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The catchiest tune of last decade that you’ve never heard of : Bananaphone, by Raffi,
creator of such standbys as “C-A-N-A-D-A” and “Cowlit Night.”
Since remixed into a whole passle of fabulous pieces, such as a
well-known flash-badger animation (badger animation via Lemonizer) .
Why do I bring this up? It isn’t my latent desire to expose
you
to today’s best music? I heard the badger-version of the song a
long time ago, and thought nothing of it. But I just discovered
Dave Teatro’s disturbing and awful
explanation of the rest of the bananaphone story
(violently absurdist flash animation via Newgrounds), which includes a
lot more of the original song, with excellent sound quality (and not
sped-up high-pitched voices).
And it is the most distressingly catchy song I’ve ever heard… the kind
that you start dancing to before you realize with horror that under no
circumstances should you even be
listening to it in the first place. It’s probably safest if you
don’t even read the lyrics.
~poodoopadoo-oopadoop… poodoopadoo-oopadoop~
Ring ring ring ring ring ring ring, bananaphone
Ring ring ring ring ring ring ring, bananaphone
I’ve got this feeling, so appealing
—
For us to get together and sing- sing !
Ring ring ring ring ring ring ring, bananaphone
Ding dong ding dong ding dong ding, donanaphone
It grows in bunches
I’ve got my hunches;
It’s the best, beats the rest!
Cellular, Modular, Interactiveodular
Ring ring ring ring ring ring ring, bananaphone
Ping pong ping pong ping pong ping, pananaphone
It’s no baloney,
It ain’t a phoney,
My cellular, bananular phone!
Don’t need quarters, don’t need dimes
To call a friend of mine.
Don’t need computer or TV
To have a real good time.
I’ll call for pizza, I’ll call my cat
I’ll call the White House, have a chat
I’ll place a call around the world:
Operator get me Beijing jing jing jing…
Bananaphone, ring ring ring – It’s a phone with a peal!
Bananaphone, ring ring ring – Now you can have your phone and eat it too!
Bananaphone, ring ring ring – This song drives me, bananas!
Bananaphone, ring ring ring…..
One of my co-workers had left a banana on his desk when he left for the evening. Feeling devilish, I disconnected the handset, attached (with tape) the phone cord to the banana, then called his phone and left a message containing only the Bananaphone song.
This song is in regular rotation on The Playground, in Boston on 88.7 Saturday and Sunday evenings (5pm-8pm – on Saturdays, it’s right after A Capella)
Comment by Dave 03.05.05 @ 2:52 pm