I don't think I can answer that... Maybe Ed Rush's The Raven?
But nothing Pop or 'classic' like the Beatles. I'm delighted at being musically ignorant.
If it not fast, heavy or dark it won't be on my play list - With the exception of some 80's synth stuff or vid game sound tracks.
songs you wish you had written if you are that capable
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- addled muppet weed
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what if its slow heavy and dark? no?Robmobius wrote: Wed Jan 22, 2020 6:21 pm If it not fast, heavy or dark it won't be on my play list - With the exception of some 80's synth stuff or vid game sound tracks.
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"The Chicken Song".
Seriously, it was flipping ubiquitous in late 80s Britain for no particularly good reason (although charity might have been loosely involved).
Shit, annoying but an extremely popular money-spinner.
Similar to "Barbie Girl" by Aqua of the 1990s in its undeserved popularity for an intentionally joke song.
I could surely give many better (and more highbrow) examples to answer this thread.
But bollocks to it.
"The Chicken Song" has sprung to mind.
Seriously, it was flipping ubiquitous in late 80s Britain for no particularly good reason (although charity might have been loosely involved).
Shit, annoying but an extremely popular money-spinner.
Similar to "Barbie Girl" by Aqua of the 1990s in its undeserved popularity for an intentionally joke song.
I could surely give many better (and more highbrow) examples to answer this thread.
But bollocks to it.
"The Chicken Song" has sprung to mind.
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- addled muppet weed
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also
fast, dark and heavy...
fast, dark and heavy...
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is it a joke song? or is it actually a dark satire on the plastic surgery that is becoming more normalised and the lack of worth that not being beautiful has?dark water wrote: Wed Jan 22, 2020 6:24 pm
Similar to "Barbie Girl" by Aqua of the 1990s in its undeserved popularity for an intentionally joke song.
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seriously, listen to the lyrics, its a bit grim.
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- 2726 posts since 2 Jun, 2016
^^ true, and it's a fair interpretation.
But I think, for me at least, that it remains an intentionally jokey song because I find it still fairly lighthearted in both content and presentation by the musicians.
(I realize now, as most of us did 20 years ago, that there is a subtext to this ironic bubble-gum pop song. But I think the subtext is kept deliberately light-hearted by Aqua rather than projected too much as a dark topic matter)
But I think, for me at least, that it remains an intentionally jokey song because I find it still fairly lighthearted in both content and presentation by the musicians.
(I realize now, as most of us did 20 years ago, that there is a subtext to this ironic bubble-gum pop song. But I think the subtext is kept deliberately light-hearted by Aqua rather than projected too much as a dark topic matter)
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I took your advice and listened to it.vurt wrote: Wed Jan 22, 2020 6:28 pmis it a joke song? or is it actually a dark satire on the plastic surgery that is becoming more normalised and the lack of worth that not being beautiful has?dark water wrote: Wed Jan 22, 2020 6:24 pm
Similar to "Barbie Girl" by Aqua of the 1990s in its undeserved popularity for an intentionally joke song.
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seriously, listen to the lyrics, its a bit grim.
Shit on a stick.
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- addled muppet weed
- 111299 posts since 26 Jan, 2003 from through the looking glass
i did not say "listen and you will like it"Forgotten wrote: Wed Jan 22, 2020 8:00 pmI took your advice and listened to it.vurt wrote: Wed Jan 22, 2020 6:28 pmis it a joke song? or is it actually a dark satire on the plastic surgery that is becoming more normalised and the lack of worth that not being beautiful has?dark water wrote: Wed Jan 22, 2020 6:24 pm
Similar to "Barbie Girl" by Aqua of the 1990s in its undeserved popularity for an intentionally joke song.
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seriously, listen to the lyrics, its a bit grim.
Shit on a stick.
i just always found it dark, the video didmt help either, its totally sinister imo.
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- addled muppet weed
- 111299 posts since 26 Jan, 2003 from through the looking glass
but not "good"
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My wife, 5 years my junior, and German, is similar. She wasn't enthralled with the 60's like I was. Well, maybe the 1560s. She specialized in Renaissance music.vurt wrote: Wed Jan 22, 2020 6:13 pm
i said the same thing earlier
texted the missus
another python gone
she replies
what? extinct?
no, hes just resting, pining for the fjords.
i have no idea what you are talking about?
seriously, its like dating a 20 year old, she has no reference points, its always "ive never seen that..."
even breakfast club and pretty in pink, nope...
i dont think wigan got electricity till 2009 though
“The Generals sat, and the lines on the map, moved from side to side.”
― Pink Floyd
― Pink Floyd
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- addled muppet weed
- 111299 posts since 26 Jan, 2003 from through the looking glass
ach mein goth! 
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- addled muppet weed
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/wanders off to do a vurty yesterday cover...Bombadil wrote: Wed Jan 22, 2020 10:24 pm I'm picky about Beatlesh covers, but that was...it didn't suck.