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What songs give you an inexplicable and overwhelming desire to do the hoovering?

Status Quo's "Whatever You Want" gets me every time.

― Trevor, Thursday, 3 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

best songs to do some hoovering? "white lines" then, delightful frisson of just-saying-yes to the tune of a just-say-no anthem. Or an endless loop of the "Ahhhhhhh-ahhhhhhhh-ahhhhhhhhh!" banshee wail of the opening of "The Immigrant Song".

― fritz, Thursday, 3 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

An overwhelming desire to do the what?

― Emma, Thursday, 3 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The London Philharmonic version of 'Do the Shake 'n' Vac' for me. Every time.

― Will, Thursday, 3 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

a thread too far i fear. is there such a desire. why?

― Alan Trewartha, Thursday, 3 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Emma, it's something your manservant does.

No, not that. The other thing.

― Trevor, Thursday, 3 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Do you mean when you hear Status Quo you want to drown it out so badly you'll actually go and do some hoovering? (snide indie remark of the day goes to me, ho ho ho).

― Ronan, Thursday, 3 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Well, in the case of Status Quo, a vacuum cleaner makes a fantastic air guitar. One pushes the hoover back and forth in time to the music. Or alternatively, one gets one's maid/manservant to do it and experiences the pleasure vicariously.

― Trevor, Thursday, 3 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My manservants usually build ships for me in the cellar. Surely hoovering the employer's floors is an occupation that only befits the butler of the household?

― Will, Thursday, 3 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Hooverings the kind of thing that if you never knew it existed you'd never think, christ that carpet looks disgusting it needs hoovering. I mean how much more disgusting is the fact that noone shampoos their carpet ever. bits of stuff that hoovers suck up break down easily, carpet stain stuff, even that you can't see must be much filthier. it's all part of the parental "everything must be done now" theory, that i'm a victim for one more year or so.

― Ronan, Thursday, 3 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My parents used a thing called a 'Vax' which was a vacuum and shampooing thing in one. They were shite and didn't work.

― Will, Thursday, 3 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)