'What's Up?' and the very worst songs ever
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Like fast-moving clouds casting shadows against a hillside, the melody-loop shuddered with a sense of the sublime, the awful unknowable majesty of the world.
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With bonus 2013 Jim Dandy Mangrum interview:
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Black Oak did have some awesomely stoopid lyrics and that's probably the champion, but are way too much fun to be counted among "worst ever."
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That Sound Of Silence cover is the absolute pits. The bicycling bear is right about it all emanating from the Mad World update as well. Rancid nonsense.
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Fish in a barrel time, but I just heard this on the radio and got really mad. This song has so much to answer for. People are still doing this shit!
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Magic.
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Talking of getting mad at the radio, I was at the gym this morning and had had a shower and was getting ready to go to work. The music in the gym itself I can tune out with my iPod but this was music being beamed in on the television full volume. Both of these songs threw me into a rage: in fact I'm not going to post them as I don't want to share them. But look up 'Vacation' by Dirty Heads - go on- I dare you. I fucking dare you to last longer than five seconds. When you are angry, move to the next one: Most Girls by Hailee Steinfeld. Unfortunately I had dropped my bra in the shower so was holding the bra under the dryer which is situated right under the TV. I couldn't get away. In the end I just put on a wet bra and bolted. What the fuck.
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Minnie the Minx wrote:But look up 'Vacation' by Dirty Heads - go on- I dare you. I fucking dare you to last longer than five seconds. When you are angry, move to the next one: Most Girls by Hailee Steinfeld. Unfortunately I had dropped my bra in the shower so was holding the bra under the dryer which is situated right under the TV. I couldn't get away. In the end I just put on a wet bra and bolted. What the fuck.
With nothing better to do, I listened to all of Vacation, less than half of Most Girls. While I agree that the latter is horrid, with the autotuning and soppy lyrics designed to empower mice, I thought Vacation was just a harmless bit of feel-good summer pop music, with a mildly amusing Eminem pastiche, a couple of hooks and even a few swooping harmonies that I thought were quite nice. Don't get me wrong, I'm not interested in hearing it again, but I can say that for thousands of tracks in my own collection, let alone ones I didn't like in the first place
– I'd rather listen, for instance, to Vacation on a loop than Michelle, Yesterday or Moo of Kintyre, to name just three of the usual suspects. Please note that this post is entirely about me, and in no way an adverse commentary on your reaction. I find being forced to listen to something I did not choose and cannot stop is often enraging, and when I was young(er) and inclined to passion, often acted on it (it's at least part of the reason I don't/didn't like going to gigs anything like as much as I did listening to records). But it seems that passion's spent now.
Apologies for rambling.
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It's definitely Galway Girl
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WHOA THERE CHILD wrote:
Fucking awful drumming. I'm sure Toyah did much worse though.
She's currently on tour with Tony Hadley and Fish!
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Deebank wrote:WHOA THERE CHILD wrote:
Fucking awful drumming. I'm sure Toyah did much worse though.
She's currently on tour with Tony Hadley and Fish!
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WHOA THERE CHILD wrote:Deebank wrote:WHOA THERE CHILD wrote:
Fucking awful drumming. I'm sure Toyah did much worse though.
She's currently on tour with Tony Hadley and Fish!
Everything good about 80s record making is present on the stage!
Yes, but not at the same time sadly.
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Minnie the Minx wrote:Talking of getting mad at the radio, I was at the gym this morning and had had a shower and was getting ready to go to work. The music in the gym itself I can tune out with my iPod but this was music being beamed in on the television full volume. Both of these songs threw me into a rage: in fact I'm not going to post them as I don't want to share them. But look up 'Vacation' by Dirty Heads - go on- I dare you. I fucking dare you to last longer than five seconds. When you are angry, move to the next one: Most Girls by Hailee Steinfeld. Unfortunately I had dropped my bra in the shower so was holding the bra under the dryer which is situated right under the TV. I couldn't get away. In the end I just put on a wet bra and bolted. What the fuck.
I thought both were inoffensive at worst, although that Vacation song could get to you if it was played a lot on the radio.
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bobzilla77 wrote:Black Oak did have some awesomely stoopid lyrics and that's probably the champion, but are way too much fun to be counted among "worst ever."
Worst ever. I couldn't even stand them when I was 16 and stoned half the time in the mid to late '70s.
They make Frank Marino and Pat Travers look like fucking musical geniuses.
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Goat Boy wrote:It's definitely Galway Girl
Yeah probably.
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Quaco wrote:Fish in a barrel time, but I just heard this on the radio and got really mad. This song has so much to answer for. People are still doing this shit!
I was having lunch today at Austin Grill and heard TWO Counting Crows songs... or maybe it was one Counting Crows song and one Counting Crows Wannabe song. Insufferable then, insufferable now.
It got me thinking (again) about starting a "shit bands/artists and the great bands/artists who influenced them" thread. Counting Crows is like if Van Morrison and Bruce Springsteen had a child and spent the rest of their lives throwing up their hands and saying "Where did we go wrong??"
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Maybe if the Counting Crows dropped the first 'o' we'd have more of an idea about what to expect.
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Goat Boy wrote:It's definitely Galway Girl
Just repeating this here. It is the one and only answer. Makes Counting Crows sound like the fucking Stones.
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Charlie O. wrote:Quaco wrote:Fish in a barrel time, but I just heard this on the radio and got really mad. This song has so much to answer for. People are still doing this shit!
I was having lunch today at Austin Grill and heard TWO Counting Crows songs... or maybe it was one Counting Crows song and one Counting Crows Wannabe song. Insufferable then, insufferable now.
It got me thinking (again) about starting a "shit bands/artists and the great bands/artists who influenced them" thread. Counting Crows is like if Van Morrison and Bruce Springsteen had a child and spent the rest of their lives throwing up their hands and saying "Where did we go wrong??"
Interesting idea for a thread! As Renoir says "The awful thing about life is that everyone has their reasons." The world is filled with good intentions done badly.
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