Music discussion thread - Page 54

BoyBrumby · 28-03-2010, 04:17 PM

Ever felt embarrassed for an artist you respect when they come out with an absolute clunker? Time to name & shame, IMHO. I'll start the ball rolling:

Shiny, Happy People - REM
Octopus's Garden - The Beatles
Magic Pie - Oasis
Christina The Ashtonishing - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Love is Strong - The Rolling Stones

cpr · 28-03-2010, 04:42 PM

Nah, quite like Shiny Happy People TBH, bit of poppy goodness for me, far better than something like Imitation of Life in my eyes. And as godawful Oasis songs go, nothing tops Champagne Supernova for me.

Find Counting Crows version of Big Yellow Taxi particularly painful.

Top_Cat · 28-03-2010, 05:39 PM

Metallica - Until It Sleeps

In hindsight, looks a smidge better but still the song which killed the Met love for me.

Dream Theater - the whole album of Scenes From a Memory

After the song-writing steps the guys took on Falling Into Infinity, this album basically seemed like more of the same and subsequent abominable releases have confirmed the decline for me, the songs sounding less like showing off (which is good) and more like wallowing in wankiness (which is bad). Get Mike Portnoy out of the control booth!

Adamc · 28-03-2010, 07:29 PM

It's a cover, but Golden Lights by The Smiths is pretty awful.

duffer · 28-03-2010, 10:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nightprowler10

Own the following.

System Of A Down - Toxicity
Radiohead - Amnesiac
Amy Winehouse - Back To Black
Jay-Z - The Blueprint
Radiohead - Kid A

His only semi decent work tbh. Top 5 of the decade is pure ****ery though.

pasag · 28-03-2010, 10:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BoyBrumby

Octopus's Garden - The Beatles

vsdwta

Christina the Astonishing not bad either.

vic_orthdox · 28-03-2010, 10:32 PM

Kings of Leon - Revelry ~ stinkiest of a super disappointing album.
Lee, Ben - I Love Pop Music ~ he was always a very guilty pleasure, but this was ear slashing stuff.
Coldplay - A Whisper ~ only song from the first two albums that really annoys me for some reason.

BoyBrumby · 29-03-2010, 12:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pasag

vsdwta

Christina the Astonishing not bad either.

Dirge, IMHO. The rhyming of "manner" & "St Anna" not Sir Nicholas's choicest coupling either.

King Pietersen · 29-03-2010, 01:44 PM

Bowie's had a few real stinkers. Not quite sure how someone can go from writing beautiful songs like Letter to Hermione to something as dire as The Laughing Gnome; well, I do, it was all the drugs he was taking in the 60's, must have been particularly off-his-face when he wrote and recorded that tripe though.

Matteh · 29-03-2010, 02:52 PM

Interpol - NYC

My love for some of their songs is balanced by my hatred at the boring goes nowhere nothingness of NYC.

GIMH · 29-03-2010, 03:39 PM

Leeds line-up is out, mother****ing aiiiiiiiiiiiiii

Top_Cat · 29-03-2010, 04:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BoyBrumby

Dirge, IMHO. The rhyming of "manner" & "St Anna" not Sir Nicholas's choicest coupling either.

Haha, seen you bang on about bad rhyming before. You must hate Michael Franti.

BoyBrumby · 29-03-2010, 04:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Top_Cat

Haha, seen you bang on about bad rhyming before. You must hate Michael Franti.

Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury one of my fav twenty or so albums, actually.

Doggerel has its place in music too, but I just expect something better from chaps like Cave and hold them to higher standards.

cpr · 29-03-2010, 04:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GeraintIsMyHero

Leeds line-up is out, mother****ing aiiiiiiiiiiiiii

Odds on Guns N Roses not pulling out??

Download looks **** hot this year, thinking of skipping rent for a month and getting a ticket.

Spark · 24-05-2010, 07:39 AM

Digging up a somewhat aged thread, but...

Tim Hecker. I love his work, his most recent album is not as good as the brilliance of Harmony in Ultraviolet but it's pretty good.

28-03-2010, 04:17 PM	#796 (permalink)
BoyBrumby Englishman Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Doing the stance Posts: 42,619	Crap songs by good bands Ever felt embarrassed for an artist you respect when they come out with an absolute clunker? Time to name & shame, IMHO. I'll start the ball rolling: Shiny, Happy People - REM Octopus's Garden - The Beatles Magic Pie - Oasis Christina The Ashtonishing - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Love is Strong - The Rolling Stones __________________ *- As featured in The Independent.* "This is not the time for namby-pamby promising youngsters who might just do something; not the time for building for the future. Pragmatism rules and they don't come more pragmatic than Rogers." - Victor Marks makes the case for stiff-legged and stiff-armed 35 year old left-handers in Ashes squads

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Top_Cat Cricket Web: All-Time Legend Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Adelaide, South Australia Posts: 21,180	Metallica - Until It Sleeps In hindsight, looks a smidge better but still the song which killed the Met love for me. Dream Theater - the whole album of Scenes From a Memory After the song-writing steps the guys took on Falling Into Infinity, this album basically seemed like more of the same and subsequent abominable releases have confirmed the decline for me, the songs sounding less like showing off (which is good) and more like wallowing in wankiness (which is bad). Get Mike Portnoy out of the control booth! __________________ Check out my bands! The Colourphonics http://www.youtube.com/user/TheColourphonics http://twitter.com/colourphonics Candice and The Arcade Villains http://triplejunearthed.com.au/Candi...ArcadeVillains Last edited by Top_Cat; 28-03-2010 at 05:42 PM.

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Adamc Cricketer Of The Year Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: in the wind, so to speak Posts: 9,128	It's a cover, but Golden Lights by The Smiths is pretty awful. __________________ "Under the spreading chestnut tree, I sold you and you sold me."

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vic_orthdox Global Moderator Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 24,363	Kings of Leon - Revelry ~ stinkiest of a super disappointing album. Lee, Ben - I Love Pop Music ~ he was always a very guilty pleasure, but this was ear slashing stuff. Coldplay - A Whisper ~ only song from the first two albums that really annoys me for some reason.

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King Pietersen International Regular Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Suffolk, England Posts: 3,339	Bowie's had a few real stinkers. Not quite sure how someone can go from writing beautiful songs like Letter to Hermione to something as dire as The Laughing Gnome; well, I do, it was all the drugs he was taking in the 60's, must have been particularly off-his-face when he wrote and recorded that tripe though.

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