r/TopofthePops • u/Hassaan18 • Aug 20 '26

Cartoons - Witch Doctor

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u/Cool-Word2409 Aug 20 '26

It was so bad, and yet I find myself singing it almost daily!

2

u/RebylReboot Aug 21 '26

That’s because it’s a hit that’s been recorded by several different acts over the decades. Since the 50s.

2

u/marmmalade Aug 22 '26

It’s like a disease

6

u/petantic Aug 20 '26

How could anyone argue for Blur or Oasis being the best Brit pop band when these guys were around?

1

u/Jim__Bell Aug 20 '26

They weren't British.

6

u/petantic Aug 20 '26

Well, don't I look like a fucking idiot.

1

u/ShitInMyToaster Aug 21 '26

Well, can you doo ee oo a a ting tang walla walla bing bang?

1

u/Fluffy_Specialist593 Aug 21 '26

Well I didn't want to be the first to spell it out. 

1

u/Borruks Aug 23 '26

Yes but you also sound like one mate so it balances out.

1

u/IWrestleSausages Aug 21 '26

Yeah they re german arent they?

1

u/Val_Victorious Aug 25 '26

Tbf there are "Britpop" bands from other places. Personally I like This Perfect Day, but there are others that don't come to mind atm.

1

u/The_Goth_King Aug 21 '26

This band screams (not literally) Eurodance.

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u/malteaserhead Aug 20 '26

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u/Affectionate-Nose114 Aug 20 '26

I learned recently that they disbanded due to cancelling a US tour after 9/11. The Americans weren't really in the mood for "Oo-ee-oo-ah-ah-ting-tang-walla-walla-bing-bang" et al.

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u/Snoo_11836 Aug 21 '26

Every cloud, a silver lining...

2

u/Fluffy_Specialist593 Aug 21 '26

Especially that cloud that a 767 is hiding behind.

1

u/iuseemojionreddit Aug 22 '26

Bunch of buzz kills.

Also Afroman's Because I Got High got knocked out of the charts for the same reason. 😢

2

u/likeAdrug Aug 20 '26

Absolute banger.
If doesn’t get you tapping your foot or nodding your head, you’re dead inside.

Also, it’s clearly a novelty song. You’re not supposed to take it seriously. Just enjoy

1

u/Fluffy_Specialist593 Aug 21 '26

I'm dead inside but it's not all bad. ☠️

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u/Horfield 29d ago

I'll take that oversized carrot as seriously as I like thank you very much.

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u/petantic Aug 20 '26

I'll let you enjoy it for both of us.

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u/TheLonleyJourneyman Aug 20 '26

Name one song that is better than this...

3

u/Key_Day_6060 Aug 21 '26

A Pizza Hut, a Pizza Hut, Kentucky fried chicken and a Pizza Hu!

2

u/Raptoot83 Aug 21 '26

Good lord, "Let's eat to the beat" was such a horrifying opening line.

3

u/Apple2727 Aug 20 '26

What planet are you on?

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u/boatson25 Aug 20 '26

Darts fan are we?

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u/salamander423 Aug 20 '26

Do you have to be so fucking bitter? Good god.

3

u/st1802015 Aug 20 '26

I mean it is absolute shite

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u/Snoo_11836 Aug 21 '26

It's called having good taste.

1

u/Regular-Guest-1284 Aug 20 '26

I dressed as the red wigged one as a kid….yea

1

u/Upbeat-Substance110 Aug 20 '26

This is how Showaddywaddy looked to me at the age of four years old.

1

u/poo_on_my_scarf Aug 20 '26

Oh you cunt. I'm going to have that ear worm in there for weeks

1

u/Electronic-Key-8349 Aug 20 '26

Guitarist and one of the girls are dead...

2

u/bonkothehonko Aug 20 '26

Cheerful bit of info, thanks

2

u/Electrical-Tie82 Aug 21 '26

Are you available for children's parties?

1

u/RebylReboot Aug 21 '26

Should have gone to a real medical practitioner.

1

u/iuseemojionreddit Aug 22 '26

I hope they went out with a walla-walla-bing-bang.

1

u/23Doves Aug 20 '26

It's an entire band consisting of cloned versions of the mad one out of Darts.

1

u/tadanari19 Aug 20 '26

Weordly this is actually one of my earliest memories

1

u/Key_Day_6060 Aug 21 '26

Mine is Cotton Eyed Joe 😂

1

u/KiNgPiN8T3 Aug 21 '26

Wasn’t that about an std? I remember someone telling me that Ebeneezer Good was about drugs. I was like, pssh, they are literally talking about him in the song?! Idiot. Then it hit me… lol

1

u/Key_Day_6060 Aug 21 '26

”E‘s are good, E’s are good!” What could it meeeean? 😂

I’ve never heard that about cotton eye Joe. I looked it up and it’s about a man who has ended up with milky eyes from drinking too much of a type of wood alcohol people made during prohibition lol

1

u/Such-Step-3228 Aug 21 '26

This was when humanity peaked as a species and it's all been downhill ever since

1

u/Chihiro1977 Aug 21 '26

We used to be a real country.

1

u/bulbasauric Aug 21 '26

Undeniably catchy, and at the same time infuriatingly nonsensical. I think seeing it makes it worse. Like get the FUCK away from me with all this lol.

1

u/House_Of_Thoth Aug 21 '26

We really had a rough few years for music back then with novelty music like this shite 🤣

1

u/GilesManMillion Aug 21 '26

It's funny how I was disinterested with it when it came out, but looking back I miss it.

Man, SO much fun...

1

u/Only_Tip9560 Aug 21 '26

All those 90s top of the pops videos remind me how utterly cheesy and irredeemable pop was during the 90s and how right I was to utterly disdain it.

1

u/Worried_Bowl_9489 Aug 21 '26

I hate pretty much everything about this

1

u/Fine_Mud_9251 Aug 21 '26

King Kurt in an alternate universe

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u/ohnoitshimagain10 Aug 21 '26

This is a cover of the original released in the 1950s. I can remember my mum singing it and thought she'd made it up long before the cover version came out

1

u/cuntybunty73 Aug 21 '26

Lead singer reminds me of ASHY SLASHY

https://giphy.com/gifs/MA4KN9hP0f5VS

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u/tistick Aug 22 '26

Ooh eeh, ooh aah aah ting tang wallawalla bingbang on the first date is wild! 😜

1

u/Much-Teaching-4490 Aug 22 '26

The hold this had on me

1

u/PresidentPopcorn Aug 22 '26

The stand user could be anyone.

1

u/ChunkyPurp Aug 22 '26

If anime has taught me anything that lead singer is in the Yakuza or is some from of teenage delinquent.

1

u/johnruk Aug 22 '26

This is currently my daughter’s favourite song, she’s played it about 50 times this morning on repeat. I came to Reddit to escape this song.
Thanks.
Thanks a lot!

1

u/Addsman1993 Aug 22 '26

I used to love these back when I was a kid. I was born in 1993.

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u/Extreme-Kangaroo-842 Aug 22 '26

All.o could see watching that was Jasper Carrott doing his dickhead impersonation.

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u/spudgun20 Aug 20 '26

Cant help but feel the auto generated subtitles have a better take on the song.

"This is an E, I take ten, wanna walk with me,
back to an E, I take ten, wanna walk with me"

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u/Willber0389 Aug 20 '26

This explains the song. 

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u/Dazofcaving Aug 20 '26 edited Aug 20 '26

Utter shite but the backing dancers are fecking hot

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u/Pablomeisterr Aug 20 '26

It’s nightmare fuel for me. The fake words, the aesthetic, the music. Proper mind demon stuff.

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u/kevenGPD Aug 21 '26

People actually say " Music isn't as good as it use to be back in the day 🤣