I've a horse outside!

cochineal

Rubberbandits i've a horse outside breaks the million mark on you tube. Lets beat Rihanna for most viewed music video! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljPFZrRD3J8&feature=aso

Kold

no

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

I'm all for bucking the system and all that jazz but this is just an embarrassment. It shouldn't be allowed in the music section, nor in the comedy section. It's neither. I'm sure they're in breach of the Trades description act or something.

Basq

This is in far too many places already and I'm tempted to lock this... but here's my 2c on it:

It's goddamn trash!

I don't get it.. it's not catchy and it's not funny. It's just poor and embarrassing, and I can't help but cringe when I hear / see it.

There's a thousand better comedy songs on YouTube that don't get nearly as much exposure.

Don't know what's worse.. The Rubberbandits or the people lapping this sh*t up! :mad:

Big H

I think its all about where in Ireland your from ..
I doubt D4's would like it for some reason (could be wrong)

Seems like a song for the culchies really . About time :P

mathepac

In Galway last weekend it was the song at parties and afterwards. The streets, taxis and chippers echoed to it after the pubs and clubs closed. iPhones and iPods provided the tinny backing tracks to bunches of off-key choirs from Salthill to Eyre Square and from the Wesht End to Mervue - I was glad to get home for a rest from it.

It's gone viral and I cannot explain why, but there is something vaguely endearing about a West of Ireland version of a Limerick accent!

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Definitely for turf munchers but if it does make number 1 it'll be the best Christmas number 1 in the Ireland since around 91, so in that way I support it 100%.
Anything but the usual bland plastic rubbish we get bombarded with.

stunt_penguin

basquille wrote: »

This is in far too many places already and I'm tempted to lock this... but here's my 2c on it:

It's goddamn trash!

I don't get it.. it's not catchy and it's not funny. It's just poor and embarrassing, and I can't help but cringe when I hear / see it.

There's a thousand better comedy songs on YouTube that don't get nearly as much exposure.

Don't know what's worse.. The Rubberbandits or the people lapping this sh*t up! :mad:

You could replace Rubberbandits with X-Factor in that post and it would still ring true.... the point here is that yes, it is a terrible song, it's crass and not massively funny, it's embarrassing to us as a nation and we'll never hear of them again after this (or at least in relative terms- they'll still have their show)...... but these are the reasons why we SHOULD ****ing buy it as an up-yours to the retards who are pushing for the other embarrassment from TV to get to the top.

We should hold the Rubberbandits in higher regard than cowell's fake manufactured pop sentiment... if you can't fight fire with fire then maybe you should throw some sand on it... or some horse****. Or kick them in 'da feyyce.

Android 666

basquille wrote: »

This is in far too many places already and I'm tempted to lock this... but here's my 2c on it:

It's goddamn trash!

I don't get it.. it's not catchy and it's not funny. It's just poor and embarrassing, and I can't help but cringe when I hear / see it.

There's a thousand better comedy songs on YouTube that don't get nearly as much exposure.

Don't know what's worse.. The Rubberbandits or the people lapping this sh*t up! :mad:

Here's my 2c on it. It's genius!

Take a bunch of stereotypes about Limerick knackers, shoehorn them into a love song with some brilliant one liners and make it a catchy Christmas number one. Brilliant! I think what's worse is people with obvious sense of humour bypasses bemoaning the song.

Its even funnier than all the Biffy Clyro fans complaining about how their song was 'ruined' by the XFactor…

Kold

Biffy suck anyway.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

nm wrote: »

Definitely for turf munchers but if it does make number 1 it'll be the best Christmas number 1 in the Ireland since around 91, so in that way I support it 100%.
Anything but the usual bland plastic rubbish we get bombarded with.

Not true. Change the accents and any place names and it's plenty of places in Dublin, or Cork or any urban area in Ireland.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

stunt_penguin wrote: »

You could replace Rubberbandits with X-Factor in that post and it would still ring true.... the point here is that yes, it is a terrible song, it's crass and not massively funny, it's embarrassing to us as a nation and we'll never hear of them again after this (or at least in relative terms- they'll still have their show)...... but these are the reasons why we SHOULD ****ing buy it as an up-yours to the retards who are pushing for the other embarrassment from TV to get to the top.

We should hold the Rubberbandits in higher regard than cowell's fake manufactured pop sentiment... if you can't fight fire with fire then maybe you should throw some sand on it... or some horse****. Or kick them in 'da feyyce.

Kirsty McCall will be 10 years dead this Saturday. Surely a much better thing to do would've been to get Fairy Tale of New York to number 1. It's a finger up to Simon Cowell and XFactor, it's a proper Christmas song, and above all it's not a bloody embarrassment.

Android 666

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

Kirsty McCall will be 10 years dead this Saturday. Surely a much better thing to do would've been to get Fairy Tale of New York to number 1. It's a finger up to Simon Cowell and XFactor, it's a proper Christmas song, and above all it's not a bloody embarrassment.

How's A Horse Outside an embarrassment? Are they singing about your family?

c montgomery

basquille wrote: »

This is in far too many places already and I'm tempted to lock this... but here's my 2c on it:

It's goddamn trash!

I don't get it.. it's not catchy and it's not funny. It's just poor and embarrassing, and I can't help but cringe when I hear / see it.

There's a thousand better comedy songs on YouTube that don't get nearly as much exposure.

Don't know what's worse.. The Rubberbandits or the people lapping this sh*t up! :mad:

Its defiantly catchy, more so that alot of pop songs.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

Android 666 wrote: »

How's A Horse Outside an embarrassment? Are they singing about your family?

It's embarrassing that so many people would go out and buy it, and that so many people seem to think it's clever. It just shows that people will buy anything.

Actually I don't see any difference in people buying the XFactor song and people buying this. It's got to a point know where you could release anything, call it a protest against xfactor and people would buy it, it's a money making scheme and nothing else. People who think they're standing up to xfactor or whatever by buying this are just lining someone else's pockets.

The Saw Doctors released a Christmas song this year with all the money going to charity, surely backing a song where nobody profits except charity would've been a proper way of sticking it to the commercialism of xfactor.

mathepac

The Rubber Bandits have a history of producing original, witty acerbic songs commentating on / sending up social issues from their own locality and they're ours, all ours, 100% Irish, 100% authentic.

Their latest offering might not be their greatest opus but it is catchy and witty - it grows on you, as I've discovered. But then I'll support anything, including the Saw Doctors new release, that doesn't have Cowell / Sony-BMG stamped on it.

Android 666

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

It's embarrassing that so many people would go out and buy it, and that so many people seem to think it's clever. It just shows that people will buy anything.

Again I don't see the embarrassment factor. Why are you embarrass by other people buying it? Is it capitalism in general that embarrasses you? I don't it's clever, I don't think you'd meet anyone who's going to say it's clever but it is a laugh.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

Actually I don't see any difference in people buying the XFactor song and people buying this. It's got to a point know where you could release anything, call it a protest against xfactor and people would buy it, it's a money making scheme and nothing else. People who think they're standing up to xfactor or whatever by buying this are just lining someone else's pockets.

It hasn't got to that stage yet. Sadly the cage against the machine campaign never took off - now that would have been a genius number one. If people thought it was rubbish it wouldn't have matter how much a campaign was organised nobody would have bought it. Surprisingly a lot of people think it's the business. Definitely a lot more than I thought would have. I think that's pretty cool.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

The Saw Doctors released a Christmas song this year with all the money going to charity, surely backing a song where nobody profits except charity would've been a proper way of sticking it to the commercialism of xfactor.

Yeah definitely the Saw Doctors is the more worthy contender for your money I'll grant you that. While we're at it we can buy the Fair City single as well to help fill us with the cosy glow of helping others but I'd much rather see the Rubberbandits at No.1 for Christmas. I seriously couldn't give a toss about it being a reaction to the XFactor.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

Anyone listening to them debating it on Live Line? It's gas.

Wille O'Dea is defending it, and one of the rubberbandits is on saying it's art and metaphors and all that.

EDIT: I have to say I don't find this song to be terribly funny at all, but the reaction of these people on the radio about it being a bad influence on people, and that kids will be encouraged to buy bags of yokes and all that, it's ridiculous!! I don't find it funny, but I know that's the intention behind it. They're not being serious.
God!! The things that people get outraged about when there's so many other things going on in their own back yards, I'd be more concerned with that than a few guys taking the piss out of Limerick.

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TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

Not true. Change the accents and any place names and it's plenty of places in Dublin, or Cork or any urban area in Ireland.

Ok I accept that, my real point was the second one though, that it's better than any of the other rubbish that usually tops the irish charts this time of year.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

It's got to a point know where you could release anything, call it a protest against xfactor and people would buy it

It's highly likely to be xmas #1 but that has little if anything at all to do with protesting against the xfactor. Its going to sell because its catchy and people like hearing it, it's clearly gone viral and now with mainstream publicity aswell it's probably the favourite.

I can't see anyone going out and buying/downloading this 3 or 4 copies etc in some sort of campaign like they did with RATM. That's not why people are listening to it, even search on boards it's been posted about 100 times already and theres been barely a mention of an anti-factor campaign.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

nm wrote: »

I can't see anyone going out and buying/downloading this 3 or 4 copies etc in some sort of campaign like they did with RATM. That's not why people are listening to it, even search on boards it's been posted about 100 times already and theres been barely a mention of an anti-factor campaign.

No but there are plenty of things going around telling people when to buy it to make sure it gets to Christmas number 1. It's already out now and if it was just a case of people liking it they'd be buying it whenever they wanted. There is no real relevance to being Christmas number 1 in Ireland, other than beating the XFactor.

Kold

I like it better now that Limerick is getting all offended by it.

magma69

Kold wrote: »

I like it better now that Limerick is getting all offended by it.

One guy rings up on Joe Duffy complaining about it and now the entire city is offended by it? Get a grip ffs. Since when do the Joe Duffy brigade represent the views of the entire nation. Go onto the Bandits thread in the Limerick forum and see how "Limerick is getting all offended" there. :rolleyes:

Kold

magma69 wrote: »

One guy rings up on Joe Duffy complaining about it and now the entire city is offended by it? Get a grip ffs. Since when do the Joe Duffy brigade represent the views of the entire nation. Go onto the Bandits thread in the Limerick forum and see how "Limerick is getting all offended" there. :rolleyes:

Fair enough, but the troll aspect is the best aspect to me.

Tech3

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

It's embarrassing that so many people would go out and buy it, and that so many people seem to think it's clever. It just shows that people will buy anything.

Actually I don't see any difference in people buying the XFactor song and people buying this. It's got to a point know where you could release anything, call it a protest against xfactor and people would buy it, it's a money making scheme and nothing else. People who think they're standing up to xfactor or whatever by buying this are just lining someone else's pockets.

The Saw Doctors released a Christmas song this year with all the money going to charity, surely backing a song where nobody profits except charity would've been a proper way of sticking it to the commercialism of xfactor.

The profits from the Rubberbandits Horse Outside song will be going to charity.

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TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

No but there are plenty of things going around telling people when to buy it to make sure it gets to Christmas number 1.

Agreed, the amount of jokers on facebook is annoying.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

It's already out now and if it was just a case of people liking it they'd be buying it whenever they wanted.

They are, sure its already number 1 on the itunes charts.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

It's one of those things where people didn't realise they were supposed to be offended by it until someone got up on their soap box and riled them all up.

One guy who rang into liveline hadn't even listened to it, he was just responding to what they guy from Limerick was saying. It'll probably all kick off in the papers and that tomorrow and people who had no idea it even existed will be up in arms about it.

I have to reiterate the fact that even though I've said I don't find it funny, and don't really think it's something we should be proud of per say, I don't really see the harm in it. Not like these loons ringing up Joe Duffy about it.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

tech2 wrote: »

The profits from the Rubberbandits Horse Outside song will be going to charity.

Really, because that's not what Blindboy implied on Joe Duffy earlier. When asked about making money off his art being a compromise as an artist he said, and I quote " I am an artist, but I loves money!!"

ricero

im from dublin and i enjoy the tune its clever but i think the song was intended for cultchies not dubs for sum reason i say cultchies love this tune

TheMilkyPirate

Android 666 wrote: »

It hasn't got to that stage yet. Sadly the cage against the machine campaign never took off - now that would have been a genius number one. If people thought it was rubbish it wouldn't have matter how much a campaign was organised nobody would have bought it. Surprisingly a lot of people think it's the business. Definitely a lot more than I thought would have. I think that's pretty cool.

Eh, Firstly it's rage against the machine not cage. And secondly it did take off and it did get to number one.

Kold

baraca wrote: »

Eh, Firstly it's rage against the machine not cage. And secondly it did take off and it did get to number one.

He's talking about this year's John Cage campaign.

Android 666

baraca wrote: »

Eh, Firstly it's rage against the machine not cage. And secondly it did take off and it did get to number one.

http://www.catm.co.uk/

It was a campaign set up this year to get John Cage's 4.33 to Christmas No.1 this year.

Please do keep up.

kronsington

Kold wrote: »

I like it better now that Limerick is getting all offended by it.

I'm from Limerick and not one person I know is offended by it

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

ricero wrote: »

im from dublin and i enjoy the tune its clever but i think the song was intended for cultchies not dubs for sum reason i say cultchies love this tune

Why though? Just because they have Limerick accents?

You could take this exact song, change no lyrics and have some Dublin scumbags doing it and it'd be the same exact song. Would people from Dublin like it better then, and people from "down the country" not get it?

Wile E. Coyote

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

Why though? Just because they have Limerick accents?

You could take this exact song, change no lyrics and have some Dublin scumbags doing it and it'd be the same exact song. Would people from Dublin like it better then, and people from "down the country" not get it?

I think your reading a bit too much into it. It's not an embarassment, it's a p*ss take, nothing more nothing less. People like it because it's catchy and the video is fairly funny.

Kirsty McCall will be 10 years dead this Saturday. Surely a much better thing to do would've been to get Fairy Tale of New York to number 1. It's a finger up to Simon Cowell and XFactor, it's a proper Christmas song, and above all it's not a bloody embarrassment.

Please god no. Anything but Fairy Tale of New York. I hate that f***ing song :mad:.

Android 666

Wile E. Coyote wrote: »

Please god no. Anything but Fairy Tale of New York. I hate that f***ing song :mad:.

What?!!? Even Ronan Keating's version?!?!

Wile E. Coyote

Android 666 wrote: »

What?!!? Even Ronan Keating's version?!?!

Ronan Keating murdered it as well? I always switch stations whenever it comes on so I don't realise there were different versions.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

Wile E. Coyote wrote: »

I think your reading a bit too much into it. It's not an embarassment, it's a p*ss take, nothing more nothing less. People like it because it's catchy and the video is fairly funny.

Your reply to that quote doesn't really make sense? Did you quote the wrong bit?

Regardless, I'll address both points.

I think it's an embarrassment in the fact that it barely deserves to be called music, and in terms of it being used as an anti XFactor campaign when it's just another money making scheme which lines someone elses pockets is a bit rediculous.
I've since been informed that it's not an anti xfactor campaign, it's just a campaign to get it to number 1. Still, it's hardly music is it.

I don't find it funny, but I understand why other people clearly do. And although I don't think it's comedy or music, I don't think it's going to cause an epidemic of kids trading bags of yokes for horses nor is it painting Limerick in any worse a light than it's already been painted.

As for the accent thing, I'm just baffled by how many comments I've seen about how people in Dublin obviously don't get the humour, or the references. As I've said, this song could easily be transfered to any urban area in the country and everything they're saying would still apply. We're not that big a country that things would get lost in translation.

t0mm13b

Ahhhh ffs, listen up yiz lot of yous, as a proud Limerick man, I pity the poor foo' who put-down and say "Oi doan like rubberbandits" epitomises party-poopers, we need a cheer from the misery and crap on TV, such as "IMFecked 2010", the government's chasin-their-own-tails... for those miserable lil sh!ts - grow up and learn to laugh, the country truly needs it. If we get to #1 spot, that'll be the equivalent of the "Ole, Ole Ole" back in the early 90's (that was the state of Ireland back then with misery an' all), it might lift up our moods which is what this country needs.... for those that are "set in their ways" go back to your misery cave..... nuff said... GWAN RUBBERBANDITS....

lordgoat

Props to nialler9

http://www.nialler9.com/2010/12/15/listen-liveline-rubberbandits-willie-odea/

this is radio gold. Stick with it til blind boy from rubberbandits comes on the line and kills.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

lordgoat wrote: »

Props to nialler9

http://www.nialler9.com/2010/12/15/listen-liveline-rubberbandits-willie-odea/

this is radio gold. Stick with it til blind boy from rubberbandits comes on the line and kills.

There's already a thread discussing the liveline thing... http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056120439

yawnstretch

Girlfriend just played this to me and we both had a decent laugh.

Fair play to them - Christmas number 1

brucechan

Fairytale of New York? Thats a great song and then it gets played 5000 times a day. Rubberbandits are a COMEDY act, and if people like it, they'll be no.1. CHALK IT DOWN!!!!

ludwit

i wasn't expecting to like it considering their previous output but along with the video for some reason it just works.

NoseyMike2010

The girl wearing the blue dress in da video is a ride! I'd ride her like a horse!

seanybiker

Jaysus they wreck me bulb. Seamus wants to be famous is way better

manster

strobe

Anything but Cage against the machine, lol get it, lol it sounds like rage against the machine but it's a John Cage piece of non-music sh1te, ohhh lollers. That'll show them, we'll force all the radio stations to play silence, because you know, they definitely will, they won't just not bother. That will show those pesky comercialists. *strokes goatee and adjusts lenseless glasses while trying to pull skinny jeans out of ass*

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

strobe wrote: »

Anything but Cage against the machine, lol get it, lol it sounds like rage against the machine but it's a John Cage piece of non-music sh1te, ohhh lollers. That'll show them, we'll force all the radio stations to play silence, because you know, they definitely will, they won't just not bother. That will show those pesky comercialists. *strokes goatee and adjusts lenseless glasses while trying to pull skinny jeans out of ass*

Wasn't there a recorded minutes silence in the charts only the other week as a charity thing for Remembrance Sunday. It was literally silence and there was a video with a bunch of celebrity types wearing poppies and looking sad.
These cage people didn't think their campaign through very well. Nobody's going to buy a cover version of a silent song that they all bought a few weeks earlier. Silly billies.

mathepac

From the paper of record - http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/features/2010/1216/1224285643246.html

No-one was able to post former minister O'Dea's response to the non-rhetorical question "What's a bag of yokes, Willie?". The answer of course is either "A hundred quid wholesale" or "A foal". It's kinda strange no-one knew before now.

Resi12

This is crap, true and real representation of Irish music like Crystal Swing should be number one...

YA RIGHT! This is ****ing hilarious, I'm not getting any clulchie vibes from it. I hope people do know there are more cities in Ireland than Dublin and Limerick is one of them.. :rolleyes:

amacca

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

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The Saw Doctors released a Christmas song this year with all the money going to charity, surely backing a song where nobody profits except charity would've been a proper way of sticking it to the commercialism of xfactor.

well call me an uncaring scumbag but personally speaking I dont by music for charitable reasons...I buy it because I enjoy it no matter what genre it comes from....thats the only criteria I use when buying music

if it came out of the x-factor and I enjoyed it I'd buy it (i've never actually enjoyed anything from the x-factor btw)

if it came out of a horses arse and I enjoyed it I'd buy it.

and for what its worth I enjoyed "I've a horse outside", could'nt stop laughing mostly when video is viewed at the same time...

so I'm going to buy it....no matter how disrespectful/embarrassing etc it is, that I suspect is why its so popular


a lot of people do seem to actually enjoy it