Gregory2Smith1
J'les aurai!
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Should be the end of the thread.
I have said it before on here. Not as good a song as Joe Dolce's. 'Vienna' is a shallow overblown pompous dirge, whereas 'Shut-up ya face' was catchy and charming and is now just sneered at because it was a novelty.
Dolce was writing about his family and childhood experiences and whilst it played on stereotypes it's humour came from the same place as the 'Goodness Gracious Me' TV series: a second generation immigrant who had found a place in their home country, in Dolce's case Australia, ribbing their parents' generation for their old country ways. It's a seemingly throwaway, but strangely meaningful piece of fluff that was actually funny when we first heard it and wanted to join in back in 1981.
Midge Ure had never been to Vienna, has admitted that his lyrics are pretty much meaningless and has nothing much more going for it once the echoing drum intro has ceased being a novelty and become an irritation. It's the eighties version of 'Whiter Shade of Pale.' 'Ooh it's got classical strings and enigmatic lyrics - that must make it classy and deep' No, just dull and pretentious. The video was also terrible.
I quite like Midge though, particularly for his story about how he ended up becoming the worst guitarist Thin Lizzy ever had.
It couldn't possibly be end of thread anyway. Don't forget that this was kept off number one by the Pet Shop Boys' crap version of 'Always on My Mind'.
All the best songs stopped at number 2. As you've already taken Oliver's Army, I'll have to take this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_MqfF0WBsU
Well I like it
What I don't like is tiresome bores telling me whether I'm supposed to like a song or not.