Entertainment For Lively Minds
Save me from "Walking On Sunshine"
Posted by Five-Centres on 8 March 2010 - 11:24am.
I know to some people this is the happiest song ever made, but I think if I ever hear this Katrina & The Waves hit again it will be too soon. I never liked it. It's become a wedding disco/Chris Evans drivetime staple and has run it course.
It's never off the radio and soundtracks TV more often than not. It's even featured the first episode of the new series of Ashes To Ashes, which is set in 1983, two years before the song was released. As if there wasn't anything else from 1983 to choose from. What's wrong with Tantalise by Jimmy Hoover??
What songs you've heard a million times want to make you slit your own throat?
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Obvious, but any of the following
Bohemian Rhapsody
Chasing Cars
Wonderwall
Hey Jude
...and all the others that are probably repressed somewhere deep inside my mind
Ooo.....
Having spent 3 days last week holed up in the "Hard Days Night" Hotel in Liverpool on a work shindig that also encompassed a visit to The Beatles Experience, I can honestly say I never, ever, ever want to hear "A Hard Days Night" ever again. That song is on a perpetual loop on your "in hotel entertainment system" and must drive the poor staff there bonkers. Like chinese water torture. Nice memorabilia though
Other than that....
Imagine
Pppppppppoker Face
Three Little Birds
Red Red Wine
Don't Stop Believing (ruined by its current ubiquity)
Get it On
Street Spirit
Run
It's a cheap point, but worth revisiting
If I pick every other track from the Heart/Smooth/AM gold/BBC local radio playlists, I'll probably encounter something I feel like I've heard a million times before - music programming focus grouped to buggery.
Wrong radio
It sounds like you're all listening to the wrong radio stations. I can't remember the last time I heard Katrina & The Waves (probably once or twice last summer), it must be a couple of years since I heard Bohemian Rhapsody and I've heard Chasing Cars so few times I can't actually remember how it goes (although as I recall it doesn't actually have a tune so it's hardly memorable).
Might I recommend BBC 6 Music as a good long term alternative?!
Absolutely
But not Absolute (see what I did there? I'm hilarious, me)
Don't always get the chance to control the radio where I work, though. Or when I have the builders in.
Let me toss Queen's Don't Stop Me Now into this unholy mix of Make It Stop FM.
OP
"Walking On Sunshine" might get on your tits but this song and "Going Down To Liverpool" should see sometime Soft Boy, Kimberley Rew, in the readies right into his retirement.
For that, I am glad. The man's a genius.
Couldn't
agree with you more. Anyone else downloaded his Ridgeway EP (available gratis on kimberleyrew.com, folks) and marvelled at its restorative powers?
Save me from...
...'Wake Up Boo' by The Boo Radleys. Utter, utter drivel – enough to drive you back under the duvet.
Ooh.. I'll second that.
Paint-by-numbers lumpen fake jollity featuring clodhopping chunks of hamfisted brass to add to the awfulness.
If I never heard...
...that fucking "Here Come The Girls" abomination ever again, it would be too soon. I think every publically traded company in Britain has bought the rights for use on advertising. It makes me want to smear myself in beef dripping and then lock myself in a bank vault with a Bengal tiger.
Pass the dripping
Any time there's anything with a group of women doing something, there it is.
Interestingly...
...whenever there's anything with a group of women doing something in South West London, I'm also generally there. Smeared in beef dripping.
Hi Ho Silver Lining
and any other wedding dj fodder
Hmmm...
Wonderwall
Supersonic
Live Forever
Don't Look Back In Anger
Cigarettes and Alcohol
Roll With It
Shakermaker
All Around The World
anything by George Michael (Wham! not included)
Easy....
... anything with Jeff Lynne's name on it.
Shiny Happy People
I know REM have their detractors but they've had plenty of great moments too. What happened here? It's in the middle of Out of Time, my second favourite REM platter after the subsequent Automatic for the People. Personally I suspect Stipe and Kate Pierson were behind this, and came up with it whilst on some Warner Bros sponsored writing retreat at an experimental, multi faith summer camp run by a radical psychotherapist who is now discredited or possibly in prison. God, how I hate it.
Don't REM also hate it?
to the extent that it is not included on any "Best of/Greatest Hits" compilation, despite being probably their best known song. Or is that just an urban myth?
..possibly not:
That self same “greatest hits” also criminally omitted “Drive” and “Find The River” – probably their two finest moments….
….oh and they performed “Shiny Happy” on Sesame Street in about 1999 with smiles on their faces.. okay its not a masterpiece but it would have livened up either of their last two albums…
Top tunes - Too Much Spin
..its always tempting to have a pop at overplayed classics by otherwise great artists (Bo Rap, Hey Jude, Imagine, Stairway) but in most cases I think people dislike them because of the fact that they're overplayed rather than the quality of the song.
I managed to avoid "Wonderwall" for about a year, having previously grown bored of it. I listened it to it with fresh ears a few days ago and, you know what, it sounded fantastic.. (cue massive word eating session following my recent slayings of Oasis on numerous threads)..
.. in fact I predict that now that they have split, it wont be long before we remember why we liked them to begin with..
Anyway my vote - James **unt - entire catalogue
Reunion tour coming our way
in about 2015, when Liam finally accepts that no one is prepared to pay £450 for one of his Pretty Green parkas and Noel realises that Trout Farming is no fun.
More than a feeling
Really,really don't need to hear Boston ever again or Don't fear the bloody reaper.Give em' a rest.Please.
The only version of Bohemian you'll ever need.....
Nooooooo... you need THIS one as well.
Great.
Now I need two.He's not as alluring as Miss Piggy though.
Ooh
Stairway to Heaven.
do teenage boys still show off in guitar shops by playing a mangled version of this?
I only frequent...
...guitar shops which are so ridiculously overpriced that one scornful glance from the deeply scruffy 'Erbert behind the counter sends teenagers running screaming for the exit. This is the joy of Vintage And Rare. It's full of reasonably affluent thirtysomethings like me, all doing what teenagers do in Sound Control, but with much more expensive kit. Fortunately, because it's plausible that we might have the money, 'Erbert has to make nice.
But to return to topic, no, I think they play Trivium in guitar shops now. And the shit ones play Seven Nation Army.
"I could play "Stairway to Heaven" when I was twelve...
Jimmy Page didn't actually write it until he was twenty-two. I think that says quite a lot."
From the razor-sharp mind of Vim Fuego.
I'm sure that
during my thirty minute drive into work later if I happen to tune into R2 I'll hear any number of examples. In the interests of research I may do this. On the other hand I do have Ipod set up for a Camper Van Beethoven/Cracker playlist..... what would you do?
I barely hear much radio
But when I do, it always seems to come on. As if to taunt me.
It was even in Glee the other day. There is no escape.
Bloody Layla
& I Will Survive. God help me.
I heard the latter
only this morning. Gah!
speaking of Layla...
am I the only person who'll tend to 'fast forward' through most of it. I tend to only need 40 seconds or so of the 'riff' but it's the coda that I really like!
Records I would like to "wipe out"
Sex Bomb by Tom Jones
My Guy by Mary Wells (apologies to all concerned)
You Do Something To Me by Paul Weller (his worst ever single and, inevitably, the most played)
edit: forgot to add Walking On Sunshine's hideous twin: Love Shack by The B 52s. Not just "jolly". Also a bit "wacky". Christ on a bike.
You can tut-tut as much as you like
but Sinead O'Connor's version of Nothing Compares to You is a guaranteed station switcher for me. I hated it when it first came out and hate it even more now.
Seconded
Yet I can listen to the Prince version as often as it comes up.
"Tell 'em Rosie"
I'm as serious as cancer...
...hmmm not really, so Rhythm is a Dancer is one for the "off" switch every time...