I'm really not sure why I chose to put this on the CD. Maybe it had something to do with the fact that 'Take the Skinheads Bowling' appeared on a compilation published by the UK magazine Uncut in December 2005 called 'John Peel's Festive 15'. Listening to The Fall put me in mind of John Peel (Peel's favourite band) and... here we are. It's a silly song, but with the recurring image of skinheads in a bowling alley, it neatly lampoons the absurdity of being a bald headed racist in 18 hole Doc Martens, suspenders and a bomber jacket... in Southern California to boot. Anyway, to see how skinheads look bowling, there is, inevitably, a video on You Tube. Got big lanes... got big lanes... look the same... look the same.
Saturday, January 20, 2007
Take the Skinheads Bowling - Camper van Beethoven (Telephone Free Landslide Victory, 1985)
I'm really not sure why I chose to put this on the CD. Maybe it had something to do with the fact that 'Take the Skinheads Bowling' appeared on a compilation published by the UK magazine Uncut in December 2005 called 'John Peel's Festive 15'. Listening to The Fall put me in mind of John Peel (Peel's favourite band) and... here we are. It's a silly song, but with the recurring image of skinheads in a bowling alley, it neatly lampoons the absurdity of being a bald headed racist in 18 hole Doc Martens, suspenders and a bomber jacket... in Southern California to boot. Anyway, to see how skinheads look bowling, there is, inevitably, a video on You Tube. Got big lanes... got big lanes... look the same... look the same.
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