-- Johnny Fever (johnny.feve...), August 23rd, 2004.
wow, that's brilliant, especially because that means by their 4th album they would have been Go Boi!!!!!!
― Al (sitcom), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 16:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 18:30 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082676/
A movie about foosball starring Leif Garrett!
― wetmink (wetmink), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 18:40 (nineteen years ago) link
Chin Chin, of Switzerland.― OleM (OleM), Tuesday, August 24, 2004 10:08 AM (6 years ago)
Thought I was going to get to be the first one to mention these guys. Coming up next on my working-music stereo. Probably followed by the new Zun Zun Egui, in fact.
― emil.y, Saturday, 5 March 2011 16:01 (thirteen years ago) link
I think there is something intentionally childish about it. One of my siblings had an imaginary childhood friend named "Chair Chair." I think it's going for liberating primitive childish absurdity. It makes me think of "dada" too. What about the general importance of repetition in the 80s (especially thinking of minimalism and electronic dance, and perhaps disco)?
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 5 March 2011 16:36 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm not sure why then however.
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 5 March 2011 16:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Because to say the same word twice in a row tends to be to babble and not add content (give or take countless exceptions--like, doesn't repeating the same word in Chinese, for instance, sort of act as an intensifier? at least some of the time?).
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 5 March 2011 16:41 (thirteen years ago) link
kinda surprised there wasn't an art-damaged 80s band named Foot Foot
― herbal bert (herb albert), Saturday, 5 March 2011 16:46 (thirteen years ago) link
Well, it can act as an intensifier in other languages too - "very very good" is better than "very good" and "sehr sehr gut" is the same.
I'm not convinced about the childish thing, unless it's done with specifically childlike words - in fact, usually I'd say that more childlike would be similar and rhyming words (can't think of band names other than Oingo Boingo, but stuff like that and 'Mellow Yellow' etc). Repetition in band names does tend to be poeticism without meaning, though, which, to be honest, is pretty much what lyrics are.
― emil.y, Saturday, 5 March 2011 16:48 (thirteen years ago) link
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Would totally be in a band called Foot Foot.
― emil.y, Saturday, 5 March 2011 16:49 (thirteen years ago) link
dada doesn't refer to the word/sound children tend to use...
― got electrolytes (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Saturday, 5 March 2011 16:56 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, but it evokes that same primal/childish or child-like association. As for the "real" origin of "dada," there are contradictory accounts of how the word was adopted (surprise, surprise), but the Dadaists seemed to relish the potentially childish meanings (e.g., rocking horse).
Well, it can act as an intensifier in other languages too - "very very good" is better than "very good"
Good point.
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 5 March 2011 17:08 (thirteen years ago) link