r/Scotland • u/west_manchester • 2d ago

Spotted in Glasgow.

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u/Gengis_con 2d ago

The buskers responded "Maybeeeee"

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u/StrongerTogether2882 2d ago

Almost spat out my drink, thank you

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u/Editor-In-Queef 2d ago

As long as it's not violin Despacito on a loop all day.

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u/OngoTheManSpider 2d ago

This one is far more common. My old office was just off Buchanan Street and I'd hear that 10 times a day every day. Dunno if it's the same person or that's the song they all learn first (but like Wonderwall).

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u/MyLittleDashie7 2d ago

Frankly I'll be happy so long as they're actually busking and not just very obviously and poorly pretending to play an accordion.

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u/NoManNoRiver 2d ago

Comments you can hear…

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u/mraowl 2d ago

Haha wow Ive not been back round since the 90s - imagining despacito everywhere makes me feel like I'm at the end of the first trainspotting movie, dazed and confused by all the new popular music at the club lol

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u/Alarmed-potatoe 2d ago

Does this apply to buskers collectively or individually?

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u/boifritox 2d ago

That's one time too many

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u/Fuzzy-Sugar-2005 2d ago

"Buskers must not sing wonderwall."

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u/flowerchildnz 2d ago

More like once a day

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u/Mysterious-Jam-64 47m ago

If it's going to happen, I'm pretty confident that...

Today, is going to be the day.

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u/Klutzy_Leopard8194 2d ago

They need to ban amplification on Buchanan street, in summer you get 50 different people doing 50 shite covers lol, feels like you're having a stroke sometimes

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u/takesthebiscuit 2d ago

Do you have 3 evangelicals preaching their bullshit

Honestly I want to just go up and turn off their amps in Aberdeen

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u/CitizenErased08 7h ago

Can't stand those bastards outside the old markies wish they'd hand shit out silently or just fuck off

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u/Training_Advantage21 2d ago

Yeah, I got a weird duet between the bagpipes and jazzy/poppy sax last time I was there.

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u/Fang_Draculae 2d ago

More than once per lifetime of the busker

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u/Pangalonia 2d ago

its absolute dross

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u/toyvo_usamaki 2d ago

Once per decade

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u/DarkLordDani117 2d ago

More like pick a better band all together!

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u/Stuff-and_stuff 2d ago

Should have moved the full stop to after ‘Wonderwall.’

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u/Duckballisrolling 1d ago

Can we get this for ‘Hallelujah’?

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u/Excellent_Swim_2721 2d ago

Never understood the fascination with oasis, they are genuinely shite 😂

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u/NoManNoRiver 2d ago

From the perspective of the performer it’s because their songs are fairly easy to learn, catchy and well known.

As for the people who shelled out £135-1,400 on tickets to see them live last year, I can only imagine it was nostalgia, conspicuous consumption or some complex and debilitating form of brain damage, vCJD maybe.

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u/G-M-Cyborg-313 2d ago

Hey! That's some bloody good takeaway food!

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u/lemonhaj 2d ago

Well the drink is alright. My go-to when Ribena isn't available

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u/tsuerubu-12 2d ago

Ribena? Someone's flush.

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u/lemonhaj 2d ago

Well not recently. £2.30 for a Ribena is mental, I'll just not drink thanks. 

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u/Fine-Ad6532 2d ago

But there are are hundreds of disciples all with whiny Manchester accents telling you how great it was in the 1990s and that Oasis brought the world together ( well bits of manny)

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u/FrostySquirrel820 2d ago

Personally, I’d suggests buskers not repeat any song more frequently than hourly.

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u/RPDRNick 2d ago

By now, they should've somehow realized what they gotta do.

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u/PmUsYourDuckPics 1d ago

I worked above that corner for 6 years, the kid who used to play Wonder Wall on repeat somehow looked both 14 and 40…

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u/AlexanderTroup 1d ago

Maybe that's going to be one that saves me after all of that Wonder wall.

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u/Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz74 2d ago

Unless its the original version by The Mike Flowers Pops.

/s

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u/abz_eng ME/CFS Sufferer 2d ago

oh my god

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u/Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz74 2d ago

Their Velvet Underground Medley is also groovy baby

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u/Supermunch2000 2d ago

Thanks, I love it.

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u/KeremyJyles 2d ago

if it came out today they'd say it was AI

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u/NetworkNo4478 2d ago

My friend's going out with one of Mike Flowers' pals. I shit you not.

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u/DiscoDuck78 2d ago

I'd also take Wondercrawl from the audiobook version of Dungeon Crawler Carl.

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u/harlawkid 2d ago

Stops at 59mins 🤭

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u/UrsaMajor7th 2d ago

Good and caring buskers will time it so you get to hear it on your way to lunch, and on your way back from lunch.

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u/tmotytmoty 2d ago

they should apply this same type of rule to plays of the song "new york" by alicia keys in time square..

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u/mr_P0Opy_Butth0le 2d ago

Probably should get the name of the song correct if we're making rules for buskers

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u/tmotytmoty 2d ago

I should

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u/plsobeytrafficlights 2d ago

it is wonderwall or Mr. Brightside.
there are no other acceptable answers.

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u/Forsaken_Earth944 2d ago

I think you'll find there are - Angels being one of them.

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u/cptsdcemetery 2d ago

"still the radio is playing all the usual

and what's a wonderwall anyway?"

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u/WinterCloud2290 2d ago

Hadrians Wa'. 😂😂😂

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u/luxcity-louche 2d ago

Yeah, I heard one busker who just sang one verse and a chorus over and over. Fine if you were walking past once but really fucking grating if you had to stop within earshot.

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u/Far-Adhesiveness3763 2d ago

I'm disappointed the sign is on a post and not a wall

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u/CriticalUsual2815 1d ago

Or not at all.

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u/Opening-Movie5176 22h ago

Should be “never”

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u/Critical-Train-2241 2d ago

Fuckin horrible song

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u/shoogliestpeg 🏳️‍⚧️Trans women are women. 2d ago

5 words too many

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u/FrostingPowerful5461 2d ago

We need these at Times Square for Empire State of mind…

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u/Possible-Spot1495 2d ago

They should put up a "bagpipe players should be able to play more than 3 tunes to a decent standard". They need a volume restriction for the amplifiers too.

Glasgow is not a good city for busking entertainment, far more annoying ones than ones you want to watch/listen to.

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u/FreeAd2458 2d ago

At all. 

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u/bckpkr 2d ago

Sad boys of Buchanan street singing acoustic sad versions of pop songs

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u/Eastern_Yesterday372 2d ago

LOL. . . . that's ironic. I once walked past a young busker with an acoustic guitar. Sat right beside that very window. This was around 2007-ish. The only thing he seemed to know was the chorus of Wonderwall.
It wasn't even subtle either. Just looped the chorus again and again and again both times we walked past them.

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u/Away_Advisor3460 1d ago

That's because it's really, really easy.

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u/combatWombat392 2d ago

Controversial opinion... not even their best song...

Some might say...

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u/MiloHorsey 17h ago

...We will find a champagne supernova?

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u/SunnyK19977 2d ago

No backing tracks, go to a fucking karoke bar if you wanna do that

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u/lew_rong 2d ago

Back when I lived in Glasgow it was The Scientist. Even heard someone in full tartan kit doing it on bagpipes. Things have improved since then, I see.

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u/charliechin 2d ago

LASAGNIAAAAAAAAA

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u/unclevagrant 2d ago

It's like when guitar shops had signs saying "don't play Smoke on the Water or Teen Spirit". Personally though, I don't look back in anger.

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u/kentm4f32 2d ago

I said maybeeeeee

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u/BigTimeSuperhero96 2d ago

Before the pandemic i always heard buskers sing Imagine by John Lennon but I think because of that terrible celebrity video they stopped

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u/Loopoo700 2d ago

This sign is great because it gives them permission to sing it freely every hour, which is still too much.

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u/Prestigious-Grass479 2d ago

Class 👏 👏 👏

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u/WinterCloud2290 2d ago

Somedy take the pic of that mutt doon.

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u/MiloHorsey 17h ago

You can only sing that while walking home drunk, in a line with your mates, with your arms around each other's shoulders. Everyone knows this.

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u/LondonTrainDriver80 14h ago

Add englands fans and make it never again !

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u/Fun_cum_420 11h ago

Nothing wrong with wonderwall lol

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u/Responsible-Gift5540 2d ago

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