Fishcakes – An Important Announcement

The Audiofiles are delighted to announce that the word FISHCAKES has now been officially adopted by the group.

‘Seasoned’ (geddit) Audiofile watchers know that the word Fishcake has several meanings.

One is of course a circular, breadcrumbed delicacy made of fish and mashed potato.

However, the second and more profound meaning of ‘fishcake’ is of course ‘an absurd and meaningless lyric of no merit whatsoever.’

Etymologists seeking the origin of this are advised to consult the bonus track list for a later CD version of Bauhaus’s album MASK, which was Bro Attwell’s listening choice for one of the earliest recorded Audiofile meetings.

In the song the esteemed giants of gothic rock are heard to deliver the following piece of poetry:

Take a fish
And a potato
Hold the fish
And the potato
In your hand
In your hand

Put the potato
In the fish
Make it digest it
Smash it up
Smash it up

Smash it up
Smash it up

This is how you make fishcakes
This is how one makes fishcakes
Smash it up
Poke it up

Fishcakes
Fishcakes
Fishcakes
Fishcakes

Put it down the fish
Put it down the fish
Throw it against the wall
Stamp on the fish

Fishcakes
Fishcakes
Fishcakes
Fishcakes

Throw it on the wall
Smash it on the wall
Throw it on the wall
Smash it on the wall

Fishcakes
Fishcakes.

Since that early meeting the word ‘fishcake’ or the phrase ‘a fishcake moment’ has come to mean a lyrical infelicity of the most profound sort and led to the official adoption of the word by the Audiofile membership.

Bro Turner has registered the word with http://www.adoptaword.com and the group, according to the certificate, must be congratulated on giving the word a happy home.