OOOOOO _____    I like this CRAZY music !     :-D
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......artist:   Rolf Harris
.......title:   Rolf rules OK!
......origin:   UK & Australia
........type:   CD
.......label:   Music Club ROLFCD 001 (UK) & Phonogram 514850 (Australia)
.......price:   ?
distribution:   should be available from any good shop or mail-order
........year:   1995
.......genre:   novelty rock
....duration:   37:27

..TRACK LIST:   Satisfaction
                Walk On The Wild Side
                I Feel Good
                Stairway To Heaven
                Honky Tonk Woman
                Two Little Boys
                Roadhouse Blues
                Wild Thing
                Great Balls Of Fire
                Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport
                Smoke On The Water
                Bad Mook Rising
                Jake The Peg

        Well, this is kind of an embarassing CD if you love the great rock
classics. Remember what Rolf did to Led Zep's Stairway to heaven? (for that
one, check the compilation CD "Stairways to heaven" on Atlantic 82643 in
the USA, or on Vertigo 514 552 in the UK). Well, 9 other standards got the
same "castration" treatment (the other 3 are classic Rolf songs). That is:
there is nothing left of the original energy, sexyness, rebelion, soul...
these have become realy children-friendly songs! (exept for the lyrics
maybe...:)
        The contrast with the originals is so great that it becomes
hilarious! Can you imagine "Satisfaction" done with a wobble board? "Wild
Thing" in reggae-style? "Smoke On The Water" as lounge-jazz? Or "Bad Mook
Rising" as some very tame cajun?
        "Honky Tonk Woman", "Roadhouse Blues" and "Great Balls Of Fire" are
done with a least SOME respect to the original, which is really a pitty if
the only thing you're after is a good laugh :)
        The lyrics are addapted here and there, to achieve an even greater
commical effect:
  "Take a walk on the wild side, didgeridoo-dodoo-dodoo"
  "I feel good, diddledee-diddledum"
   (is this really a James Brown song, one may wonder after hearing this
    childish ditty?)
  "and she's buying a stairway to heaven; all together now!"
  "oooh, and it makes me wonder; how does that affect you, bloacks?
   Oooh, it makes us wonder, oo-ooh"
If you didn't get it by now: his is a silly stupid disc... and I like it!
Call me twisted...

Greatings from Johan
               johan.devis@ping.be          (home: Wivina 15, 1702, Belgium)