Young At Heart (1 Viewer)

[Scientician 0.8]

Anyone watch that last night on More4?
Octogenarians singing Talking Heads and various others.
Like a sclerotic Langley Schools Project. There was some lovely, sad, beautiful moments in the documentary. They even made Fix You by Coldplay sound wonderful. Old people singing songs, I dunno what it is, they lend poignancy and gravitas to even shite songs. The Johnny Cash effect perhaps.

 

[therealjohnny]

Someone did

about four or five posts beneath this one

They've been on Youtube since last year- unless this is a new crowd muscling in on the lucrative coffindodger-rock market?

 

[Ciansy]

Same lot, I think. I want to find the video of them singing Forever Young, but I can't. I'm such a failure.

 

[HMD]

i watched the first few minutes where they were singing 'should i stay or should i go'. It was shit, some old bint talking the lyrics while the baking singers gave it socks. Maybe it imroved as the show progressed and showed their stories and everything was ok.

Fair play to them being old and keeping it real etc etc.

 

[Scientician 0.8]

Some of the songs weren't great but it was amazing what effect they had on certain songs I usually think are shit. I knew it was an old documentary and I'm well behind the times mentioning it but it's worth a look if they repeat it again.

 

[therealjohnny]

I agree

something very poignant about this

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[Anthony]

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[frona]

There's a Brit version of something like that too, the Zimmers. They're on the Paul O'Grady show the whole time doing My Generation. I don't watch Paul O'Grady like, I just see it when I'm bringing my nana her fish 'n chips.

 

[Lili Marlene]

La Tristesse Durera?
Help the Aged?
Bones?