Share yours. Top of my list would have to be a group of fat girls doing the Macarena at the back of the hall during a school disco I have to live with that memory for the rest of my life.
Me, my brother and my cousin bopping to Tiger feet by Mud in my auntie's flat in Kilburn, about 1973. Actually Mud weren't that cringeworthy, but our dancing was. No, wait, there's worse. Asking my mum to buy me "Shangalang" by the Bay City Rollers. Didn't realise at the time that the Rollers were exclusively a girl thing.
The Police and The Beatles mainly. Commercialised tripe muzak. Bowie was embarrassing. Bob Dylan, overrated dirge with a squeaky harmonica.
The first boy band. Manufactured for 13 year old girls. The original Boyzone in fact. Plus when they tried to complicate their twee banal songs they stopped touring because they couldn't play the stuff.
The Beatles were innovators. Started off copying black American dance tunes, but continually re-invented themselves after that. Not content with becoming masters of the 3 minute pop song, they continually sought new directions, unlike the Stones who spent 40 years imitating Leadbelly. As for not playing live, they stopped doing it because their audiences (those pubescent girls) would scream so loud they couldn't be heard. So they concentrated on being recording artists, not live artists. Nothing wrong with that.
I was going to put that, but I thought if I typed "chooooon", people might think I was simply elongating the word "chon", which doesn't mean anything. After a good 10 minutes deliberating, I opted for "tuuuuune" but I knew I was taking a chance. I've always been a bit of a maverick I suppose.
Was listening to Edith Piaf yesterday at the folks. Fantastic. You will not change my opinion Archer. I never have liked The Beatles. And I know plenty others that feel the same. The Kinks were light years ahead of them. As were The Who.
You are just like me in that sense, I'm such a badboy that when I play wii I don't use the wrist straps on the controller.
Dancing to (or trying to) "I don't like Mondays" whilst pissed in Bavarian whorehouse. Pogoing to Altered Images' Happy Birthday in a dope den in Osnabruck.
