Oh no I have an irresistible urge to get the "Furious Pig" 12" single...

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Should I? Should I not?

I have one track on a sampler, something about "boy with a taste for nostalgia"..

I believe their version of "Lovely Rita Meter Maid" was banned...

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 8 November 2004 09:56 (twenty years ago)

Is that the one that you're supposed to be able to play at 33RPM and 45RPM (or ineed 16+RPM or 78RPM IIRC) and it doesn't matter?

If so, here's a clue: my recollection is that the reason that it doesn't matter whether you play it at 33RPM and 45RPM is that it would still sound like a complete and utter pile of shit at any speed!

[Caveat: I have not heard the EP for more than 20 years and was far more inclined to dismiss far more things as "shit" in a far more casual manner in those days than I am today.]

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 8 November 2004 10:45 (twenty years ago)

I really like it, esp. "I Don't Like Your Face."

I can't IMAGINE what them covering ANYTHING would sound like.

― Douglas (Douglas), Monday, 8 November 2004 19:03 (twenty years ago)

I have a 'cover version' on an album.

Guess who... (will update/answer later)

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 08:53 (twenty years ago)

well, just to put you out of your puzzlement...

The Comic Strip Live. Nigel Planer and the other one as part of "Anarchy in Dreamland" easy listening punk medley. Of course, this exists for real now..

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 13:13 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

Right. I have bought and played it. A few times.

Umm, it's brilliant. Definitely search for the main track "I don't like your face".

Track two "Johnny's so long at the fair" is more of the same, but still fine.

Track three is eight mins long and no doubt when they copped a few bottles and stuff during live performances.

I would like to find a live tape. Where did all those live tapes go? is there an archive/graveyard?

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 29 November 2004 09:37 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

Update: Apparently, they were part of the early "Comic Strip" scene, and they appear (briefly) in the Julian Temple filmed documentary on the extras disc on the Box Set.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 07:20 (nineteen years ago)

Is this the same bunch of loons who had a track on C81? All I can remember is that it sounded like a bar full of screaming, drunken, football hooligans throwing percussion instruments down a flight of stairs. It's brillant of course!!

― Richard Kirkbride (ibreakforsmallanimals), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 22:35 (nineteen years ago)

Yes.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 20 April 2006 07:31 (nineteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

Right, On Saturday I was in the car w/Amber and Alice, and put an unlabelled minidisc on. The first track was "I don't like your face" by Furious Pig. Both kids decide this track is fantastic and they force me to replay it three times over the next half-hour. Along with "Jonny's so long at the fair".

Anf now, I can't get it out of my head.

"Dut Dut Dut dut
Da-da-da-da-da-da CHA!"

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 15 May 2006 07:06 (nineteen years ago)

U B U W E B has it. Fun stuff if you're into faux kecak.

― 35 Hertz (35 Hertz), Monday, 15 May 2006 07:35 (nineteen years ago)

Nice one!

For those who were asking, it's a cross between Captain Beefheart, Pere Ubu, Bela Bartok and something very silly.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 15 May 2006 07:59 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

Time to revive this for today is quiet.

― Mark G, Wednesday, 30 April 2008 15:46 (seventeen years ago)

eight months pass...

Does anyone else have a ten year old daughter who wants them to dig up this song, as she hasn't heard it for

― Mark G, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 15:59 (sixteen years ago)

YEARS?

― Mark G, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 15:59 (sixteen years ago)

seven years pass...

Wonder what they'd think of it nowadays?

― Mark G, Sunday, 24 April 2016 21:16 (nine years ago)

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