tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3607123.post116646106060113935..comments2023-11-02T12:15:47.847+00:00Comments on Quinquireme: Three Monkeyspatroclushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01933476561340044351noreply@blogger.comBlogger37125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3607123.post-1168017722088048712007-01-05T17:22:00.000+00:002007-01-05T17:22:00.000+00:00There is a song by Patti Smith which may or not be...There is a song by Patti Smith which may or not be called Spacemonkey which ends with some pretty wild monkey noises by her. Could cheer anyone up!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3607123.post-1166711071167325442006-12-21T14:24:00.000+00:002006-12-21T14:24:00.000+00:00Sassen frassen Jim Capaldi, messing up my quality ...Sassen frassen Jim Capaldi, messing up my quality jokes. In an effort to think of something to replace it, all I could come up with was:<BR/><BR/><I>Anemone's Too Tight To Mention</I> by Simply Red Snapper<BR/><BR/>And now I have an image of Mick Hucknall stuck in my head.<BR/><BR/>Oh no, it's getting worse! Quick, must think of something else!<BR/><BR/>Welcome, though, Lucien. I think I forgot to say that.<BR/><BR/>Also, Billy: Cornelius? Japanese? What? Suddenly I don't understand anything any more.<BR/><BR/>Frangelita: That is a very good list of monkey songs, but it is by no means exhaustive. I think the only one from this thread that's mentioned on it is 'Ape Man', and as PEANUT pointed out, an ape is not a munkle it is an ape. Unless it's an Italian ape, in which case it's a bee.<BR/><BR/>*goes to lie down*patroclushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01933476561340044351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3607123.post-1166708869179020242006-12-21T13:47:00.000+00:002006-12-21T13:47:00.000+00:00Got to pick you up on Whale Meat Again, Pat.Real s...Got to pick you up on <I>Whale Meat Again</I>, Pat.<BR/><BR/>Real song, real album, by Jim Capaldi out of Traffic.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3607123.post-1166649858047785742006-12-20T21:24:00.000+00:002006-12-20T21:24:00.000+00:00I think I may have the definitive list of monkey s...I think I may have the definitive list of monkey songs.<BR/><BR/>http://www.bus.ualberta.ca/rfield/Monkey%20Songs.htm<BR/><BR/>Oh yeah.frangelitahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11233841524982204314noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3607123.post-1166585321015252712006-12-20T03:28:00.000+00:002006-12-20T03:28:00.000+00:00Wake Up, Little Sushi?(It's a slow day.)Wake Up, Little Sushi?<BR/><BR/>(It's a slow day.)Tim Fhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14681067872556519250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3607123.post-1166575490639832182006-12-20T00:44:00.000+00:002006-12-20T00:44:00.000+00:00In fact, to take this back to where we came in, ho...In fact, to take this back to where we came in, how about <I>Monkfish Gone To Heaven</I> by the Pikeys?Tim Fhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14681067872556519250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3607123.post-1166560574505699022006-12-19T20:36:00.000+00:002006-12-19T20:36:00.000+00:00The letters on the door what was the Green Wing of...The letters on the door what was the Green Wing office now reads 'Gree Wan(ers' which confuses me, because if you're going to go and get a '(' and an 'a' and another 'r', you may as well get a 'k' while you're there.<BR/><BR/>Museum workers are lovely, even the ones who shout at me, although to be fair they usually have just cause.James Henryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16604261370633794445noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3607123.post-1166559405074381562006-12-19T20:16:00.000+00:002006-12-19T20:16:00.000+00:00This is just a case of tempura's new clothes.This is just a case of tempura's new clothes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3607123.post-1166559314097353792006-12-19T20:15:00.000+00:002006-12-19T20:15:00.000+00:00Get Out Of My Breams (Get Into My Carp) by Billy '...<I>Get Out Of My Breams (Get Into My Carp)</I> by Billy 'Plenty More Fish In The' Oceanpatroclushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01933476561340044351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3607123.post-1166557209933845042006-12-19T19:40:00.000+00:002006-12-19T19:40:00.000+00:00All hail the museum workers indeed! Guardians of ...All hail the museum workers indeed! Guardians of our cultural heritage, interpreters of the past, comedy re-arrangers of letters on menu boards, shakers of hands using broken-off statue arms cunningly concealed up their sleeves...<BR/><BR/>...or at least that's what it used to be like when I worked in one. Glad to know that nothing much has changed. I'd go back to museuming any day.<BR/><BR/>Betty: on the patented My Mum Laughometer Test, you've just steamed straight into the lead with <I>I'm Breaming Of A Whitebait Christmas</I>.patroclushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01933476561340044351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3607123.post-1166556512984787252006-12-19T19:28:00.000+00:002006-12-19T19:28:00.000+00:00All hail the museum workers! Nothing wrong with b...All hail the museum workers! Nothing wrong with being a museum worker!<BR/><BR/>Bream A Little Bream Of Me - The Mamas And Papas<BR/><BR/>Just Pike Heaven - The Cure<BR/><BR/>Carps - Gary Numan<BR/><BR/>I'm Breaming Of A Whitebait Christmas - Bing CrosbyBettyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11296810448779372875noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3607123.post-1166549127111506642006-12-19T17:25:00.000+00:002006-12-19T17:25:00.000+00:00Yes, it seems I'm not doing all that well today on...Yes, it seems I'm not doing all that well today on the factual accuracy front.<BR/><BR/>Bravo on the song titles!<BR/><BR/>Errr...<BR/><BR/><I>A Child And His Prawnmower</I><BR/><BR/>Oh, a prawn isn't a fish, is it? I give up.patroclushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01933476561340044351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3607123.post-1166549083183472582006-12-19T17:24:00.000+00:002006-12-19T17:24:00.000+00:00Return Of The Mackerel.Gonna Make You A Starfish.S...Return Of The Mackerel.<BR/><BR/>Gonna Make You A Starfish.<BR/><BR/>Sorry, these are all completely out of tuna. I need a herring aid.Tim Fhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14681067872556519250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3607123.post-1166548782090205202006-12-19T17:19:00.000+00:002006-12-19T17:19:00.000+00:00But I do know that Clint Boon was the organist. Th...But I do know that Clint Boon was the organist. The singer was Tom Hingley.Tim Fhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14681067872556519250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3607123.post-1166548676103033562006-12-19T17:17:00.000+00:002006-12-19T17:17:00.000+00:00Cod Only KnowsSharkedFlounder The BridgeSticklebac...Cod Only Knows<BR/><BR/>Sharked<BR/><BR/>Flounder The Bridge<BR/><BR/>Stickleback For Good<BR/><BR/>And some sole music. With a good bass line.<BR/><BR/>(I did not write a book about the Inspirals. Sorry.)Tim Fhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14681067872556519250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3607123.post-1166547684536931952006-12-19T17:01:00.000+00:002006-12-19T17:01:00.000+00:00Sorted!Whale Meat AgainNote to self: a whale is no...Sorted!<BR/><BR/><I>Whale Meat Again</I><BR/><BR/>Note to self: a whale is not a fush, it is a mammule.patroclushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01933476561340044351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3607123.post-1166547098444656902006-12-19T16:51:00.000+00:002006-12-19T16:51:00.000+00:00Great stuff!Can we have one on songs about fish?I'...Great stuff!<BR/><BR/>Can we have one on songs about fish?<BR/><BR/>I'll kick things off....<BR/><BR/><I>Salmon Chanted Evening</I><BR/><I>There's A Plaice For Us</I><BR/><I>Trout Of Time</I><BR/><BR/>Bangin'!<BR/><BR/>LdPAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3607123.post-1166540774969879562006-12-19T15:06:00.000+00:002006-12-19T15:06:00.000+00:00Ooh, please link us to the Bee Gees style Wave of ...Ooh, please link us to the Bee Gees style Wave of Mutilation! It sounds like it'd be fabulous, in every true sense of the word.<BR/><BR/>TR, were they really so souless? I only saw them at Brixton. Sounds like I should be highly glad I did..Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3607123.post-1166536769560642852006-12-19T13:59:00.000+00:002006-12-19T13:59:00.000+00:00Whyohwhyohwhy is it, that when I have several of t...Whyohwhyohwhy is it, that when I have several of the aforementioned songs in my collection, that the only one that sprung to mind was the effortlessly tragic Inspiral frigging Carpets?<BR/><BR/>Anyhow, that Clint Boon, he got quite foxy once he got rid of the silly hair.Spinsterellahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08611660308963083276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3607123.post-1166536703001652792006-12-19T13:58:00.000+00:002006-12-19T13:58:00.000+00:00Isn't there that Japanese guy called Cornelius? Do...Isn't there that Japanese guy called Cornelius? Does he count?Billyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17841187654606981532noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3607123.post-1166532654733573932006-12-19T12:50:00.000+00:002006-12-19T12:50:00.000+00:00Never mind Betty, there's that telegram to look fo...Never mind Betty, there's that telegram to look forward to. <BR/><BR/>Axolotl coffee! That's even better than BiB's unidentified squirrel coffee, which may also be Tim's Kopi Campuran. Must go to Brazil immediately.<BR/><BR/>There's the Bees' 'Chicken Payback': '<I>do the monkey, see the monkey, pay the monkey baaaaaaack</I>'. But I couldn't count that because sadly there's no monkey in the title.patroclushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01933476561340044351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3607123.post-1166528657584940092006-12-19T11:44:00.000+00:002006-12-19T11:44:00.000+00:00There's 'Mickey's Monkey'. In fact, there are doze...There's 'Mickey's Monkey'. In fact, there are dozens of 60s soul tracks involving monkeys, given that to teenagers it was surely the most entertaining of the whole "do the monkey/do the swim/do the fly" land of a thousand dances. Except the mashed potato. Ah...the mashed potato.<BR/><BR/>There's an Axolotl Coffee in Brazil.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3607123.post-1166525149347872882006-12-19T10:45:00.000+00:002006-12-19T10:45:00.000+00:00Echo And The Bunnymen have a song called Monkeys, ...Echo And The Bunnymen have a song called Monkeys, and The Specials covered a Toots And The Maytals song called Monkey Man. See, that's more my sort of era. I was born in 1907.<BR/><BR/>Preston from the Ordinary Boys looks like a monkey.Bettyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11296810448779372875noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3607123.post-1166522942073278532006-12-19T10:09:00.000+00:002006-12-19T10:09:00.000+00:00Clint Boon. I think my esteemed colleague Sean is ...Clint Boon. I think my esteemed colleague Sean is his official biographer or something, so he would know. And actually, didn't Tim write a book about the Inspiral Carpets?<BR/><BR/>I could be wildly wrong on both fronts, mind.patroclushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01933476561340044351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3607123.post-1166522621835934102006-12-19T10:03:00.000+00:002006-12-19T10:03:00.000+00:00The Inspiral Carpets have a song called (I think) ...The Inspiral Carpets have a song called (I think) 'Monkey on my Back is Bleeding'.<BR/><BR/>My sister informs me that for years after Madchester died on its arse the singer was to be found hanging round in Afflecks Palace (alternative clothes/music/hippy bollocks emporium) in Manchester with a big 'NoticeMe' head on him.<BR/><BR/>He's probably still there.Spinsterellahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08611660308963083276noreply@blogger.com