This is the best song in the history of rock and roll, ever. I am disgusted that Denny Laine, Linda McCartney and their son little Paul McCartney ripped it off without giving Sir Frank any credit.
@NachoAzul1 By now you surely know that this is a parody of "Mull of Kintyre" which was released years before, in 1977. Still, your similar comment on one of the Kintyre videos led me to check out this Timperley version. Your mistake -- my gain! I never would have heard of Frank Sidebottom if not for that!
@ivrimark17v6 - Well, Sir Paul of Wings' Mull of Kintryre was a minor hit that got a little bit of play on local radio in the Scotland area. Whereas Frank's immortal Mull of Timperley was an international hit, number one on the charts in over 30 countries. So I don't know how you could have missed this song until now. But I am delighted that you have now discovered the everlasting genius that is Frank. I am hoping that Paul and Ringo will now complete some of his unfinished demos.
@OasisShmoasis And now I know that NachoAzul was putting ME on. Duh! I plead Yankee ignorance, living in a country where nobody's ever heard of Frank Sidebottom and shamefully few have heard Mull of Kintyre. You UK fans clearly worship both -- now I too am enlightened.
@ivrimark17v6 - the more the world comes to know of the genius that is Frank, the better it will be. World peace will blossom and the sky will be filled with rainbows and fuzzy unicorns. It is now your duty to spread the word of the genius of Frank and his tuneful ditties.
I once followed Terry Gillian in Brazil for three hours, but then his bodyguard punched me. And not in a comedic, Python-esque style, oh no. A proper smack on the nose, it was. I was very sad.
I don't appreciate your deprication of the legend Sir Paul McCartney.......But what should I expect from a 17yr old........You took what I said out of context........and turn it into something tasteless.....no pun intended......
What exactly is the correct context for your comments on the lack of taste and flavor when rock legend Sir McCartney performs sex acts on a man with a Papier-Mâché head - as you insist on writing about here? I really don't want to think about how that tastes, thank you very much, and I am not sure what you obsession is with how rock stars taste when certain lewd acts are performed on them. Shame on you, naughty butterfly lady-man, you. Can't we just talk about peace, love and Timperley?
I am not going to dignify any of your absurd accusations and comments....I would though strongly suggest that you get your hearing tested!!! Period.....I would be truly ashamed and embarrased if you were my son........
You mean, that is not you, mummy? I was really hoping I'd found you at last...
Why do I need my hearing tested to read your messages and type replies? Now I am even more confused... but at least we are not talking about your prior message subjects, which were just filthy and naughty and wrong and illegal in Iowa and certain villages in Maine, especially on Wednesdays after 10.
You need your hearing tested NOT to READ or TYPE replies!! But to LISTEN, LISTEN and compare Sir Paul McCarntey's version of Mull of Kintyre to Frank Sidebottoms version.......I am speaking to you on deaf ears and are wasting my time........Bottom line McCartney is a living legend...Have a good day::)
Sis, I am even more confused - who is "Paul McCarntey"? I know McCartney, but not this new person you refer to. And why do you want to draw lines on Sir Paul McCartney's bottom? Is this another of your strange fetishes, sis? I am really going to have to tell mummy this time.
Frank Sidebottom's version of this song is still the original and best, and Sir Paul of Wings just never gets close in his cover of it... Paul's doesn't even have Timperley in it! How sad is that!
Oasis, You continue to mock whatever I have said to you..........So I have now come to the realization that either you are high on drugs, and delusional...or you are a very sick individual........Enough already....
Hello Sis - no, I am off my meds - which may be part of the problem. Sick - no, just a bit of a runny nose today.
I'm a little confused, sis, that you think my comments are not serious enough. You do know you keep coming back and writing on a page featuring a man wearing a large Papier-Mâché head, holding a hand puppet, singing songs about Timperley? Exactly how serious should a discussion here be?
It's not like it's a page about William Einstein or Albert Shakespeare or anything...
YOU my friend are featuring a man wearing a large paper-mache head......holding a hand puppet......The question who is the sane one here........I"m done with your games.......I thought we would have an adult debate ......I too must be the insane one.....Good riddance
I swear I personally have no Papier-Mâché heads nor hand puppets - that is this web page, not me... it's not my web page. Focus, Sis, focus!
I did indeed try to have an adult debate with you (note my discussion of pan-diatonic clusters and other compositional techniques below), but instead of discussing those like adults, you are now questioning your own sanity and thanking God?
I guess you are not interested in a rational discussion on music composition after all - a shame.
PS - I did take your advice, Buttery-Guardrail-Sis, and give Sir Paul of Fab-Wing's version "Mull of Kintyre" another listen, and compared it to this one. Not even close.
Sir Frank of Sidebottom has aeolian cadences, chains of pan-diatonic clusters, plus major tonic sevenths and ninths which show advanced classical composition techniques far above anything Sir Macca of Mullet could ever hope to compose. Sidebottom's use of flat submediant key switches is also masterful. In a word - fantastic!
My apologies.....I was mistaken.....You are 51 yrs old......Not young enough to be my son ....but my brother.......Truly I WOULD be ashamed and embarassed........
Oh, it's you, sis! Now this all makes sense. You always were ashamed of me, because I didn't share your love of bizarre Papier-Mâché fetishes - and I always preferred George out of the Beatles because he was the quiet and moody one, while you liked Paul because he wrote that nice song about the frogs.
Well, this is an odd way to meet again, Sis, but I hope you are well and happy, especially since that second husband went to jail. At least we have our mutual love of Tasmin Archer, and Frank,
This is SO much better than Mull of Kintyre... it is wonderful! It's a work of genius that Paul and Linda McCartney and their little son Denny Laine could only hope to have emulated... and they never did. Which is why you never hear much about Paul McCartney these days, but Frank Sidebottom is a global megastar.
McCartney... the name is familiar, but I can't quite place it - was he the one who did a song about a frog chorus, did a Bond theme tune, and had a one-legged wife? I seem to remember him from many years ago.
But of course he never achieved the fame of international superstar Frank Sidebottom, who ever since headlining Woodstock in 1969 has been considered the most famous rock star of all time. Perhaps, out of charity, he'll let McCartney record with some time.
I think you need to do your homework Oasis.....Sir Paul McCartney is the most famous rock star.....NOT Franksidebottom.....You think??? Mull of Kintyre by McCartney and Wings blew this song out of the water......hands down my friend
I don't like to do homework - which is why I am doing eighth grade for the third time right now.
As for Paul McCartney blowing Frank Sidebottom - I don't think I want to think about Paul McCartney's sex life, thank you very much, especially his performing acts on a man with a Papier-Mâché head. That is a very, very disturbing image. I think you should wash your computer out with soap, you naughty man you.
Indeed they are - which is why I would really rather not hear about them from you, you naughty lady man you.
If you insist on talking so much about Paul McCartney blowing people, please don't do it in a public forum, as I am having very bad dreams now involving Ringo Starr and a Tellytubby. Only Frank Sidebottom's music is easing the pain.
oohh yeahh..i know waht are you talking about!!...another genious is t. rex...and the original version of one of his songs called get it on (bang a gong)cannot be bettered by any cover version that noel faggot gallagay..and her brother tries....i'm talking about cigarretes and alcohol OF COURSE!...a song that isn't exactly the work of a genious...
Bolan's Get It On - ah, yes, the same riff used by the Rolling Stones for "It's Only Rock N'Roll," Def Leppard with "Armaggeddon It," Prince with "Cream," KISS with "Mr. Cream," and (before them all), Chuck Berry with "Little Queenie"...
I wish Frank Sidebottom would cover it too.
Noel "Faggot" Gallagher? I wasn't aware he was a big fan of sausages in rich West Country sauce - yum! He has excellent culinary tastes!
Unmitigated genius
BillingeLump 11 months ago
@BillingeLump You know it is.....It really is! Thankyou....
mauricemarina 10 months ago
This is the best song in the history of rock and roll, ever. I am disgusted that Denny Laine, Linda McCartney and their son little Paul McCartney ripped it off without giving Sir Frank any credit.
NachoAzul1 1 year ago 4
@NachoAzul1 By now you surely know that this is a parody of "Mull of Kintyre" which was released years before, in 1977. Still, your similar comment on one of the Kintyre videos led me to check out this Timperley version. Your mistake -- my gain! I never would have heard of Frank Sidebottom if not for that!
ivrimark17v6 1 year ago 2
@ivrimark17v6 - Well, Sir Paul of Wings' Mull of Kintryre was a minor hit that got a little bit of play on local radio in the Scotland area. Whereas Frank's immortal Mull of Timperley was an international hit, number one on the charts in over 30 countries. So I don't know how you could have missed this song until now. But I am delighted that you have now discovered the everlasting genius that is Frank. I am hoping that Paul and Ringo will now complete some of his unfinished demos.
OasisShmoasis 1 year ago 3
@OasisShmoasis And now I know that NachoAzul was putting ME on. Duh! I plead Yankee ignorance, living in a country where nobody's ever heard of Frank Sidebottom and shamefully few have heard Mull of Kintyre. You UK fans clearly worship both -- now I too am enlightened.
ivrimark17v6 1 year ago 2
@ivrimark17v6 - the more the world comes to know of the genius that is Frank, the better it will be. World peace will blossom and the sky will be filled with rainbows and fuzzy unicorns. It is now your duty to spread the word of the genius of Frank and his tuneful ditties.
OasisShmoasis 1 year ago 2
LOng live FRANK SIDEBOTTOM ! Chris Sievey RIP! & Bloody Hell Wrap Up The Rockets! ( As the Freshies sang!
lol732 1 year ago 3
RIP Frank. You know he will. He really will. Thank you.
hughblee 1 year ago 4
In these comments, super serious Americans.
People need to be a little more light hearted :)
RIP Frank!
iridium249 1 year ago 4
Rest in peace, Frank. A major global talent lost forever. Now only Paul, Ringo and Pete Best remain to imitate your genius.
OasisShmoasis 1 year ago 3
"What are you doing in this garden? Get out now you dickhead!"
This is wet your pants funny
bigHCTID 1 year ago 3
RIP Frank x
mrscruffy 1 year ago 5
R.I.P. Frank You brought a lot of people a lot of pleasure god bless you
gnidder 1 year ago 7
I love that! You know I do, I really do. Thank you.
thisismy5thattempt 1 year ago 4
Have Frank Sidebottom and Paul McCartney ever been seen in the same room together? Could Frank be Paul?
sTeVie4TV 2 years ago 5
@sTeVie4TV Perhaps Frank is the Walrus. Goo Goo Goo Choo.
OasisShmoasis 1 year ago 3
A stunning video showing one of our major talents at the height of his powers. Oh - and OasisShmoasis, you are my YouTube comment hero.
please42 2 years ago 6
@please42 Why, thank you, very much, I am suitably humbled.
OasisShmoasis 2 years ago 3
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This is assnine.. you stink and whoulsn't even be allowed to parady this song. You Suck!!!
DrWinstonJLOboogie 2 years ago
What about this Flank Sodbottum fellow? Never heard of him. Is he a type of Monty Python knock off?
thedriverguy 2 years ago
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No, he is the future of Rock and Roll.
OasisShmoasis 2 years ago 3
@OasisShmoasis
rubbish
thedriverguy 2 years ago
The Future of Rubbish ??
OasisShmoasis 2 years ago
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This is the biggest heap of utter pish I have ever had the sad misfortune to stumble across!
wull66 2 years ago
really? Try whatcing Brazil for 3 hours by Terry Gillian.He is brill but...
Wetdude3D 2 years ago
I once followed Terry Gillian in Brazil for three hours, but then his bodyguard punched me. And not in a comedic, Python-esque style, oh no. A proper smack on the nose, it was. I was very sad.
OasisShmoasis 2 years ago
I don't appreciate your deprication of the legend Sir Paul McCartney.......But what should I expect from a 17yr old........You took what I said out of context........and turn it into something tasteless.....no pun intended......
TheButterflygarden 2 years ago
What exactly is the correct context for your comments on the lack of taste and flavor when rock legend Sir McCartney performs sex acts on a man with a Papier-Mâché head - as you insist on writing about here? I really don't want to think about how that tastes, thank you very much, and I am not sure what you obsession is with how rock stars taste when certain lewd acts are performed on them. Shame on you, naughty butterfly lady-man, you. Can't we just talk about peace, love and Timperley?
OasisShmoasis 2 years ago
I am not going to dignify any of your absurd accusations and comments....I would though strongly suggest that you get your hearing tested!!! Period.....I would be truly ashamed and embarrased if you were my son........
TheButterflygarden 2 years ago
You mean, that is not you, mummy? I was really hoping I'd found you at last...
Why do I need my hearing tested to read your messages and type replies? Now I am even more confused... but at least we are not talking about your prior message subjects, which were just filthy and naughty and wrong and illegal in Iowa and certain villages in Maine, especially on Wednesdays after 10.
OasisShmoasis 2 years ago 2
You need your hearing tested NOT to READ or TYPE replies!! But to LISTEN, LISTEN and compare Sir Paul McCarntey's version of Mull of Kintyre to Frank Sidebottoms version.......I am speaking to you on deaf ears and are wasting my time........Bottom line McCartney is a living legend...Have a good day::)
TheButterflygarden 2 years ago
Sis, I am even more confused - who is "Paul McCarntey"? I know McCartney, but not this new person you refer to. And why do you want to draw lines on Sir Paul McCartney's bottom? Is this another of your strange fetishes, sis? I am really going to have to tell mummy this time.
Frank Sidebottom's version of this song is still the original and best, and Sir Paul of Wings just never gets close in his cover of it... Paul's doesn't even have Timperley in it! How sad is that!
Frank is just fantastic.
OasisShmoasis 2 years ago
Oasis, You continue to mock whatever I have said to you..........So I have now come to the realization that either you are high on drugs, and delusional...or you are a very sick individual........Enough already....
TheButterflygarden 2 years ago
Hello Sis - no, I am off my meds - which may be part of the problem. Sick - no, just a bit of a runny nose today.
I'm a little confused, sis, that you think my comments are not serious enough. You do know you keep coming back and writing on a page featuring a man wearing a large Papier-Mâché head, holding a hand puppet, singing songs about Timperley? Exactly how serious should a discussion here be?
It's not like it's a page about William Einstein or Albert Shakespeare or anything...
OasisShmoasis 2 years ago
YOU my friend are featuring a man wearing a large paper-mache head......holding a hand puppet......The question who is the sane one here........I"m done with your games.......I thought we would have an adult debate ......I too must be the insane one.....Good riddance
TheButterflygarden 2 years ago
Hello Sis,
I swear I personally have no Papier-Mâché heads nor hand puppets - that is this web page, not me... it's not my web page. Focus, Sis, focus!
I did indeed try to have an adult debate with you (note my discussion of pan-diatonic clusters and other compositional techniques below), but instead of discussing those like adults, you are now questioning your own sanity and thanking God?
I guess you are not interested in a rational discussion on music composition after all - a shame.
OasisShmoasis 2 years ago
PS - I did take your advice, Buttery-Guardrail-Sis, and give Sir Paul of Fab-Wing's version "Mull of Kintyre" another listen, and compared it to this one. Not even close.
Sir Frank of Sidebottom has aeolian cadences, chains of pan-diatonic clusters, plus major tonic sevenths and ninths which show advanced classical composition techniques far above anything Sir Macca of Mullet could ever hope to compose. Sidebottom's use of flat submediant key switches is also masterful. In a word - fantastic!
OasisShmoasis 2 years ago
Whatever you say......whatever you say.......That is your reality not mine....Thank God
TheButterflygarden 2 years ago
My apologies.....I was mistaken.....You are 51 yrs old......Not young enough to be my son ....but my brother.......Truly I WOULD be ashamed and embarassed........
TheButterflygarden 2 years ago
Oh, it's you, sis! Now this all makes sense. You always were ashamed of me, because I didn't share your love of bizarre Papier-Mâché fetishes - and I always preferred George out of the Beatles because he was the quiet and moody one, while you liked Paul because he wrote that nice song about the frogs.
Well, this is an odd way to meet again, Sis, but I hope you are well and happy, especially since that second husband went to jail. At least we have our mutual love of Tasmin Archer, and Frank,
OasisShmoasis 2 years ago
haha some queer said this is better than mull of kintyre on a different video...
Whats wrong with people? This is terrible!!
LZTSK12 2 years ago
This is SO much better than Mull of Kintyre... it is wonderful! It's a work of genius that Paul and Linda McCartney and their little son Denny Laine could only hope to have emulated... and they never did. Which is why you never hear much about Paul McCartney these days, but Frank Sidebottom is a global megastar.
OasisShmoasis 2 years ago
the only time i heard of this guy was from one of your comments...
never hear of mccartney? When he played coachella he was all over the news
LZTSK12 2 years ago
McCartney... the name is familiar, but I can't quite place it - was he the one who did a song about a frog chorus, did a Bond theme tune, and had a one-legged wife? I seem to remember him from many years ago.
But of course he never achieved the fame of international superstar Frank Sidebottom, who ever since headlining Woodstock in 1969 has been considered the most famous rock star of all time. Perhaps, out of charity, he'll let McCartney record with some time.
OasisShmoasis 2 years ago
oh haha, i just looked up this guy, whos more of a comedian lol...
LZTSK12 2 years ago 3
I think you need to do your homework Oasis.....Sir Paul McCartney is the most famous rock star.....NOT Franksidebottom.....You think??? Mull of Kintyre by McCartney and Wings blew this song out of the water......hands down my friend
TheButterflygarden 2 years ago
I don't like to do homework - which is why I am doing eighth grade for the third time right now.
As for Paul McCartney blowing Frank Sidebottom - I don't think I want to think about Paul McCartney's sex life, thank you very much, especially his performing acts on a man with a Papier-Mâché head. That is a very, very disturbing image. I think you should wash your computer out with soap, you naughty man you.
OasisShmoasis 2 years ago
First of all I am not a man......and secondly those are pretty strong allegations regarding Sir Paul McCartney.......period!
TheButterflygarden 2 years ago
Indeed they are - which is why I would really rather not hear about them from you, you naughty lady man you.
If you insist on talking so much about Paul McCartney blowing people, please don't do it in a public forum, as I am having very bad dreams now involving Ringo Starr and a Tellytubby. Only Frank Sidebottom's music is easing the pain.
OasisShmoasis 2 years ago
@LZTSK12 Terrible? Of course it is, that's the joke.
b2rcco 1 year ago
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WTF!!!!! What a load of sh**e
daisy2121 2 years ago
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This is a fuckin retarded song who would honestly fuckin think this is better than Mull of Kintyre
whoarerangers 2 years ago
Who? Why, the enlightened denizens of Trafford and environs, naturally!
OasisShmoasis 2 years ago
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What lappinsilver said!!!!!!!!
shonetay 2 years ago
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wtf!!!! i was watching Mull of Kintyre and some fag said this was way better
lappinsilver 2 years ago
That's because it is! Frank's sublime original cannot be bettered by any cover version that Paul "WaccyMaccaThumbsAloft" McCartney tries.
Frank - the original and best!!
OasisShmoasis 2 years ago
LOL..i checked it out because of that guy too...!!!
heartthatmatters 2 years ago 5
I am glad you were steered towards the fantastic genius that is Frank. Enjoy!
OasisShmoasis 2 years ago
oohh yeahh..i know waht are you talking about!!...another genious is t. rex...and the original version of one of his songs called get it on (bang a gong)cannot be bettered by any cover version that noel faggot gallagay..and her brother tries....i'm talking about cigarretes and alcohol OF COURSE!...a song that isn't exactly the work of a genious...
nnicoonicolas 2 years ago
Bolan's Get It On - ah, yes, the same riff used by the Rolling Stones for "It's Only Rock N'Roll," Def Leppard with "Armaggeddon It," Prince with "Cream," KISS with "Mr. Cream," and (before them all), Chuck Berry with "Little Queenie"...
I wish Frank Sidebottom would cover it too.
Noel "Faggot" Gallagher? I wasn't aware he was a big fan of sausages in rich West Country sauce - yum! He has excellent culinary tastes!
OasisShmoasis 2 years ago
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lol same, and this is shit.
7GMcG7 2 years ago
Oooh Yees! Yet another fantastic offering from the bard of Timperley, actually. Thank you.
127250 4 years ago 11
lol. "the BASSSS guitar"
Genius.
cawright1 4 years ago 6
That was ace and top.
boosh1 4 years ago 10
HaHa. Quality!!!
toby7ten 4 years ago 6
Stunning
DANGERKUTZ 4 years ago 6