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Points: 4252 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 25 2008 at 03:31
Originally posted by James James wrote:

I really do hope our opening ceremony is nothing like that abomination of a homecoming in The Mall (or wherever it was).

And if I ever hear Scouting for Girls, The Feeling, Will Young and McFly ever again... I may have to break something. Ermm
 
....though wasn't Sophie brilliant...? Heart Embarrassed
 
 
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I really like Scouting for Girls, I love that "Elvis isn't Dead" song, it's real. I think it's probably one on the best pop songs of the year Approve  


Oh, good god, I hear that song twice a day every day during the week and it drives me nuts, some of the worst lyrics I've come across. WTF does Elvis have to do with anything!Angry

Excuse me whilst I find something avant garde to drive it from my memory.LOL
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Originally posted by sleeper sleeper wrote:

Originally posted by prog-chick prog-chick wrote:

I really like Scouting for Girls, I love that "Elvis isn't Dead" song, it's real. I think it's probably one on the best pop songs of the year Approve  


Oh, good god, I hear that song twice a day every day during the week and it drives me nuts, some of the worst lyrics I've come across. WTF does Elvis have to do with anything!Angry

Excuse me whilst I find something avant garde to drive it from my memory.LOL


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Rach: yes, that Shine song... Angry
Steve: no, I cannot stand Sophie Ellis-Bextor either. EmbarrassedConfused


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Originally posted by sleeper sleeper wrote:

[Oh, good god, I hear that song twice a day every day during the week and it drives me nuts, some of the worst lyrics I've come across. WTF does Elvis have to do with anything!Angry

Excuse me whilst I find something avant garde to drive it from my memory.LOL
 
What the SFG fella is saying is
I wish is was me you chose,  I wish it was me, Elvis isn't dead, and you're coming back to me.
 
In other words, if I can pretend that Elvis isn't dead , then I can pretend that you still love me.
See? it's about heartbreak and desperation.
 
 
For the love of God, I never though I would have to explain some jangly pop song to anyone in the shed. Go back to your avant garde, your pseudo intellectual nonsense twaddle if this 'ere pop is too tricky for you! LOL
 
Elvis isn't Dead, great song, now if you hear it twice a day (what,  everyday?)  you are annoyed by the tune rather than the lyrical content? (I assume as you didn't understand the context of Elvis)
is it all catchy pop that upsets you, or just this song?
 
Does anyone else get upset by "Pop Music"  anyone need a lay down?  Really there is some s h i t e out there in Pop world, but Scouting for Girls are pretty good pop, a bit like Badly Drawn Boy a couple of years ago, (what happened to them?)  they write, play and sing their own songs. that's a long way from the Atomic Kitten end of the spectrum! Good Pop is a treasure in the sea of rubbish! 
 
 
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^^^ Yes, what did happen to Badly Drawn Boy..?? They were pretty good. I had one of their albums, but have since lost it. I was loooking for it the other week. I think it was 'Have you fed the fish today' The soundtrack to 'About a boy' was pretty good too.

But honestly, Scouting for Girls!!!

Good pop for me in recent times would be Keane, KT Tunstall, and Amy McDonald at a push..
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Originally posted by prog-chick prog-chick wrote:

For the love of God, I never though I would have to explain some jangly pop song to anyone in the shed. Go back to your avant garde, your pseudo intellectual nonsense twaddle if this 'ere pop is too tricky for you!

Does anyone else get upset by "Pop Music"  anyone need a lay down?  Really there is some (naughty word deleted - bad girl, Rachel) out there in Pop world, but Scouting for Girls are pretty good pop, a bit like Badly Drawn Boy a couple of years ago, (what happened to them?)  they write, play and sing their own songs. that's a long way from the Atomic Kitten end of the spectrum! Good Pop is a treasure in the sea of rubbish!




Nice one Rach - we may be absolutely justified in considering our choice of music to be superior to radio-fodder, but that is not to say all pop music is bad, or to judge it because of its popularity.

OK - here it comes:

1 - I like 'Rock Star' - a great rocky pop song taking the p out of the industry (whilst still making Nickelback a fortune - clever move guys!)

2 - Whilst most boy bands can quite happily fester in the rubbish pits of their own mediocrity, Take That were bloody good at what they did.

2a - I like a lot of Robbie Williams's early solo material (in fact if you ever get the chance to hear the thrash metal version he did of Take That's 'Back For Good', I can guarantee you'll chuckle)

3 - The Osmonds were rubbish, though

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Originally posted by prog-chick prog-chick wrote:

Go back to your avant garde, your pseudo intellectual nonsense twaddle


Love it - there are so many bands here who fit that description, we'd have enough for a separate "Pseudo Intellectual Nonsense Twaddle" genre.

Mind you, we'd then have all the arguments about "are so & so band Pseudo Intellectual Nonsense Twaddle Related?" or "are this band Proto-Pseudo Intellectual Nonsense Twaddle?"

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I also support pc's sentiment, a great pop tune can be as satisfying as anything and is a craft not every composer is suited to
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did any of you have an irritating pop song that persisted inside your head for months..? Confused
 
such as... KT Tunstall "suddenly i see", Daniel Power "bad day",  "she's so loverly" and that "bring on the girls" song....Unhappy
 
 
oh no they're back there again..Angry.. months of mental discipline wasted...Disapprove
 
 
 time for some Pseudo Intellectual Nonsense Twaddle Tongue
 
 
 


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Originally posted by mystic fred mystic fred wrote:

did any of you have an irritating pop song that persisted inside your head for months..? Confused
 

such as... KT Tunstall "suddenly i see", Daniel Power "bad day",  "she's so loverly" and that "bring on the girls" song....Unhappy

 

 

oh no they're back there again..Angry.. months of mental discipline wasted...Disapprove

 

 

 time for some Pseudo Intellectual Nonsense Twaddle Tongue

 

 

 


I must admit a liking for Miss Tunstall..

However, that Daniel Power song is toe curling..if it's the song I'm thinking of. Capital punishment FM used to play that song, what seemed like 20 times a day. Certainly gave me a bad day. It was as catchy as syphilus, and equally unpleasant...

..so I've been told....

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Somebody leant my father that Scouting for Girls album ages ago... he played it and erm... didn't enjoy it one bit!  Neither did I.  Every song sounded very much the same, the premise of every song was pretty much the same too.  They take "emo" to a new level!

Every song seems to be:

I love you, but you won't let me in, I feel sad.

And yes Steve, Nickelback's song is currently stuck in my head, along with that "Here Come the Girls" twaddle.

I think I also need my avant-garde pseudo-intellectual twaddle that actually isn't twaddle or pseudo-intellectual!

Oh god, I do know that Daniel Power song... Steve, I'd got that OUT of my head, until you just mentioned it again!  It's used in a Lynx advert isn't it?
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Points: 20402 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 26 2008 at 06:57
Originally posted by Blacksword Blacksword wrote:


I must admit a liking for Miss Tunstall..

It was as catchy as syphilus, and equally unpleasant... 

 
 
 
I'm sure she's taking out a restraining order as we speak...LOL
 
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Moodlight Shadow: Mike Oldfield & Maggie Whotsit
Baker Street: Gerry Rafferty
Northern Lights: Renaissance
 
Ermm
 
 
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Gordon Is A Moron: Jilted John
 
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Not to mention those which got to the top of the charts but were never actually played on the radio:

I remember a certain song by Ivor Biggun, for example

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Originally posted by fandango fandango wrote:

Originally posted by Blacksword Blacksword wrote:

I must admit a liking for Miss Tunstall.. It was as catchy as syphilus, and equally unpleasant... 

 

 


 

I'm sure she's taking out a restraining order as we speak...LOL

 

OK, songs that have reached (nearly) the top of the charts, which I have enjoyed...

 

Moodlight Shadow: Mike Oldfield & Maggie Whotsit

Baker Street: Gerry Rafferty

Northern Lights: Renaissance

 

Ermm

 

 

Confused

 

 

Lamp

 

Gordon Is A Moron: Jilted John

 

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Gordon is a Moron?

Is that to become the NuLabour anthem, now that 'Things can only get better' has become completely innapropriate..?
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^^as has Samuel Beckett's play, 'Waiting For Gordo'...Wink
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Erm, the song is called Jilted John (as is the artist aka John Shuttleworth aka whatever his real name is) and not Gordon is a Moron.

Sorry to put my pedants hat on but I like to correct such matters. Big%20smile

Good song though... but I noticed it is being used in an advert at the moment, so I may just start to dislike it a little bit.
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Originally posted by James James wrote:

Erm, the song is called Jilted John (as is the artist aka John Shuttleworth aka whatever his real name is) and not Gordon is a Moron.Sorry to put my pedants hat on but I like to correct such matters. Big%20smileGood song though... but I noticed it is being used in an advert at the moment, so I may just start to dislike it a little bit.


Fair do's. You learn something every day. I thought the band were called Jilted John..
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Originally posted by Blacksword Blacksword wrote:

Originally posted by James James wrote:

Erm, the song is called Jilted John (as is the artist aka John Shuttleworth aka whatever his real name is) and not Gordon is a Moron.Sorry to put my pedants hat on but I like to correct such matters. Big%20smileGood song though... but I noticed it is being used in an advert at the moment, so I may just start to dislike it a little bit.


Fair do's. You learn something every day. I thought the band were called Jilted John..
 
they were, Andy...Wink
 
once more, James is wrong...
 
he has tried to google or Wiki his way into proving his superior knowledge, and has abjectly failed...Tongue
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMj1xM8QCRg
 
and why is James wrong?  Because he's not old enough to have sang 'I'm so upset' to TOTP back in 1978...
 
ergo, he's not old enough to be in the shed....Wink
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Search Results -- Singles
Position Artist Title Date Details
4 Jilted John Jilted John Aug 1978  
 
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