I was driving home listening to one of the crappy FM stations I have on preset (Nova FM, actually, because of the show that Shaun Micallef does in the mornings) and they were interviewing the lead singer of the Angels.
He was talking about how Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again? is actually about someone whose lover has died, leaving the person to wander the streets wondering if there's an afterlife. They then played a slow, acoustic version of the song, and for the first time ever, I actually liked it.
Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again? was a song you had to be careful about the times you chose to play it, as it's become engrained in Australian culture to respond to the chorus with a large chant of "No way! Get fucked! Fuck off!". I find it kind of depressing that such a poignant song has become such a crude punchline.
Of course, I didn't know about the tradition before starting the DJ job, and discovered it when I first played the song at a wedding reception. By that stage of the evening, the groom and all his groomsmen had had enough to drink that they had absolutely no qualms in screaming all the obscenities they could in front of all their oldest relatives. The night finished with all of them topless and rolling around on the floor grinding against one another.
And continuing the trend of communal homoeroticism, I also found out on the job that UQ students have a strange compulsion to drop their pants during Eagle Rock.
Apparently it started as a trend amongst UQ students in the '70s, where instead of "Eagle Rock" they'd sing "Eagle Drop", and spend the rest of the song - if not the rest of the night - with their pants around their ankles.
But I think the pinnacle of this strange manly behaviour came from one extremely blokey male at a uni ball, who after requesting AC/DC and 50 Cent, turned to his mates and said "If I don't get Beautiful Soul by Jesse McCartney played I'll just die!!!"
We didn't play it. He didn't live up to his promise.
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When you make your TV series of this you have to allow in the budget for "Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again?". It has to be done. If its an aussie band it might not be that expensive...
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