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Mayhem’s Parental Advisory Playlist (The Tipper Gore Mix) Part 2 August 23, 2024

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In the first post in Mayhem’s Parental Advisory Playlist (The Tipper Gore Mix), I said that it is sometimes hard to shake off a great earworm of a song even if that song drops regular F-bombs and other profanities. In this case a C bomb. The new addition to Mayhem’s Parental Advisory Playlist (The Tipper Gore Mix) features Jarvis Cocker with “Running The World”. But we know there is an extra word in front of ‘running’ right? This was released back in 2006 and back in the days when Reading/Leeds was still a tad edgy and not ridiculously corporate, it was played regularly between main stage sets the whole weekend. It also featured a wonderfully polite introduction from Jarvis himself! If you don’t like profanites you will hate it, but I love it, and for many the sentiment still holds true. Without a doubt my favourite lyric from this song is “That the cream cannot help but always rise up to the top. Well I say, Shit floats”. Let me know if any profanity-drenched songs like this get you singing along, although maybe not in the vicinity of your Nan! Click here to check it out!

All hail French TV, the BBC would never have let this go on air!

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“I don’t need it don’t need your blah blah” July 11, 2012

Filed under: News,Observation — justwilliam1959 @ 7:04 pm
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It seems that the new leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-Un, has his own song. He doesn’t sing it, but it’s lyrics seem to draw from one of his speeches around the time he became leader. The song is called “Onwards Towards The Final Victory” and as you might expect it is getting significant airplay on the countries radio and TV networks. His father Kim Jong-Il also had a song, his was called “There Is No Motherland Without You“.

The only way is Up!

Personally I find all this a little strange, I mean I know our own British national anthem, which incidentally is far less rousing than Kim Jong-Un’s little tune, is an awful ode to the power of the monarchy, but imagine if all of our Prime Ministers had their own song! So obviously I thought how about finding some possibly appropriate songs for our head public servants. I know that they see themselves as leaders, but actually they are really servants aren’t they?

David Cameron “Running The World” – Jarvis Cocker (Although I’m sure that ‘Call Me Dave’ would prefer “Eton Rifles”

Gordon Brown “Jilted John” – Jilted John (Mostly for the ‘Gordon Is A Moron’ line)

Tony Blair – “Liar” – Sex Pistols

John Major – “Fade To Grey” – Visage

Margaret Thatcher – “Bitch” – Rolling Stones

And finally special mention to Nick Clegg “I’m A Winker (Misprint)” – Ivor Biggun and the Red Nosed Burglars

So there you have my selections, how about yours?

 

“It’s the ideal way to order the world, fuck the morals, does it make any money?” November 1, 2011

Filed under: News,Rants — justwilliam1959 @ 10:35 pm
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This is probably bigger than my own little world view and maybe there’s a lot of it that I don’t understand. But what is it with the Euro bail-out for Greece? The great and good (well not much greatness or goodness really is there?) leaders of Europe held a series of summits to resolve the Euro crisis. Focussing in particular on the parlous state of the Greek economy. In simple terms the solution was that major banks would write off 50% of Greek debt and the rest would be funded through stringent austerity measures to be introduced by the Greek government.

Well it looks like they can't produce can they? A T Shirt slogan on a bag........that is so FAIL!

So just a few days ago everyone was patting themselves on the back on what a spiffing job they had done; crisis over….. for now. Then comes the news that before they accept these actions the Greek government will ask their voting population what they think in the form of a referendum. Now I may be a little simple at times but on this occasion I suspect that the there will be an overwhelming no vote? What do you think?

I think that our erstwhile leaders should have taken a look at the car washing scene in Pulp Fiction before any back slapping took place.Well, in particular the line ‘let’s not start sucking each other’s dicks quite yet’.  So what happens next? I presume that Greece will default on their loans. After that who knows, do the banks send in the bailiffs to repossess Greek property. Unlikely really; all their crockery is broken and they lost their marbles ages ago.

But at least the forecast looks good....... actually so does the forecaster don't you think?

Just a couple of questions from me to close this post;

How did these supposedly bright and intelligent people get it so wrong?

If Greece doesn’t want the bailout money can I have it?

So then, let’s get back to music as this is really a music blog, but there is often the odd rant from me. Here are a few songs that I feel are appropriate. Especially the last one of the three from Jarvis Cocker