Why I despise Phil Collins

[plastic penguin]

I was thinking how much I didn't like that track when I heard it on the radio again, recently.
True, it's a 'fun' track and not intended to be taken seriously but still.
Best reserved for party DJs and their semi-pissed audiences.
(Nevertheless a lyrical masterpiece when compared with "push pineapple, shake the tree", 'Agadoo').

😂

 

[plastic penguin]

I was thinking how much I didn't like that track when I heard it on the radio again, recently.
True, it's a 'fun' track and not intended to be taken seriously but still.
Best reserved for party DJs and their semi-pissed audiences.
(Nevertheless a lyrical masterpiece when compared with "push pineapple, shake the tree", 'Agadoo').

I can out durge you, Gray. I remember Mick Brown & Pat Sharp, who had an afternoon slot on Captial Radio, were really bigging up this new band. They made them sound like the new Beatles. It was "Too Shy" by Kajmygoolies. I thought OMFG. 😡 That was me finished for 80s music. Just as bad you had acts (loosely speaking) like Hipsway.

The 80s nightmare is seeping back to me.

 

[plastic penguin]

I was thinking how much I didn't like that track when I heard it on the radio again, recently.
True, it's a 'fun' track and not intended to be taken seriously but still.
Best reserved for party DJs and their semi-pissed audiences.
(Nevertheless a lyrical masterpiece when compared with "push pineapple, shake the tree", 'Agadoo').

Agadoo is good.... for holiday camps.

 

[JDL]

There are plenty of acts I personally don't like and would not give space to in my Spotify playlists let alone in CD or Vinyl storage. I don't feel the need to get vitriolic about them.

I've forgotten all about them.

 

[Gray]

I can out durge you, Gray. I remember Mick Brown & Pat Sharp, who had an afternoon slot on Captial Radio, were really bigging up this new band. They made them sound like the new Beatles. It was "Too Shy" by Kajmygoolies. I thought OMFG. 😡 That was me finished for 80s music. Just as bad you had acts (loosely speaking) like Hipsway.

The 80s nightmare is seeping back to me.

Believe it or not, I've always liked Too Shy..... "hush hush ideewhy" 😆

 

[Gray]

Agadoo is good.... for holiday camps.

Concentration camps....as torture 👍

 

[Rui]

I was thinking how much I didn't like that track when I heard it on the radio again, recently.
True, it's a 'fun' track and not intended to be taken seriously but still.
Best reserved for party DJs and their semi-pissed audiences.
(Nevertheless a lyrical masterpiece when compared with "push pineapple, shake the tree", 'Agadoo').

good stuff was their last hit and party meaningfull lyrics, and yes wasn´t a band with serious political content but Rock Lobster!!!it sure sounds funny since the start, i was a dj for 35 years and in private party´s never i stoped playing any B-52´s song, as diferent generations engaged diferent songs from this forgoten band, and yes about the 80´s if i only heard the top ten i would have shoot myself in the head, and for sure i´ll never be Maria Magdalena or win anything just because i wanted to, or spend just one night in Bankok, or making anybody weng chung tonight or any other night, common already most of the people feel each hour of the day with some exceptions, and any band can be big in japan and not the worst was refered

 

[Rui]

Believe it or not, I've always liked Too Shy..... "hush hush ideewhy" 😆

Limhal wasn´t he, ushush IUI, not saying you didn´t wrotte it correctelly just my interpretation or what i thought he sings if that can be called singing, i always wondered if he waked up in the morning with that hair and just spray some fixing aerosol, mine only did that after the first dive in the beach as the water was cold ,Atlantic Ocean

 

[Rui]

Concentration camps....as torture 👍

yes some torture are for others pleasure, and i wasn´t even thinking of young arabs being forced to listen to Metallica or Pantera all night , some guys i know would pay to listen to it

 

[plastic penguin]

Concentration camps....as torture 👍

The same thing. Have you been to Butlins recently? 😂

 

[Gray]

i was a dj for 35 years and in private party´s never i stoped playing any B-52´s song

I was going to say that you should be ashamed of yourself.....but I did mobile discos for a few years and was forced to play 'The Birdie Song' 🤨

 

[plastic penguin]

I was going to say that you should be ashamed of yourself.....but I did mobile discos for a few years and was forced to play 'The Birdie Song' 🤨

I remember visiting a school for children with special needs, they were my clients. To see these kids singing along to the Birdie Song was a joy to behold.

Granted, it's not a great song but seeing the smiles on these kids faces was so uplifting. My view of the song is very different.

 

[Gray]

I remember visiting a school for children with special needs, they were my clients. To see these kids singing along to the Birdie Song was a joy to behold.

Granted, it's not a great song but seeing the smiles on these kids faces was so uplifting. My view of the song is very different.

To those kids it's a truly great song 👍
A mate of mine owns a successful nightclub.
Every Thursday for years he's hosted a night exclusively for those with special needs and their carers.
Certainly not financially, but otherwise the most rewarding thing he's ever done - due to that special joy they get.

 

[Rui]

I was going to say that you should be ashamed of yourself.....but I did mobile discos for a few years and was forced to play 'The Birdie Song' 🤨

when paid to play music one can´t only play our favorite songs, but when playing music when i was in my 30´s it was a group of friends night club so to speak , it leaved empty all other night spaces where people would go at 10 in the night and some invested real money in it and has i live in a small town, we know each other , and it was sad to see beautifull places empty only because we get a space that was old we used our material to play muisc, our records and it was always full ,it lasted 6 monthes as in a local fair one decided that we should open a litle bar in the catle fair, but that lead to a serial number of happenings that closed our night club in the city and i warned everybody , "we should not open a bar in the catle fair"knowing everybody who worked in the space of the event as i work with agriculture and also catle , i knew since ever the ones who were the leaders of the catle creation group as the place we rented was also runned by the same people, the way to without money make a nice decor in a old house, was putting our 60´s vw van ,very cheap at the time and wait till the girls in art and design studies in the university get out of the classes and we drove them to the van to decor our bar and in trade we give´em beer for free ,it stayed incredible nice with low lights, only by buying paint and gethering newspappers we had at home all the rest was done by them young girls in their 18 to 22 years old, with good music we topped all high investment night-clubs and discos as we closed at 12.00a.m. but we let the time pass and at 4 o´clock in the morning we were still open, if no one liked the music why did everybody choose going to our club with music of our own at our taste, other clubs would never play the music we played, but every night someone would ask me "can you record a cassette " i would put the cassette in a old akai deck and record this happened in daily bases, to the point of a lot of people played our recorded cassettes in other bars that started to open at night as i went there one or other night and recognise the music, but sometimes at the bar counter i notice someone asking "what is this music?" and the answer would be "i don´t know it´s a recorded cassette " if it was a nice girl i would say it´s this or that and it worked as a plus for me saying this is the music played at "it´s here" the name everybody knew our night club, because it was in a narrow street very old and in a first floor of a sportive club so the door being still with the shape of a castle door wood and marble we made a sign in paper saying with a arrow pointing "it´s here" and that´s how our bar was known, in reality the name was debated for hours till everybody agreed in "freedom of choice" and why people insist in saying "we can only play this"and B-52´s were a record played not every night but a lot of times as we had all their albums there, this in mid 80´s, 3 of our group of friends were all dedicated to music including me and we put there a lot of our records and a cd player that amongst all we had already some 20 cds, there were two songs that i used to playtogether that seemed to make people alive ,it was interzone from Joy Division and next she sells sanctuary from the Cult, than it could be the single with a 78 rpm record shape of blue monday of the New Order and TV man from Bolshoy, columbus from the Church and always Sisters of Mercy with lucretia my reflection even the Rose of Avalanche, that had a very nice song that i can´t recall now, like i said, our records our music, Profit wasn´t much as we spent all every night only leaving money to pay our supliers

 

[plastic penguin]

To those kids it's a truly great song 👍
A mate of mine owns a successful nightclub.
Every Thursday for years he's hosted a night exclusively for those with special needs and their carers.
Certainly not financially, but otherwise the most rewarding thing he's ever done - due to that special joy they get.

Yes, it's amazingly touching to watch these little'uns. This was back in the late 80s when I was a rep for an envelope manufacturers. I'll never forget that.

Just something as a simple song changed their week.