File Prag Vec At The Melkweg under the “please don’t ask me to explain this one” category. Some baffling references – I can’t find any reason to reference (presumably Craig) Stadler’s caddy, but hey, somehow the whole still manages to be amusing.
File Prag Vec At The Melkweg under the “please don’t ask me to explain this one” category. Some baffling references – I can’t find any reason to reference (presumably Craig) Stadler’s caddy, but hey, somehow the whole still manages to be amusing.
Moo
Never managed to decipher “doctored my edible thong with listeria” before. It’s instantly my favourite line.
The project goes from strength to strength…
1 February 2008
Digitalizes
I never before quite grasped the seminar attended by the boys, but now I know.
Great project!
27 April 2008
Ian in CO
Johnny Quango, I thought?
24 May 2008
chris
Johnny Kwango is your man…
24 May 2008
Lord Fullwood
All I know is Melkweg is a night club in Amsterdam and Meadowlark Lemon was a netball bloke from the Hardup Globe Twatters. Maybe he worked his balls at the door as a bouncer ?
31 October 2008
dj
i always heard it as ‘edible phone’ not sure i knew what a thong was in 1991
31 October 2008
Charles Exford
Doing a bit of a Bill Stow here :
It’s ‘the’ mental age of a haversack.
…and Gypsies should have a capital ‘G’ in these enlightened times (prefer enlightened to the much-maligned “PC” in this case).
9 March 2009
lurking like len
j agree – now i know it says
“i doctored my edible thong with listeria”
is a beautiful discovery
but
still hasnt cleared up about it causing
“your offspring walk backwards”
i still have a niggle it means something, an obscure reference perchance beyond the sheer poetry of it
i mean, does listeria REALLY make you walk backwards
*scurries off to wikipedia*
31 July 2010
Bobby String
I’ve been overdosing on the nit-picking pills again (we’re all out of Haliborange). According to their official website, the correct presentation of the name has the first four letters in lower case and the last three in upper case, thus: pragVEC
OK, I’m off to lie down in a darkened room for an hour!
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12 July 2011
Chris The Siteowner
That’s a good spot. I’m not sure what to do about this, as the HMHB song is called “Prag Vec At The Melkweg”, no arguments, and I don’t think we can go round renaming (or re-spelling) titles of songs just because NB57 didn’t get it right (or perhaps simply refused to go with the random capitalisation nonsense). I suppose the mention in the song itself could go with the “official” way of writing the band’s name. Let’s go with that.
15 July 2011
Bobby String
I would have to agree with NB57 if he were to scorn the random capitalization thing, as pretentious as a whole bag of pretentious things. I agree also that because that’s the way he spelt it on the album the title has to stay as is.
There’s a similar conundrum in Yipps (My Baby Got The) because every reference I can find to that strange phenomenon spells it with only one ‘p’, i.e the yips, but as Nigel has it with the double ‘p’ we shouldn’t change it. After all, who wants cant conformism?
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16 July 2011
BrumBiscuit
Brian.
Well, he would’ve if he was still alive.
16 July 2011
Hedley Verity
Brian’s Alive … according to Wiki at least and living in Buckinghamshire, although he does have Parkinson’s.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Cant
16 July 2011
TWO FAT FEET
MT&D’s track listing seems to be littered with errors; it even has two track titles apparently transposed, which has now become definitive.
17 July 2011
BrumBiscuit
Well, knock me down with Floella Benjamin, I thought the Cant had croaked!
31 May 2012
Chris The Siteowner
Two Fat Feet: what’s the story on that? Here’s the CD back cover. Are you just referring to “Prag Vec”, “Yip(p)s” and the missing apostrophe in “Lets”? I hadn’t noticed any track transposition.
1 June 2012
TWO FAT FEET (out of retirement)
It’s purely that the titles of Our Tune and Girlfriend’s Finished With Him make much more sense the other way round.
3 June 2012
Chigley Skin
For anyone interested in seeing with their own eyes the wonders the crew of the Enterprise Allowance witnessed on their voyage, here is:
A Meadowlark Lemon seminar – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOPAuG5-5u0
A Tony Monopoly incident (specifically, him playing Captain Ahab in Moby Dick: The Musical. And no, I don’t know why he’s got a cricket pad strapped to one leg) – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNj5FFQieE8
Some Conny Plank inspired Teutonic oddness (and yes, I do believe there’s strobe lighting used!) – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYIfD8Nfkyc
And though I sadly can’t provide an authentic shopping experience with Johnny Kwango, you can see the big man in action against Johnny England – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-mpv2Hr_qU&feature=related – and perhaps the only other song to namecheck him (in the title, no less) – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOe7pa5yr9o
24 July 2012
MIKE IN COV
@Chigley, that was truly gruesome. Thank you for watching those clips on our behalf.
The cricket pad represents Captain Ahab’s artificial leg of sperm whale-jaw ivory. I have to assume that an inadequate budget didn’t allow the makeup department to do a proper job.
24 July 2012
ACIDIC REGULATOR
“And the band begins to play”, Yellow Submarine (again).
“The band began to play”, Good Morning @1:20. If not a direct influence on NB, then a plausible one on The Nurk Twins.
Note also that in the clip they’d stayed up all nght, and that it was not quite too early for milkmen. If you think it could been an influence on Excavating Rita, post on that thread.
I toyed with the idea of a possible further reference to And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda, but am not convinced.
3 August 2012
ACIDIC REGULATOR
I only searched for Spandex overcoat and edible thong as a laugh. I envisage severe outbreaks of Dukla Prague Syndrome at the suppliers we’ve recently identified when the orders start to flood in.
3 August 2012
Dr Desperate
Gez’s site mentions the Mr Benn reference “the shopkeeper appeared”, but not that the guitar bit after it is the theme from the programme. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMSJNrzQ3PM
(Well, some people might not know.)
30 April 2013