Surrender - Cheap Trick

'Mommy's alright, Daddy's alright, they just seem a little weird.'

In this shiny pop moment from 1976, Rick Nielsen concludes that 'the parents are alright'. It's understandable that they're messed up because they lived through the Second World War and know all about sex, death and penicillin...

They also know that Glenn Miller was knifed in a Berlin brothel: the plane never left the ground; it's in a Pentagon bunker along with a caged silverback gorilla transplanted with Hitler's brain.

"Keep your filthy dollars, Yankee Jazz schwein. I'm just not, how you say, in ze mood, ja?"

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Furi Furi '66 - The Spiders

Merry Xmas, Mr la-la-Lawrence. It's 1966 and Group Sound Riptide guitars replace the bamboo flute in Post-War Japan. Go-go pop samurai floor giant lizard with freakbeat rhythm.

My spider phobia stems from the 1984 Guiness Book of Records (the one with a Thriller-era Michael Jackson, Concorde, a 40ft stretch limo and a blue whale on the cover) with it's 1:1 scale picture of a Mexican Bird Eating Spider...

I've always wanted to be a part of a food-based World record attempt, but whenever 'they' are frying the World's largest pancake or uncorking a 6ft bottle of champagne, 'they' never invite me.

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If it's ever been on K-Tel or Ronco, it's in. If it features hand claps, cow bells, syrupy orchestration, walls of sound, wrecking crews, sha-la-las, toothy teen idols, candy-based metaphors for carnal acts or lyrics about hugging, squeezing and rocking all night long, it's in.

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