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Posted by gidarmy (U7627527) on Thursday, 8th October 2009
Hello,
I've heard people talking about these TV shows where people sing songs and get to be very famous. Oh, okay, I have been known to lurk by the living room door frame looking at about 5 minutes of such fare before stomping off to read a book...
Only to come back about five minutes later. Anyway I read with interest the tracklisting for Susan Boyle (look her up) and her forthcoming LP.
Here it is
'Wild Horses'
'I Dreamed A Dream'
'Cry Me A River'
'How Great Thou Art'
'You'll See'
'Daydream Believer'
'Up To The Mountain'
'Amazing Grace'
'Who I Was Born To Be'
'Proud'
'The End of The World'
'Silent Night'
It's okay I guess. However, like most things, it could be better. I have it on good made-up authority that Cowell and his posse regularly trawl these boards looking for fantastic ideas. Which is why he always seems so disappointed. So, here's an alternative list of songs I'd like to see tackled:-
1 - Napalm Death - "You Suffer". Each contestant in turn must perform it and then the lowest scoring three have a live sing-off
2 - The whole of Scott Walker's the Drift.
3 - The whole of Scott Walker's Tilt
4 - The Boredoms greatest hits
5 - The best of The Residents
6 - (And The Native Hipsters - There Goes Concorde Again.
I also think dancing programmes should include dancing to the above. By "include" I mean it should be these songs all the time.
This may sound like a stupid idea and indeed it is. But imagine the wider audience such exposure would bring to such material. "You Suffer" would be the number one ringtone within weeks.
If listeners can think of other songs which would help lift TV talent shows then feel free to add to this thread.
Thanks as ever
Gidx
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I would be more than interested to see Subo have a bash at Rema Rema's "Feedback Song", or maybe even Sigue Sigue Sputnik's "Love Missile F1-11" and just for good measure, Imagination's "Bodytalk". Come on Simon, throw caution...
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it's fine idea - wish i had an empty to ponder longer:
you're something special to me - the shaggs
bob dylan wrote propaganda songs - minutemen
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Not songs as such but suggestions for a possible change in format to improve said show.
1) - The Indifference Round.
As most of the "successful" acts performing on this televisual slop will soon be forgotten, why not prepare them early? Have them pour every last ounce of effort into belting out some humdinger of a high-note-hitting classic, (such as "I Who Have Nothing" for example), which upon completion is met with complete silence from the audience. They then have to leave the stage whilst trying to preserve what remains of their dignity to the audible soundtrack of a pin being dropped in Row Z.
2) - The Monsters of Rock Round.
To spice up the show and make it more attractive to those of us who are disinclined to waste their lives watching such offal, a new round will be added to the show. Whilst dolled up in a ridiculous frock or outfit and wearing enough make-up to embarrass Katie Price, the contestants will perform a song of their choosing whilst the audience pelts them with open bottles of pee-pee. Audience members will be encouraged to be as accurate as possible in order try and bring the song to a premature close.
Surely those ideas will be sufficient to put a smile on Simon "oxygen-thief" Cowell's annoying, rubbery, perm-a-tanned face?
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Well Lee, rest assured he has the right to reply to your thoughts/ideas.
I really like the idea of a Minutemen week. Each contestant has to choose three songs each by said band and then segue them together.
And Love Missile F111 is a sure fire Christmas number one in the right hands.
More please when they occur to you.
How about each contestand tackles the Terry Scott classic "My Brother" as part of a Junior Choice week?
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I've no idea why there's an embedded link in the above message. Perhaps I should have put F1-11.
Strange..
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Posted by dave_the_bass2 (U4993047) on Thursday, 8th October 2009
I'd love to see X Factor contestants facing a week of Wayne/Jayne County covers to choose from. To see Dannii(i?) struggling to hold back the tears as somebody, whose dad's dog's dying wish was to see them on the telly, croons their way through "If you don't want to fun me baby, baby fun off"
(Obviously, this MB being what it is, we have here deployed the TV-friendly Scorcese version of that song title)
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I've no idea why there's an embedded link in the above message. Perhaps I should have put F1-11.
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have you discovered a wormhole to another millennium?
we should include a round where the audience have to search for the acts they liked on the computer ten years later, like the name of the Big Brother contestant with the woollen hat!
If we have to wait that long for the result, no-one will care!
A track that would stretch the contestants: "The Wild, The Beautiful and the Damned"...
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Here are my suggestions for an improved song list for the Simon Cowell show (even though I never watch it and wouldn't, not ever, never, no how, any way you served it up - NOOOOOOOO)
Pork Dukes – Making Bacon
Jarvis Cocker – Running the World
Anything by Hawkwind (when Lemmy was singing)
Am I being horrible?
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Posted by I am not an organiser etc (U11351618) on Thursday, 8th October 2009
Hurray - another mention for The Drift.
Would the contestants have to hit their own cuts of meat?
Or even provide them.
From their own bodies?
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Easy now, we're trying to help remember.
Via the healing power of music.
Or mooosic if you prefer.
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Posted by purrmeister (U11445326) on Thursday, 8th October 2009
Via the healing power of music.Β
Faith Healer - SAHB
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Posted by I am not an organiser etc (U11351618) on Thursday, 8th October 2009
I am trying to help!
You've got to admit, live self-amputation within the context of an, erm, talent(?) show would have to be a ratings winner. Surprised Cowell hasn't already thought of it.
And if he is lurking, as we suspect, I want my 'cut' when he pitches it successfully.
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Milkman of Human Kindness by Billy Bragg immediately springs to mind. Not sure why.
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Posted by purrmeister (U11445326) on Thursday, 8th October 2009
'Don't Give Up On Us Baby' - David Soul
I feel a tad queasy.............
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Posted by I am not an organiser etc (U11351618) on Thursday, 8th October 2009
OK on a lighter note how about "Forces of Oppression" from For How Much Longer Do We Tolerate Mass Murder? by the Pop Group.
That should stretch 'em.
Actually, Gideon, any chance of a track of that fabulous album next week - or a Peel session sometime in the future?
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I'd like to see Susan Boyle tackle Pere Ubu's 'Final Solution'
The girls won't touch me
Cos I've got a misdirection
Living at night isn't helping my complexion
The signs all saying it's a social infection
A little bit of fun's never been an insurrection
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Posted by Cyril Benson in Penrith (U2611279) on Friday, 9th October 2009
Make them do "Lovin' You" by Minnie Riperton. That top F# will sort out the chancers.
And advice for Cowell? Take your smug, tanned bonce and shov---------[connection lost]
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I hope Shabba hasn't chewed the cable again Cyril...
I think "Loving You" followed by "Walking in the Air" and Lene Lovich's "Lucky Number".
In fact, an evening of high pitched songs. That'll sort them out.
The more suggestions we get the more I think we should pitch this as a programme idea. Then I see sense and think better of it.
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Susan Boyle singing 'Krafty Cheese' is going to haunt my dreams tonight.
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Posted by peppermintpatti (U1472081) on Monday, 12th October 2009
I'd love more popular artists to cover unsigned bands work.
That way we could get them royalities, keep more people in the industry and give them space to develop, I've written to a couple of artist suggesting it, but never heard back... (trying to stop inserting a smilie).
Saw The Unthanks last night (incredible) and it was great to see them covering and rearranging work and crediting the writers of new songs.
Think it's a great idea, perhaps there could be a blog or source website for less well known music that people recommend for covering.
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The Unthanks album is one of the best of the year. There's nearly always something special about siblings singing together but with Rachel and Becky it's even more the case.
Meanwhile, we're unlikely to get anyone to cover the works of Lung Leg on primetime tv but it's worth kicking around as an idea. Thanks for doing that so far and feel free to carry on.
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Posted by Mike, Wivenhoe (U7622871) on Monday, 12th October 2009
No-one has mentioned Meatloaf's Bat Out Of He11.
Susan Boyle arriving on stage atop a Harley wearing full biking leathers. It's wrong and right for so many reasons.
Someone once suggested that the best way of dealing with these programmes is to set them up as normal, but just don't bother filming it. Imagine the tears of disappointment.
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No-one has mentioned Meatloaf's Bat Out Of He11.Β
That rang a bell because I was searching last week for a tune that might have been banned from the radio for making people drive too fast, but all I ended up with, inexplicably, was a statue of a miner from Bagworth, Leicestershire!
As for the work of Bragg, how about singing Billy Bragg's "Between the Wars" but with different lyrics?
"I had a hamster
I had a ferret
I had a guinea-pig
From Pets-U-Like Stores..."?
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I've often thought I'd like to see the cast of Strictly Come Dancing do a routine to Frost*'s 'Black Light Machine' because of those stop-start rhythms towards the end!
And anyone going in for the X-Factor now can give us a burst of Tom Robinson's 'Sing If You're Glad To Be Gay' for the benefit of renowned homophobe Dannii Minogue.
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Another one for Susan Boyle to attempt - 'Human Slaves Of An Insect Nation' from Bill Bailey's 'Cosmic Jam' DVD!
The runners-up could also do 'Hats Off To the Zebras' as the show is so much about racial equality (ha!).
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Posted by Mike, Wivenhoe (U7622871) on Monday, 12th October 2009
For that perfect TV/music crossover, the Boyle doing Flight of the Conchord's Business Time.
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Yay! Flight of The Conchords! By the way, was it Murray with Dave Coulthard on the Formula 1 coverage that delayed Strictly Come Racism?
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Thanks to Katy Brand on Otherstationsareavailable for the cruel, but utterly deserved take on the Alexandra Burke massacre of 'Hallelujah'!
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Posted by Tinsnail_Racer (U1486682) on Monday, 19th October 2009
The Jello Factor, where contestants have to do a convincing Dead Kennedys cover.
Sorry, I'm at university working, I don't want to be and I could use a beer. Probably catch the last half of the show (forgot my portaDAB - damn!) if I'm lucky. Hi Caz.
D. C., E.
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I'd like to hear; "Four minutes, thirty-three seconds" by John Cage. She'd be just the right person to do it justice.
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