Choon of the Day

[WashYourHands]

@craner = Henry Kissinger

 

[craner]

It's true, I'm an evil bugger.

 

[Corpsey]

He prefers to call himself "Great Kissinger"

 

[RWY]

 

[IdleRich]

When I was doing a kinda post-punky-funky mix the other day for Threads I found this seven inch from a few years ago that I hadn't heard for a while. This band were hotly tipped in 2016 or 2017 I think but I suppose they never really took off as expected. Oh well, I still like this song (and I checked some of their others, also fun). I like the video too - I don't know why, I guess cos it looks like they're really having a slightly crap but fun house party.

 

[mvuent]

ariel pink may be cancelled but this tune certainly isn't. posted cause the title came to mind in a dream recently.

 

[linebaugh]

 

[Corpsey]

Great to see this thread still thriving

 

[craner]

Great to see this thread still thriving

OTOH....

 

[linebaugh]

@boxedjoy @luka please express your discontent with my choon of the day in words rather than cowardly hiding behind the emojis

 

[luka]

It's shit

 

[linebaugh]

I really like the first line. the quivering, crooning 'yah I got my first six string.' I was in a waiting lobby, heard that, and immediately knew it was my choon of the day

 

[boxedjoy]

terrible song. The words don't fit the rhythm of the melody, and Adams' vocal performance steamrollers over any nuance or sentimentality suggested by the trite lyrics - he has no sense of sweetness or nostalgia, he just bellows. The music itself is a tracing of a stadium-rock template, all bombast and no humility or humanity. Nothing about it feels real or familiar or relatable - it's just cliches and tropes that were already exhausted in the 80s, never mind 30+ years later.

 

[boxedjoy]

also in a purely personal persepctive I have been in so many shit student nightclubs and parties and watched people too young to remember 1985 never mind 1969* act like this is a big anthem when really it's all fantasy, cosplay recreation of a life they didn't live, and I find it really depressing to watch people dance to it with glee.

(*I'm sure I once read the 69 is meant to be a reference to sex and not the year, hmm ok)

 

[linebaugh]

I really like the first line. the quivering, crooning 'yah I got my first six string.' I was in a waiting lobby, heard that, and immediately knew it was my choon of the day

bryan adams could stop singing entirely after that line and the song wouldn't lose an ounce of meaning. its his 'petals on a wet, black bough'

 

[version]

Tim Burton
8 months ago
This song makes me nostalgic for a teenage life I never had

Mi Mm Ma
8 months ago
I love this comment more than the song. The good old days are an illusion. We have had the torture memories removed so we can't stop the actual bad guys.

 

[craner]

This does the same thing but better:

 

[boxedjoy]

and this does that even better!

 

[linebaugh]

I like the ataris rendetion even better, don henley is too posh, like the flummoxed pyschoanalyst in the bryan adams music video. its a feeling for the boys with grass stains on their blue jeans

 

[linebaugh]

and this does that even better!

blocked in my country, what is it!