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BadComrade wrote:One Night in Bangkok - Murray Head

I was amazed that you listed this song, then I wondered why. I realise I have a sense of affection for this truly terrible song because it's video is so utterly fantastic. I would be sorry if this song did not exist.

On watching it again, I have to NOT CRAP this song. If this song was by the Fall I'd think it was the best song ever.

1. "American Pie" - Dong McUnClean
2. "Fuck You Like an Animal" - Nine Inch Nails
3. "Hands Around Your Neck" or whatever it's called - Nickleback
4. "All Star" - Smashmouth
5. Anything by Bare Naked Ladies
6. "Life's Been Good" - Joe Walsh
7. "No More Tears" - Ozzy
8. "Sad But True" - Metallica
9. "Live And Let Die" - Wings
10. "You Oughta Know" - Allanus Morrislutte

Honorable mention goes to anything by the Offspring. They really should have taken up my whole list but I didn't want to have to remember their crap songs.

tommydski wrote:

BadComrade wrote:One Night in Bangkok - Murray Head

I was amazed that you listed this song, then I wondered why. I realise I have a sense of affection for this truly terrible song because it's video is so utterly fantastic. I would be sorry if this song did not exist.

On watching it again, I have to NOT CRAP this song. If this song was by the Fall I'd think it was the best song ever.

I find myself agreeing with you... Having not heard this monstrousity for probably a decade or so, watching that dvd brought back a simple pleasure that I cannot attribute solely to nostalgia. It's a really weird pop song, perhaps proof that whatever flavour of cocaine that was floating around then, it had some bizarro creative effect.

I could imagine that they started with the idea of the video first...

"Man, I had a dream. A video! We can have a big chess board, white girls dressed as Thai prostitutes, really confused Eastern religious imagery, a sauna, kickboxing, hats, and ooh, everything!"

"Hey, that would go great with this new synth stab I've come up with. And that farty bassline that Bob has come up with..."

It was actually written by Tim Rice and the two blokes from ABBA. And Murray (Seafield Saint George) Head is the big brother of Anthony Head, he of the Nescafé Gold Blend and Buffy fame.

I'm going to have to go buy that white suit and sneakers combo, now.

This thread is years old, and no one has mentioned MacArthur Park.

tommydski wrote:

BadComrade wrote:One Night in Bangkok - Murray Head

On watching it again, I have to NOT CRAP this song. If this song was by the Fall I'd think it was the best song ever.

Truth, though I think a more apt description of this song, is its like the Hold Steady, but it rocks.

tmidgett wrote:This thread is years old, and no one has mentioned MacArthur Park.

ASCAP's ACE title search service wrote:2. MAC ARTHUR PARK (Title Code: 430185749)
Writers:
WEBB JIMMY L

Performers:
101 STRINGS
AMES E
ATKINS C
BENNETT T
CAIOLA A
CAMPBELL G
CHACKSFIELD F
CRAMER F
DOC SEVERINSEN
FAITH P
FERGUSON M
FERRANTE-TEICHER
FOUR TOPS
HARRIS R
JENNINGS W
JENNINGS W & THE KIMBERLY
LETTERMEN
LIVING MARIMBAS
LONDON POPS ORCH
MAURIAT P
MAYNARD FERGUSON
MCNEELY L
MINNELLI L
NEWTON W
PAN FLUTE
SINATRA F
SUMMER D
WEBB J
WILLIAMS A
WINTERHALTER H

That is some grim, grim shit. Living Marimbas.

What the fuck, Chet. No need for you to be in this group.

wikipedia wrote:Billboard Hot 100 Number One Single for November 11, 1978

Preceded by "You Needed Me" by Anne Murray

Succeeded by "You Don't Bring Me Flowers" by Barbra Streisand and Neil Diamond

The next time someone tries to tell you how crappy popular music is now, peruse the Billboard Hot 100 Number Single timeline. It's always been shitty.

BadComrade wrote:

fantasmatical thorr wrote:whenever Snow Patrol comes on the radio, I start shouting and swearing as reaction. These people should be stopped.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Take a listen to the first Snow Patrol CD "Songs for Polar Bears", and you'll probably like it. They were a good band. When I heard that "Spitting Games" song for the first time, I thought "What, there's ANOTHER band called Snow Patrol?" That band "sold out" in a way that no other band in the history of selling out has. If the first Snow Patrol album is "Slanted & Enchanted" by Pavement, the 2nd and 3rd Snow Patrol Albums are Meatloaf - Bat Out Of Hell and Winger - Greatest Hits. It's that night and day.

sir, i am fully aware of your good point but, when did old, decent SP ever get teh airplay they do now? hence my post is in direct regard to their current/recent/comeback era output of drizzle and blank skies.

worst songs of all time:

tempted- squeeze.
we built this city- starship

there are lots of others but these two still make me want to kill and die.

Ace wrote:3. Anything for love (Anything by Meat Loaf. It was funny the first few times, but now it is just grating)

holy hell i hate this song

Player: "Baby Come Back"