Niffle #25

[snorkackcatcher]

Which I guess is some sort of landmark! It's Veritaserum, Then and Now by janicechess -- short but amusing.

Lyrics: Okay, Paperback Writer by the Beatles last time wasn't too hard and was identified by lupinslittlesis, lazy_neutrino, sugarannie, tree_and_leaf, and themolesmother. Just out of curiosity, I'll try one I used in a recent pub quiz -- you quite likely know the song, if you're like me maybe don't remember the title. :)

I get knocked down, but I get up again
You're never gonna keep me down
I get knocked down, but I get up again
You're never gonna keep me down ... (1990s)

Comments

[dolorous-ett.livejournal.com]

Yay! I know one!

"Tubthumping" by Chumbawamba!

[melusinahp.livejournal.com]

That song bloody rules!

[snorkackcatcher]

It's good fun -- I picked it up on an old Now CD recently. :)

[snorkackcatcher]

Indeed!

Yes!!!

[themolesmother.livejournal.com]

I know this one :-).

By the band who poured a bucket of water over John Prescott!

MM

Re: Yes!!!

[snorkackcatcher]

I'm sure lots of us have wanted to do that. :)

[zoepaleologa.livejournal.com]

Tubthumping, by Chumbawumba.

Ham Bacon was the dude who watered John Prescott at the Brits.

[snorkackcatcher]

Heh. Whatever happened to them, eh? I remember this one being around when I was at uni.

[zoepaleologa.livejournal.com]

No idea. His name, now my memory is suitably red-wined, was actually "Danbert Nobacon".

[snorkackcatcher]

Oh yeah. I vaguely remember the followup which had a line in the chorus 'do you suffer from long-term memory loss' (I think it was called Amnesia, ironically), and hearing the lines I quoted played after every play in American football games, but they seemed to vanish after a few months. They're probably still going though. A lot of bands seem to. :)

[dolorous-ett.livejournal.com]

I think they're still a visible presence - at least in their home town of Leeds. Or were up until a couple of years ago, when I lived nearby and used to see ads for things including them at the university there.

I'm not surprised they didn't stay long in the spotlight - they're so very in-your-face anti-everything (in the best possible way, I might add) that it must have been incredibly galling to be so popular.

Still, the Prescott moment - that was a classic.

[snorkackcatcher]

I think they planned to take the money the record made and give it to anarchist causes or something. :)

[tree_and_leaf]

I now have that lodged firmly in my head....

[snorkackcatcher]

Sorry. :)

[maple-clef.livejournal.com]

Tubthumping by Chumbawamba! Bloody addictive, that one :D With incomprehensible lyrics. "Don't cry for me, next door neighbour" (as Peter Kay would have it)

[snorkackcatcher]

Those were the lyrics, weren't they? :) (I think they're meant to be what a drunken karaoke version of Evita would be like or something!)

[zoepaleologa.livejournal.com]

It's meant to be a dig at what we did to Argentina during the Falklands war. A radical friend christened his Daughter "Malvina" at the time. If she'd been a boy, she'd have been called "Falkland".

Happy days they were. *raises clenched fist*

[snorkackcatcher]

Ah, that makes sense. (The lyrics, not the naming. :D)