RedGuitar
| | Posted: May 08, 2006 - 13:15 | |
Austin2Florida wrote:
Me too. I like "popular" better so I'll keep singing it wrong.
It's: Jeux sans frontieres (games without frontiers) |
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Austin2Florida
(Hollywood, FL) | | Posted: May 08, 2006 - 13:03 | |
serendipity_blue wrote:
I always thought it was "She's so popular".
Me too. I like "popular" better so I'll keep singing it wrong. |
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veegez
(Minnesoter) | | Posted: Apr 09, 2006 - 08:59 | |
ciabates wrote:yeah, this song definately sucks golfballs thru garden hoses.
For all of the angst over this song, still a 7.6. A classic. |
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steeler
(Riding The Bus to Canton) | | Posted: Apr 09, 2006 - 08:30 | |
blastmeh wrote:
Such as "Where is my life going, that i'm sitting here, listening to this terrible song?"
Uh, no. |
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blastmeh
(Vancouver) | | Posted: Mar 25, 2006 - 16:06 | |
steeler wrote:Simply thought provoking. So many concepts come rushing forth every time I hear this.
Such as "Where is my life going, that i'm sitting here, listening to this terrible song?" |
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bubble_headed_beach_blond
(east of every river but the connecticut) | | Posted: Mar 25, 2006 - 16:03 | |
ciabates wrote:yeah, this song definately sucks golfballs thru garden hoses.
it sucks so bad the golf balls get stuck in the hose. |
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crockydile
(The swamps of Houston) | | Posted: Feb 09, 2006 - 13:10 | |
Looked it up. The melting one...
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ciabates
(New Brunswick, NJ) | | Posted: Feb 09, 2006 - 13:09 | |
yeah, this song definately sucks golfballs thru garden hoses.
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crockydile
(The swamps of Houston) | | Posted: Feb 09, 2006 - 13:08 | |
Isn't this from the album with "The incredible melting Peter Gabriel" on the cover? Or is it the rainy car? It's been about 20 years...
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z11355
| | Posted: Jan 11, 2006 - 06:44 | |
If I never heard this annoying song again, that would be just great.
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physicsgenius
| | Posted: Jan 11, 2006 - 06:43 | |
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byrd
| | Posted: Dec 13, 2005 - 07:00 | |
This is definitely a good song, but I'm pretty tired of hearing it.
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rosedraws
(never close enough) | | Posted: Dec 13, 2005 - 06:59 | |
All those high school french classes really come in handy sometimes...
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jude_the_obscure
(Upstate NY) | | Posted: Nov 28, 2005 - 16:02 | |
My brother altered the lyric and sang "War without champaign/Sex without stains".
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MCKY
(PEI, Great White North) | | Posted: Oct 30, 2005 - 09:32 | |
gee-I alwasy thought it was she's so popular too!
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kazuma
(Austin, TX) | | Posted: Oct 30, 2005 - 09:31 | |
serendipity_blue wrote:
I always thought it was "She's so popular".
I always thought it was "She's so funkular."
And if funkular isn't a real word, it should be. |
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Glockman45
(undisclosed) | | Posted: Oct 30, 2005 - 09:29 | |
have good, get give
babyarm
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AnchorMan
(number 8) | | Posted: Sep 16, 2005 - 08:03 | |
lbrc wrote:wow, a great tune! i can remember when i first heard it on the radio long ago- my first introduction to gabriel. classically cool.  The rumour I remember when this came out was that the original lyrics had been "Piss on the coons in the jungle". It's nice to hear a live version on RP with them reinstated. |
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timc
(Waterloo, ON (2512 miles/4043 km from Paradise, CA)) | | Posted: Sep 16, 2005 - 07:54 | |
serendipity_blue wrote:
I always thought it was "She's so popular".
You're not alone. "Jeux sans frontières" makes much more sense though. :-k
I don't really like Peter Gabriel's stuff too much, but this one would be good if I didn't hear it so often. It's not RP's fault though. |
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serendipity_blue
(Off in the ionosphere) | | Posted: Sep 16, 2005 - 07:51 | |
radiojunkie wrote:I, too, remember when it first came out...I was absolutely convinced the refrain was "She's so funky, yeah." Ah, but I was so much older then -- I'm younger than that now.
I always thought it was "She's so popular". |
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steeler
(Teetering on the abyss) | | Posted: Sep 16, 2005 - 07:50 | |
Simply thought provoking. So many concepts come rushing forth every time I hear this.
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mojoman
(Rocky Mountains, Colorado) | | Posted: Sep 01, 2005 - 11:14 | |
pazzat wrote:An insight from England on the Jeux Sans Frontieres line here. 'JSF' was a French (or Francophone Swiss? I'm not sure) television game of the 1960s/70s in which teams from towns and villages would compete against each other in totally crazy, slapstick games, often involving running around in medieval costumes carrying barrels of water on their heads etc. The English version, co-presented by rugby league legend Eddie Waring, was called 'It's a Knockout', hence PG's use of that phrase in the song. Time for a revival of the game, I think: writing this has brought back many happy memories of childhood Friday nights.
There's a Japanese version called "Takeshi's Castle." BTW, the Japanese version is now picked up by Spike TV as MXC ("Most Extreme Challenge") with snarky English "dialogue" dubbed atop the Japanese. |
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foppy-knight
(SF CA DUNGEON) | | Posted: Sep 01, 2005 - 11:11 | |
THANK YOU FOR PLAYING THIS!
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rah
| | Posted: Aug 17, 2005 - 14:44 | |
radiojunkie wrote:I, too, remember when it first came out...I was absolutely convinced the refrain was "She's so funky, yeah." Ah, but I was so much older then -- I'm younger than that now.
it does my heart good to know i wasn't the only one singing those lyrics along to this  |
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pummisher
| | Posted: Aug 17, 2005 - 14:44 | |
Strange how no one commented in 2003 or 2004 for this song.
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dolfan
(Kingsland, Ga./Jacksonville, FL) | | Posted: Jul 04, 2005 - 08:20 | |
Now THIS is some good Peter Gabriel.
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Pheral
(Savannah, GA USA) | | Posted: Jul 04, 2005 - 06:36 | |
I've loved Peter Gabriel since the Genesis days. That said, there are so many other of his songs that I like better than this one.
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Roverfish
(Tucson, AZ - Thanks for visiting, please drive through!) | | Posted: Jun 19, 2005 - 13:34 | |
Great tune, but why the Shaking the Tree version and not from the original PG (III) album? That was one of the first digital recordings, and quite possibly one of the best albums ever.
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PattonFever
(wherever i go, there i am.) | | Posted: Jun 19, 2005 - 13:33 | |
good song, but despite my partiality toward original versions, i like covers of this better.
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bernard
(Pluneret , France) | | Posted: May 21, 2005 - 05:03 | |
yes pazat that's a french tv game called Interville
pazzat wrote:An insight from England on the Jeux Sans Frontieres line here. 'JSF' was a French (or Francophone Swiss? I'm not sure) television game of the 1960s/70s in which teams from towns and villages would compete against each other in totally crazy, slapstick games, often involving running around in medieval costumes carrying barrels of water on their heads etc. The English version, co-presented by rugby league legend Eddie Waring, was called 'It's a Knockout', hence PG's use of that phrase in the song. Time for a revival of the game, I think: writing this has brought back many happy memories of childhood Friday nights. |
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