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The X Factor - it needs more ELO/Del Amitri/Squeeze songs to make it more watchable
Posted by Uncle Wheaty on 23 October 2010 - 9:52pm.
The FPO has been watching it as I type and it really needs some great British songwriting to liven it up IMO.
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I want to see
a free Jazz week.
All of them forced to interpret a John Zorn track of their choosing.
Or a Krautrock week! A Post-Punk week?
And in what way were any of those songs Guilty Pleasures? What the fuck is a guilty pleasure anyway? If it doesen't involve livestock theres nothing guilty about it. Mind you, I am from Ayrshire.
Free Jazz you say?
I want to hear them do a Sun Ra tribute week, or what about a shoe gazing prog?
A Krautrock week ? Yeah, that might work
By which I mean singing in a language other than English. Shouldn't be a biggie for the contestants, having so easily mastered their mother tongue. Sound cruel and unusual punishment, but The Apprentice has their fodder jumping equally stupid hoops on a weekly basis. Having the bloke called Wagner doing Der Mussolini would have layers of meaning we would be unpicking for years.
On the other hand it would make Sauron Cowell a fortune flogging the footage to overseas equivalents of Chris Tarrant, laughing at the funny foreigners, so maybe not.
Duplicate
Apols
Next week
they're all doing Scott Walker songs I think
Please God
let this be true!
Wagner slapping a side of beef, Cher inside a wooden box, wailing as huge ominous strings play a terrifying dirge.
Mind you, thats just late period Scott. You could easily have a very watchable and beleiveable edition of X-Factor with his earlier solo stuff. Copenhagen, Two Weeks Since You've Gone, It's Raining Today, Montague Terrace - all crowd pleasers.
God, I love Scott Walker.
I don't watch the X=factor
so I'm really really hoping this is a joke.
It needs more *metal*
Let us start here
Let us continue here...
Onwards and upwards...Lets Go
Cronos...
Keeping it simple
This would be a good place to start
Heavy Metal X Factor?
Bring it on!
Vardis are one of the few NWOBHM bands
that I still listen to. The only others that ever get a play would be Spider and a bit of Angelwitch.
That`s a blast from the past!
Haven`t heard it since staying in on a Friday night for TV on the radio some.............oh no...20, 25, 30 years ago?
Happy days..reminds me of West Runton Pavillion for some reason.
Damn you ,Crowther
You beat me to it.
Someone was asking about the term 'guilty pleasure' earlier
I think it's defined as "I don't need to listen to any of them, I know what they sound like already". Including the 2x7" doublepack of "Let's Go".
Mrs. F has a broken foot at the moment
so needs no excuse to stay in and watch. I had the iPod on and they apparently were all singing songs from Iron Maiden's recent long player. It was pretty good. Although the lip syncing was a bit dodgy.
They need a Barclay James
They need a Barclay James Harvest or John Martyn week. Let's see Cher Lloyd handle 'Couldn't Love You More'.
Wagner sings
Mockingbird!
Even better let's have Belle
Even better let's have Belle Amie sing 'Play To The World'
or Mary doing Small Hours?
Del Amitri??
Great songs?? Heck, they were just a one hit wonder 80s thang weren't they?
Totally wrong,Eddie
they were just a one hit wonder 90s thang.
My apologies.
The nineties didn't really happen in G Towers. But hey, at least we agree on the one hit wonder element.
I'm going next Sunday
And it had better be good. I think Bon Jovi are on. Guilty pleasures indeed. Why do they bother with themes at all? Why not just pick a good song and go with it.
All those dreadful soul dirges no one's ever heard of. Such rubbish.
But fun.
All this talk of Del Amitri
reminds me of one of the clumsiest Alan Partridge-style radio links I ever heard.
It was on an ABC talk station in Australia where records are usually only played to fill gaps or to lead into the news etc.
On this occasion they were playing Del Amitri's Always the Last to Know while waiting to throw to a reporter standing outside parliament.
As the record ended, the studio anchorman (who had clearly never heard of Del Amitri until that very moment) blurted out "Well, Del may always be the last to know, but you'll always be up to date with our parliamentary report. Now we cross to....".
He thought Del Amitri was a bloke's name!
Perhaps we should have a
Perhaps we should have a week when they perform songs they have written themselves or they 'really' play instruments live on stage.
Or perhaps they really sing the song and not just mime it like a certain mentor did on Sunday - pretty disgraceful especially if you criticise others for having 'tuning' problems.
One of the contestants
strummed a guitar on saturday. Some pretty tough-looking chords in there too.
But, hey, it's not about music is it?
Can we somehow make Wagner win it? Perhaps we should start a campaign. Let's see Simon take that to number one.
One of them
was in a band called Darwyn, who were/are really great live, and indeed wrote all their own songs. Nowadays of course, he's a "humble painter and decorator from Essex".
The X Factor...it need cancelling!
If I want bad karaoke, there's already plenty of that in Liverpool on a Saturday night.