Saturday, December 06, 2008
COMATOSE
Haven't got around to reading all of those best music/end of the year lists in the papers or on the internet, but I bet this song and this band crop up in most of them:
Yes, it's Girlfriend In An Oxford Coma (I Know, I Know) It's Serious by The Vampire Weekends.
Problem is, whenever I hear that song I imagine it being performed by the King's Singers.
As you can see, the King's Singers are major LOLZ merchants for the sort of people who fall into fits of hysterical laughter whenever they hear that thing where "cats" sing opera, and they don't own a TV set because television is "evil" but they MUST confess to enjoying Radio Four's comedy output and they ADOOOOOOOOOOOOOORE Steven Fry.
I can't get the Vampire Weekend/King's Singers business out of my head.
I need to be transported back to 1977 so that the King's Singers can appear on a Nana Mouskouri Christmas Special performing Oxford Comma, with the bald cove singing the "take the chapstick/put it on your lips" lines in his deep bassy voice to *hilarious effect*.
Then, and only then, will I be able to get on with the rest of my life.
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Labels: chapstick, King's Singers, Nana Mouskouri, Oxford commas, Steven Fry, Vampire Weekend
