LAST LISTENED TO some years ago
CHANCE OF WAKING TO IT miniscule
RATING
Yes, that Chris Morris. Brass Eye, The Day Today, Jam. In the early '90s, before any of this, indie rag Select put out a free flexi disc of his work. It was, i believe, recorded specifically, and began with a spoof radio show, titled Wayne Carr In The Afternoon. It fired some very accurate shots at noxious, moustache-wearing cretin Steve Wright (who was quite popular at the time) and his idiot followers.
Next, there was the infamous phone interview with journo-fool Piers Morgan, where Morris pretended to be Bono. Morgan was convinced to print in The Sun that U2 where going to be supported on tour by NWA, that they would co-perform One Less Bitch at Alton Towers, that they had always been a black dance band and that they were going to quit after the tour.
The disc ended with a song. In this case the joke was at the expense of the Pixies and took the form of a reworked (and very reworded) version of their tune This Monkey's Gone To Heaven. Musically it was a spot-on take. Lyrically Morris was at his close-to-the-bone best. None of it is a fitting subject for an innocent music blog. However, just to give you a taste here's the last line: 'embalmed her dying body for necrophilia'.
The man is twisted. Thank god.
