My brother, in an act of extreme musical criticism, once took his recently purchased seven-inch single of Elton John’s “I’m Still Standing” and frisbeed it across the lawn and into our hedge, where presumably it’s still standing after all this time.
Given that he was a big Lego fan, I’m sure he’d rather have used the Hammerhead.
Yeah, but you don't tell us why? I mean, why that one? Surely 'Nikita' was more worthy of frisbeeing.
Speaking of hunks of black, plastic Elton John discs, you being an Aussie must remember - there was a hit single somewhere around the time of 'I'm Still Standing', but before 'Sad Songs (Say So Much)' called 'Passengers'. It was a bit of a pub sing-a-long of a song - it went
Deny the passengers who want to get on.
Deny the passengers who want to get on.
followed by a call-and-response section consisting of:
Wanna get on (wanna get on)
We wanna get on (we wanna get on)
and then back to
Deny the passengers who want to get on.
Deny the passengers who want to get on.
Do you remember it? Did it have a life outside of Australia? (I mean, can you take a vox pop in your specific part of the UK or something?)
Added by Dom on 21 May 2006.
It was a classic case of earworm-itis. He loved the song, bought the single, played it to death over the following week, and got so thoroughly sick of it that he had to kill it.
And “Passengers”... now that you’ve planted it in my head I do remember it (damn you!), but have no idea if it made more than a blip over here.
http://www.8notes.com/biographies/john.asp
...ah, there you go. #5 in the U.K.
Added by Rory on 29 May 2006.
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