What's Your Favorite Bird

[Rev. Rye]

My parents used to pay good money to bring us to the San Diego zoo when I was wee fella.  I always loved the call of the kookaburra.  But in the morning, outside where I'm sleeping and without an off button?  No, that would be too much.

You know what the sound of the Kookaburra reminds me of? This:





Technically, the sound effect at the beginning is a sample of Tramaine singing "Hallelujah" that Paul Oakenfield processed to the point where the word is unrecognisable, but it took until I decided to research this as part of my research into my Anglotopia review of 24 Hour Party People before I actually found that out. I could have sworn it was either some animal or a sample of some world music performance that's totally alien to the Western pop tradition.

Maybe listening to two kookaburras singing on a balcony at 9 AM would be annoying, but would that change if they were jamming with Happy Mondays? Okay, given Shaun Ryder's history of behaviour ranging from the eccentric to the utterly jackasstic (see the recording of Yes Please for more information), that might be worse.