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  • Jah Womble
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    Originally posted by Toby Gymshorts View Post
    I thought that we'd agreed that every song was about wanking?
    We did. It makes life a great deal easier.

    (Agreeing on that conceit, rather than self-pleasure itself.)

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  • Toby Gymshorts
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    No, that one's about wanking whilst on heroin.

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  • elguapo4
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    Except for "Turning Japanese "

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  • Toby Gymshorts
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    I thought that we'd agreed that every song was about wanking?

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  • WOM
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    Oh, Christ. Not the 'it's about wanking' debate again. I thought we agreed to agree it's about heroin and move on.

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  • Jah Womble
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    Originally posted by Stumpy Pepys View Post

    Me neither. I mean you could read it that way but, according to the Wiki page, the lyricist was singing about playing cards alone.
    That much I’d twigged - some over here call the game ‘Patience’.

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  • Nocturnal Submission
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    Originally posted by Sits View Post
    Yes I thought it was just about being lonely.

    Anyway, The Gibson Brothers’ Cuba, anyone? Or perhaps Mariana?

    I'm pretty sure that Cuba isn't about knocking one out, Sits.

    Oh, hang on...

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  • Sits
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    Yes I thought it was just about being lonely.

    Anyway, The Gibson Brothers’ Cuba, anyone? Or perhaps Mariana?

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  • Stumpy Pepys
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    Originally posted by Jah Womble View Post
    Never thought of Solitaire as having that connotation, although, yeah, it does seem pretty obvious.
    Me neither. I mean you could read it that way but, according to the Wiki page, the lyricist was singing about playing cards alone.

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  • Jah Womble
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    Never thought of Solitaire as having that connotation, although, yeah, it does seem pretty obvious. I think Andy Williams's cover being the first version of it I recall probably steered me away from that particular ballpark...

    Originally posted by Sporting View Post
    The best 70s wanking song is by Buzzcocks.
    Agreed. Teenage Kicks is up there too. (If indeed it 'is' about onanism - always felt that that was just a good bit of controversial publicity meself.)

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  • G-Man
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    Originally posted by Amor de Cosmos View Post
    ... Especially by The Carpenters.
    The Carpenters who sang about being a groupie? I'd imagine a bit of DIY love would provide relief after that. Moral relief!

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  • pebblethefish
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    Originally posted by Sporting View Post
    The best 70s wanking song is by Buzzcocks.
    10 or so years ago I was having an anaesthetic administered, and the nurse offered a selection of CDs to soothe me to sleep. The only one I liked was Buzzcocks' Singles Going Steady. So she put it on, and the first song was Orgasm Addict. After a quick look at the doctor and other nurses' faces, we quickly agreed to start with track 2.

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  • Sporting
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    The best 70s wanking song is by Buzzcocks.

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  • Amor de Cosmos
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    ... Especially by The Carpenters.

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  • Amor de Cosmos
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    True. Maybe a slightly different audience in the US though?

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  • Gangster Octopus
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    The Who did it in the sixties.

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  • Amor de Cosmos
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    It is. It was pretty damn difficult to get a song about masturbation on the charts in the early 70s. Hats of to Sedaka and Phil Cody who, probably, wrote the lyrics.

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  • Stumpy Pepys
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    Originally posted by 3 Colours Red View Post

    Laughter In The Rain is the Sedaka song I would most stand up for.
    Solitaire is good too.

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  • Jah Womble
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    ^It was decent. I’d go with The Immigrant, however. Underrated Sedaka single.

    Originally posted by Sits View Post
    Following on from the Partridge Family, David Cassidy’s version of How Can I Be Sure? might not be up to Dusty Springfield’s level but it’s a great track. Good voice, the young Cassidy.
    Concur - it was a surprisingly good reading of the song.

    I don’t think the antipathy toward the Partridge Family was down to its being ‘a mom and her kids’, so much that they were an act manufactured for television. They (or those behind them) didn’t have as many good tunes as The Monkees, but were nonetheless a pretty serviceable pop act.

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  • 3 Colours Red
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    Originally posted by Amor de Cosmos View Post
    I'm more enamoured of Neil Sedaka's original, but that might be an age thing.
    Laughter In The Rain is the Sedaka song I would most stand up for.

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  • Sits
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    Following on from the Partridge Family, David Cassidy’s version of How Can I Be Sure? might not be up to Dusty Springfield’s level but it’s a great track. Good voice, the young Cassidy.

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  • Amor de Cosmos
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    I'm more enamoured of Neil Sedaka's original, but that might be an age thing.

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  • Nocturnal Submission
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    Originally posted by G-Man View Post

    There were several really good Partridge Family songs. "I Woke Up In Love This Morning" is another banger. I suspect they lacked street cred because the image was that these songs were played by the mom and her kids. I think for a while, The Monkees had a similar obstacle, but then they also had songs that were instant pop classics, and now The Monkees are unimpeachable. In both cases, the recordings were made by Wrecking Crew musicians.

    Indeed.

    Breaking Up Is Hard To Do is another cracker.

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  • G-Man
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    Originally posted by Nocturnal Submission View Post


    Not that I've heard it since shortly after I bought it on a 45, but I Think I Love You is a terrific little song.
    There were several really good Partridge Family songs. "I Woke Up In Love This Morning" is another banger. I suspect they lacked street cred because the image was that these songs were played by the mom and her kids. I think for a while, The Monkees had a similar obstacle, but then they also had songs that were instant pop classics, and now The Monkees are unimpeachable. In both cases, the recordings were made by Wrecking Crew musicians.

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  • Jimski
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    I am rather partial to "Larger Than Life" by The Backstreet Boys.

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