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Bongo Prophet

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23. I'm obliged to post this song whenever Canute is mentioned, lol

Wed Sep 11, 2024, 04:54 PM

Sep 2024

Can-Utility and the Coastliners is the fourth song on the 1972 album Foxtrot.

Can-Utility appears to be a word-play on the name of an old King, Canute (also spelled Kanute, or Knut) The Coastliners are his followers who in one version of the story are sycophants needing to be shown the truth, and in the other are the ones exposing the delusions of the king. Hackett’s lyrics seem to weave elements of both tales into one.

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