It was all right: 6/10.Quote:
Originally Posted by papayahed
Where is the song, Brian?Quote:
Originally Posted by Brian Bean
Next: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tth-8wA3PdY
Oh, how I danced and sang along to this song tonight! :party:
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It was all right: 6/10.Quote:
Originally Posted by papayahed
Where is the song, Brian?Quote:
Originally Posted by Brian Bean
Next: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tth-8wA3PdY
Oh, how I danced and sang along to this song tonight! :party:
That was brilliant! I had to find the lyrics. Here's and excerpt:Quote:
Originally Posted by Brian Bean
“Oh, what a wonderful thing to be,
A healthy grown up busy busy bee.
Toying with the tulips, tasting every type,
Building up the honey-comb that looks like tripe.
I'd like to be a busy little bee,
Being just as busy as a bee can be,
Flying all around in the wild hedgerows,
Stinging all the cows upon the parson's nose!”
Brian's song was there. I just listened to it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
Anyhow, to yours Schehe
4/10. Great voice, but that smells a lot like disco.
How about this one. Now give it a chance, especially if you are a Peter Lorre fan:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is8ZtFGTHmo
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oh goodness, it seems like something Bean would enjoy, however I'm not Bean - 3/10
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIAnkrPgTvY
Sounds like something someone not named Basil might enjoy. 4/10
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJcCzWcgPsY
It's pretty groovy. That is, if one enjoys a good groove from time to time.
5/10
EDIT
Basil beat me to it. Basil -- The Replacements, on a 10-scale, ALWAYS rate a 10/10 for this Comedian. Always. Great choice.
Here's one that I remember my parents listening to all the time when I was a wee lad.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgI8bta-7aw
I remember it, 8/10
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGDQ85Dg-ss
6/10.Quote:
Originally Posted by papayahed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64QkD...eature=related
A superb song 9/10. it reminds me of pubs and parties i went to.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
So this reminds me of a few parties I went to.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9hLcRU5wE4
Well, I don't think I have ever attended one of those parties, Paul! 4/10. (It's awfully long).Quote:
Originally Posted by Paulclem
Next: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyl5DlrsU90
Love it! 9/10
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYlAwvz8uwc
You're killing me! 11/10!Quote:
Originally Posted by papayahed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aO4n1fLEVQ&feature=fvw
Papayahed 9/10 I really like that song, but I never saw the clip - so thank you!
Edit too late :p ok, Scheherazade - I do like Johnny Cash, but only for a minute :blush:
4/10
Some more rain
Nothing for the usual long-haired loonies but 3/10 for the fat girl in the bee costume.Quote:
Originally Posted by papayahed
Now for something completely different:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcKGrCrVFxw
That was... different. Mind-bendingly awful, but... different. I'll give it 4/10... for its difference...
I'll go out on a limb with a non-vocal piece:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRx9gnY0Mp0
Quite pleasant and Japanese too. 6/10Quote:
Originally Posted by Lokasenna
Now here's another Japanese performance of a different type. It's not to my taste musically, but Oh! Those Japanese girls
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYpZT96PXS0
Brian! I do not know how to respond to this one. I mean, I love some bubble gum pop and all but this... They make Sugababes look like the Beatles! 0/20.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brian Bean
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBNyA...eature=related
Perhaps the video impressed Brian.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
Catchy, but not my cup of tea. 5/5
How about:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmin5WkOuPw
I like the song, but like it even more because the Daily - we know what's best for you - Mail wanted to ban it. I wonder if he had a headache after making the video? Think of all the stuff thet didn't use.
Dear ol' Keith. He'th a firethtarter, a twithted firethtarter. The only way Keith could start a fire would be if static sparks from his nylon slacks caught his man-made-fibre feather-effect boa.
I have never before agreed with the Daily Mail, but I feel that song should have been banned on the basis of preventing the fathomless embarrassment of all concerned. 2/10
Here's a classic that carries ten times the menace of lisping Keith's claims to pyromania.
Nice! That song brings back many fond memories. . . .
8/10
Here's one that I like from time to time:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=no6-v...feature=avmsc2
Something Gilliatt can appreciate! - 7/10
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRXRH...eature=related
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Only the girls Paul. Only the girls.Quote:
Originally Posted by Paulclem
If that ain't country..... 7/10Quote:
Originally Posted by Gilliatt Gurgle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfpNE...eature=related
I met this other guy who thought very highly of Eastern looking girls some time ago...Quote:
Originally Posted by Brian Bean
My brother used to listen to them in 1970s: 6/10!Quote:
Originally Posted by papayahed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EC76b0VZQog&NR=1
Obviously a man of good taste.:biggrin5:Quote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
A beautiful song this one!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idvnG3_PIYg
No it's not. It's self-indulgent crap. However, in the spirit of the game, I'll point out that you need to rate the previous song before posting one to be rated by the next correspondent. You might have been understandably misled by Brian sticking in an ad hoc comment. The rest of us usually are.Quote:
Originally Posted by adityasam
No big deal. If you'd like to rate Scheherezade's contribution (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EC76b0VZQog&NR=1 and then post Mr Potato Head again, I'll make the 'self-indulgent crap' assessment official by expressing it in terms of a score out of ten.
Scher: Not Bad 8/10
adityasam: Not bad either 7.5/10
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNgSeJzLJFc
4/10 at the moment but would have given it a 7 or 8 had I had some Margarita in my system! :smilewinkgrin:Quote:
Originally Posted by papayahed
Another song that might get better after Margarita consumption:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ahe_...eature=related
No Margerita in my system, but I've liked this song from the start ;) It can get a bit "nagging" though...
5/10
Some quick guitar playing Shelbie County Jail
7/10 I enjoyed the guitarsQuote:
Originally Posted by Sapphire
Weather Report - Birdland
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqashW66D7o
Quite clever variations on the tune and the guitar isn't electric so 5/10.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sapphire
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDAJxazhZvM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Brian Bean
Terrific, of course. 8/10
Some wonderfully constructed rhymes in this too.
Ha! Wonderful! 9/10
If we're in a Disney mood, this next one is my favourite. Probably the darkest song in the darkest Disney movie; bonus points if you speak Latin:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRO-M...eature=related
I think it stops a bit short of where it should go - but, yeah, an uncharacteristically dark bit of Disney. 7/10
I've never been a fan of Walt's work, I have to say. I find it glutinous. However, having been forced to watch Cinderella eight times a day when my daughters were toddlers, I have seen a subtextual subversion in the tale of the downtrodden stepdaughter.
When Cinderella wakes up and readies herself for a day of servitude, all the animals and birds - comedy mice and what appear to be psychedelic sparrows - lay out her clothes and make her bed and hand her a towel when she steps out of the shower. And I've noticed that, although these anthropomorphic sprites prepare a shabby dress and a patched-up blouse and a tired apron for our put-upon heroine, there's no sign of underwear. None at all. Which raises the slightly disturbing (though cheerful) possibility that right the way through the movie Cinderella's going commando.
I've always thought it a little implausible that the Prince - who has resisted romantic commitment so long and so successfully - should become so utterly obsessed with Cinderella on so brief an acquaintance. However, one is now intrigued to know what he may have seen reflected in those glass slippers.
Anyway, here's a change of pace. I really don't know why I like this. It's not my kinda music at all. I think it's that there's an emotional honesty about it that's impossible to dismiss....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRzMt...feature=avmsc2
:D Definitely one of their best 7/10
That reminds me of this cover:
Alanis Morissette
3/10Quote:
Originally Posted by Sapphire
I think there are two problems with that.
The first is that after the opening two lines, nothing new happens. Once you've clocked that its BPE's song done to a pretty piano, you're not going to get any more out of it.
Second, it's very difficult to satirise something that was tongue-in-cheek to begin with. It rather implies that you missed the joke and took it seriously, and the resulting spoof makes the spoofer look sillier than the originator.
However - it is possible to make this kind of thing work, if you add a dimension to the original that makes it a new thing.
I think that Ben Folds manages exactly that here...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7LzU...eature=related
(er....includes a lot of swearing and adult themes.... Just in case you're not a grown-up.)
:crazy: I don't think I hear (in that song), what you say you hear... It is all in the ears of the receiver!
3/10
Here's a translation of a wonderful song by Jaques Brel (Voir un ami pleurer). Doesn't work half as well as the original, but it is in English... Is it allowed to post a French song?!?
To see a friend in tears
I kinda liked that. 7.5/10
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FhVb...eature=related
I haven't really ever gotten too into Neko Case, but I like them whenever I hear them 7/10
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtCGO...eature=channel
"Them" is a "her." :)Quote:
Originally Posted by OrphanPip
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtCGO...eature=channel