I'll start things off with my favorite band: The Beatles.
There are a lot of songs many would choose with which I have no problem. "Mr. Moonlight," "Revolution 9" ...
But, for me, it's "Do You Want to Know a Secret?"
I'll start things off with my favorite band: The Beatles.
There are a lot of songs many would choose with which I have no problem. "Mr. Moonlight," "Revolution 9" ...
But, for me, it's "Do You Want to Know a Secret?"
"The White Zone is for loading and unloading only. If you got to load or unload go to the White Zone!"
I think the closest King Crimson ever came to doing a song I really dislike is "People."
Hurtleturtled Out of Heaven - an electronic music composition, on CD and vinyl
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http://www.waysidemusic.com/Music-Pr...MCD-spc-7.aspx
Roughly half of Presto and Roll The Bones by Rush.
Sledgehammer.
Maybe "Mommy leave the light on" or " Bavarian Skies" by The Flower Kings from Paradox Hotel
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
-- Aristotle
Nostalgia, you know, ain't what it used to be. Furthermore, they tells me, it never was.
“A Man Who Does Not Read Has No Appreciable Advantage Over the Man Who Cannot Read” - Mark Twain
"Since I Lost You" by Genesis. I like a fair bit of We Can't Dance, but that song never did anything for me.
That's not a bad choice. The other day I realized how much I dislike The Long and Winding Road (the Let It Be version).Originally Posted by ronmac
I'd have to go with Bavarian Skies. Although I don't really consider TFK a favorite band.
Here's mine:
Camel - "Heroes" (NOT the Bowie song!)
I'm with you. Never particularly cared for that one at all.
Anything post Anoraknophobia from Marillion.
Death inspires me like a dog inspires a rabbit
From the early era of VDGG: House With No Door
"The woods would be very silent if the only birds that sang were those who sang best..." - Henry David Thoreau
The one that leaps to mind is King Crimson's "Ladies of the Road." I figure I'm in the minority on this, but there it is.
"Do You Want to Know a Secret" doesn't even sound very Beatley, to these ears anyway.
Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world.
Wow, that's a hard cutoff! You dislike everything from the 8 studio disks released after that. I wonder what happened for them to change so much so suddenly?
Last edited by JKL2000; 11-06-2017 at 11:10 PM.
No way! That's a fine song and it has a great sound.
If I had to pick Pre-2000 VDGG it would have to be Meurglys III. Talk about milking the cow! That one was udderly ridiculous... Having said that, it could have been a good 4 minute tune.
Gentle Giant - "Betcha Thought we Couldn't Do It" - they were right I didn't think at the time they could sell out with that kind of bullshit. How far they fell from the brave statement of Acquiring the Taste:
"From the outset we have abandoned all preconceived thoughts on blatant commercialism. Instead we hope to give you
something far more substantial and fulfilling. All you need to do is sit back, and acquire the taste."
...and almost everything from that compressed turd in the shape of a disc known as "Giant for a Day"...
Last edited by Buddhabreath; 11-06-2017 at 10:46 PM.
^^^^ I dig this one and will go with "Meurgly's."
Hell, they ain't even old-timey ! - Homer Stokes
Todd Rundgren: “Golden Goose”
No, I think it’s ridiculous. As if we’re supposed to buy them (especially Sinfield) as roadie-banging bad boys! May I remind you, this is the same album that contains “Formentera Lady” and “Prelude: Song of the Gulls”!
Confirmed Bachelors: the dramedy hit of 1883...
Same here! I really like the rest of Islands, but have never cared for that song at all.
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Yeesh.
Oh geez, I love that song. That's one of my favorites from them.
A few that come to mind:
Grateful Dead: Casey Jones, Money Money, and Keep Your Day Job, three cheap novelty songs that demonstrate that no matter how good the songwriting talent in your band is, you're still bound to turn out a dud or two (or three).
Yes: Big Generator...sounds like a bad attempt at making dance music, with one of the most inane refrains ever.
Styx: Babe, JY Young once said that he couldn't understand why they were "going into Barry Manilow territory", and I agree with him. You wish they could have shoved a sock in Dennis DeYoung's mouth sometimes.
Genesis: In Too Deep, similar attempt at trying to out Manilow Manilow, with similarly icky results. See also Misunderstanding (I don't care how much it resembles a Sly And The Family Stone song, it's still lame)
The Beatles: It'd almost be easier to tell you the songs on Let It Be that I like (Let It Be itself, Across The Universe, Long And Winding Road, and Get Back), because I can't htink of which songs on that album that I thought should have stayed in the vault. You Know My Name (Look Up The Number) didn't deserve to even be a B-side.
Rush: Superconductor (the "That's entertainment" line has always bugged me, plus Neil's story of how he came up with using "Superconductor" as a song title because he has a scientist friend who is actually working on some sort of Sheldon Cooper esque science project that's apparently called the superconductor)
The Rolling Stones: nearly all of the lame R&B covers they did before they developed the ability to deliver an entire LP's worth of original material, Time Is On My Side and It's All Over Now being the exceptions.
The Who: Squeeze Box (another dopey novelty song from a great songwriter, and even worse, it was the lone hit off the otherwise brilliant The Who By Numbers), see also Why Did I Fall For That, Cache Cache, Did You Steal My Money, and How Can You Do It Alone
Journey: damn near any song off Raised On Radio (except The Girl Can't Help It and Be Good To Yourself, both of which I've decided are worthy, but the rest of that album...oh geez, talk about the bus going sideways)
Electric Light Orchestra; there's a couple annoying songs on Secret Messages, Time After Time and Four Little Diamonds
Kiss: Shandi, Bang Bang You, Hide Your Heart, and there's probably a bunch of others from the 80's I've blocked from my memory
I'm in complete agreement with you there. I'm assuming it was supposed to be a joke, much like Illegal Alien would be a decade later for another band, but as humor, it's about as effective as the material Bruno Kirby's character does in Good Morning Vietnam, after he takes over Robin Williams' show ("I'm begging you, Sir, please don't do comedy!").
The Beach Boys have some real howlers ('The TM Song', 'She's Goin' Bald' etc.) but of the better known songs, I don't like 'Be True To Your School' or their later cover of 'Rock And Roll Music' (a pity 'It's OK' wasn't the big comeback hit instead). Actually I can take or leave 'Barbara Ann' as well, largely because of that forced bonhomie of the Party! album from which it comes.
The Who- not that keen on 'Call Me Lightning' in the Keith Moon era and the Kenney Jones period has a few howlers. 'Did You Steal My Money' and 'Cache Cache' spring to mind. I also hate that 'she's a bomb!!' thing on 'Athena'.
The 'Stones- the terrible psychedelic jams on Satanic Majesties, specifically 'Gomper' and '...See What Happens'. Too many of their albums from Undercover... onwards tend to have some stodge on, and never more so than Dirty Work. 'Back To Zero' and 'Winning Ugly' both sound terribly dated now. In the Mick Taylor era, I always thought 'Dancing With Mr D' (although it was better live), 'If You Really Want To Be My Friend' (goes on and on and on...) and 'Short And Curlies' (pub rock filler) are also stodge.
That album has a few songs I simply cannot listen to any more- that one, 'Never A Time', 'Tell Me Why' and 'Way Of The World'. All four are dreadful IMHO. Everything on Abacab after 'Dodo/Lurker', the entire second side of Genesis and 'Anything She Does' are other things I tend to skip now.
'Do You Want To Know A Secret' is a good song but George's vocal is poor IMHO. He got better! The Billy J Kramer and the Dakotas hit version is a tighter, more energetic performance musically, if not great vocally again.
Last edited by JJ88; 11-07-2017 at 02:02 AM.
The entire eponymous album from the mid 80's is pretty awful. I think there's one good song on there, Getcha Back. The rest of the record is...I mean, you get the feeling they were trying to make a Culture Club record (seriously, there's a song co-written by Boy George on it, and another song features harmonica playing that sounds suspiciously like Karma Chameleon).
And don't even get me started on Kokomo. It's almost enough to make you wish the entire band had...well, I wouldn't say I wish they had died in a plane crash, but ya know what happened to Jan Barry, after his car accident?
Oh, and how I could forget Chuck Berry's one and only number one hit single? My Ding-A-Ling is a lame song no matter who sings it, but to think the guy who gave us Roll Over Beethoven and Little Queenie sang it, I mean, that's just embarrassing.
^'Kokomo' doesn't bother me that much. Worth having for Carl Wilson's vocals in the chorus. This band have recorded some pretty much objective garbage and people get bent out of shape about 'Kokomo'? The 1985 album is indeed appalling save for 'Getcha Back'. I am not brave enough to delve into the two/three which followed that in the 80s and 90s.
My favorite band is Cardiacs and I quite honestly can not think of 1 song that I do not like.
If I had to pick a song that I like a bit less then it may be "there's good cud" from the album Guns but I still like that tune quite a bit.
Led Zeppelin- The Crunge (great playing, stupid lyrics and an iffy synth), Hot Dog (a throwaway that brought its album's reputation down IMHO, give me 'Wearing And Tearing' any day)
Peter Gabriel- Steam, Kiss That Frog (Sledgehammer has been mentioned and I understand that, but these are worse as they are inferior rehashes), The Barry Williams Show (a satire of something rather beyond that)
Pretty much anything by Jeremy Spencer with early Fleetwood Mac- one Elmore James clone after another. Maybe 'Shake Your Moneymaker' is an exception, but even that is another Elmore James cover!
Okay, on 4. 4 (for those that have heard 4 little diamonds, you get that joke....)
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