h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Hi, Della:

I haven't heard "Shut Uppa Your Face",
but the title reminds me of a song
with the lines

"Shut your mouth, go away,
Mamma, look, a booboo day"

which was pretty bad.

Are we thinking of "O Superman" by Laurie Anderson? Went on for about 8 minutes with an incessant "ah-ah-ah-ah-ah" backing?

ok, the song i hate most i 'hazard' because it's so depressing, i cant even sit through it.

but the worst thing ever recorded has to be (and i cant believe none of you mentioned this when you were discussing leonard nimoy earlier) is 'lucy in the sky with diamonds' groaned by William Shatner. I maintain that this is the owrst song becaus he maintains that he actually sang it!

AND he wore a pink shirt while doing it!


also on my hate list has to be pretty much anything my dad or his twon brother or my mum regard as good. they like pan pipes for smegs sake!

and charlotte church!

do those horrid bank adverts count? the ones where they have some embarressed looking bankmanager singing....or what about the courts adverts that bruce forsyth did a few years ago!

'O Superman' - that's the one. I remember lyrics like, 'O Superman. Dear John. Dear Mum and Dad' It was a horrible, meaningless song. I wish I hadn't remembered it!

Very much the opposite of 'not meaningless', actually.

SAGAPPO. It was just dire. Or is that too topical?

Nope. It was dire.

And why were they dressed like the Borg?

What got me was the weird John Cleese-style marching- they were trying to be hard- while wiggling their legs around below the knee

I've obviously missed another of those / Eurovision moments here.
Curses!

Set your video next time so as not to miss out!

THE RESULTS SO FAR!

Cliff Richards Millenium Prayer is along side the All Saints - Under the Bridge:... 3 votes each.

Joint second place, all with 2 votes are:
Anything by William Shatner, Charlotte Church and Britney Spears.

W. Shatners "Lucy in the sky" gets a mention but I remember a clip of him doing some sort of scat over a jazz backing track. He was kind of singing/talking and it went a bit like this:-

Oh yeah man, like we all need to travel, gotta go, gotta keep on moving...TAXI..... slip on board, groove the music...TAXI....

I kid you not!!

* screams and turns the Alice Band up to drown out the memories of William Shatner's 'singing' *

Having done a fair amount of music journalism , I have received countless unutterably bad CDs in the last few years for review purposes. If you ever encounter CD's by any of the following, I advise you to steer well clear:

Solvent, The Junket, Sludgefeast, Radar

Of course, some obscure bands are great. Who was the first person in the country to hear gems by Silver Sun, The Notwist, Salako and Sebadoh (all for free). Yours truly.

B

The tweenies and the kids version of sclub7, in fact any kids, they should learn patience and keep practising until they are adults. Then they will be better and less likely to crash and burn quite so quickly and also will not have to endure being on programmes which will show you up as a t**t as a child.

Laurie Anderson's Oh Superman is about the getting disconnected of reality and family by American society.

the lyrics
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~jimmyd/laurie-anderson/lyrics/bs.html

pheloxi
a very big fan of Laurie Anderson

p.s. you should hear the late 80s live-version of Oh Superman, real swinging version.

If it involves 'swing' maybe Robbie Williams will do a cover?

...and maybe he'll drop down dead.

Hope springs eternal, just like the Caps Lock key.

B