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[Music] Iconic songs that YOU think are crap
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Give anything to Ray Charles, Tom Waits, Robert Wyatt or ∆IŖֆH4D3 and they're transformed.
Sorry. Private Eye magazine had a long running contempt for Lennon and the Beatles, with it's owner of the time, Peter Cook (no less) dubbing them Spiggy Topes and The Turds, with 'Love is is, hate isn't' being a memorable line from one of their 'iconic hits'.
Edit, in typical Eye fashion, the name has been repurposed to mock various pretentious pop people: "Spiggy Topes is, with or without his group The Turds, the archetypal rock star, often used when the magazine wishes to satirise the antics of the more pretentious members of the rock establishment. His persona appears to owe a good deal to John Lennon and Mick Jagger, although Paul McCartney's fashion designer daughter Stella was once referred to as Stella Topes. In some entries, Topes has received both a knighthood and a more refined version of his name – "Sir Spigismund Topes"."
Is it PotG?
Thrifty non-licker
Sorry. Private Eye magazine had a long running contempt for Lennon and the Beatles, with it's owner of the time, Peter Cook (no less) dubbing them Spiggy Topes and The Turds, with 'Love is is, hate isn't' being a memorable line from one of their 'iconic hits'.
Edit, in typical Eye fashion, the name has been repurposed to mock various pretentious pop people: "Spiggy Topes is, with or without his group The Turds, the archetypal rock star, often used when the magazine wishes to satirise the antics of the more pretentious members of the rock establishment. His persona appears to owe a good deal to John Lennon and Mick Jagger, although Paul McCartney's fashion designer daughter Stella was once referred to as Stella Topes. In some entries, Topes has received both a knighthood and a more refined version of his name – "Sir Spigismund Topes"."
Interesting connection.
Have been listening to Danny Baker's terrific 3 audiobooks again recently and both Cook and Lennon came up.
A young, drunk Baker + chums bumping into Lennon and Ono in his NME days outside The Dakota and, more importantly, Baker becoming Cook's provider of cheap VHS porn
aolstudios
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Anything by Led Zeppelin.
Especially Stairway to Heaven
Especially Stairway to Heaven
Monkeys gone to heaven
Where is my mind
Here comes your man
Three of Pixies most bland / overplayed tunes. With several albums and a classic EP of absolute genius music to their name it annoys me that these are the only three songs of theirs to ever get airtime.
Where is my mind
Here comes your man
Three of Pixies most bland / overplayed tunes. With several albums and a classic EP of absolute genius music to their name it annoys me that these are the only three songs of theirs to ever get airtime.
Is it PotG?
Thrifty non-licker
And fiery demons all dance
When you walk through that door
Don't say you're easy on me
You're about as easy as a nuclear war
Leonard Cohen, eat your heart out.
When you walk through that door
Don't say you're easy on me
You're about as easy as a nuclear war
Leonard Cohen, eat your heart out.
Lol! Not heard these, but I have read all DB's autobiogs. Absolutely cracking. No doubt you have too. Remember when his mum washed the cherished bit of clothing Marc Bolan gave him, and shrunk it to a child's size?
He came on stage at an Adverts gig at the Vortex in 77, that I was at, to announce the death of Elvis, and was jeered. Some bottle. I've probably mentioned that several times previously. Ahem.
Danny Baker is welcome back to my airwaves any time. Sadly I guess it won't happen, now.
Screaming J
He'll put a spell on you
Oh, I forgot
5) This Charming Man, or indeed anything else by The Smiths; and
6) Bat Out Of Hell.
darkwolf666
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Then there’s this...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtPLdL5GWDg
Makes me want to throw the radio* out of the window if it comes on...
* radio, how quaint!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtPLdL5GWDg
Makes me want to throw the radio* out of the window if it comes on...
* radio, how quaint!
B-right-on
Living the dream
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Love Stevie Wonder.
Can’t stand this, though
this is worse and its got a beatle in it too
https://youtu.be/TZtiJN6yiik
wuntbedruv
Imagine
TBF anything with McCartney in it is crap or at the very least would be better without him
Waterboys - Whole of the Moon
Stranglers - Golden Brown
Van Morrison - Brown Eyed Girl
Not sure the above are purticluly bad song, just so over played to the point where I can't listen to them.
Anything by Oasis make me reach for the off switch. Nasally singing, mediocre songs and knowing that opiniated ugly Thunderbird puppet lookalike Noel will appear on any program that he knows duck all about, just to his mug on TV.
Stranglers - Golden Brown
Van Morrison - Brown Eyed Girl
Not sure the above are purticluly bad song, just so over played to the point where I can't listen to them.
Anything by Oasis make me reach for the off switch. Nasally singing, mediocre songs and knowing that opiniated ugly Thunderbird puppet lookalike Noel will appear on any program that he knows duck all about, just to his mug on TV.
Arthur
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Can't believe no one has suggested this pile of crap yet...
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Garry Nelson's Left Foot
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It's staggering how bad that song is. Two of the greatest(or most respected at least) songwriters of all time working together and what they came up with was this. And they released it rather than burn it. Unbelievable!
studio150
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Thought this was written only by McCartney with Stevie Wonder only singing on the song rather than any writing input.
But number 1 in both UK and USA, so lots of people actually liked the song (or the message)
