journey_man 0 Posted March 6, 2009 Share Posted March 6, 2009 That was.... ....something Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted March 6, 2009 Share Posted March 6, 2009 Great '80s song Just great.. Link to post Share on other sites
2pints-mate 0 Posted March 6, 2009 Share Posted March 6, 2009 Not as great. Good to see John Peel though, wonder what he thought of all the chart rubbish he introduced? Link to post Share on other sites
BagOfCrisps 24 Posted March 21, 2009 Share Posted March 21, 2009 Just Say No! Learn from Zammo's mistakes Link to post Share on other sites
brit-gob 9 Posted March 21, 2009 Share Posted March 21, 2009 Blast from the past that one! How controversial was that having a kid taking heroin in Grange Hill? Link to post Share on other sites
2pints-mate 0 Posted March 22, 2009 Share Posted March 22, 2009 Agadoo New version ahoy! >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> As if soaring unemployment and shrinking pensions were not enough, further misery is soon to be unleashed on the unsuspecting British public. Twenty-five years after its chart success, Agadoo – mindless, ruthlessly catchy and voted the worst song in pop history – is to be re-released, afflicting a whole new generation. Once banned by Radio 1 because it simply wasn't "credible", Agadoo, or "Aaaaarghadoo" to its many critics, peaked at No2 and refused to leave the Top 75 for some 30 weeks. The 1984 hit, by the Yorkshire band Black Lace, represented a nadir in holiday-hit pop, its very awfulness celebrated in Spitting Image's The Chicken Song, with the Black Lace duo immortalised as "those two wet gits with their girly curly hair". "That was a real highlight," said Dene Michael, the 52-year-old ex-Black Lace singer who is releasing a new, uptempo version of the song at Easter. But is it morally right to inflict this on the nation once more? "Just when you thought it was safe to go back on the dance floor? With all the doom and gloom in the world at the moment, I think it's just what we need," said Michael, who is from Leeds but has lived in Benidorm for the past 15 years. The new mix has now been recorded, and a video shot at Albir, on the Costa Blanca, featuring former Coronation Street actors Bruce Jones, who played Les Battersby, Kevin Kennedy, who was "Curly" Watts, and stars from the ITV series Benidorm. Few have attempted to analyse Agadoo's banal lyrics. With its chorus of "Agadoo-doo-doo, push pineapple, shake the tree/Agadoo-doo-doo, push pineapple, grind coffee", Michael admits: "Oh, it's complete nonsense." "We once did an interview on Whistle Test and the presenter asked us: 'So, what's it all about?' And we said: 'It's a protest song about cruelty to fruit.'" Cruelty to music might be more apt, according to industry experts who voted it the worst song of all time in a 2003 poll for Q magazine – just one of several it has topped. Describing it as "magnificently dreadful", the panel concluded: "It sounded like the school disco you were forced to attend, your middle-aged relatives forming a conga at a wedding party, a travelling DJ act based in Wolverhampton, every party cliche you ever heard." It narrowly beat horrors including Orville's Song, by the ventriloquist Keith Harris and his puppet duck, and the toe-curlingly schmaltzy There's No One Quite Like Grandma, by St Winifred's School Choir. "As long as it puts a smile on people's faces," said Michael. Unfortunately, that has not always been the case. One birthday party at a club in Hailsham, East Sussex, ended with police breaking up a fight between 50 brawling guests after a row over whether the DJ should play Agadoo. Three men were arrested and a police officer hurt. Black Lace had a string of similar hits, including Music Man, Superman, and Do the Conga. The fact that their own record company published a book of cartoons called 101 Uses for a Black Lace Record indicates how seriously they took themselves. There are hopes, too, of a pumped-up version of Agadoo aimed at Ibiza, undoubtedly stripping the Spanish island of any last vestige of clubbing cool. "If Black Lace think they have a chance in Ibiza, that really says more about Ibiza these days," Garry Mulholland, the pop critic and author of the acclaimed This is Uncool and Fear of Music pop chronicles, said. "As for Agadoo, if you are silly, or drunk, or a little kid, and all you want is something that sticks in your head, it's fine. "My idea of a terrible record is Another Brick in the Wall Part II by Pink Floyd. That whole quasi-intellectual, vapid, hippy rubbish is really annoying." The Radio 2 presenter Paul Gambaccini, nicknamed the Professor of Pop, said: "Once you get past one's initial tendency to reach for garlic and crucifix, one's got to ask what so many people got out of it. "And that's Black Lace's considerable achievement. They must have known it was, at least, simplistic. Were they tongue-in-cheek?" Link to post Share on other sites
BagOfCrisps 24 Posted April 1, 2009 Share Posted April 1, 2009 But being slighly more serious Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted April 2, 2009 Author Share Posted April 2, 2009 Heaven 17. Used to quite like them. Here's Bendy Kate, being all mystical and ---- well, bendy and weird. (Nearly 80s not quite). Link to post Share on other sites
pie-eater 207 Posted April 3, 2009 Share Posted April 3, 2009 Here's one that screams 80's Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted April 3, 2009 Author Share Posted April 3, 2009 Got to wonder what these people thought of the music they were making? Were they in the studio thinking yep this is a cracking song, really or sniggering wondering why fools would go out and buy it and just look forward to snogging girls? Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted April 3, 2009 Share Posted April 3, 2009 it screams NAFF more than it screams 80's Link to post Share on other sites
2pints-mate 0 Posted April 4, 2009 Share Posted April 4, 2009 He said that he loved me never would go, oh oh, oh oh. Now I find I'm sitting here on my own, oh oh, oh oh. Was it something I've said or done That made him pack his bags up and r'un? Could it be another he's found? - It's breaking up the happy home. Mister, can you tell me where my love has gone? He's a Japanese boy. I woke up one morning and my love was gone Oh my Japanese boy ooh I miss my Japanese boy. Link to post Share on other sites
scouser 4 Posted April 4, 2009 Share Posted April 4, 2009 You ok 2pints. That's one weird song. Link to post Share on other sites
journey_man 0 Posted April 5, 2009 Share Posted April 5, 2009 There was an even worse remix posted as a video reply! Link to post Share on other sites
BagOfCrisps 24 Posted April 8, 2009 Share Posted April 8, 2009 Weren't Pans People ace? Link to post Share on other sites
pie-eater 207 Posted April 8, 2009 Share Posted April 8, 2009 Yes we need to post more of Pans People. They were good dances. Did you know...... Click to reveal.. Sarah Brightman was in Pans People Link to post Share on other sites
2pints-mate 0 Posted April 8, 2009 Share Posted April 8, 2009 No wonder Top of the Pops was popular with "Dads". Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted April 9, 2009 Share Posted April 9, 2009 was that Sarah? Link to post Share on other sites
big-will 7 Posted April 9, 2009 Share Posted April 9, 2009 Don't forget Legs & Co Link to post Share on other sites
big-will 7 Posted April 13, 2009 Share Posted April 13, 2009 Hows about this for a start to the week Link to post Share on other sites
scouser 4 Posted April 24, 2009 Share Posted April 24, 2009 The Human League Heaven 17 ABC Live (in one concert) at Tatton Park on August 2nd! Any of the NW UK-ers up for that? Sounds like it could be a fun time - and no extra cheese needed! Link to post Share on other sites
pie-eater 207 Posted April 25, 2009 Share Posted April 25, 2009 Count me in scouser. I will be back in England then and it sounds like a totally cheesetastic time to be had that. Link to post Share on other sites
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