As the QotW suggests....
Simply Red. If ever a band was a candidate for a one hit wonder (despite all the hits, only one was ever any good and it was the first) it's them.

That 'fairground' song for instance, was either:

a.) A cynical attempt to rip off the public.
b.) So shit, that some people thought that it started to come back around the other way, i.e. so shit, it's good.
c.) Shit.
d.) The start of a song that they got bored with, never finished it and simply said "fuck it, release it anyway - look at the shite people are buying now, they'll lap this up."

...or it could just be that they had delusions of adequacy and really believed that people would like it. But I doubt that. They cannot be that stupid.

Either way, it's shit. They should have stopped after 'holding back the years' - I mean, Christ, I'd rather Kajagoogoo had made it big rather than that fucking talentless idiot.

I love the way he announced "There will be no more Simply Red after this tour". Like that's a *bad* thing.

....and while I'm ranting - he reckons he slept with 3000 women during the height of his fame. I smell the farmyard. That's 2 women a day over a four year period. There's simply not that many blind and stupid women in the world, and he's ginger.
Plus he'd never have had time to practice any songs.

Hmmmmm...maybe that's why they were so shit.

Plus, of course, anything by the shit karaoke factory that is the pop idol/band idol/x factor/new faces/stars in their eyes carp.

I'm not a fan of Simply Red.
(dchurch bah, Thu 30 Dec 2010, 19:18, 11 replies)

Let's be fair now, he never said how many of them were a) animate or b) conscious.

( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Thu 30 Dec 2010, 19:20, closed)

true
very true. However, I imagine if I was a paralised, paraplegic blind woman who'd just been knocked out by a blunt object across the back of my head, that I'd still have enough wits about me to crawl away from that twunt by dragging my chin on the floor and pulling myself to the edge of a cliff and throwing myself off of it.
(dchurch bah, Thu 30 Dec 2010, 19:23, closed)

I like the fairground song
I was temping in a factory at the time and heard it so many times it grew on me. I love the thought of coming home to you.
( stopmeandslapme Cometh the hour, cometh your mum, Thu 30 Dec 2010, 19:24, closed)

it
makes the hairs on my neck stand up every time I hear the intro drum beat.
I'd rather listen to Whigfield.
(dchurch bah, Thu 30 Dec 2010, 19:24, closed)

Whigfield
oh man...
( stopmeandslapme Cometh the hour, cometh your mum, Thu 30 Dec 2010, 19:32, closed)

that's
the level at which I dislike them.

I'd not go as far as say, Mr. Blobby (especially as it was produced by aformentioned karaoke aficionado Cowell), but I'd say Whigfield is pretty 'easy listening' compared with that god-awful fairground song.
(dchurch bah, Thu 30 Dec 2010, 19:37, closed)

You would
though.
( stopmeandslapme Cometh the hour, cometh your mum, Thu 30 Dec 2010, 19:44, closed)

Yeah
I would.
(dchurch bah, Thu 30 Dec 2010, 19:45, closed)

De de da da da

( Peej, Thu 30 Dec 2010, 20:35, closed)

It was totally ripped off from "Give it up" by the Gooodmen
This was a top 5 hit several months earlier
www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1bVoB73LFo&feature=related
( Andy_R At the third stroke, the time will be precisely, Thu 30 Dec 2010, 22:37, closed)

bugger me
with a German sausage - it's identical.

I hate them even more now.
(dchurch bah, Fri 31 Dec 2010, 8:04, closed)