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All our operators are busy at present…

Thursday, December 22, 2005

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OK people. Good songs to have as hold music, please.

So far we’ve got:

  • Planet Telex - Radiohead #Everything is… broken…
  • Shaddapayaface - Joe Dolche
  • Keep me hanging on - Kim Wilde
  • Hello - Lionel Richie
  • Clouds across the moon - RAH Band #This is the intergalactic operator… can I help you?
  • Piano phase - Steve Reich (just plain evil)
  • Baby give it up - KC and the Sunshine Band
  • Booty Call - All Saints

10 comments on “All our operators are busy at present…”

  1. Blondie - Hangin’ On The Telephone
    Green Velvet - Answering Machine

    Trying to remember an 80s/90s song that had a music video with telephone operators in…. eluding me.

    Chris

    December 22nd, 2005 at 8:53 pm

  2. I Just Called to Say I Love You - Stevie Wonder.

    Jon Deane

    December 22nd, 2005 at 10:51 pm

  3. The Calling - London Calling
    California Waiting - Kings of Leon
    Why should you come when I call? - Counting Crows
    Call and Answer - Barenaked Ladies
    Greenday - Waiting
    Call on Me - Aha
    Telephone Line - ELO
    I’ll Be Right Here Waiting For You - Bryan Adams
    Lucky you - Lightning Seeds
    Waiting in Vain - Bob Marley and the Wailers
    Almost There - Tom Baxter
    Waiting on You - Weezer
    Predictable - Good Charlotte
    Don’t Stop Thinking About Tomorrow… - Fleetwood Mac (Mark’s getting a bit random now…!)

    Martyn

    December 23rd, 2005 at 1:52 am

  4. Bloody hell. Put some HTML conversion into your scripts boy!

    Martyn

    December 23rd, 2005 at 1:52 am

  5. HTML conversion? Scripts?! Whatever happened to good ol DIY? (It’s on the to-do list - just very low down…)

    Simon

    December 23rd, 2005 at 9:04 am

  6. Oh, and I thought Richard Marx sang Right Here Waiting? God I’m a sad bastard…

    Simon

    December 23rd, 2005 at 10:04 am

  7. My friend once phoned up the Student Loans Company… they had Kelis “I hate you so much right now” playing :-)

    sas

    December 23rd, 2005 at 5:39 pm

  8. Yeah, I think he did. In our inebriated state I made the mistake of listening to Mark. Actually, googling it, they both did.

    Martyn

    December 23rd, 2005 at 6:52 pm

  9. Haha, Kelis is brilliant! In a similar vein, Killing in the name of by RATM would be very amusing.

    Simon

    December 24th, 2005 at 10:13 am

  10. Or ‘Killing Me Softly With (t)His Song’ by whoever’s cover version you least like!

    emma

    January 5th, 2006 at 1:49 pm

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