Curious whether anyone else sees a similarity between "Somebody's Gonna Get Their Head Kicked In Tonite" and the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band's "Death Cab For Cutie"? YouTube clips for reference:
Somebody's Gonna Get Their Head Kicked In Tonite
Death Cab For Cutie
Both are 1950s pastiche numbers, and although the feel is different for each of them, the key line in each is pretty similar:
"Somebody's gonna get their head kicked in tonite" and "Someone's gonna make you pay your fare"
The similarity hadn't occurred to me until recently. Wondering whether Jeremy might have been influenced by that earlier number when he wrote his. BTW, I enjoy both songs.
Here's another YouTube clip of "Death Cab For Cutie". The sound is not as good as the one above but it's a fun clip from the '60s British TV show
Do Not Adjust Your Set - with future Monty Python member Michael Palin doing the intro.
Do Not Adjust Your Set - Death Cab For Cutie
Bonus trivia: For those of you who were able to sit through the entire Beatles'
Magical Mystery Tour, you may remember that "Death Cab For Cutie" was included toward the end of the film.
Extra bonus trivia: Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band's Neil Innes co-wrote the song and later wrote the songs for The Rutles - the noted Beatles parody band created by Innes and Monty Python's Eric Idle.