Posted March 7, 200718 yr remix from 2001, remember taping this :wacko: off the radio when it charted, number 39!!!! if this slide show vid does not make u laugh than u aint normal, i couldnt stop laughing for hours, lol msgeboMTg0E and now they are back... with......... Tony Blackburn!!!!! http://www.chartsingles.net/videos/view/12...ker-2007-video/ all in the name of char-i-dee!!!!! :dance: both really cheesy, u would be able to smell the cheese from australia, lol
March 7, 200718 yr You remember taping it? I bought the original ;) Not from 2001 but before .... The Wurzels originally #1, once of the first records I bought. They had a number of other good tracks also. Blackbird was rather funny.
March 7, 200718 yr By the way The Wurzels are still going strong and have lots of fun gigging. Wurzles on the Buzzcocks. L9gReFZsykQ
March 7, 200718 yr I actually get quite touchy about '. . . Combine Harvester' :( I have the original song that this is a parody of - 'Brand New Key', and other stuff by the artist Melanie. The original lyrics are "I've got a brand new pair of rollerskates, you've got a brand new key, I think that we should get together and try them out to see . . . " Melanie was a very sensitive songwriter / performer and this parody was one of the things that effectivley killed her career :( Seeing the old Christmas Buzzcocks was good tho :lol:
March 8, 200718 yr Author I actually get quite touchy about '. . . Combine Harvester' :( I have the original song that this is a parody of - 'Brand New Key', and other stuff by the artist Melanie. The original lyrics are "I've got a brand new pair of rollerskates, you've got a brand new key, I think that we should get together and try them out to see . . . " Melanie was a very sensitive songwriter / performer and this parody was one of the things that effectivley killed her career :( Seeing the old Christmas Buzzcocks was good tho :lol: :cry: :mellow: i never kinew that, well u learn somethin new everyday on this site :P
March 8, 200718 yr I actually get quite touchy about '. . . Combine Harvester' :( I have the original song that this is a parody of - 'Brand New Key', and other stuff by the artist Melanie. The original lyrics are "I've got a brand new pair of rollerskates, you've got a brand new key, I think that we should get together and try them out to see . . . " Melanie was a very sensitive songwriter / performer and this parody was one of the things that effectivley killed her career :( Seeing the old Christmas Buzzcocks was good tho :lol: not true, melanies career was well over long before the wurzels excellant version.. having hits between 70 and 74, (and a rogue one in the 80's) 2 years before the wurzels made a better job of the track.. didnt particualy rate melanie myself, and she cant complain about the wurzels covering her track as her first hit was an awful version of the stones 'ruby tuesday'.
March 8, 200718 yr not true, melanies career was well over long before the wurzels excellant version.. having hits between 70 and 74, (and a rogue one in the 80's) 2 years before the wurzels made a better job of the track.. didnt particualy rate melanie myself, and she cant complain about the wurzels covering her track as her first hit was an awful version of the stones 'ruby tuesday'. Calling me a liar? :P She quotes it as something that devastated her personally and had an effect on her public musical longevity. And personally I like her version of Ruby Tuesday.
March 8, 200718 yr Calling me a liar? :P She quotes it as something that devastated her personally and had an effect on her public musical longevity. And personally I like her version of Ruby Tuesday. does she?...lol sorry i didnt know that, but like i said, she had nothing in the charts for 2 years prior to the wurzels...
March 8, 200718 yr does she?...lol sorry i didnt know that, but like i said, she had nothing in the charts for 2 years prior to the wurzels... Well if all you are going by is citing chart positions . . . She used to play the circuit a lot and stopped doing it after her self-confidence was knocked. When she eventually came back to it the scene had moved on and there was no place for her and so she slipped into obscurity. This is one of the reasons I don't post so much out of places like the lounge. There are some places here that if you say anything you just get trampled on with facts and figures. Are people really so insecure that they need to throw their weight around like that? And I also get a bit annoyed about the way people slam things - such as "Ruby Tuesday is an awful track". That is your opinion. Opinions are not facts. And even facts don't tell the whole story. *rant over*
March 9, 200718 yr Well if all you are going by is citing chart positions . . . She used to play the circuit a lot and stopped doing it after her self-confidence was knocked. When she eventually came back to it the scene had moved on and there was no place for her and so she slipped into obscurity. This is one of the reasons I don't post so much out of places like the lounge. There are some places here that if you say anything you just get trampled on with facts and figures. Are people really so insecure that they need to throw their weight around like that? And I also get a bit annoyed about the way people slam things - such as "Ruby Tuesday is an awful track". That is your opinion. Opinions are not facts. And even facts don't tell the whole story. *rant over* of COURSE its my opinion! who said it was a fact?... i dont like her cover of ruby tuesday, her voice is irritatingly winey! the rolling stones original, as is the case 99% of the time, is far superior. i didnt like her, neither did many others by the look of it...lol.
March 9, 200718 yr Didn't particularly care for Melanie, but The Wurzels were just a ridiculous joke novelty act and if they were responsible for killing the career of a fellow artist, then shame on them.... I probably found them amusing when I was about 5 or 6 but hell, you're kinda meant to grow out of this sort of thing by the time you start listening to more 'serious' artists.... As for this remix...... Oh dear...
March 9, 200718 yr how could an english novelty act ruin the career of an AMERICAN artiste? i very much doubt that the americans have ever even heard of the friggin wurzels.. lol actually they arnt a novelty act, they were (with their leader, adje cutler) a british folk group, they turned to novelty for a laugh, pretty much like the klf did!
March 10, 200718 yr how could an english novelty act ruin the career of an AMERICAN artiste? i very much doubt that the americans have ever even heard of the friggin wurzels.. lol actually they arnt a novelty act, they were (with their leader, adje cutler) a british folk group, they turned to novelty for a laugh, pretty much like the klf did! The KLF were infinitly less toe-curlingly embarrassing than this rustic, 'olde England' nonsense...
March 11, 200718 yr The KLF were infinitly less toe-curlingly embarrassing than this rustic, 'olde England' nonsense... bollox scott!... theres nothing wrong with traditional folk, nor of comedy records, the wurzels 'combine harvester' was one of the best comedy records ever, a total p!ss take out of themselves and briefly making 'oo-arr oo-arr' a comedic catchphrase. one of the best tracks from '76, but tbh that wasnt hard!
March 11, 200718 yr Calling me a liar? :P She quotes it as something that devastated her personally and had an effect on her public musical longevity. And personally I like her version of Ruby Tuesday. Rod Stewart also covered Ruby Tuesday, and peaked at no.11 in February 1993.
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