Paper Lace are a top 50 band in music history.

[A380]

From the social commentary of ‘The night Chicago Died’ the the tragedy and pathos of ‘Billy don’t be a hero’ I think we can all agree that Paper Lace rightfully stand tall in the animals of music history.

I for one rarely listen to anything else.

 

[A380]

Not Agadoo, that was Black Lave obvs.

 

[two sheds]

Where do I sample the divine music of paper lace?

 

[Ground Elder]

They were a big influence on me. Thanks to them I was never a fool with my life

 

[Raheem]

Where do I sample the divine music of paper lace?

There's a website where you can type "Paper Lace" into a box and you'll get links to videos and relevant websites. Can't remember the name, though.

 

[belboid]

2 million on YouTube and 10 on Spotify. I reckon that makes them a top 1590 band at best.

 

[Sue]

Shoot me now.

 

[The39thStep]

Great pity they didn't write Mouldy Old Dough

 

[The39thStep]

Shoot me now.

Bang Bang

 

[two sheds]

 

[xenon]

Yes. they were a massive influence in me not listening to them. Which I know reads like critisicsm. But think a little deper. Stand back a bit and realise, by through not listening, that is in fact a high aclaim of their worth. For what is left but me in the universe, or me in the universrse with paperhcains sorry paperchase, paper whatsit, knowledge in my heart. You can see one is clearly inferior by being culturally diminished. So I tell you in all ernistness, I have not listened to them because I fear to burden / bespoil / succumb to the paperchains musical glory or otherwise.

(Spellcheck it yourself if it matters.)

 

[belboid]

Shoot me now.

Don’t be a hero

 

[Sue]

Don’t be a hero

If I wanted to be a hero, I'd like to think it wouldn't be over shit music...

 

[The39thStep]

Bang Bang

Sorry , Partridge moment

 

[belboid]

If I wanted to be a hero, I'd like to think it wouldn't be over shit music...

We get to make history, but not in circumstances of our own choosing.

 

[JuanTwoThree]

I need a volunteer to ride up
And bring us back some excrement
And Billy's hand was up in a moment
Forgettin' all the words she said

 

[ElizabethofYork]

I need a volunteer to ride up
And bring us back some excrement
And Billy's hand was up in a moment
Forgettin' all the words she said

Sheer poetry.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

If you'd said Dr Hook I'd have been interested in a discussion.

 

[JuanTwoThree]

If you'd said Dr Hook I'd have been interested in a discussion.

Nobody would hold it against you

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Nobody would hold it against you

That'd be a first

 

[A380]

Bang Bang

Did your baby shoot you dead?

 

[MickiQ]

I'd completely forgotten Paper Lace until this thread came along, Google tells me they only had three top ten hits apparently. I can remember 'The Night Chicago Died' and 'Billy Don't Be A Hero' but they had one called 'The Black - Eyed Boys' which I can't remember at all.
All their hits were in 1974 when I was 16 and simultaneously struggling with my 'O' Levels and being friendzoned by the girl of my dreams. The word hadn't been invented then but I would have understood it instantly.

 

[JimW]

They had a big comeback in the corporate sector in the early twenty first century as a lot of businesses looked to transistion to a Paper Lace office.

 

[A380]

They had a big comeback in the corporate sector in the early twenty first century as a lot of businesses looked to transistion to a Paper Lace office.