Rah Rah Friday Jam

April 4, 2014 12:39 pm Published by

There was an obituary for Clarissa Dickson Wright, from some British cooking show called Two Fat Ladies, on a recent Smartest Man of the World podcast which included “Her choice for Desert Island Discs ranged from The Drinking Song by Verdi to Ra Ra Rasputin by Boney M.”  Like most opera or classical, I had heard the song Traviata by Verdi, but didn’t know the name.  I looked up the other song because I remembered that Boney M.’s Gotta Go Home was probably the sample for Danny O’Connor favorite Duck Sauce’s Barbara Streisand, and it didn’t disappoint.  It is an awesome jam with bizarre hilarious lyrics about a Nora-favorite Russian:

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  • Nora says:
    April 5, 2014 at 7:20 am

    Wow. I love and hate this simultaneously but mainly because I still find him terrifying. 

    I wish the lyrics went into his freakish evasions of death. Also historically inaccurate, strong debate can be made that he died of hypothermia. 
    Also, the potential British Secret Service involvement adds an exciting layer. I generally find it safe to assume the British are the origin for most major state destabilizing events.