Aug 13, 2025
The Shamen
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The Shamen
The Shamen - Ebeneezer Goode
The Shamen
The Shamen
The Shamen - Ebeneezer Goode (1992)
Ebeneezer Goode Shamen - 1992
Listen to Ebeneezer Goode (Beat Edit) on TIDAL
I just had this song thrown at me today out of nowhere and suddenly a whole vault of memories opened up. Like my cousin, who lived with us at the time, was way into the early 90s rave. Used to listen to pirate radio to find the location of raves when he went out partying at the weekends. Back when the club scene in England hadn’t caught on to how times were changing and they were locked in some sad 1980s Working Man’s Club style. And the kids at the time wanted to get stoned out of their minds on E and dance til the sun came up in some abandoned warehouse somewhere. Oh yeah, abandoned buildings were everywhere where I grew up too. We had an old stables and warehouse not far from our house growing up that we turned into a base when we were kids. Just running around, playing with old machinery and building a den inside the stables with an old sofa and table. Just somewhere to hang out and we knew the KEEP OUT! DANGEROUS! signs all around the perimeter were enough to stop nosy people looking in. But not a bunch of 9 year olds with bikes and a need to have a base.
But I digress quite hard. Ebeneezer Goode was a massive hit in England for so long. If memory serves me correctly it sat at number one for a while before the chorus became understood and kinda stopped being played commercially after that. E’s are good, E’s are good, E’s Ebeneezer Goode. Cause of course we were all too dumb back then to see the blatant drug reference and promotion of ecstasy in the rave scene. I can forgive myself here for only being 9 at time. Early rave scene in England in was a fascinating time to be alive. Some amazing tracks were coming and the whole scene was grass roots and homegrown and ever so slightly illicit and dangerous. Just the kids wanted something that wasn’t being provided for them and they just made it. Not exactly legally. But then again Radio 1 wasn’t legal when it started. Pirate radio in the quite literal sense of being broadcast from a ship.
I was too young to really participate in the scene but it always fascinated me. And I did get to go to Lazy Sundays in Bedford. Where they would set up DJ equipment in the park and play music so loud and I can still remember walking past the speakers as a little kid of 8 or 9 and the sheer power of the bass knocked me off my feet. My cousin used to invite us to all the family friendly events and we went often. Oh and when he moved in he dumped all his stuff and then left to go find that weekends rave. And left this mysterious white glossy box in the hallway. We spent ages trying to work out how to open his fridge. When he came back the next day he explained to us, oh that’s my subwoofer. Wanna hear it? He was only allowed to turn it up that one and only time to demonstrate what it was but I swear the foundations of our house moved when he turned it up. I think it was there my lifelong love of sound that physically moves was born. Ebeneezer Goode. Great track from the early days of the rave scene, with more memories attached to it than I thought.
The Shamen - Ebeneezer Goode
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