'Snooker Loopy' vs the theme from Big Break: showdown poll

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theme from Big Break 9
'Snooker Loopy' 7


Roberto Spiralli, Monday, 27 June 2016 17:27 (seven years ago) link

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ogmor, Monday, 27 June 2016 17:33 (seven years ago) link

this is a great poll, I'm sorry to have sullied it with such an egregious typo. there is no wrong answer

ogmor, Monday, 27 June 2016 17:33 (seven years ago) link

I'd like to put a word in for this version by Kenny Everett

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVzzq3dvJ4k

soref, Monday, 27 June 2016 17:39 (seven years ago) link

is it fair to assume that if Mike Batt had happened to have once written a song about golf then Full Swing would have run for as many series as Big Break?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DB8Wz_gdlo

soref, Monday, 27 June 2016 19:55 (seven years ago) link

Voted for 'Snooker Loopy', because hearing the theme from 'Big Break' nearly always meant that 'Big Break' was on the TV.

I'm part of the 48.1 percent (snoball), Monday, 27 June 2016 20:00 (seven years ago) link

<3 Big Break. have you seen the christmas special with Isla Fisher dressed as Penelope Pitstop and Little & Large as Popeye & Olive Oil?

https://youtu.be/aoPoMDRYxEY

soref, Monday, 27 June 2016 20:21 (seven years ago) link

"Big Break" theme is awesome but twice as long as it need be. Chas and Dave on auto pilot with "Snooker Loopy" tbh.

They could have been Stackridge. (Tom D.), Monday, 27 June 2016 20:26 (seven years ago) link

"Big Break" theme clearly the club banger of these two

this is a great poll

Roberto Spiralli, Tuesday, 28 June 2016 14:05 (seven years ago) link

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Thursday, 30 June 2016 00:01 (seven years ago) link

Snooker Loopy. It's far from Chas'n'Dave at their best musically but lyrically it's #1 in a class of one as the saying goes.

everything, Thursday, 30 June 2016 00:21 (seven years ago) link

Has any song ever suggested a backing vocalist should put chalk on his bald head in order to not dazzle people with the reflected light?

everything, Thursday, 30 June 2016 00:25 (seven years ago) link

Now ol' Spirals as we all knows
Got loadsa dappa suits
Cov bred and he keeps his head
Though he's got Italian roots

r|t|c, Thursday, 30 June 2016 10:28 (seven years ago) link

i'd never heard the full 'big break'. revelation. combination of jocularly predatory innuendo, nimble lyricism and bellows-operated pub riddim suggests it to be the british progenitor of 'blurred lines', featuring davidson/virgo/sensible as very credible thicke/pharrell/ti

r|t|c, Thursday, 30 June 2016 10:40 (seven years ago) link

http://factmag-images.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/bb7-blurred-lines-trial-illo-2015-billboard-650-promo.jpg

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r|t|c, Thursday, 30 June 2016 10:48 (seven years ago) link

GOR BLIMEY

Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 30 June 2016 10:51 (seven years ago) link

tbh with that magnificent original verse and the blurred lines comparison this thread has accomplished far more than i ever imagined, far more than it had any business doing

Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 30 June 2016 10:54 (seven years ago) link

for the first non-hollow laugh I've had in a while, I bless you

ogmor, Thursday, 30 June 2016 11:27 (seven years ago) link

"Snooker Loopy" is a humorous song which was released as a single in May 1986 and entered the UK Singles Chart, reaching #6

Amazing.

Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 30 June 2016 12:57 (seven years ago) link

Snooker and Chas 'n' Dave, couldn't fail with that combination in 1986, my son.

They could have been Stackridge. (Tom D.), Thursday, 30 June 2016 13:11 (seven years ago) link

The Romford Rap stiffed at #91 just a year later though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_u6ygwphGeY

soref, Thursday, 30 June 2016 13:27 (seven years ago) link

http://eil.com/images/main/Chas++Dave+The+Romford+Rap+511355.jpg

soref, Thursday, 30 June 2016 13:33 (seven years ago) link

The Romford Rap stiffed at #91 just a year later though

Difficult to reproduce greatness.

They could have been Stackridge. (Tom D.), Thursday, 30 June 2016 13:39 (seven years ago) link

Isla fisher as Penelope pitstop successfully straddles either side of my adolescent fixations. It would be big break regardless, though.

inside, skeletons are always inside, that's obvious. (dowd), Thursday, 30 June 2016 13:54 (seven years ago) link

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

System, Friday, 1 July 2016 00:01 (seven years ago) link

snooker loopy 4 life. this remix is the best:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZdU6MGuqic

coygbiv (NickB), Friday, 1 July 2016 05:41 (seven years ago) link

also, it really reminds me of soft cell's version of 'where did our love go', dunno if anyone else is hearing it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3C6Ta9hCwEM

coygbiv (NickB), Friday, 1 July 2016 05:49 (seven years ago) link

one year passes...

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Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 14 June 2018 00:29 (five years ago) link

otm

illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 14 June 2018 21:31 (five years ago) link

i'd never heard the full 'big break'. revelation. combination of jocularly predatory innuendo, nimble lyricism and bellows-operated pub riddim suggests it to be the british progenitor of 'blurred lines', featuring davidson/virgo/sensible as very credible thicke/pharrell/ti


this is it

the most insightful post on ilxor dot com

CARL MARKS PRINCIPAL INVESTING AND ADVISORY SERVICES (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 14 June 2018 23:38 (five years ago) link

RIP

ogmor, Friday, 15 June 2018 07:50 (five years ago) link

a little tear came to my eye on re-reading that

Smolov pupper (Noodle Vague), Friday, 15 June 2018 11:58 (five years ago) link

I don't think I knew Captain Sensible sang that

Colonel Poo, Friday, 15 June 2018 20:02 (five years ago) link

should've pulled vanian in, missed opportunity

Roberto Spiralli, Friday, 15 June 2018 20:07 (five years ago) link

He said Captain, he said pot. Sorry that's weak

Colonel Poo, Friday, 15 June 2018 20:33 (five years ago) link


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