#287

The Harmonica bits are from Once Upon a Time in the West

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#288

That Fatboy Slim.is nothing more than a thief

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#289

You do know the song is also a cover?

#290

I did know that much

#291

Phew

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#292

  1. Inspiral Carpets and The Wonderstuff are not the same band.

  2. Kirsty MacColl did backing vocals on The Wonderstuffā€™s Welcome To The Cheap Seats (tune!) - which is really fucking obvious when your hear it.

#293

The vocal was sped up independently of the music, if I remember correctly. Donā€™t ask me why.

Edit: Oops just realised someone else replied to this months ago. Iā€™ll stop being annoying and shuffle off now ā€¦

#294

She also did that Jona Lewie song (not Stop The Calvary)

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#295

E-Street Shuffle

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#296

The chorus of Slave to the Wage by Placebo isnā€™t ā€œIts a race for us to dieā€. :exploding_head:

#297

Not mine, but my partner used to think the lyrics to No Limit by 2 Unlimited were ā€œno no / no no no no / no no no no / no no thereā€™s no LYRICSā€, because they couldnā€™t be bothered to write any more lyrics to the song once theyā€™d got the chorus.

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#298

Ah the old ā€˜posting for a friendā€™ routine eh

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#299

Pretty sure itā€™s a song all about the restrictions of spending your entire life stood in the garden, fishing in the pond.

#300

Did the song title not give it away

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#301

I mean that was how the Spitting Image parody went which people sang a load so maybe they just assumed people were being serious?

Like how when TFI Friday was big people only sang ā€œItā€™s your lettersā€ to the chorus of that Reef song if it was played.

#302

I remember reading a review of a Janeā€™s Addiction gig where Perry Farrell was described as ā€˜A man who is precisely half as intelligent as he thinks he isā€™. Maybe thereā€™s something in that, as I thought it was just his name for ages too.

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#303

Ah, Iā€™ll check that out and see if that might have been the cause.

#304

Yeah I couldnā€™t find a video in a brief search but it was mentioned.

Itā€™s certainly a long-running satire on the track from back in the day. It was generally ridiculed a fair bit as I guess all new music for youth tends to be in the establishment, particularly when you consider how rockist music journalism was then.

(I couldnā€™t tell you if itā€™s genuinely shit or a banger now TBH.)

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#305

I do remember it was a common criticism of dance music back in the day that the lyrics were just repeated slogans, and were as such devoid of merit, even though the point was that they would get stuck in your head.

Something I genuinely didnā€™t know until now was that 2 Unlimited were Dutch! As a little kid who used to own their 18 track (!) Greatest Hits collection, this a shocking discovery.

Anyway, thereā€™s only one way to settle the ā€œshit or bangerā€ debateā€¦

  • Shit
  • Banger
  • Itā€™s not great, but itā€™s alright
  • Itā€™s bad, but not shit

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#306

Chart dance put me off dance music for the 90ā€™s. So much great music missed because shite like this had burned me so badly. :frowning:
In the bin with it.

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