The following is an excerpt from a post by Kim Salmon on Forum B92, dated 29 October 2004:

Recently a scientist (a real one) asked me what the deal was with the Scientists early stuff. He liked everything post "Swampland" but wasn't sure about the lyrics in all those early songs with titles like "That Girl", "Girl" and "Pretty Girl". My answer was that I didn't write those lyrics. The songs were written thus: James Baker, the original Scientists drummer, would announce that he had a song and "sing" the lyrics for me to play back to him. From his atonal renderings I would invent a melody with an appropriate chord sequence and perform it, to which he would say, "Yeah, that's how it goes" or, "No, not like that", if he didn't like it. In defence of James' lyrics, the "girl songs" were part of his celebration of rock and roll of which dumb lyrics were, as far as we were concerned, "de rigueur" along with other things not normally revered, like playing too loud, posturing and "not giving a shit".

                              Kim Salmon again, from an interview with Aaron Goldberg, PerfectSoundForever.com, October 99:

PSF: In the early days what were the Scientists trying to do?

Kim Salmon: I had a thing that I wanted to do which was very much influenced by American punk rather British punk, bands like Television, the Stooges and Velvet Underground. I wanted it to be like really primitive and have these kind of white-noise drones and lots of feedback. But I didn't write any lyrics, and James Baker used to write lyrics, he was the lyricist even though he was the drummer. I mean its a bizarre situation where your drummer's writing lyrics, and he's tone deaf! He tended to write lots of songs that had the word 'girl' in it. He had about eight songs like there was 'Girl like you', 'Kind of girl', 'Pretty girl,' you know they just went on, so it tended to be a kind of 'pop' sort of thing, where I would use his lyrics, and he would try a put a tune to the lyrics and I would make up my own tune, and he would say 'yeah! Like that!' (laughs)