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Songs You May Have Missed #132

18 Jun 2012 1 Comment

by Ed Cyphers in On a Lighter Note, Songs You May Have Missed Tags: emperor of the highway, todd rundgren

Todd Rundgren: “Emperor of the Highway” (1983)

Wherein Todd, ever restless with pop form, casts his ode to arrogant drivers as Operatic Duet:

I am the Emperor of the Highway/I wield the Universal Will/One might chance to overlook my Divineness/Unless I’m sitting in the Imperial Poupe de Ville

I am the Emperor of the Highway/Strapped with foolish mortals such as these/ I need never indicate my intentions /I can stop and go and turn just as I please/For I am the Emperor of the Highway!

Hold! Methinks that thou hast driven too far/I am the Royal Prince of Foreign Sports Cars/Better that I should drive a wheelchair or jog/Than to be blown off by a Regal Road Hog

I am the Emperor of the Highway (Where did you ever get that gas sucking pig of a car?)/This time my friend, you are outclassed (Any real man would drive a stick shift)/For my uncle is the Duke of the State Police (Cut me off again and I will punch your lights out)/And he will place his Royal Boot upon your Ass (This is my exit, we shall meet another day)

Don’t forget who’s Emperor of the Highway/For I am the Emperor of the Highway!

Jarvis Cocker: Don’t Let Him Waste Your Time

13 Jun 2012 Leave a comment

Pulp’s former lead singer dispenses wisdom while taking his fare for a lively ride.

Video by Ed Cyphers

R.I.P. Trololo Guy

04 Jun 2012 Leave a comment

The singer behind one of the internet’s most beloved viral videos has died, reports RIA Novosti. Eduard Khil, singer of what is commonly called the “Trololo” video, passed away in St. Petersburg on June 4th. He was 77.

The song, titled “I Am Glad, ‘Cause I’m Finally Returning Back Home,” hit internet fame after a Russian TV clip of Khil performing the song went viral. The song, written by Arkady Ostrovsky, originally had lyrics describing cowboy imagery, but the former Soviet Union wanted the words changed to squelch possible associations with America. Instead, Khil delivered his now-famous nonsense vocal of “tro-lo-lo’s.” The 1976 video found an adoring audience online a few years ago, with over 12 million views gathered on a November 2009 YouTube upload.

(reprinted from Rolling Stone)