No Way No Way

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In 1997 Steps were signed for just one single – the line-dancing cash-in atrocity 5, 6, 7, 8 – but when it sold 300,000 copies they were given another single and the rest is history, or Tragedy: they eventually sold 20m records. whose B-side was simply the A-side played backwards) primarily through radio broadcasts, novelty hits were frequently song-driven efforts.

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As people are so rarely looking in the same direction now I think the ability of a mass audience to recognise and enjoy novelty music has been lost.

He went to lunch, came back an hour later and was greeted by a defiantly absurd disco banger by the name of Kung Fu Fighting. It is a curious and perhaps heartening fact that very few novelty hits are totally worthless on a musical level. Years later, stranded in Thailand after the 2004 tsunami and, watching television in the only part of his hotel that hadn’t been destroyed, Holmes could not ignore one particular TV ad. Skiba sings it in a kind of exasperated way like He's tired of hearing this negative view constantly and just allowing that person to continue feeling the way they feel knowing he can't do anything about it. Maybe we were dancing in the last flames of the old-school novelty hit back then, but we were still desperately trying to keep that career fire burning.

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Novelty records may have evolved over the years but many of the principles that made Benny Hill’s Ernie (The Fastest Milkman in the West) a No 1 in the 1970s would still work today, despite changing consumption habits. This is obvious if you know anything of the singer (Dolores O'Riordan)'s Irish heritage and understood the "1916" Easter Rising reference. More recently, does the presence of Stargate – the team behind hits for Beyoncé, Rihanna and countless others – on Ylvis’ The Fox (What Does the Fox Say? Whether a novelty single is cool or not the trick to making one, John Matthews says, is not to fear failure – or criticism. The original Italian version and Muppets' cover (of what makes no pretence of being other than a silly novelty song) are enjoyable enough in their own way if you don't take them too seriously, but this version is beyond awful.Kung Fu Fighting continues to turn up in unusual places – it has received a new lease of life thanks to the Kung Fu Panda films, a reworked version is due to appear in a new Bollywood film, and there is talk of a musical based on the song. The band's first single was "No Way, No Way", released in December 1997 and based on Piero Umiliani's " Mah Nà Mah Nà". We understand that not everyone can donate right now, but if you can afford to contribute, we promise it will be put to good use.