Bernard's best rap
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Which song features Bernard's best rap?
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Idiot Country 28 (68%)
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Feel Every Beat 7 (17%)
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Times Change 6 (15%)
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In all (semi-) seriousness, I think it's Feel Every Beat. Sure, the lyrics are throw away, but the song's very catchy and doesn't seem to take itself seriously, unlike Times Change.
Wow...Barney rapping makes me cringe but I agree with Blue-Eyed Boy...Feel Every Beat is a fun song so the rapping fits.
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It's gotta be Feel Every Beat.. I second that, cos it's so brillantly crap it's hysterical.
'The image of a mother in a violent birth'.. I mean COME ON!, it puts 50 Cent to shame..lol
you mean Barney had a good rap-John Barnes on "WIM" sounds much better than dear old Bernard-and Jon sucks, no flow at all!!
i think Idiot Country is full of Wah Wah geetar,nice!! 
Never been big on Rap.mostly cos its annoying posturing toss..at least with Barney "its a signal,a sign...it means am doing what am doing,cos I do it all the time"
Better than Barnsy(John Barns) tho
I chose "Idiot Country", although "Feel Every Beat" was good, too.
Bernard's "rap" always comes across as cutesy and adorable, though.
It's never overly macho or threatening sounding like real rap.
leather_girl wrote: I chose "Idiot Country", although "Feel Every Beat" was good, too. Bernard's "rap" always comes across as cutesy and adorable, though.
Indeed. That's why it's not bad - because Barney isn't pretending to be a thug. I've often wondered what would happen if "Gangster" or "Feel Every Beat" was played on a top 40/rap station.
Voted Idiot Country. I Told You So I suppose could be considered as light reggae/dancehall which is where rap was supposed to have it's original roots.
This blue-eyed boy that wants to be wrote:
leather_girl wrote: I chose "Idiot Country", although "Feel Every Beat" was good, too. Bernard's "rap" always comes across as cutesy and adorable, though.
Indeed. That's why it's not bad - because Barney isn't pretending to be a thug. I've often wondered what would happen if "Gangster" or "Feel Every Beat" was played on a top 40/rap station.
You'll probably have the rap listeners going, "WTF?" or something. Even worse, some might call him a "sissy". (I can imagine some thug-like, super-macho men thinking that, though, because any man will look like a sissy to those kinds of thuggish men.)
yeah if he hasn't boasted about rape and murder in the first 3 bars he's a nonce.
The only thing worse that the street thug bling brigade is that creepy retard emenenema
I dunno it's more like the demented mumblings of an old fella rocking in his chair really :)
I must admit it makes me cringe, yet, as ever, I keep listening to those tracks (not the electronic ones, I'm a bit blehhhh about electronic bar about 3 tunes)
Check mail Yer hotmail JH BTW, important things must be known (that's if I'm not SO off the xmas card list for my part in last night's unpleasantness) :D
Only 3 people get christmas cards from me:
mum, dad, girlfriend. i know that sounds harsh on the rest of the huge family, but it has to be done.
to be honest, i did think of changing it to steve campbell, mum, dad, girlfriend...but then you let me down last night 
Up yer arse :)
My GF, at our first Xmas together hands me a card and says "roaches for ya" bless.
im always rubbish at buying christmas cards, its usually my girlfriend that picks the cards for my mum n dad with me cos im like 
but i have to choose hers cos she cant really help me with that one!
just hope i pick a good one 
I like Times Change just |--| that much more than FEB. I find myself listening to it just before I put UB40's Kingston Town on my playlist. They go oddly well together.
Jack_H wrote:
im always rubbish at buying christmas cards, its usually my girlfriend that picks the cards for my mum n dad with me cos im like
but i have to choose hers cos she cant really help me with that one!
just hope i pick a good one
My dear Leanne (she's not really a proper GF, just my cosmic other half), has 3 brothers, all useless little homer simpsons, and a useless dad too. Xmas is not a time of joy for her...having to buy brother 1's present's for mum,dad,herself, his GF, brother's 2 and 3 and their GF's etc. then repeat the excercise for all the others.
Last year she bought something in the order of 60-70 presents, and she only has 2 friends she gives a fuck about, me and some bloke in England she talks to online (and if he's anyone here I wanna know :) )
her ideal career? I asked her Personal shopper FFS (would anyone hazard a guess at her hair colour?)
EDIT:
at myself for the thought that just floated into my head....Xmas morning: "Bass strings...wow thanks dad" "nice one sone, bass strings" (pissed off looks all round....females giggle) ...could the ubiquity of socks be under threat :D
msh wrote: I like Times Change just |--| that much more than FEB. I find myself listening to it just before I put UB40's Kingston Town on my playlist. They go oddly well together.
ITS ABOUT PORT ROYAL TOWN, CAROLINA, US OF A. INNIT?
NO Regret wrote:
msh wrote: I like Times Change just |--| that much more than FEB. I find myself listening to it just before I put UB40's Kingston Town on my playlist. They go oddly well together.
ITS ABOUT PORT ROYAL TOWN, CAROLINA, US OF A. INNIT?
Dunno, I don't think I've ever researched that before. Mostly just the tone of the two songs seem to go well with each other, back to back. Same sort of desperation in the music, same sort of desperation in the lyrics.
At least that is what I think I hear. :D
It's a classic Barney tune all round. Each line makes sense, but not together, yet the full whole someone conveys buckets of emotion.
All it lacks is one of his 2 line "unified theory of the universe" lyrics.
But rapping??? Can you imagine how long it was before Hooky could even pick his bass up or Steve could drum after he said "I think I'll do some rap on this one "....3 hours later.."stop fookin laughin Hooky...Steve you too" (Gillian, being a lady, would of course not be so rude and loutish)
I'm figuring that Barney had to down a few bottles of wine to get that special sort of seriousness going for the song. I bet if you clear up the recording a bit, there's a laugh track underneath it all by Morris/Hook, and Barney liberally calling them cunts.
Nah, there was a producer on there, he would UNDOUBTEDLY have kicked the rest of them RIGHT out for that take...it'd be mayhem otherwise. (in other words, preciecely what you described :) )
duroc wrote: White boys can't rap period!
Are you saying the phenomena that is Vanilla Ice can't rap? What about Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch?
msh wrote:
duroc wrote: White boys can't rap period!
Are you saying the phenomena that is Vanilla Ice can't rap? What about Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch?
yep and you can add eminem and fred "tattoed freak bwoy" durst to the list aswell :)
Where's "none"? they are all terrible... i cringe everytime. i hit the skip forward button EVERYTIME.
And yes, Eminem is awesome, though the latest iPod commercial is getting on my nerves.
Sorry to say this, but come to think of it, I have never enjoyed any rhymes from the UK. Please stop.
Eric Wang wrote: Where's "none"? they are all terrible... i cringe everytime. i hit the skip forward button EVERYTIME.
And yes, Eminem is awesome, though the latest iPod commercial is getting on my nerves.
Sorry to say this, but come to think of it, I have never enjoyed any rhymes from the UK. Please stop.
oh - waitaminute... i take it back... UK does have some pretty great rappers. Roots Manuva for one. "Witness" is a great track and I love spinning that one. Tricky is alright, but sometimes.
But New Order - geez, I hope never again.
