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I'm a sucker for Daniel Powter - ya had a bad day.

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That's it - I love the song and I think he's cute!

― aimurchie (aimurchie), Friday, 26 January 2007 19:25 (eighteen years ago)

fuck this horseshit

― acid waffle house (dubplatestyle), Friday, 26 January 2007 19:27 (eighteen years ago)

mods, delete thread

― acid waffle house (dubplatestyle), Friday, 26 January 2007 19:27 (eighteen years ago)

this song actually DID feature in my worst day of 2006, however! so kudos, daniel. i guess.

― acid waffle house (dubplatestyle), Friday, 26 January 2007 19:38 (eighteen years ago)

so you had a bad day
blah da blah blee blah blah
blah blah blah blah
you had a bad day

That's how this song goes.

― blotter Budweiser Hackeysadk (nickalicious), Friday, 26 January 2007 19:40 (eighteen years ago)

Every time I hear this song, or think about hearing it, I want to take a baseball bat to something.

― Jaq (Jaq), Friday, 26 January 2007 20:03 (eighteen years ago)

I actually, really love it! probably because I don't listen to the radio and don't watch American Idol.
It's very perfect in the G-D-C of popular chords.
AND he has a key change. Just like Barry!
it's a masterpiece of fluff.
Anywhoo, starting new threads seemed to be the onus.

― aimurchie (aimurchie), Friday, 26 January 2007 20:49 (eighteen years ago)

this song actually DID feature in my worst day of 2006, however!

It was on the radio when I got pulled over for a really ridiculous ticket, so now I hate it more than ever.

― N.i.c.o.l.e (Ex Leon), Friday, 26 January 2007 21:19 (eighteen years ago)

Insult to injury!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 26 January 2007 21:21 (eighteen years ago)

it was kind of ridiculous. one of those "my life has taken such a wrong turn" moments in the grocery store and then BAM. (i think it was a MUZAK version too.)

― acid waffle house (dubplatestyle), Friday, 26 January 2007 21:21 (eighteen years ago)

this song raped me once

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Friday, 26 January 2007 21:31 (eighteen years ago)

All of that sounds horrible.
Where was the magic when you needed it most?

― aimurchie (aimurchie), Friday, 26 January 2007 21:51 (eighteen years ago)

have you taken one down?

― Matt (Matt), Friday, 26 January 2007 23:28 (eighteen years ago)

this song was playing when i got kicked off american idol :(

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 26 January 2007 23:42 (eighteen years ago)

you need to turn it around

― Matt (Matt), Friday, 26 January 2007 23:47 (eighteen years ago)

and fuck it in the ass

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 26 January 2007 23:52 (eighteen years ago)

cos you had a bad day

― Matt (Matt), Friday, 26 January 2007 23:59 (eighteen years ago)

YOU THOUGHT THIS WAS A BAD DAY? DID YA? DID YA? HOW'S IT NOW?

― Matt (Matt), Saturday, 27 January 2007 00:00 (eighteen years ago)

You need a blue sky holiday.

― aimurchie (aimurchie), Saturday, 27 January 2007 00:09 (eighteen years ago)

I hear pop radio all day, every day at work. And there's some bad stuff, for sure. But I'm pretty sure this song takes the shitty cake.

Well, probably right behind Blue Fucking October

― Deric W. Haircare (Deric W. Haircare), Saturday, 27 January 2007 00:27 (eighteen years ago)

A bad day comes every once in awhile your body says.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Saturday, 27 January 2007 00:29 (eighteen years ago)

Is this worse than James blunt?

― hearditonthexico (rogermexico), Saturday, 27 January 2007 00:47 (eighteen years ago)

impossible

― roger goodell (gear), Saturday, 27 January 2007 00:48 (eighteen years ago)

It's a close run thing.

― Matt (Matt), Saturday, 27 January 2007 00:52 (eighteen years ago)

(i sort of like this song)

― maura (maura), Saturday, 27 January 2007 01:36 (eighteen years ago)

(it sends me into spasms of ridiculous laughter every time i hear it)

― maura (maura), Saturday, 27 January 2007 01:36 (eighteen years ago)

also THAT DUDE'S HAT IS RIDICULOUS

― maura (maura), Saturday, 27 January 2007 01:36 (eighteen years ago)

so ya had a bad day

― maura (maura), Saturday, 27 January 2007 01:36 (eighteen years ago)

combover's down

― maura (maura), Saturday, 27 January 2007 01:36 (eighteen years ago)

yadda ya da

― maura (maura), Saturday, 27 January 2007 01:37 (eighteen years ago)

oh fuck now i'm going to have to listen to it

― maura (maura), Saturday, 27 January 2007 01:37 (eighteen years ago)

HERE WE GO

― maura (maura), Saturday, 27 January 2007 01:37 (eighteen years ago)

where is the moment we needed the most?

― maura (maura), Saturday, 27 January 2007 01:37 (eighteen years ago)

standing in line just to hit a new low

― maura (maura), Saturday, 27 January 2007 01:38 (eighteen years ago)

fakin a smile with a coffee to go

― maura (maura), Saturday, 27 January 2007 01:38 (eighteen years ago)

tell me your life's been way offline
fallin to pieces every time
and i don't need no carryin' on

― maura (maura), Saturday, 27 January 2007 01:38 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.swr3.de/specials/newpop2005/donnerstag/daniel_powter/pix/powter_live2.jpg

COME ON EVERYBODY

― maura (maura), Saturday, 27 January 2007 01:38 (eighteen years ago)

CAUSE YA HAD A BAD DAY
YOU'RE TAKIN ONE DOWN
YOU SING A SAD SONG JUST TO TURN IT AROUND
YADDA YADA

― maura (maura), Saturday, 27 January 2007 01:39 (eighteen years ago)

this song goes out to THE INTERNET

i will give each of you a BLUE SKY HOLIDAY

― maura (maura), Saturday, 27 January 2007 01:39 (eighteen years ago)

WAIT HERE'S THE BRIDGE

― maura (maura), Saturday, 27 January 2007 01:40 (eighteen years ago)

AND I'M NOT WROOOONNG

― maura (maura), Saturday, 27 January 2007 01:40 (eighteen years ago)

you guys i have the biggest shit-eating grin on my face right now

― maura (maura), Saturday, 27 January 2007 01:41 (eighteen years ago)

this cheered me up!!!!

― maura (maura), Saturday, 27 January 2007 01:41 (eighteen years ago)

thanks internet!!!!

― maura (maura), Saturday, 27 January 2007 01:41 (eighteen years ago)

Maura, you wonderful person you.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 27 January 2007 01:42 (eighteen years ago)

http://maura.com/badday.png

― maura (maura), Saturday, 27 January 2007 01:43 (eighteen years ago)

MORE NEW EDITION

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 27 January 2007 01:44 (eighteen years ago)

(i just put it on again)

― maura (maura), Saturday, 27 January 2007 01:49 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aigC-cy3yg8

― maura (maura), Saturday, 27 January 2007 01:49 (eighteen years ago)

Ah well, I'm listening to "Killer Loneliness" by H.I.M. so it's that kind of time. IE, WEEKEND IS HERE GIMME TRASHY OBVIOUS POP.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 27 January 2007 01:52 (eighteen years ago)

I don't need no carrion.

― aimurchie (aimurchie), Saturday, 27 January 2007 02:08 (eighteen years ago)

Thank you Maura! Thank you so much!

― aimurchie (aimurchie), Saturday, 27 January 2007 02:18 (eighteen years ago)


I had never seen the video! I don't get the eggy thing at the beginning and the end, and I didn't really get the video until I watched it twice.
I still don't get it.
The bead curtain is bothering me.
I am about to hate this song! One more time!

― aimurchie (aimurchie), Saturday, 27 January 2007 03:18 (eighteen years ago)

It's better than "Walking In Memphis" but not as good as any coffee jingle in history.

― Zwan (miccio), Saturday, 27 January 2007 03:34 (eighteen years ago)

i.e., http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRyfPqOHdqs

― Zwan (miccio), Saturday, 27 January 2007 03:37 (eighteen years ago)

Yikes! I'm not sure which image I should be resonating with. If I drink maxwell House I can buy groceries, kick off my shoes AND be a race car driver?

― aimurchie (aimurchie), Sunday, 28 January 2007 12:43 (eighteen years ago)

Is that Isabella Rosellini?

― Candy: tastes like chicken, if chicken was a candy. (Austin, Still), Sunday, 28 January 2007 18:03 (eighteen years ago)

this thred is not as good as the we didn't start the fire one...

― If you fuck with Jimmy Mod, you call down the thunder (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Sunday, 28 January 2007 18:04 (eighteen years ago)

AND he has a key change. Just like Barry!

aha that's why this song reminds me of "Mandy"

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Sunday, 28 January 2007 18:07 (eighteen years ago)

walking in memphis is so gross. ugh.

― Kim (Kim), Sunday, 28 January 2007 18:51 (eighteen years ago)

yes, m. coleman. The famous Manilow key change. it sort of breaks your heart, JUST when you wanted to hate the song. Powter and his troops of engineers really do it well.
With Manilow, I would ALSO listen to "Weekend In New England" - classic.

― aimurchie (aimurchie), Sunday, 28 January 2007 19:04 (eighteen years ago)

SO YOU HGAD A DAB BAY

― blotter Budweiser Hackeysadk (nickalicious), Monday, 29 January 2007 05:49 (eighteen years ago)

My fancy 2003 VW borke down earlier.

― blotter Budweiser Hackeysadk (nickalicious), Monday, 29 January 2007 05:50 (eighteen years ago)

I think Barry Manilow changes keys twice in "Weekend In New England". I have it on vinyl, of course, but the turntable isn't hooked up right now. So I can't confirm that.
I wish Maura would provide a link.

― aimurchie (aimurchie), Monday, 29 January 2007 06:12 (eighteen years ago)

I've forgotten how this goes, huzzah! Instead when I try to remember it my brane makes it morph into McFly:

So you had a bad day
But how can I win?
She keeps dragging me down
And I know I
Never will be good enough for her!

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Monday, 29 January 2007 13:22 (eighteen years ago)

eleven months pass...

between this and 'our country' it was a rough season watching commercials between nfl games.

― omar little, Thursday, 3 January 2008 01:06 (eighteen years ago)

just re-watched the video. pershing square! the red line! (where are all the homeless people? and where irl are these l.a. hot dog vendors that sell soft pretzels?)

― get bent, Thursday, 3 January 2008 01:18 (eighteen years ago)

the chipmunks do a version of this on their new soundtrack album

― chaki, Thursday, 3 January 2008 01:19 (eighteen years ago)

Far freakin' out.

― kingkongvsgodzilla, Thursday, 3 January 2008 01:39 (eighteen years ago)

five years pass...

― markers, Sunday, 17 February 2013 18:58 (twelve years ago)

two years pass...

this song makes me so happy every time i hear it

― maura, Sunday, 12 April 2015 15:12 (ten years ago)

most recent occasion: last saturday night, wandering around the prudential center mall after a benefit show i'd covered at berklee. animecon had just let out so the mall was swarmed with cosplayers of all sorts — elaborate costumes that included one man with a tv for a head — and i decided that i was going to top off my night with a trip to that bar at the top of the pru. (taking in the city in all its glory, etc.) i went down to the basement elevator bank and seriously WAITED FOR ELEVATORS THAT NEVER CAME while the bridge came crashing in. so perfect

― maura, Sunday, 12 April 2015 15:14 (ten years ago)

three years pass...

It's as if he wants her to die so he can say, "See? I TOLD you you were having a bad day.".

― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 01:19 (seven years ago)

the chipmunks do a version of this on their new soundtrack album

― chaki, Wednesday, January 2, 2008 5:19 PM (ten years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i had to give it a listen. arguably the single chipmunks song that improves on the original.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFwoasbsX44

― omar little, Wednesday, 13 June 2018 05:05 (seven years ago)

In April/early May of 2006, in a fit of youthful insouciance, I quit my cashiering job at the supermarket. This was the first in a series of wrong moves. For several weeks, I had a tough time finding a new job in my small-ish New Jersey exurb. Eventually, I got hired at a place on the outskirts of town that manufactured rubber insulation for underground wiring. It was exactly the kind of work I was least suited for.

My first day, I'm being shown around the place and trained how to do various tasks. A guy shows me how to pull freshly baked rubber off a hot steel oven-mold with a hook, then trim the excess rubber off with a utility knife. Being one who learns best by doing, I decide to give it a try myself after a few minutes. In addition to other protective gear, I'm wearing kevlar gloves on each hand. Awkwardly, I manage to yank the tube off the mold and then I start trimming, with the tube in my left hand and the knife in my right.

After a few seconds, my right hand slips and plunges the blade into my left palm. I start bleeding profusely--more than I'd ever bled before or since. My whole glove turns red in seconds. And I am laughing, like a total idiot, partly out of shock and partly because this is the funniest thing I've ever seen. We manage to get some gauze and stop the bleeding, and the supervisor drives me to a nearby clinic to get stitches. Guess what song is playing on the radio?

― a film with a little more emotional balls (zchyrs), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 13:27 (seven years ago)


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