[Music] Iconic songs that YOU think are crap

[Seagull]

Hi ho silver lining - terrible end of the night out in the sticks knees up trash

 

[Weststander]

Nah, it's the same poster with multiple accounts. Or women pretending to be men.

I realised but 40 years too late that it was clever tactic. Go to the Brighton Centre to see Duran in the 80’s, be surrounded by thousands of females and pretend you’re there for the talentless band.

 

[Weststander]

Hi ho silver lining - terrible end of the night out in the sticks knees up trash

Even Jeff Beck hated it.

Forever angry that his manager pushed him into recording a commercial dirge, forever linked with his name.

 

[Deleted member 37369]

Hate anything and everything from ...

Blur (Gorillaz ... can't stand Albarn) ... U2 ... Simple Minds ... Simon and Garfunkel ... AC/DC ... Guns N' Roses ... Black Sabbath (got dragged along to a gig late 70's ish)

I could go on ... but it's getting late

 

[Deleted member 37369]

Have you still got that in a box sleeve on vinyl from the time? It’s still in my collection.

I've got one of the boxed double albums but think it's the 79 version.

 

[GT49er]

My Way
Good Vibrations
Let it Be
The Long and Winding Road

..... and, of course, Sweet Caroline

(and an honourable mention for I'm Not in Love which was cited earlier in this thread)

 

[Weststander]

Another one from the salad days, before Punk ruined music.

 

[Stato]

My wife has insisted we watch an evening of Queen on BBC 4, of course I am now angry

It was what inspired this thread but I didn’t post Bohemian Rhapsody, I left it to someone else as I was certain it would get a mention soon enough

I walked past a group of emo/goth type teenagers the other day. Among the piercings, multi-coloured hair, tattoos and left leaning political badges, there was a bleedin' Queen t-shirt. I can't for the life of me understand how history has been rewritten about that awful bunch of plodding, money grubbing, selfish scumbags. I wanted to walk up to the wearer and ask whether they knew that they were advertising a group of men who took the apartheid dollar, giving succor to literal fascists, whilst having the arrogance to claim that refusing a big sack of cash and abiding by the international cultural boycott was too political for the likes of them.

Freddie Mercury has also somehow become a LGBTQ+ icon despite never offering a scintilla of support whilst he was alive, the self absorbed, narcissistic, tory dullard. I just can't fathom it. Had they been around today, the same kids who are walking about in their t-shirts would be having a social media feeding frenzy that would make JK Rowling's look like a gob in a tsunami.

They were better than Duran Duran though. I quite liked 'Somebody To Love.'

 

[OzMike]

Bohemian Rhapsody, everthing by Duran Duran with the exception of Ordinary World and anything that Jimmy Barnes skreeches.

 

[OzMike]

Anything by Suzi Quattro and Shaking Stevens too.

 

[drew]

Surely this calls for some sort of competition, possibly two, along the lines of the WHC. There should really be a list of iconic songs because half the posts on here are not about iconic songs at all!!

One competition for the most hated iconic song.
One competition for the most liked iconic song.

Somebody's got to compile the list though and therein lies the problem!!!

 

[Weststander]

A couple of years before this, they were alright.

Chasing the ££££ at any cost.

 

[hart's shirt]

Hey Jude

Take a bad song and make it longer.



Imagine

"Imagine there's no countries..."

Clearly John Lennon never had to plan a major international sporting event.

 

[clapham_gull]

I used to quite like U2 until I saw them live at Wembley on the Zoo TV and had to stand alongside their fans.

Hated them ever since.

 

[Frankworthington]

Anything by UB40

 

[Icy Gull]

I walked past a group of emo/goth type teenagers the other day. Among the piercings, multi-coloured hair, tattoos and left leaning political badges, there was a bleedin' Queen t-shirt. I can't for the life of me understand how history has been rewritten about that awful bunch of plodding, money grubbing, selfish scumbags. I wanted to walk up to the wearer and ask whether they knew that they were advertising a group of men who took the apartheid dollar, giving succor to literal fascists, whilst having the arrogance to claim that refusing a big sack of cash and abiding by the international cultural boycott was too political for the likes of them.

Freddie Mercury has also somehow become a LGBTQ+ icon despite never offering a scintilla of support whilst he was alive, the self absorbed, narcissistic, tory dullard. I just can't fathom it. Had they been around today, the same kids who are walking about in their t-shirts would be having a social media feeding frenzy that would make JK Rowling's look like a gob in a tsunami.

They were better than Duran Duran though. I quite liked 'Somebody To Love.'

Blimey! I am not a Queen fan but I do not feel anywhere near as strongly as you appear to!

I could have been whooshed here?

 

[Icy Gull]

My Way
Good Vibrations
Let it Be
The Long and Winding Road

..... and, of course, Sweet Caroline

(and an honourable mention for I'm Not in Love which was cited earlier in this thread)

I think there are now three McCartney songs mentioned on this thread, all of them are true to the thread title for me

 

[melias shoes]

Bohemian Rhapsody

This.

 

[Icy Gull]

Double post

 

[smillie's garden]

My Way
Good Vibrations
Let it Be
The Long and Winding Road

..... and, of course, Sweet Caroline

(and an honourable mention for I'm Not in Love which was cited earlier in this thread)

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