At 01:20 PM 3/24/2004 -0800, you wrote:

>Though the two albums are great (especially Sheet Music), it's the b-sides
>and 45 edits that make this collection really cool.  I especially love the
>subtle difference betwen the album version and the 45 of "Worst Band In The
>World".  If anyone who hasn't read the liner notes knows the difference
>between the two, they deserve a prize of some sort (I have a hunch Mr.
>Spradlin knows).

LOL all I know is that the BBC banned the original version so the band changed
the line "but we dont give a.... " so it wouldnt rhyme with "admit" from the
first verse.  It wasnt a big UK hit and I dont think it got a USA single
release. What a cynical song to release to a mass audiance! But the song crams
so many hooks within its 3-4 minutes that it goes down smooth. .

It's one thing to know it but another to admit
We're the worst band in the world
But we don't give a.... 

If Garbo played guitar with Valentino on the drums
Then we'd be nothing more than a bunch of darma bums
So tune up, tune up 

Well we've never done a days work in our life
And our records sell in zillions
It irrigates my heart with greed
To know that you adore me
Up yours, up mine
But up everybody's that takes time -
But we're working on it
Working on it (Ooh) 

We never seen the van - leave it to the roadies -
Never met the roadies - leave them in the van
All because of circumstances way beyond control
We became the darlings of this thing called rock and roll, ooh 

Here I am a record on a jukebox
A little piece of plastic with a hole, ooh
Play me
Buy me and you play me then my plastic turns to gold 

Here we are together on your hi fi
A little piece of plastic with a hole, oh
Fade me, fade me, fade me, fade me..... 

          

Billy G. Spradlin
http://listen.to/jangleradio