guilty pleasures #2

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Remember when The Shamen were all serious, were an indie band and sang songs about the then Russian leader Mikhail Gorbachev? You might not. I do.

Remember when The Shamen discovered certain drugs, found a boat load of techno-gear and sang songs about more cosmic things? Yeah, you probably don’t.

Remember when something really bad happened to The Shamen and Mr. C joined them? And then they sang thinly veiled songs about ‘E’?

There are some truly great songs by The Shamen in all their incarnations. (and Mr. C got way too much stick just for being himself). I love this one, it’s a guilty pleasure. Not only is it very typical of its time, not only does it have Jerry Sadowitz in it, but it was great for the moral outrage it started at the time. And did I mention Jerry Sadowitz is in the video? There is too little Jerry Sadowitz in the world… and he was well ahead of the curve when it came to who Jimmy Saville really was.

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