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― donut debonair (donut), Friday, 18 February 2005 04:10 (nineteen years ago) link
The thought of Shaggy demanding an end to world hunger is slightly oxymoronic.
Now imagine him as Merry from The Lord of the Rings (which he also played!).
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 18 February 2005 04:10 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Speedhump Bungle (noodle vague), Friday, 18 February 2005 04:26 (nineteen years ago) link
The song is only one chord: C# major
― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 18 February 2005 04:26 (nineteen years ago) link
(Ned I once saw this in a Chicago hipster bar while my friend Murray confessed that he was cheating on my friend Allison. The next week the same bar was showing a GWAR video. Same diff.)
― The Obligatory Sourpuss (Begs2Differ), Friday, 18 February 2005 04:28 (nineteen years ago) link
Song is grebt.
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 18 February 2005 04:35 (nineteen years ago) link
No, GWAR would be more fun, surely. Anyway, music and song and all.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 18 February 2005 04:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 18 February 2005 05:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 18 February 2005 05:03 (nineteen years ago) link
I saw on that electronic music myths thread where Ned mentioned "Don't You Want Me" and "Tainted Love" as his 'roots', well, I'd concur, but right up there with those two bellwethers is this song. I think, even though it came out a year later, this thing sounded even *more* otherworldly to my young ears in 1983.
i think it was also the first "tape" I bought on the basis of a single. I already had Thriller, but you know, that was a cultural phenomenon. But I bought the whole Eddy Grant tape cuz I loved that one song so damn much and couldn't get enough of it. So I went to the MusicLand and got my parents to buy me the tape on Columbia records with those big red letters in that big font on the spine announcing the artist's name: "EDDY GRANT". I was really disappointed in the whole thing! I wanted TEN "Electric Avenue"s ! So it was an early object lesson in the ways of the pop marketplace. But I still love the song to death.
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Friday, 18 February 2005 05:18 (nineteen years ago) link
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000050I5F.01._SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg
EDDY GRANT ROCKIN' OUT THE RED BODYSUIT OMGWTF!?!?!
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 18 February 2005 05:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― Bimble... (Bimble...), Friday, 18 February 2005 05:29 (nineteen years ago) link
If you like Troop Force you might like this., July 7, 2001 Reviewer: "mons_mambell" (Fountain Valley, Ca USA) - See all my reviews I have had this artist's song "Electric Avenue" stuck in my head since the early 80's. I once saw Eddy Grant at the old Hi-Time liquor store in Costa Mesa. He saw me buying a corncob pipe with my friend Alex. He winked at us and yelled "You boys gonna have high time tonight" in an Asian accent, which I thought was odd. He seemed like a nice man.
The Great Reggae Master !!!!, December 23, 2004 Reviewer: CANUT REYES "luciofun" (San Antonio, Texas United States) - See all my reviews Dont listen to the other Retarded Reviewer from Fountain valley california, Eddie Grant Has Not and Never Will Do DRUGS of Any Type!!!Eddie Believes in Spirituality and Sobriety,,, This is a Great Album and is Not meant for Lying Stoners like the other Moron reviewer,Mons Mabelle??? lol
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 18 February 2005 05:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 18 February 2005 05:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 18 February 2005 05:40 (nineteen years ago) link
And "Romancing the Stone" is just as good as song.
― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Friday, 18 February 2005 15:48 (nineteen years ago) link
"I sailed away to China/In a little rowboat to find ya"
I'd rather stick a bear cub in my butt and throw rocks at its mother than hear "Break My Stride."
― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Friday, 18 February 2005 17:51 (nineteen years ago) link
I heard the recent crappy Elec. Ave remix on the ferry from Calais to Dover and thought the same thing.. "they couldn't break this song"
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 18 February 2005 17:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 18 February 2005 18:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― Rick Massimo (Rick Massimo), Friday, 18 February 2005 18:24 (nineteen years ago) link
Totally agree, but that's because those two earlier hits were both kinda pedestrian and straightforward, synth-effectswise. Fewer sci-fi whooshes and whatnot. (Not to say that they aren't good songs, understand.)
Speaking of Casey Kasem, I remember another anecdote he related back in '83. Seems that the young (REALLY young, long before the Equals) Eddy Grant and his friends despised that new musik called rock n' roll when it was first stirring up a storm in England. And for whatever reason, maybe as a form of protest, they decided to attend a much-hyped London concert, in their school uniforms, just so they could stand their with folded arms in obvious disapproval. And wouldn't you know, after a few numbers they got swept up in the excitement and had a great time and were rock fans by the time they left the concert hall. What performer was incendiary enough to have made such an impression on Eddy & his friends? BILL HALEY & his Comets! True story. (Casey Kasem said so, and Casey don't lie!)
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Friday, 18 February 2005 19:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 18 February 2005 19:10 (nineteen years ago) link
"Rockin' in the DAY-time!Rockin' in the night!Rockin' in the Yuckteepamommy!"
― Joe (Joe), Saturday, 19 February 2005 03:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Saturday, 19 February 2005 03:39 (nineteen years ago) link
The Recreational Vehicle Industry Association estimates that there are over 7.2 million RVs currently on the road, and about 1 million of these are occupied by full time RVers, meaning drivers without a permanent address. This phenomena underscores a cultural shift away from permanence to a more nomadic lifestyle dependent on a flexible infrastructure of cellular phones and satellite Internet, as well as a growing network of RV parks catering to a mobile populace. The full time RVer is not limited to the stereotypical senior citizen, it is a diverse group of drivers, many employed in normal jobs but preferring the independence, flexibility of a mobile residency.
The effect of this new mobile class is now being felt in the California cities of Venice, Santa Monica, and West Los Angeles, which have become popular magnets for campers seeking the comforts of coastal living. Boasting some of the most expensive real estate in the United States, these coastal cities have priced out most people from purchasing property in the vicinity of the bleach. However, living within blocks of the beach is still a possibility for the average person with an RV. This economic dichotomy has made Los Angeles one of the first cities to have to grapple with the desire of some of its residents to live on the streets full time, in their automobiles. Electric Avenue in Venice is one such street, with free parking available amongst the expensive new artist lofts; it is frequently occupied by up to half a dozen RVs each night.
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― late adopter, Monday, 21 March 2005 08:15 (nineteen years ago) link
hahaha -- j blount (jamesbloun...), March 20th, 2005.
Good lord, that's amazing! -- Ned Raggett
What's amazing? Could somebody explain the joke to me? (Pref. slowly and w/no big words!)
― Myonga Von Baffled (Myonga Von Bontee), Monday, 21 March 2005 10:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 21 March 2005 11:46 (nineteen years ago) link
It was a home-made Pineapple Mellotron.
-- Speedhump Bungle (noodle vague), Thursday, February 17, 2005 10:46 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark Link
prophetic, considering that this song is in pineapple express and all ...
― Eisbaer, Friday, 29 August 2008 05:29 (fifteen years ago) link
It still rocks the party when I play it out.
― moley, Friday, 29 August 2008 05:31 (fifteen years ago) link
there's a line in this song that sounds like "deep in my heart i abhor ya" which always seemed like an awesome thing to say, but some lyrics websites say that it's "i'm a warrior" which one is it?
― velko, Friday, 29 August 2008 05:36 (fifteen years ago) link
sounds like "deep in my heart I am warrior" since he mentions working hard like a soldier in the beginning of the verse
― El Tomboto, Friday, 29 August 2008 05:39 (fifteen years ago) link
that makes sense, still a badass song
― velko, Friday, 29 August 2008 05:56 (fifteen years ago) link
Damn, I always thought it was 'abhor ya' too
― moley, Friday, 29 August 2008 06:22 (fifteen years ago) link
sounds wayyyy more like "abhor ya"
― ledge, Friday, 29 August 2008 08:19 (fifteen years ago) link
for one thing a brit would never pronounce it "war-ya"
― ledge, Friday, 29 August 2008 08:20 (fifteen years ago) link
Not that Eddy Grant is a Brit.
I've always heard it as "abhor ya" in the same way that he sings "you're a bastard, just like Pharaoh" on "War Party" rather than "you're a bad star."
― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 29 August 2008 08:26 (fifteen years ago) link
well I don't know what's on his passport but he's lived here long enough to have more than a hint of britspeak.
― ledge, Friday, 29 August 2008 08:32 (fifteen years ago) link
He's not saying "bastard"?!
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 29 August 2008 12:48 (fifteen years ago) link
donut OTM btw:
BOY!! B-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-E-E-E-E-E-ERRRRRR
One of my friends live on Electric Avenue, and another lives in a house in Hackney owned by Eddie Grant! What are the chances...
― chap, Friday, 29 August 2008 12:53 (fifteen years ago) link
cause you're a passport just like pharaoh
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 29 March 2011 03:58 (thirteen years ago) link
OUT IN THE STREETS
― slight even by tweet standards (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 29 March 2011 05:26 (thirteen years ago) link
if you're going to go through the trouble rocking all the way down to electric avenue, I don't think you need to take it any higher.
― akm, Tuesday, 29 March 2011 05:32 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hc7n45m4VTc
song destroyed
― frogbs, Tuesday, 29 March 2011 13:13 (thirteen years ago) link
So many 80s videos featured someone standing up only to FALL THROUGH THE WATER FLOOR.
OUT ON THE PLAYGROUND.
And Vienna's Calling.
― http://tinyurl.com/vroooo0ooooom (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 29 March 2011 15:33 (thirteen years ago) link
they used a prophet 5 and a linn lm-1
― analogsynthmuseum, Sunday, 31 August 2014 13:35 (nine years ago) link
Grindcore band Anal Cunt covered the beginning of the song on track "Eddy Grant" from their 1994 album Everyone Should Be Killed.
― Mark G, Monday, 1 September 2014 07:53 (nine years ago) link