Decent Songs by Rubbish Bands
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@bovidae said in Decent Songs by Rubbish Bands:
@mn5 said in Decent Songs by Rubbish Bands:
The Edge discovered a wah wah pedal for that one, in other words yet another effect to try and cover up what an utterly ordinary guitarist he is.
Edge certainly isn't a technical guitarist but he creates soundscapes through his heavy use of effects. A bit like Andy Summers.
Also, Gerry Rafferty had other hit songs. You would love the bass in this song.
Andy Summers had some chops though, one of my favourite guitar leads ever is on “Landlord”.....but I do see what you mean.......”Walking on the Moon” springs to mind
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@mariner4life said in Decent Songs by Rubbish Bands:
Pretty frikken self explanatory. Even the most ordinary bands in the world, like U2 for instance, have a couple of decent tracks somewhere
I'll start with what i would consider the two most maligned rock bands of the past (checks calendar) holy shit 25 years.
Creed fucking suck. Some of the most cringeworthy rock of the past 3 decades. Frontman is a douchebag of the highest order. But this song is not half fucking bad
But holy shit look at them. Just watching this video makes me hate them all over again. Just over the top 90s douchebaggery everywhere!!! Testify Scott. Good track but
Which brings me to a band that basically became a meme. Fuck you Nickleback. More interested in being successful than good (there is a massive difference) by your own fucking admission. Your music is god awful. Some of the cringiest lines i have ever heard.
Then there is this one. The first time i heard it was i think the first time i had heard them. The first time he goes "clicking his hands!" i was like holy shit this dude can sing. Then i heard the rest. Fuck it was rubbish.
Again. Look at them!! holy shit what a bunch of tryhard assholes. You deserve everything you get. And i am sure you cry yourselves to sleep on a bed made entirely of money.
Great. Fucking thanks. Now Creed and Nickelback are in my youtube history, eternally influencing my suggested videos.
And just to start a fight, so I can lose some memory cells - neither of those songs were worth it. Fucking shit, both. And that's from a guy who was a poor, poor sucker for the 90's "alt-rock" back in the day. I'm sure there was a Creed song which was worse but more well known which I secretly enjoyed back in the day?... and maybe - as an even deeper hidden pleasure - the same for Nickelback?
BTW - Did Nickelback open for the Stones when they played in Auckland? I have a memory of my mother and her husband talking about having been at that gig, and then an hour-or-so of typical old-person complaints about pretty much "how gigs work", and then saying that the one thing they liked was the support act - and they actually bought a CD of it, and then proceeded to play it in the car. Fucking Nickelback. I was biting my tongue, literally; leaning hard into the door-frame, searching for sharp jagged edges.... anything to refrain from commenting.
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@kruse that reminded me of going to see Dire Straits On Every Street and really liking the support band - Hothouse Flowers. Can't for the life of me remember what song struck a chord...but I've just googled and they're Irish (not Aussie as I thought) so I'm not interested in finding out.
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@majorrage said in Decent Songs by Rubbish Bands:
There's quite a few songs on the trip albums which would qualify here. This band ma have a few other good ones, but I've always struggled to get into theme beyond this The River.
Yeah I tried hard to get in to the tea party but rest of album was pretty meh. Still listening to heaps of 90s grungy rock at the moment.
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@kruse this one?
I like it, but possibly due to sentimentality as it was on radio alot when TR Jnr was born and it often calmed him and I have it as the soundtrack to a clip I made of him as a baby to send to in-laws.
I can't recall anything else of thiers i like.
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@taniwharugby said in Decent Songs by Rubbish Bands:
@kruse this one?
I like it, but possibly due to sentimentality as it was on radio alot when TR Jnr was born and it often calmed him and I have it as the soundtrack to a clip I made of him as a baby to send to in-laws.
I can't recall anything else of thiers i like.
Yeah - that was probably it. Absolutely super-cringey bollocks, but you can see how it would be popular, especially if it coincided with certain life events.
Which brings me to another category of music, probably doesn't warrant it's own thread, but worth a digression...
Songs that my mate(s) decided would define moments of their life, or certain summers, or whatever - but were fucking shit and/or irritating-as-shit-when-played-20-times-a-fucking-day.
I had me mate who put me through the following for one reason or another:- Puff Daddy's cover of I'll Be Missing You
- Savage Garden - something about a mountain?
- No Doubt with Don't Speak
- I can't think of the others, but there were more.
Before anybody else suggests it - yes, he is already dead, and yeah, fair enough.
I'm not even going to go into when one gets to one's university years, and an entire hostel is filled with the sounds of Live's Lightning Crashes whinging out from every room for a couple of months (holy shit... emotions!), only to be replaced by goddamn Oasis.
And I'm not claiming to be immune... I fucking own a legitimate copy of a Live CD, and What's the Story. But even I got sick to goddamn-death of that shit at the time. -
I goddam fucking HATE Lightning Crashes.
As much as I hate that fucking Zombies song.
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Reading this thread, you realise what a thin line there is between loving a song or hating it sometimes.
Arms Wide Open is about 10x better if you've never seen that video. Lightning Crashes is tolerable if you remember being at uni, lying flat on your back, pissed and stoned off your nut, belting it out at the top of your lungs just to take your mind off the world spinning green around you.
Good times
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@bones said in Decent Songs by Rubbish Bands:
All Over You is alright though eh...
I like a few Live songs
Just not fucking lightning fucking crashes
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@bones said in Decent Songs by Rubbish Bands:
@kruse that reminded me of going to see Dire Straits On Every Street and really liking the support band - Hothouse Flowers. Can't for the life of me remember what song struck a chord...but I've just googled and they're Irish (not Aussie as I thought) so I'm not interested in finding out.
Don’t go.
You’re welcome
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@majorrage said in Decent Songs by Rubbish Bands:
There's quite a few songs on the trip albums which would qualify here. This band ma have a few other good ones, but I've always struggled to get into theme beyond this The River.
I really liked these guys. Cool Rocky guitar with a bit of middle eastern shit thrown in ( just for @Bones ) and a singer who sounded identical to Jim Morrison. They shoulda been the biggest band of their era. Funny how things turn out.
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@bones said in Decent Songs by Rubbish Bands:
Are Spacehog actually any good? Because In The Meantime is aaaaaabsolutely top notch listening, but I've never heard anything else.
Same with Gerry Rafferty. Or am I just going down the one hit wonders list?
Rafferty has some bangers (Right Down the Line) and was a very good song writer.
Spacehog were absolutely one hit wonders. Not a fit for this thread.
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@mn5 said in Decent Songs by Rubbish Bands:
@majorrage said in Decent Songs by Rubbish Bands:
There's quite a few songs on the trip albums which would qualify here. This band ma have a few other good ones, but I've always struggled to get into theme beyond this The River.
I really liked these guys. Cool Rocky guitar with a bit of middle eastern shit thrown in ( just for @Bones ) and a singer who sounded identical to Jim Morrison. They shoulda been the biggest band of their era. Funny how things turn out.
The Tea Party might sound a bit cringe now, but they had some good songs on several albums.
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@mariner4life said in Decent Songs by Rubbish Bands:
I goddam fucking HATE Lightning Crashes.
As much as I hate that fucking Zombies song.
Both awful cringe songs.
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@mn5 said in Decent Songs by Rubbish Bands:
@majorrage said in Decent Songs by Rubbish Bands:
There's quite a few songs on the trip albums which would qualify here. This band ma have a few other good ones, but I've always struggled to get into theme beyond this The River.
I really liked these guys. Cool Rocky guitar with a bit of middle eastern shit thrown in ( just for @Bones ) and a singer who sounded identical to Jim Morrison. They shoulda been the biggest band of their era. Funny how things turn out.
I saw them at the Powerstation in Auckland, they were at the end of their tour and they sucked until the last couple of tunes.