Songs we can't play any more

[spinynorman]

After my wife threatened divorce if our 50-something bloke band played "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl", I wondered if there are other songs we can't play any more?

The argument that it's a great riff cut no ice.

[RhysP]

I would have thought the Gary Glitter back catalogue is a bit of a no-no these days.

[Judo Chop]

Anything by Gary Glitter, and Spasticus Autisticus by Ian Dury and the Blockheads. I was listening to that one last night and wondering the same thing.

[Judo Chop]

[quote name='RhysP' timestamp='1332595795' post='1590438']
I would have thought the Gary Glitter back catalogue is a bit of a no-no these days.
[/quote]

Rock and Roll part 2 is a really good song too

[flyfisher]

I Saw Her Standing There?

[spongebob]

Christine Sixteen by Kiss???

Lyrically, a song on very dubious ground!

[chaypup]

Gary Puckett - Young girl.
Not just bad nowadays, it's alwayse been dodgy!

[chaypup]

My Sharona.

[gary mac]

Being the other side of fifty, I always feel a bit of a buffoon playing Teenage Kicks.

[ColinB]

[list]
[*]Turning Japanese
[*]You're Sixteen, you're beautiful and you're mine.
[/list]

[Bilbo]

After 40, any rock/pop music

Seriously, though, I think there is always the potential for old rockers to look a bit 'sad' if they overdo the teenage angst angle of rock and roll. I guess its about learning to grow old gracefully.

[discreet]

[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1332596805' post='1590468']
I guess its about learning to grow old gracefully.
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I seem to be growing old disgracefully.

[RhysP]

I've always thought "Claire" by Gilbert O Sullivan and "Save your kisses for me" by Brotherhood of Man were a bit dodgy - "Even though you're only three" ???!!!

[discreet]

[quote name='RhysP' timestamp='1332596893' post='1590471']
..."Even though you're only three" ???!!!
[/quote]

Jesus Christ, someone ring Social Services!!

[essexbasscat]

We were rehearsing 'Getting Better' by the Beatles this week. Lyrics;

- "I used to be cruel to my woman I beat her and kept her apart from the things that she loved. Man I was mean but I'm changing my scene and I'm doing the best that I can"

It was a different world then.

[The Bass Doc]

When I'm sixty-four.

(I'm 65 in June)

[lxxwj]

[quote name='chaypup' timestamp='1332596261' post='1590456']
My Sharona.
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Did anyone actually play this anyway?

[steve-bbb]

[url="http://youtu.be/8Jzdikbi9yE"]http://youtu.be/8Jzdikbi9yE[/url]

[BILL POSTERS]

[quote name='lxxwj' timestamp='1332598357' post='1590504']
Did anyone actually play this anyway?
[/quote]

Yep.
[quote name='RhysP' timestamp='1332596893' post='1590471']
I've always thought "Claire" by Gilbert O Sullivan and "Save your kisses for me" by Brotherhood of Man were a bit dodgy - "Even though you're only three" ???!!!
[/quote]

Aww C'mon they were, or seem to be meant innocently. Theres not a paedo on every corner you know.

[BILL POSTERS]

[quote name='essexbasscat' timestamp='1332597884' post='1590495']
We were rehearsing 'Getting Better' by the Beatles this week. Lyrics;

- "I used to be cruel to my woman I beat her and kept her apart from the things that she loved. Man I was mean but I'm changing my scene and I'm doing the best that I can"

It was a different world then.
[/quote]

Wonder if Heather Mills would agree.

At my age, theres loads of standards I wouldnt want to play for one reason and another. But they are just songs really arent they.

Nobodys mentioned Memphis by Chuck Berry...Often wondered whether it was meant as a dig at Jerry Lee. And why Elvis never got slated in a similar way for moving 14 year old Priscilla in to live with him.

[BottomE]

We had to learn Frank Valli "My Eyes Adored You" for a first dance at a wedding. On examination the lyrics are a bit weird, especially for a first dance.

"My eyes adored ya Like a million miles away from me you couldn't see how I adored ya So close, so close and yet so far"

slightly pervy?
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[Adrenochrome]

We always apologise for Youth Gone Wild.

[flyfisher]

[quote name='essexbasscat' timestamp='1332597884' post='1590495']
We were rehearsing 'Getting Better' by the Beatles this week. Lyrics;

- "I used to be cruel to my woman I beat her and kept her apart from the things that she loved. Man I was mean but I'm changing my scene and I'm doing the best that I can"

It was a different world then.
[/quote]

. . . . the world of Dennis Waterman perhaps?

[markstuk]

I always squirm slightly when we play "boom, boom, out go the lights" :-)

[Spike Vincent]

[quote name='Jack Cahalane' timestamp='1332595931' post='1590443']
Rock and Roll part 2 is a really good song too
[/quote]

You can always play the Human League's version.