Tropical Island IPOD Singles Draft Thread - Pending playoffs
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define inescapable -- its not radio friendly in content or length, and so unless you're on a channel where Eminem would get rotation play its unlikely just to be dropped in. When it came out I was moving beyond the age of clubbing (a pointless exercise for me anyway), quit watching MTV once they dropped the M from their name, and working 12 hours a day in a workplace enviroment where the only people who could get away with playing that song publicly would be the mail room guys.
I was hoping my launchcast would get around to this one:
Katrina and the Waves- Walking on Sunshine - Living In Oblivion: The 80's Greatest Hits, Vol. 2
Katrina and the Waves- Walking on Sunshine - Living In Oblivion: The 80's Greatest Hits, Vol. 2
heck you took their entire album in the album draft, and I did not even know they HAD an album.
And yes, I remember that video well.
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Well, we are flying here, and far be it from me to slow us down. So coming with my own fun one hit wonder:
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I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) - Proclaimers - Sunshine on Leith (1988)*
Just an impossibly catchy and bouncy song. You listen to it, and you just can't get it out of your head for days. And its had more lives than your cat (hence the asterisk). Was a minor hit back in '89. Got picked up on the movie soundtrack to Benny and Joon in '93, and shot all the way to #3 on the U.S. charts. Gets rereleased on a compilation album in 2007 and shoots back up to #1 in the U.K.. etc. Just fun.
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I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) - Proclaimers - Sunshine on Leith (1988)*
Just an impossibly catchy and bouncy song. You listen to it, and you just can't get it out of your head for days. And its had more lives than your cat (hence the asterisk). Was a minor hit back in '89. Got picked up on the movie soundtrack to Benny and Joon in '93, and shot all the way to #3 on the U.S. charts. Gets rereleased on a compilation album in 2007 and shoots back up to #1 in the U.K.. etc. Just fun.
It was on the radio non stop where I lived on both the hip hop oriented and alternative flavored stations, and all of my coworkers at the time listened to it - and these were all young hungry professionals - either engineers, account managers or sales types. When I traveled for work it was on the stations in virtually every city I went to. Obviously, not my taste in music, but I could not get away from that tune.
Ahhhh...yeah,you gotta go extended version or album on this one to get the full effect of this danceable genius....
And you know, whenever I see Hennessey somewhere, I always find myself singing the line from this song.
This is the second song ipod roulette has let get away from me...oh well...I can just repeatedly click the youtube link. This draft is soo much cooler than the movie and album one like that. All the music is, well right here
I think what actually surprised me the most was that the people not familiar with it were both well aware of who Dido was and yet surprised that this song existed. While Dido's song did come out 2 years before "Stan", it was only after "Stan" that Dido was all the sudden doing the tune on SNL and the late night talk show circuit and getting heavy airplay.
Oh, I was well aware of who M&M was, I just didn't listen to his stuff. Other than the little ""twist" at the end of the song, there is really nothing remarkable about it lyrically or musically to me, other than the inclusion of Dido's music in it, of course.
And when I heard Dido on the radio, etc, nobody was saying "Here is the latest Dido song, which also happens to be in an M&M song as well"....
I never really watched SNL or watched the late night talk shows - most were pretty stupid with little clever bits once in a while. I never found SNL to be as humorous as many others seemed to. I also didn't grow up with MTV or VH1 in the house - we lived out in the country and just got OTA channels. I really had no exposure to cable until college, and I was way too busy studying/going to class/doing things outdoors to spend much time watching TV.
Not everyone here is 18-20 years old and grew up watching 250 channels.
And when I heard Dido on the radio, etc, nobody was saying "Here is the latest Dido song, which also happens to be in an M&M song as well"....
I never really watched SNL or watched the late night talk shows - most were pretty stupid with little clever bits once in a while. I never found SNL to be as humorous as many others seemed to. I also didn't grow up with MTV or VH1 in the house - we lived out in the country and just got OTA channels. I really had no exposure to cable until college, and I was way too busy studying/going to class/doing things outdoors to spend much time watching TV.
Not everyone here is 18-20 years old and grew up watching 250 channels.
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