Yes, its Monday and the sugar lump you placed in the coffee has dissolved. The trees are singing and the birds are swaying. The day seems normal.
Maybe too normal.
Records by actors are rarely any good because of the furious mugging that actors resort to behind a microphone (William Shatner being the leader of credo) but just occasionally this tendency produces something very special.
Such a special creation is Neville Thumbcatch by Peter Wyngarde. The original song is a freakbeat number by the Attack (a great mod band of the 1960s and is well worth listening to), but this cover, with its Stanshallesque voiceover, psychedelic twang, oompah instrumental and forward thinking break beats is definitive. If you thought that Richard Harris left his cake out in the rain in MacArthur Park, then this should flip your wig nicely.
More extreme oddities can be found on Peter's 1970 album, "When Sex Leers Its Inquisitive Head". For some unaccountable reason it was wildly unsuccessful, but those unafraid of the boundaries of convention might visit. Not probably the best choice for inviting your parents around to tea - though it does go some way to proving that you really can get away with saying almost anything if you sound posh enough.
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