What's the closest UB40 have ever driven you to violence? (1 Viewer)

[Jill Hives]

I was on the soccer team when I was 14 years old and all our away games on the bus this girl named Jenny Risoto would play "Red, Red Wine" and the B 52's "Love Shack" really loud and sing along. I killed her a number of times...in my head.

"Head like a bag of smashed crabs" = me laughing.

 

[ernesto]

I was on the soccer team when I was 14 years old and all our away games on the bus this girl named Jenny Risoto would play "Red, Red Wine" and the B 52's "Love Shack" really loud and sing along. I killed her a number of times...in my head.

"Head like a bag of smashed crabs" = me laughing.

you laugh like a bag of smashed crabs?!

 

[Jill Hives]

you laugh like a bag of smashed crabs?!

Yes, it's like a siren's call for sailors.

 

[ernesto]

Yes, it's like a siren's call for sailors.

putting the nauti back into nautical

 

[Yurn!]

Georgie is always talking about this thread. all the time.

 

[george mcfly]

Georgie is always talking about this thread. all the time.

that taxi journey was nothing on the place that i ended up in London a couple of months back. shuffling from foot to foot, face sore from smiling.. i don't even want to think about the shit i had to dance to..
i've tried to wipe it all from memory but i definitely know there was a world music feel to it..
i know UB40 was in there..

"no, yeah i'm ok.. everything is ok.. i'm having a great night(kill me)"

 

[BonsaiSuperstar]

worked in a hotel for years part time and it was my job to set up the weddings on a friday and saturday. it usually took a good 4 hours or so each day.
the fella i worked with had the keys to the room with the cd player. so that meant he had control over what we listened to.
everyday it was the best of UB40 ("UB40 are class boiy") and all 6 remixes of the song le passion by gigi di agostino.
everyday someone other worker from the hotel would walk in and go "ah nice one UB40, I love them! are you going to them in manchester/london/glasgow, i have seen them 10 times". what a bunch of meat heads.

on a good day i might get the album rise by gabrielle....
more wrist slitting stuff.

i was banned from listening to my music cus one time i was listening to that strange track at the end of aenima by tool when one of the hotel managers brought in potential customers into the ballroom to the sound of static.

 

[rettucs]

they just split up.

apparently someone showed them this thread

 

[timbot]

I was at a work party and a bunch of us went back to one of the lads houses. He pulls out a keyboard and plays "red red wine" badly while drunk and sang it through, I was gone before he got to the second chorus.

 

[Kermit McDermott]

Good News: Ali Campbell is leaving UB40

Bad News: They're carrying on without him

 

[nlgbbbblth]

Good News: Ali Campbell is leaving UB40

Bad News: They're carrying on without him

'to focus on a solo career'

ha ha ha ha

 

[kings lead hat]

what are yous on about?

"signing off" is an incredible album

 

[flaugergues]

how can you be a talking heads fan AND a UB40 fan? explain please in great detail...

 

[Jamesy Yakuza]

The fella who shot Johnny Adair at a UB40 gig blamed it on their "slinky rhythms and frontman Ali Campbell's distinctive tones. I just couldn't control myself."

damn you weed! you beat me to it!

 

[lympog]

i'll miss those reggae rhythms...

- leigh

 

[kings lead hat]

how can you be a talking heads fan AND a UB40 fan? explain please in great detail...

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what kind of question is that?

maybe listen to signing off first.
start with "food for thought"

 

[nlgbbbblth]

what are yous on about?

"signing off" is an incredible album

yes, and Present Arms.

problem is that UB40 have produced some much shit since - which for many people, overshadows or obscures the good records.

bit like Elton John post-1976 and Chicago post-1978.

 

[kings lead hat]

how can you be a talking heads fan AND a UB40 fan? explain please in great detail...

i like pop, rock,metal, dance, country, blues, reggae, garage (60s) garage (90s/2000s), drum and bass, drill and bass, minimal, maximal whatever.

I dont care what genre just good music and impeccable taste.

 

[MrT]

UB40 have driven me to self harm.

 

[flaugergues]

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what kind of question is that?

maybe listen to signing off first.
start with "food for thought"

well, ur user name is an anagram of Talking Heads, which means u must be a fan or great admirer of their music. right? now, i reiterate my first question: how can u be a fan of such an amazing band such as talking heads, who produced some of the most interesting, diverse and original music of the past 30 yrs and also be a fan of ub40, who are one of the worst bands of the past 100 yrs?
if howevr, u r not a fan of talking heads and don't know the relationship between ur user name and them, i take back my ques.!ninjaaaa