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While the title of this post could be a rallying cry for de-junking one's life a la "Clean Sweep", it's actually a song from a film about the garbage man.
The film, which had a soundtrack of music and someone singing, began by showing a usual curbside garbage pickup: emptying cans, followed by throwing some cardboard boxes, into a conventional garbage truck. The camera focuses on the mechanism which grinds up the trash.
So far, we've watched something that just about every kid has seen on a typical trash day. The neat part was what came next.
The garbage truck goes to unload its payload. First we see the truck dumping out a LOT of trash, then we have what appears to be a giant trash compactor (think Star Wars). Then, as the doors, or walls close, the singing, the music, and the background sound effects all wind down to a stop.
There is a deafening silence as the camera stays focused on the trash terminal for a few seconds. There is a body of water in the background.
Suddenly we hear a piano music piece (higher-pitched chords, probably in the C5 region) as a loaded garbage barge slowly appears in the river and moves away from the terminal. I seem to recall its motion was downright graceful and straight as an arrow, actually reminding me of pulling a candy bar out of the wrapper and that cardboard "tray". The piano music quickly sequed into full band as the vocalist started singing "good-bye gar-ar-ar-bage, good-bye gar-ar-ar-bage," recursively to the end of the film.
Anyone know who sang that, and if there's an mp3 available?
Wonder where that garbage barge went, anyway. Did they dump it out at sea, and show the water edition of the "if every kid did it" cartoon afterwards? Or was it just to be off-loaded at another terminal for transport to a landfill further inland?
The film, which had a soundtrack of music and someone singing, began by showing a usual curbside garbage pickup: emptying cans, followed by throwing some cardboard boxes, into a conventional garbage truck. The camera focuses on the mechanism which grinds up the trash.
So far, we've watched something that just about every kid has seen on a typical trash day. The neat part was what came next.
The garbage truck goes to unload its payload. First we see the truck dumping out a LOT of trash, then we have what appears to be a giant trash compactor (think Star Wars). Then, as the doors, or walls close, the singing, the music, and the background sound effects all wind down to a stop.
There is a deafening silence as the camera stays focused on the trash terminal for a few seconds. There is a body of water in the background.
Suddenly we hear a piano music piece (higher-pitched chords, probably in the C5 region) as a loaded garbage barge slowly appears in the river and moves away from the terminal. I seem to recall its motion was downright graceful and straight as an arrow, actually reminding me of pulling a candy bar out of the wrapper and that cardboard "tray". The piano music quickly sequed into full band as the vocalist started singing "good-bye gar-ar-ar-bage, good-bye gar-ar-ar-bage," recursively to the end of the film.
Anyone know who sang that, and if there's an mp3 available?
Wonder where that garbage barge went, anyway. Did they dump it out at sea, and show the water edition of the "if every kid did it" cartoon afterwards? Or was it just to be off-loaded at another terminal for transport to a landfill further inland?
