Revenge Recommends: "Being A Dickhead's Cool" by The Grand Spectacular

When we first posted this song here in 2011, it was pretty obscure. In fact, all that could be said about the outfit, The Grand Spectacular, is that they came from Cambridgeshire and hated Hipsters. Hell, who knows, they might even have been Hipsters!!!

Now this classic take-down of Hipster fooleries has picked up over 12 million views on YouTube.

The way censorship is going in the West, however, this will probably be banned by YouTube at some point as "hate speech."

Lyrics:

Got on the train from Cambridgeshire
Moved down to an East London flat
Got a moustache and a low cut vest
some purple leggings
and a sailor tat

Just one gear on my fixie bike
got a plus one here for my gig tonight
I play synth...
We all play synth

20-20 vision just a pair of empty frames
Dressing like a nerd although I never got the grades
I remember when the kids at school would call me names
Now were taking over their estates
woah ho!

I love my life as a dickhead
All my friends are dickheads too
Come with me. Let's be dickheads
Havent you heard?
Being a dickhead's cool
Being a dickhead's cool
Being a dickhead's cool
Being a dickhead's cool cool cooooool

Polaroid app on my iPhone
taking pictures on London Fields
up on the blog so everyone knows
were having new age fun, with a vintage feel
Coolest kids at a warehouse rave
exclusive list look there's my name
I got in...
You couldn't get in

Never bought a pack of fags. I only roll my own
plugging in my laptop at the Starbucks down the road
Say I work in media I'm really on the dole
I'm the coolest guy you'll ever know
woah ho

I love my life as a dickhead
All my friends are dickheads too
come with me lets be dickheads
Havent you heard?
Being a dickhead's cool
Being a dickhead's cool
Being a dickhead's cool
Being a dickhead's cool cool cooooool

Loafers with no socks
Electropop meets southern hip hop
Indeterminate sexual preference
Something retro on my necklace

Being a Dickhead is cool!

Revenge...?

Riff Raff was a legendary rock magazine based in London in the late 1980s and 1990s. Edited by the ultimate music biz insider, Mark Crampton, and employing such talents as Mark Blake, Jerry Ewing, Mike Harris, Paul Smith, Chris Collingwood, Alan McCrorie, Simon Robinson, Lyn Guy, Anna Marx, Nick Douglas, Marion Garden, Peter "Grunty" Grant, Joe "The Crow" Mackett, Billy "The Kluck" Kulke, and, lastest and mostest, the incredible Liddell Brothers, Mark (a.k.a. "El Perro") and Colin (a.k.a. "Der Fly"). Unfortunately, Riff Raff was just too R n' R for its own good. A genuine working class rock mag, written, edited, and translated into 16 European languages in a drug-N-Jack-D-fuelled haze, often on the back of motorbikes, with spell checking by our staff of attentive rock bimbos (chosen purely for their blondeness and big knockers), it soon fell behind more trainspotterly, nerdish, and politically correct publications like Q, Kerrang, Mojo, Metal Hammer, and Horse & Hound. This website is an archive and kind of shrine dedicated to the writing of its greatest writers, some of whom, luckily for the Rock Kosmos, still continue to write about music. This is the REVENGE of Riff Raff...Rock on!