To be thoroughly bewildered by the success of Chris De Burgh?

[LeaveMyWingsBehindMe]

Just watching him being interviewed by Aled on Weekend and now performing live.

I have always found him to be thoroughly unattractive in a slimy creepy kind of way, he has zero charisma, his voice is weak and warbly and really not pleasant to listen to and his song writing is beyond dull.

Yet he's unbelievably rich and successful and on his 21st album.

Who buys his stuff? who goes to his concerts? Someone must! I just don't get it. It's making me irrationally irritated to think that there are people out there who actually like him and love his work. It's just not right. IANBU. You know it.

Agree about CdB - eewww. And everyone on the other lists (except Elton John). I just really don't like that kind of music. Middle-aged, blue jeansy rock ballads. Bleurgh. No offense .

I don't doubt that he might have written some quite good songs (don't actually hate the spaceman Christmas one) but I wish he'd just let someone else do the singing.

Watching that Bill Bailey Room 101 clips just sums up everything I've said about his warbly bleating voice and total charisma bypass and nauseating smuggery. Also, I know it was the 80s but WTAF was he wearing and have you ever seen anyone dance so badly? How can a musician have such awful rhythm and move so awkwardly to music?

When I first met DH I was horrified to discover he actually liked CdeB. I nearly ran screaming from his student room...

However, I will admit to having a certain fondness for a couple of his tracks. 'Satin Green Shutters' has beautiful lyrics and has become one of our songs.

I have just utterly lost any credibility on MN now, haven't I?

Join me in Coventry, McQueen I love satin green shutters too

MaQ
I have loved you longtime but there are some things that cannot be unsaid.
Take that back right now and we'll never speak of this aberration again.

I know...I know...I knew I was signing my own death warrant in admitting it [puts head in hands]

(Googles cult-deprogramming)

Please...please...you have to help me. It's noty fault. DH made me listen to him. You have to believe me...[fights back tears]

www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/chris-de-burgh-i-love-myself-im-not-saying-this-in-a-narcissistic-way-8207712.html

This interview is the most brilliant interview i have ever read in my life honestly..... its genius

also i absolutely love Cris de burg..... it started off ironic but now its very very real

I don't know...
I guess I could forgive listening, but by "our song" you mean shagging, don't you?
You shagged to the Burgh. Voluntarily.
Still, I have twigs n pebbly shit so who am I to judge?

That interview
Bet he makes your toes curl haha

It's Mondeo Man music. You know, driving up the motorway, Chris de Burgh on the stereo, your jacket hanging in the back. You pull into a travelodge, maybe treat yourself to a bottle of peroni to go with your ersatz chicken biryani, before going upstairs, clicking your fingers while standing in front of the mirror to 'Lady in Red' and flossing, all ready for your big presentation in Solihull the next morning.

That is gold Hedgehog, thanks 😂

No, I swear we never shagged to CdeB. On my life...I have some standards.

As students we always shagged to Treasure by The Cocteau Twins

yougot
Priceless, very Alan Partridge
LeQ that's alright then, honour restored.

I am not a fan but i met him in rl and he was lovely (not lovely looking, he looks like a hobbit)

Aw fuck MaQ
I'm getting too old for this...

Bring on the travelodge

Love it hedgehog. So much so, I had to go and read the review he talked about... here it is!

Awkward!

I only know the one song which is lady in red.
His daughter is beautiful though. Like really stunning. Looks nothing like him.

That is a bizarre interview Hedgehog, I grant you. And I grant anyone who says CDB comes across as creepy or weird. But the music! If all you know is Lady in Red (which I do actually like) and Spaceman (which I really don't like - too sugary for my taste) then you really don't know much about it.

Which is fine. I don't like people telling me what to like and what not to like, so I wouldn't dream of doing the same to anyone. But I hate people to think that I, or anyone else, is a lesser person for liking CDB's music. I have been a fan for over 30 years. He is somewhat older than me and has come to life's events before me, but when I reach the same stage, he always has brilliant moving songs to describe what I am going through.

Just looking through my mp3: In a country churchyard - beautiful song about life, love
Carry on - about the loss of a loved one
Just a word away, for Rosanna- sublime songs about a parent's emotions on having a child
Where peaceful waters flow - best love song ever
Where would I be - about appreciating your partner throughout life
Through these eyes- about old people being ignored as people
Empty rooms - about your children leaving home. Unbearably poignant for me right now.
Keeper of the keys - inspired by Malala Yousafzai about women's equality.

All songs that have deep resonance for me.

And that's without starting on his fantastic historical ballads. I don't know any other songwriter who covers such diverse and interesting topics. But I am ready to be educated.

So you've forgiven him for shagging the nanny, then.
Fair Play.

electricflyzapper no i genuinely love him!! i think hes mental and his music is incredibly over the top and bears no resemblance to anything that was ever cool...... but i thoroughly and quite genuinely enjoy it!!! I do own some of his albums and i usually like things like Sonic Youth and Radiohead.
De Burgh is a legend in his own right!

He had to shag his nanny, hes a slave to his own persona!