Did either one of them bands ever released a song with the lyrics start with "If I" and end with the words, "S.O.S"??
Uh... you really should be asking a different demographic, you know.
Quote from: Batman's Superior Cousin on 05 September, 2009, 08:04:51 PM
Did either one of them bands ever released a song with the lyrics start with "If I" and end with the words, "S.O.S"??
Sounds to me like you're looking for the song S.O.S by Abba (I think it was called that).
Not that I'd know anything about music that isn't alt-folk hipster indie, of course.
Nope, it was modern. It starts off with a guitar and continues on from there till the end.
It "starts with a guitar" you say? That could be ANYTHING! Well, anything other than Kraftwerk I guess.
Not sure I can help, but you might be asking the wrong hivemind, I'd imagine that we're not the sort of demographic that has a huge proportion of Girls Aloud fans. Still, someone will know.
Anyone else have anything more helpful to add?
I did a trawl of the internet, but came up with nothing. None of the bands you mentioned covered S.O.S. by ABBA. I think Jimbo's probably right - we're all too old here to know what you're talking about.
Quote from: Mike Gloady on 05 September, 2009, 08:27:29 PM
It "starts with a guitar" you say? That could be ANYTHING! Well, anything other than Kraftwerk I guess.
Not sure I can help, but you might be asking the wrong hivemind, I'd imagine that we're not the sort of demographic that has a huge proportion of Girls Aloud fans. Still, someone will know.
Anyone else have anything more helpful to add?
1. It's not an electric guitar, just a normal guitar.
2. It definately sounded like a girl band.
3. Lyrics started "If I" and ended with "my S.O.S."
Quote from: Batman's Superior Cousin on 05 September, 2009, 08:31:48 PM
Quote from: Mike Gloady on 05 September, 2009, 08:27:29 PM
It "starts with a guitar" you say? That could be ANYTHING! Well, anything other than Kraftwerk I guess.
Not sure I can help, but you might be asking the wrong hivemind, I'd imagine that we're not the sort of demographic that has a huge proportion of Girls Aloud fans. Still, someone will know.
Anyone else have anything more helpful to add?
1. It's not an electric guitar, just a normal guitar.
2. It definately sounded like a girl band.
3. Lyrics started "If I" and ended with "my S.O.S."
Also, it was modern, early 2000's
sorry for the triple post but: The lyrics started with "If I" (with the "I" being drawn out). Hope that helps!!!
Quote from: Mike Gloady on 05 September, 2009, 08:27:29 PM
It "starts with a guitar" you say? That could be ANYTHING! Well, anything other than Kraftwerk I guess.
If Kraftwerk had guitars ... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpprIoaIa7I)
Cheers!
Jim
Quote from: Jim_Campbell on 05 September, 2009, 09:19:47 PM
Quote from: Mike Gloady on 05 September, 2009, 08:27:29 PM
It "starts with a guitar" you say? That could be ANYTHING! Well, anything other than Kraftwerk I guess.
If Kraftwerk had guitars ... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpprIoaIa7I)
Cheers!
Jim
Nope sorry. The "I" at the beggining of the lyrics was long and drawn out.
Quote...we're all too old here to know what you're talking about.
I'll have you know that I saw Girls Aloud in concert some years back. They were very pretty. I didn't notice if they sang, sorry 'performed', any songs, but they definitely had nice legs.
No chance it's the loverly Rihanna you're thinking of, Batson?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eeyhtlJp5A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6G-b5lELFE but more catchier
Quote from: Batman's Superior Cousin on 05 September, 2009, 09:24:09 PM
Nope sorry. The "I" at the beggining of the lyrics was long and drawn out.
Just to clarify: I was not, for one single moment, suggesting that Rammstein might be confused with Liberty X.
I will, however, take a drag on whatever the fuck it is you're smoking.
Cheers
Jim
Quote from: Jim_Campbell on 05 September, 2009, 09:37:04 PM
Quote from: Batman's Superior Cousin on 05 September, 2009, 09:24:09 PM
Nope sorry. The "I" at the beggining of the lyrics was long and drawn out.
Just to clarify: I was not, for one single moment, suggesting that Rammstein might be confused with Liberty X.
I will, however, take a drag on whatever the fuck it is you're smoking.
Cheers
Jim
I heard some song being heard at my local pub last Sunday while playing Pool. There was a Birthday party on and I heard a song that sounded like the aforementioned bands, all vague recollections really!!!
I'll name that tune in one.
Quote from: Jim_Campbell on 05 September, 2009, 09:19:47 PM
If Kraftwerk had guitars ... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpprIoaIa7I)
Cheers!
Jim
That sounds like it belongs in a gay S & M club Jim, have you been watching Friedkin's Cruising again?
Quote from: Garageman on 05 September, 2009, 10:01:45 PM
That sounds like it belongs in a gay S & M club Jim, have you been watching Friedkin's Cruising again?
A gay S&M club, you say? Surely, you mean this? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hPvtuu9CbM&feature=fvst)
Cheers!
Jim
Quote from: TordelBack on 05 September, 2009, 09:31:31 PM
No chance it's the loverly Rihanna you're thinking of, Batson?
Even if Rihanna wasn't the right answer, I must say that was very enjoyable and diverting! Kind of confusing, calling her cover of Tainted Love 'S.O.S.', but it was very, very jolly indeed.
Quote from: House of Usher on 05 September, 2009, 10:07:54 PM
Even if Rihanna wasn't the right answer, I must say that was very enjoyable and diverting! Kind of confusing, calling her cover of Tainted Love 'S.O.S.', but it was very, very jolly indeed.
Then don't click on Jim's last link. I had to flagellate myself with this week's prog after it.
Quote from: Garageman on 05 September, 2009, 10:22:45 PM
Then don't click on Jim's last link. I had to flagellate myself with this week's prog after it.
Perhaps I
should have added: WARNING -- IF NOT THE GAYEST THING YOU'VE EVER SEEN THEN YOU'VE BEEN WATCHING TOO MUCH GAY PORN ...
Cheers
Jim
Could it be this?
http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/k/kaci_brown/sos.html
They lyrics dont start with "If I" but end with "My SOS". I havent even heard this song, just typed a few words into a search engine and this came up.
Rammstein are so cool! They just don't care, do they?
Quote from: House of Usher on 05 September, 2009, 11:04:58 PM
Rammstein are so cool! They just don't care, do they?
I'm absolutely convinced that they're some kind of incredibly clever performance art collective who are exploring, well, whatever the fuck it is they're exploring, via the means of being the biggest-selling German language band in the world!
They're quite happy to subvert their entire industrial metal macho schtick with something like this, or perform an entire video in fat suits (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_k-vPv-XEpg), or pretty much just take the piss (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jwXQFFLSHo), or do something genuinely disturbing, like this. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lk06_ll_vgo)
I'm very excited at the prospect of a new album. (http://www.metalunderground.com/news/details.cfm?newsid=47903)
Cheers
Jim
I think THIS may well be what you're looking for?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFwz3MFIByE
does not matter if its what he was looking for.
thats worth a watch!
Blimey Gloady, you're a genius!
Well that's just great Jim, thanks a bunch. I am now interested in Rammstein. Some of that was... not bad - original, even. The fact that I can't understand a word of it undoubtedly helps.
I was also surprised to see that You-Tube hosts videos of angels simulating fellatio while having their wings plucked.
Quote from: TordelBack on 06 September, 2009, 08:40:55 AM
The fact that I can't understand a word of it undoubtedly helps.
I was also surprised to see that You-Tube hosts videos of angels simulating fellatio while having their wings plucked.
On the subject of videos it's surprising to see on YouTube, and one of Rammstein's handful of songs in English, is Depeche Mode's Stripped. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y869l-35JLQ&feature=related)
I mention it because its use of Leni Riefenstahl's astonishing footage from the 1936 Berlin Olympics was seized upon at the time to sling accusations of Nazi sympathies at the band. I find the song's lyrics placed along side images of some disgracefully supine appeasement of Hitler's regime to be both splendidly subversive, and somewhat accusatory.
YMMV. obviously. but I thought it was worth mentioning.
Cheers!
Jim
Contemporary subversion aside, that's some amazing footage. I only know Riefenstahl from Triumph of the Will, but that Olympic stuff is disturbingly fantastic. Those Nazi thugs had access to some seriously creative talent.
Quote from: Mike Gloady on 06 September, 2009, 02:27:09 AM
I think THIS may well be what you're looking for?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFwz3MFIByE
JESUS, no!!! Please say it ain't so; that's just horrible. I thank my lucky stars I'd avoided hearing or seeing that up til now.
Quote from: Mike Gloady on 06 September, 2009, 02:27:09 AM
I think THIS may well be what you're looking for?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFwz3MFIByE
Thank you, thats the one!!!
Quote from: Mike Gloady on 06 September, 2009, 02:27:09 AM
I think THIS may well be what you're looking for?
Christ, Mike -- how the hell did you get to that when it meets literally
none of the already vague description given at the top of the thread?!
Cheers
Jim
Quote from: Jim_Campbell on 06 September, 2009, 12:29:07 PM
Christ, Mike -- how the hell did you get to that when it meets literally none of the already vague description given at the top of the thread?!
Mike's the gold medal winner of the sci-fi readers' Lateral Thinking Championship 2009.
I'll carry the thread on-
Years ago, there was a sub-Spice Girls girlband, with (I think) three bored Tesco's shopgirls in ill-fitting "sexy" clothes and crap hair, all with faces like bags of spanners, who did a song that featured them miming "yapping" (with their hands, in a dismissive way) while "singing":
"Meh-neh-meh-neh, don't get fresh with me"
It was the single worst thing I'd ever seen at the time, and I'd dearly love to know what it was.
Any ideas?
SBT
I think the song you're after might be the Rihanna one that samples Tainted Love.
QuoteIt was the single worst thing I'd ever seen at the time, and I'd dearly love to know what it was.
All of human perversity is summed up in that one sentence!
Jim's stone ramming and TordelBack's absurd assertion that Nadine has nice pins reminded me that the Girls Aloud single 'No Good Advice' has an infuriatingly familiar guitar solo which still continues to elude me but is, nonetheless, somewhat reminiscent of 'Temple of Love'. Well, y'know. Kinda.
Which is a very long-winded way of asking someone to explain THIS to me:
Some Goths Wrestle by Mistake (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdOGDCJpSNU)
The announcer's only forty miles out.
By the way, the song The Artist Formerly Known as Spooky is looking for is No Way, No Way by no-hit wonders Vanilla.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGwB-f1xfxM
Suffer, my friend, suffer.
Quote from: TordelBack on 06 September, 2009, 02:49:22 PM
By the way, the song The Artist Formerly Known as Spooky is looking for is No Way, No Way by no-hit wonders Vanilla.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGwB-f1xfxM
Suffer, my friend, suffer.
There are children present, so I'll have to wait til later to check that out- BUT- I am forever in your debt, sir. Marvellous! As an encore, I don't suppose you know where my London A-Z is at the moment, or where the copy of 'Wasabi' one of my clients recently lost has gotten to, do you?
SBT
Quote from: TordelBack on 06 September, 2009, 02:49:22 PM
By the way, the song The Artist Formerly Known as Spooky is looking for is No Way, No Way by no-hit wonders Vanilla.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGwB-f1xfxM
Suffer, my friend, suffer.
oh that's truly horrible. They even sound bored doing it.
Wasn't that Vanilla song the result of a bet between two record producers to get the shittest record possible to number 1?
<satire> and theyve been playing the same bet every week since. </satire> <kids today> <tch>
The redhead isn't bad.