There’s this “song” (for lack of a better term) from the '80’s that was featured in at least a couple of movies (including, IIRC, The Secret to My Success with Michael J. Fox), and is currently making vid play as the theme song for the “Duff Man” on the Simpsons.
It goes: Mmm-BOW-BOW Mmm-BOW-BOW Chicka-chicka! (repeat several thousand times).
What the hell, exactly, is it? Is it a song? Did someone record it? (Okay, obviously someone recorded it, but) is there actually an album with this “tune” (tune doesn’t quite work either) on it? An artist that claims it? Does it have… A NAME?
Mind you, it is catchy. I’ve taught the finer points to my toddler son, much to the dismay of his mother. Since I’m contributing to the spread of this small slice of pop culture, I should at least be aware of what I’m spreading.
Your recollection is correct. I’ll add this: To the best of my knowledge, the song originally came out in the movie “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.” It was supposed to be on the FBDO soundtrack, which unfortunately (well, maybe fortunately) never came into existence. You can probably find the song on one of those 80s compilation albums.
Pick up Yello’s album “Essentials”.
It is basically a greatest hits type album and it is currently residing in my trucks CD changer. No you can’t have my copy, buy your own. It also includes “Rubber Band Man” and “The Race” both of which are catchy little tunes.
Nothing like driving down a road in the middle of nowhere, windows down and “Oh Yeah” blaring out of the speakers.
Me, with my rusty dusty hearing, or what’s left, get a mental audio display of more like this, from what I last heard it as, ‘chick-a-chick-a boom boom, chick-a-chick-a boom.’ Has the song changed or is my mind playing tricks on me?
I like Yello very much and unfortunately that is one of their weakest songs and not indicative of the rest of their work. Apparenlty, also, one of the fellows is a professional gambler in Monte Carlo, et al, so when they needed to finance an album he would go down for the weekend and cleanup. This might just be a more obscure example of an UL, though.