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Urgent rock and roll help needed! Now!

  
 
Sax
13:26 / 12.05.06
Convo rather than music for maximum occupancy.

So, T-Rex's "20th Century Boy".... does it begin:

Friends say it's fine, friends say it's good, everybody says it's just like ROBIN HOOD

or

Everybody says it's just like ROCK'N'ROLL.

I need to know because I might have to sing this tomorrow.
 
 
Spaniel
13:28 / 12.05.06
Always sounded like Robin Hood to me, and, after chatting with my good friend Mr Google, it would appear that Internet agrees.

Sing it, Saxy.
 
 
Sax
13:46 / 12.05.06
I always thought Robin Hood, as what it rhymes and everything, but Google actually has about a 60-40 split in favour of rock'n'roll.
 
 
Spaniel
14:02 / 12.05.06
Well, I'd suggest sticking with Robin Hood because, well, the vocal doesn't sound at all like "rock and roll", and T-Rex are pretty well known for nonsense lyrics.
 
 
Sax
14:18 / 12.05.06
He also apparently sings "ball like a hen". Are hens famous for their balling technique?
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
14:20 / 12.05.06
"Ball like a cock" would have been funnier.
 
 
ZF!
15:51 / 12.05.06
what's nonsensical about saying something's like Robin Hood?
 
 
Ganesh
16:01 / 12.05.06
I suppose in that it's difficult to see how it's like Robin Hood. Does it steal from the rich and give to the poor? Does it wear green tights? Is it badly acted by Kevin Costner?
 
 
matthew.
16:19 / 12.05.06
At least he doesn't try to use a British accent.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
16:31 / 12.05.06
Doesn't it appear twice, once in each form? Or is that unnecessarily Liberal Democrat?
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
16:37 / 12.05.06
D'ya know, Marc Bolan was born not five hundred yards from this very computer at which I sit?
 
 
gridley
14:52 / 13.05.06
D'ya know, Marc Bolan was born not five hundred yards from this very computer at which I sit?

Damn, that's one old computer you're using. How often do you have to change the vacuum tubes?
 
 
Quantum
15:17 / 13.05.06
It's definitely just like robin hood, in that the lyric is robin hood. Listen closely...
 
 
Triplets
16:04 / 13.05.06
Rock & Roll: Men in Tights
 
 
A
16:17 / 13.05.06
I have nothing constructive to add, but Rock On, Sax, you crazy diamond. Or something. And don't let statistics tell you how to Rock and/or Roll.
 
 
Sax
07:29 / 17.05.06
We went for Teenage Kicks instead.
 
  
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