Oh Meatwad, Meatwad, he don't need to understand...

[msfledermaus]

The Queen of Stuff and I were driving around yesterday on various thrift-store, pepper-spray and cellphone errands when Duran Duran's "Rio" came up on the mix tape she had in the van. We startd to sing along a bit, since we were both fans as teenagers and still had the lyrics embedded in our fragile, fragile thoughtmeats. Then I started to yodel, "His name is Meatwad and he dances on the saaaaand!" You can imagine how things went from there--we started making up new Aqua Teen Hunger Force lyrics as we drove. Things like, "he's kinda greasy, but he'll show you what he can" and "He leaves a oil-slick all across the Rio Grand..."

I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I am VERY easily entertained.

Everything else in my life pales in comparison right now that it's back in my head..."Oh Meatwad, Meatwad, hear them shout all across the laaaand..."

Comments

[rdsc.livejournal.com]

Oh really, you colonial types just have no respect! Gonna have to set some Wild Boys on you cos they're Hungry Like the Wolf.

Um - ah, actually, ok... rip the piss all you like - Jesus they were so rubbish.

But: "Do you believe in Shame" is cool.

[msfledermaus.livejournal.com]

Ohhh great, Simon LeBon is gonna come after me with a socket wrench or something now...I wonder how much pepper spray I can hose him down with before I laspe into unconsciousness...

Oh wait--you made fun of them, too! He has to get BOTH of us now!! And since you live closer, he has to find YOU first!!! Ahahahahaha!!

Man, it took me listening to them as an adult to realise just how bad the lyrics were. It's funny, I don't remember the "shame" song; it must have been a much later thing or we never got it over here or something. (And I was hard-core as a 13-year old, scouring for British albums with unheard tracks and stuff. I even faced down two bully-girls in my school over a rare album when they were still dressing like big-haired pirates:)

[rdsc.livejournal.com]

It's ok - the only thing LeBon has ever used a socket wrench for is to tighten the bolts in his neck. If he comes round here I'll just give him a jolt of a few thousand volts and point him towards the sea :)

Quite unbelievably it turns out "Do You Believe in Shame" has it's own Wikipedia page , so there you go. And if you would like to hear it: voila!

http://www.sendspace.com/file/6u32ov (apologies for the crackles)

[msfledermaus.livejournal.com]

Ohhhh, '89....that would be why. I think that's when I discovered Oingo Boingo and Bauhaus and started dressing like a cross between Siouxie Sioux and that girl from the Lost Boys. (the spangles...oh god the spangles!)That IS a good song, too...thanks for the recording in all it's glory:)

and I feel incredibly naive at the moment--John Taylor had a coke addiction?!?
*slaps face* Of course he did, didn't he? Silly old me, I apparently don't watch nearly enough VH1's "Where are they now" series...They can't run Motley Crue and Danny Bonaduce all the time, can they?

[pianolessdevil.livejournal.com]

I saw an ad for ATHF today and thought of you. Made me giggle. *muahhahhah!*