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Re: 'What's Up?' and the very worst songs ever

Postby Rayge » 21 May 2018, 10:01

BOLLY BEE wrote:Some Midge Ure shit

Do you think he thinks it's a good song? It's odd.


It certainly plays merry hell with the subjunctive - rebel music?
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Postby naughty boy » 21 May 2018, 10:08

gash on ignore wrote:Blunder! They are great (in small doses). This one’s a doozy



They're just inept.

They'd be a bit of novelty appeal if they ditched the studenty sloganeering, I suppose, but only for five minutes.
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Postby naughty boy » 21 May 2018, 10:08

Rayge wrote:
BOLLY BEE wrote:Some Midge Ure shit

Do you think he thinks it's a good song? It's odd.


It certainly plays merry hell with the subjunctive - rebel music?


The subjunctive in my post or in the song's lyrics?
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Re: 'What's Up?' and the very worst songs ever

Postby naughty boy » 21 May 2018, 10:09

IT'S MONDAY MORNING, LADS, GIVE ME A FUCKIN BREAK WILL YA?
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Postby clive gash » 21 May 2018, 10:09

Then we shall agree to disagree :)
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Re: 'What's Up?' and the very worst songs ever

Postby naughty boy » 21 May 2018, 10:10

I don't like that.

And I am surprised at you.

Anyway. Have a lovely day x
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Postby Rayge » 21 May 2018, 10:15

BOLLY BEE wrote:
Rayge wrote:
BOLLY BEE wrote:Some Midge Ure shit

Do you think he thinks it's a good song? It's odd.


It certainly plays merry hell with the subjunctive - rebel music?


The subjunctive in my post or in the song's lyrics?

Oh, the lyrics - even a Yankee junkie like Tim Hardin managed If I WERE a carpenter.
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Re: 'What's Up?' and the very worst songs ever

Postby naughty boy » 21 May 2018, 10:19

oh THAT!

always thought it sounded a wee bit formal for a pop song

it's only just hanging on in modern English anyway - it'll probably survive in fixed expressions like 'if I were you...' for another few decades. And 'God Save The Queen'
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Postby Rayge » 21 May 2018, 10:24

BOLLY BEE wrote:oh THAT!

always thought it sounded a wee bit formal for a pop song

it's only just hanging on in modern English anyway - it'll probably survive in fixed expressions like 'if I were you...' for another few decades. And 'God Save The Queen'


Oh sure - I was just being playful. And I grew up in the 50s with people saying 'If I was you'. I didn't know what a subjunctive was until I started learning French, and it took a few years after that before I realized it existed in English, too.
Still a shit song, mind
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Postby naughty boy » 21 May 2018, 10:28

Rotten.
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Postby Fonz » 21 May 2018, 10:43

BOLLY BEE wrote:Dunno how we've got this far without any kind of mention of these fuckwits:



Utter shit
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Postby Fonz » 21 May 2018, 10:46

BOLLY BEE wrote:
gash on ignore wrote:Blunder! They are great (in small doses). This one’s a doozy



They're just inept.

They'd be a bit of novelty appeal if they ditched the studenty sloganeering, I suppose, but only for five minutes.


Just. Shit.

I've seen these in magazines and imagined them to be like a modern-day The Jam, but no.
It would surprise me if they were a KLF-like joke, doing it as an 'art experiment'.
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Re: 'What's Up?' and the very worst songs ever

Postby naughty boy » 21 May 2018, 10:49

Iggy Pop likes 'em and they're in the Grauniad every month, so there's some CACHET

but yeah - they must be pissing themselves.
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Postby Darkness_Fish » 21 May 2018, 11:50

They're like a coffee-table Whitehouse. I expect they'll go on releasing the same album for as long as Whitehouse did, too.
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Postby naughty boy » 21 May 2018, 11:52

Whitehouse?
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Re: 'What's Up?' and the very worst songs ever

Postby clive gash » 21 May 2018, 12:22

Don’t ask.
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Re: 'What's Up?' and the very worst songs ever

Postby clive gash » 21 May 2018, 12:25

Sort of a grown up Happy Flowers
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Re: 'What's Up?' and the very worst songs ever

Postby Darkness_Fish » 21 May 2018, 13:19

BOLLY BEE wrote:Whitehouse?

I'm not recommending, just pointing out the similarity. Cheap electronics while being hectored by a cunt. Opening line is a classic though "Can I suggest you ... get fucked".
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Postby Darkness_Fish » 21 May 2018, 13:20

gash on ignore wrote:Sort of a grown up Happy Flowers

I may have mentioned this before, but this is my favourite memory of John Peel:



I was only 13 at the time, but it always stuck with me, the CD jamming, and Peel not knowing.
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Re: 'What's Up?' and the very worst songs ever

Postby clive gash » 21 May 2018, 15:31

:) Sort of an update on his frequent “that record was presented at 33 and 45” when the old goat played something at the wrong speed.
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