American metal band 36 Crazyfists (named after a Jackie Chan movie) welcome us back to the Hot 100 countdown after a week's break. Let's get straight onto your suggestions...
Martin started us out with what may well seem the obvious one. Alyson seconded this and added a little extra commentary...
The song was written over 25 years ago but nothing seems to have changed, in fact in anything things have got worse. Red haired singer Briana Corrigan left the band because of it, feeling that the lyrics criticised the glamour models rather than the industry that pays them.The Beautiful South - 36D
What are we doing to a large chunk of the female population who seem to think the route to happiness and success is still via grossly enlarged chesticles. Argh.... Sorry rant over!
No need to apologise, Alyson, you can rant here anytime you want.
To be honest, that was almost this week's winner as I used to love that song, but Mr. Heaton has done pretty well out of this countdown so far, so I decided to go in a different direction.
On a similar theme, Rigid Digit offered...
The Commodores - Brick House
Ow, she's a brick house
Well put-together, everybody knows
This is how the story goes
She knows she got everything
That a woman needs to get a man, yeah, yeah
How can she lose with the stuff she use
36 24 36, oh what a winning hand
Well put-together, everybody knows
This is how the story goes
She knows she got everything
That a woman needs to get a man, yeah, yeah
How can she lose with the stuff she use
36 24 36, oh what a winning hand
Beyond the gleeful 70s objectification of larger ladies, you can imagine British DJs having to bite their tongue every time they played this record so as not to add an extra word to the title.
And then came C...
How about a groovy foot-stomping early '60s instrumental from The Shadows - 36-24-36 (no idea what it's about though, a phone number perhaps or a bank sort code?)Did they have sort codes in the 60s?
Finally in this particular subsection, Bobby Bland knows a lady with similar dimensions...
Bobby Bland - 36-22-36
And so do this lot...
ZZ Top - 36-22-36
Taking us away from curves and bumps, Lynchie was next up with another bloody gun song... a belter though.
Tom Waits - 16 Shells From a 30-6
If I was still being picky about this feature, I might question whether that really qualifies as a 36 due to Mr. Waits' choice of wording.
C also offered the following, which she presumed was about appearing on Mastermind...
John Cooper Clarke - Thirty-Six HoursGreat video for that... although that must be a bloody long microphone lead.
36 hours in the mystery chair
36 hours in the quizzical glare
Of the naked lights and the visible hardware
That was it for your suggestions (apart from the winner)... but what else did my hard-drive cough up?
Frank Black - Discotheque 36
Mark Kozelek & Jimmy Lavell - 1936
Boo Radleys - The History of Creation Parts 17 & 36 (Less a song, more a load of old nonsense to fill up the CD.)
Placebo - 36 Degrees (That would have taken the bronze medal this week from me.)
However, Lynchie, Charity Chic and Rigid Digit all agreed on this week's winning tune. Not that this is a democracy - your votes really don't count. Not unless I agree with them. (Insert your own comment about the current establishment here.) Luckily, I did agree... Jesus Of Cool is a great album!
Next week - the minimum age requirement to stand for election as President of the United States of America. Age requirement, not IQ. Any ideas for 35?
Looks like I've returned just in time... Bob Dylan - 'Rainy Day Women # 12 & 35'.
ReplyDeleteA lyrical reference in Saturn 5 by Inspiral Carpets:
ReplyDelete"Laying down the lifeless corpse of President 35
The lady crying by his side is the most beautiful woman alive"
Speaking of which, there's a great performance of this by the Carpets on The Word... on Terry Christian's YouTube channel! An internet rabbit hole into the mid-90s may just have opened...
The Swede's pinched my one, so I'll give a vote to Christy Moore's version of "Blackjack County Chains"
ReplyDeleteI was sittin' beside the road in Black Jack County.
Not knowing that the Sheriff paid a bounty,
For men like me that hadn't got a penny to their name.
So he locked my leg to 35 pounds of Black Jack County Chains."
Late to the game, here, but I still think I am backing a winner in The Boss, My Hometown. In the last stanza, as he's a-packin' his bags, he identifies his age as "35", sure enough.
ReplyDeleteOr perhaps if there is Boss fatigue around these parts, maybe it's Billy's turn to hoist the cup, with Speedway Hero. Bragg, for the win...
ReplyDelete"So fill her up and pick her up
And ride into the breeze,
You're taking all the corners
That were at the 35 degrees.
It's so hard to face up to
It's not in no highway code,
Another speedway hero's coming home."