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  • Oh wow. Ultimate tribute to First World Problems.

  • Just when I thought & felt things in the 'mUsIc' WhiRRL'd COULDN'T Possibly GeT aNy WoRsE..I found this aNgLOW SaXoN DIRGE ! 'lol'...oY..NOW..Where'Z me mEdZz ??

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  • hey, just checked the website and there is no contact link. i'd like to organize one in rio de janeiro... do i need some sort of permission? thanks!

  • Most of it is sung in ONE NOTE... That's not music... That's monotone noise. >_< More tonality pl0x!

  • what a load of SHIT

  • I hope this was sarcastic...

  • Yeah, hard life, guys. Glad they could muster up the strength and courage to get all that off their chest.

  • #whitewhine

  • what a bunch of Debbie Downers.

  • i wonder what a politician complaint song would be like.

    i have too much money

    and i'm not enough of a jerk?

  • Why dont they pay me more ? coz your not a whore. Why dont you complain about things that matter like why dont you complain about the wankers that run shitty council and the dirty streets

    oh is it because they wouldnt let you sing this shit outside council house if you complained about something meangfull as long as the points are not too sharp for the shity council you can sing away

  • I like how many of the comments complain about this choir and this song!

  • I love this song :3 its so bloody happy :D

  • Psychology Today has an article that mentions this choir! Go to their website and look in a blog titled, The Squeaky Wheel for a story about complaints choirs

  • Cracking

  • As a born and bred brummie I'm disappointed. This is dirgeful, aweful song. Check out Washington DC complaints choir. Quality.

  • Typical British complaining: grumble over nothing really, and fail to make actual complaints about real issues: government cuts, the NHS, pensions....

    It may be done for fun, but why not tackle these at the same time?

    I once made a complaint about the management of EMA by the woeful Student Loans Company, after hearing so many of my childrens' friends grumble about it for weeks. I was told by the head of StudentFinance NI that I was the ONLY person in Northern Ireland to actually complain!!!

  • I cant think of anything nice to say about this so i wont say anything at all

    oh wait its finished thats good

  • brilliant

  • I especially like the chorus"I want my money back etc." want to know is this Birmingham England or USA?

  • @topchoices England....just listen to the accent!!!!

  • The best... by far. Very authentic and un/semiprofessional, that's what I like about this one. Fresh!

  • Zappa on the keys?

  • @Conway79 Actually this is great because they're creating something funny about these modern-world complaints. Dont be demagogic.

  • The Helsinki one is still the best!

  • I love you Birmingham ^_^ Even if there are SO many things wrong with you. <3

    Brum is like a 2 legged 15 year old dog with only one eye. You've grown up with it and in your heart you love it, but other people have trouble seeing its beauty. It's also wearing one of those horrible poodle jackets, you know the ones. To represent how many goddamn billboards noone wants to see there are x.x

  • Got to love Brum!.

  • That's nice :)

  • theres one guy whos in this one and helinskis too? double residence?

  • He's in the Singapore one too.

  • Also, the Finnish and Hungarian ones were way better.

  • I thought the whole point was that it was a list of trivial complaints?

  • This is Birmingham UK, not Birmingham AL.

  • @Logical4Talent5 haha you silly redneck, it's birmingham ENGLAND

  • wow....i have the biggest yawned

  • Outstanding!

  • i was in birmingham fr 1960 till 1969 and i dont remember it being that sunny,

  • I'd like to see a complaints choir? from a third world country. No doubt

    "My only source of water is a muddy stream.

    The clothes I'm wearing now are the only ones I own.

    And half my family is dying of Aids."

    would give some perspective to complaints about late buses.

  • Oh it's you! 'Ello!

    I was going to reply to your comment anyway: in all fairness, all of our problems are relative. I'm sure we all know that it seems to be human nature at the moment to complain whatever our lot in life! Even though we *know* things could be worse ...

  • People dead of AIDS are lucky, they don't have to wait for late buses. Thanks for the perspective!

  • @Conway79 Merseyside haven't done one yet.

  • @Conway79 everyone needs catharsis sometimes mate. Problems exist is everyone's lives, and this is a fantastic idea which allows a creative way to get it out. Cheer up :-)

  • @Conway79 dead right, you don't hear them complaining do you? my reply to he line "and I'm thirsty" is get a drink doh! and "dead bananas" don't exist lol

  • @Conway79 the point is the complaints a petty?

  • @Conway79 At least they're channelling their fussing into something more positive, unlike some who just... complain.

    And there are always those who are lesser fortunate than us, so why don't we just lament all day long whilst doing nothing else? I think it's a great idea.

    ...

    Living people gotta live, have a smile at their steam, and get over it.

  • @Zellophine and @mgrh001 I agree completely. My comment wasn't against the concept of the complain choir, or the nature of their complaints. I think it's a great idea. I'm just saying, there exists people with real problems and no such outlet for them.

  • @Conway79 Thank you for your polite reply, I understand what you meant - no offence taken, I hope.

    I do wish that developing countries would have enough community strength to form a complaints choir to voice out their own worries. Before that, we'd just have to make do with our more minor fusses.

  • @Conway79 Just because some people have it worse doesn't mean a late bus isn't fucking annoying

  • @Conway79 oh shut up, the complaints choir is a way for us to have a laugh so we stop complaining. 

  • @Conway79 So you've never complained about anything in your life? You've never thought anything was done poorly and could be improved on because you're constantly happy you don't live in severe poverty? I doubt it.

    I feel you're missing the humour in this choir, also. :/

  • @Conway79 I thought the whole point of it was that it was supposed to be trivial complaints, not complaints about serious issues. Although some serious ones do get in there.

  • @LucianaShadow I'm aware of that. My comment was intended to be as tongue-in-cheek as the complaints in this song.

  • @Conway79 I live in a third world country and guess what... Our complaints choir sings about things like late buses too. We do not sing about war, about death, about killings. No need to remind us. Perspective! Please...

  • @Conway79 I think you missed the irony of all the petty complaints...

  • @Conway79 Sos we aren't earnest enough. (It's a regional thing you can't be British I guess?) The  Birmingham accent sounds like we are complaining

    - so they say, but actually we have a great ironic sense of humour which this is an example of.

  • Top-class video! I'd love to see one in my town. :-)

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  • they cant sing for nuts?

  • great.enjoyed it a lot.good talent comes from brum.check out gypwin

  • i really love this piece. on one hand very funny, entertaining and good music; on the other hand there are some true aspects they complain about ^^

  • No all the days of the world came back, but don't doodoo on my eye.

  • i wish you had a third hand!

  • LOve this....a long-time favorite!

  • sorry...needs to be done in an indian accent to be brummy! good try though!

  • Ahhh I love Birmingham so much but like every city it has flaws!

    And the brummy accent of the song is what makes it so awesome!

  • The Helsinki one is better...

  • @LabiodentalFricative and COnway79 So worng and idle!

    ALL are great and show the diversity of humans wonderfully. I enjoy their faces, love the different styles and forms of songs and find the localness of the lyrics funny! I'm glad they mostly speak of their own lives not the state of their country. (I couldn't pick who's better: Ljubiliana, Copenhagen, Florence, St. Petersburg...awesome stuff!-)

    And besides Birmingham had the balls to do it first and in a rather small group.

    So: respect!

  • @popkocher oh relax. I didn't say this one was shit. Far from it. I just like the Helsinki one better.

  • @LabiodentalFricative pff! mankind ftw

  • Man you are stupid. Seriously, shoot yourself or something. Point in this was to bring "into daylight" regular problem of regular people. Also, those guys without "even water" can be even happier than these people, happines isn't about how fatal some problems may be, or how much more "real" your everyday problems are. This guy complaining about his beard not growing may be unhappier about it than some african about not been able to eat in two days... Good video naming everyday problems!

  • "Seriously, shoot yourself or something." You just made my day with that :) Good one.

  • Okay, but honestly, is there ANYONE denying that an African not eating for two days is worse that some guy's beard not growing?

  • Depends on how you look at it. My statement is, that there's no point in trying to make other people feel guilty for the reason they ARE able to eat even twice a day.

    "Hey, you deserve no beard 'cause african people are starving and you are not!"

  • Lol no one said anything remotely close to that.

  • O goodness. It's so obvious u guys have nothing to complain abt. The song is devoid of any real complaints abt the place. There are far worse places w worse complaints. Gees.

  • Wow, not quite grasping the humour, are you?

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  • This is great! My friend's dad has this on cd and he used to play this when he drove us to school.What a feeling :D The fact that they aren't ultimate talented singers,is the one that makes this great.

  • It's just like the Helsinki song, except nobody has any talent!

  • Hi Birmingham singing people! I hope to visit Birmingham somteime and strongly hug each of you! Especially a man who's rapping :)Great song! TYVMuch :)

  • I thought the brunette girl that's on about 1:10 was pretty cute though

  • She's extremely pretty cute.

  • I grew up in Brum & lived there till I was 20. I go back about once a month for family & am always surprised how empty the place is, there's absolutely no reason to stay. I think I'd top myself if I had to move back.

  • back in brum for christmas, this place is a fucking hole, scummy people everywhere, tramps skinking of piss on the bus while a chav plays baby cakes of his nokia, corporate town centre without a shred of identity and im far from racist but there are tones of asians - (not the good kind either jap.chin, just the ones that say innit and you know what i mean all the time)

  • I think this is a good idea.

    Complaining in beautiful music?

    Fabuloud idea if you ask me.

    Very different and difference is good (:

  • interesting.check out 'gypwin' on you tube

  • why can't the bus driver talk to anyone?

    Why does your video take so bloody long?

    and whyyy is the beer so expensive in town?

  • b-town is sik !

    im from stoke but brum feels lyk home!

  • Oh come on you lot, this is just good fun.  At least we in Birmingham have got a sense of humour!

  • why are there so many emos at pigeon park?

    thats my complaint ;D

  • which buses are infrequent at 6:30? theres like 50 every hour in sparkbrook and that aint even the centre

  • i was born in b ham and its the worst place on earth

  • lolz sikh

  • Hell no it isn't fair! =)

  • Oh my gosh I'm sorry but I think this is pretty funny. I wish I lived closer to b'ham sometimes because there isn't much to do when you live an HOUR AWAY. Imagine a town where there are no big name concerts ever. You have to drive to guess where- b'ham. lol. and btw no wonder people are so stressed out they complain all the time. what the crap?

  • the beer aint too expensive either.

    however, i bet those barmaids get more money from their work than you do singing & they can probably get a faster computer :)

  • 1) bus drivers talk to everyone.. maybe they just feel insecure with posh people and their dirty looks :)

    2) birmingham rocks..

    3) your computers are slow because you don't work for the money for a new one.

  • birmingham isnt shit, its just boring as fuck. just glad i dont live in warsaw or wolves. or fucking solihull. you think birminghams shit? it is, and its not even the second city anymore. thats manchester. but still rather live in birmingham.

  • fuck any one who doesnt like birmingham bitches

  • I'd like to complain about the fact that Birmingham is no longer Britain's Second City...oh let's not start that one again!

  • CelticPowerRanger- except that by population Birmingham is the second city. Towns like Oldham, Bolton and Rochdale are clearly separate from the City of Manchester. Greater Manchester has about the same population as the West Midlands conurbation but the city of Birmingham is considerably more populous than the city of Manchester.

  • there's far worse places!!

  • rachcoopers- was your comment for me? Anyway, I agree

  • oh, nah ithink it was for someone who said it's the worst place on earth. i feel rather offended at the birmingham hatred :(

    brindley place is posh!

  • I'd like to complain about this video, if that's all right!

  • why would you do that? - its a good video!

  • Too bad they slagged fat women, could have said filthy rich instead. People so often use body size as a metaphor for I do not know what. I really appreciate fat people, if only because i notice these little slights in society and I wonder...it's that obsolete "alliance" we create around a perceived "mutual oppression" that gives us permission to perpetuate our own garbage in the name of "free" creativity...oh did I do something bad, boring...

  • Thats a good question Why Is the bear so expensive in town ?

  • They sell bears in Birmingham? I wish they sold bears where I live. XDD

  • mkl62 you have the wrong Birmingham you twat, you want that little shitty one in some southern state in the U.S

  • I am looking for footage on DeCori Birmingham. He is a former college football player who played running back for the Arkansas Razorbacks. He has signed as a rookie free agent with the Carolina Panthers.

  • you're on about New Birmingham ;)

  • Birmingham is WAY better than it was before - if these people want beer so much then they should go to Germany or try tesco!!

  • Do you think that Oswald Osbourne should be involved in the choir?

  • WHy did that guy go all the way around the circle to sit at the keyboard?)))

  • Birmingham is the best - this people are simply ungrateful and should go to London and then complain about expensive beer and congestion!!!

  • The Birmingham Liberation Army has declared an economic war on ' celebs ' otherwise known as self important twats { think Clarkson } who mock our city and our people. Boycott anything these people are involved in.

  • Brum really aint that bad!

    Try Manchester!

  • I'm sure a visit to Britain's Second city will make you lot in Brum complain even more now we officially have that crown that is if the results of that BBC poll are anything to go by.

  • Birmingham is and always will be second city.

  • How uplifting.....

  • personally i like birmingham much more now than i did before, don't know what wrong with them. that's probably y in a city of nearly 2 million people they only got about twenty in their choir

  • Stop complaining and think yourself lucky your not a starving child in Africa.

  • Not many people complaining in Birmingham, huh? The other choirs (e.g. Helsinki, Chicago, Hamburg) are much larger and stronger.

  • lmfao dats kinda sik styl

  • ohh its soo amazing:) i really liked it. i like that they are complaining in a song. there are a lot of things what are so annoying but you just cant tell it because nobody will understand your problem with it cause its soo little and you cant change it.And they could tell it in this way. they have made a song for it...i like it:)

  • That was amazing

  • move away then.

  • Ha Ha, Hilarious!

  • lol ^.^ sums brum up :D

  • stop moaning via song you guardian reading green yummy mummy metrosexual stay at home belle and sebastian fans with nice hair o I bet you love banksy and amnesty. A cynic? Me?

  • same with istanbul

  • Cool! And it would play in Birmingham, Alabama, just as well!

  • A rir, vão-se dizendo as verdades... Vídeo engraçado. Mitqam

  • rofl

  • LOL i luv these choirs ther so funny! i gues the worse thwe town the better the choir lol probable not but it must help!

  • And I'm thirstyyyy!

    aaaah XD this is awesome

  • I'm memorizing this chorus. "I want my money back, my jobs a cul de sac et al". Love it.

  • about the bus drivers, they are rather talkative in comparison to the other people on the bus and are infinitly more likeable

  • Love this one!

  • MISERABLE GIT.....

  • I really got a kick out of this video. Some people are just too overly critical of others creativity. I thought that this was GREAT!

  • A great idea and a great opportunity to make serious comment in a comedic way... wasted through poor execution.

  • they look like a very cheerful bunch of complainers that decided one drunken night that it would be funny to have a complaining choir.

    Birmingham is GREAT! and it's inhabitants do have a sense of humour, this is a testament to it.

  • pfft I dont care about helsinki, that girl with her brown hair pulled back looks like an angel. Shes so cute, wherever this place is I need to move there, how could you complain about anything with people who look like that around.

  • I have to say... I liked the Helsinki Complaints Choir better. But this is funny also! I love this idea about complaints choirs. (And why do you all "positive people" have to COMPLAINT about this?! You're missing the whole point!)

  • the complaints could have been better :P

  • "There's people who can't spell weird right, driving round with thousands in the bank, but I get by."

  • Preety cool song...People ,please check my video!!!!;)

  • meu deus euheuheuuehueh

    que coralzinho mais sem vergonha.

  • it's sad that you can't see the fun in this. Choreography? WHERE?

    I think you take life too seriously, this is one of my favorite clips to watch

  • mousiez- Well the reason I take it seriously is that thousands of people are seeing this and will get a purely negative idea about Brum. I can have a laugh, but this is'nt really funny anyway. It might be funny if it ryhmed (ive probably spelt that wrong) I am for optimism. What is wrong with that?

  • well, it's really not fair to anyone who did this to nit pick about every little thing that someone thinks should be in this. THIS WAS DONE FOR FUN, that is all, I mean, hello, I don't exactly sit here thinking 'Why doesn't it all rhyme?', I sit here laughing, and really enjoying it. It's funny, has a good tune, and doesn't NEED choreography...

    that would just make it look stupid, which I am sure you would complain about,too.

  • Well, your complaints aren't particularly amusing either, but you're inflicting them on the thousands of people who are viewing this. Unless the city of Birmingham is paying you to be their PR agent, I'd suggest not assuming that anyone is basing a serious opinion of the city on this. It'd do wonders for your blood pressure.

  • joiless-Well I forget about this ages ago- so the question is who is the one really worked up. Obviously you, since you have went out of your way to write that comment because you cannot tolerate other peoples views. And, no I have no connection to Birmingham City Council. I do not regret what I wrote; think what you want about me- I am an optimist and a happy person. Best wishes!!

  • By the way, joiless and all my other critics, I wasn't aware that not having the same sense of humour as you was a crime. Perhaps someone should arrest me for not laughing?

  • Actually, I'm not particularly worked up. I just find your arrogance particularly unwarranted; saying that you're whining about a video on Youtube for the good of the people who are watching is just ridiculous. What I think is that you're an unwarranted pest, and mocking people like you is just one of my hobbies.

  • joiless- So are you suggesting that if someone posts a video on youtube, the feedback comments must be only positive? You are simply calling my opinions 'arrogant' because you don't agree with them. And what makes you think that I am the only person who doesn't like this. Sure, I may be a minority but that doesn't make my opinions invalid. I wasn't rude about the video- I just don't like it. And as I only initially posted one comment, im hardly whining.

  • If you can't see the point of them complaining, I camnnot see the point of you complaining.

  • well have you not read my other comment goddesintraining?

  • I think i need to make my own song about the good things in like, you have a computer and a job there is a bus for you to catch, and food in your mouth so get the hell over yourself, hard'en thew f**k up

  • Brilliant, innovative, fun.

    Severin.

  • Brilliant, innovative, fun.

    Severin

  • Maybe these guys should stop wasting time complaining and making groups of other people to complain and go out into the world and fix a few of there problems, Whats wrong with looking on the brighter side of life, makes things alot better

  • love this Complaints Choirs :P

  • this is great...bring it to upstate new york..you'll have a huge choir...we have LOTS TO COMPLAIN ABOUT that's all people do in NYS

  • Bananas :]

  • Awesome idea to have such kind of choir!

  • Brilliant!!

  • That was very funny :D I thought the off-key singing was perfect for this!

  • that makes me laugh evrey time i watch it lol

    (I WANT MY MONEY BACK)