Comments on: Blog ’92: NAUGHTY NAUGHTY VERY NAUGHTY

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 13:38:38 +0000

i take it you’re not referring to Mr C

By: sholten

sholten — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 22:41:21 +0000

Does anybody know a name of this lovely blonde dancer from this video? ;)

By: Kat

Kat — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 20:39:26 +0000

Readers who don’t regularly skim through the clubbing flyer sections in Sister Ray may be interested to know that Mr C is alive, well and a prominent tech-house DJ playing regular gigs in/around London. Sometimes the flyers don’t even have ‘The Shamen’ in brackets after his name.

By: Pete

Pete — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 11:31:54 +0000

Yes, talking of the individual sound palette, the very clean “do do do” sound of their keyboards syncopated to the drums was very Shamen, plus a low in the mix dirty fuzz guitar.

I always think of this as more Mr C’s record than the Shamen, which is probably incorrect, and probably not how he would like to be remembered. Still the money almost certainly paid for AKA, so in a lot of ways a very influence dance record!

By: Ken Shinn

Ken Shinn — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 11:22:16 +0000

For some reason, I still have very fond memories of Jerry Sadowitz’s show-stealing antics as Ebeneezer in the video. The fast-motion dog-walking particularly sticks in my mind…

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 16:43:51 +0000

My Shamen intro was being wowed by ‘Make It Mine’ on some TV show – probably the Chart Show. When ‘Pro-Gen’ got re-released I bought the single and listened repeatedly writing down the lyrics. By the time ‘Ebeneezer Goode’ came around I was a bit older and less impressed but I liked that having jumped on the rave bandwagon to some extent Angus and C, effectively taking their cue from The KLF, actually had the brains to make it work and score such a success as this. They had pretty decent production knowhow as a pop-dance duo (and a palette distinct enough from their contemporaries) and C’s lyrics in this particular case had an entertaining level of wit alongside the ‘oi oi saveloy’ crafty geezerness – insufferable or embarassing as this may have ended up becoming by the end of that year. In recent years through absence I’ve become fond of it again and rather like the extended mix as an instrumental in it’s own right.

By: CarsmileSteve

CarsmileSteve — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 16:25:08 +0000

i once won a selection of Jack Daniels branded merchandise at a karaoke evening for my (almost word perfect) rendition of this. i still have the playing cards, and i probably still know all the words. i am not proud of this.

By: Tanya Headon

Tanya Headon — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 16:18:01 +0000

My views on this subject.
http://freakytrigger.co.uk/hate/2000/06/drugs-do-they-work/

By: Pete Baran

Pete Baran — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 15:57:02 +0000

And who knows, it could easily be in the top 50 songs of ALL TIME which we are about to get to.

I wonder how noted misanthrope Jerry Sadowitz feels about this now.

By: katstevens

katstevens — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 15:54:54 +0000

Tom – this is the only Popular cross-over entry! I’m sure you’ll have something different to say though :)