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PostPosted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 8:37 am    Post subject: Bl**dy Chelsea again! Reply with quote

Oh lord this song is getting on my thrupenny bits Mad it's not like it's even any good. Rolling Eyes
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 11:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

And the start is very much like 'Sweet Dreams' by Eurythmics.
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 11:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Kermit played both that and Mika this morning - is he trying to drive away both his listeners?
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 11:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Cherskiy wrote:
Kermit played both that and Mika this morning - is he trying to drive away both his listeners?


Does he need any additional help? Laughing
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 11:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

gfloyd wrote:
Cherskiy wrote:
Kermit played both that and Mika this morning - is he trying to drive away both his listeners?


Does he need any additional help? Laughing


Laughing No, he's quite capable of eradicating any possible interest people have in listening to his show without outside assistance.... Laughing
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 12:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Behind Geddon's Wall wrote:
And the start is very much like 'Sweet Dreams' by Eurythmics.


Yes it does, and it kind of goes to pot after that.
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 3:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Aw c'mon Toggy, it's a damn sight better than that Mika one that's getting played to death atm.
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 7:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Didn't Chelsea do 'Blue Is The Colour' once?!
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 7:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Laughing

I have to say, I was confused as to why football was being discussed on this thread!
I think it's one of those songs I switch off from.

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Didn't Chelsea do 'Blue Is The Colour' once?!
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 7:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I must admit, I haven't heard it much this week, then I haven't had R2 on much in the daytime! Shocked
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 8:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You're not missing much - "Chelsea" or the Mika catastrophe. Rolling Eyes
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 8:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I think the lowest point was last week when Ken played it just 10 minutes after Terry did - now that's amateurish! It used to be policy that you couldn't even have the same artist in 2 shows in a row, never mind the same song. No wonder we're sick of everything.

As for Mika - ooooh, he's bloody annoying, isn't he? His constant calls for me to love him is smacking of desperation, as if his entire life has been surrounded by people telling him to sod off...
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 8:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ian Robinson wrote:
As for Mika - ooooh, he's bloody annoying, isn't he? His constant calls for me to love him is smacking of desperation, as if his entire life has been surrounded by people telling him to sod off...


I wish the people telling him to sod off had also included the record company managers.... Rolling Eyes
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 8:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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As for Mika - ooooh, he's bloody annoying, isn't he? His constant calls for me to love him is smacking of desperation, as if his entire life has been surrounded by people telling him to sod off...

I saw him on Jay Leno's Tonight show the other night, so obviously he is off to conquer the US as well now.
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 8:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hopefully they'll give him an orange jumpsuit and send him down to Gitmo for crimes against music....
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 10:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Cherskiy wrote:
Ian Robinson wrote:
As for Mika - ooooh, he's bloody annoying, isn't he? His constant calls for me to love him is smacking of desperation, as if his entire life has been surrounded by people telling him to sod off...


I wish the people telling him to sod off had also included the record company managers.... Rolling Eyes

Apparently, quite a few did - that's what "Grace Kelly" is all about. He was so annoyed by his latest rejection that he went home and wrote it. Quite what happened next, I'm not sure (but I bet the words "scissor" and "sisters" come into it).

As for America - we know he's trying to conquer there because of all his appearances on SxSW the other week. For all of Radio 2's championing of it as a music festival, it's really just a trade fair.
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 04, 2007 11:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

That Mika record Evil or Very Mad bloomin' awful!

You'd think Radio 2 would have learnt by now that constant repetition of the same tracks drives us all to other stations!
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 08, 2007 9:16 am    Post subject: Bl**dy Chelsea again! Reply with quote

It's my theory that the Chelsea song is being played because Prince Harry's dating a girl called Chelsea, though there hasn't been a corresponding leap in airplay for Marillion's 'Chelsea Monday'.

A member of my Weight Watchers class had that sodding Mika song as a ringtone! That week I'd been getting rejections myself from potential employees, and I didn't want the reminder that went off. Evil or Very Mad
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