Originally published at: Dumb Ways to Die, 10 years later | Boing Boing
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That’s sweet; thank you for sharing.
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How did I never hear of that before? That’s a truly wonderful thing, and I can close this website now happily for today!
Thank you.
For future reference, the band seems to be Tangerine Kitty, and there’s a Deck The Halls version which now goes to my seasonal playlist I’ll be using this year at some relative’s place.
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And exported to the states, such as Denver’s RTD:
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The band is Tinpan Orange, who never quite got as famous as I thought they should be. They’re on Tidal, the YouTubes, etc. I’ve seen them live a couple times and they were delightful.
ETA: Ah, it was a collab between members of Tinpan Orange and The Cat Empire, and they called themselves Tangerine Kitty (geddit?) for the collab. Noice.
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Guess I’ll go listen to Leonard Cohen now, to balance out the happy lilt…
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As per @euansmith and @LutherBlisset this was a TRULY wonderful thing that I had never seen before.
Definitely getting added to my music library.
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I was thinking that the perfect sour chaser would be…
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I’d never heard about Dumb Ways to Die until the mobile game came out; catchy tune.
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It also shows up in the NYC MTA/Train Museum… where they have a big display talking about dumb ways to die around subway tracks. Which promptly got my kids (5 and 8) singing this song… my wife was thrilled.
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Well, it’s either this or Infant Sharks. /s
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