Ah yes, it's that time again. When New York Times photagraphers elbow through crowds to snap pictures of the once proud lions of finance holding their heads in dismay. Makes no difference to me. The closest I've come to investing is walking out of a used record store with an armful of vinyl...and last I checked the value of that Emerson Lake and Palmer Official Bootleg Series from the Manticore Vaults: Volume 2 box set is still climbing...
Well, anyway, here's the best song about the rough and tumble world of Wall Street that may be coming to an end.
The originators are the English art-pop jokesters 10cc, who released a classic sequence of tin-pan alley informed singles in the early 70s. Named after an above average measurement of male ejaculate (seriously), they contained two competing songwriting teams, with Graham Gouldman and Eric Stewart providing the more commercial tunes and Kevin Godley and Lol Creme providing the more bizarre efforts. Godley and Creme grew tired of the other duo's sappier efforts and quit after 1976's How Dare You, thus ending the salad days of one of the few truly rewarding novelty bands in rock.
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