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Urgent rock and roll help needed! Now!

  
 
Sax
16:26 / 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.
 
 
Boboss
16:28 / 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
16:46 / 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.
 
 
Boboss
17:02 / 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
17:18 / 12.05.06
He also apparently sings "ball like a hen". Are hens famous for their balling technique?
 
 
Stoat-ROW ROW FIGHT THE POWAH
17:20 / 12.05.06
"Ball like a cock" would have been funnier.
 
 
The Paschal Lamb
18:51 / 12.05.06
what's nonsensical about saying something's like Robin Hood?
 
 
Ganesh
19:01 / 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.
19:19 / 12.05.06
At least he doesn't try to use a British accent.
 
 
A Haus of Minions
19:31 / 12.05.06
Doesn't it appear twice, once in each form? Or is that unnecessarily Liberal Democrat?
 
 
Stoat-ROW ROW FIGHT THE POWAH
19:37 / 12.05.06
D'ya know, Marc Bolan was born not five hundred yards from this very computer at which I sit?
 
 
gridley
17:52 / 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
18:17 / 13.05.06
It's definitely just like robin hood, in that the lyric is robin hood. Listen closely...
 
 
Nuke Kids on the Bloc
19:04 / 13.05.06
Rock & Roll: Men in Tights
 
 
Adam wages war on wack MCs
19:17 / 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
10:29 / 17.05.06
We went for Teenage Kicks instead.
 
  
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