Songs you like but are embarrassed to admit to lol

[abudisake]

don't touch in an other style :

tribeca by uzeb

boogie woogie waltz by weather report

episode d'azur by pat metheny

lieutenant uura by ultramarine

open mind by jean luc ponty

petit chartier by sixun

limelight by spirogyra

grand cafe by alain caron

irish frog dance by michel cusson

tutu by marcus miller and miles davis

and sorry for the many others....

Edited May 4, 2007 by abudisake

[Fay]

What's so wrong with "Relax" ???????????? Fortunately it isn't banned any longer as it was in BBC.

She's not the only one. I read a journalist's music review in an English language newspaper in Japan the other day that lumped Frankie in with a group of tacky one-hit wonders from the 1980's. It was obivious from the article that the guy had no idea what he was talking about. It seemed he was too young to know what Frankie were about and was just name dropping. Ironically being compared to Frankie is to my mind a major compliment to any musician.

Anyone who was around in Ireland in the summer of 84 could never forget the "Frankie says.." T-shirts.

yes, I remember similar T-shirts and everyone wanted to get them (Laughing...)

[ilovesumo]

So do I get the song's message also wrong? What do I know...I just feel a bit (Laughing...)

They banned it? Didn't know that. Art should never be banned.

[Exil]

I'm not embarrassed about the music I like, but I've learned not the get caught watching (or singing along to)

. At least not twice. (Eh?) :-O (Blinking...) B-)

[Itachi]

don't touch in an other style :

tribeca by uzeb

boogie woogie waltz by weather report

episode d'azur by pat metheny

lieutenant uura by ultramarine

open mind by jean luc ponty

petit chartier by sixun

limelight by spirogyra

grand cafe by alain caron

irish frog dance by michel cusson

tutu by marcus miller and miles davis

and sorry for the many others....

I love UZEB, particularly Alain Caron's bass playing but I enjoy the whole group. I guess they aren't doing it anymore.

Are you embarrassed to like them? Not me!

[Taka]

Great topic. Some of these ARE pretty embarrassing I agree, some though like Careless Whisper and Take On Me are just sensational pop songs imo.

Heaven is Place On Earth I've always really liked too and would make my list as well. I'll try come up with one later.

Army of Lovers, Tarzan Boy etc.... wow I had completely forgotten about those. Thanks for a great laugh. B-)

[Jonosuke]

Actually I am embarrassed to admit I listen to any songs by the Monkees but especially Daydream Believer, and its cover by Ann Murray, Canada's sweetheart.

I also have "Always on My Mind" by Brenda Lee, Elvis Presley, Willie Nelson, Pet Shop Boys and West End Girls.

But I don't listen to the Scissor Sisters...well, lately anyway.

[Fujisan]

Elvis-Suspicious minds (I am not worthy...)

How can you call Elvis embarrassing???????????????????

He is to me (Holiday feeling...)

I hate singers or groups that make a career on songs written by other people(Meat Loaf aside) and Elvis is the ultimate.

Edited May 9, 2007 by Fujisan

[abudisake]

I love UZEB, particularly Alain Caron's bass playing but I enjoy the whole group. I guess they aren't doing it anymore.

Are you embarrassed to like them? Not me!

an other uzeb fan !!!

i have got tears !!!

be sure that i am not embarrassed to like them but when someone (new in jazz rock fusion) discover this kind of music, he looks at you with strange eyes !!! but it doesn't bother me !!

i can say that i know all uzeb and have still many pleasure to listen them. i hope they will play together again. i have never seen them on stage but i am ready to cross the ocean for that....

alain caron's bass playing is still incredible and all his solo albums are great

michel cusson is always great (wild unit I & II, camino....)

do you have some news about paul brochu ?

they are missing me and, 17 years after, there is still no jazz group that sounds better to my ears...

sorry for my poor english !

[kaiguma]

You have to remember that without Elvis broke the mold and without him there would have been no rock and roll (or the heavy metal that you love).

I'm really not trying to be acidic, but this overstated comment always strikes a bad nerve with me . . . my immediate reaction is to call it rubbish.

Elvis is not the King of Rock. Sure, he brought a few new things to the table, but so did a lot of others. Jimi Hendrix is the one who truly broke the mold and he would have done so without Elvis, hypothetically. I know, you remove one thing from history and everything would change, but I maintain that Elvis wielded less influence than Johnny Cash or Robert Johnson, and many influential singers and guitarists from NYC Jazz and Mississippi Blues.

From a contemporary viewpoint, I agree with Fujisan. For me, Elvis is closer to Rod Stewart than to Jimmy Page.

Edited May 10, 2007 by kaiguma

[Oimeru]

I watched the Eurovision Song Contest Semifinal yesterday. ;-)

But, in my defense, I made some use of the mute button.

[Doyobi]

I watched the Eurovision Song Contest Semifinal yesterday. ;-)

But, in my defense, I made some use of the mute button.

Ha, that's nothing! I invited guests to watch it together, food & drinks and everything. I watched Eurovision as a child (and we hd no MTV back then), and I'll never stop watching it, no matter how bad some entries might get.

Songs I liked? The Czech, Icelandic, Bulgarian, Israeli and Georgian entries (from the semifinal).

Tune in saturday for more!

[aderechelsea]

the Eurovision Song Contest is becoming a big thing here in Greece year after year but i cannot see the reason why.

90% of the songs are crap-ish and the rest 10% never win.

watch out for our "Ricky Martin rip-off" song this year. ;-)

Bulgaria's song is one of the few i actually got the chance to watch and i liked it uniqueness.

[Jakusotsu]

Bulgaria's song is one of the few i actually got the chance to watch and i liked it uniqueness.

That's not the point. All the songs I actually like end up horribly underrated - always.

I have a long tradition running with two of my friends: we'll meet Saturday evening, endure the whole charade, and then each picks one contri of which he thinks gets the least points. The penalty: one drink for every vote they get! (used to be one drink for every point, but that ended in disaster quickly B-) )

Sounds more easy to avoid a hangover than it is actually. Experience shows: a) don't go with your own taste, and b) beware of the former Soviet countries, who tend to pool their points regardless of musical quality.

Best (=worst) bets are always likely to be the UK, France and Germany, i.e. countries that don't get along well with their European neighbours. (oh, and of course Malta :-D )

(perhaps time to split this into a new thread...)

[aderechelsea]

great drinking game !!!!!! :-D

too bad i 'll be working Saturday night and i won't have the chance to play it.

and as you mentioned, UK is always a safe bet to stay sober B-)

[Fujisan]

Best (=worst) bets are always likely to be the UK, France and Germany, i.e. countries that don't get along well with their European neighbours. (oh, and of course Malta :-D )

If the UK win this year I will eat my Banzuke.... :-D

Every year the people responsible for choosing the UK entry have some elaborate selection process to select it and every year we still finish up with a big pile of c*** but no one says so until after we finish 9th again for the umpteenth year.

[Fay]

Just looking at the eurovision song contest - you can even get this by live stream - it's sooooooooo bad as always, but somehow it's cult. (Laughing...)

[Jakusotsu]

Went with UK and expectedly had only to drink twice. (An idea...) One of my buddies fared even better with Ireland, but the other couldn't been talked out of taking Turkey - didn't do him well. (Tears forming...)

The rest was a total surprise to us. Although we did expect the hilarious Ukrainian performance to score quite well (came in 2nd), the victorious song from Serbia had baffled us all. Any explanation why they received high scores from almost every country? (Laughing...)

All of my high picks (not favourites!) ended up in the second half - back to the drawing board for next year...

Edited May 12, 2007 by Jakusotsu

[Oimeru]

I really wonder which country got the highest number of total votes. Might even be Turkey, they tend to get high scores in the large western countries, due to the high number of expatriates.

Who cares about the songs anyway? It's the social/political analysis that's interesting! (Laughing...)

[Fay]

Went with UK and expectedly had only to drink twice. :-) One of my buddies fared even better with Ireland, but the other couldn't been talked out of taking Turkey - didn't do him well. (Laughing...)

The rest was a total surprise to us. Although we did expect the hilarious Ukrainian performance to score quite well (came in 2nd), the victorious song from Serbia had baffled us all. Any explanation why they received high scores from almost every country? (I am not worthy...)

All of my high picks (not favourites!) ended up in the second half - back to the drawing board for next year...

The serbian song was nearly too intellectual for the Grand prix but "Wunder gibt es immer wiiiiiieder......" to quote another grand prix song.

I even can't remember the ukrainian song today .... (Help me...)

[Jakusotsu]

I even can't remember the ukrainian song today .... (I am not worthy...)

How could You?! Look here!

[Kintamayama]

We had the same discussion last year IIRC. Read out my analysis then-good for this year too. Unless they change the voting system, it will always be the ex-Eastern bloc with the most points, as East Yugoslavia will vote for west Yugoslavia and North Yugoslavia will get 10 from both of them. Belorussia will always get 12 points from Russia and the Ukraine, as will Turkey from Germany/Switzerland, and Greece from Cyprus and vice versa, not to mention the cuddly Northern Europeans Norway/Denmark who will forever give 12 points to Sweden with a certain vice versa, with the occasional Iceland/Finland thrown in, as we saw yesterday. Even Israel lately is prone to giving Russia/Bello all the points, as we have a very big Russian-background population.

FWIW, I thought the Serbian entry was the best song, proving that a great homely female singer surrounded by bombshells can win.

The worst? Ours by far-embarrassing, dumb, badly performed and downright lousy.

Nothing to do with the best song anymore-all friendly cuddly- wuddly neighborly love. It will never be the same again unless all the splinter countries re-unite or they change the voting system, and as we know, none of these two will ever happen.

Barfy.

[Fay]

I even can't remember the ukrainian song today .... (I am not worthy...)

How could You?! Look here!

Ahh yes, you made my day, it was this eins, zwei, drei song ... I loved it (Help me...)

[Jakusotsu]

Unless they change the voting system, it will always be the ex-Eastern bloc with the most points, as East Yugoslavia will vote for west Yugoslavia and North Yugoslavia will get 10 from both of them. Belorussia will always get 12 points from Russia and the Ukraine, as will Turkey from Germany/Switzerland, and Greece from Cyprus and vice versa, not to mention the cuddly Northern Europeans Norway/Denmark who will forever give 12 points to Sweden with a certain vice versa, with the occasional Iceland/Finland thrown in, as we saw yesterday.

While that observation is true on all accounts, it doesn't really explain who will eventually win the whole thing. There is always one song which will get points from any country, as did Serbia yesterday and Lordi last year and Greece the year before and on and on...the winner is always unanimous. What's really puzzling me is how everybody agreed to like Serbia, or Greece two years ago. These were totally nondescript performances like we had hundreds of times before. What was the catch here I'm missing? Could have been Lithuania as well, which had a better singer and a better song in my opinion, but nobody liked them at all. Was it really the bombshells? I never cease to wonder about this event...

[Oimeru]

We had the same discussion last year IIRC. Read out my analysis then-good for this year too. Unless they change the voting system, it will always be the ex-Eastern bloc with the most points, as East Yugoslavia will vote for west Yugoslavia and North Yugoslavia will get 10 from both of them. Belorussia will always get 12 points from Russia and the Ukraine, as will Turkey from Germany/Switzerland, and Greece from Cyprus and vice versa, not to mention the cuddly Northern Europeans Norway/Denmark who will forever give 12 points to Sweden with a certain vice versa, with the occasional Iceland/Finland thrown in, as we saw yesterday. Even Israel lately is prone to giving Russia/Bello all the points, as we have a very big Russian-background population.

FWIW, I thought the Serbian entry was the best song, proving that a great homely female singer surrounded by bombshells can win.

The worst? Ours by far-embarrassing, dumb, badly performed and downright lousy.

Nothing to do with the best song anymore-all friendly cuddly- wuddly neighborly love. It will never be the same again unless all the splinter countries re-unite or they change the voting system, and as we know, none of these two will ever happen.

Barfy.

The problem is that there is no good voting system. If they try to be proportional to the population, then the countries with large expatriate communities will have an advantage (Turkey got high scores from half of Western Europe, Armenia got 12 from Turkey, lots of Ex-Yugoslavs live in other countries, etc.). Furthermore, countries with large population will still be at a disadvantage because they can't vote for their own song -- less potential voters for their songs. On the other hand, if you allow people to vote for their own song, then Russia will be the perennial winner.

And the concept of "best song" is of course highly subjective. I'm pretty certain most of the bloc voters feel they are voting for the "best song".

Anyway, lots of whining in the German press tomorrow, I'm sure. Boo-hoo.

Edited May 13, 2007 by Oimeru