I've Been Listening To Wide Boy Awake Year In And Year Out For 23 Years And If There Is One Thing I've Learned It's...

Morning Midday & Midnight I gooooo
Billy Hyena's out on his feet
Hooting of laughter-Ducking the heat
Out on the badland you never meet
Billy Celeste & Billy O'Beef

1234 Billy's not a dinosaur
1234 trooper & a troubador
Dance hall convener-B. B. Hyena
know who I mean, yeh-Billy Hyena

Looks like a rolling stone in a car
Thinks that a city shine like a star
Your lucky car-Your lucky car
Thinks that a city shine like a star
Put on a blue slap-Put on a face
Camouflage drag don't go out of place
Breaking a boot & snapping a lace
Billy the soldier in a space race

Woh woh watch it-Billy's got a rocket
Woh woh watch it-Keeps it in his pocket

Billy Hyena the dancer at large
You know his true color is camouflage

Ole Billy Hyena out on his feet
Runs in the bush, yeh-Not in the street
You may well seek but you'll never meet
Billy Apollo rocking the heat
He was once here but he disappear
We were once here but we disappear
I am now here but I disappear
You are all here but you'll disappear
You'll disappear You'll disappear
You'll disappear You'll disappear

People!! People!! People!!

Billy Hyena Billy contest
Billy O'Beef Billy Celeste

Domino assasino commandante Hyeno

I want my good time up forever - maybe that's enough for me
so everytime I take a flivver - I got my return journey
there's a girl she's very ok - always fix me up with food
we make noise in by the yard - & we sell hoochie-koochie too
Bonaventure-I've been everywhere
Bonaventure-it's a wide wide place
born to rule it-maybe you don't care
about where you go or about where you stay

my good friend boy he's a friend - yeh he's a boy & he's a face
& his attitude is that - we can walk 'round any place
we don't get in by the window - we gots tickets & grease pay
& we make our loot a loot a - skankin' right enough from way

I don't run & I don't hide - when I run from you
I don't run & I don't hide - making sure I'm up tonight
never run I never hide - I'm blue blue blue
never run I never hide - I know which way is up tonight

(where do ya think your going my friend I mean now, eh?-everywhere)

will you hush my naughty mouth - & bar my journey out of bounds
take the mince out of my step - & hold my tongue & shoot me down
if that takes my time & money - still don't see how I lose out
looking at my next contender - makes me laugh until I shout

come friday come friday...
the telephone was ringing & a ringing
but my buddy was not on the line
now Joe is "no, I'll be no" but he's talking white alright
he said I'll be grafitis so I'll go a for tonight
I took off my camouflage when I left town
but no way could I disappear
I've seen it in a movie them all making me a mock
for a long long shock in a cooly cooly way
hey what's the news hey what's the news
oh why the news I could have paid up yesterday
now you go get your monkey coat
I hope you get your pearls
now Steven gets his evens
I done what I done to whirl

now they say there's none today
come back tomorrow
speaking with a face just like a clock
when he's on his run
everybody in the street
clucks a tweety tweety tweet
say what say what come back friday

a red light-a ravers redlight-a ravers redlight-
a ravers redlight-a ravers
we're ravers delight-we keep up all night
don't have le-legs yeh we spend every day
drunker in light-turn black into white
& when we say rave then we rave when we rave

there's no good or bad boys - there's only what is boys
so show us what you really think that we are
there's no good or bad girls - there's only what is girls
so show us what you really think that we are

I'm spending all over town now I'm setting my sights
I'll chew on the good book & set it alight
what good is li-living is larger that life
we're lovers delight & we go in the night
& rants like a dog & sing like a cop
I can switch myself on yeh & switch myself off
I'm always in tune to my feets to my top
I can dance like a raver & sing like a cop

one thing
& one thing (a million)
& two thing (a billion)
& two thing (a million)
& three thing (a billion)
& three thing (a million)
& three thing (a billion)
& four (& more)

there's no good or bad girls - there's only what is girls
so show us what you really think that we are
tomorrow my not-it may not be the same
I've taken it once & I'll take it again
I've only got one boy that's myself to blame
tomorrow my not-it may not be the same oh

I said I said I said I say - here's a lesson you don't get
I said I said I said I say - I loop the loop when I get lose
I said I said I said I say - Ignition ignite your night out
I said I said I said I say - all the slang that a boy can use
slang teacher no pain in the mouth
slang teacher no long in the tooth
slang teacher chew it up spit it out
slang teacher chuck your daddy out the room

watch the walk & watch the talk - you don't need no walking stick
watch the way you talk & walk - you don't use no parachute
a bottle & a knife & fork - comes on down so slick & quick
walkie-talkie watch that talk - what's the alphabet he picked

creature's the feature-creature's the feature
he's gonna eat-cha slang teacher slang teacher

gasoline gonna fill you up - gas'll get you out the door
gasoline gonna pump you up - made to pick you off the floor
gasoline gonna blow you up - then you'll never need no more
gasoline gonna chew you up - that's what you chew your million for

say what about the happy roman
he was just too gladiator
it's raining cats & dogs & I'm whooping on the roof
it's raining cats & dogs & I'm whooping on the roof
went walking all the way up to the roof
I saw every step on the way to the top
Eddy Eddy on the 25 block
& the other boys says he's cock of the block
but looking from a long long drop
pretending all the way there & back
I did a cat on a hot tin roof
& it was my very very best spoof
the other boy says I'll race you down
but as for me I walk all the time
anyway I was looking it up
up until the middle of the night

the other boy says I'll race you down
but I never watch no tick-tock time

ba-doop-doop-doop-da-doop
boop-ba-doop...
I don't spoof I fly by night huh
Eddy Eddy on the 20 flight
I don't spoof but I spoof at night
I'll meet you up on the 20 flight
alright it's raining dogs & I'm whooping on the roof
it's raining cats & dogs & I'm whooping on the roof

CHICKEN!
when when I run a beat a - run ring right off a feet a
even with 2 defeat a - I run I run around a
forever live & take it - forever give & fake it
& we got eyes to make it - even with 2 defeat a

Oh evertime I lose my head (x3)
I forget my hips & lips & I give you a kiss instead
no no go chicken out ay-hey

there no fool like a young fool - there no fool like a young fool
a red-hot read or write school - who wasn't clever clever
he talked just like a harpie - he played just like a sharp A
& every day's so balmy - & he's so clever clever
do you know, do you know about things
do you know about this & that thing
a way out & a way in - you wait around the corner
d'ya know we run to beat cha - run rings right off your feet a
run you right up your street a - & wait around the corner

no no no chicken outlaw - no no no chicken outlaw
no no no messin' up no - no no no missin' out no
d'ya feels I like it like it - oh heck I hate it hate it
to sit all day & wait yeh - no no no missin' out no

CHICKEN!
no no go chicken out ay-hey

one thing
& one thing (a million)
& two thing (a billion)
& two thing (a million)
& three thing (a billion)
& three thing (a million)
& three thing (a billion)
& four (& more)

Is one of the earwormiest earworms I've ever encountered. I'll be standing in line at the supermarket or doing chores or whatever and that little insidious thing will weave its way right into my brain. Is the rest of Wide Boy Awake's material like "Ravers Red Light"?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK2v3350FP8

God, Kevin Mooney was adorable.

you know what's funny, right under that clip is a clip for wide awake. they were pals of mine in high school. ah, the 80's. you can run but you can't hide.

I said I said I said I say

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oF8zXfWXACk

video for max's "little ghost" is must-see t.v. as well

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_P5biBdgds

never heard any of the last.fm similar artists, cool list of bandnames

rubber rodeo
Intaferon
scarlett & black
DFX2
combo audio
rank & file

none of them are similar to wide boy awake.