Although in retrospective named among the most annoying songs of all time and on this day in 2003, according to a poll of music writers in Q magazine, judged the worst ever, comparing it to a cruise conga line, the 1984 novelty single by the travelling DJ duo managed to become the eighth best-selling for that year in the UK and charted in the top seventy-five hits for weeks. Based on the Club Med French version—“Agadou,” based on a Moroccan melody, this cover with dance became the better known one and was in turn covered with several international language versions, Greek, Thai, Finnish and Czech to name a few as well as commercial jingle homages and in children’s programmes.
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synchronoptica
one year ago: tonic rotation (with synchronopticæ)
twelve years ago: blind-spot safety plus convenience foods
thirteen years ago: The Complete Banker, art deco fonts plus ninja as a profession made redundant
fifteen years ago: embroidered memes
seventeen years ago: decking the halls