RETARDED COP - COPVAN
May 30th, 2011 by Conor McCabe
[thanks to ec for the link]
So I was really happy
although I was in nappies
you know you’ve got to play the hand that you’re dealt”
The greatest crime of the past twenty years in the Republic was the 2008 bank guarantee. Without a doubt, that’s the one.
However, it has to be said, the spawn of the introspective singer-songwriter comes a damn close second.
Piss-moany bedsit fuckers with Grafton Street shoes and Ranelagh hair.
Thank God for Gaz Lerock and Retarded Cop, that’s all I can say.
Infectious doesn’t even begin to describe this song. More hooks than Pirates of the Caribbean.
Enjoy.
Infectious, in a wholly good way.
Infectious like a certain John Denver song called Leaving On A Jet Plane perhaps?
“Piss-moany bedsit fuckers with Grafton Street shoes and Ranelagh hair. ”
Pity us bedsit denziens can’t afford more salubrious accommodation, or at least have the good grace to not moan. Perhaps we should donn the green jersey as well?
What are Grafton Street shoes when they’re at home? I think they sell Doc Marten’s on Grafton Street too. And Ranelagh hair? That’s a new one on me anyway.
Why praise one thing by knocking something else? Ireland has produced some great singer songwriters. Some bad ones too, but it doesn’t mean that the entire genre is worthless.
“it doesn’t mean that the entire genre is worthless.”
Yep. It does. The introspective singer-songwriter genre is a pox on Irish culture.
You don’t see any irony in the song you’re praising being lifted straigt from an “introspective singer-songwriter genre” song?
You think Astral Weeks is a pox on Irish culture?
I’ll tell you what’s a far bigger “pox on Irish culture” and that’s the insidiousness and ubiquity of alcohol sponsorship of Irish cultural events.
Yet you’re deriding an entire artform.
Sorry I responded to this thread. Good luck to you sir.
*sigh*
you’ll probably go off and write a song about this now.
Is that Sainters in the picture ?? Or some vandalised mock-classical thing on the Southside… Rollicking enough number alright.
I’ll have to check and see if any introspective singer-songwriters are among the albums ye ‘borrowed’ off me sometime before the Celtic Tiger. Might explain where my copy of ‘John Waters Acoustic at the Crossroads’ went to…
Also - once the singer-songwriters have finished with ye, I fear the PC Brigade are gonna be released for the first part of their name
Oh and More hooks than Pirates of the Caribbean Are ye sure ye’ve got the right piro-whackery filum…. As I remember, there was 1 more hook in Peter Pan than in POTC
I should write up a comments policy.
1. No buskers
I saw a bit of POTC2 the other night. There was plenty of snooty sailors, slimy hair, ugly faces marked with scurvy and pimples and bad impersonations of ex-junkie rockstars, but scarcly any hooks. It was all a bit ’singer-songwritery’ to be honest.
No buskers That would mean a ban for yours truly then (even though the stingy French never throw us a red cent)
POTC - isn’t the whole shenananigans just a huge drawn-out Adam and the Ants video ??
Well, you’re safe until they start paying up.
I mentioned to Emmet who’s 4 and has developed an interest in pirates that it was on, and regretted it immediately. It’d scare the shit out of him (not to turn this thread into a discussion of POTC, mind).
True story, I once got into a blazing row with someone who thought my voluble hatred of Savage Garden displayed a lack of respect and consideration toward up-and-coming musicians in general.
Everyone is convinced their taste in music is correct. Some of my best friends are singer/songwriters.
Am I barred too ?? ‘king ‘ell !! Jus’ for a few buskin’ sessions in bleedin’ Tube stations ??
Who the fork are Savage Garden… somet to do wi’ Millwall ??