Fan video: “Things We Do” is the final song in my library by The Fun Boy Three (though I may add more later). It’s one of the songs on Waiting that sounds the most like Terry Hall’s next band, The … Continue reading
Official video: Fun Boy Three singer Terry Hall co-wrote … Continue reading
Official video: Another high point of Waiting is the bitter anti-love song, “Tunnel of Love.” The Fun Boy Three had previously sang on The Special’s similarly themed “Too Much Too Young.” Both songs feature characters that got married too young, … Continue reading
Fan video: Robert Christgau writes that “The Farmyard Connection” “lays out the class inequities of herb production.” That’s pretty much an apt summary of the song. Bananarama makes another appearance singing the chorus, which ends up sounding like the title … Continue reading
Fan video: On the cover of the second (and last) Fun Boy Three album, Waiting, Terry Hall is standing slightly in front of the other two band members, almost as if he’s leaving them behind. In fact, he did, moving … Continue reading
Official video: “Summertime” is one of the major songs from the classic Gershwin opera Porgy and Bess. The Fun Boy Three certainly don’t overshadow the many fine operatic performances of the song, but they make it their own. Indeed, its … Continue reading
Official video: There’s a cameo by Banarama in this video, too. While it wasn’t a huge hit in the U.K., “The Telephone Always Rings” is a song that has thematic ground in common with De La Soul’s “Ring Ring Ring … Continue reading
The official video is ludicrously embedding disabled. Here they are on Top Of The Pops: Originally performed by jazz great Ella Fitzgerald, The Fun Boy Three took “T’ain’t What You DO (It’s The Way That You Do It)” to #4 … Continue reading
Fan video: Here at Teatro Triste del Clown, we first encountered The Fun Boy Three in February of 2008 when I wrote about Bananarama’s “He Was Really Saying Something”. We later encountered the primary singer in The Fun Boy Three, … Continue reading
Official video: “? (Modern Industry)” is a bizarre and catchy little song (and Fishbone’s first single, from 1985) that lists different radio stations’ call letters. I wonder how many of those stations are still around and also wonder if any … Continue reading