version including the line:
>"Whistling tunes, we piss on the goons in the jungle":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKb9XQ39-zc
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Games Without Frontiers • Peter Gabriel - Melt (1980)
Artista(s) convidado(s): Kate Bush
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Backing vocals ["Jeux sans frontières"] sung by Kate Bush. (often misheared as "She's so popular") ;)
The song's title refers to "Jeux Sans Frontières" (Games Without Frontiers), a long-running TV show broadcast in several European countries, in which teams of residents representing a town or city in one of the participating countries would compete in games of skill while frequently dressed in bizarre costumes. While some games were simple races, others allowed one team to obstruct another.
The British version was titled "It's a Knockout", which Gabriel references in the lyrics. The lyrics themselves are an allegory of the childish antics of adults. (Wikipedia)
Gabriel wrote this before the US boycotted the Moscow Olympics in 1980. This reinforced the theme of adults acting like children over the Olympics. (songfacts.com)
Also the reference to certain firstnames out of different cultures he includes, may give the idea, that the song is about political leaders behaving like children in international affairs and matters of war and peace.
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features Kate Bush on backing vocals. ("Jeux sans frontières")