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Post by B on Jan 15, 2009 10:33:23 GMT -5
click and hear:blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2005/08/meet_the_beatle.htmlIn the shameless pantheon of novelty music, there is one sub-genre so unspeakable that it's practitioners almost never reveal their actual names. I speak of course of the Singing Animal Song. The Beatles Barkers are no exception. Nowhere on their album (released in the middle of the night in New Zealand) does an actual human being accept musical responsibility. It is credited only to "The Woofers and Tweeters Ensemble," but even this obfuscates the most important point about this deservedly unappreciated genre - the best Singing Animal Records are those in which there are in fact no animals at all. The Beatle Barkers success (if in fact there is any) is derived from the fact that, unlike other Singing Animal records, the animal noises are in fact samples made by human beings. Animal noises are too important to be trusted to the animals. Here in its discredited entirety is the Beatles Barkers LP, including the original version of that most rancid song, Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da. Beatles-ologists know that Paul McCartney originally penned this aural trainwreck for Badfinger, who respectfully passed on it. Badfinger in turn passed the song on to The Woofers and Tweeters Ensemble, who recorded it in early 1968, but did not release it until 15 years later, after New Zealand's musical statute of limitations had expired.
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Post by puzzled on Jan 15, 2009 14:03:52 GMT -5
But what does it say when listened to backwards?
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Post by B on Jan 15, 2009 16:49:35 GMT -5
"I buried bones!"
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Post by iameye on Jan 15, 2009 17:37:10 GMT -5
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Post by ramone on Jan 15, 2009 23:50:32 GMT -5
But what does it say when listened to backwards? Krab alocka... something or other.
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