Humour is music is a hard thing to get right. The problem is that you can be too overtly funny, and thus your lyrics lose their impact after the second or third listen. If you want to make a durable song, you can only be mildly amusing – the wit is just a part of the lyrics. It can be hard to be taken seriously if you try to be too funny.
Blah, Blah, Blah must see themselves as indie satirists. Full of cockernee chirruping and a lampooning swagger 'Death to the Indie Disco' is a song laced in snobby overtones – some sort of backlash to the popular indie circuits in London. But it's nothing that wasn't said in last years 'LDN is a victim' spoof – it's all about being cool, dancing in the right places, and taking crack. But surely we're not so much bored of this scene now, as we are bored by the backlash. It's not particularly clever, and is much more out to win people over by being literal - shouting “Wankers” such like. Like Chas 'n' Dave taking on Madness with all of the subtlety of a foul-mouthed Chucklevision – you may (and only may) get a few smiles out of the first play but beyond that there is nothing to encourage further listens.
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That they sound no better than the scene they are parodying doesn't help. The last rule with humour in music, is that it helps to be funny. Quirky just isn't enough.
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