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Alexander Armstrong

188 replies

IcedVanillaLatte · 17/11/2016 19:24

Seriously man. What were you thinking?

Every time I hear you singing "Golden Brown" I feel pain.

YABU. Stop it.

Just stop.

Stop.

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TinklyLittleLaugh · 17/11/2016 19:53

Everyone knows Golden Brown is about heroin

Sweets101 · 17/11/2016 19:55

I have a huge crush on Alexander. Just love him.

redshoeblueshoe · 17/11/2016 19:55

Richard -make sure you tell her its a joke, if my DC's decided to buy me that for Christmas I'd shove it where the sun don't shine Grin

derxa · 17/11/2016 19:56

Awful Sad

TheCountessofFitzdotterel · 17/11/2016 19:56

I haven't heard it but honestly, why shouldn't he? He probably really likes singing and had a nice time recording it, and he will sell plenty and get money. Wouldn't you have done it if you were him? (I agree it would have been better if he had done funny songs though.)

FrickOnAStick · 17/11/2016 19:56

'Fields of Gold' made me want to tear my ears of when Sting did it. AA's version is a million times worse. Heinous.

Wolpertinger · 17/11/2016 19:59

Everyone knows Golden Brown is about heroin - including Alexander Armstrong.

I've always assumed he knows his album is shit too as he's actually a talented classical singer and very interested in culture and the arts - I'm just wondering what he's blown all his money on that he's decided to do it.

Maybe he has a secret golden brown habit Grin

FrickOnAStick · 17/11/2016 19:59

Sweets, I quite fancied him in a #mumcrush kind of way. Then I saw the album advert. Instant lust killer. All that 'man at C&A' vacant staring into space made my fannygallops retreat in horror.

IcedVanillaLatte · 17/11/2016 19:59

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IcedVanillaLatte · 17/11/2016 20:01

“a 16-track modern symphony enriched with breathtaking composition and arrangements that make Ralph Vaughan Williams and Stephen Sondheim work seamlessly with songs originally by Pink Floyd and Sting, to name just a few”

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Justmuddlingalong · 17/11/2016 20:01

I once sat gobsmacked, watching him sing 'Gold' on some daytime show. Tony Hadley could ham up that song, but AA's performance made my body hair crawl back into my follicles. Confused

SittingDrinkingTea · 17/11/2016 20:02

I'm trying to think of a whole album of cover songs about heroin he could do-

Golden Brown
Heroin (natch)
Waiting for the Man
There She Goes
Perfect Day
Cold Turkey

Can anyone think of any others?

RichardBucket · 17/11/2016 20:03

redshoeblueshoe I've already told her with a straight face that I think she'd enjoy it. Grin

LaurieMarlow · 17/11/2016 20:03

He's pretty good on the 'what the ladybird heard' dvd.

Missed whole point of thread.

RichardBucket · 17/11/2016 20:03

SittingDrinkingTea Rehab?

IcedVanillaLatte · 17/11/2016 20:04

“I am beyond excited by this album,” he told Classic FM. “I can’t go very long without having to listen to it again.”

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2kids2dogsnosense · 17/11/2016 20:04

I think you're cruel Richard.

CRUEL!!!

TheCountessofFitzdotterel · 17/11/2016 20:05

I would totally buy the Alexander Armstrong songs about heroin album. Do you think his dw is on here?

FrickOnAStick · 17/11/2016 20:06

Did anyone see him on Saturday kitchen last weekend (or was it the weekend before?), promoting something he was doing for Armistice Day. Instead of sitting at the table whilst the chefs were cooking he was stood in the kitchen bit. He was right in the way. Every time the female guest chef moved, she looked at him like Angry. Get. Out. Of. The. Way.

SittingDrinkingTea · 17/11/2016 20:06

I've though of another...Comfortably Numb

He's pretty good as Danger Mouse though.

bibbitybobbityyhat · 17/11/2016 20:07

If you want a great alternative Christmas album for your Granny, may I offer up John Cooper Clarke and Hugh Cornwell. JCC sings a song just brilliantly.

Feel a bit cringe for AA.

FrickOnAStick · 17/11/2016 20:07

Sitting - Beetlebum

DonaldStott · 17/11/2016 20:08

a 16-track modern symphony enriched with breathtaking composition and arrangements that make Ralph Vaughan Williams and Stephen Sondheim work seamlessly with songs originally by Pink Floyd and Sting, to name just a few

I imagined this as an Alan Partridge voiceover.

VanillaSugarAndChristmasSpice · 17/11/2016 20:09

Sitting Puff the Magic Dragon.

OhGodWhatTheHellNow · 17/11/2016 20:09

Puff the magic dragon...