Choon of the Day

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When I was doing a kinda post-punky-funky mix the other day for Threads I found this seven inch from a few years ago that I hadn't heard for a while. This band were hotly tipped in 2016 or 2017 I think but I suppose they never really took off as expected. Oh well, I still like this song (and I checked some of their others, also fun). I like the video too - I don't know why, I guess cos it looks like they're really having a slightly crap but fun house party.

 
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ariel pink may be cancelled but this tune certainly isn't. posted cause the title came to mind in a dream recently.
 
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I really like the first line. the quivering, crooning 'yah I got my first six string.' I was in a waiting lobby, heard that, and immediately knew it was my choon of the day
 
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terrible song. The words don't fit the rhythm of the melody, and Adams' vocal performance steamrollers over any nuance or sentimentality suggested by the trite lyrics - he has no sense of sweetness or nostalgia, he just bellows. The music itself is a tracing of a stadium-rock template, all bombast and no humility or humanity. Nothing about it feels real or familiar or relatable - it's just cliches and tropes that were already exhausted in the 80s, never mind 30+ years later.
 
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also in a purely personal persepctive I have been in so many shit student nightclubs and parties and watched people too young to remember 1985 never mind 1969* act like this is a big anthem when really it's all fantasy, cosplay recreation of a life they didn't live, and I find it really depressing to watch people dance to it with glee.

(*I'm sure I once read the 69 is meant to be a reference to sex and not the year, hmm ok)
 
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linebaugh said:
I really like the first line. the quivering, crooning 'yah I got my first six string.' I was in a waiting lobby, heard that, and immediately knew it was my choon of the day
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bryan adams could stop singing entirely after that line and the song wouldn't lose an ounce of meaning. its his 'petals on a wet, black bough'
 
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I like the ataris rendetion even better, don henley is too posh, like the flummoxed pyschoanalyst in the bryan adams music video. its a feeling for the boys with grass stains on their blue jeans
 
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