Bikergoth Posted December 28, 2014 Share Posted December 28, 2014 Here's another classic from the 1970's... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d189uP-48sU ILK will love this...! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amanda Posted December 28, 2014 Author Share Posted December 28, 2014 Here's another classic from the 1970's... [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d189uP-48sU%5B/url] ILK will love this...! Is this something you actually remember from the 70's? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bikergoth Posted December 28, 2014 Share Posted December 28, 2014 Unfortunately ... Yes! (hangs head in shame). I learned to drive trucks in the year this came out & also got posted to Germany with the army. Picture half a dozen immature squaddies in dodgy old Capri's & Cortina's, (with the lastest CB's squeezed in under the dash), tear-arsing through the night to catch the 04.00hrs Zeebrugge ferry. Ah! Happy days! I knew I should have stuck to my bikes instead of getting a car... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amanda Posted December 28, 2014 Author Share Posted December 28, 2014 My commiserations . Hopefully it won't follow youi to the next life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bikergoth Posted December 28, 2014 Share Posted December 28, 2014 Lol! I sincerely hope not! I think however, I may now be using up all my chances How about 'The Birdie Song' by the Tweets? The mainstay of the 80's British hen night or wedding disco... Just found this as well - please don't have me executed... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHbrq3J-LeI Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amanda Posted December 28, 2014 Author Share Posted December 28, 2014 Lol! I sincerely hope not! I think however, I may now be using up all my chances How about 'The Birdie Song' by the Tweets? The mainstay of the 80's British hen night or wedding disco... Just found this as well - please don't have me executed... [url=https://www.yout I'm not even going to click on that one. It's playing in my head already thanks very much! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bikergoth Posted December 28, 2014 Share Posted December 28, 2014 Sorry Miss Amanda - I didn't mean to mess with your head, (Hehe!) The link I posted ISN'T actually the Birdie Song... I found another 'great' song just after I had posted the bit about the Birdie Song & somehow it got attached to that post, not in a nice little box on it's own. Have a peek - I dare you...! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meganiwish Posted December 29, 2014 Share Posted December 29, 2014 I was hitch hiking in the 1980s and got a lift in a lorry. Always a good lift. Professional driver, big vehicle that will squash any other. But after he'd expressed delight at squashing a rabbit (it was night), this came on the radio and he turned it up because he said it was the best song ever https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFYxCIr-Byo Amanda, if you've never been on a bus, I bet you've never had a ride in a lorry. It's super. You sit up high and a chap in a tartan shirt offers you cigarettes. Though I had a time once in France where I got in and he said, 'Parle moi.' He was afraid of falling asleep. That was a test of my French. It was a test of my ability to interest lorry drivers too. Well, in a way that doesn't make them crash. Most French lorry drivers have less to say about Sartre than you might expect. Now, try an Irish lorry driver on Joyce. Or Yeats. This should make you weep http://www.online-literature.com/yeats/816/ I don't want to derail this one. Does your thread allow the worst poetry ever? http://www.mcgonagall-online.org.uk/gems/the-tay-bridge-disaster Probably not, so you get this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cdFuMgMkBM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nyenor Posted December 29, 2014 Share Posted December 29, 2014 Yes that Paper Lace song was sick, sick, sick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meganiwish Posted December 29, 2014 Share Posted December 29, 2014 Come on. Not leaving a link amounts to bludging. You could have given us (did) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvahvyStRMs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nyenor Posted December 29, 2014 Share Posted December 29, 2014 Sorry meganiwish but I have absolutely no idea how to add links. With my computer skills I'm lucky to have figured out how to write replies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meganiwish Posted December 29, 2014 Share Posted December 29, 2014 Go to youtube, click on the address at the top. When it goes blue, right click and choose copy. Now, back to hhp, in 'Reply to this topic', up at the top, on the line that begins with B, just after 123 with three lines there's a lone ranger mask weeping. Click on that and everything goes grey. Right click in the white box and choose paste, then click on OK. Hey presto Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bikergoth Posted December 29, 2014 Share Posted December 29, 2014 Just found another belter - probably Midge Ure's favourite song... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFacWGBJ_cs It kept Ultravox's 'Vienna' from the number one spot, so this is in fact a double travesty! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meganiwish Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 One by your brother, Amanda. Why does he call you Marie-Claire? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8XQZYIiNgo. Who knew you had such a rough upbringing? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKHFZBUTA4k I was worried that I'd started to like the song, but no, it's dreadful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meganiwish Posted January 4, 2015 Share Posted January 4, 2015 If you're feeling artistic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmYQfFWEiYo I particularly like the line 'Even the Mona Lisa takes a bow.' So they're claiming that Lowrie is better than Leonardo da Vinci. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 As to the beetles song. That is just proof that even when a great band makes a bad song it's still popular because the band is popular. There are other big bands that get air time on bad songs just because the band is a big name. Like aerosmith. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meganiwish Posted January 6, 2015 Share Posted January 6, 2015 Or sometimes a truly awful song takes on a life of its own and gets covered again and again because no-one can seem to hear how dreadful it is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrK5u5W8afc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsrY440-jpA&list=PL633DD29E7E526CB9 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1j_vyQrWO4&index=3&list=PL633DD29E7E526CB9 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBHReafFYhE&list=PL633DD29E7E526CB9&index=4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1ijCnpK26c&list=PL633DD29E7E526CB9&index=13 That isn't even close to a comprehensive list Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nyenor Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 Gee Megan. I have always rather liked the Righteous Brothers 'Unchained Melody'. Not as good as 'You've Lost that Loving Feeling though. For 'badness' how about Kate Bush 'Wuthering Heights' or 'Babooshka' (might not be spelt right bit I'm sure you know which song I refer to); For those with long enough memories (late 50's/early 60's) Tommy Steele's 'Little White Bull' or 'Half a Sixpence'. Finally anything and everything recorded by Sir Cliff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dww Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 Ha Tommy Steele, funny thing is I can still remember all the words to little white bull, he used to live not far away from me. Don't know if he is still around though. life is not a rehearsal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meganiwish Posted January 8, 2015 Share Posted January 8, 2015 Gee Megan. I have always rather liked the Righteous Brothers 'Unchained Melody'. Not as good as 'You've Lost that Loving Feeling though. For 'badness' how about Kate Bush 'Wuthering Heights' or 'Babooshka' (might not be spelt right bit I'm sure you know which song I refer to); For those with long enough memories (late 50's/early 60's) Tommy Steele's 'Little White Bull' or 'Half a Sixpence'. Finally anything and everything recorded by Sir Cliff. Now, the danger was always there that this thread would stray into matters of taste. There's a world of difference between songs I don't like and inherently bad songs. Pace Orwell, there ARE ways of deciding objectively what's good. Here are some impartial observations on Unchained Melody. Rule 1; When writing a love song, know who it's about. In fact, take advice from Carly Simon. It's not about you. Rule 2: If it's not a love song but about you feeling sorry for yourself, consider whether the world needs it. Rule 3: take the trouble to write a melody before you get into the studio. The evidence is that one isn't going to appear ex machina. Rule 4: Don't title your song in a way that draws attention to your reluctance to write a melody. If you ignore the above advice then not even Tom Jones can save you, as seen above. Now this is truly awful https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qy9_lfjQopU You can't fail with children. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SleekHeels Posted January 14, 2015 Share Posted January 14, 2015 Go to youtube, click on the address at the top. When it goes blue, right click and choose copy. Now, back to hhp, in 'Reply to this topic', up at the top, on the line that begins with B, just after 123 with three lines there's a lone ranger mask weeping. Click on that and everything goes grey. Right click in the white box and choose paste, then click on OK. Hey presto "A lone ranger mask weeping" - that really made me smile If you like it, wear it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meganiwish Posted January 14, 2015 Share Posted January 14, 2015 Is it meant to mean something? This is pretty poor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYDgjY7_jW8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amanda Posted January 14, 2015 Author Share Posted January 14, 2015 Is it meant to mean something? It means that your computer is stolen property. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meganiwish Posted January 14, 2015 Share Posted January 14, 2015 And you think I watch too much television? How long do you spend on youtube? At least I'm medieaval and hence virtuous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amanda Posted January 14, 2015 Author Share Posted January 14, 2015 And you think I watch too much television? How long do you spend on youtube? At least I'm medieaval and hence virtuous. Oh I nip in there to fetch tasty morsels for this thread now and then. Not lately though I've been really slack. It's going to take me ages now to catch up with all the lovely new postings. However I have to admit that I don't often manage to sit through the whole song. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meganiwish Posted January 14, 2015 Share Posted January 14, 2015 One wouldn't expect you to https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=birdie+song&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&gws_rd=cr&ei=FeO1VOSeMcW9UdG-gugL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amanda Posted January 14, 2015 Author Share Posted January 14, 2015 One wouldn't expect you to https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=birdie+song&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&gws_rd=cr&ei=FeO1VOSeMcW9UdG-gugL Oh great, not even a hint of a warning in the link. Now I'll be stuck with that in my head for hours. I had feared it would arrive here in some form or other. Ah well, it's over and done with now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skirtandheel Posted January 14, 2015 Share Posted January 14, 2015 Now this is truly awful You can't fail with children. WARNING, THE FOLLOWING MAY CAUSE TRAUMA AND DISTRESS: You were warned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amanda Posted January 14, 2015 Author Share Posted January 14, 2015 WARNING, THE FOLLOWING MAY CAUSE TRAUMA AND DISTRESS: You were warned. I feel that I have sufficient scarring from having heard this before. Is it ok not to open links to songs you already remember or should that be considered to be cheating? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meganiwish Posted January 15, 2015 Share Posted January 15, 2015 Ah but, Nyenor, the whole point of rap is that we're too old to like it. Shyheels, like Amanda I couldn't take it at one sitting. I needed a doggy bag, as it were. Now, I feel that we should be aiming at those that are truly excruciating, in the original sense. You've got to squirm, and just when you think it can't get worse... For this, of course, one needs there to be no trace of irony. Children are a good way of doing it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsXJcIODLtQ I don't think anyone should be expected to sit through one of these twice. Probably against the Geneva Convention. A plea to all to do your homework, which means we expect you to listen to all these soul destroying songs too. Like a club where initiation never ends. Here's today's. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWbMikrZ91U I chose the short one. There's one that's 4.10. Why would anyone want the extended version? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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