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The title of the article is a pop culture reference that may fly over most people's heads, so for context here's The Wurzels performing the song "Combine Harves
by hnbad 5y ago
The title of the article is a pop culture reference that may fly over most people's heads, so for context here's The Wurzels performing the song "Combine Harvester (Brand New Key)": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tb63PdPweDc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tb63PdPweDc
The song itself is a parody/adaption of the Melanie song "Brand New Key" ("I got a brand new pair of roller skates, you got a brand new key"): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iivxuz3dB8k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iivxuz3dB8k
- jet_32951 5y agoAmazing this knowledge is still around. I first heard this song in a bar in Portsmouth UK July 1976.
- hnbad 5y agoI learned about the song watching the 2005 b-movie Evil Aliens: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0383353/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0383353/ The song is featured prominently in an iconic scene involving said farming equipment (CW: mild spoilers and splatstick gore): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8dMlkGKoZE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8dMlkGKoZE (diegetically the song is played back from an audio cassette labelled "motivational farming music" in Welsh)
- mwcampbell 5y agoToo bad the title broke the meter. How about, "I've Got a Broken Combine Harvester, Please Give Me the Key"?