I found out about Complaints Choirs thanks to this post by Abinandanan at Nanopolitan.
Here is the YouTube video of the Helsinki Complaints Choir.
I found the Hamburg Complaints Choir in the ‘Related’ box and watched that. Though it’s more political and has complaints relevant to Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg, the music and the song sound better and it has a very catchy refrain.
Here are some of the complaints that I found myself nodding in agreement with…
- You can’t get rich by working
- Going to work every morning, then home at night eventually you lose your mind.
- Bullshitters get on too well in life.
- There’s plenty of debate but nothing gets done.
- Not a single politician keeps his promises.
- Wherever I look: Advertisements.
- My mother always worries too much.
- Why do people never agree with me?
- Love doesn’t last forever.
- Why products on sale drive the people crazy?
- Ring tones are all irritating.
- My dreams are boring.
- Why always me?
- Nice shirts get discoloured in the wash but ugly shirts never do.
- My flat is tiny yet it eats all my money. So I’m left with nothing to save the world with.
- The employment agency only needs Java programmers (make that ‘only software engineers’ and you have the situation in India).
- My wife always complains! (Married men reading this would agree that this is more like Gravity - i.e., an Incontrovertible Principle of the Universe)
The one that I thought fitted me the most…
- I have no ideas. That’s normal for me.
Though I would have put it not as a complaint, more a statement of fact.
and the very best (with not a trace of irony)..
- People complain too much..
What a superb way to register and draw attention to our grouses!
Why don’t we in India do something like this?
Here are some DIY instructions for anyone who is interested. (If I had the least musical ability I would volunteer my services).
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That was great Vijay, I liked the Helsinki words better but the Hamburg song was more lively. So true to life. “My husband snores and walks too slow!”
I see two more votes for Australia in the cricket poll. My husband has found some video on YouTube , actually a whole hour of some match between Bangladesh and some other team. He was delighted.
Regards
jmb
Vijay! Thanks for sharing those! They’re great! We should do the same thing … :o)
Great idea ! If you can compose the song for me, I could assemble the choir !
Lakshmi, there is no composition involved. All we have to do is compile a list of common complaints from real people, say in Chennai or Salem and string them together so that they go along with some tune. We could do it easily by changing the lyrics of some popular film song.
Interested in doing it Vijay? We could have a choir made of me, P, A and perhaps moof ! We could swap each others parts in the web and assemble them…..
Who is P?
Oops! I just realized who you meant!!
I think I’ll let the comment stay as proof of the unwritten rule of the Universe that ‘All Husbands Are Dense.”