Would this be a bad time to admit I liked Disco Duck?   :-[
Can I call this record annoying?

Can I call this record annoying?


Call it what you want. ;)

I think the reason I like it so much is when it came out I was about 5 and living with my dad.  Every Saturday we would go out for breakfast and he would let me play it on the jukebox in the restaurant.  It is probably the good memories that make me like it.

Call it what you want. ;)

I think the reason I like it so much is when it came out I was about 5 and living with my dad.  Every Saturday we would go out for breakfast and he would let me play it on the jukebox in the restaurant.  It is probably the good memories that make me like it.



Sometimes bad songs can spark good memories.  Someone mentioned Tennessee Bird Walk and that song reminds me of my sisters and I kind of acting it out-if you can imagine that.  :D :D ;D ;D ;D



Cat

how can you not love Convoy!

how can you not love Convoy!


Breaker 1-9, Breaker 1-9. Got a copy on me PigPen?  :D ;D ;D



Cat

how can you not love Convoy!
I have the single (somewhere) and saw the film.

Ooh, another bad one-Shirley and Squirrelly. That was a Grammy winning song if there ever was one-NOT!!!  ::)



Cat

Short People...Randy Newman - I can't see how this horrible novelty song ever charted. It reached
#2 on the charts, Debby Boones's "You Light Up My Life," is what kept it from reaching #1.

Short People...Randy Newman - I can't see how this horrible novelty song ever charted. It reached
#2 on the charts, Deddy Boones's "You Light Up My Life," is what kept it from reaching #1.
You Light Up My Life, now that was one dire movie.

Walk on the Wild Side was one song that everyone I knew hated it.
It did well on the charts but I have only met a handful of people who liked it.

Paul Anka "Having My Baby"

Ooh, another bad one-Shirley and Squirrelly. That was a Grammy winning song if there ever was one-NOT!!!  ::)


Now you've done it.  Hark!  Let your ears feast upon Gloria Balsam and her 1972 smash hit:  FLUFFY!

Paul Anka "Having My Baby"



Gotta say that one IS  a bit 'cringe-worthy' ... well, in my book. 'Having my baby , what a beautiful way to say you love ME ....)  .... or something close to that (the lyrics).

Cynical old me kinda probably thought ..isn't that a woman's biological drive ... to be a mother at SOME point in her life ....  :-X

Of course, I don't mean ALL women .... but a lot. The fact she had the baby with you, Paul / man in the street who identifies with this ... well, maybe you were just an instrument to achieve this aim ... and now we're into an 80's song ..... 'What's love, got to do with it, what's love but ....) !  :P ;D

Now you've done it.  Hark!  Let your ears feast upon Gloria Balsam and her 1972 smash hit:  FLUFFY!



The writers of Friends must have heard this song and came up with "Smelly cat". Actually Smelly cat is better.

The song " The Way That You Do It" by Pussyfoot was pretty bad (English I think ...and was a hit for some reason in Australia) .  Here's some lyrics.....

It's not the way that you do it
But how you do it to me
It's not the way that I want it
But how you want it to be

They say that one and one make two-oo
But you and me, we know it's three
They say that we won't be happy
I wish they'd get off our tree

Ooh-na-na, Ooh-na-na-hi-ya
Ooh-na-na-hi-ya-hi-ya
Ooh-na-na, Ooh-na-na-hi-ya
Ooh-na-na-hi-ya-hi-ya

The song " The Way That You Do It" by Pussyfoot was pretty bad (English I think ...and was a hit for some reason in Australia) .  Here's some lyrics.....

It's not the way that you do it
But how you do it to me
It's not the way that I want it
But how you want it to be

They say that one and one make two-oo
But you and me, we know it's three
They say that we won't be happy
I wish they'd get off our tree

Ooh-na-na, Ooh-na-na-hi-ya
Ooh-na-na-hi-ya-hi-ya
Ooh-na-na, Ooh-na-na-hi-ya
Ooh-na-na-hi-ya-hi-ya



I hate to be the one to do this to you Peter .... being on '69' is nice ..... possibly THE highlight of anyone's time on this board .... so I've resisted doing it for a day or so .... but ..... well, nothing good lasts forever now, does it ?  ???





(I hope he'll forgive me !  :\'(  :-\\  :P ).




Oh yeah .... that Pussyfoot song ... waste of space IMHO !  ;D

I hate to be the one to do this to you Peter .... being on '69' is nice ..... possibly THE highlight of anyone's time on this board .... so I've resisted doing it for a day or so .... but ..... well, nothing good lasts forever now, does it ?  ???





(I hope he'll forgive me !   :\'(  :-\\  :P ).

Not certain what to say to that Alan...........er, thanks for stopping my 69? 8-P ;D




Oh yeah .... that Pussyfoot song ... waste of space IMHO !  ;D

Walk on the Wild Side was one song that everyone I knew hated it.
It did well on the charts but I have only met a handful of people who liked it.
You are meeting another who like this song.

Have you heard the Rolf Harris version of it?

You are meeting another who like this song.

Have you heard the Rolf Harris version of it?


I can't say that I have. In fact I've never heard of Rolf Harris.

I Googled him and found his Jukebox. He's cover of the songs are great!!! I laughed all the way through "I touch myself".

http://www.rolfharrisjukebox.com/

I can't say that I have. In fact I've never heard of Rolf Harris.

I Googled him and found his Jukebox. He's cover of the songs are great!!! I laughed all the way through "I touch myself".

http://www.rolfharrisjukebox.com/


The only song of his I'm familiar with is Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport from the 60's which is a pretty cute song.  :)

The only song of his I'm familiar with is Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport from the 60's which is a pretty cute song.  :)
Over the years Rolf Harris has become a national treasure to the UK.

You Needed Me-Anne Murray 8-P


I'll listen to that "Fluffy" song-it is just right now, I'm in the middle of doing about 500 things (as usual).



Cat

Over the years Rolf Harris has become a national treasure to the UK.


If only we could stick him in a chest, lol.

Admittedly, I liked his 'Nick Teen and Al K Hall' and the infamous 'Court of King Caractus' (how he sung that without drawing breath beats me). I used to like 'Jake the peg' but that has grated on me since.

I can't say that I have. In fact I've never heard of Rolf Harris.

I Googled him and found his Jukebox. He's cover of the songs are great!!! I laughed all the way through "I touch myself".

http://www.rolfharrisjukebox.com/



The only song of his I'm familiar with is Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport from the 60's which is a pretty cute song.  :)



Now that you mention him, I'm gonna have to download his song 'Sun Arise' which had a cool didgeridoo sound and was his UK follow up to 'Kangaroo' ...

BTW ... in checking up on 'Sun Arise' ... I found out (weird !) that this song has been covered by ALICE COOPER !!!!

Here's a 'youtube link' which I intend to see for myself for the first time:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IuUoZTNkLo

Rolf is certainly something of a character, and an all around talent. Seems he was the junior backstroke champ of Australia.  He is well loved in Britain, and seems to have been around for ever. As a child, I saw him regularly on tv, and in his show he would just grab some pots of paint, then apply these with paint brush to a large canvas on stage. Initially, you'd have no idea what he was painting, but in the space of a few minutes, a very well crafted picture would emerge. It was a very clever act, from week to week.

He was so popular there, that by the time trivial pursuit came out, whenever there was a question which required you to name a male Australian .... if you didn't know the answer, you'd say 'Rolf Harris' (just cos he was about the ONLY Australian many Brits had heard of at that time !).  ;D

Interestingly, in the 60's .... a decade that introduced us to the Beatles, Stones, Doors, Hendrix, etc; ... it was middle of the road 'Rolf Harris' who had the last UK #1 of the 'swinging sixties'. It was with a song written in the early part of the 20th C, a sentimental music hall song called 'Two little Boys'. It spent 6 weeks at No. 1


In the years that I moved to Australia, I lost touch with Rolf's career. Stangely, it almost seems that people here don't want to talk about him / acknowledge his existence .... well, I never saw him on tv here till just a few years ago. Maybe cos he's in his 70's now and finally getting the local recognition ?

When I saw him in the UK back in the 90's, he'd moved into presenting a weekly program called 'Animal Hospital'. It revolved around pet owners bringing their sick animals to the vets for treatment. We would be updated on the pets progress week by week, if it had survival chances.  One week, Rolf told us about a certain person's animal that had died, and it was quite obvious that Rolf was VERY moved. He became a very real loveable person to me in that instant.

More recently he has hosted a program called 'Star Portraits', and was commissioned to paint a portrait of the Queen for her 80th birthday, which received great publicity, not to mention a few critics ...


Finally, he did an amusing cover of the Led Zeppelin song 'Stairway to Heaven' in the 90's. Seems he'd never heard their version at the time (so he claims). Reportedly, some of the Zeppelin fans were so aghast, he received death threats !  ::)

If only we could stick him in a chest, lol.

Admittedly, I liked his 'Nick Teen and Al K Hall' and the infamous 'Court of King Caractus' (how he sung that without drawing breath beats me). I used to like 'Jake the peg' but that has grated on me since.
Rolf Harris did have a Christmas Number One Single with his Two Little Boys.

You Needed Me-Anne Murray 8-P


I'll listen to that "Fluffy" song-it is just right now, I'm in the middle of doing about 500 things (as usual).



Cat
Then Boyzone recorded the same song much later on?

I can't say that I have. In fact I've never heard of Rolf Harris.

I Googled him and found his Jukebox. He's cover of the songs are great!!! I laughed all the way through "I touch myself".

http://www.rolfharrisjukebox.com/


Oh my God! I've just listened to 'I touch myself', ha ha! The dirty old man really does sound like he's doing that as well.  ;D

Rolf Harris did have a Christmas Number One Single with his Two Little Boys.


Indeed he did. I used to listen to that on my dad's record player when I was liittle. :)

Oh my God! I've just listened to 'I touch myself', ha ha! The dirty old man really does sound like he's doing that as well.  ;D
I think that I have not heard this track yet, but I soon will be.

I think that I have not heard this track yet, but I soon will be.


and the Alice one I mentioned ? (above ^^^^^^) ?

I think that I have not heard this track yet, but I soon will be.


Lol. It's an experience. I thought Rolf was so clean-cut as well.  ;D

and the Alice one I mentioned ? (above ^^^^^^) ?
One great, singing another great.

The intro sounds the same for "Spirit In The Sky"

Lol. It's an experience. I thought Rolf was so clean-cut as well.  ;D
...more tea vicar?

Rock And Roll - Part 2....Gary Glitter

Come to think of it, anything by Gary Glitter.

I like Gary Glitter. Well, at least his music. Yeah, I have bad taste.  ;D

Rock And Roll - Part 2....Gary Glitter

Come to think of it, anything by Gary Glitter.
We all know GG and the Rock And Roll - Part 2, but does anyone know the medoly or to Rock and Roll Part 1?

Now you've done it.  Hark!  Let your ears feast upon Gloria Balsam and her 1972 smash hit:  FLUFFY!



Well, thanks a lot. I have totally forgotten about that song-and gladly, too. But you just HAD to refresh my memory, huh?  >:( >:( >:(  That really ranks (and yes, it is pretty rank) up there with William Shatner's Lucy in the Sky, doesn't it.  http://www.inthe00s.com/smile/14/puke.gif



Cat

We all know GG and the Rock And Roll - Part 2, but does anyone know the medoly or to Rock and Roll Part 1?


I suspect there was no such song by Gary ?  ::)  ;D

I suspect there was no such song by Gary ?   ::)  ;D
The single was released as "Rock And Roll Parts 1 And 2"

The single was released as "Rock And Roll Parts 1 And 2"
Having a Part 1 would make the song to long?

I like Gary Glitter. Well, at least his music. Yeah, I have bad taste.  ;D


That makes two of us, lol. I like his music (including his Christmas hit 'Another rock 'n' roll Christmas', lol).

As for the man himself, well . . . Is he still in Vietnam these days?

That makes two of us, lol. I like his music (including his Christmas hit 'Another rock 'n' roll Christmas', lol).

As for the man himself, well . . . Is he still in Vietnam these days?


He OUGHT to be ... in a cell for a very long time !

Think Phil said they'd stuck him in hospital care ?

He OUGHT to be ... in a cell for a very long time !

Think Phil said they'd stuck him in hospital care ?


I just did some research, he's still serving a prison sentence but he's got heart problems . . . Apparently he did an interview a couple of years ago saying he wasn't a paedophile but didn't mention his child pornography charges . . . Hmmmmmm, lol . . .  ::)

I just did some research, he's still serving a prison sentence but he's got heart problems . . . Apparently he did an interview a couple of years ago saying he wasn't a paedophile but didn't mention his child pornography charges . . . Hmmmmmm, lol . . .  ::)


Anyone with hair like his is suspect!!!

Anyone with hair like his is suspect!!!



Thought he was bald, last time I saw him .

We all know GG and the Rock And Roll - Part 2, but does anyone know the medoly or to Rock and Roll Part 1?


Sounds just like Rock And Roll Pt.2 except it has actual lyrics.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJ4PfW5Y_mQ&feature=related

Thought he was bald, last time I saw him .


Yeah I think he had this bald head with goatee beard look. Even though I like it, I do have trouble listening to 'I love you love me love'.

Oh, I got one that is SOOOOOO bad that it is good-"My Ding-a-Ling"-Chuck Berry.  :D ;D ;D ;D




Cat

Ok I found the Last Farewell on Youtube and decided to give it another listen to,and I have to admit it's not as bad as when I heard it in the 1970's,it's not up in my top songs but at least it's not in the bottom anymore.

Ok I found the Last Farewell on Youtube and decided to give it another listen to,and I have to admit it's not as bad as when I heard it in the 1970's,it's not up in my top songs but at least it's not in the bottom anymore.



Hey, I never thought to look there. Is it a good version / is he just miming ?

Henry Gross "Shannon"

Hey, I never thought to look there. Is it a good version / is he just miming ?
Could the clip be out of sync?

Not a song, but one record that stills drives me to tears and even in its original form is "Mozart Symphony No 40" by Waldo De Los Rios. The classical tune has really lead up to detesting the majority of Moazrt's music, thus my liking for Beethoven.

Not a song, but one record that stills drives me to tears and even in its original form is "Mozart Symphony No 40" by Waldo De Los Rios. The classical tune has really lead up to detesting the majority of Moazrt's music, thus my liking for Beethoven.


I'm surprised you don't like Waldo's version. I think it's great, and find it quite energizing / optimistic, cheerful !

I'm surprised you don't like Waldo's version. I think it's great, and find it quite energizing / optimistic, cheerful !
It all stems from being forced to listen to in music at school, the days my music appreciation started.

May I humbly submit this?

(You'll probably wish I hadn't!  ;))

Okay, it's actually from 1980, but it's close enough!

The 'blurb' alongside the 'About This Video' will give you a brief lowdown on who this legendary character was!

May I humbly submit this?

(You'll probably wish I hadn't!  ;))

Okay, it's actually from 1980, but it's close enough!

The 'blurb' alongside the 'About This Video' will give you a brief lowdown on who this legendary character was!
Did you know that is was Reginald Bosanquet's father that invented "The Googly" in cricket?

Hey, I never thought to look there. Is it a good version / is he just miming ?

It's just someone playing the 45  <object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/WsbvE-Ezwg0&rel=1"
 

It's just someone playing the 45   <object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/WsbvE-Ezwg0&rel=1"
  
That is a point, I have not viewed it yet?

Elvis singing "The Last Farewell"

I never knew he recorded it.

It's just someone playing the 45  <object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/WsbvE-Ezwg0&rel=1"
 


I wonder what a 45  <object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/WsbvE-Ezwg0&rel=1"

.....  IS  :-\\    ;D

I wonder what a 45   <object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/WsbvE-Ezwg0&rel=1"

.....  IS  :-\\    ;D
Is a 45 a thing from the past?

I wonder what a 45   <object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/WsbvE-Ezwg0&rel=1"

.....  IS  :-\\    ;D

It's the same as a 78 only smaller :D

It's the same as a 78 only smaller :D



DOH !  :-[

It's the same as a 78 only smaller :D
...and a different shape than a cylinder?

...and a different shape than a cylinder?

According to Wikipedia they stopped making cylinders in 1929, http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v715/LOST_kitty_k/The%20House%20on%20the%20Rock/IMG_2332.jpg 

http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o50/boogalooomnibus/more45s.jpg  45's

http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k9/lsm221/records/Houseoftherisingsunrecordlge.jpg  78's

http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o50/boogalooomnibus/more45s.jpg  45's
Memories.

Memories.


may be beautiful, but then, those cracks and warpings that just happened, we simply choose to forget?

So it's the poppings, we won't remember, whenever we remember, the way they sucked, the way they wore !  :P ;D

may be beautiful, but then, those cracks and warpings that just happened, we simply choose to forget?

So it's the poppings, we won't remember, whenever we remember, the way they sucked, the way they wore !  :P ;D
One little scratch and that was that?

Hey ... before anyone gets on my case about vinyl records ....  :(





Let me just say,  ....





















some of my best friends were  vinyl ?  :D

A few more bad songs:

I Want Money-The Flying Lizards
Hot Child in the City (running wild smelling s**tty  :D ;D ;D) - Nick Gilder



Cat

A few more bad songs:

I Want Money-The Flying Lizards
Hot Child in the City (running wild smelling s**tty  :D ;D ;D) - Nick Gilder



Cat

I'm not sure why but I was always fond of Hot Child in The City

May I humbly submit this?

(You'll probably wish I hadn't!  ;))

Okay, it's actually from 1980, but it's close enough!

The 'blurb' alongside the 'About This Video' will give you a brief lowdown on who this legendary character was!


I had a listen to it - funny as heck! Reminds me of a 40 odd year old bloke who used to work at my place for some reason.

I had a listen to it - funny as heck! Reminds me of a 40 odd year old bloke who used to work at my place for some reason.
I seem to recall that RB used to read the news when under the influence of...

A few more bad songs:

I Want Money-The Flying Lizards
Hot Child in the City (running wild smelling s**tty  :D ;D ;D) - Nick Gilder


Interesting really because I think these two songs could have been much better with different approaches by other bands/singers.  

New Wave's Flying Lizards had a great riff to the song but then put on a stupid submarine radar type effect when it wasn't neccessary. The female singer sounded stoned as well.

As for 'Hot child in the city', I thought Nick Gilder was a woman until I heard the lyrics 'Come on down to my place, woman, We'll make love!'. I didn't realise until I did some research that the song is basically about young runaways who turn to child prostitution.

The two songs from the 70's that I really hate-

You Light Up My Life - Debby Boone
Feelings - I don't know who sings this one.

Feelings ... that song seems to come up again and again as one a bunch of you here HATE  :-X


People that I get along with, / like. So .... I'm not saying you're wrong not to like it .... just wonder what it is that provokes annoyance.

Does it seem overly sentimental ? Saccharine sweetly  sick ?

Does it make you feel too sad / take you to a place which is too painful in your life ? (You want to forget a failed romance ?).

You think he can't sing ?

You like upbeat songs / ones you can dance to ?


I expect somebody will come in and say YES .... all of the above !


Fine.


I admit it's quite a miserable feel sorry for yourself song ....like (GET OVER IT ALREADY !) .... but ..... I think it's well sung, produced / orchestrated .... and following a VERY painful breakup .... when I sang those lines 'you'll never come again' ... the realisation it was so true ...  :\'( <- Teardrops, rolling down on my face ....


Perhaps a song like this is good for getting in touch with / exploring  that side of yourself ?  :-\\

I said hello to him elsewhere recently. I think he's pretty busy with things at the moment.


Yes, Bobby. You're back, I'd knew you'd find your way back  :)

A few more bad songs:

I Want Money-The Flying Lizards
Hot Child in the City (running wild smelling s**tty  :D ;D ;D) - Nick Gilder



Cat


I like "Hot Child in the City" even though Nick Gilder sounds like a girl.

Feelings ... that song seems to come up again and again as one a bunch of you here HATE  :-X


People that I get along with, / like. So .... I'm not saying you're wrong not to like it .... just wonder what it is that provokes annoyance.

Does it seem overly sentimental ? Saccharine sweetly  sick ?

Does it make you feel too sad / take you to a place which is too painful in your life ? (You want to forget a failed romance ?).

You think he can't sing ?

You like upbeat songs / ones you can dance to ?


I expect somebody will come in and say YES .... all of the above !


Fine.


I admit it's quite a miserable feel sorry for yourself song ....like (GET OVER IT ALREADY !) .... but ..... I think it's well sung, produced / orchestrated .... and following a VERY painful breakup .... when I sang those lines 'you'll never come again' ... the realisation it was so true ...  :\'( <- Teardrops, rolling down on my face ....


Perhaps a song like this is good for getting in touch with / exploring  that side of yourself ?  :-\\
I cannot even listen to the version of Feelings played by Richard Clayderman

Maybe this tells you it's bad...when you never hear it again....BILLY, DON'T BE A HERO-By Bo Donaldson and the Haywoods(?)...whatever happened to 'BO'?
And did the Haywoods ever work again together?

Maybe this tells you it's bad...when you never hear it again....BILLY, DON'T BE A HERO-By Bo Donaldson and the Haywoods(?)...whatever happened to 'BO'?
And did the Haywoods ever work again together?
I only know Billy Don't Be A Hero from the British version be Paper Lace.

I only know Billy Don't Be A Hero from the British version be Paper Lace.


Me too.

I only know Billy Don't Be A Hero from the British version be Paper Lace.

Me too.
...and I like that song.

I cannot even listen to the version of Feelings played by Richard Clayderman



Well that may be ... Philip ... but as for my actual probing questions ... questions that ANYONE who dislikes that song .....  and they ARE as much entitled to dislike it as I to like it ... well what about my OBJECTIVE questions .... which seem to have been ducked here  ???


The fact that you (of all people  ???  :-\\ ) seem to shy away from objective /rational thought as to the 'whys' .... suggests to me that you are not so much thinking with your brain .... it's just more of a 'Feeling'    ???  ...          (nothing more than  ... 'feelings'    :P :D ).

Well that may be ... Philip ... but as for my actual probing questions ... questions that ANYONE who dislikes that song .....  and they ARE as much entitled to dislike it as I to like it ... well what about my OBJECTIVE questions .... which seem to have been ducked here   ???


The fact that you (of all people  ???  :-\\ ) seem to shy away from objective /rational thought as to the 'whys' .... suggests to me that you are not so much thinking with your brain .... it's just more of a 'Feeling'    ???  ...          (nothing more than  ... 'feelings'    :P :D ).
...putting into another context, I do not like playing on the keyboards when my wife requests it.

...putting into another context, I do not like playing on the keyboards when my wife requests it.


< gives up.

< gives up.
Are there any more songs... ?

Feelings ... that song seems to come up again and again as one a bunch of you here HATE  :-X

Not me...I can live with it, albeit in smallish doses!

just wonder what it is that provokes annoyance.

Does it seem overly sentimental ?

This is probably the best reason...yet at the same time, the whole thing seems to lack sincerity (to my ears at any rate)...fiendishly difficult to explain...

I admit it's quite a miserable feel sorry for yourself song ....like (GET OVER IT ALREADY !) .... but ..... I think it's well sung, produced / orchestrated .... and following a VERY painful breakup .... when I sang those lines 'you'll never come again' ... the realisation it was so true ...  :\'( <- Teardrops, rolling down on my face ....


Heh! Even Reginald's effort would seem like a miserable, feel-sorry-for-yourself song following a very painful breakup...

Not me...I can live with it, albeit in smallish doses!

This is probably the best reason...yet at the same time, the whole thing seems to lack sincerity (to my ears at any rate)...fiendishly difficult to explain...

Heh! Even Reginald's effort would seem like a miserable, feel-sorry-for-yourself song following a very painful breakup...



This is probably the best reason...yet at the same time, the whole thing seems to lack sincerity (to my ears at any rate)...fiendishly difficult to explain...



^

Well, I can live with THAT criticism .... maybe it does lack 'sincerity' ..... a delivery too slick for its own good ?  :-\\



Still, whoever wrote the lyrics seemed to appreciate the pain and thought processes  common to a lot of broken hearts .....  :-X

That Flying Lizards song was awesome for one reason only.  It was apparently recorded in a basement on real cheap equipment for like super low money, which is why it sounds like it was recorded in a basement on real cheap equipment for super low money LOL

That Flying Lizards song was awesome for one reason only.  It was apparently recorded in a basement on real cheap equipment for like super low money, which is why it sounds like it was recorded in a basement on real cheap equipment for super low money LOL
Of course the Beatles have a version of Money.

One song I never much cared for (though I will still listen to it) was 'Drugs in My Pocket' by The Monks.  Here in Canada, it was a massive hit in early 1980, but it was recorded in 1978 and released on their 1979 album 'Bad Habits'

'Drugs in My Pocket' was the second (and final) Hudson-Ford song to chart in Canada since The Strawbs with 'Part of the Union' in 1973

That Flying Lizards song was awesome for one reason only.  It was apparently recorded in a basement on real cheap equipment for like super low money, which is why it sounds like it was recorded in a basement on real cheap equipment for super low money LOL



Hey ! What's that ugly looking Canuck doing in THIS thread !  >:(
http://www.inthe00s.com/avatars_custom/avatar_4297.png


Play 'Feelings' ; Disco Duck; 'Don't give up on us baby'













ANYTHING to keep THAT face out of here !!!  >:( :\'( 




















:D ;D :D

Feelings ... that song seems to come up again and again as one a bunch of you here HATE  :-X


People that I get along with, / like. So .... I'm not saying you're wrong not to like it .... just wonder what it is that provokes annoyance.

Does it seem overly sentimental ? Saccharine sweetly  sick ?

Does it make you feel too sad / take you to a place which is too painful in your life ? (You want to forget a failed romance ?).

You think he can't sing ?

You like upbeat songs / ones you can dance to ?


I expect somebody will come in and say YES .... all of the above !


Fine.


I admit it's quite a miserable feel sorry for yourself song ....like (GET OVER IT ALREADY !) .... but ..... I think it's well sung, produced / orchestrated .... and following a VERY painful breakup .... when I sang those lines 'you'll never come again' ... the realisation it was so true ...  :\'( <- Teardrops, rolling down on my face ....


Perhaps a song like this is good for getting in touch with / exploring  that side of yourself ?  :-\\



Who is to say why someone likes/dislikes something.


What that song reminds me of is a skit on the Carol Burnette Show where she was doing the character Eunice and she was going to go on the Gong Show-and sing that song. Yeah, you can guess what happened. She got gonged.



Cat

Feelings ... that song seems to come up again and again as one a bunch of you here HATE  :-X


People that I get along with, / like. So .... I'm not saying you're wrong not to like it .... just wonder what it is that provokes annoyance.

Does it seem overly sentimental ? Saccharine sweetly  sick ?

Does it make you feel too sad / take you to a place which is too painful in your life ? (You want to forget a failed romance ?).

You think he can't sing ?

You like upbeat songs / ones you can dance to ?


I expect somebody will come in and say YES .... all of the above !


Fine.


I admit it's quite a miserable feel sorry for yourself song ....like (GET OVER IT ALREADY !) .... but ..... I think it's well sung, produced / orchestrated .... and following a VERY painful breakup .... when I sang those lines 'you'll never come again' ... the realisation it was so true ...  :\'( <- Teardrops, rolling down on my face ....


Perhaps a song like this is good for getting in touch with / exploring  that side of yourself ?  :-\\


I suppose the song was fine the first seven or eight hundred times I heard it but then it became something to ridicule rather than enjoy. (if you enjoy hearing someone who sounds to be on the verge of slashing their wrist)
I can remember some disck jockeys were getting sick of the song.

Obviously there were those who couldn't go thirty minutes without hearing it. Those going through the same experience no doubt, misery loves company.

For me it was simply so over played. You couldn't help but point out any flaw even if just percieved and it went down hill from there.
It may not be fair to the writer, performer or even to those who truly like/love the song but that's the reality of it.

Now if I could just get Achy Breaky Heart out of my head.   :\'(

Now if I could just get Achy Breaky Heart out of my head.   :\'(


'Fraid once you've heard it, you can't 'un-hear' it... :-\\

No, no, no, no, I don't (sniff) no more. Tired of waking up on the floor. No thank you please it only makes me sneeze and then it makes it hard to find me door.


Gotta love Ringo even if he does come out with a bad song.  :D ;D ;D ;D



Cat

Now if I could just get Achy Breaky Heart out of my head.  :\'(


You made some good comments in your post '66' ....  :) .... the most salient being about 'achy' .... yes ...that truly IS awful !  8-P


If somebody defends that one .....  ::)


Actually ... one from the 70's nobody seems to have mentioned .... that I loved to hate .... was '(Little) Jimmy Osmond's 'Long Haired lover from Liverpool' !

Somehow, it managed to get to UK #1 for 5 weeks  ::) :\'( (the pain ! the pain!) .... back in 1972. Seems to this day at close to 10 years of age ( 9 years, 251 days) ... he remains the youngest ever UK chart topper (?)


The song was just so un-cool, delivered by a very ordinary hard to listen to voice (to my ears), overly dependent on the 'cute factor' ...oh ....listen to that nice little boy ....isn't that 'darling'  :-*  ???  8-P  ....yeah probably the worst song of that year IMHO

Oh .... how COULD I forget ..... American Pie ! Also on the charts first in 1972 (UK, at least) for 16 painful weeks ! I know its got interesting lyrics ..... BUT  :-\\  .... I don't think I minded the song perhaps the first 5 or 6 times .... it's just it seems to be one of those songs that go on FOREVER .... (heard the first verse ? sounds like the second and the 15 th and the .....  8-P).

Don can sing though .... and he redeemed himself for me .... with the UK follow up, the beautiful 'Vincent' (also 1972).

"I've Never Been to Me" - Charlene

"I've Never Been to Me" - Charlene


Yes ....evenI, the 70's song tragic, agree with that one!

"I've Never Been to Me" - Charlene



Yes ....evenI, the 70's song tragic, agree with that one!



Well, my fellow Aussies .... 'two out of three' ain't bad ?  :-\\  ..... yes, once again I admit to questionable tastes, as in not minding this one .... though it probably got played to death. Don't think it's in my 5000 or more mp3 collection, though ....  :-\\


Nice to see you again Amanda (mooster).  :)  Been up to anything interesting ?

"I've Never Been to Me" - Charlene
Has this song been analysed yet?

Has this song been analysed yet?



Anal -ised ? Where's Jeff when you need him !  ???  :P  ;D

Yes ....evenI, the 70's song tragic, agree with that one!


From one 70s song tragic to another - I'm glad to hear it !

Another one I thought of is Having My Baby by Paul Anka  ::)





Well, my fellow Aussies .... 'two out of three' ain't bad ?  :-\\  ..... yes, once again I admit to questionable tastes, as in not minding this one .... though it probably got played to death. Don't think it's in my 5000 or more mp3 collection, though ....  :-\\


Nice to see you again Amanda (mooster).  :)  Been up to anything interesting ?


Hello Alan  :)  No, nothing interesting - except being housebound now due to breaking my ankle yesterday  :-[

From one 70s song tragic to another - I'm glad to hear it !

Another one I thought of is Having My Baby by Paul Anka  ::)





Hello Alan  :)  No, nothing interesting - except being housebound now due to breaking my ankle yesterday  :-[








As for 'Having my baby' ... I've given my quite in depth thoughts on THAT one earlier in this thread, Amanda.



Re your ankle .... read about that in my cheer me up thread ...... (commented there)...


So, since your housebound, will we see a bit more of you hear for a while ?  How long before you should be right ?

From one 70s song tragic to another - I'm glad to hear it !

Another one I thought of is Having My Baby by Paul Anka  ::)



Hello Alan  :)  No, nothing interesting - except being housebound now due to breaking my ankle yesterday  :-[


Ouch!

Get well soon.

Is there a connection between "Having My Baby" by Paul Anka and "I've Never Been to Me" by Charlene?

As for 'Having my baby' ... I've given my quite in depth thoughts on THAT one earlier in this thread, Amanda.



I'll have to check that out  ;)



Re your ankle .... read about that in my cheer me up thread ...... (commented there)...


So, since your housebound, will we see a bit more of you hear for a while ?  How long before you should be right ?

Ah thanks  :)  Yes, I am bored already  ;D  I'm off work for at least a week at this stage...

Ouch!

Get well soon.

Is there a connection between "Having My Baby" by Paul Anka and "I've Never Been to Me" by Charlene?


Hi Philip ! Many thanks  :)

Hmmm...a connection....I'll get back to you  :D

Hi Philip ! Many thanks  :)
No problem.

Hmmm...a connection....I'll get back to you  :D
To help you and all of us out, both songs mention about having babies.

To help you and all of us out, both songs mention about having babies.


Yes, that's quite right ! :o

Yes, that's quite right ! :o
Can these songs be the blame for the modern tread in single parent mothers?

Can these songs be the blame for the modern tread in single parent mothers?


You may have a point there...  ???

Actually ... one from the 70's nobody seems to have mentioned .... that I loved to hate .... was '(Little) Jimmy Osmond's 'Long Haired lover from Liverpool' !

Somehow, it managed to get to UK #1 for 5 weeks  ::) :\'( (the pain ! the pain!) .... back in 1972.

And I'm sad to say you can partially blame me for that, as I was one of the hordes who bought the sodding thing (after saving up several months-worth of pocket money!)

C'mon...I was only five! I hadn't discovered 'taste' then!  :P

My elder sister (being a rabid David Cassidy freak back in the day) actually disowned me for a while when she found out it was in the house!  :D

Seems to this day at close to 10 years of age ( 9 years, 251 days) ... he remains the youngest ever UK chart topper (?)

Sure does! Technically, it should go to the vocalist on the St. Winifred's debacle of 1980, as she was younger, but she cannot be classified as the youngest act as she was part of a 'group'...

The song was just so un-cool, delivered by a very ordinary hard to listen to voice (to my ears), overly dependent on the 'cute factor' ...oh ....listen to that nice little boy ....isn't that 'darling'   :-*   ???  8-P  ....yeah probably the worst song of that year IMHO

Such is Jim's sense of humour that he'd probably agree with you!

Obviously, the song was written a few years before as a homage to The Beatles...when this was pointed out to Little Jim at the time, he responded...

'Who are The Beatles?'

Bless...

And I'm sad to say you can partially blame me for that, as I was one of the hordes who bought the sodding thing (after saving up several months-worth of pocket money!)

C'mon...I was only five! I hadn't discovered 'taste' then!  :P

I think we cannot judge musical taste of five year old children. The children can only be influenced by what they hear and cannot be responsible, for later on in life better music will be heard.

"All By Myself" by Eric Carmen.

Anything by Englebert Humperdinck.  :P

"All By Myself" by Eric Carmen.
I have always admired this song for Eric Carmen used a theme from Rachmaninov 2nd Piano Concerto for this song.

Yes, I lost some interest in this song when Celine Dion started to sing it.

"I've Never Been to Me" - Charlene



I am sure that I am going to be laughed out of town for this one but I actually like this song. I'm sure I'm probably the only one who does.  :-[




Cat

"I've Never Been to Me" - Charlene


I am sure that I am going to be laughed out of town for this one but I actually like this song. I'm sure I'm probably the only one who does.  :-[




Cat
I found the song curious the first time I heard it.

Anything by Englebert Humperdinck.  :P


I'll grant you he's made one or two ropey efforts, but by and large his output is fantastic (especially his late 60s work)...

I'll grant you he's made one or two ropey efforts, but by and large his output is fantastic (especially his late 60s work)...
...and Englebert Humperdinck is still performing today

...and Englebert Humperdinck is still performing today


Yep...still dincking his Humper... :D

Yep...still dincking his Humper... :D
...in Vegas?

...in Vegas?


No...I think he Humps his dinckle in Vegas!

We don't allow that sort of thing here!  :o

I cannot even listen to the version of Feelings played by Richard Clayderman


I can't even listen to Richard Clayderman!  :P

I can think of some real dreadful songs from the 70's

The Pipkins~~Gimme Dat Ding
Melba Montgomery~~No Charge
Carol Douglas~~ Doctor's Orders

I just found this site, I must say, I'm enjoying it all so far!

I can think of some real dreadful songs from the 70's

The Pipkins~~Gimme Dat Ding
Melba Montgomery~~No Charge
Carol Douglas~~ Doctor's Orders

I just found this site, I must say, I'm enjoying it all so far!



Another ^ victim ? Oops !  person with great taste !  8)  Welcome to the site !  ;D

I can't even listen to Richard Clayderman!  :P
Exactly, give him any tune and he will murder it!

I can think of some real dreadful songs from the 70's

The Pipkins~~Gimme Dat Ding


Interesting one that because I like it but get annoyed by that hi-pitched singer at the same time.

I can think of some real dreadful songs from the 70's

The Pipkins~~Gimme Dat Ding
The Pipkins were Roger Greenaway, best known as a member of several songwriting teams and Tony Burrows, singer who had fronted several groups (often simultaneously) such as Edison Lighthouse, White Plains, First Class,and Brotherhood of Man.

The Pipkins were Roger Greenaway, best known as a member of several songwriting teams and Tony Burrows, singer who had fronted several groups (often simultaneously) such as Edison Lighthouse, White Plains, First Class,and Brotherhood of Man.


There was that legendary episode of Top Of The Tops* which featured Edison, White Plains and Brotherhood Of Man who were all charting at the same time (early 1970) and poor Tony had to perform vocal duties on all three, trying to appear inconspicuously different every time!

(* Sadly, I don't know if it still exits...I'd love to see it!)

Exactly, give him any tune and he will murder it!


Yes, and I was subjected to him time and again at this one restaurant I used to work at years ago...

...drove me crazy!  :P

Bilbo, Bilbo Baggins. Bravest little hobbit of the all.  :D ;D ;D ;D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFR-8NVjw-k



Cat

Bilbo, Bilbo Baggins. Bravest little hobbit of the all.  :D ;D ;D ;D


Illogical, captain...

Illogical, captain...



;D ;D ;D

Personally, I prefer "Spock"'s Bilbo to "Kirk"'s Lucy.  8-P



Cat

Yes, and I was subjected to him time and again at this one restaurant I used to work at years ago...

...drove me crazy!  :P
During the late 70s I took my girlfriend now wife for a meal at a restaurant in one of the back roads of the West End in London. The food was atroucious and but what made it worse for over the sound system was played "Three Times A Lady" by The Commodores, then straight after "Three Times A Lady" by The Commodores was played again, and it must had been played about six times continously. We left as soon as we could.

During the late 70s I took my girlfriend now wife for a meal at a restaurant in one of the back roads of the West End in London. The food was atroucious and but what made it worse for over the sound system was played "Three Times A Lady" by The Commodores, then straight after "Three Times A Lady" by The Commodores was played again, and it must had been played about six times continously. We left as soon as we could.


Yes, that would get old real fast!  :P

During the late 70s I took my girlfriend now wife for a meal at a restaurant in one of the back roads of the West End in London. The food was atroucious and but what made it worse for over the sound system was played "Three Times A Lady" by The Commodores, then straight after "Three Times A Lady" by The Commodores was played again, and it must had been played about six times continously. We left as soon as we could.



I like that song but not THAT much.



Cat

I like that song but not THAT much.



Cat
Even now, I am not that fond of it.

A few of mine that I don't like, but they managed to do well on the charts. I find most of these boring:

- Song Of Joy - Miguel Rios
- All Kinds Of Everything - Dana - she just rattles off all these objects that she loves, then says "All kinds of everything remind me of you. Ugh. Reached no. 1 in the UK, not sure how it did in Australia
- Disco Lady - Johnnie Taylor
- Ball Of Confusion - Temptations
- Magnet And Steel - can't remember the singer
- Silly Love Songs - Paul McCartney and Wings
- Paul Anka's songs after You're Having My Baby: One Man Woman (One Woman Man), I Don't Like To Sleep Alone, etc.
- Heaven On The 7th Floor - ?
- Let Her In - John Travolta - lame
- Average White Band's songs - Pick Up The Pieces, Cut The Cake
- He Don't Love You (Like I Love You) - Tony Orlando and Dawn
- Love On A Two-Way Street - Moments

A few of mine that I don't like, but they managed to do well on the charts. I find most of these boring:

- Song Of Joy - Miguel Rios
- All Kinds Of Everything - Dana - she just rattles off all these objects that she loves, then says "All kinds of everything remind me of you. Ugh. Reached no. 1 in the UK, not sure how it did in Australia
- Disco Lady - Johnnie Taylor
- Ball Of Confusion - Temptations
- Magnet And Steel - can't remember the singer
- Silly Love Songs - Paul McCartney and Wings
- Paul Anka's songs after You're Having My Baby: One Man Woman (One Woman Man), I Don't Like To Sleep Alone, etc.
- Heaven On The 7th Floor - ?
- Let Her In - John Travolta - lame
- Average White Band's songs - Pick Up The Pieces, Cut The Cake
- He Don't Love You (Like I Love You) - Tony Orlando and Dawn
- Love On A Two-Way Street - Moments



- All Kinds Of Everything - Dana - she just rattles off all these objects that she loves, then says "All kinds of everything remind me of you. Ugh. Reached no. 1 in the UK, not sure how it did in Australia


^

A song I like very much. One of the best in mostly rubbish songs that have won the Eurovision song contest. She beat Mary Hopkin that year, who represented the UK with 'Knock knock, who's there' (a song I also like).

Ball of Confusion ? Don't know how anyone could knock that ?  :-\\

Yes, there we have 3 songs, from my fave ever year ..... 1970 !  8)

During the late 70s I took my girlfriend now wife for a meal at a restaurant in one of the back roads of the West End in London. The food was atroucious and but what made it worse for over the sound system was played "Three Times A Lady" by The Commodores, then straight after "Three Times A Lady" by The Commodores was played again, and it must had been played about six times continously. We left as soon as we could.

This song has two different meanings to me,on the one hand I like the song because I think of my mother,but then when I was pregnant with my son my husband use to sing "your once, twice, three times the size when I married you" so that lost all meaning to the song.


A few of mine that I don't like, but they managed to do well on the charts. I find most of these boring:

- Song Of Joy - Miguel Rios
- All Kinds Of Everything - Dana - she just rattles off all these objects that she loves, then says "All kinds of everything remind me of you. Ugh. Reached no. 1 in the UK, not sure how it did in Australia
- Disco Lady - Johnnie Taylor
- Ball Of Confusion - Temptations
- Magnet And Steel - can't remember the singer
- Silly Love Songs - Paul McCartney and Wings
- Paul Anka's songs after You're Having My Baby: One Man Woman (One Woman Man), I Don't Like To Sleep Alone, etc.
- Heaven On The 7th Floor - ?
- Let Her In - John Travolta - lame
- Average White Band's songs - Pick Up The Pieces, Cut The Cake
- He Don't Love You (Like I Love You) - Tony Orlando and Dawn
- Love On A Two-Way Street - Moments

Magnet & Steel is by Walter Egan and I kinda like that song
Heaven on The 7th floor was Paul Nicholas,that song i did not like.

This song has two different meanings to me,on the one hand I like the song because I think of my mother,but then when I was pregnant with my son my husband use to sing "your once, twice, three times the size when I married you" so that lost all meaning to the song.
  ;D

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A few of mine that I don't like, but they managed to do well on the charts. I find most of these boring:

- Song Of Joy - Miguel Rios

It was this song and the influence from A Clockwork Orange that introduced me to Beethoven's music, which has stuck for my whole life.

Thought of some more.

Billy, Don't Be A Hero by Paper Lace
Torn Between Two Lovers by Mary McGregor
Seasons In The Sun by Terry Jacks 8-P

Magnet & Steel is by Walter Egan and I kinda like that song


Yep, Magnet and Steel is a good song, very bouncy in it's own subtle way.

Thought of some more.

Billy, Don't Be A Hero by Paper Lace
Torn Between Two Lovers by Mary McGregor
Seasons In The Sun by Terry Jacks 8-P





I actually liked Seasons in the Sun when it first came out-until my sister bought the 45 and played it over and over and over and over and over again. After she was done playing so many times, she would put it back on and play it again and again and again. Now, I can't stand to hear it.


Cat

I actually liked Seasons in the Sun when it first came out-until my sister bought the 45 and played it over and over and over and over and over again. After she was done playing so many times, she would put it back on and play it again and again and again. Now, I can't stand to hear it.


Cat



You were the black sheep
























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black cat ^ of the family ?  :P

You were the black sheep
























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black cat ^ of the family ?  :P




Of course-still am.  ;D ;D ;D



Cat

I am probably going to hear a lot of grief for this but a real bad song of the 70's is:

Desperado....Eagles

To me this song is in the *John Mellencamp category.

* - The John Mellencamp category is so named because I would rather have my fingernails ripped out by
    a pair of rusty pliers than have to listen to these songs.

I am probably going to hear a lot of grief for this but a real bad song of the 70's is:

Desperado....Eagles

To me this song is in the *John Mellencamp category.

* - The John Mellencamp category is so named because I would rather have my fingernails ripped out by
    a pair of rusty pliers than have to listen to these songs.



Desperado ... doesn't do it for you ?  ???






Loki here, Loki ... ..... 'why don't you come to your senses' ?  :P



Well, I don't 'mind' it ... but no, amongst their offerings, I don't find it indispensable either ....

Dancing Machine - Jackson 5

I am probably going to hear a lot of grief for this but a real bad song of the 70's is:

Desperado....Eagles

To me this song is in the *John Mellencamp category.

* - The John Mellencamp category is so named because I would rather have my fingernails ripped out by
    a pair of rusty pliers than have to listen to these songs.


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I can't believe my ears eyes. One of the classic songs of the 1970s reduced to being associated with John Mellencamp! :o :o

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I can't believe my ears eyes. One of the classic songs of the 1970s reduced to being associated with John Mellencamp! :o :o

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Desperado one of the songs of the 70's with a deep meaning to the lyrics.

I am probably going to hear a lot of grief for this but a real bad song of the 70's is:

Desperado....Eagles

To me this song is in the *John Mellencamp category.

* - The John Mellencamp category is so named because I would rather have my fingernails ripped out by
     a pair of rusty pliers than have to listen to these songs.

Desperado I feel is a great song,and I also like most of John Mellencamps songs.

Desperado I feel is a great song,and I also like most of John Mellencamps songs.
Is the John Mellencamp version on youTube?

Come on, don't give someone a hard time just because he doesn't like Desperado just like not giving someone a hard time because they like the song Feelings. It is all subjective.




Cat

I am probably going to hear a lot of grief for this but a real bad song of the 70's is:

Desperado....Eagles


WHAT?!?!?!?!  :o :o :o


Ah, dude!  That's one of my Top 5 all-time favorite songs!

I am probably going to hear a lot of grief for this but a real bad song of the 70's is:

Desperado....Eagles

To me this song is in the *John Mellencamp category.

* - The John Mellencamp category is so named because I would rather have my fingernails ripped out by
     a pair of rusty pliers than have to listen to these songs.


Well, you know me...I don't care much for the Eagles anyway, so no grief coming from me.

Come on, don't give someone a hard time just because he doesn't like Desperado just like not giving someone a hard time because they like the song Feelings. It is all subjective.


Morris Albert singing 'Desperado'...that'd test your allegiances!  ;)

Morris Albert singing 'Desperado'...that'd test your allegiances!  ;)
Please bear in mind that "Feelings" was also recorded and performed by many other artists, such as Ella Fitzgerald, Nina Simone, Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, Sarah Vaughan, Johnny Mathis, Ray Conniff and The Offspring.

Love to hear the verison by The Offspring.

Please bear in mind that "Feelings" was also recorded and performed by many other artists, such as Ella Fitzgerald, Nina Simone, Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, Sarah Vaughan, Johnny Mathis, Ray Conniff and The Offspring.

Love to hear the verison by The Offspring.


Here you go...  ::)


Makes you appreciate the Morris Albert version...

Here you go...  ::)
Thanks

Here you go...  ::)
Ear-plugs at the ready...

Makes you appreciate the Morris Albert version...
In a way...

The style reminds me when I was in (very amateurish) band at an old work of mine and we did a punk version of the Postman Pat song.

In a way...

The style reminds me when I was in (very amateurish) band at an old work of mine and we did a punk version of the Postman Pat song.


;D ;D No YouTube clip of that, I assume?

;D ;D No YouTube clip of that, I assume?
I am sorry, camera technology was not well advance back then.

Here you go...  ::)


Makes you appreciate the Morris Albert version...



Do I have to? I'm sorry, I'm just not THAT MUCH of a glutton for punishment. I have heard many people sing that song and all of them really suck because...well...the song REALLY SUCKS (Sorry Alan-I just can't handle that song).


Cat

Do I have to? I'm sorry, I'm just not THAT MUCH of a glutton for punishment. I have heard many people sing that song and all of them really suck because...well...the song REALLY SUCKS (Sorry Alan-I just can't handle that song).


Cat


Of course you don't have to... but I know you want to.  ::) :D :P

Of course you don't have to... but I know you want to.  ::) :D :P



I have a wicked headache as it is-I don't think I would be able to survive listening to that.



Cat

I have a wicked headache as it is-I don't think I would be able to survive listening to that.



Cat


In that case...better not. ;)

Did anyone mention "Billy don't be a Hero" by Bo Donaldson?

Okay, I want to set the record straight. To me, the Eagles are nothing more than a glorified Country band.
The song, Desperado, may be a 70's classic but that doesn't make it a good song. All it means is a lot of
radio stations play it. Of course this is strictly my opinion but the song drones on, it's too slow, the melody
is boring and the vocals are raspy. Whenever I hear this song I want to take the radio and heave it against
a wall, and with the radio station we listen to at work, this is an everyday occurrence.



Come on, don't give someone a hard time just because he doesn't like Desperado just like not giving someone a hard time because they like the song Feelings. It is all subjective.


Karma +1, Thanks for the understanding Cat.  :)

Okay, I want to set the record straight. To me, the Eagles are nothing more than a glorified Country band.
The song, Desperado, may be a 70's classic but that doesn't make it a good song. All it means is a lot of
radio stations play it. Of course this is strictly my opinion but the song drones on, it's too slow, the melody
is boring and the vocals are raspy. Whenever I hear this song I want to take the radio and heave it against
a wall, and with the radio station we listen to at work, this is an everyday occurrence.


I'm all with you when it comes to the Eagles.

Karma for refraining from busting a radio (or two). ;)

I'm all with you when it comes to the Eagles.

Karma for refraining from busting a radio (or two). ;)


Henk, my apologies, I meant to include this quote as well, I can be so absent minded. ;D


Well, you know me...I don't care much for the Eagles anyway, so no grief coming from me.

Okay, I want to set the record straight. To me, the Eagles are nothing more than a glorified Country band.
The song, Desperado, may be a 70's classic but that doesn't make it a good song. All it means is a lot of
radio stations play it. Of course this is strictly my opinion but the song drones on, it's too slow, the melody
is boring and the vocals are raspy. Whenever I hear this song I want to take the radio and heave it against
a wall, and with the radio station we listen to at work, this is an everyday occurrence.


Karma +1, Thanks for the understanding Cat.  :)



I know how it is like to hate a popular song-Smoke on the Water anyone? That song just makes me cringe. The reason (and I have told this story a few times), we used to live next door to this kid who had a garage band-and that was the ONLY song they knew. So 24/7 (or so it seemed) that was all we heard-and they were pretty bad, too. And there was no turning the station, lowering the volume or even turning it off.  8-P  So, to this day, I can't hear that song without cringing.



Cat

DO NOT CLICK HERE!

DO NOT CLICK HERE!


For the 33 seconds I was listening to it, it was alright I suppose . . . If a little dreary.

...little dreary.
Need I say more?

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I DID NOT click.



Cat

1. Jigsaw - Sky High   

Was the drummer really the singer?  He is no Don Henley or Phil Collins..........And where is the string section of the band?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZO549tEGgRI

2. Cerrone - Love In C Minor

The funny video almost makes up for the badness of this song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hK_9VXiyC3Y&feature=related

I DID NOT click.



Cat
Are you sure?

Are you sure?



Yup!  You can't make me, you can't make me.  ;D ;D ;D




Cat

Yup!  You can't make me, you can't make me.  ;D ;D ;D




Cat
I take your word for it.

I actually loved those songs except for John Travolta. 

Why Can't We Be Friends? - War  8-P

Do You Want to Make Love? - Peter McCann (I've totally HATED this song since I was a little kid - they played it last week on the 70s section of my digital music channels and I changed it next door to the 80s channel immediately)  8-P