E TūYou could bludgeon someone to death with that synth in Sierra Leone by Coconut Rough. #NZMusic
Cachalot the Fediverse Whale@mementomaori played that song to a friend of mine from Sierra Leone, and he looked weirdly at me and told me that there is no desert in Sierra Leone
@Happyfishmedia 😂 🤣 classic!
Michael U@Happyfishmedia @mementomaori and isn't Leone two syllables?
Dave@Happyfishmedia @mementomaori the song reviewers even said that at the time, in the same tone of voice that reviewers a couple of years later said "but the NYPD doesn't HAVE a choir". And Andrew Snoid couldn't even use the excuse that it could have been a metaphor...
two slightly distorted guitars@mementomaori absolute top track!
@mementomaori They were always a deeply unfashionable group but I actually liked them. "Magic Hour" in particular was definite great listening material (and also comprehensively out-classes the original version of the song, but considering the original writer/recorder of it was on the periphery of the group and did their album cover art he can't have minded THAT much...)
@Daveosaurus There's some top footage of them playing live online.
morachbeag@mementomaori (goes and listens) apparently it's taken me this many years to find out who made that song (bops a while longer) 😅
@morachbeag Finding out it's all gibberish is hilarious ngl lol, still a bop!
@mementomaori "So cold in the desert tonight" sir, I live in a suburb at the edge of a subtropical forest 😅
@morachbeag Tbf NZ didn't have books until the '90s.
@mementomaori Had some dude in britain once ask me "so are there lots of kangaroos and surfboards where you are" and like "no, but got alleys that smell like pee, if that's any help" 😅
@morachbeag I've heard some absolutely cooked shit about how people think Maaori live lol.
@mementomaori omg a professional management lady from Jakarta I knew had to explain to a yt Aussie CEO in an interview that Jakarta, is not, in fact, 'a small village' like the internet is *right there in front of you* dude🙄
@morachbeag Omg lmao
@mementomaori Dude was all "so you lived in a hut?"
(blank stare) "More like high density highrise, but good try"
@morachbeag Must be the same guy I met lol
@mementomaori Some ppl out there tryin to break records in staggering ignorance 😅
@morachbeag I swear to the Atua, my Aussie aunt (by marriage) once asked me when I was a kid... if NZ had electricity.
@mementomaori o for the love of god sheesh 🤣
@mementomaori I'd probly get cheeky and start makin shit up "yeah, you know when they made Split Enz's first record, Tim had to get out on a hamster wheel attached to a motor to keep the amps and desk running? True"
@morachbeag My uncle was a university lecturer I could't with this woman lol. They were also massive hippies so thinking back, it was probs the jazz cigarettes 😅
@mementomaori (blows out ginormous plume) "So, do you have roofs where you come from?" (gets hit with a book on Anthony Hōete)
@morachbeag I've judged youse all on that comment ever since lol.
@mementomaori Given the sample size of attitudes I've come across here, I'd say that's a pretty fair judgement 😅 😭