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Blackout wrote: (if you're ever feeling a bit thick, perhaps after watching a non-populist science documentary or something, and need a little ego boost simply google for an interview where members of inexplicably popular performing monkey troupe Kasabian talk about their song meanings, you'll instantly feel cleverer)
rover wrote:Blackout wrote: (if you're ever feeling a bit thick, perhaps after watching a non-populist science documentary or something, and need a little ego boost simply google for an interview where members of inexplicably popular performing monkey troupe Kasabian talk about their song meanings, you'll instantly feel cleverer)
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/jun/29/kasabian-or-spinal-tap-billy-bragg-tell-them-apart
Wendelin of Trier wrote:I really dislike Billy Bragg. Not a jokey sort of cockney ghost exaggerated type of dislike, I genuinely hate him.
DepthofAlbertsEyes wrote:I've come to think that the lyric might be a slightly abstract wordplay. That is, 'mongk' as 'mong-k', pronounced mong-kay = monkey.
So the subject of the song, suggesting that we are beastly and should not consider ourselves above lower orders of being, is in keeping.
"Don't raise yourself up above the Inuit or Gorilla"
NicholasVanWotsisface wrote:A mook? What's a mook?
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