When Ted Leo and The Best Show‘a Tom Scharpling get together, they expect you to give it up. Last time we checked in with the pair they wanted your money (for the WFMU’s 50th anniversary pledge drive). This time out Tom and Ted demanded your intellectual property — your poetry, your prose, your tossed off couplets fantasizing of hipster extermination — to constitute the lyrics to a song especially written for and aired on last night’s The Best Show. It’s some pretty heavy shit. Peruse the first verse and chorus:
Big Steve is on the drum set calling it four by four /
Little Jimmy jamming the six string, giving the people more /
Violence bringing the low end ’cause that’s all he knows how to do /
My name is Ted, that’s what I said, and the Western world will perish in 15 years /Then in the year 2016 when the world is clean /
Clean of this hipster scene /
All the ghosts will scream for what their souls have seen /
And the tapas they could have been eating /But the world is in the turlet so we’re all gonna die
Not trying to insult intelligences here, but just in case: urban definition of “turlet.” The music rocks (but it’s Ted, so of course it does). And the dreams of dead hipsters, outspoken longing for Spanish food, potty slang … really it’s called “The Comment Thread Troll Song.”
Open up your Real Player, then click this link for the streaming listen. Big thanks to reader Samir for the tip.
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what the hell is listen.ram?
Guess i wont be hearing it.
Big Steve is on the drum set
Counting it four by four
Little Jimmy jamming the six-string
Giving the people more
Count Violence bringing the low-end
Cuz that’s all that he knows what to do
And my name’s Ted
That’s what I said
And the western world will perish in fifteen years
And then in the year sixteen when the world is clean
Clean of this hipster scene
Well all their ghosts will scream for what their souls have seen
And the tapas they could have been eating
But
The world is in the turlet
The world is in the turlet
The world is in the turlet
And we’re all gonna die.
Aw
The world is in the turlet
The world is in the turlet
The world is in the turlet
So don’t ask why
Come on!
Nothing to drink I’ve got nothing to eat
I’m barely alive I’m dead on my feet
The East River boiled and belched up a cadaver
The corpse walked to Enid’s for a drink and some palaver
And
The world is in the turlet
The world is in the turlet
The world is in the turlet
And we’re all gonna die
Yeah
The world is in the turlet
The world is in the turlet
The world is in the turlet
So don’t ask why
[guitar]
Cuz
The proof is in the pudding
The proof is in the pudding
The proof is in the pudding
And you don’t ask why
I said
The proof is in the pudding
The proof is in the pudding
The proof is in the pudding
So give it a try
It
Was
Supposed
To Be
My
Moment
of
Triumph
You can download an mp3 over at friends of tom
http://www.friendsoftom.com/forum/index.php/topic,3110.0.html
Who is this jack frickin ass who is talking at both ends of this mp3?! Annoying.
isn’t dave lerner no longer in the band?
Dave Lerner is no longer in the band. He’s at Academy Records.
Dave left back in August or September of last year. Luckily, count Violence is doing a mighty fine job carrying the torch.