Don’t ask me why but I was up at 9am last Sunday so I switched on the radio for some news and, five minutes later, found myself listening to Sunday Love Songs. But guess what…
One of the first Love Songs was You’ve Lost That Loving Feeling by the Righteous Brothers. I missed the dedication but I imagined it might have been for some poor couple’s golden wedding anniversary. They were probably looking forward to hearing something that reflected fifty years of married bliss and they might even have invited all their family and friends around for an anniversary breakfast of champagne and prunes.
As they prepared themselves for something like Endless Love by Diana Ross and Lionel Ritchie, or maybe When a Man Loves a Woman by Percy Sledge, out of their Sunday morning radio comes You’ve Lost That Loving Feeling by the fucking Righteous Brothers. How shit was that?
Anyway, it got me thinking about other inappropriate song for special occasions so here are my little selections for hospital radio, weddings and funerals. Enjoy!
Hospital Radio
· Still ill (The Smiths)
· Wasted Life (Stiff Little Fingers)
· The End (The Doors)
· The Drugs Don’t Work (Richard Ashcroft)
· Someday Soon (The Doors)
· Fixin’ to Die (Bob Dylan)
Weddings
· 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover (Paul Simon)
· D.I.V.O.R.C.E. (Tammy Wynette)
· Love Stinks (J. Geils Band)
· Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now (The Smiths)
· A Man Needs a Maid (Neil Young)
· Run for Your Life (The Beatles)
Funerals
· Stayin’ Alive (Bee Gees)
· Going Underground (The Jam)
· Another One Bites the Dust (Queen)
· Highway to Hell (AC/DC)
· I’m Gonna Live Forever (Fame)
· Tramp the Dirt Down (Elvis Costello)
So what’s your inappropriate song title? Suggestions by email or on a £20 note to…
The Tea Maker
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