Welcome to BBC Indiana.

I'm your host, John Ocelot Mellencamp.

This week, we're discussing The Bin Men.

Well, back up a little bit.

Sociologists and internet researchers recently published a report indicating that over 75% of internet traffic from Britain is related

in some way to Facebook groups with names such as I Remember the Milkman and Mums can't do this

nowadays. However, the most prominent example and perhaps the most dramatic is the resurgence

of nostalgic reflections upon Britain's

garbage removal services, colloquially referred to as the bin men.

They arrive on scheduled days each week to remove your garbage.

Sometimes they don't show up, causing endless consternation.

In fact, experts have estimated that

easily more than half of Britain's violent assaults are directly related to bin disputes.

In examining archival materials, we've happened upon something even more surprising.

A nearly forgotten pop music single that, despite having charted on the UK Top 40 in 1986,

has not been played on any terrestrial radio station in the UK since 1989 at the absolute

latest.

Johannes Vank and the Cloghead single Bin Man Rhapsody enjoyed a brief moment of success over 35 years ago, which would seem to indicate

that this phenomenon, a fixation on a bygone time when the guys taking your trash out possessed

superhuman strength and the honor of a Ronan is an enduring one in Britain. It may have seemed to have been

lost to the ages, but from deep within BBC Indiana archives

in Switzerland County, we've procured a single extant copy.

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