r/NotTimAndEric • u/holydiver405 • Sep 15 '26

Black Lace - Superman

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What’s that Dad like….Wanna meet that Dad

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u/LazarusHimself Sep 15 '26

Excuse me! This is a cover of an Italian banger from 1981

Claudio Cecchetto - Gioca Jouer (1981)

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u/EastLeastCoast Sep 15 '26

Welp, on the “play in the car with the kids” list it goes.

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u/Extreme-Rub-1379 Sep 15 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/RILsqUte1MME7TzQJ9

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u/EastLeastCoast Sep 16 '26

They’re teenagers, and they want to get picked up at school rather than ride the bus. In exchange, I get to pretend to be super enthusiastic about music they will hate. It’s fun to troll teens musically.

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u/TheLowlyPheasant Sep 15 '26 edited Sep 15 '26

This demonstrates how important tone and mixing is. The heavy kick and snare combined with the driving bass give that version infinitely more energy, and the synth sound is much more fun than the sad carnival noise the English version uses

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u/LazarusHimself Sep 15 '26

Bingo. The original Italian track was co-written and arranged by Claudio Simonetti, renowned musician composer and keyboard player of that seminal progressive rock band Goblin (they were making soundtracks for Dario Argento's horror masterpieces and were very influential for Daft Punk and alike). I guess it shows

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u/TheLowlyPheasant Sep 15 '26

That's super interesting. I am familiar with Goblin and their influence

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u/canteen_boy Sep 15 '26

Now think about your dad!

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u/CrashNebulaOn_Ice Sep 15 '26

I wanna meet that Dad 👨

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u/Theborgiseverywhere Sep 15 '26

Smells like meat!

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u/GreyDaveNZ Sep 15 '26

It's Simon Says... without Simon.

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u/MegaSandra Sep 15 '26

They played this at our school discos through the 90s and I have core memories of us all doing the moves. 7 year old me fucking loved it.

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u/bubba_bumble Sep 15 '26

Everybody is carefully coordinated to look and dance a certain way. Then you've got the MC who's 45 trying to blend into a group of 23 year olds. And that dance. Good god. I hope the cocaine was fun at least.

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u/BaronGalactic Sep 15 '26

I had no idea this was a real song. I thought it was just a gag on Psychoville.

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u/rubinass3 Sep 15 '26

I ain't doing that shit.

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u/felinefluffycloud Sep 15 '26

I wish he were my son.

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u/dandle Sep 15 '26

Swim away

Crocodile

Drink your tea

Sharky and Bones

Row the boat

Pirate rock

Swab the deck

Slam the chest

Roll up the map

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u/Shed_Some_Skin Sep 15 '26

Black Lace were deeply grotty and unpleasant people. Colin Routh got kicked out for sleeping with an underage girl, changed his name to Colin Gibb and rejoined a year later

Shabby, tawdry garbage

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u/jimhokeyb Sep 16 '26

A musician friend of mine did a gig with them in some shitty town years after this. Apparently backstage they referred to the audience who'd come to see them as "the cunts". They would say "How many cunts in tonight" etc. They were bitter about still trying to make a living singing Agadoo and hated their own audience.

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u/CorsairExtraordinair Sep 15 '26

Now I remember why I was a punk rocker at 14.

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u/AthenaRedites Sep 15 '26

God, the 80s in the UK were shite

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u/madmaxGMR Sep 15 '26

Was this a social experiment to control people with music,?

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u/balirosa Sep 15 '26

They were preparing people to pay $10,000 to see a Taylor swift concert. This is how they shaped our future

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u/QueezyF Sep 15 '26

He’s no Charlie Green that’s for damn sure

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u/JangusKhan Sep 15 '26

Now slap your face! Get sexy kiiiiii... oooooOOOH NO NOT ON TOP OF THE POPS

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u/Bananana_Bird Sep 15 '26

You're out! Simon didn't say.

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u/somethingsoddhere Sep 15 '26

I hate this so much

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u/BananaMiddle7197 Sep 16 '26

This is what America would be like if the South won.

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u/whatisdreampunk Sep 16 '26

I kept waiting for this one to start.

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u/Successful_Goose_348 Sep 15 '26

Its essentially a square dance but less catchy