What are you doing at the party, Sam?
Karaoke.
Yeah? What are you going to sing?
Some of my favourite songs that are modern and you won't know.
Huh. You want modern songs? I'll give you modern songs, son. Look, I made you a CD!
Boomtown Rats - She's So Modern
Idlewild - A Modern Way Of Letting Go
Neil Diamond -A Modern Day Version Of Love
Ben Kyle & Romantica - How to Live in a Modern World
Terry, Blair & Anouchka - Ultra Modern Nursery Rhyme
Jesse Malin - In The Modern World
Daryl Hall & John Oates - Method of Modern Love
Charm School – Excerpts from the Modern Song
The Humdrum Express - The Curse Of The Modern Musician
Belle and Sebastian - This Is Just A Modern Rock Song
Jefferson Starship - Modern Times
Actually, wait, seriously... here's a song that was only released last week. You don't get more modern than that, do you?
Bleachers are from New Jersey. They're the brainchild of guitarist and producer Jack Antanoff, who used to be in Fun. They have featured here before, but this is their latest single, and it's pretty damned good for a modern pop song... even though it does harken back to the 70s and 80s, like most of their stuff.
I await the report of what Sam actually ended up singing...
ReplyDeleteThere was mention of both Imagine Dragons and bloody Sheeran. Sometimes I feel like I've wasted the last ten years...
DeleteSo not a father and son karoake duet?
ReplyDeleteRe. yesterday, would a clutch of readers be more appropriate? A Handful? Anyway, the corgi toy is available on a well known auction site
https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p4432023.m570.l1313&_nkw=man+from+uncle+corgi+toy&_sacat=0
And YouTube have said car in action:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fluivx07qUQ
Some people have too much time on their hands
In a later conversation, I asked Sam if he didn't like some of "my" music. He replied that he liked the rock n roll but didn't like the waltzes. I'm still puzzling that one out.
DeleteA couple or a pair?
That toy was a lot more exciting in my imagination.
I'm old enough to remember how exciting it was when corgi produced toy cars whose front doors you could open. The button-pressing feature on the MFU car was a Great Leap Forward
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