Minor Pleasures (13 Viewers)

[ann post]

Which is the acceptable one? I continue to be surprised at the reinvention of this guy as some sort of musical genius.

Is it not harder to make the argument he wasnt? He's got about 4 songs that are essentiallu in the fabric of time.

 

[egg_]

Tough day at work today. Then the missus rings. I thought that was odd, so I apologised to the boss saying I had to answer this.

My boss knows her, so he knew I needed to take the call, but he was having a bad day and his patience wore thin quickly.

Man, I don't know how good I have it. It's well over 20 years since I've had a job where I couldn't just more or less take whatever phone call I wanted. I'm nobody's boss, just a standard nerd. I really ought to try and encourage my kids to be less opposed to the idea of working with computers

 

[Lili Marlene]

Which is the acceptable one? I continue to be surprised at the reinvention of this guy as some sort of musical genius.

Will everyone will fawn over Gary Barlow when he pops his clogs?

#bandsidontgetthread

George Michael had a touch of genius to him, sure.

Tory boy Barlow and doing miners-benefit shows/released an anti Iraq war song in 2002 George Michael are not really comparable tbh.

 

[therealjohnny]

Is it not harder to make the argument he wasnt? He's got about 4 songs that are essentiallu in the fabric of time.

Me: Remember that guy from Wham , terrible hair and designer stubble?
Everyone: He won all sorts of awards , is highly regarded and has about 4 songs songs that are essentially in the fabric of time.
Me: Goodnight

 

[Lili Marlene]

What, they don't even inform you that he's dead? yeesh.

 

[therealjohnny]

He's dead? Oh man, I really miss that musical genius who I always held in high regard

 

[Lili Marlene]

He's dead? Oh man, I really miss that musical genius who I always held in high regard

You're suck a grumpy dad about these pop stars hahah. Yelling at Top of the Pops.

Prince?? I call him Ponce!

 

[magicbastarder]

i had my 'you know what, this music makes *no sense* to me and that means i'm old, and i'm ok with that' moment when i first heard 'stupid ho' by nicki minaj.

 

[therealjohnny]

You're suck a grumpy dad about these pop stars hahah. Yelling at Top of the Pops.

Prince?? I call him Ponce!

I like pop music. I also like hating it. No one ever talks about the time Dionne Warwick said it was a disgrace that George Michael won a soul award because he was white.

(googles mid posting)
Funnily enough a quick Google tells me Prince/Ponce fans were talking about it .

american music awards......blacks boycott George Michael

prince.org

For what it's worth I think George Michael was a righteous dude, but was baffled that he became so respected when I wasn't looking.

Anyway we should retroactively commend him for the rockabilly revival of "Faith", or maybe not.

 

[Lili Marlene]

I like pop music. I also like hating it. No one ever talks about the time Dionne Warwick said it was a disgrace that George Michael won a soul award because he was white.

(googles mid posting)
Funnily enough a quick Google tells me Prince/Ponce fans were talking about it .

american music awards......blacks boycott George Michael

prince.org

For what it's worth I think George Michael was a righteous dude, but was baffled that he became so respected when I wasn't looking.

Anyway we should retroactively commend him for the rockabilly revival of "Faith", or maybe not.

yeah well I misspelt "such" as "suck" so take that.

I encourage strong opinions on pop music, but this also means laughing at the absurdity of it all. I think George Michael's music is a revelation at times, such sophisticated pop songwriting for someone so young, I don't know why he wasn't respected more. I hated him when I was 12 and Fast Love was on at all times, I suppose we live in a different world now, less music forced upon us.

 

[magicbastarder]

I think the second cd I ever bought was the freedom 90 single.

 

[ann post]

Was the first one Freedom?

 

[therealjohnny]

yeah well I misspelt "such" as "suck" so take that.

Speaking of Take That , again, Ronan Collins keeps playing Gary Barlow's new "big band jazz" style song. It it truly horrible.

 

[therealjohnny]

Out of curiosity, what is the "one acceptable" George Michael song in your opinion @Cormcolash ?

I'm assuming it's post-Wham and isn't Last Christmas?

#georgemichaelthread

 

[Lili Marlene]

Out of curiosity, what is the "one acceptable" George Michael song in your opinion @Cormcolash ?

I'm assuming it's post-Wham and isn't Last Christmas?

#georgemichaelthread

It was Outside.

 

[therealjohnny]

#georgemichaelthread

https://cdn.quotesgram.com/img/84/0/1977400809-200_s.gif

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

Tough day at work today. Then the missus rings. I thought that was odd, so I apologised to the boss saying I had to answer this.

My boss knows her, so he knew I needed to take the call, but he was having a bad day and his patience wore thin quickly. And the call was ultimately pointless. I got off the phone, gave the boss the sorry-shrug-shoulders look, I don't know why she needed to phone me.

He took a heavy breath and said "You're fucking fired. Call your missus back, tell her you've been sacked".

"Well, that'll give her some perspective".

"Yes. Phone her back and tell her you're fucking sacked. Then I'll re-hire you".

Eased the mood a bit.

This all sounds mental to me. What sort of organisation bars you from taking a call from your spouse or partner?

 

[seanc]

This all sounds mental to me. What sort of organisation bars you from taking a call from your spouse or partner?

Ha, no no no. It's not that I'm barred or anything.

There's health and safety rules about taking calls. You can't be wandering around nattering away on the phone when there's potentially dangerous stuff happening around you. That's true for a van driver, on a building site, in a coffee shop, lots of places.
So the rule is basically, make safe whatever you're doing and go away somewhere out of the way, and take your call. The missus understands this very well, and as my boss also knows her, we were both equally surprised she called over something so frivolous.

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

Oh ok, I thought you were just having a meeting or one-to-one meeting or something and he was being a dick.

 

[Cormcolash]

Which is the acceptable one? I continue to be surprised at the reinvention of this guy as some sort of musical genius.

Will everyone will fawn over Gary Barlow when he pops his clogs?

#bandsidontgetthread

Outside, that song is amazzzzinngggggg

Edit: Although Faith is pretty good too