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and this from Ross Middleton
The Frayed Finishes, Six Months with a Creaky Throat
Covers band has huge success with this hit that has the singer cracking various octaves while warbling "Way-o-way-o-way" befor sucking on a lozenge. Just sold to Strepsil for new ad campaign.
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Michael Stevens again, on a roll now . . .
Of course The Swingers had their brief gay phase with "I'm doing the beat",
and Split Enz briefly got caught up in the rogernomics flat tax hysteria of the early 80s with "I hope I never have to file again..." -
Graeme Burton,
I fought the law and the law won.
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Or Bressa Creeting Cake's spectacularly ill-advised paean to Noel Gallagher "Pom Singing"...?
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Moz,
Russel, I was sure from your title that you were talking about Che Tibby on drugs.
Disappointed.
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Moz,
Don't forget the Netherworld Dancing Toys comeback For Tomorrow, a paen to the new retirement savings program.
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Russ Le Roq goes K Rd:
I Wanna Be like Muhammed Ali
But i'm lying in my own vomit outside Leo O'Malley... -
And not forgetting the Enz' valiant attempt to promote conservation of New Zealand's native insect population:
Six Moths In A Leaky Boat
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Don't forget the Netherworld Dancing Toys comeback For Tomorrow, a paen to the new retirement savings program.
laugh you may, but such a thing, or a variation of it, was actually proposed in all seriousness
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Get the all new top ten tunes to save your soul* from Pastor Brian Tamaki!
The first single is a remake of the Helen Reddy girl power anthem, I am Woman here's the first verse and chorus to 'I am Brian'
I am Brian, hear me roar
In jackets too big to ignore
And I know too much to go back an' pretend
'cause I've said it all before
And faked piety on the floor
No one's ever gonna keep me down againCHORUS
Oh yes you must tithe
Ev'ry weekend you will pay
10 percent’s the price
And look how much I've gained
If I have to, I can buy anything
I am strong (strong)
I am invincible (invincible)
I am Brian*Soul reains property of Pastor Brian until you cough up.
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I am Brian, hear me roar ...
Genius.
I'd have a crack at a second verse but I, um, don't know the second verse ...
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Ok then, just cos you asked for it, the full extended lyrics to 'I am Brian'
Sing along if you know the tune,
I am Brian, hear me roar
In jackets too big to ignore
And I know too much to go back an' pretend
'cause I've said it all before
And faked piety on the floor
No one's ever gonna keep me down againCHORUS
Oh yes you must tithe
Ev’ry weekend you will pay
10 percent’s the price
And look how much I’ve gained
If I have to, I can buy anything
I am strong (strong)
I am invincible (invincible)
I am BrianYou can bend but never break me
'cause it only serves to make me
More determined to achieve financial goals
And I come back even richer
Pretty soon you’ll get the picture
'cause you've signed away all your childrens soulsCHORUS
Oh yes you must tithe
Ev’ry weekend you will pay
10 percent’s the price
And look how much I’ve gained
If I have to, I can buy anything
I am strong (strong)
I am invincible (invincible)
I am BrianI am Brian watch me grow
See me standing toe to toe
As I spread my lovin' arms across the land
But I'm still a humble pastor
With just one thing to ask ya
Can you put that lovely cash right in my handOh yes you must tithe
Ev’ry weekend you will pay
10 percent’s the price
And look how much I’ve gained
If I have to, I can buy anything
I am strong (strong)
I am invincible (invincible)
I am BrianOh, I am Brian
I am invincible
I am strong
I am Brian (Fades)
I am invincible
I am strong
I am Brian -
heh
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Martin Phillips was of course distraught at the widespread misunderstanding of his tribute to his favourite fish I Love My Leatherjacket.
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It would seem that Pastor Brian has some competition in the battle for your soul...
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1501119/story.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=10420812
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You're a genius, Reece. Seriously.
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I have in my hand a copy of Kaleidoscopium Worldopium by the Red Hot Chillsie Peppers; Martin Phillips’ ill-fated tilt at a mid-90s genre shift-slash-comeback, written and recorded over one blurred weekend at Anthony Kiedis’ plot on the Coromandel. This little known collaboration is largely incomprehensible, in part due to Phillips’ having to ensure every fourth word ended in or rhymed with “-opium”.
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I should also point readers towards They Might Be The Finn Brothers' Luckiest Man Alive in Istanbul (not Constantinople) -- the real reason for the Crowded House reunion, given the cost of the ongoing legal ménage-a-trois between lawyers for They Might Be Giants, the Finn Brothers, and the Muppets as to who should pay the costs associated with psychotherapy for the millions of children exposed to this horror. Particularly scary bits include Tim Finn dressed as Rizzo the Rat, and the line “…a man finds love by his side / must be the luckiest man alive / but if he has a date in Constantinople / she’ll be waiting in Istanbul”. Luckily never released in physical form, the bootleg video was anonymously leaked onto the net in 2006, leaving a permanent stain.
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Oh well played sir, well played.
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Not much to add, except that I actually recall reading that piece from the Herald at the time ( i.e. 1995) and being much amused. Could not have recalled who had written it but definitely remember reading it. Weird how some things stay with you...
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Deja Voodoo with Tim Finn, One Night in Saigon':
Trash rockers Deja Voodoo, best known for their anthemic tribute to methamphetamine, 'P', teamed up with Kiwi music legend Tim Finn in 2005 to record an equally anthemic version of Billy Joel's AOR hit. Band founders Matt Heath and Chris Stapp continue to play the song in place of "Auld lang Syne" at New Year's Eve gigs, and on their radio show, to torture drivers stuck in traffic.
But here's the thing: everything above is true_. In fact, they just played it ...
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The Back Lawn is Don McGlashan’s edgy experimental pre-ambient noisecore reworking of the entire Front Lawn catalogue into a single track consisting of every single Front Lawn song, all played at the same time by the Dominion Road Halfway House Drainpipe and Jandal Ensemble. The true genius of the man is made clear when the single is played backwards: a perfect rendition of Harry Sinclair’s voice floats eerily from the speakers, straining as he screams “euphonium” very, very slowly – in fact, that one word takes the entire 4:47 to say. Police say the single has a street value of nearly ten million dollars.
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While researching the earlier Muppets / Finns / Giants story, it became clear that the early nineties were rather troubled years for the Brothers. Facing a grunge lahar, our chiming chord-ridden late-eighties wunderkind were forced to resort to all manner of collaboration to remake themselves famous. In one such example, at around the same time that Neil was diagnosed with guitar-induced OOS, choirboy Norman Cook developed a bizarre obsession with charting in New Zealand. A management decision resulted in Crowded Housemartins -- a less than successful, yet still strangely compelling acapella tag-team. This rare album of surprisingly highly strung songs -- including Your Caravan Of Love Better Be Home Soon and the goose-pimply delicate He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Finn Brother (more than a foreshadowing of the post-__House__ fraternal hookup, it's also a sweet reference to Tim’s Elvis Years) – is especially remarkable for the final crescendo during the last five seconds of I Feel Possessed By The People Who Grinned Themselves To Death, reliably rumoured to be the last sound ever to come out of Norman Cook’s mouth prior to his reincarnation seven years later as Fat Boy Slim.
Coming up next: in-depth analysis of the failed Crowded Beach House experiment, when Neil was locked in at Karekare with a pre-recovery Brian Wilson, an 808, and two toitoi feathers.
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Making up songs isn't easy, but making up a whole band is even harder. I did it -- with the permsssion of the real Ramblers -- in a series of stories which ran in the Herald a couple of years back.
The real Ramblers, which included promoter Brent Eccles, were going to a play a rare gig so we asked if we could kind of extrapolate a bit and write the story of the band, me going to see them record and so on.
As is always the case with such pieces, some people took it at face value -- just as they did when I filed the Amber Riley-Thomson saga, the series about a stroppy 14-year old kid whose family allowed me access to report on their exploits.
That one had talkback lines burning -- and in Oz according to my sister who heard some blatherers nutting off about this horrid and ungrateful little girl.
The Ramblers' story didn't have quite the same effect, but I did get a lot of calls about it. One guy wanted to know how to get hold of their Cheap Muscatel and a Korean Guitar album. (The title of which I made up and is a special favourite of mine).
Anyway, here's the first of the Ramblers stories, you can find the others on-line.http://www.nzherald.co.nz/search/story.cfm?storyid=0F46E580-39E3-11DA-8E1B-A5B353C55561
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