Get Down Goblin!

by Robert Popper on September 22, 2009 · View Comments

If this song by Jan Terri doesn’t drive you mad the entire day, then you might not be a human.

Hopefully you’ll have the words ‘Get Down Goblin’ going around your (human) brains for weeks…

I love the credits at the end. Surely they last way too long for a pop vid…?

Exactly 35 thanks to @tdpbano for reminding me of the brilliant horror that is JT.

{ 16 comments }

1 John September 22, 2009 at 12:53 pm: ‘Who’s that knocking on my door? It’s Dracula. Let him in, now the fun will begin.’ This is going to played at least twenty times this halloween. Just brilliant.
2 Terry Waite September 22, 2009 at 3:17 pm: Surely “Get Down Goblin’ is a euphemism oral sex?
3 MATTY CIPOV September 22, 2009 at 3:56 pm: She has so many good songs. I really love her lisp.
4 mcgie76 September 22, 2009 at 4:11 pm: You get the impression she’s some sort of Mafioso’s wife who fancies herself as a popstrel. The tune sounds remarkably like her other “hit”, Losing You http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZ94vnmvPrw
5 Andrew September 22, 2009 at 4:20 pm: I’ve got freinds who’re completely obsessed with Jan Terri, fellow illustrators who randomly draw portraits of her just for the hell of it.
I’ve been fighting them to not see or hear “get down Goblin” now you go and post it here…. my battle is lost.
6 Joshka Joshkovsky September 22, 2009 at 5:29 pm: Well that intro certainly didn’t prepare me for what was about to begin at 0:31…
7 dirk September 22, 2009 at 6:38 pm: You know I am not a body fascist but I’m sure I’m not the only one who was disappointed when it was revelled that the leggy goth ladies were not the ones doing he singing but somebody’s mum.

Isn’t it amazing what you can do with a Farfisa though?

“Hair and nose and random words like bicycle, kettle and fish – oh get down goblin.”

You could have a couple of weeks….. never mind!
8 Wowser September 22, 2009 at 7:24 pm: This is actually quite sophisticated for Jan. Alas, though, Get Down on a Goblin only lasted 3 minutes in my head.
9 Robert Popper September 22, 2009 at 9:34 pm: I know!
10 dirk September 22, 2009 at 11:51 pm: Dur, I meant you could have waited a couple of weeks as in Halloween getit? revelled indeed…more haste less cut n past, so sorry
11 dirk September 23, 2009 at 12:00 am: Who are the Alan’s and why are they out of spice?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uOwVg2B79E&feature=related
12 Beset by Apes September 23, 2009 at 10:01 am: In this video, Jan demonstrates exactly how to play the bass guitar for maximum tone and punch.
13 Phil Babb September 23, 2009 at 12:01 pm: Argh, I listened to the first minute or so of this last night then got distracted. Forgot about it completely until this morning when it took me about an hour to figure out what the hell I was singing and why…
14 Dave September 24, 2009 at 9:37 am: I was trying to remember where I’d heard of Terri before, and Google kindly reminded me:

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-may-1-2000/jan-terri–video-vanguard
15 Tom Daylight September 24, 2009 at 5:46 pm
16 Adrian Francis March 23, 2010 at 12:50 am: Where can I get her CD – High Risk? I love this one…