I'd like to know more about the FB3 albums too.
― Alba (Alba), Friday, 20 May 2005 18:28 (nineteen years ago) link
Oh, hell yeah. I had forgotten that Hall co-wrote that with Jane Wiedlin.
― righteousmaelstrom (righteousmaelstrom), Friday, 20 May 2005 18:28 (nineteen years ago) link
i didn't know that there was a video for "the telephone always rings"!
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 20 May 2005 18:38 (nineteen years ago) link
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― zeus, Friday, 20 May 2005 19:51 (nineteen years ago) link
Fun Boy Three were great - they had two "real" albums and a posthumous radio concert CD, plus a hefty number of non-LP tracks and alternate / extended mixes - some of which were startling (I refer specifically to the Urdu version of "Our Lips Are Sealed," which is fab and presages the brilliant Terry Hall & Mushtaq album from a couple of years ago.)
"Really Saying Something: The Best Of Fun Boy Three" will get you most of the non-album stuff and all their hits in at least some version, including the Urdu "OLAS." There are many similarly titled CD releases, make sure you get the one with 19 tracks. Despite their "pop" image, the band was pretty interesting musically (had they been on Rough Trade, you wouldn't be able to get people to shut up about them.) Lyrically they were no let-down either, their songs dealt with subject matter such as the exploitation of substinence marijuana farmers by Western drug cartels, the insanity of Reagan/Thatcher political rule, child sexual molestation, war in the Middle East and other fun topics - in a fairly non-dogmatic manner.
My fave tune of theirs is "We're Having All The Fun," which reads like a sad update ofthe kids who rioted to the tune of the Specials' "Ghost Town" -
We're having all the funWe're having all the fun
I live in a flat, I like Manchester UnitedI live with my girlfriend and my cat we're really happyI like watching television, wearing duffel coats and mocassinsEating crispy pancakes and having Monday haircutsThat's me, done!
I live round the corner I like digging up my gardenI take Westy my dog for a walk at five every eveningThat gives me half an hour before the pubs are openI go in, sit down and drink until a quarter to elevenThen go home.
We're having all the fun.We're (supposed to be) having all the fun.
We're quite happy to be what we turn out to be,We won't cause any fuss if we're allowed to be us.
I live with a girl, I used to live with my brotherI like drinking sweet white wine and smoking lots of ganjaWhen I got out to blues, all the girls can't refusewhen they see my leather trousers, my gold chainand my kung fu shoes.
We're (supposed to be) having all the fun.We're (supposed to be) having all the fun.We're (supposed to be) having all the fun.We're (supposed to be) having all the fun.
― Dee Xtrovert (dee dee), Friday, 20 May 2005 19:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Friday, 20 May 2005 20:07 (nineteen years ago) link
classic all the way. not one bad song.
― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 20 May 2005 20:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 20 May 2005 21:01 (nineteen years ago) link
Really? More than Spice Girls? Or even The Supremes? (if we include reissues and compilations)How do The Bangles stack up?
Oh, I hate fun, so obviously I don't like Fun Boy Three either. I'd rather stick with those early Madness records. Now I have "Really saying something" stuck in my head!
― Øystein (Øystein), Friday, 20 May 2005 22:30 (nineteen years ago) link
More than the Supremes too. In fact, a lot of the press about Banarama's success had to do with the fact that they had outsold the Supremes (for about two decades the Supremes were untouchable.)
The Bangles are even close to either of these three.
The total is based on total records sold - albums AND singles, new stuff AND compilations.
― Dee Xtrovert (dee dee), Friday, 20 May 2005 22:50 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Max Murdoc (Max Murdoc), Monday, 23 May 2005 14:55 (nineteen years ago) link
Lyric help please. What is the next line in the rap in Farmyard Connection?
Hey diddle diddle / policeman on the fiddle / he sold off the drugs to the man in the middle / He put it on a plane to Heathrow Central / it was picked up by a hippy in a Hertz car rental / drove it into town and split it up in parts / and he sold it to his friends at an ethnic party / they talked about life but missed all the points points points points points points points / they sat cross-legged and passed around the joints and...
― Daniel Giraffe, Friday, 4 January 2008 11:27 (sixteen years ago) link
... inhaled the West Indian exports.
Our Lips Are Sealed is my favourite song ever.
― Ian Edmond, Friday, 4 January 2008 13:47 (sixteen years ago) link
Ahhh thanks Ian. I could always hear the word West in there somewhere! Waiting is a fabulous record, so varied and ambitious.
― Daniel Giraffe, Friday, 4 January 2008 14:15 (sixteen years ago) link
"The Tunnel of Love" this afternoon.
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 27 April 2013 20:21 (eleven years ago) link
Does Le Dust Sucker's "Mandate My Ass" sample "Lunatics" or just sound like it? This has been bugging me for a while...― Telephonething, Monday, May 23, 2005 9:05 AM (twelve years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
12 years but you're right - I only noticed that now!
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Friday, 13 October 2017 20:00 (six years ago) link
Just thought about FB3 yesterday, because the music to the "Wolfshager Hexenbrut" video that's been making the rounds ("Schuttel Deinen Speck") reminded me a bit of "It Ain't What What You Do."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjUV-byB8ls
― Christopher Futterwacken (Dan Peterson), Friday, 13 October 2017 20:09 (six years ago) link
That Peter fox record bangs
― MaresNest, Friday, 13 October 2017 21:11 (six years ago) link
I know, I'm obsessed with it!
― Christopher Futterwacken (Dan Peterson), Friday, 13 October 2017 21:18 (six years ago) link