Music / Morris Minor and the Majors

Morris Minor and the Majors used to be a British comedy band composed of Tony Hawks, Paul Boross, and Phil Judge. They were a One-Hit Wonder that was active only in 1987. Most of their musical production is joke or parody songs.

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Tropes:

• Ear Worm: "This is the Chorus", a parody of all the late 1980s Stock Aitken Waterman hits, has the line: "This is the Chorus, This is the Chorus, It goes round and around and gets into your brain".
• "How I Wrote This Article" Article: "Another Boring B-Side" (the b-side of "Stutter Rap") details the cynical process of writing a song that most people will only listen to once.
  It's another boring b-side, another load of tat
  It has no redeeming features, and we're really proud of that
  You're listening to the product of considerable neglect
• Lyric Swap: The chorus of their Stock Aitken Waterman parody "This is the Chorus" concludes by warning "And thirty seconds from now you're gonna hear it again". This obviously doesn't work for the final chorus, so they add one last Kylie Minogue reference with "And if you're lucky, lucky, lucky, you won't hear it again".
• Piss-Take Rap: They once charted with "The Stutter Rap". Four rappers named after a British car that wasn't even trendy back in The '50s. All with stutters. It was not meant to be serious.
• Porky Pig Pronunciation: "Stutter Rap" parodyies DJ scratching by having a group that actually sings like that:
  Well, my life was so well-planned,
  Survivin' and a-jivin' in a f-f-funk band.
  'Cos rappin', it's my bread and butter,
  But it's hard to rap when you're born with a st-st-st-st-st-st-stutter.
• Subverted Rhyme Every Occasion:
  • "Stutter Rap"
    • One example:
    And it breaks my heart that we're not on the chart
    'cause the record's nearly over when the vocals start
    And I'm down and out, and I'm down on my luck
    And I'm livin' on my own and I'm dying for a f-riend to say "You're great!"
    But I'm under the hammer
    'cause all I seem to do is s-s-s-st—
  • Another example. In this case, people expect to hear 'nineteen'
    Well no-one's ever seen what I mean
    From the age of n-n-n-n-n-n-thirteen
    • ...and yet again, misdirected 'No Sleep 'til Brooklyn' lyrics:
    NO! SLEEP! 'TIL BEDTIME!
  • The B-side of this record, "Another Boring B-Side", contained this double example, where the first averted rhyme becomes the set-up for the second:
  If the A-side makes a hit
  We don't care if this is missed
  'Cause the sooner we get finished
  The sooner we get home
  • The follow-up, the Stock Aitken Waterman parody "This is the Chorus" opens
  This is a disco hit,
  And writing four every week is our own claim to fame,
  Though they may be sh....ure to get you dancing,
  No-one seems to mind that they all sound the same.
• This Is a Song: "This is the Chorus" is a parody of Stock Aitken Waterman that describes how formulaic it is.
  And this is the chorus, yeah, this is the chorus,
  It goes around and around and gets into your brain.
  This is the chorus, the fabulous chorus,
  And thirty seconds from now, you're gonna hear it again.
• [Trope Name]: "This is the Chorus" parodies clichéd choruses (and songs) by generalizing them into a simple, overused format.
• Who Writes This Crap?!: "Another Boring B-Side" lampshades that crappy songs are the way they are because they are cheap and soulless.
  But for a lousy one pound eighty, tell me, what did you expect?

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