Entertainment For Lively Minds
Songs you like by artists you can't stand
Posted by Jude Rogers on 21 May 2009 - 10:43am.
I can't stand Duffy's music any more, apart from one track – Stepping Stone – which I think is really fantastic.
Do any of the Word massive have a similar love of one great track by an artist who they'd otherwise like to put down a well? It can't be just me. Let me know!
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The immediate one that springs to mind
is that Coldplay. The vast majority of their music does nothing for me; I'm pretty indifferent to it.
However, Shiver is an absolute masterpiece and would comfortably sit in my Top 10 Songs of All-Time.
...this may be due to the fact that it doesn't really sound like Coldplay.
It also seems your current crop of landfill indie stars do have one decent song:
Kaiser Chiefs - The Angry Mob
The Killers - Mr Brightside
Razorlight - Golden Touch
The Fratellis - Chelsea Dagger
Hate U2
Loved Numb
Probably because there's hardly any Bongo on it...
Me too
I have to admit to there being those three great tracks on the Joshua Tree from the
U2 are right!
Miss Sarajevo and One (both awesome)- and the new album is awful.
U2: Hate it all
apart from the video in which he apologises to his wife (The Sweetest Thing?)
So good it would have passed muster on “Thriller”
It's great because it's basically 'Vogue', 'Billie Jean' and
'Express Yourself' all in a big blender. Nothing wrong with that at all.
there's a great mashup out there
if you use iffy download services of Thriller and Don't Stop Moving. It's great, and worth a search...
anybody who really wants it can get in touch and i'll have a quick look on the hard drive for it...
Don't Stop Bille Jean
I'd like to say this is the only S Club song i like too. I fear that i like at least 4 or 5 more.
and as you've figured out by now...
i meant to say Billy Jean...aye - that's the mashup i'm talking about...
The What What beat?
Spotted by Mark and Lard at the time: At 3.45 (right at the end) The vocodered voice sings 'Don't stop moving to the arse crack beat'.
Lucky
Radiohead, the Warchild mix. Otherwise can't stand the hitmaker creeps.
(I may have mislaid Archies rules for this.)
Michael Bolton
I Said I Loved You But I Lied.
I don't know why I like it but I do. Everything else he has done that I have heard makes me reach for the off switch, this one, I turn up the volume.
Very honest, Very brave
Are you real?
Ah come on
This list contains T'Pau and The Nolans. Mr Bolton is virtually Marvin Gaye in that company.
Michael and T'Carol had the same hairdresser
I love Michael Bolton
...OK, I lied.
Abba
I really love The day before you came.
I dont hate any of their other stuff I just wouldnt buy it but this one is a classic.
Also Lucky Man by ELP was the only ELP song I ever liked I guess because it was without Keith Emersons bombast.
The lyrics were cringingly bad though
But they're not alone in the ELP canon for that (and I speak as a fan).
Apart from the laughable Moog section at the end...
My 17 son doubles up with laughter and scorn every time he hears this. How to screw up an otherwise pleasant ballad. Sounds like the death throes of some kind of mammal in pain (a Tarkus maybe?)
To be fair to Keith E
the Moog section at the end was (apparently) never meant to be recorded. Allegedly he was just mucking about but the tape was rolling and the rest of the band and Eddy Offord decided it was different enough to be worth keeping.
The man's a plumb...
...but this is one of the best pop songs of the last decade
I agree...
I believe this and Lovin Each Day were both written by Greg Alexander (New Radicals - You Get What You GIve) and also Inner Smile - one of Texas' better tunes. Underestimated writer, I think.
and also co-wrote
The Game of Love by Santana/Michelle Branch which I [i]also[/i] loved. He seems to have some 'chord trick' that I can't quite nail, but it makes for a hell of a lot of catchy songs
The lead-in to the chorus...
contains, I think, exactly the same chord changes as that of You Get What You Give, and the song has Gregg Alexander's fingerprints all over it. And yes, it's a bloody good song.
Damn
I'd rather have acid thrown in my face instead of listening to any other note by Ronan, Boyzone or Westlife, but due to a very alcoholic T In The Park, I must concur
Ha Ha
Lovely sense of humour.
Katie Melua
Closest Thing to Crazy has a lovely tune particularly on the verses. Not sure about the words though. Or any of the rest of her output.
Duran Duran
Ordinary World.
Emma Bunton
"What Took You So Long?" - great pop song...I'll get my coat...
you're not alone
Also
Her "Maybe" is a little cracker too.
Keane.
Can't stand them. But that song, 'A Bad Dream' - I quite like it. Same goes for James Blunt and '1973'.
Classic pop from Mrs. L. Gallagher
And no, it's not Patsy Kensit.
Nah
They did 3 good 'uns. (And I don't include Under the Bridge)
t'pau
This lot were a bunch of clodhoppers that should mostly have stuck to playing young farmers' dances in Aylesbury. But this is one of my favourite records of the 80s, and I'm still not quite sure why:
t'pau and the collins
Oh my god. I'd completely forgotten that I loved this too.
My guilty pleasures are too numerous for comfort, but Phil Collins and Against All Odds is inching ever closer to an itunes purchase as I seem to rid it from my head....and i like it too.
Saw this on another thread yesterday
and can't get it out of my head. There's so much that should be wrong with it. Woody Allen on vocals and hammond, lamest way of holding a bass guitar ever, and they're on Roger Whittaker's show for Christ's sake. But the drummer is ridiculously good.
And to prove that you can't get it right every time. Guess who's playing drums on this travesty.
I remember being seriously disturbed by the Peddlers
They popped up frequently as musical guests on dumb saturday night shows in the 60s. Yes, I think it was the bassists awkward positioning that galled the most. I had always thought they were responsible for the World in Action theme, but I gather they were not. Should have been, I always feel.
More Peddlers, too
Trevor Morais
..was the drummer with The Peddlers. Went on to drum as a session musician in the '70s and '80s. Played on Howard Jones, Elkie Brooks stuff and a load of other stuff. Ran a recording studio in Amersham called Farmyard which had a huge barn where the likes of Thin Lizzy would go to practice before tours. And he was immensely kind to a young band which was going nowhere but needed a rehearsal room. I was in that band and we met all the stars as they practiced there. Quantum Jump were actually really good live as well. Well, i was biased as me and me mates roadied for them. Really classy guy and a nice bunch in the Jump.
I've learnt something new today
Thanks for the bio.
World In Action was
Wynder K. Frog - Mike Weaver plus session guys. They were on the Island sampler 'You Can All Join In'
Whole Again - Atomic Kitten
I can still forgive Kerry Katona (who appeared on it originally) for everything.
It Was Written by One Of These Guys...
Post-Katona
Their ELO-sampling "Be With You" is an underrated gem.
Oh God No.
They've forever spolied LAst Train To London for me now.
Sits in corner and weeps silently :'(
Whole Again
You must be joking, it's ghastly. More like "you can shut your hole again" IMO.
Simply Red
Always found their entire output pretty naff, but this sounded great on the radio last week (twenty years old too)
Jennifer Lopez and Mariah Carey
should be destroyed in any other realm of society but J-Lo's Play (blame an amazing Eurotrash disco in Rome) and Fantasy by Mariah (admittedly due to ODB's remix) are the acceptable face of divaness
looking back throught time, you know it's clear
I've been blind - I've been a fool
To ever open up my heart
To all that jealousy, that bitterness, that ridicule
I cannot stand Tori Amos:
Her forced kookiness; her self-indulgent pretension; that album of cover versions where her narcissistic over-emoting swamped an otherwise good set of songs.
While I generally avoid being within hearing distance of her awful music, I make an exception for Glory of the 80s - a decade's worth of fractured party conversations, drug trips and Kim Carnes references, that all blur past in just over 4 minutes.
I could only find a live version. The studio recording is slightly more robust.
Honey to the Bee
..By Billie. I probably wouldn't put her down a well, though. That seems harsh
Nolans
At the risk of this turning into a Guilty Pleasures thread, I've always considered this a great pop record -
The Beatles
Don't Pass Me By - I think the rest of their stuff was a bit ploddy and obvious.
'Love Will Tear Us Apart'... genius record...
the rest of Joy Division's music leaves me cold.
Paranoid Android
Someone had to say it.
In the normal order of things...
I would give the swerve to the Sisters Of Mercy on the whole, and I would avoid anything bearing the mark of Jim Steinman like the plague. The idea of them making a record together ought to horrify me. And yet, 'This Corrosion' - especially the 11-minute version - is a fabulous piece of work. Truly, it is A Funny Old World.
Paul Weller
You Do Something To Me.
There must be others ...
... No....
... That's it.
The Cure
Friday I'm In Love
Seconded
Shines out like a very shiny thing in a sea of slurry.
Where did it all go right?
All the above talk of Ronan
reminds me he did a version of this schmaltzy sentimental tosh. I hate these "modern" pop-country singers beyond compare.
But I love this song.....
me too
But from time to time I like a little country schmaltz.
David Bowie
Hand on heart the only decent thing he ever did was "The Laughing Gnome". There's just not enough mockney accents wiv a bit of Tony Newley out there (well apart from Johnny Depp in Sweeney Todd)
Sounds like you need to hear...
...Bowie's Deram anthology. That may replete your Newley Mockney cravings.
Depeche Mode
Personal Jesus
Depeche Mode
again, but for me it's 'I feel you' from 1993. It's not only the song but Dave Gahan's performance in the video that does it for me.
http://www.muzu.tv/depechemode/i-feel-you-music-video/163875
It's pretty standard sub-Jagger strutting but there's something there that I find strangely compelling.
Other than that I've got no time for them. Curious.
Coldplay - Shiver
And maybe one or two others from Parachutes.
The Corrs - Runaway
There, I've said it. Phew.
Snow Patrol
do absolutely nothing at all for me. Grim grim grim.
But Set The Fire To The Third Bar is amazing. Take a bow, Ms Wainwright.
I dislike this guy so much
I can't even abide Hot Rats, mainly because of the atonal whoops he adds in all over the shop. His solo stuff is insufferable bilge.
Thia is quite lovely:
Xstina
Hate the warbling but the Candyman 50's pastiche is a great pop song.
The Doobie Brothers
A band that did their level best to ruin the 1970s somehow, miraculously, pulled a classic out of their hat in 1979: What A Fool Believes. The only way I can make sense of this is by thinking of it as an honorary Steely Dan record.
Possibly slightly controversial
But aside from "Girlfriend in a Coma", I could quite happily let The Smiths pass me by.
Not at all controversial
The Smiths are a dreadful whiney racket.
Actually, that's not altogether true. Morrissey is a dreadful whiney racket, Johnny Marr seems like a damn fine guitar player given decent material to work with
Boomtown Rats
Hmm - The fascists at Google/Youtube/PRS wouldn't let me embed this BUT.......
Rat Trap...
what a song from such a dire band.
Whilst obviously a homage to everything on "Born to Run", it's still Geldof's crowning musical moment.....