One and Only started off as a song Ian wrote called Fifteen Minutes to Spadina, which described a boy desperately trying to ask a girl for one more chance after he hurt her feelings. Zoltan thought "Awwww ... ain't that sweet?" and then proceeded to take it to the next level. After all, what would be a better way to make up for past indiscretions than asking for a threesome with your girl's best friend?
We hate doing covers unless we put it through a blender and rip a new one in it in order to make it our own. This is an example of one. We are not sure if the Thompson Twins would approve, and we will probably end up being sued for more money then we'd probably ever see in our lifetime, so take a look now before it goes away.
This is us messing around during rehearsal, mashing up the Exploited classic Sex and Violence with Cookie Monster's C is for Cookie. It will probably not appear on any CD due to some obvious conflict of interest issues with The Children's Television Network, which is too bad, because we love Cookie's work and would love to have him do some guest vocals on our next album.
This song was our first hit - when we performed it at Zoltan's martini parties back in the 1990s, we got a lot of beatings from our ex-girlfriends over it because they thought it was about them. If you have ever wanted to date someone who had to be the most toxic person to be around, you will relate to this song. "I told you I would always love you from afar / You then ran me over twice with your car."
If you have a fetish, there is a place on the Internet for you. There are sites for people who like furries, sites for those who have a thing for leather, and sites for freaks into cross-dressing. Conflicting Plaid noticed, though, there isn't a site for people who find Jehova Witnesses kinky. We hope this song will tide you over until that site opens.
As performed at the Velvet Underground in April 2010. This song was first conceived by our friend Rob, who was drunk playing with his 1989 Casio synthesizer one night singing the immortal words that eventually became the chorus of this song. Luckily he recorded it - when we heard it, we just had to finish it, complete with lines about Kirk's ready room and Spock's space pants. It's too bad that Mr. Shatner is not going to be Governor General of Canada anytime soon, since this song can potentially have the chart topping controversy that God Save the Queen did back in the day. After all, early versions of this song have made it on several Asian compilation CDs that we just happened to stumble on in the last few years. Video courtesy of Earl Cousins.