Defend the indefensible: Achy Breaky Heart

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Just for the lines : "You can tell your dog to bite my leg, Or tell your
brother Cliff whose fist can tell my lip, He never really liked me anyway"

The combination of action to result via an intermediary. The rest is admittedly shite...

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 10 November 2003 10:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Would it be enough to just say something for Billy Ray?

Arguably one of the most recognisable mullet icons of our time.
And am I alone in thinking he looks AND sounds like a younger brother of Bill Clinton?

― Stephen Stockwell (Stephen Stockwell), Monday, 10 November 2003 10:48 (twenty-two years ago)

my bro-in-law - who is a gun toting farm owning mustachioedw/tatoos and seriously violent past type guy - loves this rekkid, and i couldtell him its crap but he bought it for his wife as a WA gift, so...

― gaz (gaz), Monday, 10 November 2003 10:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Bill Hicks to thread!

― Bob Shaw (Bob Shaw), Monday, 10 November 2003 11:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Don't play that song, that achy breaky song.

No way it may be defended at all.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 10 November 2003 12:56 (twenty-two years ago)

I remember seeing somnething on the news when it was a big hit. There was a girl who was confined to a wheelchair who said she was going to learn to walk so she could do the Achy Breaky. Of course, she must have also had lead poisoning if her only motivation for walking was doing the Achy Breaky.

― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 10 November 2003 13:13 (twenty-two years ago)

My enjoyment of this song is seriously hindered because I am unable to discern the identity of the man in danger of being killed by the pernicious "exploding heart". I assume the song relies on a visual cue during the performance - a photograph, perhaps, which Mr. Cyrus points to at the end of the chorus? Without this information, I'm afraid there's very little I, or law enforcement, can do.

― jazz odysseus, Monday, 10 November 2003 13:41 (twenty-two years ago)

I like his performance of this chune on Top of the Pops, where he seemed to be really scared of the TV cameras, then during the instrumental break decided to break the tension by attempting to do a Scottish jig for about 7.3 seconds!!!!!!

― Old Fart!!! (oldfart_sd), Monday, 10 November 2003 15:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Well it is only 2 chords (if I remember correctly). So that's saying something ESPECIALLY because it was a hit.
Very few 2 chord songs out there in rock & country. Granted I'm not judging the "quality" of the song thoguh.

― kar120c, Monday, 10 November 2003 20:40 (twenty-two years ago)

"about 7.3 seconds"
made my day

― Felcher (Felcher), Monday, 10 November 2003 21:19 (twenty-two years ago)

I LOVED Mullholland Drive!

― cinniblount (James Blount), Monday, 10 November 2003 21:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh yeah, he was great in Mulholland Drive.

― NA (Nick A.), Monday, 10 November 2003 21:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Greatest marketing strategy ever.

CEO buys 1 million copies --> song rockets up charts --> people jump on bandwagon ("WHO IS THIS MASKED MAN BILLY RAY CYRUS???") --> label has already sold all the copies to one person so they cannot meet demand for MORE BILLY RAY! --> CEO sells 1 million copies back to record label at a profit

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 10 November 2003 22:14 (twenty-two years ago)

four years pass...

omg @ 2:51 onward:

― ♥sauce (unregistered), Monday, 20 October 2008 19:22 (seventeen years ago)

― Geir Hongro, Monday, 20 October 2008 19:28 (seventeen years ago)

mr. ray cyrus dancing looks like my two-year-old nephew when he's playing and spinning around by himself

― cameron carr, Monday, 20 October 2008 21:11 (seventeen years ago)

That guy got rich while he was doing that on television.

THAT GUY GOT RICH WHILE HE WAS DOING THAT ON TELEVISION!!

― z "R" s (Z S), Monday, 20 October 2008 21:14 (seventeen years ago)

well, it could be worse. he could get famous by being a plumber!

― cameron carr, Monday, 20 October 2008 21:20 (seventeen years ago)

Achey Breaky Heart got into my head while I was doing my GCSE exams. I loathed it with all my being, but decided that the only way to get it out of my head was to buy it and play it till it died.

The next time this happened with a song, it was Ed's Babe by The Fall - I didn't like this either, it having been the only song played by John Peel at the weekend that I really hadn't liked, because it just sounded shit.

Unfortunately for my wallet, long-suffering frenz and girlfrenz, neighbours, random people on the street, it never died, and now as a human being I am just a sick emaciated spiritless appendage to the luminous glory that is The Fall's back catalogue.

Thanks Billy Ray.

― GamalielRatsey, Tuesday, 21 October 2008 10:21 (seventeen years ago)

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