I dreamed about the H-bomb
The bomb went up from outta the sky I was the only man on the ground
There were thirteen women and only one man in town
Ahhh, thirteen women and only one man in town
And as funny as it may be
The one and only man in town was me
There were thirteen women and only one man around"
The Renegades - Thirteen Women (movie version)
(From Some Finnish movie I don't know the name of; 1966)
AKA the latest instllment of Greatest Movie Scenes Ever.
If the greatest random performance of Rap song in a movie is Digital Underground & 2Pac doing Same Song in Nothing But Trouble, then the greatest random performance of a Rock song in a movie is either L7 doing Gas Chamber in Serial Mom or The Renegades doing Thirteen Women in a sewing factory in some Finnish movie I don't even know the name of.
A British Freakbeat cover of a Bill Haley & His Comets song, Thirteen Women is best described as Carry On proto-Groundhogs. The Renegades were a Birmingham band who were bigger in Finland than they were in England, but clearly had a huge impact on fellow Brummie dirtbags Black Sabbath. Musically, Thirteen Women is stomp-tremendo Garage Rock with haunted house organ; lyrically, Thirteen Women is a teenage wank fantasy episode of The Twilight Zone staring Robin "Confessions of.." Askwith and set after a nuclear explosion. This movie version of the song has slightly different vocals to the single version and the song flows far better as a story this way. Peep 1:00 for the singer pulling an orgasm-face in case his innuendo went over your head.
6 comments:
The random appearance of The Zombies on a pub TV in Otto Preminger's Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965) is a cool one. The fixation on the TV, before and after Laurence Olivier's questioning, was oddly surreal and innovative.
I never knew that one. That's a good 'un.
Unrelated: have you seen the faux-documentary film The War Game (1965)? It's now on BBC iPlayer; likely because its director, Peter Watkins, recently passed away. Well worth checking out.
Banned for twenty years by the BBC for its depiction of a nuclear detonation in the UK. The spiritual predecessor to the ultimate feel bad movie Threads (1984).
Not seen it, or heard of it. Will definitely check that out. Cheers.
A great track on H-Bomb Entertainment...
https://youtu.be/G_HOJJjHqwY?si=DzafPSCAQ9sv_-yo
Nice.
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