Friday 9 January 2009

Genius: there's no other word for it - Part XXXXI

More of Top of the Pops' crappy lip-synching! This song contains one of my all-time favourite lines, in the last verse. "We were no match for their untamed wit"! Fucking classic. If you're wondering what it's about, there was a Right to Work march, around 30 years ago, which happened to offend the cold-shower brigade of Eton's finest, apparently. Got a bit nasty. One doesn't like to generalize, but Dodgy Dave Cameron went to Eton...

3 comments:

Ana said...

There are lots of English bands that are not known here.
Pretty in Pink reminded me of The Clash and The Cure.

Ana said...

There are lots of English bands that are not known here.
Pretty in Pink reminded me of The Clash and The Cure.

Radagast said...

Ana: Yes, The Clash and The Cure were both contemporaries of the Furs (and all three bands emerged from the punk scene), although the Furs were still producing studio albums in the late 80s, after the other two had split. For some reason, I always think of Echo and the Bunnymen in the same terms, too.

Matt