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I have no idea how this kind of thing becomes popular!

I don't know why they think that big fat & floppy butts are so cool over in that part of the world.

jeremyb wrote:

Nope, can't catch me with that, I have learned never to click on a link posted by JeremyB

I've been thinking about this, it's utterly huge the amount of songs that would qualify. Years of practice and tubular tone quest wasted. Just build a cheap throw away song, even the ones that take the piss are winners.

Forgive me for what I am about to do...

I absolutely love The Sweet for all their silly but awesome bubblegum glam pop music and ridiculous stage costumes. But there are a bunch of their tracks that gave me the shits back then as they do now







Looking back though, I have to sort of give credit to Mike Chapman, the guy who wrote this stuff. He was an ex-pat Aussie who had a book full of idiotic pop songs and he was gonna make them huge hits, one way or another. Like situationist humour, he was surely pulling the pisser of the British music industry and record buying public.

That early Sweet material is exactly the sort of catchy drivel I had in mind. Sweet got better. And Mike Chapman penned Pat Benatar's Heartbreaker, which is a kick arse song.

chinnichap were the stock aiken waterman of the seventies
with less shit.

Capt. Black wrote: I absolutely love The Sweet

OI! Whoever you are, you give Capt. Black back RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!!

Slowy wrote:

Capt. Black wrote: I absolutely love The Sweet

OI! Whoever you are, you give Capt. Black back RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!!

Sparks!

This song has a cod reggae beat, perky optimistic lyrics, tooting keyboards, and is sung by a chipper rather camp bloke with a bigger moustache than Mark Sainsbury. Is it the happiest, most cheery song ever? Unfortunately it is.

He sings that nobody is going to break his stride. Despite these defiant words, logic tells us that his stride, although perhaps not permanently broken, would certainly be affected if someone drove a steamroller over his legs.

Capt. Black wrote:

Slowy wrote:

Capt. Black wrote: I absolutely love The Sweet

OI! Whoever you are, you give Capt. Black back RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!!

Sparks!

cmon, wheres the big one? they're small fry

werdna wrote:
This song has a cod reggae beat, perky optimistic lyrics, tooting keyboards, and is sung by a chipper rather camp bloke with a bigger moustache than Mark Sainsbury. Is it the happiest, most cheery song ever? Unfortunately it is.

He sings that nobody is going to break his stride. Despite these defiant words, logic tells us that his stride, although perhaps not permanently broken, would certainly be affected if someone drove a steamroller over his legs.

I quite liked that till those shite insurance ads. blerk.

No-one gonna break my strides, OHHH NOOO...

This fits all the criteria but somehow doesn't qualify as horrible:

it may have been pop circa 1964?

Currently on the ocd playlist is :

thats stuck in my head for a month or so.