The one where a hard man was made humble, plz.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 25 February 2005 06:48 (twenty-one years ago)
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― Bimble... (Bimble...), Friday, 25 February 2005 06:55 (twenty-one years ago)
Ooh! I'll take the one where the tough guys tumble! Rrrff!!
― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Friday, 25 February 2005 13:29 (twenty-one years ago)
The threads we post would not excite you.
Please go back to your bars, your temples, your massage parlours.
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 25 February 2005 13:36 (twenty-one years ago)
Uh uh, honey. I get my kicks
above the belt.
― Palomino (Palomino), Friday, 25 February 2005 13:58 (twenty-one years ago)
I'd make sure that I actually could find a god in every golden temple.
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 25 February 2005 14:29 (twenty-one years ago)
If you couldn't would you put one there? Would it be statues of yourself?
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 25 February 2005 15:01 (twenty-one years ago)
Oh wow...surely the one with an angel walking next to me...
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Friday, 25 February 2005 15:05 (twenty-one years ago)
A guy in my 4th grade class rewrote the lyrics to this as a tribute to the capital of CT. That's right - "One Night In Hartford". Hottt. Everyone in the class mocked him, which was 15 types of wrong, but it's not like 10 year olds should possess any tact.
― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 25 February 2005 15:15 (twenty-one years ago)
four months pass...
I have to say... this song had dated in the greatest way. Many people my age remember the song as that odd one hit wonder from 1985 that couldn't be any more "80s", but on three recent separate occasions, I was in a car or at a party with people from their early 20s or younger, and da kids LOVE this song. They DIG this jam. I guess it was on the radio just before they were about to turn that important single digit age of musical discovery (usually 8 or 9), and just missed them at the right and ripe time for rediscovery today.
You have to admit, to someone who's never heard the song before, having this 80s-ish "funky" mid-eastern groove happen while some guy nasally "sings" his complaints via a phone line filter with a backing chorus that will interject:
IT'S A DRAG...
.....................IT'S A BORE
IT'S...
.......REALLY SUCH A PITY TO BE LOOKING AT THE BOARD, NOT LOOKING AT THE CITYYYYYYYY!
"Whaddya mean? Ya seen one crowded, polluted, stinking town!"
TEA.........
...............GUUUUUUUUUUUUUUURRRLS
WARM...........
................SWEET
SOME ARE SET UP IN THE SOMERSET MAUGHAM SUITE
"Get Thai'd! You're talking to a tourist whose every move's among the purest"
"I get my kicks ABOVE the waistline, sunshine!"
..
I mean, it's really such an odd, odd song if you step back and just dissect it. Possibly the oddest charting song ever in the U.S... (hey, new thread idea!) I'm glad it was the male half of ABBA's last gasp at penning a charting single.. such a great, weird way to go out.
― donut e- (donut), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 23:48 (twenty years ago)
At a party though, the secret is you have to play the ALBUM version.. that's the one that has the full Arabic orchestration and dance fanfare that abruptly segues into the groove and first verse... the single version lacks the fanfare intro, which takes away half the momentum of the song.
― donut e- (donut), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 23:53 (twenty years ago)
Happily the album version was played more than a few times on radio in my neck of the woods when the song was a hit. You could probably triangulate this, the Thompson Twins' song "The Gap" (as opposed to the album from whence it came) and the Sisters of Mercy's "Temple of Love" if you wanted to.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 00:00 (twenty years ago)
best synthpop hit about chess ever, obviously.
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 6 July 2005 00:21 (twenty years ago)