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28th June 2009, 11:53pm
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#1 | | Registered User
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| the best busking song?
have you ever busked? what is your favourite song?
after hearing this i keep kicking myself thinking damn i'd made some more money doing this, springsteen relates to everyoone! plus when you play good music you don't care if you're getting paid, this gun's entire 
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29th June 2009, 12:24am
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#2 | | Registered User Editor
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| Re: the best busking song?
Pick a random page outta any volume of this series. They're all as bad as each other when played by Glasgow buskers. Particularly the ones in Ashton Lane.
You get the occasional good busker, but they don't stick around when all they get in this city is mothballs and used chewing gum in their cases. | 
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29th June 2009, 12:36am
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#3 | | Al Queda Pish
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| Re: the best busking song?
Neil Young - Walk On
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29th June 2009, 12:42am
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#4 | | Scribble Tits
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| Re: the best busking song?
My mate Robbie's a busker.
I think my favourite song by him and his mates has to be build me up buttercup.
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29th June 2009, 1:18am
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#5 | | LAST SONG KILL AUDIENCE
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| Re: the best busking song?
Aye, I've played some fucking awful standards while busking. | |
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29th June 2009, 1:24am
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| Re: the best busking song?
oh that is a busker's dream, everyone joining in on the beach
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29th June 2009, 2:06am
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| Re: the best busking song?
this has to be announced, it's like he knows jimi
the whole world keeps
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29th June 2009, 10:07am
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#8 | | ShakingTheDisease SuperMod
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| Re: the best busking song?
i've only busked once and it was sort of accidental. i got chatting to some buskers who were playing in st petersburg next to the Aurora, the ship that kinda started the October Revolution in 1917. anyhow, the drummer handed me his sticks and i played along to a few beatles songs. it was my 14th birthday, pretty surreal moment.
to answer the question though, i reckon something by oasis cos it's harder for yer average busker (there are good ones, but the average one isn't!) to fuck that up too badly.
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29th June 2009, 10:14am
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#9 | | Tannhauser Gate Veteran
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| Re: the best busking song?
Wonderwall is great, and rarely played by buskers, so it's a treat to hear it when out and about, even if it isn't being played so well.  | |
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29th June 2009, 10:37am
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#10 | | Go Away!
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| Re: the best busking song?
I remember a busker in Coatbridge just singing the chorus to Whiskey in the Jar, over and over again. Wonderful
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29th June 2009, 10:37am
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#11 | | Implied Idiot
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"Never took the time", for during this song a guy gave the oxjam people £100 so that I'd shut up. Most successful song of the day  | |
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29th June 2009, 10:50am
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#12 | | Registered User
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Going back 10-12 years there was a busker in Glasgow who used to play Pink Floyd songs and he was amazing, couldn't sing worth a fuck but his guitar playing was unreal.
He plays with the Proclaimers now, there's hope for you yet Campestral. | |
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29th June 2009, 11:17am
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#13 | | Registered Baw Bag
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That wee boy that used to play oasis in gordon street was no bad, his voice musta broke or something now. | |
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29th June 2009, 11:24am
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#14 | | Registered User
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He was terrible, c'mon now. | |
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29th June 2009, 11:26am
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#15 | | Implied Idiot
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did he not only have 4 or 5 strings on his guitar?
oh, and there's only one person that can truly do Dancing In The Dark justice when busking:
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