Eastenders - Musical Comedy

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Musical Comedy
Posted by Kevin O’Sullivan on 07 Apr 2007 at 10:38

As Albert Square’s hideous Lothario “mad” Max enjoyed another secret little chat with his barrow girl lover Stacey, the Queen Vic’s subversive juke box was blaring The Smiths’ awesome ode to disillusion How Soon Is Now. “I can’t talk now,” whispered Ginger Boy against the incongruous background noise of Morrissey wailing “You shut your mouth, how can you say - I go about things the wrong way.” Check it out. Happens all the time.

Someone is undermining the script with music that really hits the wrong note. Only this week when Eastenders’ deranged doctor May endured the embarrassment of sharing the Vic with her estranged hubbie Rob and his new official squeeze Dawn, the theme tune to her humiliation turned out to be the Stone Roses’ classic hippy anthem Waterfall. While May theatrically removed her wedding ring ,the Roses sang : “She'll carry on through it all ... she's a waterfall.”

Over at Ian Beale’s crap cafe old Dot Branning sat mulling her misery at three in the morning - serenaded by Take That and their smash hit Patience. As Dot smoked her cigarette Gary Barlow and the boys chorused : “My heart is numb has no feeling. So while I'm still healing just try and have a little patience.”

The other soaps tend to stick to top ten hits. But whoever’s in charge of Walford’s wall of sound has a wicked sense of humour. See if you can spot the songs that wreck the action. It’s a good game to alleviate the general sense of tedium!

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[Aja]

LOL I'll have to try that Face .....

[eefanincan]

If I remember correctly, they once played "Wake me up before you go go" from Wham! when someone was leaving after a night of "passion".

[Skylace]

I remember reading once on the EE site that they actually do carefully select the songs. So this doesn't surprise me.

[eefanincan]

[Skylace]