THE 1000 BEST SONGS IN THE WORLD EVER.
392-The Shamen-Ebeneezer Goode.
1992-Number 1 single.
Best Bit-At 0.08.When The Shamen appeared on Top Of The Pops they had to tone the song down due to it’s drug references.The groups Rapper Mr C replaced the final lyric ‘Got any salmon?(salmon is rhyming slang for ‘salmon and trout’-‘snout.’) to ‘Got any underlay?He was later asked about this in a radio interview,to which he replied that it was not a drug reference but a ‘rug’ reference.
The song is best known for it’s controversial chorus ‘Eezer Goode,Eezer Goode,’which is audibly identical to ‘Es are good,’ ‘E’ being common slang for the drug Ecstasy.
This final version of the song was heavily influenced by the remixing from Manda Glanfield and Paul Carter who are known by their working name of The Beatmasters who in the 1980’s were pioneers of the ‘Hip-House’ gene achieving four top 40 singles between 1987-1989.
‘A great philosopher once wrote naughty naughty very naughty.’
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