Either way, Goldie Lookin Chain is an exquisitely stupid rap group who had five exquisitely stupid hits: "Guns Don't Kill People, Rappers Do," "Have Man Half Machine," "Your Mother's Got a Penis," "You Knows I Love You," and the extremely British slag off of Victoria Beckham, "Your Missus is a Nutter."
Just like The Darkness, Goldie Lookin Chain really says more about the people snickering at it than the people it's ostensibly making fun of. I always thought The Darkness made their irritating fans who were too self-conscious to indulge in glam rock without a safe layer of irony look worse than people who aren't embarrassed to listen to Journey or Boston. Likewise, listening to GLC was probably more comfortable to a lot of young British folks than listening to NWA was. Either way, check out this awesomely bad video for "Your Mother's Got a Penis" and imagine seeing this on American MTV.
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That sounds like something the Fels living room circa 2006 would have come up with when trying to imitate The Streets.
I didn't know The Darkness had any serious fans. They're one of those bands for whom I harbor a very, very deep, un-ironic affection, even though I forget about them a lot.
Yeah, I thought it sounded like someone making fun of The Streets, too.
I thought The Darkness were ok, but they really just made me want to listen to the kind of music they were sort-of playing at. It seems like they felt that way, too, and released a second album that left some of the irony behind and their fans all deserted.
But I never really listened to them much, so my opinion isn't worth that much.
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