Foo song

[steve_1979]

A long, long time ago…

I can still remember

How that music used to make me smile.

And I thought if I had my chance

My music system to enhance

Just, maybe, I’d be happier for a while.

But hi-fi mags just made me shiver

As every article delivered.

Bad news on the doorstep;

Much cash to gain one more step.

And thus it was, I did decide

This bizarre world to get inside

It really took me for a ride,

And so the music died.

So bye, bye, to religion hi-fi

I’d been drinking without thinking, now the well has run dry

And good ol’ audiophools can fight till they die

But they can carry on without I

They can carry on without I

Do you believe in sounds of wire

At a price that’s absolutely dire

If those Bibles tell you so?

And do you believe your rock ‘n roll

Sounds so much better, with more soul

From a diamond dragging through a ditch so slow?

Now I knew folk were in love with Linn

Even when the price was really grim

Or mad Naimees whose shoes

Tap as if there’s no time to lo-oo-oose.

I had a taste champagne with a budget beer

And imagination and no golden ear

And all confirmed were my worst fears

The day the music died

I started singin’

Bye, bye, to religion hi-fi

I’d been drinking without thinking, now the well has run dry

And good ol’ audiophools can fight till they die

But they can carry on without I

They can carry on without I

So for ten years, I was quite on song

Believed these wise folk can’t be wrong

They heard something, I heard it too

Although it was so contrar-ray

To the science I did every day

I somehow didn’t see it all as woo.

Until a stand, of Mana name

From Anglesey, not heaven, came

It cost a hefty pound

Was said to enhance sound

But in spite of what the pundits knew

I tried it out, and its cred blew

Moreover it looked ugly too

No wonder music died

I started singin’

Bye, bye, to religion hi-fi

I’d been drinking without thinking, now the well has run dry

And good ol’ audiophools can fight till they die

But they can carry on without I

They can carry on without I

Helter skelter, I was in a swelter

I tested stuff and in a welter

Scales from eyes were falling fast

For big improvements, you need grass

And propaganda good as Tass

And pseudo-scientific humbug vast

Now in no time I smelt sweet perfume

Of truth, and tried to sing this tune

I sought truth to advance

But I rarely got the chance

For when I tried to take the field

The true believers would not yield

They didn’t like the truth revealed

And so the music died.

And I was singin’

Bye, bye, to religion hi-fi

I’d been drinking without thinking, now the well has run dry

And good ol’ audiophools can fight till they die

But they can carry on without I

They can carry on without I

Oh, and there we were all in one place,

A few with clues, but some with space

Between the ears, so talk was vain

They went on, they were simple, they were thick

As Jethro Tull’s infamous brick

‘Cos humbug is believers’ only friend.

Oh, and as I watched them on the for-

Um, hi-fi myths began to soar

From folk who should know well

Completely under spell.

And as the flaming climbed to scary height

The sort of thing that forums blight

Hi-fi believers laughing with delight

The day the music died

And I was singin’

Bye, bye, to religion hi-fi

I’d been drinking without thinking, now the well has run dry

And good ol’ audiophools can fight till they die

But they can carry on without I

They can carry on without I

I now have ceased to sing the blues

No longer read the “Hi-Fi News”

I simply smile and turn away

I don’t go to the hi-fi store

Where the music left me years before

For in such stores the music doesn’t play

The only thing that’s there are dreams

At prices taken to extremes

Absurdity unspoken

And logic totally broken

I have Meridian, Linn and Quad

But for my back, no longer rod

Music, not hi-fi, is my god

And music will abide.

I’m happily singin’

Bye, bye, to religion hi-fi

I’d been drinking without thinking, now the well has run dry

And good ol’ audiophools can fight till they die

But they can carry on without I

They can carry on without I

Bye, bye, to religion hi-fi

I’d been drinking without thinking, now the well has run dry

And good ol’ audiophools can fight till they die

But they can carry on without I!

Composed by Tones on the PFM forum.

 

[Vladimir]

A sailors song about Hi-Foolery. Love it dude! :clap:

 

[spiny norman]

You missed out 'This'll be the day – AVI'

 

[steve_1979]

You missed out 'This'll be the day – AVI'

:clap:

 

[MajorFubar]

Masterpiece, cheered me up no end.

 

[Al ears]

Brilliant. With apologies to Don McLean no doubt..

 

[plastic penguin]

Clearly copied from me yesterday. My little ode to the Blues win on Tuesday.

"Ba Ba Chelsea, have you any goals?

Yes sir, yes sir, three all term.

One off my ear lobe, one off my mane

One for the Paris team to send them down the Seine".

 

[Singslinger]

Clearly copied from me yesterday. My little ode to the Blues win on Tuesday.

"Ba Ba Chelsea, have you any goals?

Yes sir, yes sir, three all term.

One off my ear lobe, one off my mane

One for the Paris team to send them down the Seine".

Excellent! :cheers:

 

[plastic penguin]

Clearly copied from me yesterday. My little ode to the Blues win on Tuesday.

"Ba Ba Chelsea, have you any goals?

Yes sir, yes sir, three all term.

One off my ear lobe, one off my mane

One for the Paris team to send them down the Seine".

Excellent! :cheers:

Also in the process of composing a ditty for Man U, to the tune of 'The Air That I Breath' by The Hollies.

 

[Singslinger]

Clearly copied from me yesterday. My little ode to the Blues win on Tuesday.

"Ba Ba Chelsea, have you any goals?

Yes sir, yes sir, three all term.

One off my ear lobe, one off my mane

One for the Paris team to send them down the Seine".

Excellent! :cheers:

Also in the process of composing a ditty for Man U, to the tune of 'The Air That I Breath' by The Hollies.

Look forward to it PP ! :cheer: :cheer: