[glckerryp]

Not sure if this has been on here before.....

http://www.saatchi-g...d_essay.php/76/

Classy boys the GLC...

[Z Beeblebrox]

Copying the GLC bit here because the rest looks like a whole load of tl;dr -

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On the subject of being devoid of redeemable content, take for example the band Goldie Lookin Chain CD track.01. No-one really knows if they are actually idiots or very good at acting like idiots. Goldie Lookin Chain (GLC) are a group of neo 80s throw-back rappers, in the style of the Beastie Boys, but GLC are “chavs” (a Chav is a council estate bred, fake logo wearing, tax dodging lay-about). Their songs are about small town Wales, Chav culture, drugs, and general laddish behaviour. Again, products of their environment, but you are never sure if they are acting like chavs or if they actually ARE chavs, thus real idiocy, not subversive or redeemable apart from cheap laughs. In one song in particular, ‘Self Suicide’ (Goldie Lookin Chain, 2004), they seem to be purely taking the piss out of dead people and musicians that have supposedly committed suicide as a way to make more money. One line says ‘I’m not gonna fall off the roof like the flid Rod Hull’. Very black humour. I can see their point that a lot of dead musicians still manage to put out records after they’re dead (the record label’s doing) and how suicide gets you notoriety and media coverage, but at the same time, the actual person who is dead or who committed suicide isn’t benefiting financially themselves, as he is dead. So the “moral” of their song is actually an idiotic oxymoron, and not really redeemable. Do GLC have any virtue, if they behave like idiots but you are not sure if they're acting? Is that the worst kind of idiocy because you gain nothing from their music and you know that they could actually be intelligent, but choose to be idiotic? That’s like wiping your arse with your hand when there is perfectly good, soft toilet paper nearby to do the job.

Quite why anyone is trying to analyse a comedy band from Wales is beyond me - you either find them funny or you don't. Why would you be looking for morality and virtue in songs about draw and mothers with penises?

[monkimark]

What a pile of badly written old crap that is.

Life must be very dull if you over analyse everything like that.

[Bibs]

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So the "moral" of their song is actually an idiotic oxymoron, and not really redeemable.

Go Sherlock!