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butmyrobotloves:
I can barely let myself contribute to this because my list is so long and extensive that I could never remember it all, and then I'd just feel very uncomfortable and angry at myself for a job poorly done.
So I'll leave it at this: I second the '80s suggestions, ESPECIALLY Come On Eileen, which is actually one of my favorite songs of all time. I was at an '80s dance party at some co-op a month or two ago and my friend and I had been pestering the DJ all night to play come on eileen. We really wanted cigarettes but didn't want to miss the song, because you know when you're drunk and you just NEED something to happen? So we went up to her, asked when it was playing, then TOLD her "WE ARE GOING OUT TO SMOKE SO PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE DO NOT PLAY THIS SONG FOR LIKE EIGHT MINUTES, OKAY?"
She agreed, so we went outside and were enjoying our cigarettes when this guy walks out to talk to us, and one of us had started humming a line from the song, and the boy goes, "Oh man, I love Come On Eileen. They just played it."
It was the most depressing moment of my life.
nuisance:
Man, the 80s is back pretty heavily, at least in the UK. You've got the kind of pop popjustice talks up, which is basically all heavily rooted in 80s revivalism.. check out Rachel Steven's 'So Good' or 'Some Girls'. They're huge. And it's a given that the rock scene is stuck in the past, so of course the 80s loom large there... that topic's well flogged, though, I'm sure.
I tend to be more embarrassed by liking eg. Sufjan Stevens than Beyonce, so am not sure what to put down... 80s nostalgia, I have plenty, love most of the songs mentioned above.. disco.. I love it, although more the stuff coming from the disco scene in the States than the Euro stuff like Abba. Still, I have a feeling I'm probably alone in preferring classic disco to classic rock. Give me Earth Wind & Fire over the Zep any day! :D
OK, some songs I think are pretty damn bad but somehow like:
'Hands to Heaven' - Breathe (80s one-hit wonders, slow number that sounds like George Michael's slow numbers circa 'Faith')
'I Ain't Missing You' - John Waites ("At all. no way. since you been gone.")
'Jessie's Girl' - Rick Springfield ("I wanna tell her that I love her, but I guess the point is moot" - for real!?)
'2 Become 1' - The Spice Girls ("Be a little bit wiser baby, put it on, put it on..." - Baby Spice no less!)
'Iris' - Goo Goo Dolls (Fuck.. disaster.. great example of how the brain and the heart don't always listen to each other though.. how can this grab me at all??)
'It Started With A Kiss' - Hot Chocolate
nuisance:
--- Quote from: butmyrobotloves ---
It was the most depressing moment of my life.
--- End quote ---
Man, you've had a pretty sweet life, eh. ;)
Dexy's get huge hipster points as well in certain circles. They crafted this weird grubby blue-eyed soul record when no one else was really doing that... I remember when the singer launched a solo career in drag, all hairy and crusty. It was a little scary.
I have to say 'Come On Eileen' is one of those songs I've heard soooooo many times I don't even really know what I think of it!? Every school dance as a teenager, every silly party of retro night, every wedding, etc. The sucker's ubiquitous, almost up there with Abba's 'Waterloo'.
Trollstormur:
Uh, I guess the closest thing I have to pop is the new Rob Zombie album. (which is utter shit)
Lines:
i miss the 90s. such good pop.
i want you + truely madly deeply- savage garden
closing time - semisonic
couting blue cars - dishwalla
if you could only see - tonic
all spice girls
all abba
all the songs listed by KharBevNor
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