Quote: lofthouse @ 18th June 2022, 6:50 PMGod I hate that friggin song
'caterwaul' always springs to mind
Her singing is fine, and the pouty face in the video is a bit grating, but it's the rhotacism that weally bothers me.
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I think you'll find that's 'wotacism'.
Bless her, it was her thing - if you can call a speech impediment a 'thing'.
Is it a speech impediment, or a regional/learned manner of speech? I hear it in British celebrities so frequently (and in varying degrees of severity) that I've often wondered about it. I remember reading that Who bassist John Entwistle blended 'flend' and 'fwend' in the studio to approximate 'friend' when they were recording his song 'Whiskey Man'.
I think it's a speech impediment - a mild version of Johnathon Ross's weak 'R'.
It certainly became part of her unique 'sound'.
I always loved that song. I've still got the 12" version.
Don't start Monkhouse!
I guess it's not quite as bad as that bloody heathcliffe / Kathy bollocks
Hippy dippy drivel
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Happy 90th birthday to Nina van Pallandt (of Nina & Frederik fame) tomorrow (Friday 15th).
Today's Interesting Fact About The Spice Girls
The laugh opening Wannabe was widely held to be Mel B, but actually derives from Geri. (There's eight seconds of your life you'll never get back.)
Paul Ryder of the Happy Mondays dies at 58 
Ringo Starr says he's not gonna give any more autographs. Not a great loss, if he writes the way he plays drums.
Quote: Lazzard @ 19th June 2022, 4:11 PMI think you'll find that's 'wotacism'.'.
It's taking the piss innit, deliberately calling it something they can't pronounce? Cwuel wascals.
Revolver getting the deluxe treatment https://variety.com/2022/music/news/beatles-revolver-deluxe-remix-next-up-box-set-fall-giles-martin-1235351400/
Quote: Michael Monkhouse @ 31st August 2022, 9:49 AMRevolver getting the deluxe treatment https://variety.com/2022/music/news/beatles-revolver-deluxe-remix-next-up-box-set-fall-giles-martin-1235351400/
Who apart from real die-hard millionaires with nothing to do all day buy these things?
Quote: Chappers @ 31st August 2022, 6:35 PMWho apart from real die-hard millionaires with nothing to do all day buy these things?
Michael Monkhouse
(Even thought this pointless rehashing is absolutely f**king shit)
It's getting a bit crazy. There was one year span that included FIVE major rehashes - Flaming Pie, All Things Must Pass, Gimme Some Truth, Plastic Ono Band and Get Back. But no one forces you to buy anything. Being a completist would be impossible anyway, and everything turns up on YouTube sooner or later. I normally buy the double pack and f**k the rest.
Ringo Starr is impotent. It don't come easy.