Macc Lads

[purves grundy]

I remember a song called 'Spread Yer Legs and Get Yer Knickers Down' which, when you think about it, doesn't make any sense.

 

[HarrisonSlade]

Even he doesn't find them funny - it's just his fake stance.

I have every album from Beer and Sex to Alehouse Rock. They share a place of genius with my King Crimson, Zappa, Beefheart and Schnittke records.

 

[HarrisonSlade]

She wore big knickers, and worked on sewage farm,
I put me 'ands doon 'er jeans and I nearly lost 'alf me arm.

 

[chico enrico]

I remember a song called 'Spread Yer Legs and Get Yer Kinckers Down' which, when you think about it, doesn't make any sense.

Yes, even less sense than if they were singing about knickers

 

[lights.out.london]

She wore big knickers, and worked on sewage farm,
I put me 'ands doon 'er jeans and I nearly lost 'alf me arm.

Were they singing about someone you know? Perhaps a close family member?

 

[HarrisonSlade]

Were they singing about someone you know? Perhaps a close family member?

I like your style.

 

[purves grundy]

Yes, even less sense than if they were singing about knickers

I'm hungover and aint had me chips n gravy yet

 

[lights.out.london]

I like your style.

*head in hands*

lol

 

[trevhagl]

It is hard to tell the full crack without knowing them personally. They certainly were a caricature of their own fans but were very careful not to let their real personalities shine through (whatever they are - no one knows and i was drinking with them before a gig in leeds and i STILL don't know. I was with an obnoxious bastard who twatted someone . They just looked shocked.)
It would be interesting to see what a new album would be like.

Although they did "Feed Your Face" they were in the paper about it and said it was tongue in cheek, and they must have pissed off any nazi followers with the song "Germans" 2 albums down the line.

 

[trevhagl]

I remember a song called 'Spread Yer Legs and Get Yer Knickers Down' which, when you think about it, doesn't make any sense.

...."I'm gods gift to women in this fucking town"...
Great song.

 

[HarrisonSlade]

*head in hands*

lol

sussed.

So what though? It's childish. And....?

I could've got really offended, and made an issue about my family members. But since it's true, I can't.

 

[YouSir]

It's one of the few great things about them. Their bluntness. Their no care attitude. It's how we ended up with Peter Kay amd Bernard Manning. So roll your eyes as much as you like.

I have every album from Beer and Sex to Alehouse Rock. They share a place of genius with my King Crimson, Zappa, Beefheart and Schnittke records.

I'm guessing you're not being sarcastic..? Bernard Manning was shit, never did buy into that whole 'gritty Northern humour' bollocks, he just wasn't funny. And even if the Macc Lads have made me giggle for all of 30 seconds ('Sheep Shagger') comparing them to Frank Zappa and Beefheart is just... really fucking wrong. It's like classing Britney Spears with Ella Fitzgerald because they both sing songs, technically true but it really doesn't make for a good comparison.

 

[lights.out.london]

sussed.

So what though? It's childish. And....?

I could've got really offended, and made an issue about my family members. But since it's true, I can't.

Not sussed. They were just garbage. I give up. Enjoy.

 

[El Jefe]

harrison is just playing at provocateur again, and making a tit out of himself in the process again.

Macc Lads were shit (and were, IIRC, a bunch of middle class students). Just offensive toss, ironic or not.

Serious Drinking were better.

 

[Roadkill]

harrison is just playing at provocateur again, and making a tit out of himself in the process again.

Indeed.

And the Macc Lads were bloody awful in every respect IMO.

 

[trevhagl]

The Macc Lads were pretty dicey at times but ya can't call them shit when they were good songs though, whether or not you thought they were genuinely dodgy (and i don't actually know myself)
Mind you Muttleys real name WAS Tristran so you may be right about the middle class bit.. we may never know

 

[trevhagl]

It's a bit like Skrewdriver. They were totally horrible bastards but to call their music shit when they first turned dodgy, just makes you out to be a bit mad.

 

[El Jefe]

It's a bit like Skrewdriver. They were totally horrible bastards but to call their music shit when they first turned dodgy, just makes you out to be a bit mad.

Their music was always shit. Lowest common denominator lumpen punk toss.

 

[El Jefe]

but ya can't call them shit when they were good songs though,

I can, you know. Watch:

The Macc Lads were shit.

See?

 

[trevhagl]

The thing is you are calling their MUSIC shit because you didn't like the lyrics. I personally thought the lyrics were genius, at least on the first LP. There have been 100's of bands since then who think just by swearing, that they're funny. But the Macc Lads were genuinely funny, even if they made you very uncomfortable at times and atmosphere at gigs was not pleasant

 

[El Jefe]

No, trev. I'm calling the music shit because I don't like the music.

You really are full of it, aren't you?

 

[chico enrico]

The Macc Lads were pretty dicey at times but ya can't call them shit when they were good songs though, whether or not you thought they were genuinely dodgy (and i don't actually know myself)
Mind you Muttleys real name WAS Tristran so you may be right about the middle class bit.. we may never know

actually, i recall reading an interview with some pop star (think it may have been mike joyce from the Smiths in fact) where he was slagging them off saying they're all middle class and not even from macclesfield.

not that i give a fuck but it kinda sits a tad disparately with HS's assertion that they are 'real' working class northeners.

personally, i just think they sound like a bunch of wankers and their music is just crap. At their best they're about on par with Garry Bushell's old band The Gonads, and , really, that isn't saying much. It's like they took Anti Nowhere League's 'So What?' as a template for their music, in pretty much the same way The Rolling Stones took the entire history of the American Blues as theirs.

 

[YouSir]

Their music, ignoring the lyrics and mentality behind it, was fairly dire but not offensively bad. Just bog standard pub fodder really. That they did fairly well solely off of the back of shitty lyrics though is fairly depressing. Music for people who don't like music but who like swearing probably.

 

[harpo]

Macclesfield is very middle class. I had a boyfriend who was into them in the 80s and he (unbeknownst to my naive young self at the time) was a bit of a white supremacist. Not saying there's any kind of connection like.

 

[chico enrico]

Their music was always shit. Lowest common denominator lumpen punk toss.

Alas, I do feel duty bound to concede that 'Back With A Bang' is a brilliant song

 

[trevhagl]

Their music, ignoring the lyrics and mentality behind it, was fairly dire but not offensively bad. Just bog standard pub fodder really. That they did fairly well solely off of the back of shitty lyrics though is fairly depressing. Music for people who don't like music but who like swearing probably.

I like music AND swearing, as long as it's done with style...

 

[chico enrico]

Their music, ignoring the lyrics and mentality behind it, was fairly dire but not offensively bad. Just bog standard pub fodder really. That they did fairly well solely off of the back of shitty lyrics though is fairly depressing. Music for people who don't like music but who like swearing probably.

Like a rugby club in a karaoke bar

 

[Orang Utan]

I like music AND swearing, as long as it's done with style...

Fuck off trev fuck off trev fuck off trev la dee da you cunt

 

[trevhagl]

Alas, I do feel duty bound to concede that 'Back With A Bang' is a brilliant song

Aye this is the problem. In the 80's i would tell people they were horrible bastards BUT i would admit the music was good, whereas a lot of the left wing would say they were shit and if an impressionable kid heard em for the first time he would never believe anything you said again...

 

[trevhagl]

Fuck off trev fuck off trev fuck off trev la dee da you cunt

I never could read music .
But that sounds more like Disorder