80s One-Hit Wonder Megapoll Round 1H: Patrick Swayze: She's Like the Wind Vs. Men at Work: Land Down Under

[Rat Diva]

Patrick Swayze: She's Like the Wind Vs. Men at Work: Land Down Under

[What Exit?]

It is a hard sell for me to vote for any of these actor vanity projects. Plus Land Down Under is fun.

[Pencil]

I don't like it, but I don't think it was a vanity project. It was in Dirty Dancing and he starred. You might as well say that Summer Nights was a vanity project for Travolta.

[Zeener Diode]

If anyone wants to vote for Patrick I'll offer them a Vegemite sandwich.

[NAF1138]

Once again the megapoll gods frown on my desire to vote along crappy novelty hits.

[JackieLikesVariety]

should be a skunking

[Ludovic]

I voted for Down Under but I imagine that stance won't last very many rounds because I like Who Can It Be Now and Overkill much better.

[Detroit Hoser]

Me too, especially Colin Hay's acoustic version of Overkill.

[Pogo]

I think Colin Hay is touring with Ringo Starr's All-Starr Band this year.

[Borborygmi]

Sorry I'm tardy here but I did finally just add the critical vote that makes it 24-0.

[silenus]

Originally Posted by Weedy Crocker

Me too, especially Colin Hay's acoustic version of Overkill.

Which just showed up on a rerun of Scrubs the other day.

[mjmlabs]

True Mondegreen Confession: For decades, whenever I happened to hear Men at Work's "It's a Mistake," I mistook the title refrain as "Midsummer's Day."

Yeah I have some hearing damage why do you bring it up?

[Ludovic]

I have a mondegreen as an earworm now whenever I hear Overkill. I never used to hear it as

"close to beer and fade away"

, because that makes no sense at all, but when someone pointed that out, that's all I can hear now.

[Detroit Hoser]

Originally Posted by Ludovic

I have a mondegreen as an earworm now whenever I hear Overkill. I never used to hear it as , because that makes no sense at all, but when someone pointed that out, that's all I can hear now.

Ack, I always thought it was "close to fear and fade away" which is just as [il]logical.


"Ghosts appear and fade away..." makes so much sense. I learned something today.

[dba Fred]

And the headline reads Men At Work pass Wind, film & audio at 11.

[Rat Diva]

Greasy fast food'll do that to ya.