Entertainment For Lively Minds
Best of/Worst of list in current ish
Posted by Em on 13 November 2007 - 6:33pm.
I always quite enjoy the 2 lists, and often disagree with it - this month no exception!
In the great tracks by generally rubbish bands some of the bands don't, I feel, have enough of a known output against which this can be measured.
Example being I can only name one Europe song anyway, and it might sound great at the christmas party, but be honest, it's not a great song.
And as for including Sailor - you are having a laugh aren't you? C'mon, apart from Girls, girls, girls, how many other songs can you name (without your Guinness Book of Hit Singles).
Apart from that, any fule kno that Barry Manilow's best song is I Made It Through The Rain...
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Sailor
"A Glass Of Champagne"?
Sailor
"Traffic Jam"?
Anymore?
I don't remember Traffic Jam...
Sailor's Traffic Jam
Here it is:
Never cared for it myself but somebody at the BBC did because I remember it cropping up a lot on TV and radio at the time.
Snork!
You Tube, it's got everything!
*goes off to hunt for Our Kid*
OMG!
I just found a clip of Flintlock...
Other GREATS by BAD
Other GREATS by BAD:
Hurry Up and Wait - Stereophonics
Stainsby Girls (the original version) - Chris Rea
Barry Manilow's
finest moment is surely Could It Be Magic, or perhaps Can't Smile Without You. Try the film Copacabana, I defy you not to watch it while peeping through your fingers and clenching the unclenchable.
Two bads by a Great
How did they manage to miss Springsteen's Pony Boy or I Wanna Marry You?
Me and the guys at work have this theory...
...that everyone we like has at least one bad song and everyone we don't like has at least one good song. I don't like the Smiths but will happily concede that "How Soon Is Now" is fantastic. Likewise, Wet Wet Wet's "Goodnight Girl". On the other hand, Madonna's version of "American Pie" is too awful for words and the less said about "Shoot the Dog" by George Michael the better...
The Mr
Said that his great by a bad is Praying for Time by George Michael. Long song, powerful lyric and no chorus.
More horrors
Joni Mitchell's Dancing Clown is as bad as they come.
For David Bowie, yes, Too Dizzy is woeful, but I reckon that Ricochet (from let's Dance) is worse.
Richard Thompson has a tradition of including on his albums novelty songs that are funny the first time you hear them, but after that... Fast Food wasn't even funny the first time, though.
On the flip side, can we agree that Ronan Keating's Life Is A Rollercoster is an aberration of acceptability amid a morass of maudlin mithering?
Chris Rea scoffers might enjoy a listen to Shamrock Diaries, the album which yielded Stainsby Girls - there are a few more bloody good songs there, notably Steel River and Josephine.
Ultravox - Vienna
Ultravox - Vienna