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Ebeneezer Goode
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| Single by The Shamen | |||||
| Released | September 1992 | ||||
| Format | Multiple | ||||
| Genre | Pop/dance | ||||
| Length | 3:53 (Beat Edit) | ||||
| Label | One Little Indian | ||||
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"Ebeneezer Goode" is a song by British electronic music group The Shamen, which became their biggest hit when released as a single in September 1992. A heavily remixed version also featured on their album Boss Drum.
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The song is best known for its chorus, "'Eezer Goode, 'Eezer Goode/He's Ebeneezer Goode", which has been construed as a drug reference: "E's are good, E's are good".[1] The lyrics present the advantages of Ecstasy use with a warning about the drugs abuse thrown in: "But go easy on old 'Eezer, he's the love you could lose. Extraordinary fellow, like Mister Punchinello, he's the kind of geezer who must never be abused".
The song also contains references to rolling a spliff with the lines "Has anybody got any Veras?", a reference to 'Vera Lynns', the rhyming slang for skins or rolling papers and "Got any salmon?", which is a reference to 'salmon and trout' the rhyming slang for 'snout', a prison word for tobacco.
Band member Mr C got his inspiration for "Ebeneezer Goode" from the Ecstasy scene in the major London nightclubs he frequented.
The video consisted of club scenes intermixed with a caped man (played by Jerry Sadowitz) running round a wasteland.
When the Shamen appeared on Top of the Pops, it was expected that Mr C should tone down the song due to its being broadcast. The group replaced the final lyrics: "Got any Salmon?" - with "Has anyone got any underlay?". The BBC were furious, and dragged Mr C into a room off-camera, to explain himself, only to be told that it was simply a gratuitous rug reference.[2]
The song shot to number one in the British charts (ironically during the BBC's drug awareness week), and stayed there for four weeks.
- ^ "Top 5 Drug Songs", BBC Top of the Pops 2
- ^ Bussmann, Jane: Once In A Lifetime: The Crazy Days of Acid House (ISBN 0-7535-0260-7)
| Preceded by "Rhythm is a Dancer" by Snap! |
UK number one single September 13, 1992 for 4 weeks |
Succeeded by "Sleeping Satellite" by Tasmin Archer |
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