Eric Chomko wrote:
Pat Flannery ) wrote:


: Peter Twydell wrote:

:
: Yeah, but everybody but everybody saw the video of Bananarama's cover
: of it.
: And let's face it- Bananarama WERE Venusian Firewomen. :-D
:
: Pat
:
: Everybody but me! I've never seen the Bananarama version, and I'd find
: it difficult to identify them anyway, having given up pop music some
: time ago.
: I was watching the original group and grooving to the music in Dutch
: discos in the 70s...


: Remember the Spice Girls? (cut to a scene in a trendy bar: "Hey! Aren't
: you Posh Spice? I'll have another whiskey on the rocks.")
: Bananarama was sort of the same idea- they were fun to look at and they
: could sort of sing also.

Spice Girls, who could forget?

: Until I read that "Venus" was a cover of the Shocking Blue song a few
: years ago, I'd never heard it. I'd also never heard of the band Shocking
: Blue, and only rumors that Holland existed at all...and those consisted
: of strange stories of lesbian perversions as little boys stuck their
: fingers into dykes.

Didn't the song, "Venus" come out in like 1970?. I mean 35+ years here...
Also, wasn't it basically a one hit wonder? Bananarama took advantage of
the video age by covering it and getting themselves exposed, for a lack of
a better term. Anyway, does anyone have an image or two the the band,
Shocking Blue, sa we can compare them to Bananarama and at least make this
thread somewhat entertaining.

I mean how many times with "naysaying", "Christ on a stick", "Third Reich"
and "brown-nose" can one take?!?

Eric

: Pat


I figure those terms would be great for a punk song. If we can re-work a
punk song for jazz, maybe we can hit more than one song market...

Bob