So, Simon Cowell and his band of evil henchlets are to release a charity single for the Haiti earthquake.
Positive charity work or blatant self-congratulatory profiteering? Also, what song do you think they should cover?
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 13:07, 81 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Well they just felt they HAD to do SOMETHING yadda yadda.
I Feel The Earth Move.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 13:09, Reply)

Lets get ready to rumble by PJ & Duncan

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 13:11, Reply)

Walls Come Tumbling Down

( thealternativefact, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 13:12, Reply)

Walls come tumbling down


EDIT to say: A dead heat :)
(Cancer Joy was short lived, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 13:12, Reply)

Almost :)

( thealternativefact, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 13:14, Reply)

Shake, Rattle and Roll?

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 13:13, Reply)

anything by Einsturzende Neubauten
/smarty pants
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 13:13, Reply)

Oh get you...

( thealternativefact, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 13:14, Reply)

Most of the Altbauten, too...
/loves Neubauten
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 13:19, Reply)

Hahaha!
I wish I said that, Oscar.
(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 13:40, Reply)

Actually, they should just do a special edition of "Strategies Against Architecture".

( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 13:46, Reply)

Vertigo by U2.

( girlinthehole, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 13:13, Reply)

provocation of this nature will not be tolerated

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 13:26, Reply)

Try and stop me mister.

( girlinthehole, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 13:55, Reply)

What's she gonna look like with a chimney on her?

(PsychoChomp, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 13:15, Reply)

ha ha ha

Also As the Palaces Burn - Lamb of God
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 13:17, Reply)

Haha

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 13:19, Reply)

How about this?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYbxcDb1s5k

This is meant to be the advert, sorry if it's not!
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 13:17, Reply)

There is a song from the eighties.
Lyrics go:

I'm living in a box
I'm living in a cardboard box


After much googling it seems the band was also called living in a box.
( girlinthehole, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 13:18, Reply)

That's the official song of the place I work

( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 13:54, Reply)

Wham - Club tropicana

(Fancy a weekend on my Raymondo Luxury Yacht?, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 13:19, Reply)

All the children are dead - Venetian Snares

(Cancer Joy was short lived, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 13:20, Reply)

"Shake, Baby, Shake" by Lush.

( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 13:20, Reply)

tuuuuuuuuuuuuuuune!

(Fancy a weekend on my Raymondo Luxury Yacht?, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 13:21, Reply)

Morituri Te Salutant by Colosseum
/Smartipantius Maximus
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 13:23, Reply)

*wanders off topic*
*Pimps self shamelessly*
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 13:25, Reply)

boom shake the room
by jazzy jeff & fresh prince.
(UppityDamnPrimate LET'S OPEN THIS F*CKING PIT UP, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 13:25, Reply)

This is awesome.

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 13:37, Reply)

Yey

*raps badly to self*
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 13:41, Reply)

Voodoo Ray - A Guy Called Gerald
I think we're alone now - Tiffanay. One for the trapped and desperate.
(Cancer Joy was short lived, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 13:30, Reply)

shook me all night long
ac/dc
(UppityDamnPrimate LET'S OPEN THIS F*CKING PIT UP, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 13:34, Reply)

damn you

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 13:52, Reply)

Live and let die,
by Wings. It just seems right.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 13:34, Reply)

Carole King
Doh! Roota got it.
(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 13:34, Reply)

:)

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 13:37, Reply)

You nimble fingers beat me again.

(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 13:39, Reply)

And my super brain!
Don't forget my super brain.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 13:41, Reply)

Your brain is mostly why I love you.
And your breasts. I like breasts.
(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 13:44, Reply)

Holy shit!
Me too!
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 13:48, Reply)

So much in common...
...do you like Penis Colladas?
(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 14:00, Reply)

and getting cocked in the rain?

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 14:09, Reply)

Is that you Mum?

(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 14:23, Reply)

Sure is, Dennis!

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 14:24, Reply)

John Cage- 4' 33"

(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 13:39, Reply)

Whole Lotta Shakin'
BOSS tune.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 13:44, Reply)

Or anything by Shakin' Stevens.

(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 13:45, Reply)

this old house?

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 13:47, Reply)

Hahah

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 13:48, Reply)

Green Door (kicked in by looters)?

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 14:34, Reply)

Ever seen that CLASSIC footage of Shaky
where he starts dancing on top of the piano and kicks the pianist right in the fucking face?

It is fucking SUPERB.

I'm a huge supporter of Shakin' Stevens. He was permanently pissed thoughout this entire 'famous' period - this was never more obvious than in the other TOTAL CLASSIC Shaky clip where he assaults a young Richard Madeley and gives him a 'noogie'.

Knight him!
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 14:11, Reply)

Hear hear!
And make Auntie Bonnie a Lady.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 14:15, Reply)

Fucking right it is. I LOVE Jerry Lee Lewis's version
The 13-year-old-cousin-marrying mental case.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 14:02, Reply)

That's the very version
Me and my nana love Jerry.
We don't care what anyone says about him.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 14:10, Reply)

I have some great footage of him live in London in '72
on the same bill as Chuck Berry, Little Richard and Bo Diddley.

You can also see a very young Malcolm McLaren and Viv Westwood running a t shirt stall, fact fans.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 14:12, Reply)

I love things like that.
My great Grandad was in the footage during the intro of a John-Peel nararated documentary about the Liverpool photographer E Chambre Hardman.
The clip is just archive film footage of the docks. Right there, standing out because of his gabardine coat is my great grandad, sauntering along, probably home from sea for a while. He's just a face in the crowd. Nobody ever remembers him mentioning being filmed.

How amazing that we've got it??
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 14:20, Reply)

That's superb!

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 14:22, Reply)

Are you sure it's him?
Old geezers tend to all look the same.
( girlinthehole, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 14:24, Reply)

Oh it's him alright
He looked like a slimmer, hotter Tyrone Power and he had well smart clothes. And this dimple in his chin like the Grand Canyon.
And his hair, he was like a butch Morrissey.

I have a pic of him on my bookcase, from when he was young and exes in the past have gone "Who's that bloke..?" and I know it's because he's well dapper and handsome.

He died a year before I was born. They say he was such a cool bloke, really kind and liberal, compared to the other blokes round there in those days.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 14:28, Reply)

I have a superb black and white photograph
of my grandfather riding on the back of a tank.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 14:33, Reply)

No way!

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 14:35, Reply)

There's also an amazing photo
of my father flying a jet fighter - one of his fellow pilots was a photographer who took pics from the cockpit when in flight, so there's a closeup of him flying upside down. Pretty smart.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 14:43, Reply)

Haha, can you tell he's upside-down?

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 14:50, Reply)

I think perhaps the only reason I think this
is because my father had a framed print of it, and the plane was upside down in it...
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 15:02, Reply)

Blatant self-congratulatory profiteering
A lot of these people are already so rich that they could give more than they will ever raise and not even feel it.
(MichaelS wasn't picked again, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 13:58, Reply)

Heggzackly

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 14:11, Reply)

Its his revenge
for not having the Christmas No.1 over here.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 14:28, Reply)

if you'd asked a few days ago
i'd have said 'dig' by mudvayne, but there's not much point now.

/hull
(UppityDamnPrimate LET'S OPEN THIS F*CKING PIT UP, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 14:03, Reply)

I get knocked down...
Or harking back to yesteryear, "knock three times on the ceiling if you want me, twice on the pipe if there are injured trapped down there with you"
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 14:15, Reply)

Click

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 14:20, Reply)

Fucking magic.
This beats my smug Latin suggestion THAT NO ONE APPEARS TO HAVE GOT into a cocked hat.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 14:23, Reply)

I don't go on holz to Lat so I never bovvered learnin it

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 14:29, Reply)

Miss, Miss I've got a proper one
I can't stand up for falling down, by Elvis Costello.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 14:30, Reply)

I predict a riot.

(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 14:51, Reply)

I've said this before
Shaking All Over.

Actually they're going with Everybody Hurts.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Fri 22 Jan 2010, 15:01, Reply)

Oh Noes!
That's wrist slitingly depressing.

I was listening to Automatic for the peeps once in the car, and a girl who was with me burst into tears.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 15:07, Reply)

If I was in a car with you and you stuck that shit on
I'd fucking start crying too.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 15:15, Reply)

I'd turn it up and start singing
It would be very grim.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 15:18, Reply)

I like Everybody Hurts
But the whole album is one of the most overrated, dreary, turgid pieces of work ever committed to shiny plastic.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Fri 22 Jan 2010, 15:40, Reply)

It comes with a course of Prozac
I do like Night Swimming though.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 15:49, Reply)

Or...
Hole in the Ground by Bernard Cribbens.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Fri 22 Jan 2010, 15:11, Reply)

"Concrete and Clay" by Unit 4 + 2
if only for the lyrics "The concrete and the clay beneath my feet begin to crumble"
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Fri 22 Jan 2010, 15:58, Reply)