"You're cheap and you're haggard"

brummytom · 17-12-2009 09:06PM #1

What the fuck is this?!

Just watching Hollyoaks; in the first scene they're all in a bar singing Fairytale of New York - the original Pogues/Kirsty Maccoll version.

One of the characters sings the best line in the song "You cheap lousy ******" as "You're cheap and you're haggard" a la Ronan Cunting Keating.
Blasphemy, as far as I'm concerned.

Any gay people here, would you complain about it if they broadcast the character singing the real line?

Anyone know any other songs that have been compleeeetely murdered in cover versions?

jumpguy · 17-12-2009 09:08PM

Say that too on E4 +1. I quickly realised when I saw the bad acting, the **** storyline and after the annoying intro it was Hollyoaks and promptly changed the channel.

TPD · 17-12-2009 09:09PM

You really need to stop watching hollyoaks.

RxQueen · 17-12-2009 09:10PM

ahhh that maskes more sense.. i thought she said " haggis"

that was a stupid hollyoaks episode anyways.

dreamer_ire · 17-12-2009 09:10PM

Jimmy Carr is right about Hollyoaks!

BigDuffman · 17-12-2009 09:11PM

Jimmy is allways right!

IvySlayer · 17-12-2009 09:11PM

Oh thought that she meant the Harry Potter dude

Bob_Harris · 17-12-2009 09:15PM

Was there once a late night Hollyoaks with nudie bits in it?

Dudess · 17-12-2009 09:16PM

"You scumbag, you maggot, you're cheap and you're haggard".

Wtf?

brummytom · 17-12-2009 09:16PM

Bob_Harris wrote: »

Was there once a late night Hollyoaks with nudie bits in it?

Yessss

/drools

Mossy Monk · 17-12-2009 09:19PM

Hollyoaks, tv for haggards.

Latchy · 17-12-2009 09:20PM

brummytom wrote: »

Anyone know any other songs that have been compleeeetely murdered in cover versions?

They dont have murder the theme tune on hollyoaks. Sounds like a speeded up version of a ZZ Top tune

3hn2givr7mx1sc · 17-12-2009 09:49PM

brummytom wrote: »

What the fuck is this?!

Just watching Hollyoaks; in the first scene they're all in a bar singing Fairytale of New York - the original Pogues/Kirsty Maccoll version.

One of the characters sings the best line in the song "You cheap lousy ******" as "You're cheap and you're haggard" a la Ronan Cunting Keating.
Blasphemy, as far as I'm concerned.

Any gay people here, would you complain about it if they broadcast the character singing the real line?

Anyone know any other songs that have been compleeeetely murdered in cover versions?

You were the one watching Hollyoaks.:p

Palmerstown_guy · 17-12-2009 09:56PM

Ronan, he's a nice lad.

Daemos · 17-12-2009 09:57PM

brummytom wrote: »

Any gay people here, would you complain about it if they broadcast the character singing the real line?

I'm sure they wouldn't, but the b1tchy mothers that complain to the TV station would have a problem alright. "Ooh, you said a bad word on your show and now my little boy Timmy is scarred for life, ooh".

Idiots

mud · 17-12-2009 10:00PM

Too funny brum-meister!

I heard Ronan Cretin's version the other night and was traumatised.

How the man can show his face in public astounds me!

He arrived on-stage at the Yusef whatever his name is's concert and did a duet of father and son

Cue mass walk-out.

Leave the classics alone!

Horsefumbler · 17-12-2009 10:02PM

Ye wasn't there some hullabaloo one of the years recently with bbc because they were broadcasting that clean version. People complained about it and I think now their air the rude version.

plein de force · 17-12-2009 10:08PM

brummytom wrote: »

What the fuck is this?!

Any gay people here, would you complain about it if they broadcast the character singing the real line?

no, of course i wouldn't, i'm very difficult to offend anyway

sure i only sang that line when it was on the telly a while ago
the word means nothing to me, shout f@ggot from the roof tops if ya like :rolleyes:

mud · 17-12-2009 10:13PM

From wiki: Alternative meaning
"f****t" was a word used before the 1990s in Ireland and Liverpool, UK. When it was used, such as in the 1987 The Pogues' single "Fairytale Of New York", it meant "a lazy person".

me-skywalker · 17-12-2009 10:14PM

brummytom wrote: »

Anyone know any other songs that have been compleeeetely murdered in cover versions?

every sogn ever performed on the xfactor!

KnifeWRENCH · 17-12-2009 10:17PM

brummytom wrote: »

One of the characters sings the best line in the song "You cheap lousy ******" as "You're cheap and you're haggard" a la Ronan Cunting Keating.
Blasphemy, as far as I'm concerned.

Any gay people here, would you complain about it if they broadcast the character singing the real line?

Hell no. I'm far, FAR more insulted by that God-awful censoring of it. It's pretty obvious listening to the lyrics that it's not a homophobic slur.
And even if it was, I honestly wouldn't give a **** 'cause it's a class song!

"Political corectness gone mad" is an often meaningless cliche that gets thrown about far too often, but in this case it's quite accurate.

"You're cheap and you're haggard"? Fcuk off.

Horsefumbler wrote: »

Ye wasn't there some hullabaloo one of the years recently with bbc because they were broadcasting that clean version. People complained about it and I think now their air the rude version.

Damn right too.

MrStuffins · 17-12-2009 10:39PM

How about if we complained saying "Us haggered folk resent your attempt to belittle us, changing lyrics to a song just to have a go at us".

Or, we could set fire to the Hollyoaks set! No more Hollyoaks, no more bad storylines involving whatever Hollyoaks storylines involve and more importantly, no more Hollyoaks!

rannerap · 17-12-2009 10:55PM

the only blasphemous lyric change i can think of is when hillary duff covered my generation(why in gods green earth she covered a who classic il never know) she changed the words i hope i die before i get old to i hope i DONT die before i get old,i wish she would tbh

Mossy Monk · 17-12-2009 10:57PM

Horsefumbler wrote: »

the rude version.

What exactly is rude about it?

MrStuffins · 17-12-2009 10:57PM

Sarannewrap wrote: »

the only blasphemous lyric change i can think of is when hillary duff covered my generation(why in gods green earth she covered a who classic il never know) she changed the words i hope i die before i get old to i hope i DONT die before i get old,i wish she would tbh

LOL!

Latchy · 17-12-2009 11:02PM

Sarannewrap wrote: »

the only blasphemous lyric change i can think of is when hillary duff covered my generation(why in gods green earth she covered a who classic il never know) she changed the words i hope i die before i get old to i hope i DONT die before i get old,i wish she would tbh

Reminds me of Blondies Heart of Glass were singing live on tv she changed the lyrics from

'' Once I had a love and it was a gas, soon turned out
Had a heart of glass into '' be a pain in the ass '' :pac:

MrStuffins · 17-12-2009 11:11PM

Latchy wrote: »

Reminds me of Blondies Heart of Glass were singing live on tv she changed the lyrics from

'' Once I had a love and it was a gas, soon turned out
Had a heart of glass into '' be a pain in the ass '' :pac:

That is actually the lyric in one of the verses!

It was edited in Radio versions as far as i know.

But that lyric is definately present on the album version.

rannerap · 17-12-2009 11:16PM

yeah i was just gonna say.....pain in the ass is the lyrics in one of the verses anyway anyway

Latchy · 17-12-2009 11:30PM

MrStuffins wrote: »

That is actually the lyric in one of the verses!

It was edited in Radio versions as far as i know.

But that lyric is definately present on the album version.

Sarannewrap wrote: »

yeah i was just gonna say.....pain in the ass is the lyrics in one of the verses anyway anyway

I was more used to the original single 80s version and only saw her singing it , giggling away live on tv ,adding the ' pain in the ass ' bit back in the 90s

MrStuffins · 17-12-2009 11:34PM

Latchy wrote: »

I was more used to the original single 80s version and only saw her singing it , giggling away live on tv ,adding the ' pain in the ass ' bit back in the 90s

The best one was from BBC4 and RATM today.

They promised BBC they wouldnt swear on air......... the main chant of the song is "F*ck You i won't do what you tell me"
What did they think would happen? Maybe they should've told them TO swear!

Latchy · 17-12-2009 11:41PM

MrStuffins wrote: »

The best one was from BBC4 and RATM today.

They promised BBC they wouldnt swear on air......... the main chant of the song is "F*ck You i won't do what you tell me"
What did they think would happen? Maybe they should've told them TO swear!

LOL indeed . Remember that Mike Read ,the dj saying he was not going to play Frankie goes to hollywoods ' Relax ' because of the 'profound sexual conatations ' which only helped the record shoot to number one when it got much more airplay at the time on all the other radio networks .

"You're cheap and you're haggard"

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