[MUSIC] Kon Kan, "I Beg Your Pardon"
Feb. 20th, 2014 08:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rfmcdonaldI'm very good at identifying what song by what group is currently playing on Boom 97.3--technically CHBM-FM, an adult hits station playing songs from the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s--but I was stymied by one sample-heavy song. It was only when I googled the lyrics that I discovered it was a Canadian song, an international hit at that: Kon Kan's 1989 "I Beg Your Pardon".
"I Beg Your Pardon" is very much a one-hit wonder song from the 1980s, the synths and the samples being particularly diagnostic. (I was not surprised to find out from Wikipedia that this song was inspired by the Pet Shop Boys' "Always On My Mind", and by the wave of sample-heavy near-novelty songs that began popping up in the late 1980s.) It's not a bad song for all that; I like the contrast between vocalist Kevin Wynne's spoke-sung lyrics and the various sampled vocals.
"I Beg Your Pardon" is very much a one-hit wonder song from the 1980s, the synths and the samples being particularly diagnostic. (I was not surprised to find out from Wikipedia that this song was inspired by the Pet Shop Boys' "Always On My Mind", and by the wave of sample-heavy near-novelty songs that began popping up in the late 1980s.) It's not a bad song for all that; I like the contrast between vocalist Kevin Wynne's spoke-sung lyrics and the various sampled vocals.
