From: muzzle@cs.uq.oz.au (Murray Chapman)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Accidentally Kelly $%@#$% Street
Date: 14 Dec 92 03:58:39 GMT
Reply-To: muzzle@cs.uq.oz.au

Hi there

Time for today's peeve:

There's an newish Australian band called "Frente" (Spanish for "Window" or
something like that) who have a song out called "Accidentally Kelly Street",
and it makes my stomach churn just to even hear the opening bars.

The entire song sounds like muzak.  It has this stupid sing-song lilt to it,
kind of like the music that they play on Sesame Street when they show you the
pictures of the cows in the country.  "Cow Music", my friend Dave used to call
it.  A cross between "The 101 Strings Play the Greatest Elevator Hits" and
a bad Christmas carol sang by a Playschool host convicted of sexual deviance.

You can get the idea if you tilt your head from side to side and say (with a
big smile): "Dum dum dum de Dum dum dum de...."  The lead singer is female,
and has this fucking annoying habit of singing the first half of every
second word a half-octave higher than it should be, then sliding down to the
right pitch... kinda like "BLah blah BLah blah"

Here's a sample of the lyrics:

		"Here's a WAll and here's a WIndow,
		 Here's a door and here's a floor,
		 The ROom is LIt like a <something> CAndle,
		 The TV's on, that's what it's for....

	AND THE CHORUS (EVERYBODY SING ALONG!) 

		"Accidentally Kelly Street,
		 Where friends and strangers sometimes meet
		 Accidentally Kelly Street,
		 I never thought that life could be so sweet"

Deep.  So Deep.
		
I was watching some Video Hits show, and they started playing this song.  I
watched, cos I saw the beginning to the clip, and though "Oh good! Somebody's
doing a parody of it", cos the film clip was so dicky!

It was just hilarious:  the thing was shot on the set of some children's show,
with the big cartoon-style cardboard cutouts of houses and clouds, etc.  

The members of the band enter, dressed in daggy 70s clothes, with green
parasols and striped orange and blue shoes... doing "Bojangles" Roberts
impersonations, with big cheesy shit-eating grins.  Every time that they use a
noun in the lyrics, they had to make sure you knew what they were talking about
by including that object in the film clip.  I mean, if they happen to say "sun",
then you can rest assured that in the background some dickhead would be dancing
around with his face painted yellow and stuck through a cardboard picture of a
sun, with a stupid grin, waving at the camera and hoping that his Mummy is
proud.

The lead singer's head was on a spring, bouncing from side to side, back and
forward.  Like, to simulate it, let your neck muscles go slack, and jump up
and down.

This is one of those songs that the perpetrators are going to look back on in
10 years a pretend that never happened.  I mean, it is just laughable.

!Peeve:  Bros' current popularity.

Murray
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  Murray Chapman                           muzzle@cs.uq.oz.au
  University of Queensland                 How many lightbulb jokes does it
  Brisbane, Australia                      take to change the subject?
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