Woke Like an Egyptian

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In my desperate attempt to become part of the wokie crowd I was going to nominate The Bangles hit “Walk like an Egyptian” as a blatant example of colonialism and racism disguised as popular culture.

There are obvious references to slavery as well as not very nice things about the Japs and the Chinkies.

I thought I was onto something radical here but my extensive research shows that some wokie cocksucker has beaten me to it again.

The track is listed in “Songs You Didn’t Know were Racist” in the Readers Digest, of all things, August 2020. Among the others is “Island Girl” by Fat Reg, my fucking hero.

I’m beginning to wonder if I will ever be accepted amongst the woke. I fear they are far too smart for me.

Nominated by: Freddie the Frog

Walk Like an Egyptian Song

Racist Pop Songs

81 thoughts on “Woke Like an Egyptian”

  1. Haven’t heard from B&WC for a bit, I wonder what his opinion on Boney M’s brown girl in the ring is? She looks like the sugar in the plum, we had fried fish and Johnny cakes.

    • I googled brown girl in the ring once.
      I got links to some very interesting websites.
      But nothing to do with music.

  2. I have the Bangles single and I’d like to put on record that I would have happily shagged Susanna Hoffs until I died of exhaustion.

  3. That picture takes me back…

    I wouldn’t have minded a bang with the Bangles.
    Susannah Hoffs and the two Petersen sisters would have done me.😍

    I remember Debbie, the blonde drummer, in that sprayed on outfit banging that tambourine on this song. Lovely arse. Vicki was pretty tasty and all, and as for Sexy Susy? Well….

    • Mate of mine claims to have copped off with a Bangle following their gig at Wolves Poly back in February ’86. I’d like to think he was telling the truth…

  4. Egyptian perceived racism is it?
    Well, as they spend their entire life thinking their Daddys a mummy I’m not surprised.
    Shifty no good gender benders..

  5. Read the RD article.

    What a load of woke chippy race baiting bollocks. I see the dark key ‘academic’ who wrote it didn’t mention all those rap songs about killing and beating ‘crackers’ n shee-it.

  6. Didn’t get very far into that nauseating link, but what a load of old cunt. Did it mention Bob Dylan?

    “They’re selling postcards of the hanging,
    They’re painting the passports brown
    The beauty parlour is full of sailors,
    The circus is in town….

    What a compendium of heteronormative racist hate speech!

    • Krav wouldn’t have, neither would Minced pie guy. And that other loony poof, forgotten his name.
      Thinking (wanking) about Susanna Hoffs, I often forgot about Michael Steele, the bass player with the red hair. She wasn’t half bad either. Didn’t fancy the ugly sisters though.

  9. I’ve bravely read right through this hatefest of comments (with a couple of cry-breaks in my safe place when it overwhelmed me) and am shocked, shocked by the total lack of trans representation. You bigots! Look, Dylan got the Nobel fucking prize for his caterwauling while the following has been systematically ignored by the patriarchy. Would this be because Wayne was pre-transition when er, he, um, her, um they recorded it? I’ll let you decide on that but the answer is yes.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJYnSMk9seE

      • You are welcome! It’s a great song from a great band (yes I did know that it was Jools’ first recording, before Squeeze). I’m not sure if he played live with the Electric Chairs though, even though I saw them more than any other band apart from the Blockheads at the time. In my defence, getting properly out of it before getting to the gig was par for the course back in those happy carefree days. The compulsory (it was 1977) 1 2 3 4 bit was always great fun in what would now be called the mosh pit. Proper band though, a couple of great albums and not really given heir true recognition, but much loved by their fans.
        I also love that the EP (ask your grand-dad kids) which “Fuck Off” was on was called ‘Blatantly Offensive’, even though no-one seemed particularly offended by it at the time (well, the gold vinyl was a bit tacky) whereas today ‘being offended’ is one of the country’s favourite hobbies.

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