"My Favourite Waste Of Time" (AKA "You're My Favorite Waste of Time") is a single recorded by Scottish singer Owen Paul and released in 1986. It remains his biggest hit single, reaching number 3 in the UK charts in July 1986.
This song features future Thunder member Mark Luckhurst on bass. It was famously aborted on the television programme Pebble Mill at One when the band members just stood still instead of miming as they were unable to hear the backing track.
The song was written and first released by American singer/songwriter Marshall Crenshaw. His 1979 home demo of the song was released as the B-side of his 1982 hit "Someday Someway."
Paul is usually considered as a "one hit wonder" because of this song's popularity and the fact his follow-up singles didn't really succeed. It is said that Owen hated the song so much he quit the music business.
In 2008, the song featured in a Kellogg's Cereal commercial.
In 2012, the song featured in an episode of BBC Rogue Traders on Watchdog.
The song was also recorded by Freedy Johnston, Bette Midler, Jeff Foskett and Ronnie Spector.
Famous quotes containing the words favourite, waste and/or time:
“The big blue eyes are shut which saw wrong clothing
And favourite fields and coverts from a horse;”
—Sir John Betjeman (1906–1984)
“If you visit your friend, why need you apologize for not having visited him, and waste his time and deface your own act? Visit him now.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“I am a patient man—always willing to forgive on the Christian terms of repentance; and also to give ample time for repentance.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)