The one that gets me is the new wave accent of the late '70s. Joe Jackson, Bob Geldof and the like spring to mind. For example, the word 'night' would be pronounced 'nate' and slightly clipped. Anthoer feature is the sibilant s.
Another oddity is Ray Davies' affected Geordie twang ... at least, that's what it sounds like to me.
― Jez (Jez), Monday, 6 March 2006 14:50 (eighteen years ago) link
Then there's Mick Jagger's curious Southern American accent...
― JBC, Monday, 6 March 2006 14:55 (eighteen years ago) link
gurl, yous really got me gannin'yous got me gannin' so ah nae knows wot ahm dooin'
― dr x o'skeleton, Monday, 6 March 2006 15:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― I'm Not Afraid Of Electricity (kate), Monday, 6 March 2006 15:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 6 March 2006 15:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 6 March 2006 15:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― I'm Not Afraid Of Electricity (kate), Monday, 6 March 2006 15:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― js (honestengine), Monday, 6 March 2006 15:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jez (Jez), Monday, 6 March 2006 15:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― StanM (StanM), Monday, 6 March 2006 16:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― Masked Gazza, Monday, 6 March 2006 16:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― MGrout, Monday, 6 March 2006 16:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― leeroy, Monday, 6 March 2006 17:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― Daniel Peterson (polkaholic), Monday, 6 March 2006 18:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― novamax (novamax), Monday, 6 March 2006 18:43 (eighteen years ago) link
Also, why does the Electric Six singer go "Danger, danger -- high VEHWL-tage"?
― xero (xero), Monday, 6 March 2006 18:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― C. Paffgen (blunt), Monday, 6 March 2006 19:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dave will do (dave225.3), Monday, 6 March 2006 20:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Monday, 6 March 2006 20:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Monday, 6 March 2006 20:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― midi sanskrit (sanskrit), Monday, 6 March 2006 20:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 6 March 2006 20:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jingo, Monday, 6 March 2006 20:32 (eighteen years ago) link
it seems there's a possible weird synergy going on there that we probably shouldn't explore.
― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Monday, 6 March 2006 20:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― stu (stu), Monday, 6 March 2006 20:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― stu (stu), Monday, 6 March 2006 20:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 6 March 2006 20:50 (eighteen years ago) link
'Proud Mary, keep on toinin'
I thought he was from Boston, but I don't really care...
And no, Mellencamp's just a knob, though people in Indiana are fucked up.
― js (honestengine), Monday, 6 March 2006 20:51 (eighteen years ago) link
Yer Taykin' me euver.
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 6 March 2006 20:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 6 March 2006 20:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ron E. Mexico, Monday, 6 March 2006 21:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 6 March 2006 21:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― kwhitehead (stephen schmidt), Monday, 6 March 2006 21:48 (eighteen years ago) link
HELLO READY FOR THE WORLD AND MIDNIGHT STAR!
― Da Na Not! (donut), Monday, 6 March 2006 22:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― Da Na Not! (donut), Monday, 6 March 2006 22:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― Da Na Not! (donut), Monday, 6 March 2006 22:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― patita (patita), Monday, 6 March 2006 23:20 (eighteen years ago) link
When I was a kid I always supposed he'd started out as mock-Jamaican but that was just because it seemed like a common affectation of Australian bands at the time (that Men at Work fella for instance).
― scriblerus (mike lynch), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 00:31 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5Qtt4MBt08&search=fall%20out%20boy
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 00:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 00:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tokyo Ghost Stories (Tokyo Ghost Stories), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 03:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― dave q (listerine), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 10:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 12:42 (eighteen years ago) link
wtf is this supposed to be?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fS0SyW980YI
― Angry Question Time Man's Flute Club Band (Tom D.), Monday, 8 April 2019 19:05 (five years ago) link
A fella doing the 'indie girl voice'?
― D. Joe, Monday, 8 April 2019 19:09 (five years ago) link
An Afro-Jamaican indie girl?
― Angry Question Time Man's Flute Club Band (Tom D.), Monday, 8 April 2019 19:10 (five years ago) link
The guy's from Glasgow!
― Angry Question Time Man's Flute Club Band (Tom D.), Monday, 8 April 2019 19:11 (five years ago) link
Kill this prick
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Monday, 8 April 2019 19:15 (five years ago) link
done!
― lispectah deck (unregistered), Monday, 8 April 2019 20:11 (five years ago) link
thought Sting was French when I was a kid
― brimstead, Monday, 8 April 2019 21:26 (five years ago) link
Al Jourgensen seems like he was trying pretty hard to sound British on that first Ministry album (which was also as "pop" as he ever got).
― enochroot, Tuesday, 9 April 2019 00:51 (five years ago) link
Doesn't he even sing 'me mum and me dad' on "effigy"?
― brimstead, Tuesday, 9 April 2019 01:12 (five years ago) link
i hate this song
― frame casual (dog latin), Tuesday, 9 April 2019 12:14 (five years ago) link
do they think that they can get the handcuffs off by..... pulling hard on them??
― Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 9 April 2019 14:15 (five years ago) link
i mean i know they move on to other things but... who would do that????
― Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 9 April 2019 14:16 (five years ago) link
i guarantee you there is something worse than this song, and that's his solo acoustic rendition of this song in a small venue where you are with someone who thinks it's great
― Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 9 April 2019 14:17 (five years ago) link
There's something even worse than that, his big hit before this one - that one is a crime against humanity.
― Angry Question Time Man's Flute Club Band (Tom D.), Tuesday, 9 April 2019 14:21 (five years ago) link
Even the title is annoying (it should be Just You and Me).
― what if bod was one of us (ledge), Tuesday, 9 April 2019 14:32 (five years ago) link
Should it? Doesn't it depend on the context? e.g. 'Just You and I (and Everyone Else Wants To Turn Off this Bloody Song)'
― frame casual (dog latin), Tuesday, 9 April 2019 14:48 (five years ago) link
Hmm, in the lyrics, it's "You and I could take over the world/Just you and I". So "You and I could take over the world" is correct, but you wouldn't say "I could take over the world/Just I", would you?
― what if bod was one of us (ledge), Tuesday, 9 April 2019 15:04 (five years ago) link