The Inspiral Carpets takeover of Tubbby's "Top 10 singles..." thread has given me a "She Comes in the Fall" earworm.

I really like the song, but who are the Inspiral Carpets to say, "you should learn to walk before you crawl"? Every baby in the world knows better than that. Inspiral Carpet advice with haircuts like theirs, no thanks.

However, Grandmaster Flash telling me to not do or buy white lines is fine because he's Grandmaster Flash.

"Heal the World, make it a better place" is another example of a preachy song by a naive musician. How exactly, Mr Jackson? And how much of the world do you actually know needs healing first-hand when you're locked in your mansion or hotel rooms in a drug induced haze?

More examples, please...

Just Say No by the cast of Grange Hill.

Geoffrey de Ste. Croix wrote:


I was thinking of that one Geoffrey, but Zammo played a pretty convincing junkie in Grange Hill. That theme hit hard and is probably a contributing factor to the decline in heroine's popularity over subsequent years amongst teens. I'm guessing Pete Doherty would've been about 3 years too young to be affected.

Anyway, they'd earned the right to preach, in my books.

Well, Dre was preaching not to do drugs in 1988 on "Express Yourself":


Then a few years later he released "The Chronic", where did it all go wrong?

steveeeeeeeee wrote:


Yup,fair enough. For my part I know the song well as I was smack (no pun intended) bang in the age group being urged to reply in the negative to any offer of hard or indeed soft drugs.

I distinctly remember me and my mates pointing and laughing our arses off every time it came on the TV whether on TOTP or another show. It also became an ironic hit at our school in the "so shit its good" category.

Geoffrey de Ste. Croix wrote:


Ah, that's a thread in its own right. Don't it make you feel good by Stefan Dennis was massively popular, but everyone would invent their own chorus to any situation, sung with a guttural Stefan Dennis growl: "Gotta do your homework", "Gonna get in trouble", "You're gonna have detention". They then became an essential part of insults and cussing, "your mother made me breakfast", "Your brother is a pervert" - All sung like Stefan Dennis. The best one was a mate of mine, slightly sexually aroused by the slightest thing, as you are when you're 14, suddenly singing "I've got a big stork on" in a Stefan Dennis voice.

steveeeeeeeee wrote:

I have never had the faintest idea what She Comes in the Fall is about.

A woman who can only reach orgasm in autumn?

steveeeeeeeee wrote:


Hahahaha, you've made my weekend! I'd completely forgotten about Paul Robinson's short lived chart bothering, cheers for that.

Surely the nadir of the appalling 80's penchant for Aussie soap stars to commit to vinyl.

Geoffrey de Ste. Croix wrote:

Well, there was also this.

Stumpy Pepys wrote:

Before clicking the link I tought it was the follow up to Mona but Madge and Harold have made me think it might be time to re-appraise Craig McLachlan and Check 1-2

Without even clicking the link, I still know that Amanda was the follow-up to Mona. This is slightly troubling.

I knew because my sister was a massive Craig McLachlan fan for about as long as 12 year olds are massive fans of singing soap stars, and I recall being subjected to Mona and Amanda constantly.

According to wiki the next single was "I Almost Felt Like Crying." How apt. (it also peaked at #50)

steveeeeeeeee wrote:


Shit, that's me gone for the day. The video for Don't it make you feel good is the funniest thing in the history of recorded music. If I get thrown out for impromptu Dennising at Fulham this afternoon, it's your fault, Steveeeeeeeee.

I bought that Stefan Dennis record for 25p at the now-defunct Martin's at Coulby Newhan Parkway Centre.

And did it make you feeeeeeeeeeeeel good?

Never better. Somebody seems to have done something to my record player though.

Wow. I had completely forgotten about 'Don't It Make You Feel Good' by Stefan Dennis. Massive, massive flashback to being a teenager there and working in an amusment arcade during the summer holidays. That record, fucking hell. And 'French Kiss' by Lil Louis, 'My Prerogative' by Bobby Brown,'Superfly Guy' by S-Express and 'Pump Up The Jam' by Technotronic. Whenever I hear any of those records all I can remember is playing endless games of fucking air-hockey or Operation Wolf.

I put the first Young Gods album on the arcade stereo once, it lasted all of two minutes.

I'm kind of thinking of 'Piggies' by George Harrison here, but that's more preachiness taken to psychotic levels of contempt and misanthropic hatred.

Everything off John Lennons '72 album 'Some Time In New York City' for sure though. John on the imprisoned Marxist lawyer Angela Davis: "Angela they gave you coffee, they gave you tea, they gave you everything but e-qual-ity". That's poor innit.

Yeah, this is one is obvious:

"Woman is the nigger of the world
Yes she is...think about it
Woman is the nigger of the world
Think about it...do something about it"

Was this pre, post or mid-May Pang?