Oh come on Amor, don't sugar-coat it for us now. Tell us what you really think...
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Originally posted by Various Artist View PostWell, Terrorvision and Tequila were suggested together in a post in this thread, which is about bands being destroyed by their biggest hit. So Auntie Beryl was saying it, yes.
Vincent is a wondrous song, I much prefer it to American Pie and it's sort of fitting it was the one that made the top of the UK charts. Don McLean also had a Number One with Crying in 1980-ish, one of the few voices that could do a Roy Orbison classic justice.
Sorry Amor, but Vincent is a fine tune - and about as un-pompous as a tribute could be. So what if others could/would have told him? They didn't write a song about it - or if they did, it doesn't seem to have lasted the course. (VA is also correct than McLean was among the very few that could do justice to The Big O.)Last edited by Jah Womble; 21-07-2017, 10:01.
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Originally posted by Jah Womble View PostOkay - we may be at cross-purposes as regards Terrorvision: your post seemed to suggest that you were using 'break' in the sense of 'make them known/popular' rather than 'destroy' the band (which of course is what the thread is about).
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Hey! Terrorvision are pride of Bradford, along with NMA.
I always associate All Star with Mystery Men as I saw that before I saw Shrek. Now there's a film. A good comic book movie during a time when they were a rarity (comic book films not good ones as that's still uncommon)
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Mystery Men is a great film. Well I'm not sure actually as it was a long time ago that I watched it. All Star was also in a film called Rat Race with John Cleese and Rowan Atkinson. The band were in the film too. That song got around.
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Toronto band The Kings were ruined by their very first single - This Beat Goes On / Switching To Glide - being a massive FM radio hit. Apparently nothing they did afterward ever impressed their label, nor the listening public apparently. You can still reliably hear it at least three times over a long weekend. (I ALWAYS turn up the volume, I say without shame...)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxkjvKBPQjo
(The video is cool....shows them playing the song, live, over the past 40 years. Including the late, lamented Ontario Place Forum)Last edited by WOM; 17-05-2018, 19:21.
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