Today’s slow drag is with “Invasion Hit Parade,” from “Mighty Like a Rose,” released in 1991. The songwriting is credited Elvis Costello’s birth name.
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Written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA
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References:
Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “Invasion Hit Parade”: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Invasion_Hit_Parade
“Invasion Hit Parade”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7Slp9rDxQU
Disco Tex and The Sex O Lettes “Get Dancin’”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwUQWamRNiY
Disco Tex & the Sex-O-Lettes bio: https://www.allmusic.com/artist/disco-tex-and-the-sex-o-lettes-mn0001202301/biography
Pet Shop Boys’ 2013 “Electricity”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIk1qEjI1mA
Hit Parade definition: https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/hit-parade
Gil Scott-Heron “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGaoXAwl9kw
Background information of Scott-Heron’s “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised”: https://www.songfacts.com/facts/gil-scott-heron/the-revolution-will-not-be-televised
Butcher’s Hook Cockney Rhyming Slang: https://www.cockneyrhymingslang.co.uk/slang/butcher_s_hook
Who is Gil Scott-Heron?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH14L0IlduQ
"Invasion Hit Parade" Lyrics:
Now that you set everybody free
Whatcha gonna do about me?
Don't want to be treated like some poor grateful clown
I'd rather go back in the sweet underground
Where I can tell the time by the color of my skin
And I know my neighbor 'cos he's the one, yes he's the one
Who always turns me in
A woman works the tunnel in the middle of the night
Picking up every lost object in sight
Handbags, toupees, lost legs and fingernails
The black market eats up all your failures
Her transistor offers no salvation or regrets
No pool, no pets, no cigarettes
Just non-stop Disco Tex and the Sex-o-lettes
(chorus):
There's no name, no name for the place
Or pain we'll cause you again and again
If you do not cooperate with the Invasion Hit Parade
The liberation forces make movies of their own
Playing their Doors records and pretending to be stoned
Drowning out a broadcast that wasn't authorized
Incidentally, the revolution will be televised
With one head for business, another for good looks
Until they started arriving with their rubber aprons and their butcher's hooks
(chorus)
They're hunting us down here with Liberty's light
A handshaking double-talking procession of the mighty
Pursued by a T.V. crew and coming after them
A limousine of singing stars and their brotherhood anthem
The former dictator was impeccably behaved
They're mopping up all the stubborn ones who just refuse to be saved
(chorus)