Shack Up!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Banbarra - Shack Up

I was going to post this all ironical like on my wedding anniversary on Tuesday, but then I didn't. "Shack Up" is a tract against marriage which couches the singer's entirely selfish reasons in pseudo-sociological bollox. It is a classic 'Gloria' song in that lots of people will say that the A Certain Ratio version is best, or even - o noes - the BIS version, but this original is the winner for me, ACR's dour funk schtick just can't carry the sly, faux-reasonable lyrics as well as Banbarra do.

Also a YSI of DJ Assault's "Asses Jiglin" seems to have fallen into my inbox, ahem. This reprehensible song can be found here.

Comments

[steviespitfire.livejournal.com]

I think I get the concept, but why is it called a "Gloria"?

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

"Tainted Love? Of course the Gloria Jones original is better."

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

never really took off as a concept did it ;)

certainly not as an ft article :)

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Dude it got to 3 articles which is more than anything else, bar the lists and Sarah's reviews!

[steviespitfire.livejournal.com]

Ah! I see!

[kill-yr-idols.livejournal.com]

oh, this is fantastic, & agree w/yr evaluation* - great backing vocals, & probably my favourite lazy chicken-scratch guitar. there was an edit of it getting played out about six months ago, oddly enough.

(ooh, will try & grab the dj assault & the new trucker song on my lunchbreak - did you manage to d/l the mi-sex video? i've digitised the track itself - I'll try & ysi it at the same time).


*tho the ACR version's entertainingly goofy, the way their dourness rubs up against the lyrics to make it really wide-eyed & BACK AWAY SLOWLY, & the bis version has nice super mario noises (& it's the only track of theirs I can stand other than the jacques lu cont rmx of "eurodisco", which I should YSI sometime) . . . the only time I've ever DJed those two is when I played all three versions back-to-back, tho.