Ullo John Got A New Motor? - Alexei POLL sayle

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One of the first 'comedy' rap singles? Or, at the very least, an exploration of the rhythm of language, as originated in rock and roll by Chuck Berry, and continued and expanded on by Rap music, and (geirbate) as such has a long history and a long way to go?

Poll Results

Option	Votes
He's an Avon Representative	3
Is there life in Peckham?	2
Your goat's made a mess of the carpet	2
He's got a record by Billy Joel	2
He can't half play the bongos	2
Them locks are easy	1
You can make a model out of that	1
They put me in a special hospital	1
He lost his bottle in Barnsley	1
Mine's a light and bitter	0
He works on the Thames Barrier	0
Ullo John! Gotta new motor?	0
I keep tropical fish	0
In me underpants	0
He walks around with a hat on	0
'Ere wanna brown ale?	0
And then ran through the launderette	0
He stuck his head in a dustbin	0
That's a piece of balsa	0
Here's my calling card (WALLOP)	0
Ah ah ah ah ow...ah ah ah ah ow	0
What's that switch over there for?	0
Is there life on Mars?	0
I like your music centre	0

― Mark G, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 10:25 (fourteen years ago) link

"He's an Avon Representative"

― nate woolls, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 11:40 (fourteen years ago) link

"Your goat's made a mess of the carpet" = line pinched from Sister Ray

― Convenience Fish (snoball), Tuesday, 13 April 2010 11:48 (fourteen years ago) link

I always thought it was your dog that messed the carpet. anyway, voted "them locks are easy"

― Dr X O'Skeleton, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 19:46 (fourteen years ago) link

Time to dig out the Fish People Tapes for a blast of That's Milton Springsteen

― Dr X O'Skeleton, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 19:47 (fourteen years ago) link

All it really needs is the addition of the lines "Ow are yer wife n kids?" and "You 'avin' fish & chips fer lunch then?", and it would be a good simulation of one of the people I was stuck in an office with for three months a few years ago.

― Convenience Fish (snoball), Tuesday, 13 April 2010 19:59 (fourteen years ago) link

Did they put him in a special hospital?

― Mark G, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 20:34 (fourteen years ago) link

They fucking should have...

― Convenience Fish (snoball), Tuesday, 13 April 2010 20:52 (fourteen years ago) link

Probably a matter of semantics, but I'd probably give the nod to first comedy rap single to "Rapper's Delight". ;-)

Have a love/hate relationship with Fish People Tapes - think it's moments of sheer brilliance interspersed with some periods of semi-tedium. But I like it enough, I guess, and look forward to the "Didn't You Kill My Brother?" poll!

― Sean Carruthers, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 13:54 (fourteen years ago) link

("I like a laugh" ftw)

― Mark G, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 14:25 (fourteen years ago) link

I went to the toilet yesterday and the council still haven't come round to pull the chain yet

― Dr X O'Skeleton, Thursday, 15 April 2010 12:25 (fourteen years ago) link

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Sunday, 25 April 2010 23:01 (thirteen years ago) link

POLL sayle, wholesale.

― Mark G, Monday, 26 April 2010 10:39 (thirteen years ago) link

As good a place as any to post my Alexei Sayle story. I was in the Holborn branch of Sainsbury's and saw AS, and was totally dumbstruck. I went back to the office and said "hey guess what, I just saw Alexei Sayle in Holborn Sainsbury's!", only to get a lot of blank looks and "Who's Alexei Sayle?"

― Check this, in fact. How exciting. He literally cuts the mustard. (snoball), Monday, 26 April 2010 10:50 (thirteen years ago) link

Yeah I know, I should have saved that one for the autobiography.

― Check this, in fact. How exciting. He literally cuts the mustard. (snoball), Monday, 26 April 2010 10:50 (thirteen years ago) link

There was a 'swearing version' on the 12" too (god preserve us)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJBq4IudXy8

I don't miss the 80s.

― piscesx, Monday, 26 April 2010 11:06 (thirteen years ago) link

only to get a lot of blank looks and "Who's Alexei Sayle?"
― Check this, in fact. How exciting. He literally cuts the mustard. (snoball), Monday, 26 April 2010 10:50 (23 minutes ago) Bookmark

Funnily enough, the first time I heard the 'stages of fame' tale was from him..

It went :

Stage 1: "Who's Alexei Sayle?"
Stage 2: "Get Me Alexei Sayle!"
Stage 3: "Get Me an Alexei Sayle Type!"
Stage 4: "Get Me an Alexei Sayle Type that went to Oxford/Cambridge"
Stage 5: "Who's Alexei Sayle?"

― Mark G, Monday, 26 April 2010 11:16 (thirteen years ago) link

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Monday, 26 April 2010 23:01 (thirteen years ago) link

makes sense...

― Mark G, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 07:09 (thirteen years ago) link

I still think
I keep tropical fish in me underpants
would have walked this if you hadn't split it, Mark

― Dr X O'Skeleton, Wednesday, 28 April 2010 12:30 (thirteen years ago) link

four years pass...

fuckin knob

― local eire man (darraghmac), Saturday, 11 October 2014 21:58 (nine years ago) link

Why don't you like Mary Beard?

― lool at the herrlich (wins), Saturday, 11 October 2014 22:13 (nine years ago) link

ever since i noticed that basically all BBC presenters of otherwise v laudable content had minor/major speech impediments or leered outrageously towards feyness far beyond what is acceptable i can't stand a one of em, there's a string of them and the fact that their programmes usually sound at least quite interesting makes me even angrier about it.

she's one of em, obv

― local eire man (darraghmac), Saturday, 11 October 2014 22:50 (nine years ago) link

she can't arf play the bongos.

― Mark G, Sunday, 12 October 2014 21:06 (nine years ago) link

seven years pass...

He walks around with a hat on

― Mark G, Wednesday, 25 May 2022 19:11 (one year ago) link

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