And on topic, anybody else heard of The Gossip?
Yeah! I am so jealous of her powerful voice. (Also, her youth but that's fleeting so...)
Well, you'd better not be thinking what I think you're thinking, because my answer is the same as always — no threesomes unless it's boy-boy-girl. Or Charlize Theron.
Harmony ,'First Date'
Buffista Music III: The Search for Bach
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
lisah - Apr 26, 2006 8:25:00 am PDT #3105 of 10003
Punishingly Intricate
DavidS - Apr 26, 2006 8:31:22 am PDT #3106 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
So, yesterday and today, CNN.com had a pair of articles on the worst songs ever written.
Heh. That Archies image they've got up for "Sugar, Sugar" is the CD cover for the compilation where I did the liner notes.
Looks like the usual candidates from "Having My Baby" to "MacArthur Park."
"We Built This City" only really bugs me because it's so apposite to what The Jefferson Airplane were about. Also the bowel clenching sensation of thinking about "We Built This City" and Journey's "When The Lights Go Down In The City" representing San Francisco in the 70s.
I like some Culture Club songs (like "I'll Tumble 4 Ya" or "Church of the Poison Mind"), but their "War Song" was one instance where I remember thinking, "This is so fucking awful. Self important and poorly written. They must have been doing tupperware bins full of coke." when I heard it.
Fred Pete - Apr 26, 2006 8:31:35 am PDT #3107 of 10003
Ann, that's a ferret.
lisa, check out the video for "Standing" if you haven't already. It's a riot of imagery and color. That's the only way to describe it.
DavidS - Apr 26, 2006 8:32:00 am PDT #3108 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
(Also, her youth but that's fleeting so...)
Yeah, but she'd be jealous of your hair.
tommyrot - Apr 26, 2006 8:35:55 am PDT #3109 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Also the bowel clenching sensation of thinking about "We Built This City" and Journey's "When The Lights Go Down In The City" representing San Francisco in the 70s.
"We Built This City" is the most sucktastic song ever. But "When The Lights Go Down In The City" isn't as bad as "The Night Chicago Died." That all took place on the "East side of Chicago." Apparantly Al Capone and his gang were fresh-water mermen....
Jon B. - Apr 26, 2006 8:36:17 am PDT #3110 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Fred Pete - Apr 26, 2006 8:36:22 am PDT #3111 of 10003
Ann, that's a ferret.
And I heard "Sugar, Sugar" in the weirdest context this morning.
The morning show on XM's '60s channel is very heavily request-oriented. And the listeners don't feel limited to the obvious candidates.
So this morning, a caller wanted to dedicate a song to her sister. Seems caller had just stolen sister's husband. And wanted to dedicate "Little Arrows" by Leapy Lee.
A few minutes later, sister calls in. Sister explains that they're twins, and original caller accomplished the theft by pretending to be sister. And that as far as she was concerned, original caller could have the man. Sister then went on to request "Sugar, Sugar."
Jon B. - Apr 26, 2006 8:38:26 am PDT #3112 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Sister explains that they're twins, and original caller accomplished the theft by pretending to be sister
Anyone want to place bets that the entire sequence of calls was a prank from one woman?
lisah - Apr 26, 2006 8:40:07 am PDT #3113 of 10003
Punishingly Intricate
Yeah, but she'd be jealous of your hair.
hah. thanks
Sean K - Apr 26, 2006 8:45:56 am PDT #3114 of 10003
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
I think my personal pick for most sucktastic song ever is Bette Midler's "From a Distance," the song that makes G-d sound like a creepy, voyueristic peeping Tom.