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View · by **rentbook2u** » 19 Oct 2006, 22:42

Phantom wrote:Thinking about cover versions...

Carter USM did some excellent and original covers in the 90s:

Panic
The Impossible Dream
Trouble
Rent
Bedsitter
This is how it Feel

They're all very different from the original recordings.

Phantom

The best ever cover of "Panic" was by Frank Sidebottom!

View · by **DecadentDoll** » 19 Oct 2006, 22:58

rentbook2u wrote:
Best of the current cartoon characters? Spongebob Squarepants without a doubt. Even better than The Simpsons!

Spongebob is righteous, but ...... Ralph Wiggum will always have a place in my heart!

*goes back to watching south park*

x

View · by **Richard** » 19 Oct 2006, 23:21

Ivor the Engine!

Much better than Thomas the wank engine. :lol:

Oh! Come on, what did you expect me to come up with for a cartoon?

View · by **Hayley** » 20 Oct 2006, 18:55

Olive Oyl was a whinger, but we share the same body shape!

People in the pub were actually arguing which would be the better shag Wilma or Betty?

I'd go for Barney over Fred any day.

Hayley

View · by **andy250** » 20 Oct 2006, 19:44

right lets go the full mile then, lets bring back Trumpton or Bagpuss, I prefer the Bagpuss idea, due to the mice and the mervalous mechanical mouse organ!!!!!!! proffessor yattle rocks!!! on his wooden bookcase.

Or Trumpton with Pew, pew, barnymagrue, cuthbert, dibble and grub. The lerics say it all really.

The choice is yours,

(The neighbours cat looks like Bagpuss, ironic really.)

regards

Andy

View · by **Phantom** » 20 Oct 2006, 20:00

Professor YAFFLE!!!

I was surprised to find out a year or so ago, that they only made about 8 episodes of Bagpuss. Same goes for Mr. Ben

That must be why I kept seeing that one where the mice claim to have a chocolate biscuit making machine (I thought it was jsut coincidence that it happened to be on a lot!!)

I'm sure Mr. Ben has 12 or less episodes too. Let's see: the one where he's a chef, the dinosuar one ... ummmm ... it's to late at night!

Phantom

View · by **easy_as_** » 20 Oct 2006, 20:04

Phantom wrote:Thinking about cover versions...

Carter USM did some excellent and original covers in the 90s:

Panic
The Impossible Dream
Trouble
Rent
Bedsitter
This is how it Feel

They're all very different from the original recordings.

Phantom

And of course a nice little title twist, not quite a cover version, with their catchy little ditty about being The Only Living Boy In New Cross . . . .

. . . . as opposed to being ' The Only Living Boy In New York ' as sung by Simon and Garfunkel ! ! !

View · by **dirtydids** » 20 Oct 2006, 20:04

BOING" Zebedee from Magic Roundabout

View · by **andy250** » 20 Oct 2006, 20:09

One word 'Fingerbob!!!!' now beat that for a mad program with an equally bizarre tune.

regards

Andy
(I believe fingerbob died in an horric fire!!!! bless)

View · by **easy_as_** » 20 Oct 2006, 20:27

In fact while we are on the subject of cover versions and Frank Sidebottom, he contributed to a cracking covers album in the late Eighties,
to co-incide with a 20th Anniversary of a relatively good LP by a popular regional act of the time, called . . .

Sgt. Pepper Knew My Father, released on the NME lable.

Tracklisting:
Three Wize Men - Sgt. Pepper's Lonley Hearts Club Band
Wet Wet Wet - With A Little Help From My Friends
The Christians - Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
The Wedding Present With Amelia Fletcher - Getting Better
Hue & Cry - Fixing A Hole
Billy Bragg With Cara Tivey - She's Leaving Home
Frank Sidebottom - Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite
Sonic Youth - Within You Without You
Courtney Pine - When I'm Sixty-Four
Michelle Shocked - Lovely Rita
The Triffids - Good Morning Good Morning
Three Wize Men - Sgt. Pepper's Lonley Hearts Club Band (Reprise)
The Fall - A Day In The Life

Despite what might be seen as a few surprise choices in that line up and that it was a charity album ( I think ), Billy Braggs' She's Leaving Home, The Wedding Presents Getting Better and Michelle Shockeds' Lovely Rita ( stop sniggering at the back there, you lot ) are highlights in pretty good bunch.

http://www.discogs.com/release/501843

Click the above link for more detail !

View · by **Hayley** » 21 Oct 2006, 01:42

I saw Frank Sidebottom in a club in Middlesbrough years ago. He was great.

As for Bagpuss etc....I loved Oliver Postgate's voice. He could do a sex line for me any time! Though the thought of him going, "Here goes the cock into the tunnel pish-de-cooof, pish-de-coof...."

Thats for Ivor fans....I bought Bill the DVD cos he was living in Wales at that time and genuinely thought that they'd made a cartoon about his village!

Loving this thread BTW. How varied can you get? And I am reading ALL of them.

Hayley xxx

View · by **Lizzie_Claymore** » 21 Oct 2006, 02:00

Hayley wrote:I loved Oliver Postgate's voice.

I'm told that my Oliver Postgate impression is surprisingly passable.

If I remember correctly, he also did Noggin the Nog (though nothing was ever proved in court!). LoL.

View · by **Hayley** » 21 Oct 2006, 02:04

Hmmm...bloke in a frock who loves mess and can do an Oliver Postgate impression.....works for me!

Hayley

View · by **welshcakes** » 21 Oct 2006, 09:18

Oliver Postage is a genius. He did Bagpuss, Noggin the Nog, Ivor the Engine, The Clangers - all the greats!

View · by **Phantom** » 21 Oct 2006, 15:14

I really loved watching the clangers when I was a kid. I've only got vague memories of it - and I think I'd like to keep it that way. Every other kids program I've seen again as an adult has been a big disappointment! (although Rubarb and Custard still rocks)

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