Entertainment For Lively Minds
Sentimental Tosh
Posted by Austin on 14 September 2011 - 11:38am.
No, not Peter Tosh or John Toshack in their more reflective moments, but actual mawkish rubbish that deserves undiluted and direct scorn.
I am not totally against this kind of thing. What a Wonderful World, for example, is tremendous. But some songs not only cross the line into vulgarity, but sashay over it with shameful exploitative glee.
The worst offender? I give you this:
(Bette Midler - Wind Beneath My Wings)
Unless of course, you know different.
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You Are The Wind Between My Legs
....... would have been a much better title.
Or wheels?
It must be
The Wind Beneath My Sheets.
It's great being so brilliant
The message behind 'WBMW' is evidently, "I'm fantastic, amn't I? But I wouldn't be anywhere near as stupdendous were it not for you, my lumpen supporter."
See also
The Greatest Love Of All.
More undiluted narcissism.
Chicago - You're The Inspiration
runs Bette "I heard a lovely rumour" Midler close.
Warning: includes Peter Cetera wearing a Bauhaus Bela Lugosi's Dead T-shirt. 'Cos despite the band bringing the bland he's f**ing edgy, alright?
The Singing Waxwork...
who seemed to be living in a soft focus world.
Whenever he's mentioned
I always wonder if he has a brother called Et.
Yes, I do lead an exciting life.
I quite like the mid 80s Chicago mawkfest
they're a hard habit to break.
Me too.
You were the inspiration behind my comment Mr Fade.
But that Bauhaus T-shirt is the definition of incongruous, no?
Not that Chicago et cetera have anything to apologise for. I'd sooner have them than Murphy's vampire schtick any day of the week...
Bauhaus in the middle of our street
Talking of incongruous T-shirts, I saw a trailer for the Antiques Roadshow yesterday which was based where I used to live.
There was footage of a pleasantly-surprised owner of a valuable trinket. He was a man, well into his 60s, wearing a Ramones T-shirt. Hooray! Perhaps he is a grizzled old rock & roll warhorse who was there - front row - when Joey, Dee Dee, Mick and Tich started out in the 1970s?
But I sense that he might have actually got it from Top Shop, or second hand at a local jumble sale, and not the merch stand at CBGBs.
One of the kids
from out of New Kids On The Block wore selfsame Bauhaus t-shirt in one of their early videos.
I smell a gothic conspiracy.
Purplepie Pete
was 39 when You're The Inspiration hit the charts.
Mariah Carey - Hero
Look up the word "mawkish" in the dictionary, and it will be phrased with this:
adjective
1.
characterized by sickly sentimentality; weakly emotional; maudlin.
2.
having a mildly sickening flavor; slightly nauseating.
3.
See Mariah Carey's "Hero".
Just awful. See that a hero lies in you? Ermm, no, just intestines, lungs, etc, immortal soul. But no firemen or surgeons. Sorry.
Any big ballad
they sing on the X factor.
But especially Dance With My Father by Luther Vandross.
Who dances with their father anyway? (If you're a man).
Er...
Brings a tear to my eye...
Two pet hates:
and
Membreees
...like-a connor suffma maaahnd
Aaaaargh!
My mum wanted (and had) that played at her funeral.
I had to make a quick (and no doubt, dramatic looking) exit from the crematorium when it played. Not because I had something in my eye but because my mum could have such terrible taste in music :-)
This was a massive hit
in 1968, the year of Hendrix, Cream and the White Album, so as you can imagine, ridicule poured down on it from a great height.
I've never been able to figure out quite what's going on here. I know it ends badly, but why is she keeping it a secret?
Listen for the key change at 2:55 which cleverly heightens the tension as it goes into the last verse.
And we got a lot of mileage from the line "I surprised her with a puppy" back in the day, believe me.
Bobby Goldsboro - Honey 1968
He made up for it with this, though
Summer (The First Time) - Bobby Goldsboro