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Geek Culture / Goldie Lookin' Chain

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Fallout
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Posted: 14th Feb 2006 16:52
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I think you need to be a Brit to have heard of these guys, but what do you peeps think of them? I know they're old news, but my housemate is playing them out now, so it got me curious. Do you think they're funny, or just crap, or have you not really heard much of em?

For people who've not heard of em, they're a bunch of Welsh rappers that have absolutely nothing to rap about, so they have a sort of OTT comedy style where they basically talk complete crap.

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Kangaroo2 BETA2
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Posted: 14th Feb 2006 17:00
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I think they're great! "Guns don't kill people, rappers do, from Bristol Zoo to B&Q(...) I heard it in a documentary on BBC2"

I saw them a couple of times in Newport before they became "famous" - they had a lot of songs out on the net to download years before they got a recording contract.

On Radio 1 they have a "celebrities go to your school" competition, and they went to a wordwork class because they wanted to learn how to make proper joints


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Posted: 14th Feb 2006 17:57 Edited at: 14th Feb 2006 18:18
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hehe. I think what reminded me of em recently, apart from my housemate playing em, was the Maggot going onto celebrity big brother. And he never once did his rendition of the Maggot. "The maggot, the maggot. That's who I am. Don't ever trust me. Always doing a scam. I punched a lady and stole the baby and the pram. I even sliced my up and sold it as ham".

I got the impression he would've been embaressed to admit that's the sort of rapping his does with Dennis rodman in the house.

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Robin
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Hehe yeah I've heard a couple of goldie lookin' chains songs - lyrics are pretty funny, but I think the songs themselves aren't actually too bad either

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Hawkeye
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0.o

this sounds like a rapping group that might actually be halfway decent for a change...


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goldie lookin chain are crap, okay their lyrics might sometimes be remotely 'funny' but frankly they are annoying and should all be burnt


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Why does "rap" drop the leading C?
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Benjamin
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Quote: "but frankly they are annoying and should all be burnt"

Agreed, rappers should.

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Posted: 14th Feb 2006 21:16
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Awe spoil sports! It's not supposed to be your new favourite band you listen to all day while commuting for work. They're entertaining in small doses. I think that's the point. They're not a life style choice.

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Posted: 14th Feb 2006 23:00
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Haven't heard much. Although I quite liked that "Your Mussus Is A Nutter" song.

Quote: "They're not a life style choice"
Quite. Good olde welshboys done us proud though (I'm welsh). Welsh music life style choice would be the Manics for me. Totally awesome band. Although, come to think of it, there isn't that many other decent welsh bands. If you didn't know at least one teacher in school with relatives in a top 10 selling (in the welsh language - ie. 5 sales gets you to the top) welsh band when I grew up, then you were living in England (spit).

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I think rappers should be shot at dawn by me .

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Posted: 14th Feb 2006 23:22 Edited at: 14th Feb 2006 23:24
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"there isn't that many other decent welsh bands"
You don't like Catatonia? Cerys Mathews write some of the most brilliantly subtle yet clever lyrics I've ever heard and delivers them in a way that somehow make me want to cry at how damned perfect it is... International Velvet was their best album though, shame they split up. Sterophonics aren't bad either... I like the manics, but a lot of their songs sound very similar (not necessarily a bad thing mind)

I think for people who don't "get" Wales, they won't "get" the GLC crew. Personally I love WAles and all its wonderful weirdness - without them there would be no SuperTed or Fireman Sam people, remember that!

[edit] Mind you they do have their own sitcom starring only sheep (the meehs I think its called) - and I think the rest of the world can live without "pbwl y cwm"


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Posted: 14th Feb 2006 23:49 Edited at: 15th Feb 2006 00:01
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The only Welsh word I know is Araf, cos it's written on all the flippin roads up North! ARAF THE **** DOWN!! HERE COMES ANOTHER 180 DEGREE CORNER WITH A SHEER CLIFF ON THE OTHERSIDE!!

I think 90% of this board are rap haters anyways, so be default, they will hate the GLC, even though they're comedy Welsh nuttjob rap.

If anyone is curious as to what this GLC stuff is. Here's a snippet from half man half machine (lofi). This tune is free to download from their old site, so I think supplying this lo-fi version is legit. EDIT: [Removed link, cos its not worth the risk] Explicit lyrics from the outset people. You've been warned!

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Quote: "You don't like Catatonia?"
Never quite took to them. Got that international velvet album, thought it was alright, never really listened much since. Sterophonics are a bit hit and miss.

Superted? Heh. When I grew up they used to have these Superted comics for us to read in school. Laughed our t**s off over what Spotty's (Superted's alien sidekick) nickname was. Yuck yuck. Is literally Spotty in welsh if I remember rightly. Chuckle.

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International Velvet is one of the few albums of the 90s britpop/indie era that I still listen to relativelt regularly

As for Spottyman, in Welsh he's "Smotyn" according to the official Superted website here: http://www.superted.tv/ . More amusingly, according to the english version of that site, he likes "spotted dick"


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Quote: "The only Welsh word I know is Araf, cos it's written on all the flippin roads up North! ARAF THE **** DOWN!! HERE COMES ANOTHER 180 DEGREE CORNER WITH A SHEER CLIFF ON THE OTHERSIDE!!"


Congrats, made me actually lol.

GLC are pretty good. Lyrics actually rhyme which is a lot better than 80% of American rap.

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Yeah, gotta love that. There you are driving along nicely, then you see Araf written on the road. Hmmm what does that mean. Then, a bit further along, it says Slow. Just as you are about to plummet off that sheer cliff mentioned above..... Heh, in Ireland there was this road I went on that said Slow, then after a while it said Very slow, then a sign indicating how many people had died on that corner. Nice.

Incidentally I remember hearing once about how a load of Welshboys wanted to get rid of all the english road signs to save money. It was then pointed out that while 99.9999% (or somesuch high number) of the population can speak english, only something like 20% could actually speak welsh. So surely much better to get rid of the welsh signs. Shut the **** up then....

One time we almost got kicked out of BTEC college because of a sign we put up. Something to do with business studies being full of diseased low lifes. Anyways, the principle ripped us a new one. But after ranting on about how it was sexist, racist (don't know how), etc etc, he said the worst thing is it wasn't bilingual. What a tosser....

As to Spotty. Hmmmm, could swear we had comics with Superted and Sboncyn (arf). Had us laughing our **** off at the time. Smotyn just wouldn't have done it. There is a difference between north and south walean mind.

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haha. Well, Wales has some good memories for me from when I was a nipper. Some crazy golf course, my dad driving off a cliff on a quad bike (oh how I laughed at his near paralysis inducing spinal injury), some big old ice cream shop, me almost plummeting off another cliff on a quad bike, walking for hours though mountains and being too young to appreciate the scenery and just wanting to get back on the quad bikes, king Authors hidden catacombs!!! ... which was an old flooded slate mine in Corris with a manakin in chainmail next to a spot light half way down. Oh, puking in the car from all the twisty turny roads and eating the packed lunch my mum made for me, which seemed to be 50% raddishes - I think she thought I was a fraggle.

But I haven't been to Wales sinse I was 15, except for when me and a mate took a trip to Demon Tweaks in Wrexham so he could put some sports exhaust on his Astra.

Ahhh .... Wales. Now araf the **** down.

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Not really my kind of music but you've got to like them just for being diifferent.

Editors - The Back Room on the other hand, is top notch 100% gold star smiley face quality.

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Yes! The Editors are awesome!

My brother's got their album

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