Talk:Too Drunk to Fuck
 | This article is rated Start-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects: | |||||||
| ||||||||
Lost&Found
editThe song is definitely satirical, not "probably". -- cc
2D2F
editAny connection to Avenue D's 2D2F? --BDD 22:05, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
- No connection. Just dealing with the same issue. Lacrymocéphale
Top of the Pops
editDoes anyone have any authoritative sources for this song's British charting in 1981? I've seen references to it making it to #38, #36, and the outright lie that making it into the top 30 "requires" an airing on the BBC's Top of the Pops. Charting didn't mandate a performance on TOTP, it just made it eligible for one. If the Beeb *had* to mention it at 7pm on a Thursday night, they'd simply refer to it as "Too Drunk". Srck (talk) 16:06, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
Strikes me that this oddness of TDTF charting is also compounded by the fact that - if memory serves - there were two British charts at the time, the Gallup/BBC chart, and the Independent Local Radio charts.Srck (talk) 11:21, 27 July 2008 (UTC)
I have a copy of guiness british hit singles 99 and it says the song reached 36 so I am changing it —Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.186.20.116 (talk) 21:37, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
Tony Blackburn
editA recording of Tony Blackburn introducing "Too Drunk to Fuck" as "Too Drunk by the Kennedys" is used in a 2014 BBC4 Documentary about Censorship (that I have a copy of), it's noticeable as it's done to introduce a segment about Jello Biafra vs The PRMC and the subsequent obscenity case. This seems to directly contradict the un-cited remark on the page ("When it reached the Top 40, presenter Tony Blackburn referred to it simply as "a record by a group calling themselves The Dead Kennedys""). Could it be that the song was in the top 40 for multiple weeks and the introduction evolved because of this, rather than this one version being wrong? As the version on the page currently is cited by Jello Biafra himself on several of his UK spoken word shows (and I assume that's where the editor sourced it from, and was understandably unsure on the etiquette of citing a circulating live bootleg on Wikipedia), and you would assume he'd remember it accurately. This would, in my mind, explain this discrepancy as both versions can be found given as fact in various places online and in several books (such as England's Dreaming: Anarchy, Sex Pistols, Punk Rock, and Beyond, Hardcore California: A History of Punk and New Wave and We Got The Power! Hardcore Punk in Southern California just off the top of my head) and Jello himself has cited both versions of this in various interviews and spoken word performances. Thoughts? Columbinecatholic (talk) 19:05, 7 December 2017 (UTC)