I've decided to stay with the Flying Nun theme today and this song is the quintessential Flying Nun Single... well, along with Pink Frost and Tally Ho, to name just a couple. The Verlaines formed in Dunedin in 1981 and they released "Death and the Maiden" in 1983. It has one of the best opening lines I've ever heard, which is.... " You're just too obscure for me" and they even released a 'best of' album with that as the title. They get their name from the French Poet Paul Verlaine and he is referenced in the chorus of this song.
Graeme Downes from the Verlaines is also a lecturer at Otago University. If Otago University ever needed to advertise for students (which is probably unlikely) this would be the perfect soundtrack for the advert... but then again, I don't think Graeme Downes would ever sell out... even to his employer.
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