Billy Bragg's Bratty Brother
March 3, 2018 3:53 PM Subscribe
What roughly 2000 -era rag-timey minor song features the heavily UK accented lines: 'it was living with Jackie that made me finally happy.' and, 'two fingers shoved right up your Jackson?' The recording is just acoustic guitar and keyboard, I believe.
I only turn to y'all when google (and google+) fails me utterly. If it helps: I think it was featured on a CD accompaniment by The Believer, around the late 2000s. God speed, you blue/green god and goddesses of knowing about it.
by the way, I need this for a job interview I'm currently in, so time is a factor...
I only turn to y'all when google (and google+) fails me utterly. If it helps: I think it was featured on a CD accompaniment by The Believer, around the late 2000s. God speed, you blue/green god and goddesses of knowing about it.
by the way, I need this for a job interview I'm currently in, so time is a factor...
Believer CDs with track listings, by year: 2005; 2006; 2007; 2008; 2009; 2011. (All Believer CDs on the list.) Maybe that will help you narrow it down?
posted by MonkeyToes at 5:11 PM on March 3, 2018
posted by MonkeyToes at 5:11 PM on March 3, 2018
Best answer: Wait, wait... could it be "Livin' With Betty"?
it was livin wiv betty, that made me finally happy
it was livin wiv betty, that me finally see the sense to be.
what we are, its just moving around and driving joels car. never knows the"....."gathers them all round from the bar
A we know, what exactly what we got to do when we come across you, two fingers, one of your own stuck right up your jaxxy
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posted by MonkeyToes at 5:27 PM on March 3, 2018 [5 favorites]
it was livin wiv betty, that made me finally happy
it was livin wiv betty, that me finally see the sense to be.
what we are, its just moving around and driving joels car. never knows the"....."gathers them all round from the bar
A we know, what exactly what we got to do when we come across you, two fingers, one of your own stuck right up your jaxxy
Video
posted by MonkeyToes at 5:27 PM on March 3, 2018 [5 favorites]
Livin' with Betty is immediately where my mind jumped as well.
posted by Candleman at 8:24 PM on March 3, 2018
posted by Candleman at 8:24 PM on March 3, 2018
Best answer: I don't know if it was included on a sampler from The Believer but it was on one from Uncut.
posted by Candleman at 8:27 PM on March 3, 2018
posted by Candleman at 8:27 PM on March 3, 2018
Response by poster: Thanks to both of you for sorting out my faulty memory. I was working at Borders in the late aughts and was able to get free leftover magazines (with the covers ripped off). So, yeah lot's of Believers and lots of Uncut CDS. Thanks everyone!
And yes, I nailed the job interview after stalling for an hour and a half by initiating a paper football tournament with my folded up resume. Hot tip: always let the hiring manager win.
posted by es_de_bah at 9:27 AM on March 4, 2018 [3 favorites]
And yes, I nailed the job interview after stalling for an hour and a half by initiating a paper football tournament with my folded up resume. Hot tip: always let the hiring manager win.
posted by es_de_bah at 9:27 AM on March 4, 2018 [3 favorites]
Glad we nailed it. That was an especially great compilation CD - a lot of great music on it and a really good flow.
posted by Candleman at 10:35 AM on March 4, 2018
posted by Candleman at 10:35 AM on March 4, 2018
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posted by unknowncommand at 4:32 PM on March 3, 2018