Is it just me?
Posted: Wed May 12, 2021 9:02 am
or is this bloody awful?
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Re: Is it just me?
Posted: Wed May 12, 2021 9:45 am
er . . . at a loss. Didn't know Ronnie Corbett could play the piano though.
Re: Is it just me?
Posted: Wed May 12, 2021 10:15 am
I'm stealing that!Re: Is it just me?
Posted: Wed May 12, 2021 11:34 am
It's not a bad song and it's weird how Elton John, whose name was once a synonym for 'flamboyant,' is the most normal looking one in his nice blue suit.
Re: Is it just me?
Posted: Wed May 12, 2021 3:22 pm
FTFYex-khobar Andy wrote: ↑Wed May 12, 2021 11:34 amIt's not a bad song and it's weird how Elton John, whose name was once a synonym for 'flamboyant,' is the most only normal looking one in his nice blue suit.
Re: Is it just me?
Posted: Wed May 12, 2021 5:52 pm
Especially since he would be a zombie.
Re: Is it just me?
Posted: Wed May 12, 2021 7:29 pm
Re: Is it just me?
Posted: Wed May 12, 2021 7:37 pm
Well, she could use some breast augmentation to really rock that 70's throwback outfit.
Re: Is it just me?
Posted: Wed May 12, 2021 8:26 pm
Re: Is it just me?
Posted: Thu May 13, 2021 2:36 am
I'm not gonna come right out and say they ripped off the melody from someone else, but it does sound like they "sampled" an awful lot of Cat Stevens' "Wild World" in that song.
-"BB"-
(edited once to correct a misplaced apostrophe)
-"BB"-
(edited once to correct a misplaced apostrophe)
Re: Is it just me?
Posted: Thu May 13, 2021 3:58 am
You're right BB - there was a ring of familiarity I couldn't place.
Re: Is it just me?
Posted: Thu May 13, 2021 9:28 am
The original.
Interestingly;
At the time of the single's release, British DJ Jonathan King accused the Pet Shop Boys of plagiarising the melody for "It's a Sin" from Cat Stevens' 1971 song "Wild World". He made the claims in The Sun newspaper, for which he wrote a regular column during the 1980s. King went so far as to release his own cover version of "Wild World" as a single, using a similar musical arrangement to "It's a Sin", in an effort to demonstrate his claims. While the Pet Shop Boys sued King, this single flopped, eventually winning out-of-court damages, which they donated to charity
Re: Is it just me?
Posted: Thu May 13, 2021 9:58 am
And a damn sight better than that Elton and the Hermaphrodites version
Re: Is it just me?
Posted: Thu May 13, 2021 11:42 am
The new version clearly has the blessing of PSB because they produced it along with Stuart Price, their long-time producer. They were intended to join in the performance but were unable to do so due to other contractual issues. Quote - "The staging and casting ideas were approved by PSB along with Olly Alexander and Elton John."
Re: Is it just me?
Posted: Thu May 13, 2021 1:24 pm
after listening to both, I'm not really a fan of either version; but I do like the new one with Elton John better than the PSB one.
Re: Is it just me?
Posted: Thu May 13, 2021 2:03 pm
I'm a fan of the original, it's stood the test of time. It came out when the "acid house craze" was in full swing here, and was a mainstay of many raves.
Re: Is it just me?
Posted: Thu May 13, 2021 7:20 pm
Well, I'll be dipped! I watched Cat Stevens video and realized after all these years that he was singing, "But just remember there's a lot of bad and beware..." All this time I thought he was saying "there's a lot of bad everywhere".
Re: Is it just me?
Posted: Fri May 14, 2021 3:16 am
Yeah, it is indeed a wild world.....Joe.
Re: Is it just me?
Posted: Fri May 14, 2021 3:37 am
It's hard to get by just upon a smile....
Re: Is it just me?
Posted: Fri May 14, 2021 2:29 pm
OTOH, city girls just seem to find out early, how to open doors with just a smile.