This song has no business being this high on the HondoJoe Top 200. It really doesn't. It is a stupid song. It is a silly song. It is a song about a Russian, sung by a German, lip-synched by a guy from Aruba. It is an idiotic song.
And yet, every time I hear it, I smile.
It's a very fun song. It starts off with a disco-ish, Russian-ish beat. When I hear the music, I want to do that Russian dance, you know, the one where I have my arms folded and kick my legs forward, one at a time, from a squatting position. I want to dance like a cossack. (True, I can't actually physically do that dance, but I still feel like I want to do that dance.)
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| Boney M in full, lip-synching action! |
My favorite part of the song is the "news report" in the middle of the song. "But when his drinking and lusting and hunger for power became known to more and more people, the desire to do something about the outrageous man became louder and louder." I can't decide if the guy sounds more like Tom Brokaw or Ted Koppel. (Actually, it sounds more like Chris Parnell doing an imitation of Ted Koppel.) Either way, it's the best!
Boney M was the brainchild of a German named Frank Farian, who happens to be the same guy behind Milli Vanilli. Apparently, Boney M was very popular in England and in Europe. The song "Rasputin" was a big hit over there, and a humongous #1 smash in Canada, but it didn't even make the charts here in the United States. (Although I do definitely remember hearing it on the radio in Idaho back in the day.)
"Oh, those Russians!"
COMING UP NEXT: One song, or twenty-one songs?
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