SINCE when has atonal wittering been a musical form?

[cesare]

Oh dear god I've found it on youtube

 

[Pieface]

Abra-abra-cadabra
I want to reach out and grab ya
Abra-abra-cadabra
Abracadabra

Yes Steve. Anything you say Steve.

 

[Chairman Meow]

You utter bastards.

 

[Orang Utan]

Abacadabra is way better than that other song. Fly Like An Eagle is the tits too.

 

[Spion]

i think partly it's because neither of them have been anywhere for as long as 30 years, though i could be wrong about Quoad

Ah, yes, I forgot that I'm old and wise

 

[Dubversion]

"pack up your rubber duck.. "

<scarpers>

 

[Spion]

What the hell is a midnight choker anyway? I'm sure the chorus confused me.

It's 'toker' innit?

 

[Chairman Meow]

Abra-abra-cadabra
I want to reach out and grab ya
Abra-abra-cadabra
Abracadabra

Yes Steve. Anything you say Steve.

AT my school disco the boys would shout out A BRA! A BRA! cadabra

 

[Crispy]

maybe they sexed it up with a Squeeze soundtrack, and you've just buried it REALLY REALLY deep

God help me (and you lot. there would be collateral damage) if it ever resurfaces.

 

[Dubversion]

It's 'toker' innit?

yes.

how typical of Pie face to introduce some awful serial killer element to an otherwise harmless song.

 

[cesare]

yes.

how typical of Pie face to introduce some awful serial killer element to an otherwise harmless song.

Tbf, she might have been thinking of the ... erm ... pearl variety

 

[Pieface]

oh

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

"pack up your rubber duck.. "

<scarpers>

'you're moving out todayayay.....'

i raise you with 'i let my fingers do the walking on the telephone man'

 

[cesare]

oh

Stand by your man! *warbles*

 

[FiFi]

It's 'toker' innit?

Thats what I always thought.
It still doesn't make any sense.


How did this thread slip from the (almost) sublime to the ridiculous?

 

[Chairman Meow]

'you're moving out todayayay.....'

i raise you with 'i let my fingers do the walking on the telephone man'

Singing doo-lallay lally, doo lallly lally...

 

[May Kasahara]

For some reason I've now got that Steve Miller Abracadbra in my head

I really, really, really love that song

 

[Pieface]

With pointy finger dancing.

 

[Spion]

Thats what I always thought.
It still doesn't make any sense.

What doesn't make sense?

"I'm a joker
I'm a smoker
I'm a midnight toker"

 

[FiFi]

What doesn't make sense?

"I'm a joker
I'm a smoker
I'm a midnight toker"

Oh, @self.

It's a drug reference, isn't it?
I'd never realised.

(To be fair I'd never seen the lyrics written down )

 

[Orang Utan]

I really, really, really love that song

It's ace - who care's if it has daft lyrics? He obviously didn't

 

[Pieface]

I'M a midnight choker, me.

 

[Crispy]

fnar fnar

 

[mrs quoad]

at Mrs Q and Crispy for never having heard that tune. Were you two guys locked in the same cellar for the last 30 years?

Assorted squats and student digs mostly

I have TWO cellars*

Crispy may borrow one if he wishes

*until Friday

 

[Tricky Mickey]

Abacadabra is way better than that other song. Fly Like An Eagle is the tits too.

Yeah, but Slinky kills the both of them...

 

[rollinder]

*wishing I still had the email newsletter (rocking vicar I think), that decontructed the song, taking the piss out of the jump forward in time and that his girfriend/wife is apparently about to give birth in an incubator.

They did a great one about Down In The Tube Station at Midnight too
ruined both those songs for me

 

[isvicthere?]

Struck me as someone desperate for fluent form, but just plain and simple without the skills As evidenced by the following half-arsed efforts at frankly alarmingly desperate 'half-rhymes'.

rations
passions

telly
smelly

kissin'
missin

Monday
Sunday

hours
flowers

fifty
nifty

incubator
later

mother
another

If you are serious, which I doubt, you are Anna Key and I claim my £200. I simply fail to understand how a 28 year-old song manages to arouse such imo pointless ire.

Incidentally, none of the above are "half rhymes"

 

[ViolentPanda]

I'M a midnight choker, me.

(((((dubs' chicken)))))

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

I always thought the rhymes etc in Up the Junction were deliberately bad

It's a pretty good song...

 

[butterfly child]

It's not atonal, dunno if anyone has pointed this out to Quoady?