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I was just listening to some music on random play. Gang of Four - To Hell With Poverty came back to back with Killing Joke - Follow the Leader.

Two great songs, followed by...Haysi Fantaysee - John Wayne is Big Leggy. What the hell? Can anyone explain this song to me? Or is it just random babbling? I can best describe this as Culture Club on speed. Although I have to admit buying a Haysi Fantaysee record back in the day, these guys are one of the acts that to me signified the looming death of new wave (if it wasn't already dead).

Or maybe I am too stunned to appreciate some deeper meaning?

Unfortunately I don't remember the story behind JWIBL...
I know that Shiny Shiny is supposedly about the threat of nuclear war.

Why do people compare them to Culture Club.
The only thing simular are the dreadlocks & some early Culture Club dress.
And George & Jeremy were childhood friends.

I don't think New Wave died in 1982.

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It's a politically correct diatribe against white male phallic oppression of women and minorities. And very silly and catchy.

Zill,
Thanks for asking about this song because I've always wondered about it too. And Shiny Shiny...

I always thought John Wayne is Big Leggy was about butt-fucking.

Haysi Fantayzee's music means absolutely NOTHING. It is the Seinfeld of 80s fashion music.

At one time I had the "John wayne is big leggy" video. It was country western themed, and made no more sense than the song.

Here are the lyrics -- why is so hard to figure out that it's about sex??? Most of their lyrics are -- read between the lines and use your imagination a little bit.

Shotgun - gimme
gimme low down
fun boy - o.k. showdown

Shotgun - gimme
gimme low down
fun boy - o.k. showdown

Shotgun - gimme
gimme low down
fun boy - o.k. showdown
showdown.
Take me away
he's as big as a ranch.
Take me away
he's as tough as they come. J-J-J-J-J-John wayne
Take me away
he's so long.
Take me away
you know he's never wrong.
J-J-J-J-John Wayne.
He stands so high
it's enough to make any red skin cry.
He knows what's right and he knows that god is with him
'cos he is right - Big Leggy lives. J-J-J-J-T-John wayne.
John Wayne in lovers lane - making whoopee with his squaw.
But his bullet belt keeps a-gettin' in the way
It's making his life a bore.
So she says to him - Take off that thing . . .
It's getting right between us.
Now listen honey
I can't do that no even for you
my sweetness.
Now Big John
if that's a fact then how d'you propose we do our act?
If that's the way it's gonna be get the hell out of my tepee.
Now speckled hen
you stop your squawkin'
Big Bad Rooster's doin' the talking.
I know a trick we ought to try tune right over - you'll know why.
He stands so high
it's enough to make any red skin cry . . .
If you wonder why he stands so high
It's just the space between him and the sky.
If you wonder why he stands so high . . .
If you wonder why he stands so high . . .
If you wonder why he stands so high . . .
Take me away - John Wayne is big leggy
Take me away - John Wayne is big leggy
Take me away - John Wayne is big leggy
Take me away - John Wayne

He stands so high
it's enough to make any red skin cry '.
Shotgun - gimme
gimme low down fun boy - o.k. showdown.

If you look at it in just the right perspective, all songs in the 80s were about sex.

British,

That was the most sensible post I've read on NWO![:D]

zill

[quote][i]Originally posted by mare_idol[/i]

He knows what's right and he knows that god is with him
'cos he is right .

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I always thought it was

"And he knows that God is with him 'cause he's white."

You're probably right Scramjet

I had always assumed that Haysi Fantayzee was from some non-English speaking country because their lyrics made so little sense. I figured it was ignorance, not design. [:I]

By any chance does anyone have the lyrics to "Sister Friction"? I used to have that song on a compilation album and loved it. Seems hard to find nowadays. I could never figure out what they were saying, though! Except for "Sister Friction, love addiction..."


Thanks!