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Post by vastar iner on Jun 12, 2017 18:39:15 GMT 1
The Stargazers have a number of accolades for which they will never be beaten. First Brits to have a no. 1 hit; group to have a no. 1 hit; first group to have two no. 1 hits; first group to have three no. 1 hits (with Dickie Valentine for the last); first act to have their first two charting singles reach no. 1.
But the second of their chart-toppers was a song they hated. They would only record it if they could do it in a novelty style. So Cliff Adams, Fred "father of Clark" Datchler, Marie Benson, Bob Brown and Dave Cary sang it as if they'd just tumbled out of a pub at last orders.
Perhaps they never expected it to be the biggest British hit single of the early charts...
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Post by vastar iner on Jun 26, 2017 23:45:45 GMT 1
A country music single that got a lot of airplay on MTV, because it was rather amusing and clever. Introduced the cultly-followed Junior Brown and his guitsteel to a wider audience. Although it still couldn't get higher than 68. In the country charts. The girl in the video (Gwendolyn Gillingham) is a legit 6'7". Her husband is 7'.
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Post by raliverpool on Jun 27, 2017 19:30:32 GMT 1
^ If you want a bizarre country single ... this song title says it all, except if you listen to the lyrics there is an inferred twist to the story:
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Post by Deleted on Jun 27, 2017 20:02:52 GMT 1
I know this aint a single but a whole album i found bizarre was Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music album. Totally instrumental and what a bleedin row. 40 minutes of torture. Mentioned that album a few posts ago of my own, but forgot the name of it. Sometimes I think it was meant to be cr@p.
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Post by Whitneyfan on Jun 27, 2017 20:09:09 GMT 1
^ If you want a bizarre country single ... this song title says it all, except if you listen to the lyrics there is an inferred twist to the story: One of my favourite ever Christmas songs.
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Post by vastar iner on Jul 13, 2017 8:28:34 GMT 1
I know this aint a single but a whole album i found bizarre was Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music album. Totally instrumental and what a bleedin row. 40 minutes of torture. Mentioned that album a few posts ago of my own, but forgot the name of it. Sometimes I think it was meant to be cr@p. It was. A contractual obligation album that Reed couldn't get out of. So he basically produced something as an act of revenge. It has its devotees though who see it as a piece of musique concrete. I do wonder though who in the name of God bought this. Basically one note played over and over again for seemingly ever, there is not one redemptive quality in it. Presumably only bought by chart completionists and cretins.
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Post by TheThorne on Jul 13, 2017 8:34:04 GMT 1
My student flat mate he thought it was hilarious he loved techno and liked annoying people with stuff like this at parties hehe
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Post by ManicKangaroo on Jul 13, 2017 8:36:43 GMT 1
I bought it too
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Post by Deleted on Jul 13, 2017 17:38:59 GMT 1
That was actually a hit!?. It's like an endurance test to see how long you can put up with it without switching it off.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 13, 2017 17:53:56 GMT 1
Love McArthur Park, why its seen as rubbish I'll never know, the chorus everyone rips in is just a metaphor.
Has anyone mentioned "Flat Beat" by Mr Oizo and/or The Ladies Bras yet?. The former is just the same computerised sound over and over on a loop for 3 mins, while the latter is just 27 seconds of some guy going "the ladies bras!" over and over to some sort of fairground music you'd hear while winding up a peep parlour machine.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 14, 2017 8:03:26 GMT 1
In Netherlands "Poing" spent 9 weeks in top 10 and peaked at # 2 (only behind "I'll Be There" by Mariah Carey).
More annoying awful "songs", which were successful in charts.
Doop - Doop
How it was # 1 in UK for 3 weeks ?
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Post by ManicKangaroo on Jul 14, 2017 8:23:02 GMT 1
^ Classic
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Post by Deleted on Jul 14, 2017 23:44:15 GMT 1
from wikipedia "The Ladies' Bras" is a song by Jonny Trunk and Wisbey. At 36 seconds, it is the shortest song ever to enter the UK charts, and reached number 27 in September 2007. It took this record just a few weeks after the song "Spider Pig" had taken it. Previously, the record for shortest charting single had been held by Liam Lynch's 2002 "United States of Whatever."
"The Ladies' Bras" became popular after it was played on Danny Baker's All Day Breakfast Show podcast show, reaching #70 in the UK singles chart with 1,644 sales and no national airplay. It was later picked up by Scott Mills on BBC Radio 1, who campaigned to get it in the charts by asking guests in his show including McFly and Dannii Minogue to sing it live on air. Originally available on the Trunk Records 10th anniversary compilation CD Now We Are 10the track was also available for download on services such as iTunes and Wippit only and had no official music video.
The melody is "The Gonk" from George Romero's 1978 Dawn of the Dead soundtrack, as played in the supermarket scenes.
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Post by thehitparade on Jul 15, 2017 0:57:09 GMT 1
I'd forgotten all about Wippit! I presume that no longer exists.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2017 14:20:13 GMT 1
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Post by vastar iner on Jul 19, 2017 21:31:23 GMT 1
The Schnappi song was no. 1 in Germany and Austria for 2 months. If that's not a convincing argument for Brexit I don't know what is.
Duncan Wisbey also does the jingle for Danny Baker's Radio 5 show. If the BBC had any sense they'd get him back on 606. It's unlistenable now, basically just a Champions League phone-in for people who couldn't find Manchester on a map of Greater Manchester.
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Post by suedehead on Jul 19, 2017 23:35:37 GMT 1
Love McArthur Park, why its seen as rubbish I'll never know, the chorus everyone rips in is just a metaphor. Has anyone mentioned "Flat Beat" by Mr Oizo and/or The Ladies Bras yet?. The former is just the same computerised sound over and over on a loop for 3 mins, while the latter is just 27 seconds of some guy going "the ladies bras!" over and over to some sort of fairground music you'd hear while winding up a peep parlour machine. Richard Harris's version of McArthur Park is a load of overblown nonsense. That's why I love it but I can also see why other people (with no taste) dismiss it as rubbish.
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Post by thehitparade on Jul 20, 2017 0:27:54 GMT 1
Duncan Wisbey also does the jingle for Danny Baker's Radio 5 show. If the BBC had any sense they'd get him back on 606. It's unlistenable now, basically just a Champions League phone-in for people who couldn't find Manchester on a map of Greater Manchester. I thought that was the point of 606? Personally I quite like being able to listen to a Danny Baker show that isn't full of callers' uninteresting football opinions. Meanwhile, does turning a minute of David Bowie going "la-la-la" into a song count as bizarre enough, even if it was only released as a single in Japan?
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Post by vastar iner on Jul 20, 2017 8:23:09 GMT 1
The beauty about Baker's 606 was that it wasn't uninteresting football opinions. It was stuff like bizarre shirt sponsors or being dragged from the crowd to play or unusual dignitaries or players with very short careers. It was a mostly Man Ure-free zone.
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