Fun Boy Three -- C/D? S/D?

You must know 'Our Lips Are Sealed' too, yeah?

I'd like to know more about the FB3 albums too.

Oh, hell yeah. I had forgotten that Hall co-wrote that with Jane Wiedlin.

i didn't know that there was a video for "the telephone always rings"!

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 of
the kids who rioted to the tune of the Specials' "Ghost Town" -

We're having all the fun
We're having all the fun

I live in a flat, I like Manchester United
I live with my girlfriend and my cat we're really happy
I like watching television, wearing duffel coats and mocassins
Eating crispy pancakes and having Monday haircuts
That's me, done!

We're having all the fun
We're having all the fun

I live round the corner I like digging up my garden
I take Westy my dog for a walk at five every evening
That gives me half an hour before the pubs are open
I go in, sit down and drink until a quarter to eleven
Then 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 brother
I like drinking sweet white wine and smoking lots of ganja
When I got out to blues, all the girls can't refuse
when they see my leather trousers, my gold chain
and 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.

classic all the way. not one bad song.

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!

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.

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...

... inhaled the West Indian exports.

Our Lips Are Sealed is my favourite song ever.

Ahhh thanks Ian. I could always hear the word West in there somewhere! Waiting is a fabulous record, so varied and ambitious.

"The Tunnel of Love" this afternoon.

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!

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

That Peter fox record bangs

I know, I'm obsessed with it!