OFF: Porcupine Tree discography

[Andrew A. Apold]

>> * Tarquins Seaweed Farm (1989)
>
>Does the name 'Tarquin' have an origin from Monty Python?  The 'election'
>sketch, where the 'very silly party' candidate (who's name was something like,
>'Tarquin-fim-dim-lim-dim-wim-dim-bus-stop-f'tang-f'tang-ole-biscuit-barrell')
>wins out over the 'sensible party' incumbent.  Or is this also taken from
>somewhere else??  Just wondering.....it's a very funny sketch, BTW.

Tarqin-barrel was not a "very silly party" candidate, he was standard silly.
Dunno if the name came from him.   The independent very silly candidate
(whose name I will not attempt to reproduce here, save to say it ends in
'Smith') got two votes, thus costing an election to a standard silly
candidate, who lost to the sensible candidate by one vote.

They've been the origin of other band's names before, most notably "Toad the
Wet Sprocket"


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Andrew A. Apold, aka                        "I was corrupt before I had power!"
Roger Shrubstaff                                 - Random, upon being accused
Chancellor                                            of being corrupted since
Barony of Silverwater                             becoming King....
Kingdom of the Burning Lands                (Roger Zelazny, d. 1995)