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Tonight's theme is:
🧀🎵😬 POST CHEESE 😬🎵🧀
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🎵 Post wonderfully awful songs along with what you’re drinking! 🎶
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Score:
∙ 5 points: mild cheese
∙ 10 points: embarrassed to admit you love
∙ 15 points: medium cheese
∙ 20 points: both terrible AND perfect
∙ 30 points: extra-sharp, final boss, clears the room
🍷 Having My Baby - Paul Anka + sweet vermouth rocks Twist🍸
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Some of the worst songs ever to come out of Aotea New Zealand
https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/life-begins-at-40-1983/overview
Life Begins at 40 - A tongue in cheek paean to the joys of middle age, this jaunty, amiable track was an unlikely hit in the more electro-pop oriented early 80s. Written by Dave Luther, from folk pop group Hogsnort Rupert, it was the 12th biggest selling single in NZ in 1983. The all-singing, all-dancing music video, like so many of the era, was an Avalon Studios television production. Less typically, by the standards of the day, it practically amounts to a major production with multiple sets and a cast of dozens while the band hams it up.
That is the 1983 Number One hit in the charts here. FOR THREE WEEKS IT HELD THAT SPOT!
And it slays any boss for all the wrong reasons
Please say you had zero involvement in the production of this
Fuck no! Back then I was editing around half of the rock clips made in Auckland, but we wouldn't have touched that pile of crap with a bargepole. I never liked any of the Hogsnort stuff.
In January 83 I left NZ for ten years in London, so I sadly missed this track enjoying its inexplicable burst of fame.
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IceNine
Bob LeFridge 