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The Something Awful Forums > Main > General Bullshit > The Big Bopper's face
 
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Cubone
May 26, 2011

Because it never leaves its bedroom, no one has ever seen this poster's real face.

Its Coke posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tcygOGHsWY
the out-of-tune guitar just kills me

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Cubone
May 26, 2011

Because it never leaves its bedroom, no one has ever seen this poster's real face.

Loden Taylor posted:

It's so awful. That's got to be due to a bad digital recording from the vinyl. A warped record or just a lovely record player.

Although with lyrics like "my mom was Humpty Dumpty, my dad was Dracula," maybe the original really was that out of tune and the recording engineer was just "gently caress it, whatever, sounds great."
it's a parody

the out of tune guitar is just my favorite part because it makes the whole thing sound slightly demented, in the same way the lyrics are just a slightly more demented version of the kind of songs it's parodying ("ooh baby" -> "ooh toddler", nonsensical 1950's courting talk -> "I'm yelling at you! I am the big weird man!")

that said, it is not surprising at all that people accept it as a real big bopper song

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Cubone
May 26, 2011

Because it never leaves its bedroom, no one has ever seen this poster's real face.

Loden Taylor posted:

Yeah, that went right over my head.

I'd feel embarrassed, but in my mind the 50's has always been the "just say whatever over a blues progression" decade.
yeah real big bopper songs are not better

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSRYTqkIh_I
"oh the first time I saw this purty little miss / she used to charge me a dollar a kiss / I bring all my money in a pipe sack / now my baby say 'here your money back!' ahahahahahaha!"
"I go a ringadingadinga, where my honeybun? "
"I wanna put her in my pocket like a kangaroo do / in a pink petticoat and a ballerina shoe / now everybody! have a fit!"

he sounds like a maniac, I'm glad that he's dead

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