Aurra - Like I Like It (Remixed Version) - 1986 - Ten Records
May 14th, 2008![]()
Aurra are currently funkily liking ‘it’ a whole lot more than a little bit and a little bit more than alot - and, in a coincidence that is both lucky and startling, it turns out this is also the totally precise amount of likiness that Aurra actually like to like.
Indeed, when you consider the vagaries of the initial description given for their preferences of ‘it’, and the resulting various disastrous outcomes which could have thus prevailed (it is possible, for example, that they could have ended up only liking ‘it’ a little bit less than a lot or - heaven forbid - a whole lot less than a little bit) this is really something of a coup and is an excellent result you should be very very proud of.
An excellent result I should be proud of ?
Absolutely.
After all, the ‘it’ they are referring to is you… and your incredible sexual prowess.
Really ? I’ve only ever received written complaints about my performance before, so to hear a compliment via the medium of song is certainly a bit of a morale booster.
Then consider yourself well and truly boosted - as both members of Aurra are mightily thrilled with the outcome of your physical indulgences and, in short, consider you to be a bit of a shagmeister.
Errr… both members of Aurra..?
Yes.
Miss Aurra first tells us precisely how your sweet love has certainly kept her satisfied (which, although a sadly staid description of her orgasm, is an orgasm nonetheless and is thus still definitely worth shouting about) as she puts this satisfaction mostly down to the fact that deep inside… she can feel your vibes…
Ah yes, well, that will be my much vaunted vibrating penis trick. It took me years to perfect the exhausting rapid buttock clenching muscle control needed to pull it off successfully, so I’m glad it’s worked out.
Vibrating penis or not - it is, she claims, exactly like she likes it.
Mr Aurra is also very glad that you were magnanimous enough to give him your love too. In a rare moment of extreme frankness, he says he particularly likes those tantalising moments… when you show it.
Well that’s the joy of sexual expectation for you… particularly if it is already vibrating uncontrollably the moment it leaves my pants.
If it does do such a thing at that moment then it seems you have judged your target audience perfectly, as this is just as he likes it too.
In fact, so successful have you been at satisfying both members of Aurra independently, they now intend to join forces and ménage à trois you to a rather sticky end - as they are expressing an insatiable desire to spend all their love on you… til the end of time.
Which, depending upon how they are using the word ’spend’, sounds like it may well be advisable for you to plan ahead and take some pretty frequent showers - as it could be a rather messy experience.
Which is precisely like I like it.
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Oooh, Aah - Do you like Aurra just a little bit?
Yes I do.
Just a little bit.
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Ooh, Aah - Do you think it might be possible for you to like them just a little bit more ?
No, definitely not.
They are not the ones I’m searching for.
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What’s The Best Little Bit ?
The main keyboard riff - but only because the keyboard sound they have chosen to convey it with sounds exactly like the terrified cries of a small bee being waterboarded in the Apoidean equivalent of Guantanamo Bay.
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Tell Me A Whole Lot More Than A Little Bit More
I’ll do my best.
This sexually liberated twosome are the impressively named Starleana Young and doesn’t - my - name - sound - like - I - should - have - been - a - stand - up - comedian, Curt Jones. They had both previously been in a much celebrated oh so funky band I have never heard of, called Slave, and they then left to form Aurra in 1979 - but still used various members of Slave to play on the actual songs.
The full story is long, complex, and more than just a tad tedious. So here are the edited highlights :
1/ Steve Washington, the shadowy figure who propelled Aurra to the giddy heights of international total lack of success, eventually fell out with Starleana and Curt because they accused him of stealing their money as they never received any royalty cheques from the record label - despite the fact, of course, that they didn’t really have any hits.
2/ Steve, with no apparent trace of irony, refers to himself as “The Fearless Leader“.
3/ In a band overpopulation explosion that would shame even I’ve Got The Bullets, Aurra once numbered a frankly far too many 18 members.
4/ Aurra were eventually forced to change their name by Steve as he said he owned the copyright for it. They thus changed it to Deja because, with disturbing echoes of President’s Smash Hits debacle, “Starleana was looking through a dictionary and she stumbled upon the term ‘deja vu’, then came up with Déjà.”
5/ Starleana eventually married the lead singer of Kool & The Gang, whilst Curt most definitely didn’t.
Want to read a little bit more than alot more ? It is, I warn you now, an in depth article :
http://hem.bredband.net/funkyflyy/salsoul/aurra.html
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Where Aurra they now ?
Curt, allegedly, is a wedding singer :
http://www.myspace.com/curtjonesmusic
And recently released an album called 360 Degrees :
http://www.soulexpress.net/curtjones.htm
Meanwhile Starleana, it is claimed in quite a few places, jointly owns a ‘beauty parlor’ with her sister in law - although if this is true, I can’t find it’s internet page anywhere.
Apart from that, the only other thing I can tell you is that their bass player’s name is Wayne - yet he refers to himself, fascinatingly, as Buddy :
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Can I Buy Some Key Aurra Stuff ?
You certainly can :
You can also buy Aurra’s double CD called Anthology if you wish - although, disappointingly, it doesn’t contain Like I Like It :
It is considered a controversial release in so far as, for a band who weren’t particularly very famous, some people feel two CD’s may be a tad overdoing it.
The best review from someone who actually claims to like them ?
“I WENT TO THEIR CONCERT IN SAN DIEGO AND LOVED THEM.. BUT I DONT FAKE THE FUNK.. THEY HAVE THE NERVE TO RELEASE A 2 CD GREATEST HITS.. WHAT A JOKE.”
I repeat : He doesn’t fake the funk.
Well, who would ?
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Money Update
Cost : 8 Pence
Current Value : 1 pound and 83 pence. This is, I had entirely forgotten, a ‘remixed version’ and… it isn’t worth as much as the original. Incidentally, did you know that the word Kia-Ora is Māori for “be well/healthy” ? I didn’t :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kia_ora
Don’t care ? Just want to watch the advert ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LvLn9PWln8
Something else totally useless I learnt today : the reason why Kia-Ora claims to be too orangey for crows… is because crows are apparently intolerant of citrus fruit. Want to learn more about man’s coexistence with crows in, errr, Japan ? It is more interesting than you would perhaps think…
http://www.airies.or.jp/publication/ger/pdf/07-02-11.pdf
Current Profit : 190 pounds and 95 pence. We’re going up again, Hurrah ! OK, it’s only by an increment best described as a tiny bit more than a little bit and one fuck lot less than alot, but up is up - and up… is like I like it.
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