You might say that...I couldn't possibly comment..
 

 
 
(Yes, you're right btw)

jamesg1213
You might say that...I couldn't possibly comment..
 

 
 
(Yes, you're right btw)

I thought I might have heard it once or maybe twice at a push

SteveStrummerUK

jamesg1213
You might say that...I couldn't possibly comment..
 

 
 
(Yes, you're right btw)

I thought I might have heard it once or maybe twice at a push

Oh c'mon..it's the only vague claim to fame I have...apart from being offered a support slot on an Echo & The Bunnymen tour..just as we broke up...
 
 
Although I did once get knocked over by Ed 'Stewpot' Stewart at a Charidee football match..does that count?

Thanks James for that link. Loved it, made me laugh! Just goes to show how much of an impression that song actually made.
 
No Steve, not that much like it all. Just coincidence! There is a good article written here in one of our mags about that song and how he wrote it and it certainly does not seem it evolved from XTC in any way. You just have to admit that Gotye is brilliant and that is that. Check out all his other songs and you will see what I mean.
 
Love XTC too. They are an amazing band and the level of production is quite incredible even for albums back when.

Now the XTC song I both have and have heard, but I find it weird (yet oddly gratifying) that I had never even heard of let alone heard of a song that was supposedly that popular.  Why do I find it gratifying?  Because it means that there's probably a LOT of music out there that I'll find wonderful that I STILL haven't heard!  YAY!
 
Unlike "some" here, I far prefer to listen to music than to talk about it or analyze it to death.  That includes most lyrics.  I tend to not hear most of them and concentrate on the music instead.  I also couldn't care less if others try to tell me what's good or not, popular or trash and whether I should listen to it due to the political, religious, intellectual or sexual orientation of the performers.  If I like it then that's all that's important to me. 
 
I'm guessing that there are many posters in the different forums I go to that would be shocked (and would express their disapproval) that I often can't even tell you what the artist of a song is, the album a song is off of, what the cover art looks like, the names of the band members or even sometimes the name of the song itself!

jamesg1213

SteveStrummerUK

jamesg1213
You might say that...I couldn't possibly comment..
 

 
 
(Yes, you're right btw)

I thought I might have heard it once or maybe twice at a push

Oh c'mon..it's the only vague claim to fame I have...apart from being offered a support slot on an Echo & The Bunnymen tour..just as we broke up...
 
 
Although I did once get knocked over by Ed 'Stewpot' Stewart at a Charidee football match..does that count?

 Pfft...
 
My claim to pitiful sadness fame is that once, after an incredibly enthralling lecture on radio astronomy I'd attended at Malvern Winter Gardens Theatre, I waited outside the stage door and managed to acquire the signature of main speaker Professor Sir Bernard Lovell off of Jodrell Bank.
 

 
I think maybe, that we moved in vastly different circles James
 
Mind you, when I was much younger and a fairly promising fast bowler, I attended a trial at Gloucestershire Cricket Club under the watchful eye of Mike Proctor. Amongst others, I had the privilege, and it has to be said, the humbling experience, of bowling to the great Zaheer Abbas. I even managed to whizz one past Sadiq Mohammad's ear off my 'short' run up.
 
Happy days :-)
 
 
 

Jeff Evans
 
No Steve, not that much like it all. Just coincidence! There is a good article written here in one of our mags about that song and how he wrote it and it certainly does not seem it evolved from XTC in any way. You just have to admit that Gotye is brilliant and that is that. Check out all his other songs and you will see what I mean.

Oh yeah, he's a clever and very talented guy for sure Jeff. And it's some good stuff - I've listened to a fair bit of his stuff online, I might even shell out for his albums one day.
 
I was only making a comparison to the similarities in style, not suggesting or implying that he'd copied the song in any way.

craigb
Unlike "some" here, I far prefer to listen to music than to talk about it or analyze it to death.  That includes most lyrics.  I tend to not hear most of them and concentrate on the music instead.  I also couldn't care less if others try to tell me what's good or not, popular or trash and whether I should listen to it due to the political, religious, intellectual or sexual orientation of the performers.  If I like it then that's all that's important to me. 
 

I agree to disagree with that, too. ;)
 
Music is such a huge part of my life. It's one of the few things I can really talk about because it's one of the few things I do care about. Obviously, any discussion about music is only incidental.
 
I do believe all those things can be discussed to a certain extent, so long as we try and keep an open-mind. You could be listening to things that would give me a seizure for all I care I'd still respect the heck out of you.
 
And the fact is that BECAUSE respect is there in the first place, we could probably discuss those things and it would never be a big deal, no matter how opposite our views could get.
 
But, yeah, it's incidental. And that brings me to something I wanted to add in view of certain discussions... The biggest majority of what I post here, and certainly 99% of the threads I start, I post in a light-hearted, humorous-tongue-in-cheek spirit, because I consider that this is what the CH is all about. Though it's obviously not in my nature to back away from an argument or not to talk back.
 

I find some unexpected comfort in not knowing any of these songs and performers you've all been alluding to.
 
Well, except for Bohemian Rhapsody of course. Never get tired of that one. If I had an ex-wife I'd make it her ringtone. We'll not let you go, no, no, no no.