This week’s featured song:
Queensland isn’t the enemy. It’s the future.
Queensland
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Mister Misconstrue
Kind of an odd one. The last of the hidden tracks on Operation Gettin’ Down, cheerfully pilfering Simon & Garfunkel in its own haphazard way. Huzzah! I’m a newborn lover, and like a little child I just don’t know how … Continue reading
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Doofus (A Drowsy Revelation)
Oh, my goodness. Don’t ask me what I was thinking, because I have no idea. I still kinda like the overall message, though.
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Seven Of Nine
A dangerous late-night infatuation with Jeri Ryan of “Star Trek: Voyager” prompted this rather silly funk workout that owes a little bit to Herbie Hancock’s Head Hunters (not in a legally binding sense, of course). There’s a lot of in-jokes … Continue reading
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Senseless
All praise to Antares Autotune! This track was a boy-band parody (boy-bands being thick on the ground at the turn of the century) and we ended up having to invent a boy-band to fit it into the track listing of … Continue reading
Not Out!
Some (not all, I hasten to add) sports clubs seem to pride themselves on being the last bastions of ugly, rampant, unchecked homophobia. Cricket’s actually a lot less guilty of this than other codes I could mention, but then Sherbet … Continue reading
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Unsure
Hard to believe, and against all odds, this is actually kind of a serious song. I know, I know, we had people on the door and everything, I don’t know how it got through. Well, I’m talking to you like … Continue reading
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Meat Pie
If there’s a prevailing theme to the lyrics of Operation Gettin’ Down, it’s sex; on the other hand, this is just getting silly.
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Operation Gettin’ Down
The title track from the 2002 release. We’d just had Operation, um, Desert Shield or something (you kinda lose track nowadays, you know?), and it seemed in keeping with the theme of the album to go looking for a completely … Continue reading
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The Couple That Wouldn’t Stop
This one closed the official part of Operation Gettin’ Down (there were a couple of bonus hidden tracks) and I guess it’s slightly different to most of the other tracks in that it’s actually about sex, and not a sex … Continue reading
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