10cc The Worst Band in the World clean radio friendly version
Whilst Wall Street wasnt exactly a big seller, its predecessor The Worst Band In The World (Creme, Gouldman) fared even worse, missing the charts completely. In truth, its a little bit too up itself to be a single, with all the clever tricks like stopstart passages and risqué lyrics designed to annoy the heck out of the radio shows of the day, but thats no reflection on its quality as a song (its a close cousin of The Beach Boys The Little Girl I Once Knew, whose failure in the charts mortified Brian Wilson by limiting what he could get away with). Every single year sees some new wannabe with no talent who seems to hang around in the charts because of a) a song that vaguely catches a nations mood or b) is predetermined by an epic advertising campaign, where recordbuyers are practically forced into buying certain songs in the hope that theyll go away (you could add in c) for modern tastes, when a band is on X Factor, Pop Idol, Strictly Come Dancing, Worlds Greatest Musical Morons, etc, though I m
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