elton's "are you ready for love" Thoughts?

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I can't say I've ever been grabbed this way by an Elton John song, but what a production. I'm curious to know if anyone else likes this. One rider to this: I fear I'm going to hate it by the end of the summer.

― Daniel (dancity), Thursday, 31 July 2003 21:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Done to death on Sky already as a trailer for the new football season. The ad is worth it for the ridiculous campery, and for the hilarity of seeing Barry Ferguson's ned-boy mug slapped in the middle of the likes of Zidane, Henry, Davids et al as a tempter for watching the stuff they have to offer :)

Song's OK, I suppose, as good Elton songs go.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 31 July 2003 22:19 (twenty-two years ago)

First person to put this on a mixtape and then follow it with the obvious Bad Company song gets... well, nothing, really.

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Thursday, 31 July 2003 22:29 (twenty-two years ago)

The other wording of this thread was going to be: Taking sides - Are You Ready...? vs Born Slippy. I just can't stop segueing one into the other whenever I hear the EJ song in my head.

― Daniel (dancity), Thursday, 31 July 2003 23:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Ashley Beedle remix is great though faithful enough to the original for me to say classic.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 31 July 2003 23:35 (twenty-two years ago)

As Ailsa points out, the mixing up of Elton John's sequined camp with the machismo of football is the thing here. EJ asking football fans if they're ready for love amuses me greatly. It's partly just the notion of football and the word love - I felt a similarly odd mix of amusement and mild discomfort back in 1990 when Gascoigne and co sang 'Love's got the world in motion...'

― Daniel (dancity), Thursday, 31 July 2003 23:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Surely the greatest discomfort to be had from that was listening to John Barnes' "rapping"?

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 31 July 2003 23:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I find it him inspiring. Last week I had a large bet with some friends on a football video game and I played World In Motion beforehand to get myself and my team-mate fired up. We lost 6-1 though.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 31 July 2003 23:51 (twenty-two years ago)

I find him inspiring I meant.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 31 July 2003 23:51 (twenty-two years ago)

John Barnes or Elton John?

bizarrely the Elton single is out on Southern Fried - Norman Cook's label, what the dilly?

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 31 July 2003 23:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Ha - John Barnes' failure in getting teams to win continues long after his departure from Celtic then :)

(x-post, I assumed you meant Barnes, not Elton)

*apologies for derailment. Normal service has now been resumed*

So Elton John, eh? Best single he's done since...er, the last one actually (yes, really, Blue couldn't ruin Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word)

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 31 July 2003 23:55 (twenty-two years ago)

well Beedle is surely a mate of Norman Cook's. I like the song. And yeah it does work on the football ad, though elton is looking a bit odd haircut wise.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 31 July 2003 23:56 (twenty-two years ago)

bear in mind 'are you ready for love?' is actually from about 1974 so not technically 'best thing he's done since...' anything recent

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 31 July 2003 23:58 (twenty-two years ago)

I actually thought it was a looky-like on the ad, as he seems to have such a cartoon-Elton-wig on his head, it looked too ridiculous (if such a description can be bestowed upon Elton).

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 31 July 2003 23:58 (twenty-two years ago)

bear in mind 'are you ready for love?' is actually from about 1974 so not technically 'best thing he's done since...' anything recent

Ah, but I didn't say "best thing he's done since..", just "best single he's done since..", which follows up the last single he's done (which was also an oldie).

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 1 August 2003 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah I thought it was a kind of boyband haircut for mad old reggie.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 1 August 2003 00:01 (twenty-two years ago)

It's from 1977, but it's only just arrived in my consciousness in the last week. I read somewhere that Justin Robertson started playing it some time ago and people went berserk and this was what set the wheels in motion for a re-release. talking of Motion, the John Barnes' rap: whatever the motives for choosing him for the role of rapper, I think he did a remarkable job, considering that rapping is not exactly his main profession. World in Motion was a fine record, but the sight of Paul Gascoigne and Peter Beardsley singing Love's got the World in Mertion was a culture shock, to put it mildly. Back to Are you ready...?, am I alone in feeling the Born Slippy connection?

― Daniel (dancity), Friday, 1 August 2003 11:22 (twenty-two years ago)

very annoying when all those idiot chatterheads diss Barnes' rap on I Love 1990 Pop Years...as if they could do better

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 1 August 2003 11:40 (twenty-two years ago)

this thread is hilarious

― zebedee (long time EJ fan) (zebedee), Friday, 1 August 2003 12:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Glad to see you're being entertained, zebedee.

― Daniel (dancity), Friday, 1 August 2003 14:05 (twenty-two years ago)

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