Siam's gonna be the witness to the ultimate test of cerebral fitness.

[Beware the Beast Man]

This grips me more than would a muddy old river or reclining Buddah.
Thank God I'm only watching the game, controlling it.

x(

This earworm dedicated to all those that gave me one as I stepped into the Lounge today.

[Hugin]

1. ACK!

I innocently wandered into this thread.

Now, I'm:

One night in Bangkok and the world's your oyster
The bars are temples but the pearls ain't free
You'll find a god in every golden cloister
A little flesh, a little history
I can feel an angel sliding up to me

One night in Bangkok makes a hard man humble
Not much between despair and ecstasy
One night in Bangkok and the tough guys tumble
Can't be too careful with your company
I can feel the devil walking next to me

MORE HERE, DARN-IT!

http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/chesslondon/onenightinbangkok.htm

Better link...

http://www.80smusiclyrics.com/artists/murrayhead.htm

[LSdemocrat]

2. I don't see you guys rating

The kind of mate I'm contemplating
I'd let you watch, I would invite you
But the queens we use would not excite you

So you better go back to your bars, your temples, your massage
parlours --

[terrya]

3. "shudder" Lloyd Webber!

Dear God, this is hideous beyond words.

I'll take "Horrible James Brown Songs" for $100, Alex.

[meegbear]

6. I thought it was the guys from ABBA

[terrya]

9. Oh...you're right.

I'm ready to blame Lloyd Webber for anything.

You're right.

[jobycom]

11. Murray Head--Abba sang backup

I like the song, so there! :silly:

[Beware the Beast Man]

13. Brother of Anthony Stewart Head.

Giles from "Buffy the Vampire Slayer."

[crispini]

29. Wow! I had no idea.

I've learned something today! Cool! :P

[Left Is Write]

16. I like it too.

[hyphenate]

27. Me, too!

I love many of the songs from the Chess album.

"I know him so well" is another favorite.

[terrya]

14. Tim Rice wrote the lyrics....that's what I was thinking of.

Rice was Lloyd Webber's collaborator for a number of years.

[jobycom]

17. I didn't know that, I thought the Abba guys wrote the song

since they wrote the play.

[terrya]

18. They wrote the music.

[redqueen]

4. I like that song.

:blush:

[supernova]

8. Me too, RQ

:blush: "Chess" is A L-W?

But Murray Head sure is cool. :D

[redqueen]

12. Um... dunno.

But I agree, MH is cool w/ me...

:hi:

[jobycom]

15. No, Chess is not A L-W. It was written by the men in Abba.

Chess was written by Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus, both of ABBA fame, and renown lyricist Tim Rice. It was a cold-war parable taking place over a chess board, as Russians battled the West for the world title. At one point, a match is scheduled in an unusual locale for such a cerebral game, Bangkok, which of course prompts "the American" to break into song. The song is "One Night In Bangkok," and is performed in this case by Murray Head, "the American" in the original studio recording of the musical.

http://www.80smusiclyrics.com/artists/murrayhead.htm

[supernova]

20. Oh thanks,

ABBA know english a lot better than I thought. It's a very witty song.

[tigereye]

22. me too RQ

philistines are they. ;)

I like "I'm Turning Japanese" by the Vapors, as well. Not very pc, but.

[redqueen]

24. Not PC?

Please tell me the general public isn't becoming anti-orgasm, too!

[Hugin]

5. Grrr...

[madrchsod]

7. "one night in bangkok makes a hard man humble"

--i really like this song

[jobycom]

10. I get my kicks above the waistline, Sunshine.

[supernova]

19. Somerset Maugham

This song gets props for mentioning Somerset Maugham. :-)

[northzax]

21. how can you complain about

a show with everything by Yul Brynner?

[jackelope72]

23. If you want to talk about earworms,

"Merano" from the same show is much, much worse

Get up your get up and go and get in line
It's living your life in a show by Rodgers and Hammerstein!

[hyphenate]

25. Ha! It's been in my ear for about

a month now. I posted a question about it at least two weeks ago now!

[Beware the Beast Man]

26. Amazing...

I never anticipated that a Murray Head earworm thread would garner 25 responses.

[supernova]

28. Hey, as earworms go,

it's not a bad one to have. ;-)