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Come Inside... => The Snug => Topic started by: Grumpmeister on March 30, 2009, 04:37:18 PM

Title: Why?
Post by: Grumpmeister on March 30, 2009, 04:37:18 PM

Its officially the worst song of all time so why on earth re-release it? Are you expecting people's tastes to have completely vanished?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lu-UkTv8tVk (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lu-UkTv8tVk)

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Black Lace hit Agadoo, named the worst song of all time by a panel of music writers, is being re-released 25 years after it hit number two.

The song, kept off the top by George Michael's Careless Whisper in 1984, won the title in a 2003 Q magazine poll.

The video for Agadoo (Mambo 2009 remix) was directed by Bruce Jones, who played Coronation Street's Les Battersby.

Black Lace singer Dene Michael said: "With all the doom and gloom in the world, this is just what we need."

Actor Jones also appears in the video along with fellow former Coronation Street actor Kevin Kennedy, who played Curly Watts in the soap.


Michael is joined on the record, released on Monday, by new member Ian Robinson.

Michael's original partner in the duo, Alan Barton, died in a bus crash in 1995.

The band's other hits include Superman, Do The Conga and I Am The Music Man.

The Q magazine panel summed up the 1984 original as "magnificently dreadful".

"It sounded like the school disco you were forced to attend, your middle-aged relatives forming a conga at a wedding party, a travelling DJ act based in Wolverhampton, every party cliche you ever heard," the panel added.

Anyone want to give mo odds on Nick clicking on the youtube link before he's read the article?  whistle:

Title: Re: Why?
Post by: Snoopy on March 30, 2009, 04:46:48 PM

Why? Is probably because someone thinks they'll make money out of it. Such tunes are still played on the Costas and in various other Mediteranean resorts I am told. Cousin recent returned from Cyprus (don't ask which bit because I didn't) and told me that "The Birdie Song" is still played regularly in the bars.

Perhaps Miss D will report back after her visit.

Title: Re: Why?
Post by: Grumpmeister on March 30, 2009, 04:49:39 PM

Thank you for that hound, I now have the image of BM doing the Birdie Song dance stuck in my head.  evil:

Can someone lend me a drill, a bottle of bleach and a brilo pad please.  Banghead

Title: Re: Why?
Post by: Miss Demeanour on March 30, 2009, 05:08:37 PM

Don't you think they're just broke and desperate  Shrugs:

Title: Re: Why?
Post by: Grumpmeister on March 30, 2009, 05:09:23 PM

Who? People in Cyprus?  eeek:

Title: Re: Why?
Post by: Miss Demeanour on March 30, 2009, 05:10:56 PM

Quote from: Grumpmeister on March 30, 2009, 05:09:23 PM

Who? People in Cyprus?  eeek:

No - the AgaDodo masochists

Title: Re: Why?
Post by: Grumpmeister on March 30, 2009, 05:12:43 PM

Like I said Miss D, BM and anyone else who enjoys dancing to it.  whistle:

Title: Re: Why?
Post by: Nick on March 30, 2009, 05:15:39 PM

She will take too much and still go shopping.
 noooo:
Goats will eat much of it  noooo: