Why Does This Song Exist?

[famethrowa]

Love me some songs that make absolutely no sense in the context of popular music. Please chime in with any tracks that bewilder or confuse you by their very existence....

Step It Out Lively Boys - Ivor Cutler. I think I "get" Ivor as much as it's possible to, but this song, what the hell is he going on about? Some kind of military devotional to a lackluster, lost troop, and it's a duet at glacial speed?? Why does this song even exist, who's it for?

https://youtu.be/ldoZqZAfenc

Who Killed Bambi - Tenpole Tudor. We need a song for this movie about punk rock. Well why not a Hollywood Disney orchestral track, but sung by a raving lunatic. 40 years of popular music has led to this, it's a miracle.

https://youtu.be/PHOA_XtENW8

[Brundle-Fly]

Chacarron - El Chombo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlW7T0SUH0E

It's like the Macarena but recorded by somebody off their face on something.

[famethrowa]

Chacarron - El Chombo

Yep, that "chorus"(?) has done me head in

[flotemysost]

Chacarron - El Chombo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlW7T0SUH0E

It's like the Macarena but recorded by somebody off their face on something.

Not an anomaly, he's got form in this area - with apologies in advance, El Gato Volador

[Tikwid]

Forum favourite Naughty Christmas (Goblin in the Office) by Fat Les is surely the very definition of this thread's remit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImPlb0_jubU

[Menu]

Forum favourite Naughty Christmas (Goblin in the Office) by Fat Les is surely the very definition of this thread's remit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImPlb0_jubU

I feel soiled. God imagine being on set that day. You'd never stop vomiting.

[SteveDave]

At least one VerbWhore was on set that day. And so was Joe Strummer. And the busty woman in the leopard print coat.

[Brundle-Fly]

Do You Know The Difference Between Big Wood and Brush? - Gary Roberts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAjnxSQ3H9Q

[famethrowa]

Do You Know The Difference Between Big Wood and Brush? - Gary Roberts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAjnxSQ3H9Q

A prime candidate. Pointless in every way.

[jobotic]

From the same genre

Blind Man's/Stevie Wonder's Penis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?fbclid=IwAR0pDrq24XlmyL9weRS42swZKgvuXFG3wHa7N17OMk5hAhWsoew0bvw2cwE&v=czzg-F4tLYM&feature=youtu.be

How Long Are You Staying?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?fbclid=IwAR2yfJmA3xihiY7hYC7e0ercsErlduuqseb4U7XxMPPE6l5_RazlayylaIE&v=OpswRPPlX_M&feature=youtu.be

[Menu]

At least one VerbWhore was on set that day. And so was Joe Strummer. And the busty woman in the leopard print coat.

Ooooh who? Or is this a joke? WAS IT JOCKICE??!?!? Mooching around with his celebrity friends.

[Brundle-Fly]

There's A New Sound - Tony Burrello

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0psWy_XLP0g

[Brundle-Fly]

Ooooh who? Or is this a joke? WAS IT JOCKICE??!?!? Mooching around with his celebrity friends.

If we're going down that road again? Why TF does this song exist? I must begrudgingly confess for all its arty, self-aware, wind up nationalists merchant obnoxiousness, I still like this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoxGxbBUWPU&feature=emb_logo

[Menu]

If we're going down that road again? Why TF does this song exist? I must begrudgingly confess for all its nationalist self deprecating, wind up obnoxiousness, I still like this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoxGxbBUWPU&feature=emb_logo

Oh man.

[Lisa Jesusandmarychain]

How many of the original Fat Les group were involved in that song? Just looks like a Keith Allen solo venture ( The video is also misleadingly labelled as being from 2010, when it was in fact from 2002).

[DrGreggles]

It was actually 1998 - hence the popular phrase "1998: The Year of Fat Les".

[Tikwid]

I feel soiled. God imagine being on set that day. You'd never stop vomiting.

I thought the video's cast didn't hold any more surprises for me, with its mixture of nepotistically picked Groucho club chums and oddly more recognisable comedians, until someone pointed out that's Robert Popper, later of Timewaster/Look Around You/Friday Night Dinner fame, in the pink shirt:

How many of the original Fat Les group were involved in that song? Just looks like a Keith Allen solo venture ( The video is also misleadingly labelled as being from 2010, when it was in fact from 2002).

I know that Alex James wasn't involved in their 2012 Olympics anthem, recorded as "Fit Les" - it amused me to see it described as "Alex James has left the group", implying the sort of acrimonial bust-up you'd get in an active touring band, rather than just not being interested in recording with a novelty project for the first time in a decade.

[Menu]

God just seeing that coked-up failure Keith Allen repeatedly trying to turn his mediocre ideas into a zeitgeisty phenomenon makes me want to throw up.

[Brundle-Fly]

God just seeing that coked-up failure Keith Allen repeatedly trying to turn his mediocre ideas into a zeitgeisty phenomenon makes me want to throw up.

You'll live.

[Glitch King]

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[JesusAndYourBush]

Who Killed Bambi is great!  Sometime last week I found myself idly singing it to myself, and for some reason followed it up with the chorus of "What a picture...etc...stick it in your family album" but in the same silly voice.

[Brundle-Fly]

Saxophone Man - Davey Payne

One-off 1979 flop single made by the dual sax player from Ian Dury's band, The Blockheads. Peculiar record but I do like it. The vocals are bizarre. Who the hell was this for?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qBjY5iT87M

[buzby]

How many of the original Fat Les group were involved in that song? Just looks like a Keith Allen solo venture ( The video is also misleadingly labelled as being from 2010, when it was in fact from 2002).

Two of theoriginal three (Keith Fucking Allen and Damien Hirst, who designed the sleeve0. although James was'nt involved, Dave Rowntree played drums on it.

I thought the video's cast didn't hold any more surprises for me, with its mixture of nepotistically picked Groucho club chums and oddly more recognisable comedians, until someone pointed out that's Robert Popper, later of Timewaster/Look Around You/Friday Night Dinner fame, in the pink shirt:
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Popper had worked as a writer on a number of TV projects that K.F.A. had either starred in or directed. He had also worked on stuff with Peter richardson previously too.. I'm pretty sure he is one of the Groucho set as well (alongside thel ikes of Mark Heap and Kevin Eldon)

[JesusAndYourBush]

Chacarron - El Chombo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlW7T0SUH0E

It's like the Macarena but recorded by somebody off their face on something.

Haha is that a pisstake?  Parts of it remind me of Crazy Frog.

[Tikwid]

Who Killed Bambi - Tenpole Tudor. We need a song for this movie about punk rock. Well why not a Hollywood Disney orchestral track, but sung by a raving lunatic. 40 years of popular music has led to this, it's a miracle.

https://youtu.be/PHOA_XtENW8

Having developed a Naughty Christmas-level obsession with the Who Killed Bambi song I've been doing a sort of busby-level deep dive on it, and I've managed to glean some sort of explanation for its incongruous place in punk canon. Apparently "Who Killed Bambi" was the title of the original screenplay (written by Roger Ebert of all people) that eventually evolved into The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle; in this earlier incarnation it was about an "ageing rock star who was prone to go out into the Queen's Reserve, shoot a deer, and then give it to the poor", with the title being a little girl's reaction to the act in action. The attempt to make this early version folded, it was reworked and became TGRnRS proper, but Malcom McClaren held on to the Who Killed Bambi name, asking Ed Tudor-Pole to write a song with that title after he successfully auditioned for a role in the new film (which he did with help from Vivienne Westwood).

As for the screaming and orchestral backing, those were both McClaren's doing as well - Ed had hoped it'd just be him with an acoustic guitar singing it normally, but McClaren arranged for a 40-piece orchestra and spurred Ed into going wild with his performance, as well as the usher-in-cinema setting of the song as it appears in the film. (oh to have this level of deep diving for Naughty Christmas...)

[gmoney]

Forum favourite Naughty Christmas (Goblin in the Office) by Fat Les is surely the very definition of this thread's remit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImPlb0_jubU

Fucking HELL. I clocked Roland Rivron, Lucas and Walliams, Paul Putner, Robert Popper and Zoe Ball. I can't bear to watch it again to see if there was anyone else.

[Petey Pate]

Haha is that a pisstake?  Parts of it remind me of Crazy Frog.

I mainly know it for its politically incorrect usage on the YTMND website - hearing it in its original context is odd.

[Jockice]

Ooooh who? Or is this a joke? WAS IT JOCKICE??!?!? Mooching around with his celebrity friends.

No. It wasn't. I haven't got a very high opinion of Mr Allen.

[DrGreggles]

I haven't got a very high opinion of Mr Allen.

That's the nicest thing anyone has ever said about him.

[BlodwynPig]

Chacarron - El Chombo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlW7T0SUH0E

It's like the Macarena but recorded by somebody off their face on something.

Really good.