"Puketastic chat up line dross that got slurred/quoted at you when the slow tunes came on at Discos."
😂😂😂
Btw - just to make us all feel bloody old, you do know they don't call it "discos" any more and haven't for decades? Dd pisses herself laughing if I even use the word!
I was also shocked to learn that the "slow dance at the end of the night" has also long gone.
How many relationships started purely because of those dances? If it weren't for that phenomenon dd likely wouldn't even BE here 😂😂
"Girl Like You by Edwyn Collins. Goes in the 'overplayed' category along with Breakfast at Tiffany's."
Totally agree!
"I'll sing along to anything and everything, even if it is a bit shit." Me too but then I've been singing publicly since I was 5 and love singing so any excuse. But that's partly why I love absolute 80's cos I usually know the lyrics (whether I actually know the tune is perhaps up for debate especially if it's a song in the wrong key for me 😂)
As per a million Facebook memes though I often walk into a room singing perfectly the right lyrics to whatever 80's tune is playing - then have NO clue what I went in the room for!
Willyoubuymeahouseofgold - ear worms are bad enough, PARTIAL ear worms where you can't remember how the damn thing ends are the pits! I'm ok on most 80's but 90's tracks tend to catch me this way.
"The Birdy Song...now that is a waste of vinyl!" Very curious to know your age, for me (46) this was a hit when I was the perfect age for it (aren't all 9 year olds into annoying shit?) I have fond memories of older relatives dancing to this at family weddings. The thing that surprises me the most is it was a hit in USA! Not cos they don't have their share of shit music but it's just SO far removed from their usual fare.
"I can't help but think that these people who are saying anything by Queen/Abba/TheBeatles/Oasis/Elvis must have the shittest taste in music ever. And more to the point, what the hell do you actually listen to?" I suspect they're most likely going off the hits which tended to be bland, inoffensive and mainstream. These artists all have HUGE catalogues though and I find it hard to believe there's NONE of their tracks they'd like. I'm not a particular Elvis fan having a close relative who's obsessed but I actually like a few of his album only, "rougher" moodier tracks. Each to their own.
My ex THOUGHT he was a huge, committed fan of his favourite artist (which I won't name in case of outing, fairly niche), until we moved in together and he saw I not only had every musical recording of George's but also every interview, review, book, magazine article... And then he was like "yep I'm an amateur fan 😂"
"New Radicals- Get what you give" bloody hard song to sing! Has some odd key changes and tempo changes.