicioso es el juego del término 'frontier' aplicado a un psiquiatra -y tampoco requiere comentario-:

FRONTIER PSYCHIATRIST

(R Chater,  Dobson, B Kaempfert, H Rehbein, D Seltmann, C Sigman)

Is Dexter ill, Is Dexter ill, Is Dexter ill

Is Dexter ill today, Mr Kirk, Dexter's in school

I'm afraid he's not, Miss Fishborne

Dexter's truancy problem is way out of hand

The Baltimore County school board have decided to expel

Dexter from the entire public school system

Oh Mr Kirk, I'm as upset as you to learn of Dexter's truancy

But surely, expulsion is not the answer!

I'm afraid expulsion is the only answer

It's the opinion of the entire staff that Dexter is criminally insane

That boy needs therapy, psychosomatic,

That boy needs therapy, purely psychosomatic

That boy needs therapy

Lie down on the couch! What does that mean?

You're a nut! You're crazy in the coconut!

What does that mean? That boy needs therapy

I'm gonna kill you, that boy needs therapy

Grab a kazoo, let's have a duel

Now when I count three

That, that, that, that, that boy.. boy needs therapy

He was white as a sheet

And he also made false teeth

Avalanches is above, business continues below

Did I ever tell you the story about

Cowboys! M-M-midgets, the indians and, Fron, Frontier Psychiatrist

I... I felt strangely hypnotised

I was in another world, a world of 20.000 girls

And milk! Rectangles, to an optometrist, the man with the golden eyeball

And tighten your buttocks, pour juice on your chin

I promise my girlfriend I'd, the violin, violin, violin ...

 

Frontier Psychiatrist

Frontier, frontier, frontier, frontier

Frontier, frontier, frontier, frontier

Frontier, frontier, frontier, frontier

That boy needs therapy, psychosomatic

That boy needs therapy, purely psychosomatic

That boy needs therapy

Lie down on the couch, what does that mean?

You're a nut! You're crazy in the coconut!

What does that mean? That boy needs therapy

I'm gonna kill you, that boy needs therapy

Ranagazoo, let's have a tune

Now when I count three

That, that, that, that, that boy.. boy needs therapy

He was white as a sheet

And he also made false teeth

Frontier Psychiatrist

Can you think of anything else that talks, other than a person?

A-a a-a-a-a, a bird? Yeah!

Sometimes a parrot talks

Hello hello hello hello

Ha ha ha ha ha !!!!

Yes, some birds are funny when they talk

Can you think of anything else?

Um, a record, record, record !

'The Avalanches'

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