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Post by amber jade on Dec 21, 2015 16:48:46 GMT
I don't listen to any stations other than Absolute or Absolute 80s so I'm hoping I won't hear it!
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Post by CollieWobbles on Dec 21, 2015 22:35:02 GMT
Lol Collie, love your rants! smiley-biglaugh After some intrepid Lotty investigations I've found out it's by Jamie Lawson and it was voted one of the most popular tracks on Ken Bruce's programme today? smiley-yikes Now the only song I know by this fella is some turgid, downbeat thing called 'I Wasn't Expecting That' (which MrL likes, really, there's no helping some people) so I can only imagine how bad his version of 'Fairytale of New York' was smiley-angry No one should cover that song EVER. Shane and the late, great Kirsty can't be beaten, end of! (as those pesky kids might say). Never mind Lawson, it should be Lawsuit if Shane McGowan hears it! I can only assume that most of Ken Bruce's listeners were totally pie eyed and that he himself had someone stood behind him with an electric cattle prod if he didn't say it was any good. It really was horrific, firstly you need two people to sing that song, secondly, slowing it right down in the way that is maddeningly popular should be an offence punishable by birching, and thirdly anyone who tries to cover Shane and Kirsty ought to be keelhauled across the Atlantic. smiley-angry I can just picture all the little Twitter twits, whose ears have been ruined by Wand Erection, Adele and all the X factor rejects, twittering on about how great it was. When did the ability to actually be able to sing to be able to be a singer become a non issue? There was someone covering Rudolph the red nosed reindeer on Steve Wright's show last Friday, and bloody hell it was grim with a capital G. Two cats scrapping in a washing machine drum comes to mind, in fact I've heard better sound coming from my dog's guts when she's eaten something that doesn't agree with her. These imbeciles are either tone deaf, stone deaf, completetly lacking in talent or all three, which is fair enough if it's their own garbage their yowling out, but when it's somebody else's decent, enjoyable and much loved classic your sadistically strangling the life out of, that's another matter entirely. If you are big headed enough to think you can sing a well known song, at least attempt to do it justice, don't shit all over it as if it's the Daily Mail in the cat litter tray smiley-angry . Somebody else's hard work and brilliance is being utterly destroyed in 3 minutes flat by some brainless bozo or bimbo who doesn't posses the talent of the artist whose work their obliterating in the tip of their little fingernail, and it's high time it was stopped. An artist wouldn't get away with copying Monet or Van Gogh and making a total town hall's of it, and any shows that come out that are a remake are panned if they ruin the good image of the original, so why do "singers" get away with it? If I was Ken Bruce I'd have pulled the plug on that repugnant turd this morning and told him exactly what I though of him live on air smiley-angry . And if I ever became a singer the first thing I would do is set it in stone that NOBODY could EVER cover my songs. I don't care how much royalties I'd get for it, no amount is worth a tarnished image caused by some clueless bellend making a shambolic mess of it.
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Post by amber jade on Dec 23, 2015 18:24:52 GMT
Lol Collie, love your rants! smiley-biglaugh After some intrepid Lotty investigations I've found out it's by Jamie Lawson and it was voted one of the most popular tracks on Ken Bruce's programme today? smiley-yikes Now the only song I know by this fella is some turgid, downbeat thing called 'I Wasn't Expecting That' (which MrL likes, really, there's no helping some people) so I can only imagine how bad his version of 'Fairytale of New York' was smiley-angry No one should cover that song EVER. Shane and the late, great Kirsty can't be beaten, end of! (as those pesky kids might say). Never mind Lawson, it should be Lawsuit if Shane McGowan hears it! I can only assume that most of Ken Bruce's listeners were totally pie eyed and that he himself had someone stood behind him with an electric cattle prod if he didn't say it was any good. It really was horrific, firstly you need two people to sing that song, secondly, slowing it right down in the way that is maddeningly popular should be an offence punishable by birching, and thirdly anyone who tries to cover Shane and Kirsty ought to be keelhauled across the Atlantic. smiley-angry I can just picture all the little Twitter twits, whose ears have been ruined by Wand Erection, Adele and all the X factor rejects, twittering on about how great it was. When did the ability to actually be able to sing to be able to be a singer become a non issue? There was someone covering Rudolph the red nosed reindeer on Steve Wright's show last Friday, and bloody hell it was grim with a capital G. Two cats scrapping in a washing machine drum comes to mind, in fact I've heard better sound coming from my dog's guts when she's eaten something that doesn't agree with her. These imbeciles are either tone deaf, stone deaf, completetly lacking in talent or all three, which is fair enough if it's their own garbage their yowling out, but when it's somebody else's decent, enjoyable and much loved classic your sadistically strangling the life out of, that's another matter entirely. If you are big headed enough to think you can sing a well known song, at least attempt to do it justice, don't shit all over it as if it's the Daily Mail in the cat litter tray smiley-angry . Somebody else's hard work and brilliance is being utterly destroyed in 3 minutes flat by some brainless bozo or bimbo who doesn't posses the talent of the artist whose work their obliterating in the tip of their little fingernail, and it's high time it was stopped. An artist wouldn't get away with copying Monet or Van Gogh and making a total town hall's of it, and any shows that come out that are a remake are panned if they ruin the good image of the original, so why do "singers" get away with it? If I was Ken Bruce I'd have pulled the plug on that repugnant turd this morning and told him exactly what I though of him live on air smiley-angry . And if I ever became a singer the first thing I would do is set it in stone that NOBODY could EVER cover my songs. I don't care how much royalties I'd get for it, no amount is worth a tarnished image caused by some clueless bellend making a shambolic mess of it. This is so funny. And right
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Post by Deleted on Dec 23, 2015 19:20:52 GMT
I realised today for the first time that I've been singing the wrong words to that David Essex Christmas song. For years I've been merrily joining in with the chorus but saying "it was only a winter's day, just another winter's day..."
The clue should've been in the song title redface4
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Post by amber jade on Dec 23, 2015 20:05:25 GMT
I realised today for the first time that I've been singing the wrong words to that David Essex Christmas song. For years I've been merrily joining in with the chorus but saying "it was only a winter's day, just another winter's day..." The clue should've been in the song title redface4 I wouldn't be too embarrassed, I think I have been doing the same! (Not heard it this year as don't listen to the radio much so just trying to remember, but I'm sure I sang the wrong words too!)
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2016 16:59:39 GMT
Dak.....I`m just as embarrassed with the lyrics to 'Last Christmas' For years I`ve been singing..... "Last Christmas I gave you my heart". I didn`t know it was card until I saw the lyrics on a forum members signature. smiley-huh
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2016 17:10:20 GMT
Dak.....I`m just as embarrassed with the lyrics to 'Last Christmas' For years I`ve been singing..... "Last Christmas I gave you my heart". I didn`t know it was card until I saw the lyrics on a forum members signature. smiley-huh WB, that's news to me too! I thought it was heart as well. What's going on?!!! Lol!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2016 17:43:42 GMT
Yayyy Dak .....I`m glad i`m not the only one who misheard that particular song.
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Post by ScrabblyWabbly on Jan 4, 2016 17:53:02 GMT
Yayyy Dak .....I`m glad i`m not the only one who misheard that particular song. Pretty sure it is heart. We used to sing "Last Christmas I did a big fart. The very next day the smell hadn't gone away"
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2016 17:58:59 GMT
Yayyy Dak .....I`m glad i`m not the only one who misheard that particular song. Pretty sure it is heart. We used to sing "Last Christmas I did a big fart. The very next day the smell hadn't gone away" Wow it is heart. I just went to Bing (In your face Google) to look for lyrics for 'Last Christmas'. And sure enough it says heart. www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/w/wham/last_christmas.html#!
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Post by ScrabblyWabbly on Jan 4, 2016 19:11:56 GMT
Pretty sure it is heart. We used to sing "Last Christmas I did a big fart. The very next day the smell hadn't gone away" Wow it is heart. I just went to Bing (In your face Google) to look for lyrics for 'Last Christmas'. And sure enough it says heart. www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/w/wham/last_christmas.html#! Yeah card doesn't make as much sense
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Post by CollieWobbles on Jan 5, 2016 15:26:27 GMT
Dak.....I`m just as embarrassed with the lyrics to 'Last Christmas' For years I`ve been singing..... "Last Christmas I gave you my heart". I didn`t know it was card until I saw the lyrics on a forum members signature. smiley-huh Hold on, it's is heart isn't it?! At least that's what I've been singing all these years!! smiley-huh I did think that Band Aid's lyrics were 'and there won't be snow and advocat this Christmas time' though. Been singing that since I first heard the song.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2016 16:53:56 GMT
For decades since 'Lonely This Christmas' by Mud came out I have been singing " I break down as I look around. And the only thing I see. Are emptiness and lonlieness and a nothing Christmas tree". And it was only last year that I realised it was unlit Christmas tree. Oh the embarrassment. redface4 redface4 redface4
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Post by CollieWobbles on Jan 7, 2016 10:47:35 GMT
For decades since 'Lonely This Christmas' by Mud came out I have been singing " I break down as I look around. And the only thing I see. Are emptiness and lonlieness and a nothing Christmas tree". And it was only last year that I realised it was unlit Christmas tree. Oh the embarrassment. redface4 redface4 redface4 I thought it was 'a lonely Christmas tree'!! That's what I've always sung!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2018 1:10:55 GMT
Bumping this up to the top as it`s nearly Christmas again.
I know some of you hate this song with a passion because it`s played everywhere in the shops. But I really love it.
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