So I just read a post by Mom Gone Mad where she jitterbugs to some eighties muzzic. She has infected me with an earworm yes. And also a dharam sankat which needs to be resolved NOW.
Which of the following songs deserves to be crowned as the MOST played, brayed, used and abused song of the nineties?
The nominations are
1. Nothing's Gonna Change My Love for you - Glenn Madeiros
2. Careless Whispers - George Michael
3. Last Christmas - Wham
4. The Lady in Red - Chris de Burgh
Think back to those school and college parties. Think of all the, puppy eyed, tooth-brush moustached knights serenading blushing polka-dotted damsels. Think of those mardana zanana dances at someone’s house.
Cast your vote now! (Give reasons why)
All you post 2000 kids. Go away.
Edited to add: Please also give details about which songs you serenaded/were serenaded with. Thank you.
i demand bollywood content!!!! :p
ReplyDeleteMy Vote...
ReplyDelete1. Nothing's Gonna Change My Love for you - Glenn Madeiros
Gosh we were hooked to this song... it was present in all of my mix tapes.
Difficult to choose just one; actually 2 of them are: Nothing's Gonna Change...and Careless Whisper...
ReplyDeleteSO torn between 1, 2 and 3. But I think it shall HAVE to be "The world may change my whOle life through but nothing's. gonna. change my love for youuuuuuuuuu."
ReplyDeleteTwas sung so sincerely I almost feel bad for making fun of it. Tsk, tsk.
it's got to be 1. Bands at weddings, orchestras at society functions, RJs on radio. yes it is 1. Nothing's Gonna Change My Love for you.
ReplyDeleteP.S. these days they play it in the office cafeteria at lunchtime. ughhh.
yikes! this one's tough. but i think - nothing's gonna change my love for you...
ReplyDeleteHmm, hard to say. Most used, abused, battered, clearly #1. Phavorite, #2. So basically
ReplyDelete1 2 3
(come-go weather is colorful :P)
I don't say, she says: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBP3UzJMzQg
V V Very difficult!
ReplyDeleteMost abused, brayed and sang at all possible pitches at random places- Glenn Madeiros #1
Loved 2, 3 and 4 as much- just abused them a little less.
My pick is “Nothing's Gonna Change My Love for you “ for the following reasons:
ReplyDeleteIt is played in movies, serials as a song & in dialogues
IT IS THE ONLY SONG I REMEMBER OF THE 4
The closest would be Last Christmas if you count the Hindi version as well.
i love 1 and 4 but to choose any it has to no 1.
ReplyDeleteeasily the most abused. reminds me of this lanky, ackward looking tean crooning away in the most unmanly voice. yes, there were these love struck guys in the neighbourhood.. eeks.
careless whispers ... though for the life of me couldnt understand why it was so!!!
ReplyDeleteLooks like its hands down #1, Cyn!!
ReplyDeletePlease stop discriminating on the basis of our growing-up years. Hmph. As a post-2000 teen, I protest and my way of protesting is to vote here.
ReplyDelete"Nothing's gonna change my love for youuuuuuuuu" is the winner. It was so popular well into the late '90s too when I heard it being played at some stupid New Year's Eve party (it was '97 or something, I guess). I used to croon it with my stupid 4th Std. friends until I learnt better. :P
And you can't ignore this vote. Hmph.
I vote for 1. Oh man.
ReplyDeleteThough for me the most used and hence abused song of all time is :Sweet child (1987) - dedicated by every damn boy to every girl in sight.
Without a doubt - "Nothing's Gonna Change My Love for you".
ReplyDelete*gets flashbacks of school fetes where this was the most requested song in the request stall* (yeah all school fetes had one those days).
Nothing's Gonna Change My Love for you - Glenn Madeiros
ReplyDeleteMy reason? Even in 2000 My room mate recorded this song on both sides of a tape and played it 53 times (no seriously, still a record in our hostel)...the target audience was about 100 yards from his room...
They both are married now...not to each other...and I still suffer every time the song is mentioned..thanks Cyn :P
I am picking last christmas.They really thrashed that one.And as N said the hindi version is an absolute abuse .I also nominate Hello
ReplyDeleteLast christmas - my choice
ReplyDeleteOkay so let me see
ReplyDeleteso far the tally
Nothing gonna change - 13
Caress Whispers - 2
Last Christmas - 2
Lady in red - 0
Keep it going folks.
Epiphany 53 times? Dear god. Isnt there a law against that?
ReplyDeleteaqua, iya - heheh yus. and all boys with soulful eyes ( and constipated looks) crooning it no? * shudders *
M/N ( now we need some l and o too) that last christmas hindi song was an atrocity - maine pyar kiya right? sallu bhai? urghhh
young manu - spoil sport
shachii - yus probabaly. i was inclined to go with that one too. i think i break out in a rash every time i hear it now.
kaykap - yus i thought i would pass this agony to others
shub - they are all decent songs. for the first 1000 times you hear them. its only after that...
prolific - bands and all? i am trying to think of indian bands with those red uniforms and gold buttons blaring it out on trumpets. defies imagination rather.
I'm a pre 2000 kid though, but remember having heard only 1 and 3. Bollywood poocho to batayenge.
ReplyDeleteHello there, and I'll get to the point. My twelve votes go to Last Christmas, and I think we have a winner here! :)
ReplyDeleteYeah, first me with my awesome '80s trash and now you with your lovely mush. Look what Mom Gone Mad has gone and started!
I vote 1... for the simple reason that I don't remember I have ever heard nos. 2, 3 and 4 ;)
ReplyDeleteMy knowledge of "english" music is slightly worse than my knowledge of rocket science.
Oho...you missed out My Heart Will Go On!!
ReplyDeleteAnd those Backstreetboysy, Boyzonish songs!!
Can only think of Shenaz (of MTV Most Wanted fame) sighing to yet another request for Celine Dion!
But yeah of these my vote will have to go for Nothing's gonna change..
@Young manu: Don't know songs but I will give you some dialogues which made rounds in love letters:
ReplyDelete1. Dosti me no sorry, no thank you.
1a. Cigarette peena sehat ke liye haanikarak hota hai, is injurious to health.
2. Door se mujhe koi chehra badalon ke peeche se pukar raha hai.
3. Tumhari aankhe jheel neeli/peeli hai. (Cyn correct me)
4. Hum aapke hain kaun?
Will tell you more.
hmmph.. a post titled 'dharam sankat' and i am expected to vote on an engish song!! Nothing's gonna change my mind....
ReplyDeleteMo: :D
Hindi gaana chahiye....... :)
ReplyDeletei know this isn't part of your list cynic, but there is one song that reigned in the nineties and that still comes back to haunt you at any pub with a 30+ clientile/DJ, viz, summer of '69. the next time i hear it, i'll puncture my eardrums myself.
ReplyDeletefrom your list, i vote for wham because of the little white hot pants george and andrew wore in the wake me up video :D
Last Christmas, a big favorite of mine. :)
ReplyDeletethen yes, Nothing's gonna change my love for you. - It's overdone but sweet every time it's listened.
Wow! I love what I unleashed!:-) And most def. Nothings Gonna..
ReplyDeleteOh the murderous lack of harmony -we can almost count the ways!
No 1 gets my vote.Isnt this the one where the guy is singing from a cliff ?
ReplyDeleteheard it first on my school bus when a classmate sang an off-key version for the target audience sitting 10 feet away.No luck.
Gah ! So difficult :D
ReplyDeleteBut Nothing's Gonna change, I think. Was the perfect mushy number. Last Christmas too, because of the good looking George Micheal. We were to fanatical to notice that he was gay :D
I was serenaded with Air Suply's Love out of nothing at all :D
Whats yours?
I don't think I was ever serenaded. :(
ReplyDeleteBut I did once serenade myself with 'Smack my bitch up' at a college . Ahh, Prodigy!
Did you just ask me to go away? Because I will not.
ReplyDeleteSigh. I vote for #1 too. Although I hate it that we're all voting for #1.
First time I was serenaded? Sure, let me drink fire. Some Westlife song, broken voice, still a first shave to come. I died. Nice boy, though. Did my homework for the most part.
Sigh, tough choice, and though I'm a post 2000 teen, i'll also protest and vote like drenched.
ReplyDeleteMy vote, though, goes for Last Christmas. If we didn't have it being played on MTv or some other place, then, we had Annu Mallek (yea, that's his current spelling), the baap of copy cats, turn it into Dil Mera Churaya Kyun..
I vote for Last Christmas.
ps - Kumar Sanu singing the hindi version was the determinant in selecting the song - tough poll you had there.. :D
ReplyDeleteman, i love those four songs...
ReplyDeletelast Christmas was also done by George Michael - right? but my favorite is lady in red...and i can listen it over & over again..
oh my God, here is another question to prove that I am not young anymore. boo hoo.
ReplyDeleteLady in red is the 4th but the rest, we crooned equally. oh My! we used to sing in the class together. Then there was 'hello, is it me you are looking for?' and then there was 'because I love you'. Sigh! memories.
oh my God, here is another question to prove that I am not young anymore. boo hoo.
ReplyDeleteLady in red is the 4th but the rest, we crooned equally. oh My! we used to sing in the class together. Then there was 'hello, is it me you are looking for?' and then there was 'because I love you'. Sigh! memories.
Tally stats
ReplyDeleteNothings gonna change: 21
Careless whispers 2
Last christmas 5 ( + Meluhhans 11)
Lady in red: 0 ( i had my doubts about this one actually!)
ank, sarsij and young manu, i think by popular demand, we shall have a hindi poll as well? but ugh so many of them.
ReplyDeleteMeluhhan - yes, she is terrible influence. Had three days of all these songs in loop mode in my head. hmpf. but i like your 80's challenge. i shall jump onto the bandwagon very soon and put in my bit.
amey - another bollywoodisque chappie?
gooddaysunshine - yus it was a battered song, but as bad as the others? somehow that just lasted for a couple of years. and i STILL hear the blasted nothings gonna change these days.
mo : tumhari ankhen peeli hai is mr cyn dialogue. he thinks its hysterically funny also. sigh.
mentali - you know i thought about adding that. but i think the difference is summer of 69 - one got an overdose of the original. But the others - you were inflicted with a) wedding bands, b) love sick toneless tuneless prepubescent lads serenading ladyloves and other such interesting variations. THAT is what made them unbearable.
rads - yus they are not bad songs. only overdone songs
ReplyDeleteMGM - HMPF. stop gloating on what you started. may you have someone croon it for you soon.
Satish. i seem to have mercifully blanked out the video. but i vaguely remember a beach. there probabaly was a cliff too.
Meira - half the people had the hots for georgie porgie no? only in his case it would be kissed some boys and made them cry.... My serenading (dedications actually) happened only in the twenties. unless you count making a friend sing/strum "tequila sunrise" under duress becoz i liked that song?
Meluhhan - i forced a serenade. same thing. I might have got a couple of dedications tho. does that count?
A million different people- westlife? pls to give details. where, how. why. preferably a video of it.
whats in a name - ah yus maine pyar kiya with sallu bhai. man i can think of half a dozen polls i want to put up. which is the worst hindi butchering of an angrezi song..
maddy - yup - half of wham is george michael no.
arunima - yus slowly toeing towards middle age no? Hello was close too come to think of it
Hi,Cyn...my pick is'Last Christmas'..pretty soulful..there were so many others,too..back in the 80s.:)
ReplyDeleteNo answer to the last question..maybe coz it'd be a Bollywoodian answer..keep guessing.:)
I vote, 'Everything I do' Bryan Adams..I mean come on of course I believed each guy who dedicated that one to me......
ReplyDeleteHow about
ReplyDeleteNothing Else Matters?
Sweet Child of Mine?
Guilty of serenading with both.
Psst : AMDP, we need to talk.
ReplyDeletethese sound more 80's than 90's to me :P
ReplyDeleteif 90's is what you want, your options should have been
1. Winds of change - scorpions
2. sweet child of mine - GNR
3. smells like teen spirit - nirvana
and I guess Glen would win for ANY decade for 'song most serenaded in a god-awful voice'
How do the votes read Cyn?
ReplyDeleteFirst time here via a common blogger's list :)
ReplyDeleteMy vote goes for Nothing's Gonna, too. Though I love all the nominated songs - they bring back so many memories :)
wait...what about the late 90s. I would like to move a motion that celiene dion be included.
ReplyDeletebut i'd say #1 would be my vote!
Final stats :
ReplyDeleteNothing's gonna change: 24
Careless whispers: 2
Last christmas : 6
Lady in red: 0
Apologies for the delay folks - been traveling and getting ulcers trying to log in with data card.
amitl - looks like i will have to have a bollywood poll too
ReplyDeletethanatos: same girl or different ones? again those are very niche. havent heard autos playing em - thats my cut off!
trauma queen - yup technically they were eighties - but i am pretty sure they were abused more than any nineties song in the nineties.
shilpa - i think everyone i know ( girls ) went all mushy with everything i do. and kevin costner.
mystic - good to see you here. do keep coming!
austro - my heart will go on eh? and also a motion for banning the im the king of the world bit. urgh.
It has to be careless whispers - it was played at every "social", requested at every "rose day and chocolate day", dedicated at every college festival - sigh...
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