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Br Robyn Hoode - Navo - complete with theme tune Posted Jan 22, 2007
Now, I have a couple of crap song categories.
Firstly, there's 'crud cos it makes no sense/is blatantly wrong and makes the writer look like an idiot' category for which I nominate Sandi Thom with her lyrics about wanting to be a PUNK ROCKER with FLOWERS in her HAIR! So, what, cactus flowers in your mohican? Daisy chain through your spikes? If you wanted to belong to the hippy era so much, I'd suggest you do some research love... I know a few 'punk rockers' and know they'd only have flowers in their hair if you told them it would upset The Man. Which is actually an idea I think I'll try shortly... *evil grin*
Secondly, though I love GnR, November Rain winds me right up. A great guitar solo spoiled by hours of endless drivel... and the video's cr*p.
Lastly, I'd like to point out that if you put all of the really bad stuff that's been suggested, onto a CD, it'd sell like hot cakes and wedding DJs up and down the country would be out of a job...
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The Groob Posted Feb 3, 2007
Rob 'n' Raz featuring Leila K: Got to Get. 1989.
Can I prove its awfulness? Yes I can!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIEFrFfy_l4
I can't believe that we - and the folk in the video, for that matter - took it all so seriously. It looks like an Ali G parody now 
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chubstar1975 Posted Feb 3, 2007
It bobbed around the Top 20 for a good few weeks.
And, to be fair, I don't think anyone can knock those "europop" hits for their blandness and incongruity with English - they don't speak it in their own country.
Actually, did you know that there were just as many UK No.1s by acts from countries where English is not the native language than the 1970s and 1980s - and nine of THAT score came from ABBA alone!
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Miz307 Posted Feb 4, 2007
Anita Dobson - Anyone can fall in love 
Worse thing is, I nearly started singing it on the intro of Eastenders the other day!! 
Sorry if it's already been mentioned...it must of been!!
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airscotia-back by popular demand Posted Feb 4, 2007
Yeah, but it's the first time we've heard you sing it 
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Thatprat - With a new head/wall interface mechanism Posted Feb 5, 2007
Yes, and we may never forgive you for it!
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chubstar1975 Posted May 12, 2007
I have started to download Eurovision songs (as it's that time of year)
There appeared to be a dirth of dirge.
Power To All Our Friends - "power to the bees" (ERRRRM)
Ding-A-Dong - "sing ding-a-dong every hour, when you pick a flower, even when your lover is gone, gone, gone"
Wild Dances - "just maybe - i'm crazy - the wheels go round and round and round"
The fact that we've actually managed to pick a song that is MORE annoying than Jemini's Cry Baby (26th and null points) while also appealing to the overtly flamboyant males (you know who we are!) is astounding.
"would you like some salted nuts sir" indeed!
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iassou Posted May 15, 2007
Oh God yes Robyn. Every time I heard the Sandi Thom single it made me want to scream. Not only was it stupid to the nth degree but it was a crap tune too. Gets my vote for the all time worst, closely followed by Sir Cliff's Millenium Prayer - cheap, maudlin and lazy!
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Edward the Bonobo - Gone. Posted May 15, 2007
Imagine - John Lennon. Worst song EVER!
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Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like Posted May 15, 2007
Nonsense. Have you never heard 'Hole In My Shoe'?
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Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like Posted May 15, 2007
Oh, I think Imagine is more sophomoric than trite, surely? 
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Edward the Bonobo - Gone. Posted May 15, 2007
Hmm. 'Sophomoric' usually applies to an artist's early naievity. But he'd been around the block a few times before Imagine. There was no excuse for it!
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Mr. Dreadful - But really I'm not actually your friend, but I am... Posted May 15, 2007
I'd say more Imagine is more soporific than sophomoric.
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Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like Posted May 15, 2007
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Edward the Bonobo - Gone. Posted May 15, 2007
(reading through the backlog)
No - 'das Horst-Wessel-Lied' and 'Tomorrow Belongs To Me' are different beasts. For an unfortunate period of my life, I briefly shared a house with someone who would play the former at full volume. I do think that the latter is based on an older German song - but not a Nazi one. (I might be wrong on that. Googling suggests a Kander and Ebb original). That's partly the power of it: it's the Nazi takeover of German folk-culture.
Damned fine film, but, and that sequence is one of its best moments. Others include: the jump cut from Cliff and Sally telling as a train passes over to a jew being beaten up by the SA; and the closing shot of the emcee with the Nazis reflected in the distorted mirror. In fact, the only wrong note is the casting of Liza-with-a-zee as Sally Bowles. She was far too gutsy and couldn't pull off the necessary faux-sophistication.
And I know more than one preson who's realised his sexual calling on seeing Michael York without a shirt.
"Screw Maxillian!"
"I already do!"
"So do I." 
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Moonhogg - Captain Coffee Break Posted May 15, 2007
- oh, and which version of Hole In My Shoe - Traffic, or Neil?
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Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like Posted May 17, 2007
Either. It's a bilge song so you can't make it 'better' or 'worse'.
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- 121: Br Robyn Hoode - Navo - complete with theme tune (Jan 22, 2007)
- 122: The Groob (Feb 3, 2007)
- 123: chubstar1975 (Feb 3, 2007)
- 124: Miz307 (Feb 4, 2007)
- 125: airscotia-back by popular demand (Feb 4, 2007)
- 126: Thatprat - With a new head/wall interface mechanism (Feb 5, 2007)
- 127: chubstar1975 (May 12, 2007)
- 128: Galaxy Babe - eclectic editor (May 12, 2007)
- 129: iassou (May 15, 2007)
- 130: Edward the Bonobo - Gone. (May 15, 2007)
- 131: Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like (May 15, 2007)
- 132: Edward the Bonobo - Gone. (May 15, 2007)
- 133: Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like (May 15, 2007)
- 134: Edward the Bonobo - Gone. (May 15, 2007)
- 135: Mr. Dreadful - But really I'm not actually your friend, but I am... (May 15, 2007)
- 136: Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like (May 15, 2007)
- 137: Edward the Bonobo - Gone. (May 15, 2007)
- 138: Moonhogg - Captain Coffee Break (May 15, 2007)
- 139: Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like (May 17, 2007)
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