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I really should stop doing this...
Posted by: poetscientistdrinker (---.rdg.ac.uk)
Date: December 02, 2002 11:26AM
<HTML>But I can't help it. In today's Independent (a newspaper, for non-albionites) everything went a bit Nextian. Deborah Ross was interviewing Pete Waterman - infamous pusher of prefab pop to prepubescent persons - who claimed that Dickens and Wagner had been an influence on the records he had helped write. Ms Ross also expressed her inability to recognise the Dickensian sub-text inherent in 'I should be so lucky', the global mega-hit performed by Kylie way back when 'Neighbours' seemed new and daring... Perhaps this confusion would be reduced by referring to the first draft...
<i>In my Great Expectations,
There is no celebration,
But I might find a song or two.
Mrs Lirriper's Lodgings,
Feature financial dodgings,
Could I make Siegfried's Idyll fit?
Then there's a Tale of Cities,
Which as fiction is shitty,
And as a pop song may be worse ,
I'm dreaming - that I can make some cash,
By simply rehashing
Dickens to Wagner's tunes,
I just hope no-one sues.
This is just so trashy, trashy, trashy, trashy. ;
I just want is children's cash.
This is just so trashy, trashy, trashy, trashy. ;
I just want is children's cash.
I should fuse a Christmas Carol,
With Der Ring des Nibelungen,
But cut it down to three minutes.
If I nick Chuzzlewit,
Then we might have a hit,
But some git's nicked Quaverly.
It's not clever, it's not subtle,
But you know that sex sells,
Miss Minogue's arse shows on
the cover - I'm making so much cash,
By simply rehasing,
Dickens to Wagner's tunes,
I just hope that no-one sues.
This is just so trashy, trashy, trashy, trashy. ;
I just want is children's cash.
This is just so trashy, trashy, trashy, trashy. ;
I just want is children's cash.
The Uncommercial Traveller,
Just needed a sampler,
Before he could have stormed the charts.
When it comes to Little Dorrit,
I pity the poor tit,
Who had to wirte such banal crap.
There's nothing in Nickleby,
That can't be improved with Valkyries,
Can Astley fit the costume
I'm wondering - how I made so much cash,
By selling all this trash,
Dickens to Wagner tunes,
I wonder is it true...
This is just so trashy, trashy, trashy, trashy. ;
I just want is children's cash.
This is just so trashy, trashy, trashy, trashy. ;
I just want is children's cash.</i>
Or did he mean that Dickens was an inspiration by being rich, formulaic, stuck with soap apera characters and full of false sentiment? Surely not!</HTML>
<i>In my Great Expectations,
There is no celebration,
But I might find a song or two.
Mrs Lirriper's Lodgings,
Feature financial dodgings,
Could I make Siegfried's Idyll fit?
Then there's a Tale of Cities,
Which as fiction is shitty,
And as a pop song may be worse ,
I'm dreaming - that I can make some cash,
By simply rehashing
Dickens to Wagner's tunes,
I just hope no-one sues.
This is just so trashy, trashy, trashy, trashy. ;
I just want is children's cash.
This is just so trashy, trashy, trashy, trashy. ;
I just want is children's cash.
I should fuse a Christmas Carol,
With Der Ring des Nibelungen,
But cut it down to three minutes.
If I nick Chuzzlewit,
Then we might have a hit,
But some git's nicked Quaverly.
It's not clever, it's not subtle,
But you know that sex sells,
Miss Minogue's arse shows on
the cover - I'm making so much cash,
By simply rehasing,
Dickens to Wagner's tunes,
I just hope that no-one sues.
This is just so trashy, trashy, trashy, trashy. ;
I just want is children's cash.
This is just so trashy, trashy, trashy, trashy. ;
I just want is children's cash.
The Uncommercial Traveller,
Just needed a sampler,
Before he could have stormed the charts.
When it comes to Little Dorrit,
I pity the poor tit,
Who had to wirte such banal crap.
There's nothing in Nickleby,
That can't be improved with Valkyries,
Can Astley fit the costume
I'm wondering - how I made so much cash,
By selling all this trash,
Dickens to Wagner tunes,
I wonder is it true...
This is just so trashy, trashy, trashy, trashy. ;
I just want is children's cash.
This is just so trashy, trashy, trashy, trashy. ;
I just want is children's cash.</i>
Or did he mean that Dickens was an inspiration by being rich, formulaic, stuck with soap apera characters and full of false sentiment? Surely not!</HTML>
Re: I really should stop doing this...
Posted by: poetscientistdrinker (---.rdg.ac.uk)
Date: December 02, 2002 11:30AM
<HTML>oops - spot the unspecified number of cities. Did I mention that Enron now have the rights to that book...</HTML>
Re: I really should stop doing this...
Posted by: Rob (---.leeds.ac.uk)
Date: December 02, 2002 02:28PM
<HTML>Top stuff.
I have a punk rock version of "I should be so lucky" by 'Celebrity Squares'
Dave will verify the quality. I think it's 'out of print' but I could get you a copy
if you want...</HTML>
I have a punk rock version of "I should be so lucky" by 'Celebrity Squares'
Dave will verify the quality. I think it's 'out of print' but I could get you a copy
if you want...</HTML>
Re: I really should stop doing this...
Posted by: poetscientistdrinker (---.rdg.ac.uk)
Date: December 02, 2002 02:32PM
<HTML>I'm sure I can live without it...
Although I'm not sure I could cope without my copy of the Wurzels doing 'Ace of Spades'...</HTML>
Although I'm not sure I could cope without my copy of the Wurzels doing 'Ace of Spades'...</HTML>
Re: I really should stop doing this...
Posted by: Jon (---.abel.net.uk)
Date: December 02, 2002 02:35PM
<HTML>Wurzels! Ace of Spades! Sacrilege!
Right up there with that Rolf Harris abortion, that is.</HTML>
Right up there with that Rolf Harris abortion, that is.</HTML>
Re: I really should stop doing this...
Posted by: poetscientistdrinker (---.rdg.ac.uk)
Date: December 02, 2002 02:39PM
<HTML>Actually quite good, which disturbed me.
Can't remember offhand whether it has the lyrics "And don't vorget moi zoider, aah haaargh"</HTML>
Can't remember offhand whether it has the lyrics "And don't vorget moi zoider, aah haaargh"</HTML>
Re: I really should stop doing this...
Posted by: ScarletBea (---.server.ntl.com)
Date: December 04, 2002 02:08PM
<HTML>Gosh I do remember the song and Kylie then (can I say she looks much better now - except when she does her hair like a broom?)</HTML>
Re: I really should stop doing this...
Posted by: Adam Brierley (212.137.30.---)
Date: December 04, 2002 06:29PM
<HTML>Actually I thought Rolf's version was quite good.</HTML>
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