Several questions on the song and the Discovery Channel and all of them Café Society related!!
So, the song is Bad Touch but a search showed that the song first appeared in 2000! Yet it looked that this summer (2002) it was all over the radio. Why was that?
Somebody told me this current song was a remake? If that is so, who created it?
The Discovery channel is of course the target of many parodies because of all the sex in the nature shows, This question is about American TV (or European tele): BEFORE the Discovery channel, what was the first nature show that dared to show the animal kingdom uncensored? Did they have trouble with any hypersensitive moral police of the day?
“This is the first time this species was captured on film mating!” (How many times have I heard that?) Yes, but do nature filmmakers LOOK to capture those moments on purpose or are they mostly luck?
AFAIK they’ve shown them making little animals pretty much from the start. Beyond a bit of collar-tugging and stifled muttering I don’t think there’s been much of an outcry about it. After all, it’s not smut, it’s Science.
It’s difficult to pin down a “first” from web resources. I’m sure I don’t need to tell you what kind of stuff a Google search will dredge up on this subject.
The Bloodhound Gang released this song in 2000 (note there is a bit in it about watching the X-Files, which isn’t on the air anymore). I don’t know if its been remade, though, I haven’t heard it in years.
Not sure about the nature shows. Pre-Discovery Channel, they were mostly the domain of PBS. Anything could pass on PBS if it were presented as educational.
I haven’t heard it since 2001 (it was the first single of of BHG’s Horray for Boobies, “moped” being the second one), so I’m not sure what remake you’re talking about GIGObuster, and it was very popular long before now- it was on heavy rotation on alternative stations for months. I find it surpising that it’s taken until now for you to hear it if you listen to stations that would play it.
I haven’t heard it since 2001 (it was the first single of of BHG’s Horray for Boobies, “moped” being the second one), so I’m not sure what remake you’re talking about GIGObuster, and it was very popular long before now- it was on heavy rotation on alternative stations for months in 2000. I find it surpising that it’s taken until now for you to hear it if you listen to stations that would play it.
Actually, I first got the song on the Euro imported version of “Hooray for Boobies”, which was released in Sept. 1999. It was, in fact, the first single from the album and was followed up by “Mope” and “The Ballad of Chasey Lain” (and I think they had a single for “The Inevitable Return of the Great White Dope”, which was also on the “Scary Movie” soundtrack).
And this song is NOT a cover. The song “Mope” did sample extended moments of Frankie Goes To Hollywood’s “Relax” and a Metallica song, so that may be where your friend is coming from. And, more subtly, “The Ballad of Chasey Lain” uses the verse melody from a 1990 Depeche Mode B-Side (“Sea of Sin”).
It is funnier when one remembers that the Cole Porter song was the theme for the movie Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask)!!
Ya’know, there was some creationist chick (sorry I can’t remember her name) who used that song as an example of the morally corrupting influence of evolutionary theory :rolleyes:
As though guys haven’t been using the “let’s do it like the animals” line since the dawn of time.
Speaking of the Discovery Channel (and evolution)on the tape (and I assume the original broadcast) of “Walking with Prehistoric Animals”, they had a bit on human’s ancestors. And they showed the (animated) lemurs doing it. And they showed the apes doing it. But when they got to Austrolapithicus (sp?) they blurred them out.
There! Proof they’re the missing link! Their sex is dirty; they must be human :D.
