Wired For Sound is a stone cold classic

[wosl]

I like the 80s primary school grammar of "If they've music". That's straight from Words and Pictures.

The mention of Cliff and grammar led onto me remembering this, by Clive James (from The Crystal Bucket):

A guest of Parkinson, Cliff Richard sang a song of his own composiion. "There's nothing left between we two," he warbled thinly.  Us were in luck.

[Phoenix Lazarus]

'I like tall speakers.  I like small speakers...'

We get it.  He's not interested in anyone at the pre-lingual phase.

[madhair60]

new challenger

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SFIeNK5GrI

my mum is obsessed with the cunt so I know all the bangers

[idunnosomename]

i unironically fuckin love Devil Woman. i know it's from the previous decade but fuck you.

[holyzombiejesus]

Not his best but this is really great. The shitty video adds to it.

Cliff Richard - Jesus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fy6VBTbGHvY

Save us from the devil,
Save us from satan, 
Save us from Hell.

Great fuzz guitar solo too. 99p on Discogs.

[pigamus]

new challenger

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SFIeNK5GrI

my mum is obsessed with the cunt so I know all the bangers

Yeah - that gorgeous analogue bass thump. I mean I know it's not to everyone's taste but I absolutely adore that sound.

[PlanktonSideburns]

Not his best but this is really great. The shitty video adds to it.

Cliff Richard - Jesus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fy6VBTbGHvY


Great fuzz guitar solo too. 99p on Discogs.

cant tell if this comment underneath is genuine, or being very, very sarcastic:

Ohh Jesus!.. plz plz come back to earth..plz save us.. Save us!

[PlanktonSideburns]

these songs are all absolute BINJUICE by the way

get your heads looked at wont you.

this exactly the sort of music i would expect from someone who didnt watch The Thing every morning before the school bus turned up

[Johnboy]

Yes, it's great, it's 1981 as much as We Don't Talk Anymore was 1979, ...as in very (Carrie in the middle)

[TheMonk]

He'd have been knocked on his arse skating like that at my local community centre.

[Elderly Sumo Prophecy]

Nobody seems to have ever done a decent cover of it, judging by a YouTube search. Well, we'll always have Shed Seven:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=FbBlz4g6Pd8

[imitationleather]

Wired For Sound is total rubbish. Honestly, guys.

[jobotic]

He's right.

It was all downhill from here


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=k5mIq3yF6Nc

[Elderly Sumo Prophecy]

A man who does not like Wired For Sound is never a whole man.

[Better Midlands]

Nobody seems to have ever done a decent cover of it, judging by a YouTube search. Well, we'll always have Shed Seven:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=FbBlz4g6Pd8

Darren Day
https://youtu.be/7ab8Tzj8cf0

Julee Cruise  https://youtu.be/4DdY88ZWBjw

& some sort of vaporwave mess sampled it
https://youtu.be/XpOY6k9dWis

Edit: that Darren Day cover was put up exactly five years ago to the day (ho ho) ...... 127 views.

[imitationleather]

Wired For Sound is the sort of thing they would play at an afternoon party in a hospice.

[Phoenix Lazarus]

Wired for Sound was about Cliff realising that police had bugged his gaff with listening devices.

[Elderly Sumo Prophecy]

What sort of cunt listens to music on AM radio anyway?

[kngen]

A very decent tune, probably kept BA Cunterson in neeps, tatties and Irn Bru for a good many years.

Genuine question. Why is/was he so cunty? I know he always came across as a bit full of himself, but - in The Giant Book of Folk That Know Their Way Round A Tune Who've Done Egregiously Terrible Things - he'd hardly warrant a mention, surely?

And I've sat through Living Apart Together ...

[Nice Relaxing Poo]

Genuine question. Why is/was he so cunty? I know he always came across as a bit full of himself, but - in The Giant Book of Folk That Know Their Way Round A Tune Who've Done Egregiously Terrible Things - he'd hardly warrant a mention, surely?

And I've sat through Living Apart Together ...

I have no beef with him, I'm just parroting Taylor Parkes' nickname for him after he was thoroughly coated down on Chart Music.

[Chriddof]

It's more to do with the naffness / smugness of a lot of his music than anything full-on bad. Also, there was the fact that his success appeared to have happened almost purely down to knowing the right people rather than off his talents. While I don't believe it's ever been confirmed, his first hit may have got the attention it did due to a chart-rigging scandal that happened around the late 70s / early 80s.

[Pingers]

I am going to murder the lot of you.

[DrGreggles]

Genuine question. Why is/was he so cunty?

Astonishing cuntiness:
https://youtu.be/gmzDOqUdu8A

[Captain Z]

I think this is the same group of posters that secretly decided to troll us by pretending that Carly Rae Jepsen is brilliant. Don't trust them.

[poodlefaker]

Cliffy Bastard released a hilarious Christmas single a few years ago about the kids on their phones with their social medias and shit. It's called Texting Jesus or something; CBA to look it up.

[Pingers]

these songs are all absolute BINJUICE by the way

Also the bin contains some rats that fell victim to poison that was put down. By Paul Young.

[Dewt]

I won't mention the three very mainstream Paul Young songs that would leave a deep void in my soul if they were erased.

[Pingers]

I won't mention the three very mainstream Paul Young songs that would leave a deep void in my soul if they were erased.

That's a wise choice, otherwise I'd have to get some of my best people on to you.

[madhair60]

I think this is the same group of posters that secretly decided to troll us by pretending that Carly Rae Jepsen is brilliant. Don't trust them.

Delete your account and leave CaB

[Elderly Sumo Prophecy]

I won't mention the three very mainstream Paul Young songs that would leave a deep void in my soul if they were erased.

So you could say that if those songs were to go away, they'd take a piece of you with them?