So, what have you been listening to lately?

[Dave W]

[doombass]

I've never had issues with ballads/'girlie songs' or overtly melodic stuff. I can listen to Black Sabbath and then switch to Beach Boys or Bee Gees, no problem. I have really hidden, deep and dark guilty pleasures! 

Yup, guilty pleasures you have. Even listening to those girlie Black Sabbath guys:

[Ken]

I'll have to check that out.  I always love this one.

[uwe]

Or this here ...

[uwe]

[TBird1958]

Not growing up.........

[Ken]

Not growing up.........

Loosely related.

[uwe]

Oh please, NYC burrough man!!! Only originals here:



Plastic Bertrand/Roger Jouret was/is a Belgian musician who wrote the song in 1977. UK punks - The Damned among them - loved it, I always preferred the snotty French of the original.

They probably nicked not just the music, but the title too, David Johansen and his boys/girls were regarded as deities in the UK in the Punk Summers of 1976/77. (After having been slaughtered by the same music press three years before, go figure.)



That said, I've always liked The Damned. More relatable to me than either the over-hyped Sex Pistols or the mock-stern The Clash who pretended to have invented message rock. Vanian's voice always reminded me of Jim Morrison.

[uwe]

When Herr Kilmister still sang:

[Ken]

Oh please, NYC burrough man!!! Only originals here

Haha.  But I like the Damned version.

[Basvarken]

The original was not sung by Roger Jouret, but by Lou De Pryck.

[4stringer77]

Good to see Lou getting the recognition and fun with adult entertainers that he deserves. 

[uwe]

Danke, Rob, now that I didn't know! A Belgian Frank Farian so to say.

[uwe]

I always liked both songs!

[Ken]

Oooh, some of those mashups are great.