New Wave Disco
It's not all techno techno techno chez headphonesex.
I've been listening to this song all day after coming across it on Richard X's 'Back to Mine' compliation. I recognised the unforgettable title 'You'll Always Find Me In the Kitchen at Parties', but i'd never heard the song before.
Released on Stiff records (sometime home of Madness, Kirsty MacColl, The Pogues, Ian Dury, Yello and Elvis Costello to name just a few) in 1980, the single managed some chart success with the unlikely backing of Dave Lee Travis, after the hairycunt cornflake overheard it in the radio 1 corridors and made it his single of the week.
It's a tale of a man hanging round in kitchens at parties (no shit) attempting to score.
"Then I met this debutante I said I like new wave rock.
She was into french cuisine but I ain't no cordon bleu.
This was at some do in palmers green
I had no luck with her."
Perseverance pays off though! He who dares rodney, he who dares! Our hero finally has his way with a lass!
"At last I met a pretty girl she laughed and talked with me.
We both walked out of the kitchen and danced in a new way.
And now I've done my time in the kitchen at parties."
It's not clear what happens next though. Does he stop going to parties altogether, or just move into the lounge? Sadly the follow up single did not explain, but instead became an unlikely christmas smash hit. "Stop The Cavalry" is a standard on christmas compilations and I suspect that he now lives a fine life from the royalties a la Hugh Grant in 'About a Boy'. (You'd know it if you heard it)
The whole track is done in a really jaunty synthpop style, with Kirsty MacColl on backing vocals singing his lines back to him. Matthew at Fluxblog would LOVE this. And so do I.
JONA LEWIE - YOU'LL ALWAYS FIND ME IN THE KITCHEN AT PARTIES
I've been listening to this song all day after coming across it on Richard X's 'Back to Mine' compliation. I recognised the unforgettable title 'You'll Always Find Me In the Kitchen at Parties', but i'd never heard the song before.
Released on Stiff records (sometime home of Madness, Kirsty MacColl, The Pogues, Ian Dury, Yello and Elvis Costello to name just a few) in 1980, the single managed some chart success with the unlikely backing of Dave Lee Travis, after the hairy
It's a tale of a man hanging round in kitchens at parties (no shit) attempting to score.
"Then I met this debutante I said I like new wave rock.
She was into french cuisine but I ain't no cordon bleu.
This was at some do in palmers green
I had no luck with her."
Perseverance pays off though! He who dares rodney, he who dares! Our hero finally has his way with a lass!
"At last I met a pretty girl she laughed and talked with me.
We both walked out of the kitchen and danced in a new way.
And now I've done my time in the kitchen at parties."
It's not clear what happens next though. Does he stop going to parties altogether, or just move into the lounge? Sadly the follow up single did not explain, but instead became an unlikely christmas smash hit. "Stop The Cavalry" is a standard on christmas compilations and I suspect that he now lives a fine life from the royalties a la Hugh Grant in 'About a Boy'. (You'd know it if you heard it)
The whole track is done in a really jaunty synthpop style, with Kirsty MacColl on backing vocals singing his lines back to him. Matthew at Fluxblog would LOVE this. And so do I.
JONA LEWIE - YOU'LL ALWAYS FIND ME IN THE KITCHEN AT PARTIES
posted by headphonesex @ 2:25 PM
