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Today's Song: Whatever Happened to the Chainsaw Juggler by The Four Postmen (or The Great Luke-Ski)

Okay, this one has a roundabout story. On the cd that eddvick gave me at Norwescon is a song by The Great Luke-Ski called One Night in Quark's Bar. The Great Luke-Ski writes comedy songs about science fiction topics and performs often at sci fi conventions... but he's not exactly a filk singer. His songs have more polish (the studio versions anyway) and he usually raps -- and really, he's following in the footsteps of Weird Al Yankovic and other comedy/parody singers like him. In fact, The Great Luke-Ski is the most popular and most requested performer on Dr. Demento for the 21st Century -- so I guess Wierd Al can put that in his pipe and smoke it. Except, of course, Weird Al actually makes money. Doh!

The Great Luke-Ski has seven albums to his name, I believe. Many are out of print, and none are available on iTunes (he does have a few songs there, just no full cds). However, he distributes through a project called FuMP, or "The Funny Music Project". From their site you can buy his latest two cds (I think that just allows you to download them), and you can buy some individual songs. In fact, they have an interesting pricing structure for songs that are posted for individual download -- 128k versions can be downloaded for free, for a 192k version you need to pay.

With me so far?

One of the songs that you can listen to and download from this site is Luke-SKi's cover of The Chainsaw Juggler by the Four Postmen. Luke-Ski calls this song the greatest novelty song of the last decade, high praise indeed since he's ranking it above his own material. You can download his version of this song from the web site for free, or for 99 cents. Or you can download the original version by the Four Postmen from iTunes.

I should warn you that this is a song that is clearly intended to insult and offend everyone -- but in a funny way.

The following video does not continue through the whole song, but is never-the-less quite good:

The Four Postmen - The Chainsaw Juggler


The Great Luke-Ski -- Stealing Like A Hobbit
The Great Luke-Ski -- One Night in Quark's Bar
The Great Luke-Ski -- It Takes Who
The Great Luke-Ski -- A Man Named Jayne