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Get Out of My Head

Farmer Ted Sep 26 2008 03:12 PM

Woke up with Chris DeBurgh 's Don't Pay the Ferryman in my head. 11 hours later and I can't shake it. I'm going mad.

cooby Sep 26 2008 04:24 PM

think abou t something else

metirish Sep 26 2008 04:39 PM Re: Get Out of My Head

Farmer Ted wrote: Woke up with Chris DeBurgh 's Don't Pay the Ferryman in my head. 11 hours later and I can't shake it. I'm going mad. WOW , I have not thought about that song in years.....that album was played to death in our Youth Club...obviously I had no say in the music....and the video was on heavy rotation on Irish TV...good song, brings back memories.

AG/DC Sep 26 2008 05:43 PM

In the aftermath of Live Aid, with Bob Geldof getting a lot of (relatively unfair) criticism that his interest wasn't with his own highly depressed country, a "Live for Ireland" concert took place, with all Irish acts --- headlined by U2 of course --- and the odd Celto-English act like the Pogues. In Tua Nua, Christy Moore, Van Morrison, Thin Lizzy, and of course Chris DeBurgh, singing a modest US hit "Don't Pay the Ferrryman." Well the joke was on me when I heard the recording. Apparently the Irish loved that song more than anything else --- passionately screaming the backup parts to the otherwise light arrangement. I later learned that there were few enough radio stations in Ireland at the time that, when a song hit number one, it hit number one, and everybody from 5 to 95 would be singing it.

metirish Sep 26 2008 05:49 PM

Self Aid , I remember it well. Last performance of The Boomtown Rats.

Willets Point Sep 26 2008 05:55 PM

This has been in my head all week and its killing me:

Farmer Ted Sep 29 2008 01:53 PM

Starship is brutal. Billy Idol, Rebel Yell, in my nugget today.