Quote: Kenneth @ February 11 2011, 8:50 AM GMT"hauntingly futile"
What a brilliant phrase, you should be a music critic!
As for Chas and Dave, they are probably one of those acts where an unsigned record is rarer than a signed one. A combination of playing a lot of gigs to drunken people in pubs and always having a suitcase of CDs or records nearby... They had a really good run of comedy/novelty singles in the late 70s and early 80s, although strangely their biggest hit was 'Ain't No Pleasing You' which is fairly touching wistful and lovelorn ballad. Albeit with Chas and Dave's gruff cockney vocals and pounding piano.
I always though this was a decent comedy theme tune, the last of Chas and Dave's charting singles back in 1985:
I used to like the Ian Dury theme 'Profoundly In Love With Pandora' from the first Adrian Mole series. Haven't managed to track that particular little beauty down yet though.