Entertainment For Lively Minds
Records you love by bands you hate
Posted by Brookster on 3 April 2009 - 8:39am.
I really despise Bono and U2 with a passion and wouldn't dream of listening to anything by them. However, I really like Achtung Baby – I think it's a terrific record.
Please share your confessions. Do any of you Celine Dion haters have a secret regard for Falling Into You?
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The Corrs
They bore me with a passion, but "Runaway" is an amazing song... I can't even empirically tell how it's different to all their other songs, it just is...
Little Wing
as played by the Corrs is good. Really good. Really.
Studio version is better, I feel, as Andrea can't really sing for toffee....
You're not seriously suggesting that Andrea Corr's appeal...
lay in something other than her singing? That's absurd! ;)
Surely apocyphal...
... but didn't Jarvis Cocker introduce himself to Jim Corr at the Brit Awards one year with the line, "Ah, the only man in the world who doesn't fancy the girls in The Corrs."
Unholy Alliance
given the pet hates above - quite remarkable that a cover of Ryan Adams' "When the stars go blue" by Corrs with Bono is actually jolly decent.
Jim Corr
As I recall the comment was made by Ardhal O'Hanlan (apologies if the spelling is wonky), and Q followed it up with a picture of Jim Corr with his then new girlfriend. She looked stunningly, or creepily, like his sisters.
I always had a soft spot
for their unplugged album not as saccahrine as the studio versions and Runaway and a few of the covers are quite good.
Or how about records you hate by bands you love?
More widespread still, I suspect. I dare say some of us have bands we love, in principle, who have never ever delivered the goods on record. Or that we actually like. For years I told others, and myself, that I "loved" Frank Zappa. Apart from Hot Rats, and if I'm honest, the rude bits on Live at the Fillmore, which is mainly the Turtles, he is mainly unlistenable, with or without the Mothers. Yet this delusion persists, and I find myself looking in askance at LPs such as Zappatistas, the John Etheridge tribute band.
On the official question asked, I recently acquired the LP by Fiddlers Dram, the ghastly Day trip to Bangor people, who morphed into the Oyster band as the singer left to become an Albion Band memeber. I am a big big fan of the Oyster band. I was lured in by the promise that it contained the original non-poppy version of Bangor. Wrong. Still crap. Still claptrap. Straight into recycle bin!!!
Nothing wrong with day trip to Bangor
Cathy Le Surf singing I believe. And Alan Prosser's metronomic head.
I used to like the Strawbs (still do in fact) but hated "Part of the Union". Nasty pre-Thatcherite nonsense.
I *think* Part Of The Union was a spoof
:-)
Yes
But not a nice one.
"Alan Prosser's metronomic head"
Fabulous comment and so very well observed. And he's still at it.
I have his 2 rather fine solo accoustic guitar albums show also what a skilled player he is, even if he largely espouses electric guitar solos or, it seems, electric guitar at all, these days.
Um, except in this clip, but look at the head: is it his neck making the metronome noise?
I first saw Alan Prosser
When he was backing the Rochester duo Tundra. It was only years later when I saw the Oyster Band that I remembered the distinctive neck exercise.
No apology for diverting this thread onto Alan. He deserves more recognition. And it helped me discover this on YouTube:
And a lovely unaffected fella too
happy to chat after shows and to trudge out to his car and look to see if he's got any CDs in the boot, and to apologise when he hasn't. I sense organisation isn't his strength, but a good deal less embarrassing than some of his cohorts, the eternally smug John Jones and the distictly weird Ian Telfer.
U2, again
Actually don't hate U2 but am nonplussed by them. However I think Numb is fantastic.
He has a heart of stone ...
... who doesn't feel his foot tap to S Club 7'S 'Don't Stop Moving'. I have an S Club (as we fans refer to them) best of CD, picked up in a charity shop a couple of years ago for 50p, and when I get round to playing the rest of it I'll let you know how I get on.
Yes
100% yes. Great record by an otherwise hopeless band.
i remember first time i heard it
and loved it but couldn't figure out why. Then it dawned on me that it has the same 'groove' as Billy Jean by Michael Jackson.
It's said that if you look hard enough, in the right places, you can find a not-too-shabby mash-up of both tracks that works like a charm!
not otherwise hopeless
'You' and 'Never Had A Dream Come True' are good too
Totally agree with you there...
but, did they even do enough other stuff to warrant a best of? I'm amazed that they did more than one album, to be honest.
(edit... just furtled in Spotify and now know they did at least three studio albums)
Non-stop dancing
My record-collecting friend assures me that Voodoo Party by James Last is a diamond in the shite that constitutes the rest of his output.
Chris Rea and The Stereophonics
I can't say I hate Chris Rea but haven't liked anything by him except Stainsby Girls which I love.
Stereophonics really bug me but I do love Hurry Up and Wait for some reason.
This was OK
Sorry, not my thing
It sounds like a Paul Weller record.
I might be behind the curve here...
...and I know that there has previously been some inverse snobbery on this very board directed at this group, but I think I've just *discovered* Girls Aloud...(and I do love a good pop record)
The tune Untouchable off their new 'LP' might just be the best record ever made (c. me, this week) I simply cannot stop playing it - I may need to go and have some Mogwai intravenously inserted to get back to what passes for normality around here...
Update: Just popped on the next track...and. blimey, its great too. Is the rest of their output this much fun??
See, it's not inverse snobbery...
it's genuinely likeable, fun music.
Really, truly not a fan of Snow Patrol
But "Set the fire to the third bar" is one of the most played songs on my ipod. I put it down to Martha Wainwright (at least thats what I tell myself)
Couldn´t agree more
..great song
The missus plays that
...ALL...the time. Good song, though.
Stereophonics...
Hate them. With a passion. Third rate Manics tribute band fronted by a horrific excuse of a "frontman" with a easily recognisable Napoleon complex. I feel my ire rising just typing about him
However...The Bartender and the Thief. Great record.
I also mostly loathe the "Sterry-offon-ics"
but watching the film "Crash" on telly the other week I was struck by how good their song over the end credits was ("Maybe Tomorrow").
"Bartender..." is pretty good too, but everything else they've done is basically cack.
Dakota
Don't like 'em; Bartender does nothing for me; Dakota on the other hand is a great piece of music. Derivative as hell, but still great.
I can hardly bear to admit it...
But I feel a nice little rush whenever I hear Bon Jovi's Livin' On a Prayer. I would rather submit to sophisticated torture techniques than hear anything else they have done.
Similarly for me.........
Van Halen's "Why Can't This Be Love", and Waterboarding for me if I had to listen to anything else by them or anything at all from Bon "Rawk" Jovi.
Eminem - Lose Yourself
I don't really get the whole rap/hip-hop thing but I went into an interview a few years back with this bouncing around my head and lo and behold managed to land the job. Company went into administration four months later - job evaporated ... colleagues and I duly lost ourselves in the pub next door - 'twas destined thus.
Not a bad track though.
The Prodigy
Cant stand them, but Music for the Jilted Generation is a great album.
The Strokes also raise my hackles, but Last Nite is wonderful.
Although my loathing of Celine Dion...
...is correctly in place as it should be, I do like the rather uplifting chorus of "Us". There. I've said it now.
Surely?
If you love an album by a band you "hate", then you start loving them? I was not that impressed by The Doors till I heard "Morrison Hotel", THEN I started to love them. See? Is it not easy?
Tho' "OK Computer" maybe.....
Kelly Osbourne - One Word
Is it wrong? Have a listen before you judge me!