Can someone explain EIEIO to me?

[Oeditpus Rex]

:shrug:

[qnr]

1. There's this guy with a farm that could help....

:hi:

[bleedingheart]

2. it means you slept with your mother ...

:evilgrin:

I just had too...

[wildhorses]

3. three vowels, repeat the first two and then just say OH....

Mac Donald had a farm...:hi:

[idgiehkt]

4. you silly.

:rofl:

[DainBramaged]

5. Old Mac Donald loved his animals EIEIOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[driver8]

6. A pretty damn good band from Wisconsin...

I saw these guys at "A Taste of Chicago" many years ago.

E*I*E*I*O (Buy CDs by this artist)
The Land of Opportunity (Frontier) 1986
That Love Thang (Frontier) 1988

Wisconsin's E*I*E*I*O is an "American Music" band in the tradition of Creedence Clearwater Revival and the Blasters. Like those two bands, their sound is an amalgam of rock'n'roll, rockabilly, country, blues and folk. They've also got a strong singer with an unmistakably individual voice in Steve Summers, two good songwriters (Summers and bassist Richard Szeluga) and a pair of shit-hot guitarists (one of whom had been in Off Broadway) and harmony vocalists who can sing like Byrds.
The uniformly excellent material on Land of Opportunity (co-produced by Steve Berlin) ranges from flat-out ravers ("Tear It Down," "Go West Young Man," "The Middle of November") to songs about the ups and downs of the road ("Me and Jesus Christ," "White Lines, Blue Skies, Black Top"), country life ("Blue Mountaintop") and, of course, love ("This Time," "Hello Heartache," "Get Back to Arkansas," "Every Word True"). The music's emotional intensity and physical excitement make this an essential record. (The cassette adds "Stars Are Out and the Moon Is High" and "No Father in the Family.")
With guitarist Mike Hoffman gone off to form Semi-Twang (and later the Carnival Strippers), the group uses That Love Thang to expand its sound further, adding a propulsive R&B-type horn section (on the wonderful "Hey, Cecelie" and the title track) and strings (for the LP's ambitious closer "Brother Michael"). While some of the songs here are a bit less involving than on Land of Opportunity, this is another fine record. (The cassette and CD append "You Can't Stay Here.")
[Dave

[leftofthedial]

7. Pretty cool cowpunk band from NYC in the day

But you had to "get" country and punk and the American social milieu of the late 70's and 80's to understand the depths of their irony.

They hit the CBGB's thing at the tail end of the Talking Heads-Television thing, but NYC only really got one of the above three and the rest of the country didn't get any of the three, so it didn't work out. Plus, they were a little too artsy to make it work.

If I'm not mistaken, Lloyd Maines (Natalie's dad and a Texas musical institution) produced a record for them.

[Dangerously Amused]

8. It's secret code. That is all.

Psst... you can find out about it here:



You didn't hear that from me, capisce?

[Deja Q]

9. I say it under certain conditions...

It helps to be drunk too. :7