30 day music meme #29

[beer_good_foamy]

29. A song you remember from your childhood
Electric Banana Band - Banankontakt av tredje graden (Banana Encounters of the Third Kind)

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Behold, the magic of early-80s Swedish children's TV. Two comedians being Tarzan and Cheetah's nerdy cousins, fronting a band made up of the cream of Swedish session musicians, doing a funk number about bananas from outer space conquering Earth "to end the misery". Still waiting, guys...
"It's a bird!"
"No, it's a plane."
"NO, IT'S A SUPER BANANA!"

Comments

Re: A (Very) Brief History of Batman

[beer_good_foamy]

It's amazing how flexible he is, isn't it? I grew up on 80s Batman* comic books, pre-Frank Miller, when he was sort of pseudo-dark but still Superman's best friend and all that... so in the early 90s when we finally got cable TV I got hit with Burton's Batman, The Dark Knight Returns and the 60s TV series all at once. It was... weird.

* Actually he was called Läderlappen, an archaic word for "the bat", and I'm still bitter that they dropped that and started calling him "Batman" when Burton's movie came out.

Re: A (Very) Brief History of Batman

[cjlasky7]

I always loved the "World's Finest" friendship between Batman and Superman.

One of the best bits in the "double date" comic was Bruce and Clark both confiding in their SOs that the other guy is the better man and he'll never live up to that example. (That brought a tear to this cynical eye.)