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Posted by tolhurst (U14241236) on Wednesday, 2nd March 2011
Lady La La is guilty of kicking this off yesterday - and, as she has no MB of her own, I think the Night Owls of Croydon (and other places) should be asked this one.
Do we need a blanket disclaimer that other high-sugar, high-fat, nutritionally-suspect, and yet delicious, products are available?
Speaking personally, I always associate Wagon Wheels with bluegrass and country. But is that pop? and is that even a biscuit? though it is "the biggest biscuit I ever did see"...
Northern Irish Punk needs a Mars Bar...
I think Wagon Wheels are, in essence, a biscuit - musically though, I find it slightly difficult to disassociate them from the track on Lou Reed's 'Transformer'. Breakaways - admittedly probably not available since about 1987 - would be the Surfpop biscuit of choice, largely due to the Beach Boys hit of the same name. Kit-Kats, on the other hand, have a bit of a Germanic sound to them - possibly Ralf Hutter would pack one in his lunchbox when he goes off cycling around mountains, although equally he could take any one of the wide range of delicious biscuits which are also available.
And Blue Riband - the Blues, surely, if only because of the agonisingly heartfelt 'Blue Riband Blues', as performed by Mike Berry in the early 1980s advert.
I think it would be more accurate to describe wagon wheels and the like as "biscuit-based products", rather than simply "biscuits". The only products that should be described as biscuits are, in my view, biscuits such as rich tea, nice, hob nobs etc. The main selling point of wagon wheels, blue riband, taxi etc. is the substance(s) that have been added to the biscuit (such as chocolate or some goo that resembles the stuff that comes out of pimples) in order to increase the "drool factor". I used to be very fond of the orange flavoured club.
Biscuit songs:
"Down at the club"
"Joe le taxi"
"Fig roll over Beethoven"
"Cut across shortie"
true, the apotheosis of the chocolate bar (as opposed to biscuit) in music may well be be "take a ticket for a journey on a double double double double decker* bus".
*Other bus-related scran is probably available - and we should doubtless nowadays point out that decks of *up to* 16x (2x2x2x2) are possible...
Gipsy Creams, tramps and thieves
Oreo Speedwagon
Coasters = Doo-wop
Drifter = We're into Ry Cooder territory here, or perhaps Glen Campbell.
Trio = 'Da Da Da', obviously.
Boost = Rave music
Viscounts = Possibly a Saint Etienne kind of a biscuit, although they did of course record 'Join Our Club'.
Dead Kennedys - "Caramel Wafer, Caramel Wafer, Wafer Waferrrrr...."
Possibly something by The Beasts of Bourbon?
Rocky Erickson
Time to go crackers:
Puttin' on the Ritz
Bath Oliver's Army
Tuc tha police
Cheddars = Pure '70s cheese.
Does a Jazz Club biscuit go "NICE"?....
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