18 Dec 2008
How can you say we sound like Frazier Chorus?
Girlfriend’s Finished With Him is another good song about being in a band which also manages to shoehorn in a football reference, and something or other about dolphins. And that chorus at the end is one of those things which gets inside your head and refuses to leave for days. Thanks to Nigel and EskimoEric
See lyrics to Girlfriend’s Finished With Him
18 Letters Sent:
Richard
Risking the title of ‘annoying pedant 2008′ Frasier is I believe spelt Frazier.
Dec 18th, 2008
Chris The Siteowner
I cannot believe I did that. I humbly beg your forgiveness, fellow pedants. It may take me another year to recover (and the error of my ways will be there for all to see in the URL of this page, forever).
Dec 18th, 2008
Steve Malkmoose
I now have images in my mind of a ‘Kelsey Grammar lookalike’ Acapella quartet!!
Dec 19th, 2008
Chris The Siteowner
Where’s that school then?
Dec 19th, 2008
Dave Betts
Little Britain!
Dec 19th, 2008
Ben
Listening to this today.
“Inspired by no one, other groups bore us
how can you say we sound like ‘Frazier Chorus’?”
may well be HMHB’s most under-rated couplet.
Aug 13th, 2009
Champagne Charlie Exford
They are brilliant lyrics… but I’ve never understood how anyone can but fleetingly have a ‘favourite’ or suggest a ‘best ever’.
Anyway, Costermonger needs a bit of Randy capitalisation. Definitely refers to the record label. Personally, I’d go for “Who loves ya, Costermonger ?” as Telly Savalas said “Who loves ya, baby ?”
Aug 14th, 2009
gary
at the end of the night when the ride has been ridden? as in the piss has been taken.
Aug 31st, 2009
Ben
Gary, ‘fraid not.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rider_(theater)
Aug 31st, 2009
Simon
> Costermonger needs a bit of Randy capitalisation. Definitely refers to the record label.
I may be misunderstanding: do you mean the Costermonger Records which Gene used to record on? That label’s first release wasn’t till 1994, was it? So, unlikely to be referenced in a 1991 song.
I thought that “costermonger” was a further Whitechapel reference, in this case to a bald trader in the market there.
Feb 26th, 2010
Charles Exford
You’re right of course. NB does love dropping record label names in there, so I just assumed …
Nice lads were Gene. I once won a silver disc of their first album off some radio competition. Must still be in the attic. Wonder if it’d fetch owt on ebay ?
Mar 1st, 2010
s.g.d A Shropshire Lad
In the lyric book it says ” Alt Television” not ol’ television.
Apr 11th, 2010
Chris The Siteowner
Not wishing to shoot the messenger, I’m beginning to be glad we never just got a copy of the lyric book and reprinted it.
Apr 11th, 2010
s.g.d A Shropshire Lad
phewww!
good job I didn’t mention Numanoid Hang-Glide.
Apr 12th, 2010
Dave F.
What’s wrong with Alt?
I thought it referred to the band. Did their singer have a bald pate?
or it could, I suppose, refer to one of Janet Street-Porter’s creations.
Apr 17th, 2010
s.g.d A Shropshire Lad
Alternative TV came from Deptford, about 4 miles from Whitechapel.
Had Nigel been reading George Augustus Sala’s Gaslight and Daylight?
‘Down Whitechapel way.’ Have you ever been ‘down’ that way, reader? Ten to one you have not. You have heard, probably, of Whitechapel needles; and the costermonger from whom you may occasionally have condescended to purchase vegetables would very likely inform you, were you to ask him, that he lives ‘down that way.’
Apr 18th, 2010
Peter Gandy
Alternative TV’s singer was Mark Perry of ‘Sniffin’ Glue’ fanzine fame; I think he had a full head of hair. Danny Baker – also from Deptford and ‘Sniffin’ Glue’ sang backing vocals on a Crispy Ambulance album.
I go with Old Television with Nigel lengthening Aristotle’s assumed forename much in the same way that Brian Clough used to do.
Apr 19th, 2010
Phillip Wright
Forgive me if this has been discussed but rather than “An ‘Oi’ revival down Whitechapel Way”, I always hear, “A Neu revival down Whitechapel Way’
Maybe because I am a Krautrock devotee ?
May 4th, 2011
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