Toxic Tuesday: 10-20-30-40-50 or more....
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Y'know, I've been thinking about this one for weeks, and was about to go with the "so-amateurish-they're-charming" thing, until I saw the video and noticed the goose-stepping in the first verse and, more critically, the sneaky little Sieg Heil salute.(Did you actually see that? Yes, you did.) Sorry, guys, sniggering little Hitler references for TV don't cut it. Another Sixties frat band that stumbled onto a gimmick and got in over its head. But not nearly as much fun as the Swingin' Medallions. And those lyrics, which I strongly suspect were completed during a single detention period....
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Comments (21)
whoa. They put the flash in "flash in the pan".
Have you heard any other tunes by them? Could they possibly be this bad. I mean I liked novelty cuts as a kid and I still hated this one. Well Done!
Oh hell, I see fairportfan has two other snoopy-related cuts for them..Oy Vey!
CBW, even that flash was better than they deserved.....
Cody, if memory serves, they did a bunch of followup Snoopy-themed songs, including a snappy little "Snoopy's Christmas" ditty. Gee, wonder why we never hear that one at the mall....
Maybe the nazi affiliation?
You're trying to draw me in, man, but I'm not goin' there....
this was a total childhood flashback for me...I think my older brother or sister must have had this spinning while I was in my cradle. wild how music is tied to memory.
video was creepy, though.
Ok, I'm going to ignore spamboy above.
Allow me to mention the horrible haircut on the lead singer, and the fact that the entire band appears to be absolutely thrilled when they throw in a "Louie Louie" chord progression mid-song.
Also, modulation is not THAT exciting.
It is when it's the first time you've ever done it....
Yeah, I really dug his little geek-out dance during the break. He must've been catnip to the ladies.....
Amber, "creepy" is just the right word. Were these gentlemen delusional enough to think they were in any way cool or talented?
I had blissfully forgotten this one and fortunately - now that you've committed the foul deed of resurrecting it - I can't remember how it goes, except for that creepy annoying voice. Is this worse than 'Tie A Yelow Ribbon'? Different parameters, similar result....
Jonh, I guess I'd argue that, vile though this is, Tony Orlando's is the worse transgression - if only because he is a showbiz professional....
Ouch! Harsh - but fair.
I didn't start it with the nazi thing..I never thought of the tune that way, until you pointed it out. With video evidence I might add.
Same comic,little bit better tune..
i rate this with another novelty song "itsy bitsy yellow polka dot bikini" which i still have no desire to see or hear again.If i remember right a skit of this song was done on laugh-in.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElTd0QbMXGg
These are songs for an abused sector of the population: imbeciles. The above songs, unlike the filler in so many of the albums we own, have melodies that at least hold together, enough even to have been hits. Nevertheless, I enjoy how Toxic Tuesday gives me rare permission to scorn the tuneage it targets.
Cody, one of the most numskulled things about this bandis that they seemingly don't the difference between the two world wars (uh, wait, there were two?). Meantime, I am muchly digging the Coasters and one of my fave childhood platters.....
CP3, at least Brian Hyland (despite the painful haircut) has the grace to look embarrassed to be singing "IBTWYPDB." If only his audience was similarly abashed....
Spike, I am finding Toxic Tuesdays pleasantly purgative. It affords me the opportunity to escape the shackles of my everyday Pollyanna-ish self....
And there's something even more wrong when they do all that in front of SNOOPY!
Indeed.
My earlier diatribe was not aimed at "Charlie Brown."
Anna, these man-children are unacquainted with the idea of boundaries. We must pity them - after kicking them in their scrotums.
Spike, because you are a person of taste, you would never speak ill of the Coasters. That's a given.
Hmmm. I wonder what Charles Schulz thought of this when he saw it. Achtung, baby! As for this post, I can safely say that the founder of Toxic Tuesday is very proud.