Friday, January 19, 2007

CAN'T STAND YA



You can put any type of crap on a turntable, and SOMEBODY will gladly lap it all up. Here's an endurance test...see how many of these tunes you can stand.
Some, like "Shaddup You Face" are love it or hate it novelties. A few, like "Sunshine Face" from a woman better known for her sexy album covers than her taste in music, are like Crackerjack...sweet and then sickening the more you have to endure it. Some may be intentionally irritating ("Fluffy") or an experiment that ends up being a terror (the ambitious "Andy the Lightbulb Eater").
As David Seville once remarked..."That's almost good."
"Catchy" or "kitschy" or just plain crummy, here are some tunes that will get your attention or cause you tension:


1. Agadoo (Black Lace)
2. Son of My Father (Chicory Tip)
3. Billy Don't Be a Hero (Paper Lace)
4. Mouldy Old Dough (Lieutenant Pigeon)
5. Lily the Pink (Scaffold)
6. Chirpy Cheep Cheep (Middle of the Road)
7. Macarena (Los Del Rio)
8. So Macho (Sinitta)
9. Orville's Song (Keith Harris)
10. Two Little Boys (Rolf Harris)
11. No One Quite Like Grandma (St. Winifred's School)
12. Mr. Blobby (Mr. Blobby)
13. Snot Rap (Kenny Everett)
14. We're Going to Spain (the Krankies)
15. Hello (Marguerita Pracatan)
16. Seven Drunken Nights (The Dubliners)
17. Cinderella Rockefella (Esther and Abi Ofarim)
18. Music Goes Round and Round (Mae Questel)
19. Fluffy (Gloria Balsam)
20. Shaddup You Face (Joe Dolce)
21. My Icelandic Man (Leoncie)
22. Where's My Love (Caroline)
23 Andy The Lightbulb Eater (Elisa Korenne)
24. Sunshine Face (Sandy Warner)

Via RS. Who put that crap on my turntable??
Now it's on MP3!

3 comments:

Tommy said...

Yours is the best written blog on earth Mr. Ill Folks. Always interesting. Tons of Cudos

Anonymous said...

oh yeah.... this looks like
it's gonna be good... thanx

Anonymous said...

Hellöé, many thanks for the dönerlink... superb. I've been looking to buy FLUFFY at any price on Vinyl, no success for 20 years! And now we can dwonload, fanstastico.. A great merci de la Suisse!! I grew up with "the worlds' worst records" etc, which we played regularly at my friend's record shop Saturday 1 hour before closing... a guarantee that people left rapidly... imagine the likes of Wild Man Fisher, Captain Beefheart, Florence Foster Jenkins, Jimmy Cross (I want my baby back) and of course Gloria Balsam etc... HAPPY DAY, ömühl