Does anyone remember Morris Minor and the Majors?  They were a late 80s rap trio (led by comedian Tony Hawks) from Britain who are best known as one hit wonders for their 1987/1988 Beastie Boys style parody "Stutter Rap (No Sleep 'Til Bedtime)".

http://www.mrpayne.com/archive/photo_misc_Morris_Minor_and_the_Majors.jpg

Like so many British songs, it was a hit almost everywhere but America.  It reached #4 in the UK, #14 in Canada, and it topped the charts in Australia.  In the video, John Deacon (of Queen) makes a cameo appearance, wearing a blue wig

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAIOzM7SsMo

I happen to be reading Tony Hawks's book "Round Ireland with a Fridge" at the moment.  I can vaguely recall the song.  Perhaps watching the video will refresh my memory

I happen to be reading Tony Hawks's book "Round Ireland with a Fridge" at the moment.  I can vaguely recall the song.  Perhaps watching the video will refresh my memory
The enjoy book about when he play tennis against a foreign football team.

Like so many British songs, it was a hit almost everywhere but America.  It reached #4 in the UK, #14 in Canada, and it topped the charts in Australia.


I'm surprised that this one even managed to escape our shores!  :o

There was also a spin-off TV show (which came on just after the Sports programme had finished on Saturdays), called Morris Minor's Marvellous Motors, which I think lasted one series and then the game was up!

The enjoy book about when he play tennis against a foreign football team.


Care to translate that into English Philip?  ;D

Care to translate that into English Philip?   ;D
Playing the Moldovans at Tennis by Tony Hawks

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Playing-Moldovans-Tennis-Tony-Hawks/dp/0091874564

Does anyone remember Morris Minor and the Majors?  They were a late 80s rap trio (led by comedian Tony Hawks) from Britain who are best known as one hit wonders for their 1987/1988 Beastie Boys style parody "Stutter Rap (No Sleep 'Til Bedtime)".


And they always forget about the other half of Stutter Rap:  "Another Boring B-Side"  :)

Anyone know who did a parody (accents sounded heavily Irish) of the Beastie Boys' "No Sleep 'Til Brooklyn" called "No Sleep 'Til Belfast"?  I once had what sounded like a live recording of it, taped from radio, but I can't remember where it is.  Here are a few snippets:

"Five? years on we're still the same,
F*kin' losers in the same old game
(a line I forget)
Thought that we'd try somethin' new
So we decided to rap tonight,
But all we came up with was this old sh*te,
(a line I forget)
?inflammable materials? ?? in my head,
(some other line ended in -ed)

No sleep 'til...
Belfaaaaaaaaast!"

MMATM followed Stutter Rap with "This Is A Chorus". In the song's video clip they parody singers whose songs have been produced by Stock Aitken and Waterman, like Rick Astley, Kylie Minogue and Bananarama.

The bit I remember from that song was:

"Im down and out
And Im down on my luck
Im livin' on my own and dyin for a f-f-f-friend to say
Your great!!!
But Im under the hammer
Cause all I seem to do is s-s-s-s-s-s-s-stammer"




Love that song. Have the single and the video somewhere.






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I remember it well Jason, I was reminded of it by one of your quizzes recently. It was a mildly amusing comedy record but, like Paul, I'm very surprised it made any impact outside of the UK.

I like Tony Hawks a lot, that book that karen mentioned, "Round Ireland With A Fridge", is very good, very funny. I wasn't so keen on "Playing The Moldovans At Tennis", I thought he pushed the same idea a bit too far with that one.

Tony appears irregularly as a panellist on the BBC radio comedy shows "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue" and "Just A Minute". On the former there's a musical game where they have to sing one song to the tune of another and Tony Hawks doing "Girlfriend In A Coma" to the tune of "Tiptoe Through The Tulips" had me doubled on the floor with laughter.

Anyone know who did a parody (accents sounded heavily Irish) of the Beastie Boys' "No Sleep 'Til Brooklyn" called "No Sleep 'Til Belfast"?  I once had what sounded like a live recording of it, taped from radio, but I can't remember where it is.  Here are a few snippets:

"Five? years on we're still the same,
F*kin' losers in the same old game
(a line I forget)
Thought that we'd try somethin' new
So we decided to rap tonight,
But all we came up with was this old sh*te,
(a line I forget)
?inflammable materials? ?? in my head,
(some other line ended in -ed)

No sleep 'til...
Belfaaaaaaaaast!"


Judging by the lyrics...U2?  :D

(Tch! No...they were from the south! Nice try, tho'...)

Judging by the lyrics...U2?  :D

(Tch! No...they were from the south! Nice try, tho'...)


Heh.  Serves me right for not going for rule number one about pop culture:  JFGI.  Just (effing) Google It.  On account of someone will have remembered it and posted something autoritative.

Stiff Little Fingers did "No Sleep 'Til Belfast"

Heh.  Serves me right for not going for rule number one about pop culture:  JFGI.  Just (effing) Google It.  On account of someone will have remembered it and posted something autoritative.

Stiff Little Fingers did "No Sleep 'Til Belfast"


As I read your first post on this song I thought about Stiff Little Fingers.  They did a song called Suspect Device which contains the line Inflammable materials burning in my head, I've got a suspect device and there's 2000 dead (or something very similar).

I could hardly work out any of the lyrics to "Suspect Device" because (a) Jake Burns' singing style was a deliberate snarl and a growl with the words almost unintelligible and (b) it was only ever played on John Peel's late night show on Radio 1 medium wave, on which I got pretty distorted reception at the best of times!

I could hardly work out any of the lyrics to "Suspect Device" because (a) Jake Burns' singing style was a deliberate snarl and a growl with the words almost unintelligible and (b) it was only ever played on John Peel's late night show on Radio 1 medium wave, on which I got pretty distorted reception at the best of times!


My brother Stuart was a big SLF fan and played their LPs all the time.

The one thing I always loved about this song was how they parody "I Feel For You"

"He was gonna throw a bottle, he was gonna chuck a can, chuck a can, chuck-a .. chuck-a .. chuck-a .." ;D