The S*** Parade

Not being very productive, I've spent most of tonight going through a lot of stuff on iPlayer where I've stumbled across BBC Three's countdown of
"The Most Annoying Pop Songs We Hate To Love".

This was actually transmitted first time round in late September 2007 which may explain why I'm having a gander at it now.

I've just finished watching the second show where amongst the songs included were "Holding Back The Years" by Simply Red where one of the talking heads described the band as "the James Blunt of their day". I actually quite like the song and the
"Picture Book" album as Mick Hucknall and the guys were bringing hidden soul gems to the UK such as "Money's Too Tight To Mention" although the original is slightly better.

And if I had the choice of mudering either Mick Hucknall or James Blunt,
I'd let the Manchester United supporter off the hook.

Also included were Robson and Jerome and their cover of the ever dreadful
"Unchained Melody". Apparently Simon Cowell hassled the boys from Soldier Soldier to release the song as a single and they had initially refused and almost got rather uppity with him before giving in and unleashing that shite onto the public.

Tony Blackburn mentioned that no one should touch a Righteous Brothers song as it would lead to dreadful consequences, although there's the possible exception of
Paul Shane singing "You've Lost That Loving Feeling" on Pebble Mill which was funny for being dreadful. The funniest part being the line "Baby, BaBEHH!".

Other people contributing to the programme include Abs and Scott from Five, Dick & Dom, Michael McIntyre, Rob Deering, Robert Elms from BBC London 94.9, and even
Ian Collins from Talksport and ex Invicta FM.

There was also the appearance of M People's "Moving On Up" which has to be one of their most annoying songs due to it been played too many times than it should have been. However rather than Heather Small's voice, I actually find the sax solos more annoying.

They did so much better tunes than that including "Sight For Sore Eyes" which has that stunning piano solo in the middle.

The funniest line in the programme however, came from Tony Blackburn's son Pat Sharp about Billy Ray Cyrus being hailed as "the new Elvis Presley";

"In my mind Billy Ray Cyrus being billed as the new Elvis is fine
because I wouldn't have a problem if he was dead too"

I'd probably make the same statement if you subsitituted Billy Ray Cyrus
with Barry Manilow.

I've still got three more shows to go through so expect the next few posts to contain comments about the songs featured in those.

That and the several other "Most Annoying" shows that seem to be languising on iPlayer.