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Saturday, March 18, 2006

Hello, Hello, How Low: The Paul Anka Cover

Back in the very early 90's, chances were that when you tuned to MTV, you actually saw a video more often than not. Any teenager skipping classes with any self-respect whatsoever would watch it several hours a day. So, from time to time (I don't remeber it was daily, or weekly, or many reruns they showed), I saw the Coca Cola Report with Christiane Baker, where many videos were aired for the first time. It was one of the lamer shows, which you'd watch whilst zapping around waiting for something better to start on another channel. But I'd rather watch re-runs of it than anything showing on MTV today.
So, one night I saw this video that was kinda cool. They had pom-pom girls in black outifts with a red anarchist 'A' in slo-mo, and the music was some kind of punkish rock. Usually, the best thing with the cocacola report was that you learned as soon as possible which videos to avoid, but it felt I wouldn't mind seeing this one a few more times, though I can't say I was enthralled on the spot.
A couple of months later it was on high rotation, and everybody knew what you called that kind of rockish punk.

Now, many have interpreted this tune. But this one, you just gotta have to listen to, if nothing else because the lyrics are intelligible:

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