Cor blimey, I never knew that!

[Micvicdab]

I have recently discovered that "Fill your heart", The first track on the second side of "Hunky dory", the popular Bowie album, started life as the b side of Tiny Tims magnum opus "Tiptoe through the tulips", Google it, if you dont believe me, not strictly punk I know, but where would Siouxsie,and many of our other favourite punk icons be without Bowie?.
Jolly well suprised me that did, I can tell you, but are there any other seemingly unlikely tunes, that found thier way into the punk canon back then?, perhaps some of the "Southend punks" can enlighten us?

[Micvicdab]

I do of corse recall "Nellie the elephant" by the toy dolls, and practically all and sundry having a pop at "Jeepster" , or failing that "20th century boy", but there must have been some that completely beggared belief, come on Southend punks, enlighten us, you blighters, dash it!

[Billyb]

How about...

Abrasive Wheels doing- "When the Saints go marching in"? (well, "When the Punks go marching in" anyway...)

Anti-Nowhere League- covering Ralph McTell's "Streets of London"

Chron Gen- "Living next door to Alice"

The Damned doing "Help"

Dead Kennedys- "Viva Las Vegas" and "Rawhide"

The Dickies- "Nights in white satin"

The Lords of the New Church doing Madonna's- "Like a Virgin"

One Way System- "Cum on feel the Noize"

Stiff Little Fingers- "Running Bear" and "White Christmas"

U.K Subs- "She's not there".... ?

(They often changed the lyrics quite a bit etc...)

[Marcus]

What about Crass doing Una Paloma Blanca?

[purplenasty77]

what about confict doing the birdie song ; iwas prepared for everything except that !

[Micvicdab]

You blokes that casually bung "Crass" and"Conflict" into this equasion, are a bit more up to speed on this stuff. I will admit that I'm doubtful of the veracity where "Crass".. the popular anarchists with the naked drummer, did "Una paloma blanca". and similarly dubious of the smashing beat group "Conflict" whacking out "The birdie song"I doubt either of those things happened.
Graham, late of the stripey zebras, and Autumn poison, is a man whose opinion in these matters must be respected.
If he gets on here and confirms these things, then I will bow, to your superior grasp of this stuff.
Do you remember "Fields of the nephelim"doing a cracking version of "Theres no-one quite like grandma"
Or "Napalm deaths" kickass take on "Japanese boy"....top notch!
Those were the days.

[Micvicdab]

Besides which, and that, I wouldnt recommend you trying to get too smart with me, bear in mind that one of my oldest chums is Anabdab, from the mega popular "huh" thread. He can make you look pretty dashed silly in only a few words, with his vicious sarcasm, so think on.

[vicar]

We did the "Pepsi Cola" tune from the TV ad back then. "Ooooo Pepsi Cola - Lipsmackin Pepsi Cola"

[Micvicdab]

Anyway, all that stuff notwithstanding, with a view to lightening things up on this, which after all is still in many respects a virgin thread, did you know that "Eminem" the non Southend punk yank rapper, owes his first big hit stateside to no less than Chas and Dave?
I expect that those of you still clinging on to this missive in the hope that some semblance of sanity may eventually prevail, are now scratching your swedes and thinking "For gods sake man, have some common decency, and tell us what, if anything, you are on about"
Well I dont know if you remember his nice tune "Stan" that had a sample of Dido singing one of her top tunes on it, but his breakthrough disc in the US had a sample of an old Labi Siffre number from an album from 1971, the session musicians upon which were, you guessed it........Chas and Dave.
Ho!!

[Micvicdab]

I'm digressing a bit here, but I 've just noticed that "Marion Jones" the American multi gold winning olympian, has handed back her medals on account of having been under the influence of drugs when she won them. "huh" runs to some 68 pages at the last count, but were we to delete all posts that were arrived at in a similar fashion, you'd have the Dickens of a task to flesh the thing out to a couple of pages.
Not that I'm a sceptic, or anything.

[Micvicdab]

Billy B, and Purple nasty 77, if you're not going to take this thread seriously, it'll be improved no end.
Carry on, as Sid James might say, and that.

[Micvicdab]

From what I can ascertain, when The Buzzcocks used to tour in the late seventies, they never had "cup a soups", on account that they hadn't been invented then, but you can't help but wonder what the individual members favourites would have been, had circumstances been different to what they are.
I think that Pete Shelley would have been a "Beef and tomato" man
"Steve Diggle" has "Chicken and leek" written all over him, in my view.
"John Maher", the popular drummer must surely be an oxtail man, and the bass player, whose name escapes me at present, almost certainly "Golden vegetable, with croutons".
Unfortunately though, the one thing that circumstances wern't, was different to what they were, so we will never know.













































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[anabdab]

Speaking of dehydrated foodstuffs, I`m sure I remember trying a Pot Noodle whilst living in a bedsit in Pleasant Rd sometime in 1980. I think it was on a wednesday. The previous weeks wages being but a distant memory I couldn`t afford the customary chicken vindaloo and thought this vibrant looking yet affordable snack might be a tasty alternative. After discovering that the "Pot" was far more digestible than the "Noodle" it contained I vowed never to be poor again.

I`m convinced that it was this and other Thatcherite innovations such as the Vesta curry and the aforementioned cup a soup that spurred the nation on to become the economic powerhouse it is today.

Any other Southend Punk related stories about crap food?

[vicar]

anabdab said:

Any other Southend Punk related stories about crap food?

Yeah. Everytime I asked/begged/pleaded with a venue owner to let us gig there, they would say......

'Go eat shit'!

[Marcus]

Pot Noodles would have certainly had their place in pop history had they been invented then, which does beg the question; what yet to be invented products could have changed the face of what we've come to know as "punk rock"? Errr, had they been invented before they were; sort of thing.

Now, I think it's a generally accepted fact that X Ray Spex existed soley on a diet of Findus Crispy Pancakes and Butterscotch Angel Delight while Eater lived up top their name by......sorry, the verb escapes me.