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Negativland has a hilarious cover of the U2 song "Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For". Cxi tie estas kelkaj el gxi:
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Oh Well,
I have climbed the highest mountains,
And, guess what? I have run through the fields,
Only to be with you, yep, you,
No one else, just you.
And guess what? I have run, I have crawled,
I have scaled these city walls! Yeah!
That's really great, I can't believe I did it,
But, nevertheless, I _have_ done that for you,
Only to be with you I've done all these things.
Yeah, with you, the Fat One. That's it.
You're the fat one and I want to be with you.
But on the other hand,
I still haven't found what I'm looking for!
Nope, definitely not! I haven't found it,
I just can't seem to find it.
. . .
(interspersed throughout the song is Casey Kasem saying over and over "that's the letter 'U' and the numeral '2'."
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There's also another song that Negativland does that's just slightly about the band U2, with Casey Kasem (or a very close approximation) saying this:
"Now, we're up to our long-distance dedication. And this one's about kids, and pets, and a situation that we can all understand, whether we have kids or pets or neither. It's from a man in Cinncinnatt, Ohio, and here's what he writes: 'Dear Casey, this may seem to be a strange dedication request, but I'm quite sincere and it'll mean a lot if you play it. Recently there was a death in our family. He was a little dog named 'Snuggles.' But he was most certainly a part of -' ... "
"Let's go. Start again. Coming out of the record - play the record. Please."
"That's the letter 'U' and the numeral '2'. The four-man band features Adam Clayton on bass, Larry Molin(?) on drums, Dave Evans, nicknamed "The Edge" on - This is bullshit! Nobody cares! These guys are from England, and nobody gives a shit! Just a lot of wasted names that don't mean diddly-shit. This is bullshit. This is bullshit. Who gives a shit? Diddly-shit. Nobody cares. Snuggles. Snuggles. Snuggles. He was a little dog named Snuggles."
"This is American Top 40! This is bullshit."
"<ahem> when you come out of those uptempo goddamn numbers it's impossible to make those transitions, and then you've got to go into somebody _dying_... Goddamnit if we can't come out of a slow record, I can't understand it. Why are we doing these instrumentals? I don't understand it. Will somebody find out the goddamn answer? Who gives a shit? Goddamnit! Goddamnit! Oh, fuck. Snuggles. Fuck. Snuggles. Fuck. Snuggles. Ok."
"I want a goddamned concerted effort to come out of a record that isn't a fucking uptempo record every time I do a goddamn death dedication! This is the last goddamn time - I want somebody to use his fucking brain, to not come out of a goddamn record that is uptempo and I got to talk about a goddamn dog dying!! Fuckin' ponderous, man! Fuckin, ponderous.."
"This is American Top 40! Right here on the radio station you grew up with, music radio 138 - oh fuck!"
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