Dick Cave and the Bad Cheese

Mark and Lard go after
Nick's murderous ballads

PETTITT A wrote:
If you would like a tape copy of the WWRG parody, please contact me privately. Lyrics are as follows. (Sorry if it is not funny to those who are not aquainted to Mark Radcliffe and Mark Riley (Lard) on UK Radio 1.)

Oliver wrote:
The Palace of Glittering Delights is a fan page for the Mark Radcliffe radio show. The 'Scrawn and Lard songbook' link goes to lyrics for both the 'Wild Roses' parody (including a Real Audio clip) and also a 'Henry Lee' parody. Of course, just as the first one is probably meaningless to anyone who doesn't listen to the show, the second one won't mean much to anyone who doesn't follow English football. The song is about the laughably inept performance in recent years of Oasis' favourite team, Manchester City.

As a matter of vaguely Nick Cave related trivia, Radcliffe's sidekick Lard started a record company after getting chucked out of The Fall, and signed Asphalt Ribbons, the band who became Tindersticks. 

Dick Cave and The Bad Cheese and Riley Minogue
Available on 'Now That's What I Call Bobbins'


            Lard: They call me the hapless boy Lard,
                  Why they call me that I do not know.

       Radcliffe: Because you're a great useless tosser. 

            Lard: Yes, I suppose so. 

       Radcliffe: The first day I saw him I knew he was the one
                  Glazed over eyes and hill-billy smile,
                  his cheeks were the tone of his blood red sweater,
                  and the cheeks on his face weren't much better.

            Lard: When I knocked on the door, and I entered the room
                  I'll never forget that look on his face
                  He would be my first man, and with my careful hand 
                  I went [fart] 'fancy a brew back at my place?'

            Lard: They call me the hapless boy Lard,
                  Why they call me that I do not know.
                  
       Radcliffe: Because you're a fat gormless pillock.

            Lard: Yes, I suppose so.

       Radcliffe: On the second day I was pissed off with him already,
                  When Roger Bannister called me on the phone.
                  He said 'Bruno Brooks had to go, You can have your own show
                  But you will have to bring Lard you can't do it on your own'.

            Lard: So I got started in show biz on Radio 1,
                  And after 2 weeks all the listeners had gone
                  but at least it's a start, it's a foot in the door.

       Radcliffe: Now I'm stuck with this tosser forever more.

            Lard: Yeah, they call me the hapless boy Lard,
                  Why they call me that I do not know.

       Radcliffe: Because you're a f*cking lardy arsed tw*t.

            Lard: Yes, I suppose so.
                  Yes, I suppose so.

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