[Music] Iconic songs that YOU think are crap

[Deleted member 37369]

Plastic Letters was definitely a distraction, what colour are the stripes on this sleeve? They look black and white to me.

It's a kind of mauve/violet and black.

 

[darkwolf666]

You have clearly left it far too late to get out more.

Numan is a conplete legend. Here he is with Trent:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qlUFKFHNIU

I love the tracks Numan has performed with NIN, complement each other superbly.

But then there's this abomination of an iconic song by my hero...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=j7BKiX4DAOE

 

[GT49er]

I'll give you 4 of those - not having Good Vibrations though (excitations)

I, on the other hand, would add to Good Vibrations the whole 'iconic' album Pet Sounds, which leaves me as cold as a wet Tuesday night in Stoke!

 

[Gabbafella]

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

I, on the other hand, would add to Good Vibrations the whole 'iconic' album Pet Sounds, which leaves me as cold as a wet Tuesday night in Stoke!

It will probably come as no surprise to you to learn that I'm very fond of Pet Sounds.

I just wasn't made for these times.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Delighted to see Imagine, Wonderwall, Hey Jude and Sweeeeeeet Caroline mentioned in this thread.

All absolute garbage. Proper fingernails on a blackboard tripe.

I'll add 'Every Breath You Take' to list.

Awful.

And any song that rhymes 'tonight' with 'alright' unless it's been done to take the piss out of songs that rhyme 'tonight's with 'alright'.

Worst ever rhyme in a song was where masses was rhymed with . . . . . masses!

"Generals gathered in their masses
Just like witches at black masses"



(Great recoding, though. I think Billy Bragg did a cover version)

 

[Weststander]

Worst ever rhyme in a song was where masses was rhymed with . . . . . masses!

"Generals gathered in their masses
Just like witches at black masses"



(Great recoding, though. I think Billy Bragg did a cover version)

Down there with the most laughable rhymes:



“Got to write a classic.
Gonna write it in an attic”.

And people bought that in droves.

 

[Pevenseagull]

Worst ever rhyme in a song was where masses was rhymed with . . . . . masses!

"Generals gathered in their masses
Just like witches at black masses"



(Great recoding, though. I think Billy Bragg did a cover version)

I've see your 'War Pigs' and raise you a 'Never Let Me Down'

'Promises me I'm as safe as houses
As long as I remember who's wearing the trousers '

 

[Hugo Rune]

My ears bleed when I hear this:

https://youtu.be/cmpRLQZkTb8

Never understood the attraction.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

I've see your 'War Pigs' and raise you a 'Never Let Me Down'

'Promises me I'm as safe as houses
As long as I remember who's wearing the trousers '

At least they are two different words!

My favourite 'spit your coffee' rhyming couplet, contrived, pretentious, hilarious and shit all at once, is this:

"The sun goes down on a neon eon
Though you'd have a job explaining it to Richard Coeur de Lion"

I offer a small prize to the first person to name that chune.

 

[GREASED WEASEL]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIb6AZdTr-A

****ing awful!

 

[Weststander]

The 60’s contained its fair share of shit.

 

[Comrade Sam]

Everything by Abba, Queen, Duran Duran, Frank Sinatra, Madonna, U2, Dire Straights and The Wombles.

 

[The Wookiee]

Peter Gabriel- Sledgehammer

And that video

 

[Weststander]

Anything by UB40

This.

Or Level 40winks.

 

[WhingForPresident]

I really really dislike Mr Blue Sky by ELO. Oh, and It Must Be Love by Madness. Total shite IMO.

 

[Deleted member 37369]

At least they are two different words!

My favourite 'spit your coffee' rhyming couplet, contrived, pretentious, hilarious and shit all at once, is this:

"The sun goes down on a neon eon
Though you'd have a job explaining it to Richard Coeur de Lion"

I offer a small prize to the first person to name that chune.

https://youtu.be/33ryNmfQ3j0

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

My ears bleed when I hear this:

https://youtu.be/cmpRLQZkTb8

Never understood the attraction.

So weird. I absolutely loved early Oasis. And yet . . . . I never bought any of their stuff, and I don't have anything of their stuff on my iPods. Thinking about it, their songs start brilliantly, but are let down with what I can only describe as 'pub rock' guitar solos.

They fall into a category of 'like it when they pop up on the radio, but I tend to change the channel before the end'. That said, I prefer them to the Beatles, another band whose songs I can't listen to all the way through. I liked them in the 60s (as most little kids did) but Hey Jude killed it for me. Ride a White Swan almost killed T Tex for me for the same reason. The repetition gets half hearted and pointless. If you want to get into a repetitive groove, you must make it intense and interesting and maybe insert some interesting distractions. I'm not going to start a new thread on it, and this thread is already rather diverse, so I will post two examples of tracks that settle into a good repetitive groove with added dynamic tinges. The first is a big favourite in the Tackle houshold:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FT9lwMakwv8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOxgcYWZzio

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

https://youtu.be/33ryNmfQ3j0

Excellent work. Here is your small prize.

ze.

I hope you like it

 

[Weststander]

I was the difficult person who thought this awful, and I still do.



Sorry Icy.