Jenny’s punk record jingle

Jenny picks out the business card for Repressed Records. She calls the company and speaks to Mitch, who explains that they are a record shop, specialising in independent music. When she asks why it’s called Repressed Records, he says it’s about the idea of psychological repression in punk music.

Jenny’s jingle is performed in the style of a punk song, with Tom apparently playing the guitar. Hitting some drumsticks together at the start, Jenny sings the following:

One two three four!
Piss off streaming, yeah!
Independent music
We got blues, and a guy named Mitch
Artists get paid fairly
Cos streaming pays barely
Books, DVDs, records and record players
Your music, you’ll be physically caressing
Cos we have books and Japanese pressing
Yeah, it sounds high-quality
Repressed Records for all your music
We have feelings, but we repress them
Repressed Records are the best!

She then attempts to kick over a toy drum kit, but only manages to nudge it a little.

In the studio, Tom Gleeson says that her jingle had sounded like an actual radio ad from community radio. Jenny says it took a while for her to work out exactly what punk music was, but that she was impressed that she’d known what a record was.

When Tom Gleeson asks Jenny if she’s ever actually bought a vinyl record, she says “No, have you?”, and then seems surprised when Tom indicates he has. She shares that she imagines records being from the 1920s, leading Tom Cashman to ask whether she’s confusing them with gramophones.

Tom Gleeson rules that Jenny was trying to sell a product she didn’t quite understand, and she earns 3 points.

(Written by JoGo and proofread by Karl Craven)

(Illustrations collected and adjusted by: David Fuller)