Awful songs that somehow made it.

koneguitarist

Show 2 is up on website for listen again. 

hollywoodrox

EricTheWeary said:

I read some daft thing on social media about how your musical tastes were defined by the number one single when you were 14...heads to Google...Boney M and Mary's Boy Child...bugger...

Philly_Q said:

Slash'N'burn said:

Mr Boombastic by Shaggy.

Oh well, now you've reminded me, let's throw in Mr Lover Man by Shabba Ranks.

Both make me feel physically sick.

I listen to quite a lot of dancehall so Shaggy and Shabba absolutely fine by me. It's pretty soft stuff by the standards of the genre although I'm guessing that their failure to deal with Jamaican politics isn't your issue with them. I occasionally think I'll start a Dancehall Discussion on here but then I imagine the response will be tumbleweed and/or people who think they are funny going 'dancehall, yeh my parents used to love Joe Loss and his orchestra.' 

I just looked up in my Guinness chart book ,you won’t believe it ,the number one single on my 14th birthday was Joe Dolce music theatre - shaddup you face  

my life was more defined by the number 4 hit I surrender by rainbow 

hollywoodrox

koneguitarist said:

Best Jeans ad was for Brutus Jeans which I think was made into a song called Jeans On by David Dundas. 

That is definitely one of the great jeans advert songs , I think don’t be a dummy  sung by Gary numan takes some beating ,he sounds better than the original singer/writer

https://youtu.be/pAtrVeXDKD4

koneguitarist

hollywoodrox said:

A lot of the records here are quite good. What about all the crappy soap opera covers
 
eastenders - anyone can fall in love  Every looser wins etc terrible 

Forgot those abominations

Neill

hollywoodrox said:

EricTheWeary said:

I read some daft thing on social media about how your musical tastes were defined by the number one single when you were 14...heads to Google...Boney M and Mary's Boy Child...bugger...

Philly_Q said:

Slash'N'burn said:

Mr Boombastic by Shaggy.

Oh well, now you've reminded me, let's throw in Mr Lover Man by Shabba Ranks.

Both make me feel physically sick.

I listen to quite a lot of dancehall so Shaggy and Shabba absolutely fine by me. It's pretty soft stuff by the standards of the genre although I'm guessing that their failure to deal with Jamaican politics isn't your issue with them. I occasionally think I'll start a Dancehall Discussion on here but then I imagine the response will be tumbleweed and/or people who think they are funny going 'dancehall, yeh my parents used to love Joe Loss and his orchestra.' 

I just looked up in my Guinness chart book ,you won’t believe it ,the number one single on my 14th birthday was Joe Dolce music theatre - shaddup you face  

my life was more defined by the number 4 hit I surrender by rainbow 

Just by co-incidence I was reading something recently in one of the Saturday papers about the awful shaddup you face, (quite right not to capitalise it).  As every schoolboy knows, the song prevented Ultravox getting to number one with "Vienna", and Midge Ure was rightly peeved about it.  Dolce lives in Melbourne, and one time when Midge was in the city Dolce tried to organise a "fun" photo shoot - the Ultravox front man flat refused saying he didn't want anything to do with Dolce or his dreadful song. 

As is often the case with these one offs, the release of the song was a total fluke. A record publisher just happened to be passing by when Dolce was playing the song and the rest is history - Dolce has made an entire career out of it, it's a mad, mad, mad, mad, world.

Barney

U2...entire collection 

FelineGuitars

House of Pain - Jump Around 

Shamen - Ebeneezer Goode

Neill

EricTheWeary said:

I read some daft thing on social media about how your musical tastes were defined by the number one single when you were 14...heads to Google...Boney M and Mary's Boy Child...bugger...

You should count your blessings, on my 14th birthday the top spot was occupied by the England World Cup squad with "Back Home"...

BUT - it was bookended by "Spirit in the Sky" and Christie's "Yellow River" which are still two of my favourite songs and "Spirit" was a real go to when I played in a covers band.  Other number ones that year were "Tears of a Clown" and Freda Payne's "Band of Gold", two more songs that have stuck with me through the years.  And, the only Elvis song that we did was "The Wonder of You" which also happened to get to number one when I was 14.

So I think there might be something in this 14 years theory.  Looking back it does seem as though I started to develop what you might call musical appreciation at that age, and it was the year I bought my first guitar.  Though whether it actually defines your musical tastes is a bold claim.

Reverend

What sort of square was still listen to chart music at 14?

koneguitarist

Me, 76, was a good year for music 

ICBM

Reverend said:

What sort of square was still listen to chart music at 14?

I'm still listening to chart music - and almost everything else - at 53.

There's good music everywhere if you choose to not ignore anything that achieves commercial success. And a lot of crap too... but that applies to every genre as well.

Not quite at 14, but 15 was actually the time when I *stopped* listening to mostly prog rock and metal and actually started paying attention to some of the great new music that was coming into the charts... 1982.

Dopesick

Bygone_Tones said:

born slippy - underworld, nice synth intro that lasts a few seconds, then 10 minutes of literally just drumming and someone talking over the top of it.

Oh good call. No idea how this got popular. Just an ocean of shit.

Neill

Reverend said:

What sort of square was still listen to chart music at 14?

The sort whose parents didn't even have an FM radio let alone a record player...

scrumhalf

Telly Savalas - If.

Actor most famous for playing shaven-headed New York cop Kojak speaks the words of Bread's song over a backing track of light orchestral pop.

This is absolute proof that by 1975 pop music was plumbing depths that were previously unimaginable. 

koneguitarist

scrumhalf said:

Telly Savalas - If.

Actor most famous for playing shaven-headed New York cop Kojak speaks the words of Bread's song over a backing track of light orchestral pop.

This is absolute proof that by 1975 pop music was plumbing depths that were previously unimaginable. 

Oh no, after that came the 80s ;-)

breakstuff

koneguitarist said:

scrumhalf said:

Telly Savalas - If.

Actor most famous for playing shaven-headed New York cop Kojak speaks the words of Bread's song over a backing track of light orchestral pop.

This is absolute proof that by 1975 pop music was plumbing depths that were previously unimaginable. 

Oh no, after that came the 80s ;-)

And judging by the Top of the Pops reruns of 1990 on BBC4, even worse is yet to come.

ICBM

breakstuff said:

And judging by the Top of the Pops reruns of 1990 on BBC4, even worse is yet to come.

No matter how bad you think mainstream pop music is now - whenever now is - 1990 was worse.

EricTheWeary

ICBM said:

breakstuff said:

And judging by the Top of the Pops reruns of 1990 on BBC4, even worse is yet to come.

No matter how bad you think mainstream pop music is now - whenever now is - 1990 was worse.

You can see that it's the beginning of the end for TOTP as there was such a lot of dance music that didn't really fit the format. Even some of the recognisable name bands you see weren't at their best. The Charlatans? I know them, oh but I don't remember this one. Whitesenake? Of course I remember them but not this one. 
Like having The Doolies in the 70s was waiting for punk to happen 1990 was waiting for grunge and Britpop. 

But watching those Rick Beato things where he goes through the Spotify charts the current ones are painfully homogenous, like every 13 year old in the world listens to the same thing.     

Neill

scrumhalf said:

Telly Savalas - If.

Actor most famous for playing shaven-headed New York cop Kojak speaks the words of Bread's song over a backing track of light orchestral pop.

This is absolute proof that by 1975 pop music was plumbing depths that were previously unimaginable. 

!975 was indeed a low water mark for pop, and prog rock was also at it's zenith. Then I remember watching Dr Feelgood on "The Geordie Scene" and it was quite literally life changing.  There's footage of that show on YT and it still makes the hairs on my neck stand on end (even if seeing 15 year old girls dancing to "She Does it Right" is a bit weird, to say the least).

The following year a mate got the first Ramones LP as a US import - probably worth a fortune now - he told me to come round straight away and listen to it, put it on his stereo full wick, "Blitzkrieg Bop", guitar out of one speaker, bass out of the other.  There is no way a young person today will ever experience a thrill like that.  

So, Typically Tropical might still have been number one, but we knew salvation was on the way.

ICBM

EricTheWeary said:

But watching those Rick Beato things where he goes through the Spotify charts the current ones are painfully homogenous, like every 13 year old in the world listens to the same thing.     

"It all sounds the same..."


... said your grandad in 1970 .

Yes, I'll admit the same thought has occurred to me now that I'm of a similar age, but there's still as much of a range of good and crap as there was then I think. There was a *vast* amount of utter drivel in the 1960s too, that's been long since forgotten.