A long day spent sorting through Bratmobile and J Church material yielded some results.

Couldn't find "Sticks Diary" by Angelic Upstarts, a song with a plot from "Last Train To Clarksville" that is funny in a very Elvis Costello/Buzzcocks kind of way...Cloyishness For Dummies....like a good Elvis or Pete Shelley song, Sticks Diary reveals both vulnerability and mild meanness, in a likable way, in the context of a long, slightly serious, over-the-top story of a guy who really likes Karen, the sister of the band as narrators of the song....

Here's one I actually found, Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, which also displays a very uncanny way of producing politically correct results. It is so odd; to deal with the fox hunt, one must be very slightly clunky in order not to offend! It takes a great deal of political intelligence to deal with the issues in this song. If Massachusetts were in England, Angelic Upstarts would be from Metro West. A few moments of onstage behaviour, in a clip added at the end, gives the lie to the serious, straight MOR nature of the video.