Random Play: Rock Follies
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collectors favour the one with the 27-second euphonium solo after the words "and I'm lying in a coma, outside Verona."
And with some justification: that's a great line.
I just can't think of a rhyme for "Family & Naval" ...
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Now I feel less able, outside the family & naval
or,
I'm thinking about getting cable, while I contemplate my family & naval (navel)
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Think you know Clark Gable,
His Family and naval.Now that's an intro for Missy E if ever I heard one
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The crashing surf of the human wave'll
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Future folly:
Scribe: 'Scribe 2021'
After Scribe's disastrous 2007 comeback album Scribe The Master & Friends In A Constant State Until Never Die [sic], the once-hot rapper slid into obscurity. Even his attempt at giving The Wiggles some "flava" on a 2011 collaborative single, 'Let's Count To Ten (Muthaf---ers)', met with massive public indifference. It seemed that forming a Gray Bartlett-Brendan Dugan-Suzanne Prentice-like touring combo with hip-hop pals King Kapisi and The Decepticonz was the only way to stay in the music biz.
However, the week before Scribe and his tourmates were due to start their 'Stand the F--- Up' North Island tour at the Dannevirke RSA, a reworking of Scribe's first big hit unexpectedly topped the charts.
Across the land, kids young and old chanted the chorus of "Scribe 2021/My story's just began/ You never hung in the streets where I'm from". Ridng the wave of nostalgia, Scribe once again took up his post of New Zealand's number one hip-hop icon.
A position he held until Double J And Twice The T re-united with Robert D. Frogg for 'Drips Waste Water 2022'.
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While I wait for a phone call ...
'Che Speeds', Straitjacket Fits: When Alan Gibbs' daughter and band manager Debbi Gibbs fell under the influence of a revolutionary socialist sect, SJFs' singer Shayne Carter also embraced socialism and recorded a profoundly ill-advised version of his anguished love song 'She Speeds', dedicating it to Che Guevara. The record was set for release by a workers' collective, until Debbi was caught on a security camera robbing a bank. This was the final straw for Gibbs Sr, who had everyone who knew about the incident killed or made bankrupt. The project was dropped, and Carter went on to have commercial and critical success with the more familiar territory of singing about his old girlfriends.
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Coconut Rough: Sierra Calzone
Tough times for 80s popsters meant striking an ad deal with a successful Auckland cafe chain, singing the praises of their baked 'pizza with a lid' on commercial radio.
"And they'll put it in the oven for you, if you want them if you want them to..."
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Knoxy and the Boxtops, 'Swimming Pool'
Encouraged by the success of 'Not Given Lightly' as an advertising jingle, Chris Knox decided to re-record the Toy Love classic 'Swimming Pool' for a TV commercial, with a session band called the Boxtops (actually The Feelers). But in a typically rebellious and self-destructive gesture, Knox refused to change any of the words. The prospect of having "Jim Morrison, Brian Jones, Marc Bolan, Jimi Hendrix" lying at the bottom of their suburban pools did not prove a strong selling point for consumers and the campaign was a colossal failure. It is thought this incident provoked Knox's lurch into vegetarianism.
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Sentenced to life with a merciless gavel
after what you did
at the Family and Naval. -
and Mike Stevens reminds us that before Dave Dobbyn became a Republican his previous great single was . . . "Royal".
Didn't Supergroove reform in the late 90s for that follow-up/remake of Scorpio Girls which really bombed and no one could figure out why?
I quite liked Cancer Girls, although that video was worse than the Skeptics' Afco -- but I still don't reckon that was a real autopsy on that chick who died of lung cancer.keep 'em coming folks.
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The Swingers: "Pounding the Beat"
Reports indicate that an 80s Police publicity campaign was to use the phrase 'Pounding the Beat' before a preference was expressed for 'He ain't Heavy'.Concerned was voiced at the time by Police Minister Ross Meurant that including the lines "feeling the heat two three four five", and "thinking about you, you think about me, think about you, pounding the beat" were likely to induce an unnecessary level of paranoia in a population already voicing concerns over team policing units.
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Sentenced to life with a merciless gavel
after what you did
at the Family and Naval.It doesn't really rhyme, but it's so damn dramatic that I'm going with it.
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and Mike Stevens reminds us that before Dave Dobbyn became a Republican his previous great single was . . . "Royal".
To Dobbyn's lasting regret, Kevin Roberts persuaded him to make a special version for the Bush family: Oyal
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then theres the little ditty for the organic farmers union
soyal
or was that for the lactose intolerant league...
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After the battle, flung far and used.
Where does the surplus lie?
Sometimes when all of your boots, and all your canteens,
Have lost milit'ry value in just one moment.
And all of us anxious, for gas camping stoves -
The sales on here and now.
Oh so why are you waiting - waiting for what?
There's further reductions in store-So shop at Doyles, I'll shop at Doyles too...
You'll like Doyles - 'cos I like Doyles, truth...Oh god, what have I done....
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Although largely considered brave for trying to bridge the un-tapped crossover audience between Chris Knox's lo-fi following in Europe and New York Jews, 'Weird' Al Yankovich's "Moyl" was ultimately deemed inappropriate for commercial radio, and never received any airplay outside of the b-net stations...
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I got a bootleg of that one...
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No, you're thinking of "Out in the Street (thanks to Muldoon)"
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Or the reworking of the cat stevens classic 'moonshadow' by the cast of Shortland street at christmas in the park.
"I'm being followed by a boom shadow,
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**Ray'n'the Reptiles; She's a Gob:** Ill-conceived project by John Baker (of Wild Things fame) who aligned Ray Columbus with the re-formed Suburban Reptiles for this 87 punk version of She's a Mod.
Oh, we can laugh, but does anyone remember Double J and Twice the T and Ray Columbus' 1990 smash hit "She's A Mod/Mod Rap"?
"My mother was a teen back in '65.
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Oh, we can laugh, but does anyone remember Double J and Twice the T and Ray Columbus' 1990 smash hit "She's A Mod/Mod Rap"?
"My mother was a teen back in '65.
She knew how to rock, yeah, she knew how to jive."Ray is a really nice guy but when I was managing The Screaming Meemees a lifetime back he approached me about doing a duet of She's A Mod with them. I politely declined but it seems he didn't let the idea go, waited a few years and then pounced on DJ & TWT.
I had to smile.....
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How about that recent anthem to the brown lemonades, Metallica did a cover of the Deja Voodoo song 'beers' there were only subtle changes made but they are said to reflect Lars' attitude to napster et al. The kids weren't quite sure what to make of this release but downloaded it any way. The true message of the song comes through in their chorus;
I would give you one of my beemers, but I've only got six
you know I don't like peer to peer, and I've only got sixThose not fluent in the slang of 'iconic mega super rock gods' (in the words of Lars) a beemer is a german automobile of which Lars has six. apparently.
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The Dudes: "piss"
It's what the punters were singing anyhow.
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Speaking of beers.. Does anyone still remember the great duet by Prince and Tui Teka - "Rasberry Beer Eh?"
Yeah right.It was sometime back in the 90's when Tui was trying to make its presence known by an ill fated attempt to win over the snakebite market. -
aaarghh edit function please.
Oh and also
Russ Le Softroq " I Wanna Be like Muhammed Ali"
Had the memorable lines
Fight like a butterfly
Sting like a bee
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