Sid: (responding to a tune playing on the tannoy): Gawd, you remember this one 'arry?
Harry: Yeah, blimey: takes me back that does 'n no mistake
Sid: Course, I jammed with Bob Marley once.
Harry: Yeah?
Sid: Yeah, at his London gig. Tought him everything he knew. Coulda been a reggae music meself: I did sing in UB40 briefly after Ali Campbell left
Harry: I never knew that (listens to the song for a minute): course, they were all on drugs you know. The song was about taking drugs as well
Sid: Nah, can't a bin, it were on Blue Peter. You don't get kids singing about taking drugs on Blue Peter
Harry: (pause) Well...there were that Grange Hill song...just say no or something
Sid: Oh yeah. Guess you must be right then. (pause) Whatever happened to this lot anyway? Bit of a one hit wonder, right?
Harry: Probably on the come-back tour as we speak, with Rick Ghastly, New Kids On The Block and that lot.
Sid: Anyway, I think you're getting confused - weren't they singing about A pot, not BEING ON pot?
Harry: (with a knowing nod) well...that's what they always claimed...
16 comments:
haha..yeah what are they really singing about...this was an enjoyable interplay between them...and what ever happens to those one hit wonder bands...and yes there seems to be many trying to make that come back once more...smiles.
Hehehe! I LOVED that song - and the kids who sang it! Thanks for this bit of fun. :)
I've had many a great song ruined for me by someone pointing out that it was about drugs or sex or drugs and sex. Liked the dialogue here though - 8 could just imagine it.
I agree with Argent: the last thing I want is to know what a song means.
Spot on.
Something else I've noticed about blokes in pubs (or elsewhere, for that matter) — they don't have opinions, they have facts. (If you're sceptical, just trying telling a bloke that what he's just said is just his opinion).
:^)
I never know what a song is about - even if someone tells me. The next time I hear it I won't remember. Makes everything fresh & new!
Generational differences lead to misunderstandings and misrepresentations of many life occurrences. Funny, isn't it? I love the imagination that went into this conversational offering. Thank you for sharing it, DFTP. =D
Brian - Musical Youth always claimed that "Pass The Douchie" referred to an old cooking pot called a Douchie. This much is actually true. What they failed to mention was that the tune of their song was taken from "Pass The Kouchie" which was slang for the other kind of pot.
Trellissimo - yeah it's a fun song
Argent - you should hear what passes for conversation in the bar below the Ukelele group
Stephen - sometimes knowing what a song is about can spoil it, but it can also make it more poigniant
Pete - this is very true. Everything blokes at bars say is total fact, regardless of its utter nonsense quotient
Bug - i think you are probably very lucky then :) My head is far too full of useless fact
Linda - thanks for visiting
I'm also with argent. Why does everyone always want to know what everything MEANS? Very enjoyable, this.
Makes me think of all those song lyrics I misunderstood as a child...clever dialog...
Lol..... took ME straight back to my ♫ musical youth ♫.
Rick Ghastly....heh heh heh....as bad as Chris (Diah)Rea....!
Its all to do with the little green men !
How wonderful....nicely done....they are amazing!
Dave - sometimes it is better to have it left to the imagination
Tess - thanks
Helena - could be worse. Chesney Hawkes anyone?
Kutamun - most likely...erm...
Karen - well thank you kindly
Nostalgia time. Blue Peter was a Canadian band that I liked back when. I wore out mryUB40 tape.
Oh , if only this didn't ring so true !
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