"Look around you" is on a level of it's own. I grew up with these type of shows like this so I love "Look around you" even more for that and the fact they rip on them so badly. The sound and editing is godly on the show! And, This song owns.
I'm glad that a song Badfinger forgot to record still saw the light of day. This is power pop at it's best. It's amazing that a song written as a joke is just as great as the music it's satirizing.
@@MrPlannery I'm going to learn it myself... just need to dig out the vhs I had of the live version where they go straight into Reggae Man after the solo
The chords are easy once you get the hang of the key. The intro (in S minor): S minor, Q major (x4), the bridge is Q Sm Q Sm Q S (major). The all-important chorus appears to be S P Q R#; S P Q N and on the second time round S P Q R#; S P Q R S. Of course as S can be approximated by A in regular keys, so the chorus in A is: A E F Ab; A E F C and on the second time A E F Ab; A E F G A. Hope that helps. :)
Does capture the style of pre-video era "promotional films" perfectly. Bleached out 16mm, stop frame effects, crash zooms and use of some landmark no matter how inappropriate. Very funny!
Another great artist of that bygone era who's career was cut tragicly by opening the Boite diabolique and playing the forbidden notes. Long live Jack Morgan.
This song has helped me understand my life. I understand now what it means to find that one song that drives you forward! Little Mouse...show me what to do!
Thank you whoever posted this because I have not obtained the DVD and have to watch the episodes on this crappy loaded with pop-ups website you're awesome
I actually think this has a more late 60s psychadelic pop vibe. Maybe it's the subtle synths or the harmonies, but I really think that this could have been a minor hit in 1967 or 1968
Sounds like it'd either from the late 1960s or the mid to late 1990s when imitating the sound was in fashion... Kula Shaker or someone like them could have made it
@@josemaria8177that brilliant guitar solo and the punchy rhythmic piano note at the end both sound early 70s to me. But yeah there's also a late 60s vibe too.
Quoting Salon: Male mice sing ultrasonic love songs to woo mates according to a new study published Wednesday in the journal Frontiers of Behavioral Neuroscience. In fact, the mice perform long, complex strings of syllables the same way as song birds. “Those songs are really high in pitch, above 50 kilohertz, and are not audible to humans,”said Jonathan Chabout, a postdoctoral fellow at Duke University. “When we pitch them down and play back at real speed, it sounds like a bird.” Look Around You is still accurate two decades later.
Someone said that “Jack Morgan” looks like a young Ringo Starr here As Ringo wrote songs about Octopuses and gardens I can quite imagine him romping through something like this in his 80s kids tv career 😂
I have a four month old called Katie and my pet name for her has always been Mouse, either KAtie Mouse, little Mouse or Mrs Mouse. Either way, always a mouse theme and this is so our song now! BLESS THIS MOUSE
4 a.m. and i cant sleep. I turn on the T.V. and Look Around You is on.. Now please write that down in your copy books. I wonder if people actually have a copy book with them when they watch this show. Anyways I hear this song and man I Love It!!! I love it so much that I had to go copy a link to this to my facebook to tell everyone how amazing it is. It's enough for me and youuuu
I can't play this on my guitar yet as I only have knowledge of regular keys. I should call up my friend Synthesiser Patel and ask him if he can give me a hand.
In a non-shit world this would've been Number 1 for 3 months and Simon Cowell would find employment only as John McCririck's personal underpants scrubber.
This is better than anything in the charts but is a thrown away parody. They should make this a Eurovsion song. I'm surprised Peter Sz hasn't done a show based upon a 70s Eurovision Song contest maybe as a mashup of Big Time the series that lauched Sheila Easton.
this is ridiculously impressive for a song made for a show
Edgar Wright innit
Machadaynu
Bless you, mouse.
Blouse.
Thank you, mouse.
Thouse.
You're welcome, James.
Wames.
Bless you both.
Bloth.
@@daniel-andersson I made that comment 10 years ago. And I still appreciate the humor and your comment.
@@littleNorwegians Glad you're still active! And yep, Look Around You never goes out of style :)
Cheers!
"Look around you" is on a level of it's own. I grew up with these type of shows like this so I love "Look around you" even more for that and the fact they rip on them so badly. The sound and editing is godly on the show!
And, This song owns.
Still sounds as fresh now as it was when it was released in June 1972.
I'm glad that a song Badfinger forgot to record still saw the light of day. This is power pop at it's best. It's amazing that a song written as a joke is just as great as the music it's satirizing.
Have you heard of The Lemon Twigs? I can imagine them doing a banging cover of this.
This is my favourite song...of all time. No joke. I've been singing it all week and I'm tryin to learn it on the guitar.
Did you learn it yet?
@@mikabjorklund3678 I've got the broad brush strokes but I'll need a wee bit longer to nail the harmonies.
Its been 14 years! Can you do some Little Mouse guitar tab please?
@@KruszO 15 now
@@MrPlannery I'm going to learn it myself... just need to dig out the vhs I had of the live version where they go straight into Reggae Man after the solo
I genuinely enjoy this song more than 99% of the new songs of the past 20 years.
That makes sense, since you probably haven't heard 99% of the new songs of the past 20 years, and you can't enjoy a song that you haven't heard.
@@RikardPeterson How do you know what percentage of the songs in the past 20 years this person has heard?
Like an early Roxy Music B side. It's brilliant.
Best song I know in the key of S
@@wila5477 it's the best 'quite fast' song I know.
I love the part where the background says LITTLE MOUSE! in a high pitched voice. It cracks me up every time.
this song reduces some of the symptoms of the Helvetica scenario
The chords are easy once you get the hang of the key.
The intro (in S minor): S minor, Q major (x4), the bridge is Q Sm Q Sm Q S (major). The all-important chorus appears to be S P Q R#; S P Q N and on the second time round S P Q R#; S P Q R S.
Of course as S can be approximated by A in regular keys, so the chorus in A is: A E F Ab; A E F C and on the second time A E F Ab; A E F G A.
Hope that helps. :)
Thank you so much
It's in the key of S.
@@MrPlannerytempo: quite fast.
You'd expect something using S P Q R to sound more Latin, but there we are.
That £999.99 and a half pence was well spent on the Harrington
Does capture the style of pre-video era "promotional films" perfectly. Bleached out 16mm, stop frame effects, crash zooms and use of some landmark no matter how inappropriate. Very funny!
Another great artist of that bygone era who's career was cut tragicly by opening the Boite diabolique and playing the forbidden notes. Long live Jack Morgan.
he actually survived, but lost perfect pitch. after a few decades he finally has his perfect pitch back!
This song is so deep, it really helps me understand the world and look at the world in a whole new light.
This is from the DVD
Write that down in your notebook.
*Copybook.
Write that down in your Copybook now.
Wonder how many ringtones and funerals this one graced.
Thanks, mouse.
Thouse.
This is honestly better than the majority of music in the charts these days.
and, lo, it's stuck in my head again yet again.
Joints got me dancing all these years later
Still a true classic golden tune
This would've won Music 2000 for sure.
God i wish they had released that as a single.
GeekFilter Ace!
yeah but that mp3 download is 64kbps
Double A-side with Machadaynu
I know this comment is 9 years old...but they DID release it. Or at least a promo of it. I have the CD! (It's by Jack Morgan BsC)
@@StuAcker I can't find it anywhere!
I saw this on the show ... I love the song ... can't get out of my head ... singing for 2 weeks. that's good of a song!!!!
It *is* a real song. It's got notes, words and everything.
I can never keep a strait face at the end. Gotta love that british humor.
This song has helped me understand my life. I understand now what it means to find that one song that drives you forward! Little Mouse...show me what to do!
The best thing about this song is that it's quite fast!
Thank you whoever posted this because I have not obtained the DVD and have to watch the episodes on this crappy loaded with pop-ups website you're awesome
So catchy. Through and Throughhhhh is the first bit i had to sing then WOW taht chorus. awesome song
This is actually a well written, catchy tune. This would have charted in the early 80s!
I actually think this has a more late 60s psychadelic pop vibe. Maybe it's the subtle synths or the harmonies, but I really think that this could have been a minor hit in 1967 or 1968
Sounds like it'd either from the late 1960s or the mid to late 1990s when imitating the sound was in fashion... Kula Shaker or someone like them could have made it
@@josemaria8177that brilliant guitar solo and the punchy rhythmic piano note at the end both sound early 70s to me. But yeah there's also a late 60s vibe too.
Every aspect of this song is awesome.
The video is shot in Aldeburgh in Suffolk.We went there today and re-created this legend of pop.Love it!!!!!
Ah! The missing track off piper at the gates of dawn
Ah, that's better. I needed that.
Quoting Salon:
Male mice sing ultrasonic love songs to woo mates according to a new study published Wednesday in the journal Frontiers of Behavioral Neuroscience. In fact, the mice perform long, complex strings of syllables the same way as song birds. “Those songs are really high in pitch, above 50 kilohertz, and are not audible to humans,”said Jonathan Chabout, a postdoctoral fellow at Duke University. “When we pitch them down and play back at real speed, it sounds like a bird.”
Look Around You is still accurate two decades later.
Probably my favourite song of all time.
Agreed. Probably Jack Morgan's best hit of the 70s.
Classic! Thanks for posting!
Someone said that “Jack Morgan” looks like a young Ringo Starr here
As Ringo wrote songs about Octopuses and gardens I can quite imagine him romping through something like this in his 80s kids tv career 😂
Oh my lords I had forgotten all about this 😮 what a song…. This needs to be re-released
honestly the best video on UA-cam I have seen in a long time
This was the greatest show ever...
Just had a mouse brought in by the cat. Of course I shook him by the paw.
British people are all natural rock musicians.
Still a banger, 17 years later 🐭
there are songs like this in the charts in Romania ! hahah !!!
Such as?! I'd love to hear an example (seriously).
I love this video i have watched it loads and it makes me laugh everytime lol sooo addictive
I have a four month old called Katie and my pet name for her has always been Mouse, either KAtie Mouse, little Mouse or Mrs Mouse. Either way, always a mouse theme and this is so our song now!
BLESS THIS MOUSE
I am watching this video while holding a mouse balloon animal. This song truly has made a long-lasting affect on my life. ;)
We all back for a reunion now that Look Around You is on Iplayer?
very very late 60s
pretty much all psychedelic music sounds like this lol, this is a perfect parody
I want to see a series (perhaps stop-motion) based on the further adventures of Little Mouse.
If you pause at 1:35, you can see Imhotep in the background.
ShirConnery bahahahah
Yeessssssssssss, yeesssssssssssss, yesssssssssssss
fghhhhgghfgffHFHFGGFF
This song was written by a songwriting computer in series one of Look Around You. Episode 7 - Music.
Machadaynu
@ Machadaynu-daynu-daynu
Thanks Little Mouse... Manks
same here i heard it last night and i had to hear it
interesting it's filmed at a different location to the shorter verson shown in the programme
4 a.m. and i cant sleep. I turn on the T.V. and Look Around You is on.. Now please write that down in your copy books. I wonder if people actually have a copy book with them when they watch this show. Anyways I hear this song and man I Love It!!! I love it so much that I had to go copy a link to this to my facebook to tell everyone how amazing it is.
It's enough for me and youuuu
I heard that he didn't even write the song himself.... Shocking
Gilbert and Sullivan really.
The Harrington 1200 can do wonders
It was Tony Rudd's first foray into future music.
How is the video quality so good for 18 years ago?
Great solo.
Awesome/10.
Imhotep approves
i saw the commercials on adult swim and thought WTF?!? so i decided to watch it and this song came up lol i like it!
I love this video!!!!!!
I'd be surprised if the writers of this hadn't heard Fools Garden - "Wild Days"
this should have been entered in for eurovision
love this, was it really from 16 years ago?
Gotta love that Les Paul.
I've gotta learn this song now.
Lets hope Noel Gallagher did not neck any riffs for any Oasis songs frrom this.
Thanks, Morgan.
Thorgan.
The weird part is that the solo's actually pretty cool.
The ending always gets me 😢
He's so cute in this video :o
Popper and co rather undersold themselves a bit on this; this is a genuinely great pop song!
Oh, the memories...
Very Cardiacs like.
High pitch voices are all the rage these days. I keep saying littlemouse invented it.
I remember my brother showing me this in middle school
I can't play this on my guitar yet as I only have knowledge of regular keys.
I should call up my friend Synthesiser Patel and ask him if he can give me a hand.
Looks a bit like Aldeburgh in Suffolk to me.
awesome guitar solo :O
If you don't listen to what the lyrics are actually saying, it sounds pretty good.
*rocks out* Hey now little mouse!...
In a non-shit world this would've been Number 1 for 3 months and Simon Cowell would find employment only as John McCririck's personal underpants scrubber.
This is the song of my childhood
This is our class joke , we did it as a warm up in gym 😂😂😂😂😂
This song is way better than it should be LOL!
This is better than anything in the charts but is a thrown away parody. They should make this a Eurovsion song. I'm surprised Peter Sz hasn't done a show based upon a 70s Eurovision Song contest maybe as a mashup of Big Time the series that lauched Sheila Easton.
thats only your opinion
I like this song
This makes me want to buy a Harrington 1200. Too bad I don't have 999.995 pounds to spare.
*squeaky voice*LITTLE MOUSE!
He looks so much like a young Ringo Starr in this.
BEastmix OMG! He does!
As Ringo wrote songs about Octopuses and gardens I can quite imagine him romping through something like this in his 80s kids tv career 🥹
@JoeMalt1832 This version is a bonus feature on the Season 1 DVD.
The singer (Robert Popper) also plays Robin Cooper in the awesome channel Vanillapod
Look Around You is a TV show.... the songs from the show..
It’s no Machadaynu by Tony Rudd.
Thanks Jack, Thack.
This extended version is so much better.
This song is in the key of "S". Write that down in your copybook now.
Chords:
Intro/Verse: Am F (repeats) then
G Am G A into:
Chorus:
A E F G# A E F C
A E F G# A E FGA (repeat FGA sometimes)
very motivational!
You have an Arrested Development avatar and are commenting on a Look Around You video. I love you.
Need to watch Arnold lane now.😂
Thanks mouse. Thouse