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Old 01-02-2005, 16:41
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Anyone else seen/heard this? I know it is just a ripoff of the tune for Space Cowboy from years ago but it is quite catchy.
Please be gentle with me - it is my first post on the Music board.
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Old 01-02-2005, 16:47
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dreadful cover but fab video

and its always been called The Joker - not space cowboy!
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Old 01-02-2005, 16:48
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yeah, like this tune
I've got another fatboy/bootsy tune called 'Illuminati' which is good too but I'm not sure if it'll be released, it's maybe a b-side
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Old 01-02-2005, 17:21
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Has it always been called The Joker? it used to go 'some people call me Maurice, woohoo". LOL. If you look in the video they go to somewhere called Maurice's Place or something.
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Old 01-02-2005, 17:40
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The Joker, originally by Steve Miller Band

always been called that!

The lyrics are the same, strangely, they tend to be, when you COVER a song LOL!
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Old 01-02-2005, 18:44
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Obviously not the same song I was thinking of (the original I mean).
Fatboy Slim is not my taste of music, but it isn't bad for what it is.
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Old 01-02-2005, 19:56
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Not sure about the video. Cute kittens in cute costumes being, well, cute. Seems too easy from the guy who brought us Christopher Walken dancing in a hotel and a guy and girl, naked apart from some masking tape, spraying graffitti all over a portacabin or whatever it was. It's like he ran out of inspiration and simply pandered to mass appeal.
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Old 01-02-2005, 20:03
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Cute kittens - terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible song though.
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Old 01-02-2005, 23:50
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The video was designed by someone who won a competition - it has a message from the woman who won at the start of the video.
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Old 01-02-2005, 23:54
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Awful video, awful song imo.
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Old 02-02-2005, 00:03
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Originally Posted by paul_hadley
The video was designed by someone who won a competition - it has a message from the woman who won at the start of the video.
It's a joke- The video is directed by a new director called jon watts

I quite like it but the video edit of the song isn't very good.
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Old 02-02-2005, 00:30
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How do you mean it's a joke?
Did they make it up that it was designed by the woman?
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Old 02-02-2005, 07:00
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I love the video, cute little kitties! .
Scoring some catnip .
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Old 02-02-2005, 07:03
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Originally Posted by paul_hadley
Has it always been called The Joker? it used to go 'some people call me Maurice, woohoo". LOL. If you look in the video they go to somewhere called Maurice's Place or something.
Yes, its a cover version of the original Steve Miller song.
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Old 02-02-2005, 09:11
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It's not very good, really. The original was always a bit of a joke anyway because the lyrics are so ridiculous:
Some people call me Maurice/ Cause I speak of the pompitous of love

I was in a pet shop a month back, before the single or the video got any airplay, and there was a really big, fat cat sat on the counter. Spookily, the cat's name was Quentin...
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Old 02-02-2005, 15:22
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Yeah exactly - the new cover doesn't have those lyrics in it at all - so it is a new song and not using the same words as someone said before.
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Old 02-02-2005, 16:06
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Originally Posted by paul_hadley
Yeah exactly - the new cover doesn't have those lyrics in it at all - so it is a new song and not using the same words as someone said before.
oh dear wake up

it is a COVER of the Steve Miller Band song
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Old 02-02-2005, 16:26
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http://www.onlylyrics.com/read.php?id=26455

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Old 02-02-2005, 19:10
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Originally Posted by scoper
oh dear wake up

it is a COVER of the Steve Miller Band song
But how comes I don't hear 'some people call me Maurice' in the song words then?
Edit: I've read the lyrics now - I stand corrected.
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Old 02-02-2005, 22:12
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Cos you're ears are bunged up with wax apparently LOL!!
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Old 03-02-2005, 00:15
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Yeah, and anyway I've decided I didn't like the song in the first place so don't know why I started a thread for it.
I'll stick with Muse, Maroon 5, Snow Patrol, U2, Keane, Franz Ferdinand, REM, Chili Peppers, etc.
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Old 03-02-2005, 14:04
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Cheers for all the porn pop ups & diallers from that link!
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