As Yoz suggests, possibly the coolest page on the internet. Underworld's Karl Hyde talking about the lyrics to Born Slippy, as part of a English course over at the BBC World Service site. I thought these quotes were apposite here too:
"Where do you get the inspiration for your lyrics from, Karl?"
"For me, there is an inherent beauty in the city. I see the city as a very very beautiful place. Even the underside of it. There's a beauty even in the kind of... the forceful presentation of something. As long as it's meant with no malice or anger or violence, there's a beauty in its energy."
"What is 'Born Slippy' - a dream? A dream come true? Or is it your view of reality?"
"In the simplest form, it's me walking through the streets of Soho trying to get back home to Romford in Essex. I was referring to myself reduced to a piece of meat, due to the fact that I'd drunk too much. The bigger story is that I'm fascinated by the kind of snapshots that one retains when you've had a couple of drinks. These kind of very precise snapshots one has of a little piece of street, or of a rubbish bin, or of a tape-recorder... I'm talking about being like a hoover, hoovering up all the images and the sounds and the smells of the city. Because after all it's cities that would inspire me."
