Worst songs of eras
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@rancid-schnitzel said in Worst songs of eras:
@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?
Fan of the band but yes this is utter shart. I've never understood how people can be so invested in a band (or film franchise - Star Wars cough cough) that they'll pretend to like something that is absolute shit. I remember a mate of my brother was Irish and loved U2. Was in the car with him when a new song was released (one of those crap techno style ones). You could see the enormous internal struggle he was having. It was obvious he was shocked at how shit it was but he had to like it because it was U2.
I quite enjoyed Achtung Baby the album once I got over the shock that it was a complete departure from their previous stuff. Zooropa was weird at the time, but years later I picked the CD up in the bargain bin and I really enjoy many of the songs now. That disco album was forgettable
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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 CochraneI’m going to pretend I know and respect Gil Evans on the assumption he/she/they is pretty good. But I will point out that in your #ahem# Rush to include Sarah McLaughlin you forgot their preeminent rock trio.
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@jc I was just grabbing names from the memory banks and they escaped me.
TBH I never got in to them. First few years I found them overly derivative and preferred listening to the guys that they were ripping off. Then when they really started to gather momentum I was into punk and reggae and had left the prog rock dinosaurs behind. I will now listen to prog rock but know nothing about Canada's pre-eminent rock trio.
Ignore all the above if you were being sarcastic.
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@tim said in Worst songs of eras:
@mariner4life Worse than the Spin Doctors.
Dude, lay off the day drinking.
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@dogmeat said in Worst songs of eras:
@jc I was just grabbing names from the memory banks and they escaped me.
TBH I never got in to them. First few years I found them overly derivative and preferred listening to the guys that they were ripping off. Then when they really started to gather momentum I was into punk and reggae and had left the prog rock dinosaurs behind. I will now listen to prog rock but know nothing about Canada's pre-eminent rock trio.
Ignore all the above if you were being sarcastic.
That’s fair. Their first album really wanted to be .. I dunno, I want to say Nazareth?
Then they went so far down Prog Rock hole they came out of its arse with 3 albums that the purists love but were pretty much harder Genesis over a lyrical base of schoolboy doggerel, although I’ll deny I said that if pressed and a free pint is on the line.
Then they found their own way with Farewell to Kings and never looked back.
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@bovidae I vaguely remember them but as I wrote earlier after an early 70's infatuation with prog rock,- Gabriel era Genesis, Floyd, Yes, King Crimson, Faust etc I sort of moved on to
less self-indulgentshorter musical genres.These guys were after my fling with prog rock was dead and buried.
I also went from buying about 5 albums a week to next to none when I started schlepping round Europe living in squats and hitching 6 months of the year.
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@mn5 said in Worst songs of eras:
@l_n_p said in Worst songs of eras:
Sacred cows aside, post your worst kiwi song then
A tie between these two
Late to the party ... Can I ask what the first one Is? Blocked here.
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@booboo said in Worst songs of eras:
@mn5 said in Worst songs of eras:
@l_n_p said in Worst songs of eras:
Sacred cows aside, post your worst kiwi song then
A tie between these two
Late to the party ... Can I ask what the first one Is? Blocked here.
Sure thing. “Why does love do this to me?” by the Exponents and it should be blocked everywhere.
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@Tim said in Worst songs of eras:
The awesome thing about bands that cynically release a toxic piece of musical malware is that it’s self punishing. They’ve condemned themselves to playing the rancid shite over and over in ever more depressing venues in front of audiences descending to the level they deserve.
explains U2 chaining themselves to Vegas.
Doubt the fates will be assuaged so easily. they’re gonna be playing a Beautiful Day on loop in the frozen 9th circle of hell next to Dave Grohl strumming Best of You on a banjo with razorblade strings to those two Italians blokes stuck gnawing each other’s necks.
I might even pay to see that. But I doubt I’ll have to.
