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Boney M
Posted: 30 Dec 2010, 18:35
by abridged
Unashamedly Boney M were my first love (along with the Undertones) in music terms. Bobby Farrell RIP. Not music innovators and mostly not even musicians, but the invention of Frank Farren, the guy responsible for Millie Vanilli but still Rasputin, Rivers of Babylon, He was a Steppenwolf, Daddy Cool etc were damn fine!
Posted: 30 Dec 2010, 19:02
by Andie
Sad day,
Posted: 30 Dec 2010, 19:11
by Garbageman
Boney M was my first proper gig at The Rainbow in London.......crazy like a fool, Daddy Cool.
Posted: 30 Dec 2010, 20:13
by James Blast
Fuck Me!
I'm on the meringue forum
Posted: 30 Dec 2010, 20:17
by paul
I always kinda liked them....
Posted: 30 Dec 2010, 21:05
by Bartek
"Daddy cool" on every parties tomorrow then ?
Posted: 30 Dec 2010, 22:13
by Being645
Ma, Ma, Ma, Mah - Mah Baker ...
Funny, Daddy Cool has just been played on the radio ...
but hell, I changed to Eureka Machines ...
Posted: 30 Dec 2010, 22:29
by Big Si
James Blast wrote:Fuck Me!
I'm on the meringue forum
It's 'Pop Music' old chap
Posted: 30 Dec 2010, 22:53
by James Blast
I dooon't believe it!
I was there at the time, Yes and ELP were in their pomp, that sh
it wrankles wi me
Posted: 30 Dec 2010, 23:10
by Norman Hunter
I only just realised a couple of days ago that the "Ma-Ma-Ma-Ma" from Poker Face was a Boney M sample
Rasputin was always my fav.
Posted: 31 Dec 2010, 01:15
by stufarq
Yes, he could lip-sync with the best of them.
Posted: 31 Dec 2010, 01:35
by Izzy HaveMercy
James Blast wrote:I dooon't believe it!
I was there at the time, Yes and ELP were in their pomp, that sh
it wrankles wi me
Lost in translation
IZ.
Posted: 31 Dec 2010, 02:16
by Ahráyeph
Izzy HaveMercy wrote:James Blast wrote:I dooon't believe it!
I was there at the time, Yes and ELP were in their pomp, that sh
it wrankles wi me
Lost in translation
IZ.
Weegie Prog Rocker translation : "I was - then as now - a proggie, Boney M were disco and as we all know, disco sucks when you're a true rawk fan"
Yir welcome...
I liked Farrell's antics but was never a big Boney M fan, even in my infant years, those some call the '70's. I guess that disco stuff wrankled with me too. Especially German disco. By Frank Farian. Thank Goth for the Neue Deutsche Welle, Kraftwerk and the Neubauten coming along eventually. 'Rasputin' had something I liked, mainly because it was a song about the actual guy. I guess Ma Baker was supposed to be factual as well, but the woman was actually called Barker. Yes, that irked me. I'm a history nerd, sue me...
Posted: 31 Dec 2010, 10:14
by Erudite
Always thought Rasputin was a tune, but Brown Girl In The Ring even back then seemed wrong on so many levels.
Posted: 31 Dec 2010, 10:42
by Quiff Boy
god bless. He might not have done much more than dance and wave his crazy (like a fool) afro around but I love Boney M.
their basslines were more goff than the sisters'
:noteworthy: (seriously, check out ma baker, daddy cool and rasputin's basslines!)
farewell daddy (kinda) cool
Posted: 31 Dec 2010, 13:54
by Debaser
Would it be wrong to admit owning an unhealthy amount of Boney M singles?
Posted: 31 Dec 2010, 14:00
by abridged
Debaser wrote:Would it be wrong to admit owning an unhealthy amount of Boney M singles?
Nope! He was a Steppenwolf, the B-side to Painter Man (which was one of the first singes i ever bought) is still one of my fav songs! Can you imagine any pop group these days singing about a prostitute on a suicide kick?!
Posted: 31 Dec 2010, 14:18
by Quiff Boy
abridged wrote:Debaser wrote:Would it be wrong to admit owning an unhealthy amount of Boney M singles?
Nope! He was a Steppenwolf, the B-side to Painter Man (which was one of the first singes i ever bought) is still one of my fav songs! Can you imagine any pop group these days singing about a prostitute on a suicide kick?!
And the track "night flight to venus" introduced the pop and disco world to Burundi drumming
Posted: 31 Dec 2010, 14:29
by Debaser
Quiff Boy wrote:abridged wrote:Debaser wrote:Would it be wrong to admit owning an unhealthy amount of Boney M singles?
Nope! He was a Steppenwolf, the B-side to Painter Man (which was one of the first singes i ever bought) is still one of my fav songs! Can you imagine any pop group these days singing about a prostitute on a suicide kick?!
And the track "night flight to venus" introduced the pop and disco world to Burundi drumming
I feel cleansed. Thank you.
Posted: 31 Dec 2010, 14:32
by radiojamaica
I've got some Boney M records too... of course... Not only the music's big fun, but those sleeves
Yeah baby!
RiP Bobby Farrell
Posted: 31 Dec 2010, 16:13
by James Blast
Yir aw mentalists!
It's Shite!
Posted: 31 Dec 2010, 16:35
by Debaser
James Blast wrote:Yir aw mentalists!
It's Shite!
I bet you know all the words though
Posted: 31 Dec 2010, 16:40
by James Blast
interseting FACT!
Bobby died in St Petersburg on 29 December. Just like Rasputin *Twilight Zone music*
Posted: 31 Dec 2010, 16:47
by DocSommer
That guy was just a false front for playback performances - his voice is not on the records. IIRC the producer Frank Farian did the original male vocals by himself.
Posted: 31 Dec 2010, 17:02
by euphoria
Saw them some 15 years ago, classic party music. But I was extremely drunk and my only memory is me shouting "this sounds exactly like Boney M, do you hear it??" and some annoyed people answering back "this IS Boney M, you moron!"
