The Northern Boys - Party Time

Rapidly attaining memetic stardom

Sleaford Mods wish they was this good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLLQFLXz6VE

loool brb just going for a no. 3

this is horribly brilliantly close to home

you can't fake genuine pathos

it's an instant classic, just listened to it 5 times in a row and laughed at the same lines every time.

dj smile has nothing on these guys, they are spitting truly deep lyrics

I had to stop looping it cos it's bed time

Ok I lied

This is pretty amazing.

what's the worth?
fuck the universe til it hurts
i'm not used to these kinds of mental health
issues
i just wanna live in a church
and find peace
upon me brain
jesus please just stop me pain
i know you think that this is a game
but it's not
now watch me walk away

<3

song of the year

The real new Kings.
here there is no place that does see you. You must change your life.

<3

there's gotta be an internet savvy person behind all this right? cant be organic. i'm just web-jaded.

amazing

these guys must be part of the Pete & Bas crew - they are in this video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e5oKp-tCY4

pete & bas have been around for a minute

i like this better though the kind of gallows humor, terror sadness thing instead of just aping general rap shit talk, though pete & bas are fun

so many things i love about this.

"when i go will my loved one's miss me? well the answer's no." the pause and the qualification, like he really thought about it. lmao

it's the perfect level of gallows humor + nihilist realism, plus they can spit a bit

the algo just alerted me that norman is about to drop a new track today

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXVCrwyObTQ

i feel like, I don't entirely get this, I did lol, but I don't have a dick so ...

also, why didn't Kevin get a verse? He looked like he had some haunted thoughts

otm

Kevin is the Bez. Or maybe the Barry Mooncult.

i like Kevin's air of mystique, also the suggestion he might still be hanging on to his job

i'm not sure there's any subtext to "get", this is just men my age who i have drank in pubs with turned up to 10

this is just men my age who i have drank in pubs with turned up to 10

― feudal vague (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, September 21, 2022 8:27 AM (four minutes ago)

and I'm not a man ... like, I can recognize the type, but there isn't the same sense of self-identification that seems to be going on ... maybe this is the no girls allowed thread lol

like, trying to think of what a Northern Birds version would be ... sad old ladies ... we exist ... it would probably be like "we are going to go to the club and rage" and then for various reasons that get chronicled in the song, we end up staying home.

I like the contrast between Norman's will to rage and Patrick's mordant self-abnegation.

does he really have cocaine for breakfast?

A big bowl of it apparently

so, he sleeps outside, but then his wife lets him in the house to have his big bowl of cocaine for brekkies?

this video is haunting me

They should put a donk on it.

he probably has a bowl of muesli with greek yoghurt and honey really lol. But I've seen people of that age who are heavily into drugs. Once when I was a sparkie and chasing out all the runs in this 50-something dad guy's bedroom (which makes an absolute racket and throws plaster dust everywhere) while he slept through it, with his crack-pipe next to the alarm clock.

yeah i mean somehow i don't think this is strictly autobiographical, it's almost as if rappers play with fictional personas and the pleasure (or not) comes from hearing what they bring to them.

fictional personas often still require internal consistency in order to be credible / pleasurable to appreciate

haha fuck this is amazing, but to sarahell's point I went through a mental list of people to send it to and crossed them all off. I do think it just works at the level of writing & timing though

some friends became UK citizens literally this morning, maybe I'll send it to them as a gift

i sent it to a friend whose (recently) ex-husband is from Liverpool

lol that sounds much more apt

fictional personas often still require internal consistency in order to be credible / pleasurable to appreciate

― sarahell, Thursday, September 22, 2022 8:25 PM (seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

often. anyway it's true there are plot holes here.

I only gave so much thought to these lyrics, but here is a potential chorus for the answer track by the Northern Birds

It's party time / It's a hen FAP
You call us old ladies / here's a bitch slap
It's party time / We want hen FAP
On second thought, think we're gonna stay home

Don't want to piss in the pool here, but what makes this different from your Goldie Lookin Chain / Pete and Bas / Kurupt FM / Big Shaq any number of comedy UK rap things from the past years?

pete n bas aren't comedy really. i mean can't remember glc having any bars as good as some of pete's stuff on 'mr worldwide' for instance and i think he's generally weaker than bas overall.

Bas has pretty serious skills tbh

Not in a mood to elucidate properly but yeah that. Party Time is an outlier and the dark humour is definitely foregrounded but the other work isn't played for laughs. It resonates with me as much because I'm laughing at myself as anything

I've only seen and heard this one. It sort of reminds of once when on a bus going through Ravensthorpe and this guy with a croaky voice was talking loudly about how he had to persuade a friend to throw out his piss stained mattress. And because he was making other passengers laugh he started hamming it up and turning around to his audience "you should have seen this fucking mattress, it was crawling".

lol sarahell