Children Singing

If you're anything like me, the sound of a children's choir is enough to turn you into a homicidal maniac, googling for the nearest primary school and scrabbling for the bread-knife.

Keith West's "Grocer Jack" is a case in point. It's a song I like in spite of the annoying posh kids. In fact, it's a song I like in spite of myself. If anyone ever asks you for a definition of the word 'twee', force this horror upon them.

It comes from Mark Wirtz's 'Teenage Opera' - described somewhere as Camberwick Green meets the Beach Boys, which is pretty accurate. I challenge you to listen to the whole thing without vomiting.

Anyway, 'Grocer Jack.' A song about a dead grocer. Probably for the best, as Tesco would've forced him out of business anyway.

Keith West - Excerpt From A Teenage Opera (Grocer Jack)

To counter it, some schoolchildren singing the word 'motherfucker' on a record about a nuclear holocaust. This is Yo La Tengo covering the Sun Ra 'hit.' Very poignant. Nuclear war is indeed, 'a motherfucker', I'm sure we all agree.

Yo La Tengo - Nuclear War