Today's slow drag is with "Invasion Hit Parade," from "Mighty Like a Rose," released in 1991. The songwriting is credited Elvis Costello's birth name. . . . Written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA Twitter: @slowdragremedy Email: [email protected] Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com Rate this Podcast: https://ratethispodcast.com/slowdrag References: Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, "Invasion Hit Parade": http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Invasion_Hit_Parade   "Invasion Hit Parade": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7Slp9rDxQU   Disco Tex and The Sex O Lettes "Get Dancin'": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwUQWamRNiY Disco Tex & the Sex-O-Lettes bio: https://www.allmusic.com/artist/disco-tex-and-the-sex-o-lettes-mn0001202301/biography   Pet Shop Boys' 2013 "Electricity": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIk1qEjI1mA   Hit Parade definition: https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/hit-parade   Gil Scott-Heron "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGaoXAwl9kw   Background information of Scott-Heron's "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised": https://www.songfacts.com/facts/gil-scott-heron/the-revolution-will-not-be-televised   Butcher's Hook Cockney Rhyming Slang: https://www.cockneyrhymingslang.co.uk/slang/butcher_s_hook   Who is Gil Scott-Heron?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH14L0IlduQ   "Invasion Hit Parade" Lyrics: Now that you set everybody free Whatcha gonna do about me? Don't want to be treated like some poor grateful clown I'd rather go back in the sweet underground Where I can tell the time by the color of my skin And I know my neighbor 'cos he's the one, yes he's the one Who always turns me in A woman works the tunnel in the middle of the night Picking up every lost object in sight Handbags, toupees, lost legs and fingernails The black market eats up all your failures Her transistor offers no salvation or regrets No pool, no pets, no cigarettes Just non-stop Disco Tex and the Sex-o-lettes (chorus): There's no name, no name for the place Or pain we'll cause you again and again If you do not cooperate with the Invasion Hit Parade The liberation forces make movies of their own Playing their Doors records and pretending to be stoned Drowning out a broadcast that wasn't authorized Incidentally, the revolution will be televised With one head for business, another for good looks Until they started arriving with their rubber aprons and their butcher's hooks (chorus) They're hunting us down here with Liberty's light A handshaking double-talking procession of the mighty Pursued by a T.V. crew and coming after them A limousine of singing stars and their brotherhood anthem The former dictator was impeccably behaved They're mopping up all the stubborn ones who just refuse to be saved (chorus)

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