Comments on: TAMMY WYNETTE - “Stand By Your Man”

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 11:43:35 +0000

Managed to get the picture, mark etc in at last.

By: Chris Brown

Chris Brown — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:22:52 +0000

Possibly ironic digression: Snow Patrol did a cover version of ‘I Am An Astronaut’ for a Save The Children charity album.

By: intothefireuk

intothefireuk — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 03:36:09 +0000

Now here’s a thing - one minute I’m chewing over the bones of Aznovoice’s ‘She’ the next ….I’ve fallen off the radar only to reappear unannounced towards the arse end of a Tammy Wynette thread ! I’ve missed almost a year of chart entries along the way. I may have some catching up to do.

So Wynette, well after 95 comments there really isn’t much to add is there ? Yes I have to admit Country music is a bit of a black hole for me, at least it has been until fairly recently when through the miracle of illegal downloading I have chanced upon a fair few compilations - even managing to delve into the archives to trace it’s history a little. That said Tammy’s song is pretty numbing fayre. The pedestrian pace of the verses with the standard country bolt-on twangy geetars & lap steel doesn’t get the song off to good start although, thankfully it does liven up somewhat in the chorus. Not sure I would have understood the sentiments as a teenager and neither do I really agree with them now - but then I’m just a man.

By: Waldo

Waldo — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:27:52 +0000

Dear God, one or two of you have really incurred the wrath of The Spoiler Bunny with recent comments. And let me tell you, The Spoiler Bunny does terrible things when he’s angry.

Basically, you can’t keep your word. Keep your word…

By: Marcello Carlin

Marcello Carlin — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:02:08 +0000

The song in question hasn’t yet been “rehabilitated” - Judge Dale has played it but profusely apologised for doing so, even though he shouldn’t have done - but I’m looking forward immensely to the 400 or so posts it will engender… ;-)

By: Lena

Lena — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:49:53 +0000

Is the next song a ‘guilty pleasure’?

By: Marcello Carlin

Marcello Carlin — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:52:42 +0000

I will not have carmodization in this jungle!

By: a logged out p^nk s lord sukråt wötsit

a logged out p^nk s lord sukråt wötsit — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:58:15 +0000

haha i think i can guess his position! but yes…

By: Billy Smart

Billy Smart — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:36:03 +0000

That’s the sort of discussion for which we need Robin Carmody…

By: Erithian

Erithian — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:11:26 +0000

Harking back to Dolly Parton (#76), Simon Hoggart mentioned in his Grauniad column a while back that he’d had the seat next to Dolly on a plane once, and remarked that the famous chest looks so impressive partly because she’s the smallest adult woman he’d ever seen: her jeans would have fitted a 7-year-old. So you’re almost guaranteed an overhead view…

I was surprised to hear “Stand By Your Man” on the Radio 5 breakfast show a couple of weeks ago. When the prospect of a referendum on the EU treaty was voted out by the commons, they remarked that Tammy had been number 1 when we did have a referendum in 1975. Maybe we all felt more European then as well as being country fans. (lights blue paper and stands well back)

By: Lena

Lena — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 18:03:18 +0000

I heard “I Am An Astronaut” on Dr. Demento!

By: Marcello Carlin

Marcello Carlin — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:59:13 +0000

Certainly can’t be ruled out!

“Astronaut,” incidentally, was apparently a number one in Sweden.

By: Billy Smart

Billy Smart — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:23:24 +0000

Is it just wishful thinking on my part, or are the backing vocals on “I Wanna Go To A Disco” a juvenile Kim Wilde?

By: Mark G

Mark G — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:12:35 +0000

And “Teen Wave” which wasn’t too bad, if a bit too much like “Let’s jump the broomstick” in places.

I’m sure Rick(y) Wilde prays to the heavens and gives thanks that “I am an astronaut” was never a hit.

By: Marcello Carlin

Marcello Carlin — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:26:11 +0000

Indeed, and not a million miles from “I’m a neanderthal man” either. I must have been mixing it up with “I Wanna Go To A Disco” which was another of Ricky’s singles.

Also, best B-side title ever: “Hertfordshire Rock.”

By: Mark G

Mark G — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:03:12 +0000

“I Am An Astronaut” by Ricky Wilde

Indeliby imprinted, I’m afraid! “I yam an astronaut!”

By: Marcello Carlin

Marcello Carlin — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:25:28 +0000

I pitched the exact opposite idea to ITV1; these would have been my choices:

The Feeling - United by Throbbing Gristle
KT Tunstall - The Woe by Steve Lacy
Craig David - Headless Heroes Of The Apocalypse by Eugene McDaniels
Magic Numbers - Violence Grows by the Fatal Microbes
Supergrass - Thriller! by Pere Ubu
Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Everything Merges With The Night by Eno (as a tango)
Amy MacDonald - I Wanna Be An Astronaut by Ricky Wilde
Kelly Osbourne - Wild Women With Steak Knives by Diamanda Galas

I’ve yet to receive a reply.

By: a logged out p^nk s lord sukråt wötsit

a logged out p^nk s lord sukråt wötsit — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:15:31 +0000

tom’s orgafun-learned suggestion abt this programme was that having let the contributors pick the GP, they then rotate them so said contributors have to play someone ELSE’S GP: with “and make it work” the underlying requirement

TTD actually seems to me to come closest to the still-unvarnished conception of GP*, precisely bcz his critical (and commercial) star fell so precipitately — and was shaky enough in its ascendent that anyone saying “i have always loved him” is going to be placing themselves in a zone of stout self-justification from the off

*unless of course you count actual real pleasure in the stylings of eg THE MAGIC NUMBERS or THE FEELING! —:0

By: mike

mike — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 10:39:35 +0000

Oh, it was just appalling! Sophie Ellis-Bextor recorded “Yes Sir I Can Boogie” for a B-side a few years ago and has performed it on tour, so she did OK (although I’d rather have had the Goldfrapp deconstruction from the Black Cherry days). The Feeling used to play “Video Killed The Radio Star” at European ski resorts when they were a covers band, and I saw them perform the song much better than that 18 months ago; it just looked tired, and thoughtlessly knocked out. Craig David was shockingly bad: clapped out, lost, and looking like he had aged 20 years. KT Tunstall managed “competent but dull”, but the woeful Amy McDonald couldn’t even make it that far. The Magic Numbers were an embarrassing mess. Supergrass as the Diamond Hoo Ha Men were actually quite good, and it was pleasing to see the confusion on the faces of the woo!-ing hen-nighters down the front.

As for Kelly Osbourne, though… after that unforgiveable hatchet job, she should never work again. (Like we should be so lucky.) Why didn’t anybody SAY anything?

By: Marcello Carlin

Marcello Carlin — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 10:00:45 +0000

Well, there was a one-off programme - it looked like a pilot - and it seems to have been received pretty unanimously as a unmitigated disaster, as most things presented by Fearne Cotton tend to be.

And as usual, instead of absolving itself of all guilt and presenting itself as a straightforward variety show, the flow was interrupted/destroyed by a string of ITV rep reliable talking heads describing their own “guilty pleasures.”

Not that there was much flow to begin with. The Feeling did Video Killed The Radio Star - a great and crucial record which stopped being a guilty pleasure around about the time Trevor Horn started producing Dollar. KT Tunstall slaughtered You’re The Voice by John Farnham, a song that wasn’t worth resuscitating in the first place. Craig David - oh, how the mighty have fallen - mumbled his way through If You Let Me Stay by Terence Trent D’Arby (huh? Guilty Pleasure? The NME touched the hem of his garment all through ‘87! Part of the reason why I stopped reading it!). Amy MacMumble Donald (or Paolo Nutini at 16 rpm as I call her) did “Sweet Caroline” about two octaves too low. Sophie Ellis-Bextor did “Yes Sir I Can Boogie” reasonable service (but that has long since been rehabilitated! It was used as the intro music to the Pistols reunion gig at Finsbury Park in ‘96 for heaven’s sake!).

Two-thirds of Supergrass (so it was clearly pre-recorded some while back, when Mickey had his accident) went through “Beat It” quite well - but again, when the hell was this ever a guilty pleasure?

Worst of all I have saved until last - Kelly Osbourne raping, slashing and burying one of the greatest number ones ever; anyone who considers it a guilty pleasure should be marched out blindfold into the nearest nine-lane carriageway and left to find their own way back to the service station. And I’m not going to say what it is until Popular gets there.

The only thing that can be said in this programme’s favour is that it didn’t quite stoop to soliciting the views of

Bob Mills
COMEDIAN

By: Lena

Lena — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 06:56:34 +0000

There’s a Guilty Pleasures tv show?!? What other songs were ‘performed’?

By: crag

crag — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:46:09 +0000

while we wait for Toms next entry (no hurry but i refer u to #36!)just to keep the chat going i was wondering if anyone has seen the top 20 best and worst Number 1s list in the current ish of Word magazine?I will avoid spoilers, however I noticed only one of Tom’s 10s so far makes into their top 20- Isrealites. V Pleased to see Cumberland Gap in there though- an amazing record which i only discovered thanks to Popular..

By: Dan R

Dan R — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 11:46:08 +0000

Although an alternative interpretation is offered by the wonderful No Rock ‘n’ Roll Fun site. Maybe she’s saying that only a gay man in search of wisdom would turn to Dolly Parton.

By: Marcello Carlin

Marcello Carlin — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:10:20 +0000

Today’s definition of hell: The Magic Numbers “performing” “Islands In The Stream” on that beyond terrible Guilty Pleasures show on ITV the other weekend.

By: Waldo

Waldo — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 09:55:50 +0000

Ah yes, but nowadays if you avert your eyes from Dolly’s chest and scan towards her knees, you are still looking at her chest. Thus you are not a poof.