A song request

Cagri · 05-30-2003, 06:58 AM

I remember hearing a song almost 10 years ago in a rock bar. I haven't been able to find out whom it belogs to since then, now that I have discovered this area of the forum maybe I can have some hint. The guy kept counting -I can't remember if it was backwards or not- numbers, it was like 38-37-36-35-.... or 35-36-37-37-38..... and it went on and on but the melody of the song was incredible. Anyone knows such a song?

James Corey · 05-30-2003, 10:25 PM

There's a passage similar to this in Pat Metheny's "As Falls Witchita, So Falls Witchita Falls".

I'm not sure if that's the same music, but I thought I'd throw it out there anyway.

Camp · 05-30-2003, 11:19 PM

99 bottles of beer on the wall?

Bill Cowmeadow · 05-31-2003, 02:09 PM

8, 6, 7, 5, 309 ...

andrew markworthy · 05-31-2003, 03:41 PM

There's a song by the Pet Shop Boys called 'It's A Sin' that has the sound of a NASA engineer doing a countdown to launch in the background. Then there's that seventies number 'So Many Men, So Little Time' in which chorus counts up to an impressively high number whilst a female vocalist goes on about her frenetically active sex life. Both are classics of gay disco. Just *what* sort of 'rock bar' was this, Cagri?

Actually, and in all seriousness, I think I *do* know which one you mean, but I just can't bring enough details to mind (but it ain't Pat Benatar [edit - Methany, I meant to say - why did I type 'Benatar'?], I'm sure of that). Thanks for giving me something to think about on a Saturday evening

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Cagri · 05-31-2003, 06:59 PM

Thanks for replies

I am pretty sure it wasn't 99BoBoW, and it wasn't Pet Shop Boys or another gay disco song

Actually it was quite a heavy-playing rock bar like some of the Ships in London... The singer was male, but it wasn't jazz, for sure... I'll still check that song from Pat Metheny though.

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Thanks for giving me something to think about on a Saturday evening

You're welcome, I hope you recall it andrew

Vickie_M · 05-31-2003, 10:45 PM

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and it wasn't Pet Shop Boys or another gay disco song

THWAPPPP!! Using "gay" as a derogatory term, even in jest, no matter how lighthearted, is SO 1999, and makes you sound like a clueless junior high-schooler.

It's out out out, out like a light.

(Except for those who use it as a "clue" or hint to tell others they're gay and would like some company. I hear that's really big in the gay community now. If that's your thing, then carry on, sorry)

Camp · 05-31-2003, 11:25 PM

Oh, great...the P.C. police invade the music forum.

I was more interested in the use of "gay" in the same sentence as "Pet Shop Boys". I guess saying that makes me sound like "a clueless junior high-schooler." Cool.

James Corey · 05-31-2003, 11:32 PM

The Metheny track is fairly eclectic and not typically what you'd hear in a "rock" bar, unless they played it after last call to clear the place out

... but cool nonetheless.

andrew markworthy · 06-01-2003, 03:41 AM

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Using "gay" as a derogatory term,

When?

Cagri · 06-01-2003, 01:35 PM

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Using "gay" as a derogatory term, even in jest, no matter how lighthearted, is SO 1999, and makes you sound like a clueless junior high-schooler.

I haven't got the slightest intention to start an argument on this with you but I think you are way over-reacting... Maybe not very common, and maybe you aren't aware but 'gay disco'is still a category... When we say 'punk rock' is this an insult to the punks? There are songs written by people who are gay, and they are -as well as any other bar- frequently played in some gay bars, and there are gay bars which almost only play these...

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Oh, great...the P.C. police invade the music forum.

Please do not answer me and let's not turn this into a meaningless discussion. There is nothing 'derogatory' in either my or the other poster's posts for gays or any other people. Get a life.

By the way, I was actually high school student when Pet Shop Boys released It's a Sin

I have never been interested in their music, or in pop/disco in general. So I may have made a mistake including their work in that category. Whatever.