Talk:Into the Valley

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[edit] Valleyfield

It's my understanding that the song is about young lads (from Dunfermline, I imagine) going to (High) Valleyfield (near Kincardine) for a drink and a fight - Valleyfield being particularly rough, even for babies-on-toast Fife. I can't find much in the way of decent sources to corroborate this (bar this, which I wouldn't cite), and the lyrics are unintelligible gobshite. Worse, we don't seem to have an article either about Valleyfield or its two disjoint parts (High and Low Valleyfield). -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 22:13, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

The lyrics are notorious. There was an advert that featured them, with the joke being that no one could understand them. I wish I could corroborate that. I remember it. --MacRusgail 20:12, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

Dave Batchelor laid the vocal tracks lower in the mix as a trick/device to encourage the listener to turn it up – no problem there. Possibly you are referring to the Maxell cassette tapes advert from early 1990s [1] → friedfish 09:38, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the link, I am including it, it's good enough. The song seems to have references to soldiers and war, common enough in Skids songs, but the rest of it is pretty unintelligible. --MacRusgail 15:57, 25 October 2006 (UTC)