I remember watching The Road on a Sunday night on BBC2 some years ago. Just flicking through the channels and I came upon this masterpiece. It haunted me for days like no other film.
Despite my easily very cool taste in music, my guilty pleasure is this... I like most of their stuff but this song has a real powerful message and they nail it. Like has been said previously, if the Beatles had written and performed it, people would be ****ing themselves over how powerful it is. Shocked the hell out of my missus and daughters when it came on in the car and I sang along, knowing all the words! You go girlzzzzzzzzzz!
We all guessed anyway Kemps Err they/we were Bummers If you lived through it like me and kemps you liked a bit of 80's cheese. Love a bit of disco me. Remember been out of my head dancing with a chubby doing all the dramatic actions to this on the dance floor in Bali Hai. We went down like a bowling ball, knocking punters out the way like skittles
Well yeah but I read it like you don't feel guilty at all. In which case, I'd love to hear something you genuinely feel guilty of.
Let my Gloria song finish and next one up was Odyssey If your looking for a way out. Great song. The mrs wants to play. So your getting a bit of Tiffany. I've tried explaining its a "guilty" pleasure, she isnt guilty at all. Kinell every time she hears it i get dragged onto the dance floor.
I'm with you here. Although I can't say that I feel guilty about it. When I was listening to The Pistols, The Clash, et al in the late 70s I also was listening to Karen as well. I'm not a big fan of female vocalists but she kills me. Just listen to her sing. Realise how she tortured herself. And was tortured and abused by others before she died. Like you say, sad story. Me dear old Mum loved her. God bless her. Sometimes I get very maudlin drunk, watch her performances on YouTube and sob my heart out. There you go. It is a guilty pleasure after all. Edit: I watch Karen Carpenter on YouTube. Not me Mam.
To be honest Ernie i keep meaning to read up on KC. You say tortured and abused by who? I did pick up from somewhere once that the anorexia thing may have been a bit of a smoke screen for her heroin use but not sure how accurate that is?
Great stuff Ernie, She had an amazing voice, Most her songs where sad though but superb. Like you I very often listen to them/her on You tube.I get the feeling though that if she had the problems today she would still be alive.
Her brother has a lot to answer for IMO. There's a documentary kicking about, BBC4 I think, were he tries to take credit for all the success and brushes over his sisters part. She was a tortured soul who should have been supported by those around her and wasn't.
I don't know why Sir Ben, I just don't know. I've taken long walks in the rain in the hope I might cleanse myself of 'Like a prayer 'or 'Vogue'. Please don't get me wrong, I know I have a problem, but I just can't seem to shake it. The worst of it is, I don't like her because I want to **** her (Mebbe when she was younger), It's because I genuinely like some of her tunes man. Even 'Like a virgin' gets my mojo working. I know I've let the board down lads and you should fire at will. What I will say in my defence, is this...Never in my life have I purchased a Madonna record! It's just that sometimes I hear her singing on the radio or whatever. Ffs Ben, what am going to do?
