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Thread #91040   Message #1731253
Posted By: Little Hawk
01-May-06 - 11:00 AM
Thread Name: In Defence of 'Afternoon Delight'
Subject: RE: In Defence of 'Afternoon Delight'
I'd rather chew on broken glass than hear "My Baby Does The Hanky Panky" one more time. Fuck that song! It sucks and sucks and sucks eternally and to the final outer limits of putrescent, vile, worthless crap.

And so does "Seasons in the Sun". Happy now?

"I Think We're Alone Now" was a rather good song, I'd say. I like the cover of it by Lene Lovich in the early 80's, and I like the original.

I don't particularly care if most songs "rock" or not, but I do care if they have reasonably good lyrics that say something, that indicate some original power of thought and grasp of poetry, and if they have a well-crafted tune, chord arrangement, performance, that sort of thing. "Hanky Panky" has none of those, unless you like the performance. I don't. It's relentless, dumb, and obnoxious.

Some songs are meant to rock. That's fine. Some aren't. That's also fine. That a song "rocks" is not necessarily a compliment, it's just a description of its rythmic nature. Big deal. Lots of godawful BAAAAAAD songs rock. Ask me if I care.