Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip - Thou Shalt Always Kill

Steve there's already been at least one thread on this! Keep up lad.

"Thou shalt not use poetry, art or music to get into girls’ pants. Use it to get into their heads."

This is a really staggeringly bad lyric though, one of the all-timers.

We've done this twice already!

sorry i'm not on ILM much.

Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip: this year's Lily Allen?

Thou shalt not pretend to be salt-of-the-earth working class activists when thy records be funded out of thy parents' trust funds.

There's a lot about Stephen Fry that is questionable. That Kingdom series for a start.

And if Quentin and Jasper have ever heard any Johnny Hartman in their lives then my uncle was a U-boat.

this is one of the worst things i've ever heard

didn't think anything could out-irritant that baz luhrmann thing

it's definitely more baz luhrman than than it is 'losing my edge'

with better lyrics and a less annoying voice...it would be great.

yeah if you changed the lyrics and music it'd be classic

the music is fine

there were other threads on this but we're going to keep peddling it until it becomes a 300 post argument on class

I think she's very good in the M&S ads and will hear nothing said against her.

Have enjoyed this one a lot, didn't notice previous threads either but refrained from (re)posting it last week. Been wanting to yell just a band at pretty much anyone gushing about anyone.

I'd suggest a 'most disagreeable/agreeable line' poll, if there were 1000 ILMers that'd vote!

Actually, an "agreeable" poll might work.

Al-Qaeda: JUST A BAND!
Or were Colin and Justin too shit scared to put that line in?

Bloc Party?

This song is bobbins OK thx bye.

i quite like it - lyrics be damned. i heard something else by them on a rob da bank podcast that i also liked - even tho i think it was looping a radiohead sample

Lex Records should sue The Lex

fortunately they've never heard of him

atrange mixture of very right and terribly terribly wrong, this song. How confusing.

tstrange, not atrange, atrange clearly isn't a word.

oh never mind :-/

it was a radiohead sample. letter from god:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odfh1SNecW0

They seem to have a problem with popular black music, if the last verse is anything to go by, though clearly not with Desmond Dekker or Jimi Hendrix or other safely dead icons whose names we should not take in vain even though they say not to put musicians on pedestals, however great, one verse later.

John Harris's single of the year, then.

I'm sure he'll be spinning the platter at those cosy Newsnight Review dinner parties with Julie Myersony and Germaine Greery and Paul Morleyy and that bloke who used to be in Casualtyy.

Do you think John Harris has ever used the term "the platters that matter"?

i love it that something so self evidently self contradictory should be taken so seriously

he wishes he was a punk rocker etc.

she really did mean it maaaan.

OK, let's go there:


POLL WITHIN A THREAD:

Which is best

Sandi Thom: "I Wish I Was A Punk Rocker (With Flowers In My Hair)"
Daniel Sacrington-Smythe and Scramath "Scroobius" Pipperington-Hayne: "Black People, Sort It Out"

The Scroobious Pip went out one day
When the grass was green, and the sky was grey.
Then all the beasts in the world came round
When the Scroobious Pip sat down on the ground.
The cat and the dog and the kangaroo
The sheep and the cow and the guineapig too--
The wolf he howled, the horse he neighed
The little pig squeaked and the donkey brayed,
And when the lion began to roar
There never was heard such a noise before.
And every beast he stood on the tip
Of his toes to look a the Scroobious Pip.
At last they said to the Fox - "By far,
You're the wisest beast! You know you are!
Go close to Scroobious Pip and say,
Tell us all about yourself we pray-
For as yet we can't make out in the least
If you're Fish or Insect, or Bird or Beast."
The Scroobious Pip looked vaguelyy round
And sang these words with a rumbling sound-
Chippetty Flip; Flippetty Chip;-
My only name is the Scroobious Pip.

2

The Scroobious Pip from the top of a tree
Saw the distant Jellybolee,-
And all the birds in the world came there,
Flying in crowds all through the air.
The Vulture and Eagle, the cock and the hen
The Ostrich the Turkey the Snipe and the Wren;
The Parrot chattered, the Blackbird sung
And the owl looked wise bu held his tongue,
And when the Peacock began to scream
The hullabaloo was quite extreme.
And every bird he fluttered the tip
Of his wng as he stared at the Scroobious Pip.
At last they said to the owl- "By far,
You're the wisest Bird -- you know you are!
Fly close to the Scroobious Pip and say,
Explain all about yourself we paray-
For as yet we have neither seen nor heard
If you're fish or insect, beast or bird!"
The Scroobious Pip looked gaily round
And sang these words with a chirpy sound-
Chippetty Flip; Flippetty Chip;-
My only name is the Scroobious Pip.

3

The Scroobious Pip went into the sea
By the beautiful shore of Jellybolee-
All the fish in the world swam round
With a splashing squashy spluttering sound.
The sprat, the herring, the turbot too
The shark, the sole and the mackerel blue,
The flounder spluttered, the purpoise puffed
...............................................................
And when the whale began to spout
...............................................................
And every fish he shook the tip
Of his tail as he gazed on the Scroobious Pip
At last they said to the whale- "By far
You're the biggest Fish - you know you are!
Swim close to the Scroobious Pip and say-
Tell us all about yourself we pray!-
For to know you yourself is our only wish;
Are you beast or insect, bird or fish?"
The Scroobious Pip looked softly round
And sung these words with a liquid sound-
Pliffity Flip; Pliffety Flip;-
My only name is the Scroobious Pip.

4

The scroobious Pip sat under a tree
By the silent shores of the Jellybolee;
All the insects in all the world
About the Scroobious Pip entwirled.
Beetles and with purple eyes
Gnats and buzztilential flies-
Grasshoppers, butterflies, spiders too,
Wasps and bees and dragon-flies blue,
And when the gnats began to hum
bounced like a dismal drum,
And every insect curled the tip
Of his snout, and looked a the Scroobious Pip.
At last the said to the Ant - "By far
You're the wisest insect, you know you are!
Creep close to the Scroobious Pip and say-
Tell us all about yourself we pray,
For we can't find out, and we can't tell why-
If you're beast or fish or a bird or a fly."
The Scroobious Pip turned quickly round
And sang these words with a whistly sound
Wizzeby wip - wizzeby wip--
My only name is the Scroobious Pip.

5

Then all the beasts that walk on the ground
Danced in a circle round and round-
And all the birds that fly in the air
Flew round and round in a circle there,
And all the fish in the Jellybolee
Swum in a circle about the sea,
And all the insects that creep or go
Buzzed in a circle to and fro.
And they roared and sang and whistled and cried
Till the noise was heard from side to side-
Chippetty tip! Chippetty tip!
It's only name is the Scroobious Pip.

Anyway, the winner is "I Want To Be A Punk Rocker" by Andy Cameron, B-side of "Ally's Tartan Army," Klub Records, 1978.

now now behave

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