Still coming down to earth after laughing our tits off last night at the spectacuar panto Robin Hood starring Julian Clary and Jane McDonald at the London Palladium (more on that later, no doubt), the bitter cold air is still hanging over our poor, bedraggled garden and we've just been lolling-about in the house with the heating on.
To cheer ourselves up as we await the (forecast) thaw this week, let's take a little "mini-timeslip" moment, shall we?
This week thirty years ago in 1995, the Top 10 in our charts still had some Xmas "hangovers" from the likes of Boyzone and East 17, the Human League was having a little comeback, there were some soon-to-be-classic dance choons courtesy of N-Trance and Ini Kamoze, and also present and correct were Guns'n'Roses, Oasis and novelty kids' TV puppets Zig and Zag. However - thankfully keeping the godawful Slime Dion off the top, for the next few weeks at least - taking the #1 slot was this lot! Talk about "left-field"...
Try as we might to deny it, everyone still sings along to it!
Bah! "Cotton Eye Joe" is at least as annoying as anything Slime Dion threw up. Give me The Human League! (1995's Octopus is the only album of theirs that I bought, however. And that was on tape. Christ knows where it is now?)
ReplyDeleteBring on the thaw!!!
Oh, I agree - it's irritating, but still a good "party tune". Especially when everyone's completely pissed... Jx
DeleteI always wondered what Cotton Eye Joe looked like. And, yes, I sang along.
ReplyDeleteNot exactly pretty boys... Jx
DeleteOh god no....I could never take that song.
ReplyDelete*runs from the room screaming*
You may scream, but you can't escape... Jx
DeleteYou post this stuff to make me feel my years, don't you? I've never heard of them!
ReplyDeleteSlime Dion??
It was a huge hit across Europe, and in New Zealand, and hit the charts in the US and Australia. There was a lot of "line-dance" music around in the 90s. Maybe you just ignored it? Jx
DeletePS "Slime Dion" is how we describe that wibbling Canadian...
It's quite jolly as long as you only hear it once every 30 years or so which is more often than I would want to hear Slime Dijon.
ReplyDeleteHear, hear! Jx
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