Haysi Fantayzee - Battle Hymns for Children Singing (1983)

It is indeed interesting that these sounds came long before Graceland.

Not really, when you consider "Duck Rock" and MM's general influenza* etc.

Also, London being a genuine 'melting pot'...




*GEDDIT!?

Haysi Fantayzee, Malcolm McLaren, Adam and the Ants, Bow Wow Wow, Fun Boy Three, Thompson Twins, Jimmy the Hoover >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Paul Simon

1975.

Rousseau walks on trumpet paths
Safaris to the heart of all that jazz
Through I-bars and girders, through wires and pipes
The mathematic circuits of the modern nights
Through huts, through Harlem, through jails and gospel pews
Through the class on Park and the trash on Vine
Through Europe and the deep, deep heart of Dixie blue
Through savage progress cuts the jungle line

In a low-cut blouse, she brings the beer
Rousseau paints a jungle flower behind her ear
Those cannibals of shuck and jive
They'll eat a working girl like her alive
With his hard-edged eyes and his steady hand
He paints the cellar full of ferns and orchid vines
And he hangs a moon above a five-piece band
He hangs it up above the jungle line

The jungle line, the jungle line
Screaming in a ritual of sound and time
Floating, drifting on the air-conditioned wind
And drooling for a taste of something smuggled in
Pretty women funneled through valves and smoke
Coy and bitchy, wild and fine
And charging elephants and chanting slaving boats
Charging, chanting down the jungle line

There's a poppy wreath on a soldier's tomb
There's a poppy snake in the dressing room
Poppy poison-poppy tourniquet
It slithers away on brass like mouthpiece spit
And metal skin and ivory birds
Go steaming up to Rousseau's vines
They go steaming up to Brooklyn Bridge
Steaming, steaming, steaming up the jungle line

Nightjar wrote:1975.

Note enough twangly African guitar.

SiberianPrincess’sMidriff wrote:

SiberianPrincess’sMidriff wrote:I though it was GR8. But I really like the early 80s quirky pop, that if the history books are to be believed came from all the punk people who got bored of 3 chords and the TRUTH.

By which you mean Public school trustafarians



Is that a wig? There seems to a slight join between the hair at the side and the curly stuff on top that doesn't seem to move?

I mean, it's a good one if it is.  

From 80s pop to 90s DJ. Jeremy Healy really was the Fatboy Slim of the... exact same era.

Butterfield wrote:Note enough twangly African guitar.

Are you still doing an Arthur Bostrom impression?

Oops.