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A brilliant film which repays every watching.

Even to the end...is Crossley merely delusional? It is he who is doing the telling,after all,and he admits to being an unreliable narrator right from the start...

@billytheyiddio

I'm inclined to agree.

Haha! Yes!

Hey Timo....Give me a call...I'm still living at the same place.

Nick B

Gothicgrowler:

That's Art m'boy!

Brian Eno's talent is to know what DOES work,not merely what should.

Should I be disturbed that hearing a nice,jewish girl whinny "does" something for me....

I bought this vinyl single some years ago for a very reasonable £3.

The credit is Vivian Stanshall and the Gargantuan Chorus.

When was the video made? Late 70s??

There were dark times then....I saw his burning the signs as a comment on the reactionary forces about to take charge in Britain at the time.

Just my interpretation,though...

....If course,Max Wall's name belongs in the song,too...

Tom Waits,talented though he may be,is completely superfluous on this amazing piece of music.

At least he has the integrity to sound embarassed....why this was released in this version,I'll never know.

That's show-biz,I suppose.....

A national treasure.

A true gent.

Bless you Bob Copper.

This track (and many others) is on an LP called "And then we wrote...." which features Flanders and Swann with a number of other artistes....this was the stand-out song,though,and I don't know how easy it would be to find the album these days....

The English are moral

The English are good

And clever

And modest

And mistunderstood.

Pure genius!

Note the correct use of overcoat and trilby hat....

Sunny school playgound in 1970s Battersea...

It'd be great if only that frenchie would keep his mouth shut.

The smile at the end was well-earned!

Excellent.

An orchestral version was used as the theme to BBC Radio's "Desert Island Discs" devised by Roy Plomley in the 0s and still going today.

I had a girlfriend like this once....but neither so hot nor so witty....

Don't knock the Shat!

Have you heard his "Common People"?

There's something Vivian Stanshell-esque about Peter Wyngarde and without a few English (and Canadian) eccentrics what a dour place the world would be,

Howard/Blaikley....credit where it's due,lads....!

Never forget the songwriting genius of Howard/Blaikley who wrote not only this,but many other DDDBMT hits as well as hits for The Herd and others...fresh and imaginative and drawing from a wide range of musical styles.....

I seem to remember this song got in trouble with the BBC for its lubriciou...

Always reminds me of my late granddad....old men these days can't even whistle properly!

Mengomengo and friends....

It's music.

You either like it,or you don't.

End of.

Dennis Potter once spoke of the potency of cheap music.....He understood more than we ever will about how passing time informs our perception of quality.

We all know schmaltzy songs reduce us to tears,and if we are lu...

They'll be saying the Small Faces weren't mods either,then....

This man knows EXACTLY what he is doing.

He can keep a straight face,but his eyes give the game away.

.....And he can think on his feet and turn on a sixpence.

Look at that!

No crash barriers,no cones or flashing lights,original overbridges...and SPACE....

This sort of recording of the ordinary is priceless....otherwise it just gets lost forever.

Thanks for putting this up.

Are we nearly there yet....?

Anyone today doing anything remotely comparable?

Thought not.

Lord love ya,Ian.

Story of my life......apart from the Mallarme,of course.....I ain't a Nance

Eerily beautiful mindfuck.....

So glad he gave up the day-job....

Where's me money then,Michael.....

Sre yer'll have plenty now yer on der tella-fission....

Ultravox? Japan?? Rupert Hine???

Hats off to you,Mr. le Strange.

At least as good as any of the originals....