Comments on: YOUR MOTHER'S GOT A PENIS!

YOUR MOTHER'S GOT A PENIS!

Mayor Curley — Thu, 06 Jan 2005 11:15:48 -0800

Goldie Lookin' Chain Not useful to Brits or American hipsters, but most of us might remain ignorant of this fantastic act. The GLC are a hiphop collective from Newport, Wales. Playing up their welsh ethnicity and offering selections like Your Mother's Got A Penis, they're definitely a novelty act. But they use great beats and hilarious themes, and most reviews have been positive. The Guardian, citing the anti-chav parody nature of the act, pans them partially for being classist.

But I find it hard to dislike a group that can release a single about a cyborg sent on a mission the corner store to buy ten cigarettes. Some of the material is NSFW. Some videos are available at the main link.

By: Mayor Curley

Mayor Curley — Thu, 06 Jan 2005 11:19:34 -0800

I know that GLC is old news to a bunch of you, but some of us don't live in the right places and aren't cool.

By: twine42

twine42 — Thu, 06 Jan 2005 11:22:31 -0800

Superb group. Have they attacked anywhere outside the UK, or are theymaking it on the net?

By: cmonkey

cmonkey — Thu, 06 Jan 2005 11:22:50 -0800

I've never heard of them, but I dig "Half Man Half Machine" so far. Thanks, Mayor Curley.

By: isthisthingon

isthisthingon — Thu, 06 Jan 2005 11:45:24 -0800

My favourite member is 'Two hats', cause he wears to hats. I don't why that never ceases to be funny to me. I also dig that one member can't pronounce his 'R's, so he raps "Guns don't kill people, wappers do"

By: longbaugh

longbaugh — Thu, 06 Jan 2005 11:45:28 -0800

"You knows I loves you baby" is fantastic - "I'm for real - it ain't no quirk My love is lurking the way a rapist would lurk In a bush, or a car park in town I bought you this necklace It cost me 12 pounds From Argos, Elizabeth Duke Maybe you're the skywalker to my luke The Darth to the Vader Flip Over the Crossfader I'll serenade you with a bag of space raiders Or walkers or smiths or maybe even quavers 'Cos my love for you is like drugs for ravers With glowsticks and funny hats on I loves you more than I loves my bong" For bonus points go to Argos where you can find the delightful Elizabeth Duke jewellery range where you can use "chav" in the search engine to find a lovely Goldie Looking Chain. Cha-ching!

By: isthisthingon

isthisthingon — Thu, 06 Jan 2005 11:47:10 -0800

Ahhh, Two hats obviously wears two hats, not to hats.

By: soyjoy

soyjoy — Thu, 06 Jan 2005 11:51:22 -0800

To hats! *drinks*

By: fenriq

fenriq — Thu, 06 Jan 2005 11:58:19 -0800

Hey Mayor Curley, you're not allowed to knock your bad formatting, damnit, that makes it alot less fun to mock. Hey, who let all the air out of my righteous bad formatting fury? Damn!

By: TheDonF

TheDonF — Thu, 06 Jan 2005 12:06:00 -0800

The album is superb, not my usual cup of tea, but still cool. Sampling Clapton's Behind The Mask on Your Mother's... is genius, as is the use of the Dallas theme on The Manifesto. My current favourite is Self Suicide (slightly NSFW) - bad taste, but appeals to my sense of humour. I saw them on Channel 4's Popworld (site doesn't work on Moz/FF) doing You Knows I Loves You and was bemused to find that, as the programme is shown at 9.20am on Sunday mornings, they bleeped the word 'bollocks' but deemed the phrase 'my love is waiting like a rapist would lurk in a bush' as completely acceptable.

By: jeffmik

jeffmik — Thu, 06 Jan 2005 12:18:54 -0800

Thank you

By: Juicylicious

Juicylicious — Thu, 06 Jan 2005 12:26:18 -0800

They look interesting, but I can't find any audio links. I'll wait 'til I get home and have more time.

By: triv

triv — Thu, 06 Jan 2005 15:02:09 -0800

safe as fuck, man!

By: LondonYank

LondonYank — Thu, 06 Jan 2005 15:07:24 -0800

I find it a bit funny that the Guardian, which is after all the mouthpiece of the British chattering classes, is assaulting a group for being classist. Faux-shock never goes over well. I mean, the chav cat is out of the bag, it's out there it's mainstream, hell, I even got a chav-themed email from Lastminute.Com today. Doesn't mean I'd say chav in front of a Burberry clad blingster, mind. Innit.

By: hamfisted

hamfisted — Thu, 06 Jan 2005 15:13:30 -0800

Brilliant. The wife got me an iTMS gift certificate for xmas. The fact that I'll be buying this will bother her to no end. And the fact that they namecheck one of my favourite bands, Super Furry Animals, is icing on the cake.

By: Len

Len — Thu, 06 Jan 2005 16:05:12 -0800

GLC are a half-assed professional effort in comparison to both Cassette Boy (part of the Spymania crew; check this page to read all about their pet fish, Hardcore; out of date now, but download their Christmas album here) and MC Pitman, or, for that matter, DJ Rubbish. All of whom have elements in common with GLC, but never kid themselves into thinking that they're a proper band, which is the reason that GLC fall down. That said, the fact that they have a member called Adam Hussein gets them extra credit.

By: Len

Len — Thu, 06 Jan 2005 16:11:38 -0800

Chill out, tossers, you've got hands like a fuckin' hobbit, ya freak [mp3]

By: flashboy

flashboy — Thu, 06 Jan 2005 17:49:51 -0800

Pitman is a god amongst men. More rappers should bring a thermos of tea onstage with them.

By: yerfatma

yerfatma — Thu, 06 Jan 2005 18:38:45 -0800

Ah Pitman! That's the other Welsh rapper I was trying to think of, Mayor. I'd like his label (assuming it exists) to get him on tour with Ja Rule or some other crap US rapper. And then film a tour doc.

By: bonaldi

bonaldi — Thu, 06 Jan 2005 19:09:13 -0800

My pal met them in a bar not long ago, and says they are top. Either they are chavs (neds as we Scots called em years before the English dreamt up a term) or are continually in character. I reckon they're just bams out for a laugh. You knows it, clart.

By: flashboy

flashboy — Thu, 06 Jan 2005 19:16:22 -0800

Pitman's from Yorkshire, not Wales. Just to clarify that. It's very important to some people...

By: LondonYank

LondonYank — Fri, 07 Jan 2005 02:47:05 -0800

Didn't Pitman just "retire" after he put out his 2nd album? I seem to recall reading something about it in TimeOut...

By: mattr

mattr — Fri, 07 Jan 2005 02:59:18 -0800

But I find it hard to dislike a group that can release a single about a cyborg sent on a mission the corner store to buy ten cigarettes. I find it fucking easy - sorry, but I just don't get 'em - I know they are very 'cool' at the moment, but it doesn't excuse the fact that they are shit. Like Morris Minor and the Majors for 2004. Utter shite.

By: ninebelow

ninebelow — Fri, 07 Jan 2005 04:15:07 -0800

Since when was Coalville in Yorkshire?

By: flashboy

flashboy — Fri, 07 Jan 2005 04:39:22 -0800

Fairly sure I read him saying in an interview that he's not actually from Coalville, he just works there sometimes. And I have a proudly patriotic Yorkshireman flatmate who claims Pitman as one of his own. But maybe I'm wrong. It's all Welsh to me, anyhow.

By: rory

rory — Fri, 07 Jan 2005 06:24:29 -0800

Your pop at The Graun ("citing the anti-chav parody nature of the act, pans them partially for being classist") isn't supported by the review you linked, which uses neither word ("chav" or "classist"). The comment about listener "prejudices" in its last sentence refers to "dismissive contempt for hip-hop", not classism. To me it reads like they're panning GLC for being unfunny and musically uninspired, not un-PC.

By: Mayor Curley

Mayor Curley — Fri, 07 Jan 2005 07:30:15 -0800

rory, you're right. I got it confused with a review that I had opened in another tab that I meant to include. So the "classist" charge is not from the Guardian. Sorry about that.

By: bhell13

bhell13 — Sat, 08 Jan 2005 09:52:35 -0800

Safe as f*ck, clart. Newport reprazent.