A combination of (a) my hastily written opinions/reviews about my latest pop culture excursions; (b) inner musings that may come of those excursions and/or unrelated phenomena; (c) good practice toward, and a low-budget prototype for, an eventual webzine; and (d) whatever seems to work well that day.

Tuesday, June 15, 2004

Karaoke was pretty weird tonight. Lots of drunk non-regulars were there and they almost all put songs in. At one point, the rotation was probably just more than two hours. "My Sharona" was not attempted, as our table decided to go with the theme of eighties songs. Yours truly attempted Alice Cooper's ballad "You and Me" before the theme was decided on, and then Adam Ant's "Goody Two Shoes," Psychedelic Furs' "Pretty in Pink," B-52's "Love Shack" and Murray Head's "One Night in Bangkok." Mmm . . . bed now!

4 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

And KUDOS! to you Joseph on that "Goody Two Shoes!" It rocked. You kicked on the key change and everything. I was very impressed!

Aaron Jamison

12:42 PM

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Interestingly, "One Night in Bangkok" was *actually* written by Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus (of ABBA) along with Tim Rice for the musical Chess. Great song. Wish I had been there!

12:14 PM

 
Blogger Joseph Perry said...

I worked in a record store when that song was popular (before the advent of CDs), and I remember the bewilderment on customers' faces when they asked for that album and were handed a high-priced two-record set of a broadway soundtrack.

12:50 PM

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Ah, but imagine *my* bewilderment when I had to choose between the high-priced, two disc set of the broadway show with either a white cover (Original Broadway Cast) or a black cover (Londong Concept Cast)

10:21 AM

 

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