I had no idea all these old time Hollywood stars were such big fans of Uptown Funk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1F0lBnsnkE&list=RDM1F0lBnsnkE&index=1
Tim
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1F0lBnsnkE&list=RDM1F0lBnsnkE&index=1
Tim
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Radio Ga-Ga. Defines the worst decade in pop history, it´s even worse than Life Is Life from the same year. The pinnacle of rubbish practically in everything in pop culture, so far well things are horrible in today´s "pop". The funny thing, without knowing the band´s musical history, is mission impossible to know that those guys were the best example new and very promising hard/prog act in 1974 with their finest hour, Sheer Heart Attack. Despite May´s "revolutionary" guitar tune that sounded quite thin to be honest. But I still like the album and it contains a few killer tunes like Brighton Rock. As a fan of melodic heavy rock music, I have never been excited of their sound/thing really and after 1976 I couldn´t stand anything they did not to mention Mercury´s voice. We Are the Champions was the final straw and it quite rightly belongs exactly there, for annoying screaming masses. And Live Killers is the worst sounding live album alongside Kiss Alive. Heh, Kiss Live Killer Alive. But the funniest thing is, as when the great performer is hailed by legions of music experts, journalists, critics, rock fans, press etc. etc the best ever rock vocalist, he never sang the blues. |
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solarjam, "Billy Don’t Be A Hero -- Paper Lace ,--------YEK!"I would agree, but I would still give Paper Lace a pass. They performed two of the shortest (3 minutes, or so) movies that do not even contain visuals. The Night Chicago Died and I did what I did for Maria. However, that may be for some "Guilty pleasures" thread. At least, now I know who bought the other copy of their album. We are looking for the third guy and that must be all. |
That’s too bad, as that is some phenomenally righteous singing going on in that tune. Try it some day (to sing it), or put pencils through your ear drums as someone tries to do it on karaoke night. As it is a very difficult bit of singing. As for scary... how about.... anything done by Heinje? Or get a really really stoned passenger, in your car, on the highway..moving at a really good clip... and have a 1000 watt car audio system..and make them listen to Lauri Anderson's "In The Air" I know, it's evil, but I could not help myself.... heh heh... |
Noble100 10-10-2019Hi Tim, Thanks for your comment about "Surfin’ Bird," and for the link. The lyric is actually "bird is a word," at least in most places in the song, which I think is even funnier than if it were "the word." Perhaps that lyric was inspired by a dance known as "The Chicken," which originated in the 1950s, and which the performer appears like he might be doing in the latter part of the video you and Geoff linked to. (The video, btw, is incorrectly titled "Surfin Bird - Bird is the Word"; just Google "Surfin’ Bird lyrics" for additional confirmation of that). Best regards, -- Al |
Paul Anka - Having My Baby. My brother in law, back in 1979... as a projectionist at a theater... played that over and over and over, for the opening of every showing of ’Alien’. No one in the audience knew why, at first...but they soon found out. Higher Love by Steve Winwood. I changed that one to "Bring me a rye and coke"....."think about it...there must be rye and coke" My Sharona-The Knack Cheech Marin redid that song And to the op, the Foo Fighters rickrolled some +30k people. With Rick’s personal help... That such fun can be had in this world... |
Funny thread, I'll vote later, luckily it led me to something good, and back to something I already knew was good geoffkait , after viewing the very funny Surfin Bird video, thanks for that, this video just popped up next: Ram Jam - Black Betty video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_2D8Eo15wE I didn't know a thing about it, head down, paying college loans for 8 years, I missed a lot. I found this 'Story of Black Betty'. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTu7zFg5ofc Main speaker is Myke Scavone, I just happen to know these guys, a great NJ Band called the Doughboys. https://www.thedoughboysnj.com/ I haven't seen them in a while, I was surprised to see Myke was/is? now touring with the Yardbirds https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myke_Scavone Gar Francis, aka Plainfield Slim is terrific as are the others. https://bongoboyrecords.com/garfrancis/ |
Surfin’ Bird was one of the period songs on soundtrack of Full Metal Jacket. Here’s the YouTube clip of the Trashmen, https://youtu.be/9Gc4QTqslN4 |
Ignoring obvious earworms like Disney's "It's a Small World" that need a good week to get out of your head, lots of truly annoying songs are relics of the best-forgotten Disco era. Others should appear on a "never-play-any-of-these-songs-ever-again" list signed under penalty of death by every DJ hired for a wedding or other function. (And of course, some of the very worst fit into both categories!) For example, here are a few songs I'd be happy to never hear again:
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almarg: "I always thought of "Surfin’ Bird" as a satire, and found it to be kind of funny in a likable sort of way. Although I don’t know how serious or satirical it was intended to be." Hello Al, I’ve always thought the same about "Surfin’ Bird" by the Trashmen being a satire. I love that song but always thought the words were "Bird, bird, bird, bird is a whale" until I discovered he was actually singing "Bird, bird, bird, bird is the word". It’s a fairly common sight when surfing with whales around. From a distance when paddling out, a seagull standing on a surfaced whale looks like the bird’s standing on the water. I like my version of the lyrics better, which are almost as cool as this old classic video of the Trashmen performing the song live: ps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Gc4QTqslN4 Speaking of cool, here’s another newer video classic of Christopher Walken dancing cool to Fat Boy Slim’s "Weapon of Choice": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCDIYvFmgW8 Tim |
But Joe Queenan may have said it best: “For years, I'd been vaguely aware of Michael Bolton's existence, just as I'd been vaguely aware that there was an ebola virus plague in Africa. Horrible tragedies, yes, but they had nothing to do with me. All that changed when I purchased a copy of The Classics. When you work up the gumption to put a record like The Classics on your CD player, it's not much different from deliberately inoculating yourself with rabies. With his heart-on-my-sleeve appeals to every emotion no decent human being should even dream of possessing, Michael Bolton is the only person in history who has figured out a way to make "Yesterday" sound worse than the original. He's Mandy Patinkin squared. His sacrilegious version of Sam Cooke's "Bring It on Home to Me" is a premeditated act of cultural ghoulism, a crime of musical genocide tantamount to a Jerry Vale rerecording of the Sex Pistols' "Anarchy in the UK" And having to sit there, and listen while this Kmart Joe Cocker mutilates "You Send Me" is like sitting through a performance of King Lear with Don Knotts in the title role. Which leads to the inevitable question: If it's a crime to deface the Statue of Liberty or to spraypaint swastikas on Mount Rushmore or to burn the American flag, why isn't it a crime for Michael Bolton to butcher Irving Berlin's "White Christmas"?” |
Ok, 16f4 wins for a moment (and we all lose). 1-877-KARS...must be the ultimate parasite of a song but it has been done so well that it crossed into the art. For anyone annoyed by Seasons in the Sun (by Terry Jacks, I suppose), try Le moribond by Jacques Brel. The same song that Brel actually wrote. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h02pNUKInBo |
William Shatner - "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AB3uVARNhmM Horribly BAD! |
