Listening to the radio today. Not one, but two songs by these cunts in one afternoon. One was ‘Cars and Girls’. A sort of prototype fuckflake ‘new man’ soyboy anthem, basically dumbing down ordinary blokes and their hobbies and interests.
Throughout the song is that simpering daft cow (not unlike the banshee who was in Deacon Blue) yelping ‘Ba-Ba-Ba!’ insipidly. Obviously screwing the lead singer at the time. No other explanation why she’s there.
Then there was the diabolical ‘King Of Rock & Roll’. Another piss weak load of twee bollocks, with the aforementioned daft cow endlessly sighing something like ‘Hot dog! Jumping Frog! Billy Fury!’ or some other crap to that effect.
I forgot how awful these cunts were, but I was brutally reminded today. Even the name is shite. A band called Prefab Fucking Sprout?! Do fuck off!
Nominated by: Norman
They must be as old as God. I remember their first time round: the wacky name didn’t imply anything of interest in the music. According to Wikipedia,
Music journalist Stuart Maconie described ( “Lions in My Own Garden (Exit Someone) – their first single, 1982) as “enigmatic, melancholy, tuneful and therefore perfect for a jobless literature graduate with girlfriend problems”.
Doesn’t look as if they evolved much…
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Can barely remember these cunts – probably a good thing!
But I do recall the whole “New Romantics” era of the early to mid 80s, which followed on from the “New Wave” in the late 70s with Cunty Club, Spandex Ballet, Durex Durex, and all that shite!
Neither genre were my cup of tea,but it was plastered wall-to-wall on TV pop shows like Top of the Cunts, The Tube and .. that’s it!
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And that Blitz Club was full of cunts.
Steve Strange. What a wanker he was.
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Wasnt their lead singer called Paddy McAloon? Isnt that a euphemism for summink else?
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I’ve only got two things to say about their insipid music…
1/ Shite.
2/ Shite
This…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cBojbjoMttI
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The late 70s, great daze. Cold war, hyper inflation, strikes, National Front, total chaos. What a bunch of cunts we were.
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Yeah, but at least we had Thatcher, no snowflakes, no wokes, no Karens, no unsocial media, no Gretas, no extinction rebellions, no BLMs, and no fucking gimmecunts paddling to these shores!
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As I said, good daze what I remember of it.
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I remember the power cuts when I was a lad. Must have been mid 70s at a guess. It was a planned thing I seem to recall. Everyone knew the leccy would be cut off at a certain time for a given number of hours. I remember getting out the candles and being spooked by the whole thing. No lights. No telly. No heat.
Someone older than myself might recall why this happened. I’m guess some strike or other. Cunts.
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The Winter of Discontent in 1978, was certainly one reason for power cuts due to militant unions going on strike for all sorts of things.
I think this happened under Jim Callaghan’s watch as PM. But clearly the discontent was his undoing because he was booted out in the 79 election, and old Thatcher kicked some union arse – rightly or wrongly.
I also think there were strikes in 1972/3 that affected electric supplies and bread! But I was only a nipper then so can’t recall details
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72-73 Power workers strikes. We had to get ready for school by candle light, fuck me imagine that today!!
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Fuck me you’re so young!
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Yes, I remember it was 73/4 the so called 3 day week. All down to an oil crisis and miner’s strike. Ted Heath was in charge and rationed electricity output. Happy days!
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Thanks for clearing that up, Creedence. Gosh, 1973 and 1974.
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I missed the great stench (the bin men strike) because I was in Wormwood Scrubs. Prefab Sprouts doxie needs a large portion, alas not by me boo hoo.
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Never really took much notice of these cunts. The band name is a major turn off since it suggests music of a quirky, bland and trivial nature. Confirmed by perhaps their biggest hit, The King of Rock and Roll whose hook line lyric was, “Hot dog, jumping frog, Albuquerque”.
I suppose well done for writing a lyric which I still remember all these years later. Minus a million points though for reminding me how quirky, bland and trivial your song is.
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Couldn’t agree more..Why is it on the playlist? Really the most terrible song ever-
‘Hot dog, jumping frog, Albuquerque’
And right about Deacon Blue too in that faux American accent-
‘There’s a man I meet walks up our street
He’s a worker for the council…’
And then the screeching -‘with a ship called dig-ni-teeee’
Terrible.
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Gosh Miles….Deacon Blue….I’d forgotten about those cunts. My best UK mate’s wife was really into Wet Wet Wet way back when. Drooled over Marti Pellow I seem to recall. I think she grew out of it. I hope she has anyway. They were shite too.
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I went to get the lyrics for ‘Dignity’ Imitation. Didn’t want to quote them all to avoid hogging the thread. But they are SO BAD I now think its worth quoting in full. Prepare yourself….:
‘There’s a man I meet, walks up our street
He’s a worker for the council
Has been twenty years
And he takes no lip off nobody
And litter off the gutter
Puts it in a bag
And never thinks to mutter
And he packs his lunch in a Sunblest bag
The children call him Bogie
He never lets on
But I know ’cause he once told me
He let me know a secret about the money in his kitty
He’s gonna buy a dinghy
Gonna call her Dignity
And I’ll sail her up the west coast
Through villages and towns
I’ll be on my holidays
They’ll be doing their rounds
They’ll ask me how I got her I’ll say, “I saved my money”
They’ll say, “Isn’t she pretty? That ship called Dignity”
And I’m telling this story
In a faraway sea
Sipping down raki
And reading Maynard Keynes
And I’m thinking about home and all that that means
And a place in the winter for dignity
And I’ll sail her up the west coast
Through villages and towns
I’ll be on my holidays
They’ll be doing the rounds
They’ll ask me how I got her I’ll say, “I saved my money”
They’ll say, “Isn’t she pretty? That ship called Dignity”
Stand it up, stand it up, stand it up, stand it up, stand it up, stand it up
Yeah, stand it up again, stand it up again, stand it up again, stand it up again
Stand it up, stand it up, stand it up, stand it up, stand it up, stand it up
Yeah, stand it up again, stand it up again, stand it up again, stand it up again
And I’m thinking about home
And I’m thinking about faith
And I’m thinking about work
And I’m thinking how good it would be
To be here some day
On a ship called Dignity
A ship called Dignity
That ship…,’
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I winder if any if the migrants name their dinghies?
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Wow! Those are some shite lyrics.
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‘Dignity’ is indeed shite. But the gruesome nadir of Deacunt Blue was the dreadful ‘Real Gone Kid’. With that daft cow shouting ‘Woo-ooh! Woo-ooh! Woo-ooh!’. And let’s not even mention their murderous ‘Bacharach & David EP’. And then there’s ‘Fergus Sings The Blues’. Their musical crimes are virtually endless.
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Pretentious bollocks by a band named after a pretentious song by another pretentious band.
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Blimey, are the Sprouts still going?
I had their album ‘Swoon’ in the early ‘80s which I thought was pretty ok, but couldn’t be bothered with them after that.
I liked Deacon Blue’s ‘Your Town’.
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No you didn’t and don’t say that out loud ever again. 😉
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Adnin I want RT removed from this site immediately..
Might have to show the yellow card for repeated references to Beacon Blue – Admin.
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Go fuck yourselves.*
© Black and White Cunt
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Steady on Miles, me first please!
As so often in these matters, I’m remarkably ad idem with you, Ruffers dear boy.
I did quite like Swoon, and particularly appreciated their (admittedly nugatory) synth innovations. I recall also that their LPs were unusually skilfully produced. As a then-budding organist myself, I thought they were pretty cool; but then again, I had pimples and was struggling with Sweelinck, Buxtehude and Clementi at the time.
I also had no idea they still existed as a working band (but am wholly unsurprised that they might¹), and haven’t given them a second thought for ⅓ of a Century.
Not really cunts, though Norman, just a bit bobbins and entirely immaterial and incidental, other than to musicologists of popular music like yourself, Sir.
¹ it would be informative to enumerate those groups (whose members are still breathing) have actually retired quietly and gracefully. A minority, I’d trow
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@Admin What I object in the strongest best possible terms to is him saying ‘the Sprouts’. If he had said he liked Prefab Sprout (an appoailing revelation) I could maybe just about forgive him in time.. But to refer them as ‘the Sprouts’ (as say the Rolling Stones are referred to as ‘the Stones’) is just too much for me. Isn’t there an ISaC ‘sin bin’ at least that he could be put in for a couple of days?
Fear not Miles, RTC is on his way to the Green Dome to see No. 2 – Admin.
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I thought about that long and hard, Miles, but eventually opted to call them the Sprouts as I knew how much that would wind you up. 😁
PS: Not very Christian of you to want me removed from the site. Surely you should be turning the other cheek instead?
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I am going try to forget that you ever said it RT. Pass over it as if it never happened. That’s all I can do now.
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Always thought Wendy Smith was very tasty. I spanked the monkey once or twice over her back in the eighties.
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Is that “spanked the monkey once or twice over her back” which took place in the 80s?
Or is it, “”spanked the monkey once or twice” which took place in the 80s?
I feel we all need to know because the first option would be awesome.
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Sadly the second of those I’m afraid IY.
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Wendy James for me. Now you’re talking.
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Always thought she looked like a dirty bitch.
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The motorcycle in the header pic looks OK, although I don’t think passengers should be carried on a motorcycle, but that’s just my opillion….
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Your jokes get worse! Still get a thumbs up though but only just!
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T120 or a T100, is my guess. Probably already a few years old when the photo was taken. Sound enough in their day.
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These lot are shite…as was most music released in the 80s.
Shitty beats and crappy choruses, I like ‘Cars’ and ‘Are friends electric’ by Gary Numan.
I’ve had a flashback of Pat Sharp and his mullet. 😂😂😂
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Are ‘Friends’ Electric? was written by Gary Numan, but released under his band name Tubeway Army. It was the last Tubeway Army single before he switched to recording under his own name. Although his real name is Gary Webb.
The single Are ‘Friends’ Electric? was taken from the album Replicas which reached #1 in the album charts at the same time the single peaked at #1 in the singles chart. A feat Numan repeated with his follow up single Cars, taken from the best album ever recorded, The Pleasure Principle.
Not that you asked. 🙂
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Thanks for the info IY, very few especially electronic/synth tracks can stand the test of time.
The two tracks mentioned though will still be played in hundred years from now, unless Covid 22 kills us all.
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I see you correct, B&WC.
Cars was released 41 years ago on August 21. It still sounds new and cutting edge in 2020 and will in another 41 years.
Written in under 10 minutes on a bass guitar he’d just bought and was learning to play. Lyrics and main riff completed in under half an hour. Unbelievable!
Some songs are just timeless.
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Sometimes the best things are created like that.
A lot of music is over produced and loses its raw vibe.
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He’s still going, still writing recording and touring. I Remember when I first heard RFElectric on the radio, the sound was like he was from another planet!!
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I know what you mean, 3S.
The charts at the time were a mixed bag of pure lightweight pop, punk, disco, soul and a few other genres.
Then AFE hit the airwaves and the music world changed. It was a very cool thing to witness first hand something coming along which was so different, so eerie, haunting and other-worldly.
It doesn’t happen very often. I’m very glad I was there. Happy days.
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New Order were ace.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3XW6NLILqo
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Definitely Norman, I like Blue Monday also.
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Me, I disconnect from you is the best track on Replicas.
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Ooooooo tough one to call, Cupid. So many tracks to choose from.
Down In The Park, The Machman, even the title track is epic, though waaaaaay better live, circa 1980.
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I agree, there is not one duff track on the Pleasure Principle. Best tracks IMHO are Metal, Complex and ME.
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It’s an incredible album for sure, Paul. I’m really glad you like it too.
Numan’s career has been littered with massive mistakes and mis-steps. Complex has a quite beautiful arrangement which is at odds with Numan’s cold and detacted vocal delivery. It’s a powerful song, but a pretty ballad should not have been the follow up to Cars. The next single should have been Metal and given his rising fame and profile at the time, would have been #1 as well. Sadly, Complex peaked at #6 and Cars would prove to be his last #1 single.
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They could take turns in my chair.
They’d soon realise the true meaning of ‘jumping frog’ after experiencing that for a while.
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I hated prefab sprout.
Not because theyre absolute dreary shite but I worry about vegetable names for bands,
Promotes veganism.
I also boycotted the blackeyed peas.
Same reason.
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On the subject of crap songs, I’ve just had the tedious Plastic Ono Band’s ‘Give peace a chance’ on my eardrum for about the last five minutes whilst listening to Pick of the Pops on R2. Nearly chucked the wireless through the window.
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Anything with Yoko Bastard Cunting Fucking Ono on it is officially shite.
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Serves you right for listening to Radio 2.
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I quite liked The Primitives though.
I’d have shagged that Tracy Tracy.
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I remember seeing them on an episode of Wogan way back when, performing Thru The Flowers. I didn’t catch who they were so I called the BBC the following day to ask. Back when the BBC kind of cared about their audience.
I loved that song and thought they’d be huge, but they never really did much. Although you hear their single Crash every now and then in filums and on the radio.
Another band I thought would be huge were Eat. Saw their video for Tombstone on MTV back in the mid 80s and loved it. Their album Sell Me A God is decent, but their follow up many years later called Epicure is monster. Should have made it big.
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I’ve never heard of this beat combo. Doesn’t seem to be in the same league as Wee Willie Harris or Jerry Lee Lewis or Little Richard.
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They went over my head at the time but just googled them and i think i may just be talked round into boning the girl member if i was asked nicely/begged and if i was a bit bored that day.
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The name is fucking awful and I hate sprouts, (even though I am growing some; Mrs everyone’s a cunt eats the fuckers). I must be a bit of a cunt because I did like these fuckers first time around even with their daft putrid name. Hey ho Girl was proper sexy back in the day …
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Once again I had to Google these cunts. Then I listened to some of their “music” on YouTube.
They should change their name to Prefab Cunt.
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Cars & Girls was them having a pop at Brucey Springsteen…
I’m trying but failing to give a shit either way
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They were always shit. Paddy McAloon is a cunt, for his name alone if anything else.
Get to fuck.
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One of their songs, called ‘Wild Horses’, was about lead singer/songwriter Paddy McAloon perving at schoolgirls and their ponytails through the school rails. Much is made of ‘rolling in the hay’ and ‘riding their rodeo’.
You try any of that round my way, Paddy old son, and I’ll be ready with my bolt clippers to make a gelding of ye!
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I don’t mind the old hot dog and jumping frog, purely because it’s catchy. The fact that they only ever had that one hit though tells me that the rest of their stuff is likely to be rancid bollocks.
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Fuckin hell have any of you seen what Paddy McAloon looks like now? He resembles someone you’d find at a dodgy real ale festival. I’m willing to bet he smells like a cross between stale baccy, farts and salt and vinegar crisps. You’d have him down for one of Hawkwind’s roadies, not an ex 80s pop singer
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