Worst songs of eras
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@dogmeat said in Worst songs of eras:
@mn5 Cochrane is an all time legend....
.... in Canada
Wiki tells me he was part of The Red Riders (also legends ... in Canada) before going solo
He has won a plethora of Awards .... in Canada including Rock Hall of Fame Order of Canada and Grand Moose (OK I made that last one up - but you get it - he's one of the all timer greats .... in Canada)
He continued to chart (in Canada) throughout the 90's but since then appears to have been living the good life doing occasional charity gigs, accepting Awards, having a Highway renamed after him (the Tom Cochrane Life is a Highway Highway)
TBF being acknowledged as a music legend by Canadian's puts you in some pretty exalted company alongside (actually the Canadian Music Hall of Page inductees web page is broken but I'm guessing)
Sarah McLaughlin
BTO
Alanis Morrisette
k.d. laing
Shania Twain
Bryan Adams
Gil Evans
Anne Murray
Leonard Cohen
The Band
Guess Who
Neil Young
Joni Mitchell
Oscar PetersonThat's it I can't think of any musically gifted Canucks - no wonder they had to induct
whatshisnameTom CochraneIt’s still a shit song
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The Cochrane song was pretty good.
I think he was held back by being a bit old (he was almost 40) and not good looking/ uncool (outside Canada) not because his first song was bad.
TBH, it is when musician's following up their hit with some pure mediocrity pushed by their record company - is when we get rich pickings for contendors for worst songs.
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@mn5 said in Worst songs of eras:
@rapido said in Worst songs of eras:
Potentially good thread just becoming lists of novelty songs or good or ok songs people got sick from over exposure.
Of those mentioned. Definitely Smash Mouth's 'All Star'.
As in does actually quite well represent the era of the late 90s in its sub-genre of alt rock and hip hop blend.
The lyrics contain the quite (now cliche) but then probably quite 'now' phrase of "get your game on".
Combined with absolutely timeless cliches of "all that glitters is gold" and"only shooting stars".
Then making "mold" into 3 syllables.But jesus christ. The lyric are bad.
The tune is just meh, and of it's time.
I find the singers voice offensive too, it’s like he’s gargling staples.
It took me a while to work out why I don't like Muse, and eventually I discovered it was the singers voice, as I quite like the actual music until he starts singing.
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@nepia said in Worst songs of eras:
@mn5 said in Worst songs of eras:
@rapido said in Worst songs of eras:
Potentially good thread just becoming lists of novelty songs or good or ok songs people got sick from over exposure.
Of those mentioned. Definitely Smash Mouth's 'All Star'.
As in does actually quite well represent the era of the late 90s in its sub-genre of alt rock and hip hop blend.
The lyrics contain the quite (now cliche) but then probably quite 'now' phrase of "get your game on".
Combined with absolutely timeless cliches of "all that glitters is gold" and"only shooting stars".
Then making "mold" into 3 syllables.But jesus christ. The lyric are bad.
The tune is just meh, and of it's time.
I find the singers voice offensive too, it’s like he’s gargling staples.
It took me a while to work out why I don't like Muse, and eventually I discovered it was the singers voice, as I quite like the actual music until he starts singing.
I quite like Muse. To me the singer sounds like a not quite as good version of Jeff Buckley ( who was incredible ). Really good musicians too, the Bass player does some cool runs.
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@mn5 said in Worst songs of eras:
@nepia said in Worst songs of eras:
@mn5 said in Worst songs of eras:
@rapido said in Worst songs of eras:
Potentially good thread just becoming lists of novelty songs or good or ok songs people got sick from over exposure.
Of those mentioned. Definitely Smash Mouth's 'All Star'.
As in does actually quite well represent the era of the late 90s in its sub-genre of alt rock and hip hop blend.
The lyrics contain the quite (now cliche) but then probably quite 'now' phrase of "get your game on".
Combined with absolutely timeless cliches of "all that glitters is gold" and"only shooting stars".
Then making "mold" into 3 syllables.But jesus christ. The lyric are bad.
The tune is just meh, and of it's time.
I find the singers voice offensive too, it’s like he’s gargling staples.
It took me a while to work out why I don't like Muse, and eventually I discovered it was the singers voice, as I quite like the actual music until he starts singing.
I quite like Muse. To me the singer sounds like a not quite as good version of Jeff Buckley ( who was incredible ). Really good musicians too, the Bass player does some cool runs.
Yeah, my musician friends love them due to this too, I just can't listen to them.
Although if it's a choice between them and Radiohead, it's Muse every time. (Actually I'll take anything in this thread over Radiohead, unless that Jones song by Counting Crows has been mentioned).
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@rapido said in Worst songs of eras:
@mn5 said in Worst songs of eras:
Good song, that.
Shit I hope we never carpool together
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@smudge said in Worst songs of eras:
I might be Booboo-ing here but can't be bothered reading the whole thread. Has this been mentioned?
It’s worthy. Knopfler is a guitarist of beautiful touch and taste but by crikey Dire Straits did some diabolical shit.
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@rapido said in Worst songs of eras:
@mn5 said in Worst songs of eras:
Good song, that.
Do you mean catchy? Great example of "one hit wonders".
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@canefan said in Worst songs of eras:
@crucial said in Worst songs of eras:
Who did that fucking horrendous version of big yellow taxi in he 90s?
Quite a feat to take that shite song down a few pegs more.
I’m not hitting that play button. The still shot alone makes my ears bleed
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@crucial said in Worst songs of eras:
@canefan said in Worst songs of eras:
@crucial said in Worst songs of eras:
Who did that fucking horrendous version of big yellow taxi in he 90s?
Quite a feat to take that shite song down a few pegs more.
I’m not hitting that play button. The still shot alone makes my ears bleed
Someone should do a reality show and dump Counting Crows and Smash Mouth on an island and make them fight to the death.
I’m picking on those two cos they each had more than one shithouse song
