Greatest. Song. Ever. (Not For Kids)

[filkertom]

Right here, right now. Eric Idle. "The FCC Song". Go. Get. Download. Laugh your ass off. (Thanks to Atrios.)

Comments

[jss]

Oh dear gods, that's wonderful. I'm tempted to put it on autorepeat.

[andrianna.livejournal.com]

Yep... on repeat is about right! :)

(As I've listened to it about 10 times in a row now...)

[shsilver.livejournal.com]

Many thanks for pointing that out.

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

Perfect. Utterly perfect. Thanks for the link.

[trdsf.livejournal.com]

When you have to pause an MP3 for a five minute giggle break after just one line, you know you're in for a good song. Thanks for the link, this one's going on the HD, that's for sure!

[nuveena.livejournal.com]

I'd post, but I have to go listen again.

LOL!

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

I'm performing this at MarCon next week. It's just too good.

[andrianna.livejournal.com]

Oh, that should be good and priceless!! :)

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Actually, somebody in the comment section at Atrios specifically asked if I'd record it. I think we're gonna have the mini-disk going at the concert....

[andrianna.livejournal.com]

*whimper*
Makes me wish that I could actually make it out there. Had all intent to, and then all hell broke loose in my life. :S

[janet-coburn.livejournal.com]

Perhaps you might put a "header" on the song the way you did the email. People who have heard you perform realize that you often do "not for kids" material, but since you haven't been at Marcon in a while, there may be newbies with children in the audience. Maybe a general announcement at the beginning of the concert would be better. (I hope you don't mind the suggestion. I find "Parental Advisory" stickers somewhat repugnant, but generally I think giving people information on which to base decisions is a Good Idea.)

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Possibly. I tend to do the more "adult" stuff at the open filks at night, but for this one I definitely want the larger crowd. (It'll be at the Friday 8:30 concert, rather than the Masquerade halftime, so that the Masquerade doesn't get any flak from me doing it.)

[trdsf.livejournal.com]

If you decide to do this at OVFF as well, I promise I'll learn the bass part.

Sheesh ... by then, it'll probably need another several verses.

[selenesue.livejournal.com]

Ohhhh boy. I thought this was going to be a remake of the Pythons' previous song I BET THEY WON'T PLAY THIS SONG ON THE RADIO. It's not. But I bet they won't, particularly Clear Channel or Infinity stations.

We must transcribe lyrics to this - I feel a karaoke party coming on.

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Already done by that nice person at Atrios:

The FCC Song
Words and Music: Eric Idle


[Spoken intro]
Here’s a little number I wrote the other day while out duck-hunting with a judge.
[quacking sound]

Fuck you very much, the FCC
Fuck you very much for fining me
$5000 bucks a fuck, so I’m really out of luck
That’s more than Heidi Fleiss was charging me

So fuck you very much, the FCC
For proving that free speech just isn’t free
Clear Channel’s a dear channel, so Howard Stern must go
Attorney General Ashcroft doesn’t like strong words, and so
He’s charging twice as much as all the drugs for Rush Limb-ohh,
So fuck you all so very much

So fuck you very much, dear Mr. Bush
For heroically sitting on your tush
For Halliburton, Enron, all the companies that fail
Let’s send them a clear signal and stick Martha straight in jail
She’s an uppity rich bitch, and at least she isn’t male
So fuck you all so very much

So fuck you, dickhead Mr. Cheney too
Fuck you and fuck everything you do
Your pacemaker must be a fake, you haven’t got a heart
As far as I’m concerned, you’re just a pasty-faced old fart
And as for Condoleeza, she’s an intellectual tart
So fuck you all so very much

So fuck you very much, the EPA
For giving all Alaska’s oil away
It really is a bummer when I can’t fill my Hummer
The ozone’s a no-go-zone, now that Arnold’s here to say,
“Ze Nuclear Winter Games are going to take place in L.A.”
So fuck you all so very much.

So what, the planet fails?
Let’s save the great white males
And fuck you all so very much.
[quack]

Re: Karaoke

[selenesue.livejournal.com]

I kiss your face!
THANK you very much.

[partiallyclips.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much, o filkertom.
Your journal and your music are da bomb.
Without you I would never find these auditory gems.
Eric Idle's brilliant, but where he most condemns,
Is that the best "domestic" commentary's written on the Thames.
But thank you both so very much.

[unclelumpy.livejournal.com]

Y'think THAT'S sad?

You'd think with all this madness going on, our "pals" the "librul" music industry would be clamoring to re-record "One Tin Soldier".

Instead it's being redone by "Red Hot Lovers";

http://www.newmusiccanada.com/genres/artist.cfm?Band_Id=6222

And they're from CALGARY!

You ain't HEARD "One Tin Soldier" 'til you've heard it PUNKED-OUT by THESE mofos!

And on that (musical) note....

[unclelumpy.livejournal.com]

'One Tin Soldier' in Iraq
or 'All suit, no mettle'

by lysdexic     August 27, 2003

Listen children, to a story,
Being written still today
'Bout a people in the desert, and
Politicians far away.

In the desert was a treasure
Buried deep beneath the shale
A motherlode of oil and petrol
Liquid gold 'twas not for sale

Go ahead, invade your neighbor
Go ahead, defeat a friend
Do it in the name of terror
You can justify it in the end
There won't be any trumpets blowin'
On election day
On the bloody morning after
Empty flightsuit flies away.

Politicians from their bunkers
Sent a message o'er the hill
Asking for a new regime there
Sweet revenge for which they'd kill
Said the people in the desert
"Listen, cowboy, you stay there.
If it weren't for the petrol,
We know well you wouldn't care"

Said the dodgers to their minions
"Mount your horses! Draw your swords!"
So we killed Iraqi people
Now we have our just rewards
Count the bodies in the desert
Fill your tank up with their blood
Must this war be never ending
How can we now stop this flood?

Go ahead, invade your neighbor
Go ahead, defeat a friend
Do it in the name of terror
You can justify it in the end
There won't be any trumpets blowin'
On election day
On the bloody morning after
Empty flightsuit flies away.

[primofex.livejournal.com]

Danke, Tom!

[filceolaire.livejournal.com]

This is wonderful. Thanks for the link

(Surfed in here from telynor's blog)