Entertainment For Lively Minds
Songs Only You Like
Posted by Stephen G on 30 June 2011 - 3:17pm.
The version of "God Only Knows" on Bowie's Tonight album appears to be universally despised - often considered to be the low point of arguably the weakest album in Bowie's oeuvre. I think it's pretty good though, possibly because this was my first exposure to "God Only Knows" and so I invested much of my appreciation of the song in this particular version. The original is better of course but I still retain a soft spot for the Bowie cover.
Anyone care to speak up for any other really unpopular songs? Fans of "I Just Called To Say I Love You" perhaps? "Ebony and Ivory"? "We Built This City" (actually I quite like that one too...).
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Probably
most of what's on my ipod.
I'm always being mocked for my musical tastes. But I don't care.
I like
Madonna's cover of 'American Pie'. I like the breezy, carefree vibe created by the William Orbit production, underscored by Rupert Everett's melancholic backing vocals. And Madge is OK, too.
No-one
apart from me likes 'Da-a-a-ance' by The Lambrettas. Same goes for 'Time For Action' by Secret Affair, and much of The Chords' oeuvre.
Time for Action
You're not alone on that one - great song. Not sure about the others though - names ring a bell but can't remember the songs - did the Chords do "You Need Wheels"? The 2nd generation Mods really have been consigned to the Dustbin of History haven't they?
That was The Merton Parkas
who did You Need Wheels. You're bang on re the dismissal of the New Mods. This'll be The Chords in cracking form:
"You need wheels...
...if you wanna do deals" - this piece of lyrical and musical excellence was, if I recall, by the Merton Parkas (was there ever a worse band name than that one?), starring, on keyboards, Fred Perry and desert boots, a certain Mick Talbot, later to be Weller's partner in crime in The Style Council.
You need wheels...
The Merton Parkas IIRC.
Love both the Lambrettas and Secret Affair tracks (in fact the 1st 4 SA singles - Time for Action/Let Your Heart Dance/My World/Sound of Confusion - must rank among my top tracks)
(Pork Pie) Hats Off, CJW!
If Time For Action was the call-to-arms, My World was the anthem. That one line in Time For Action - 'we hate the punk elite' - meant that SA were on a bit of a hiding to nothing with the music papers, and it didn't help that the quest for newness via synthesizers was gathering pace elsewhere. Great tunes, though.
And while we're at it ....
Quality, but
it's notable - and perhaps ironic given The Who connection and iconography - that the Mod Revival songs aren't getting any up arrows...
Another favourite
The Truth - Confusion (Hits us Every Time)
Ansd also works for the recent "Bracket Songs" post - 2 for 1!
have An Up
For 'Time For Action' - great song, and the album 'Glory Boys' still resides on my iPod and gets the odd outing. The Chords were always mocked for being Jam copyists, but they were alright in my book.
Mods Mayday '79, anyone?
Modelle
There can't be many who prefer Micky Modelle's Eurodance version of The Gambler to Kenny Rogers' original.
Oh, and Scooter of course. For such a successful band, not many people admit to liking them.
Scooter
I quite like Scooter and their ilk. I'll often watch various dayglo rave types on Clubland TV as a break from my normal diet of pale white fellas with guitars.
Good man. Channel 383 is on
Good man. Channel 383 is on my favourites list too.
Judging by the
clear dancefloor every time I played this out I am the only one who likes thjs
I Just Called to Say I Love You
is the 13th best single in British chart history while Starship's Bernie Taupin-penned paean to early 70s LA was Number in the states and number 12 here. They can't be that unpopular.
That's true but
I have never heard anyone admitting to liking either of these songs, nor have I read even the faintest praise for them. In fact, they only ever seem to be discussed in terms of how much they are depised. You're right though - quite a few people must (at some point) have enjoyed these songs, just as someone must watch Emmerdale, read Jeffrey Archer etc.
"I have never heard anyone admitting to liking..."
I used to do a ward round for my local hospital radio station just after I left school. "I Just Called To Say I Love You" was - by a very long chalk - the most requested record on our station - we were on our third copy. It got to the point where I could predict whether somebody was likely to request it simply by looking at them. Requested almost exclusively by 35 - 70-year-old women wearing glasses (this was 20 years ago, so they'll now be 55 - 90-year-old women.)
The other popular request was "Release Me" by Englebert Humperdinck. I remember the well-rehearsed chuckle I had to do, as if it was the first time I'd heard the joke. That day.
i remember
george martin lionising it on some radio show in the eighties...
that hearing loss kicking in?
Float On - The Floaters
(Hoiks up phlegm for Barry White voice):
'Aquarius and my name is Ralph
Now I like a woman who loves her freedom'
(Squeezes nadgers for high pitch):
'Take my hand
Come with me baby to Love Land'
Look at those moves, those frilly shirts (straight outta Batley Varieties) and worship at their genius.
I love Float On
It's almost as cool as the Sesame Street Version.
There are a few tracks that i've been
mocked and ridiculed for liking, they were all from a similar time, but I still retain a great fondness for them, and if I was the dancing type, would be sure to get up for any of these at any wedding;
Olivia Newton John - Physical
Toto Coelo - I eat cannibals
Ronny - If you want me to stay
Love it
People look at me strangely
i have far too many to mention
having rockist friends who think my love of cerrone and patrick henandez' "born to be alive" is some sort of ironic prank...
Cerrone
Was that 'Supernature' ? - if so, I love it, fantastic song.
I also love Patrick Hernandez 'Born to be alive'
(Night shift - taste filter disconnected)
supernature yes!
but cerrone's paradise is not only better, but has one of the greatest sleeves ever..(front and rear)
i'm permanent night shift
Permanent nights
Permanent nights sounds like hell to me.
Much sympathy.
it's been so long
the old nine to five seems totally alien ..
I seem to recall someone on this very site
saying something kind about this. Until that moment I thought I was alone in recognising its magnificence:
(Malcolm McLaren, Madame Butterfly)
Madam butterfly
Brilliant (The parent album 'Fans' is ace )
Europe
"The Final Countdown", I genuinely love it, all of it.
I love this;
you don't...
and THIS gives me a massive eurodross boner
even though YOU'D like to visit a mini pop-pogrom on them all.
I love this
I confess
I do love The Frog Chorus.
Best thing Macca ever did solo!
Ob-
La-Di Ob-La-Da.
Maxwell's Silver Hammer.
One's on the 'White Album', the other's on 'Abbey Road'.
That'll do me.....sorry to all the revisionists out there.
I have never understood
Why MSH gets such a bad press, I love it.
OBD,OBD - To be honest its not one of my favourites, but I dont think it sucks either.
I've got a soft spot for this one...
Even the haters of Weller's Style Council period
usually have a grudging repect for the likes of "You're The Best Thing".
But this delightful slice of breezy pop will be stopped from setting foot on the spit 'n' sawdust floor of the dadrock club.
(Style Council, Come To Milton Keynes)
Kajagoogoo
...and not Too Shy to admit it
loving you's a dirty job ( but somebody's gotta do it)
todd's kitchen sink and swansea's finest plus hilarious use of brackets in title. what's not to like?