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I'm sure all the lost hits profiled on this blog so far got some radio play, and there's very few that I only heard on venues outside of regular radio. But this is one whose video was just as well-known as the song.
Slade's lead singer Noddy Holder provided the secret sauce that made this vid so memorable. It's not just because he looked like the Gum Fighter with long hair. I'm talking about the part that begins at about 2:15 where Noddy makes faces at the camera.
My high school biology teacher made faces sort of like that every time he became angry or frustrated (i.e., often). But the event that reminded me of this video took place a few months ago. There's a public swimming pool in Cincinnati that I use on some of the 3 days each year that we have warm, dry weather. Occasionally, someone poops in it and they have to close it for a while. Anyway, back in July, I visited this pool. There was some woman in the pool who made faces like Noddy Holder did for an hour nonstop.
I concluded that the woman most likely had loose dentures.
Also, I think Slade's lost hit was big during our family trip to Chillicothe. My biggest memory of that trip is visiting a convenience store along a lake where some woman got mad at her kids because they wanted to buy bubble gum. Gum was fine, just as long as it wasn't specifically labeled as bubble gum.
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