Dentro las piñones y las olas riquenas

[venta]

On the way in to work this morning I experimented with having Radio 1 on in the car. Too much talking, not enough music. Though it did make me laugh at one point.

However, at one point they deigned to play a song, and it was Basement Jaxx's new single Oh My Gosh. This seems to be the continuation of a disturbing trend started by Mike-The-Streets Skinner last year in Fit But You Know It. "I think you are really fit, You're fit but my gosh don't you know it".

Has anyone under the age of about 72 ever said "my gosh" in the last ten years ? Really ? Is it about to take off as the favoured expression of surprise among all the cool kids ? Has it already (I wouldn't know).

It also makes me wonder what, in not listening carefully to lyrics, I might have missed.

And what's next ? My Goodness Me! by Velvet Revolver ? Crumbs by the Chemical Brothers ? It's a slippery slope, I tell you.

Comments

[diffrentcolours]

The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion had something of a habit of replacing swearwords with funky vinyl scratching in their radio edits, which was pretty cool.

[venta.livejournal.com]

And, of course, the fantastic Manic Street Preachers' song (whose name momentarily escapes me) that substituted a twangy guitar:

Don't want to see your face, don't want to hear your voice,
Why don't you just twang-twang ?

I'd forgotten about that one.

[diffrentcolours]

Hmm, given the number of subtly different comment notification e-mails I just received, I am concluding that it's officially Bad HTML Day on your LiveJournal ;)

[venta.livejournal.com]

Sssh, I'd have got away with it.

Bloody meddling kids.

[mejoff.livejournal.com]

stay beautiful?

[venta.livejournal.com]

Er... er...
<googles for Stay Beautiful lyrics>

Yup, that's the one :)

Oooh... destroyed by madness. I want to listen to it now. And only have it on tape. Which I've lost.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Huh. Songs which don't mention the title anywhere in the lyrics. There ought to be a law :)

[broadmeadow.livejournal.com]

That's instrumentals screwed, then.

[onebyone.livejournal.com]

They aren't songs.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Try telling that to Messrs. Mendelssohn and Schubert.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Instrumentals are fine.

It's songs which maliciously have choruses, and repeated lines, and other things to trick you into thinking you know the title, and then go and slap a completely unrelated line up as title that I'm down on.