Kula Shaker - Drink Tea (for the Love of God!)

What this video is

Released as a free Christmas 2007 web download during Kula Shaker's post-reformation period, 'Drink Tea (for the Love of God!)' functions as both comedic novelty and earnest cultural manifesto. The track and video deploy the British ritual of tea-drinking as a vehicle for psychedelic-era communalism and class-transcending solidarity — invoking George Orwell's famous 1946 essay 'A Nice Cup of Tea' and the Beatles'…

Why it matters

Represents a rare intersection of British psychedelic rock revival and animated absurdist satire in the music video format. The track's novelty-single structure — with spoken-word interludes quoting statistics and moral exhortations — echoes both the Victorian temperance broadside tradition and…