Far Right Said Fred.

[killer b]

I just recapped with a quick listen to all of current top 20 and it's pretty much all gash. Maybe Sam Fender or The Weeknd could just about qualify as not terrible but it's otherwise all pretty generic and uninteresting to me.

how do you think someone who cut their teeth as a teenager on the classic rock sounds of the 1970s might have felt about the 1991 chart?

 

[Sasaferrato]

Still waiting for that apology

Don't hold your breath, you'll go a funny colour.

 

[pogofish]

I'm mostly interested in the weirdness of the British charts tbh. One morsel of weirdness which I heard the other night, that Ennio Morricone got to number 2 - the same position as I'm Too Sexy - in 1981, when his song Chi Mai was used as the theme tune for a TV series about Lloyd George. As far as I'm aware it's the only time Morricone bothered the top ten, which means he qualifies as a one hit wonder, where Right Said Fred don't.

Pretty certain that Morricone has been sampled, sometimes pretty obviously in more than one top ten hit by other artists.

 

[killer b]

Pretty certain that Morricone has been sampled, sometimes pretty obviously in more than one top ten hit by other artists.

sure, but that wouldn't affect his one hit wonder status

 

[skyscraper101]

how do you think someone who cut their teeth as a teenager on the classic rock sounds of the 1970s might have felt about the 1991 chart?

Oh I'm sure while they'd equally ambivilient at a lot of the pap pop - but I also think they will have appreciated the elements of counterculture seeping in through the rave and hip hop tunes. Or at least will appreciate that the charts are diverse enough to feature Right Said Fred next Bryan Adams, PM Dawn, Prince, and The Prodigy in the top 5. It was anything but boring.

 

[DotCommunist]

Even getting one hit single is an achievement most will never have, a writer to viz this month puts it 'If I'd had a number one I'd deffo be going round calling everyone else no-hit cunts'

 

[danny la rouge]

a cab driver once told me him and hendrix shared a flat in camden and whilst watching Coronation Street one evening Hendrix ripped of the theme tune (aka Lancashire Blues) for the main riff of Third Stone. True story. The bit about the cabbie that is

Not as far fetched as you’d think:

Jimi Hendrix: guitar legend and secret Coronation Street fanatic?

A former girlfriend of Jimi Hendrix has revealed details on the guitarist's penchant for the UK Soap Opera, Coronation Street.

guitar.com

 

[ska invita]

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third stone from tut sun!

 

[Gerry1time]

Right Said Fred also did a Red Nose Day record I think.

They did. Titled ‘Stick It Out’, and featuring the women off of birds of a feather, I genuinely still listen to it to this day. I was obsessed with comic relief as a kid, and this song is still a slight echo of that obsession. Still can’t decide if it’s a banger or an anthem though. I’d be minded to say both.

 

[pbsmooth]

I never would have had them down as desperate attention-seekers.

 

[hitmouse]

Not as far fetched as you’d think:

Jimi Hendrix: guitar legend and secret Coronation Street fanatic?

A former girlfriend of Jimi Hendrix has revealed details on the guitarist's penchant for the UK Soap Opera, Coronation Street.

guitar.com

And he would've gotten away with it too, if it weren't for them pesky Right Said Fred.

 

[Magnus McGinty]

All their songs are about shagging so no idea why they're against needles pricking into bodies and the such.

 

[seeformiles]

In I’m too Sexy, RSF borrow a line from 3rd Stone From the Sun

Conspiracy is growing..

 

[Dom Traynor]

I prefer their actor brother Craig.

 

[deeyo]

sure, but that wouldn't affect his one hit wonder status

the good, bad & the ugly made no 1 in uk for 4 weeks, no 1 ireland & no 2 in the us -68.

mr morricone was a typical two hit wonder - after a promising start, he faded into obscurity in the seventies, before making a short but well deserved comeback with chi mai...

The week Morricone instrumental classic hit top of the charts

Instrumental number ones are not as rare as you might think. Since Anglo-Italian conductor and entertainer Mantovani hit the top of the UK charts in August 1953 with 'The Song From Moulin Rouge', songs without lyrics have reached No. 1 on 27 occasions.

m.independent.ie

Search | Official Charts

www.officialcharts.com

film version (original)

hit version (hugo montenegro cover)

chi mai totp.

 

[Knotted]

how do you think someone who cut their teeth as a teenager on the classic rock sounds of the 1970s might have felt about the 1991 chart?

As I remember it, most of the young rock/metal people in the 90's were looking back to the 70's and 80's. Easier looking back to Led Zeppelin than it was to try and get on with the new Therapy? album.

 

[DaveCinzano]

I’ve got Bernard Cribbins. It’s a generation thing.

For me it's John Junkin

 

[Elpenor]

Found in a charity shop and bought. I don’t think they’ll get any residuals from it

Deeply Dippy a great 90s pop record, knocked Stay by Shakespeare’s Sister off no 1

 

[Boris Sprinkler]

apparently I'm Too Sexy was kept from the top spot by Bryan Adams' Everything I Do I Do It For You. Remember that fact when people try to tell you the contemporary pop charts are uniquely awful.

that was number one for like 16 weeks or something. Only to be knocked off by Whitney Houston bodyguard one. That was a miserable year to be a pop picker.

 

[marty21]

I'm not the Bee Gees

I'm glad they invested their money well.

 

[Lord Camomile]

Found in a charity shop and bought. I don’t think they’ll get any residuals from it
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Deeply Dippy a great 90s pop record, knocked Stay by Shakespeare’s Sister off no 1

'twas the first album I ever, bought, on cassette tape

Deeply Dippy is a genuine stand-out, far better than that novelty I'm Too Sexy pap that they're known for

 

[Magnus McGinty]

This was the period where rave was kicking in, and techno, following acid house. Deeply dippy wasn't aware of its surroundings.

 

[Karl Masks]

Lots of people aren’t the Bee Gees. Most, in fact.

Including two of them