Elvis Fu Wrote:
[How did I miss this? You even told me about it.]
I take Ike, partly because he was first, but also because the rest of that Cracker disc bothers me.
Why? I think it rulz.
Having heard the Cracker version first, I was partial to it for some time, then came around to the Ike version, mainly because top to bottom that album kicks so much ass its still almost unbelievable to me.
But, I love the Cracker version. The shambolic groove, the mangled lyrics, the Jackson Herring (WHO THE FUCK IS HE?!!?) references. The lines "stiffs outta the Shannon," and ""He said he t hought it was valet parking for the Holiday Inn Express."
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Throughout his life, from childhood until death, he was beset by severe swings of mood. His depressions frequently encouraged, and were exacerbated by, his various vices. His character mixed a superficial Enlightenment sensibility for reason and taste with a genuine and somewhat Romantic love of the sublime and a propensity for occasionally puerile whimsy.
harry Wrote:
I understand that you, of all people, know this crisis and, in your own way, are working to address it. You, the madras-pantsed julip-sipping Southern cracker and me, the oldman hippie California fruit cake are brothers in the struggle to save our country.
FT Wrote:
LooGAR (the straw that stirs the drink)