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benji
> Teenager of the Year <
New Zealand
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 Posted - 11/27/2003 : 04:34:30
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I have to strongly disagree with this choice.
Agadoo is one of my all-time favourite 80's songs, and the one 80's vinyl collection of mine that contains it is one of my most prized possessions.....
"Agadoo-doo-doo, push pineapple, shake the tree,
Agadoo-doo-doo, push pineapple, grind coffee,
To the left, to the right, jump up and down and to the knees,
Come and dance every night, sing with the hula melody"
= pure brilliance.
Agadoo 'worst song ever'
14.04PM GMT, 23 Nov 2003
Tacky party anthem Agadoo by Black Lace has been named the worst song of all time by music experts.
The track, which made it to number two in the charts in 1984, picked up the dubious honour by triumphing in a poll for respected music magazine Q.
It beat other horrors such as Orville's Song by Keith Harris and Orville and there's No-one Quite Like Grandma by St Winifred's School Choir.
Black Lace enjoyed a string of novelty hits in the 1980s but the duo were unable to match the success of the track which stayed in the UK top 75 for a colossal 30 weeks.
Agadoo, which was accompanied by a silly dance, was only held off the number one slot by George Michael's Careless Whisper.
The track was chosen in a poll of dozens of Q writers as the worst song to go in a special edition of the magazine honouring The 1001 Best Songs Ever.
The magazine says of the "magnificently dreadful" Agadoo: "It was a song so mind-rotting, it's surprising that Europhobes haven't used it as an argument against the proposed EU constitution. "
It continues: "In its grey heyday it sounded like the school disco you were forced to attend. Your middle-aged relatives forming a conga at a wedding party. A travelling DJ act based in Wolverhampton. Every party cliche you ever heard."
The track's French songwriters were inspired after hearing a friend humming a melody he had picked up while on holiday in Morocco.
They turned it into Club Med's theme tune for summer 1974 and it became a hit around Europe, but it was virtually ignored in the UK until a decade later.
Musician Colin Routh and singer Alan Barton got hold of a translation of the song and recorded it to follow up their novelty hit Superman.
Routh later said of the song that playing it live so often "you go numb. But at least we get paid for it."
Barton - who was killed in a bus crash in 1995 - once said: "It was a good party song, I'm not going to knock it."
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bedrock_barney
= Cult of Ray =
United Kingdom
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Posted - 11/27/2003 : 04:54:21
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Yep, it's right up there with The Goombay Dance Band and the most excellent Rene & Renate (sp?)
 "I have been enslaved by the Cult of Ming / He is ever so merciless...unlike that nice Mr Black." |
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gracie
= Cult of Ray =
United Kingdom
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Posted - 11/27/2003 : 10:30:16
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Black Lace were an excellent band, what else would dj's play at cheesy discos if Black Lace didn't exsist?
It's like Star Treking by the Firm , anyone remember that? It was a great song, you just can't knock 80's pop music, its the best! |
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