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Best Band Aid

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  • #2
    Loughc
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 26,866 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    For me nothing compares to the original 1984. It's unbeatable. Band aid 20 isn't bad. The less said about 30 and 2 the better haha.

    The lifeboat has set sail



  • #3
    AppleBottle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,421 ✭✭✭AppleBottle


    The original will always be the best. But I do like Band Aid 30.


  • #4
    Toto Wolfcastle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,005 ✭✭✭✭Toto Wolfcastle


    Jaysus, I've never even heard of that 1989 one! It's awful. Not Band Aid 30 awful, obviously, but close. I don't like any of them really but the original is the best of them by a mile.


  • #5
    matchthis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,917 ✭✭✭matchthis


    Yeah band aid 2, never heard of it. You'll never beat the original, same as fairy tale of New York.


  • #6
    corblimey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,475 ✭✭✭corblimey


    Never heard of Band Aid II?? Eh, Going Live did a special report about it featuring Jason Donovan answering a phone and Bob Geldof pretending the output of PWL was 'relevant'. How is this not a watershed moment in everyone's lives?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTKIkDcXIDg


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  • #7
    Flange/Flanders
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 444 ✭✭Flange/Flanders


    I'm 29 and I'll always love the original over the other 3!!

    Was wondering this earlier, do the royalties for this song go to charity? I'd be disgusted if they don't.


  • #8
    Loughc
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 26,866 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    Flange/Flanders wrote: »
    Was wondering this earlier, do the royalties for this song go to charity? I'd be disgusted if they don't.

    They sure do. It's a big money earner for the respective charities the royalities go to.

    The lifeboat has set sail



  • #9
    wattlebird
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 54 ✭✭wattlebird


    I wasn't alive for the first two, but the original is the best without a doubt. It makes me feel nostalgic even though I wasn't born then. :p 1989 and 2004 are non-entities and didn't even know they existed... 2014 one was ok I suppose, but most of the female voices are too breathy and ooohy to suit the song.


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