Posted April 22, 200817 yr omg..... how uncool is this :lol: Andy Williams - cant take my eyes off you oh lord.... lol.. nice happy stylee track. George Michael - a different corner think its a very soulfull track one of his best imho Moody Blues - nights in white satin wonderfully ott emo track. dated, overplayed but of its time. Beatles - i need you imho they wrote some cracking love songs, this is the first one featured Herb Alpert - this guys in love with you bacharach and david compo, top of its tree imho. Val Doonican - what would i be excellant voiced balladeer B*witched - too you i belong erm.... i like it ok!!! :lol: Beatles - and i love her their best love song?.. troggs - love is all around destroyed completely by the wets... it was a classic but its ruined now. Beatles - if i fell another 'hard days night' album track and another top class one.
April 22, 200817 yr Mmmm interesting, personally I think I Need You is one of the Beatles weakest tracks....., I'll get my thinking cap on and come up with something by the weekend..... Can't fault Andy Williams, Moody Blues, Herb Alpert, George Michael = superb choices ...... whilst I think Wet Wet Wet did a superb cover of the Troggs song much better than the original as proved by its success in the charts at the time. But as for Val Doonican, it would be like me including Westlife! :no:
April 22, 200817 yr Now this is my kind of thing, slushy love songs. If anyone mentions a ballad to me, then i am all love struck :wub: I will get together some of my all time love songs. :wub: I have loads though, but i will choose my Top 40 :yahoo: By the way Rob, Andy Williams, classic song :cheer:
April 22, 200817 yr Author tbh i think the wets demolition of 'love is all around's success is due mainly to the state of the charts at that time, plus it was used on a silly girly film that was bound to get the 'no tastes' buying music they wouldnt normaly buy. tbh im surprised you rate it, i considered it to be a very weak track. oh well, vive la difference!
April 22, 200817 yr Author oh.. and 'i need you' i think wins with its 'weakness', its cool, laid back but at the same time earnest... anyway i like it!
April 22, 200817 yr oh.. and 'i need you' i think wins with its 'weakness', its cool, laid back but at the same time earnest... anyway i like it! I Need You used to be my favourite song from Help (partly because George Harrison was - and still is my favourite Beatle, mainly because of his dry wit - always the funniest of the four). Over the years - I can see - or hear - that it never was a particularly great song. However - I agree with you there is something naive, innocent and vulnerable about it. And you're right - it deserves to be there. QvlVBopw-co Norma Edited April 22, 200817 yr by Sheila_Blige
April 23, 200817 yr Author ...... whilst I think Wet Wet Wet did a superb cover of the Troggs song much better than the original as proved by its success in the charts at the time. But as for Val Doonican, it would be like me including Westlife! :no: hold on a mo m8... how come you cite the wets chart run as proof of success but then totally ignore westlifes chart runs? lol... anyway it wasnt the act that got it to number one, it was the track and if they had released to troggs original instead it still would have been up there for months <_<.
April 23, 200817 yr hold on a mo m8... how come you cite the wets chart run as proof of success but then totally ignore westlifes chart runs? lol... anyway it wasnt the act that got it to number one, it was the track and if they had released to troggs original instead it still would have been up there for months <_<. 1. The Wet x3 was only their 3rd UK#1 (5th Top 5 hit) in 8 years and 18 releases. In the same period of time & releases Westlife had 13 UK#1 hits (all 18 were top 5 singles) so I completely fail to see the comparison. 2. The Troggs original of Love Is All Around WAS reissued in July 1994 to cash in on the Wet's superior cover version, but it failed to trouble the UK Top75. However their reissued Greatest Hits was marginally more successful peaking at UK#27 spending 3 weeks in the album charts.
April 23, 200817 yr 1. The Wet x3 was only their 3rd UK#1 (5th Top 5 hit) in 8 years and 18 releases. In the same period of time & releases Westlife had 13 UK#1 hits (all 18 were top 5 singles) so I completely fail to see the comparison. 2. The Troggs original of Love Is All Around WAS reissued in July 1994 to cash in on the Wet's superior cover version, but it failed to trouble the UK Top75. However their reissued Greatest Hits was marginally more successful peaking at UK#27 spending 3 weeks in the album charts. The Troggs still performed it better. The WWW one was so bland and boring (I can't help it - Marti Pellow has just got one of the most boring voices ever - almost as bland as Ronan Keating - and that takes some doing). The film and clips shown helped the WWW version - just as RHPOT helped the almost as awful 'Everything I Do' stay at number one for so bloody long. The above is purely my opinion mind. Norma Edited April 23, 200817 yr by Sheila_Blige
April 23, 200817 yr Author The Troggs still performed it better. The WWW one was so bland and boring (I can't help it - Marti Pellow has just got one of the most boring voices ever - almost as bland as Ronan Keating - and that takes some doing). The film and clips shown helped the WWW version - just as RHPOT helped the almost as awful 'Everything I Do' stay at number one for so bloody long. The above is purely my opinion mind. Norma absolutely! couldnt agree more... im surprised that COD prefers www version, hes the only person (with knowlege and taste) that ive met that does.... like so many covers, pop music connesseurs at music quizes generally hate it. sales and popularity dont always equate to 'good', after all mr blobby reached #1 ! :lol:
April 23, 200817 yr Author 1. The Wet x3 was only their 3rd UK#1 (5th Top 5 hit) in 8 years and 18 releases. In the same period of time & releases Westlife had 13 UK#1 hits (all 18 were top 5 singles) so I completely fail to see the comparison. the comparison is simple, you cite www @#1 for umpteen weeks as proof of their superiority, but fail to credit westlife whos chart history is far superior to the wets. IF you are using sales or chart success as a measure of 'whos best', then it has to work both ways :) the other comparison is glareingly obvious.... both the wets and westlife are rubbish! :lol:
April 23, 200817 yr Here are my 12 uncool love songs: 1. George Benson - The Greatest Love Of All - Forget Whitney's (albeit for her), pretty good effort. This is how it should sound by the original artist. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CE4SUl-K1Do 2. Stevie Wonder - My Cherie Amour - Quite simply the best thing he did in the 1960s. A sublime love song. 3. Carole King - Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow? - A beautiful love song, so brilliantly constructed, it is virtually impossible to ruin. I own versions of this track by Carole King (the original songwriter), the Shirelles (the original version), Roberta Flack, Deborah Gibson & Amy Winehouse, and not remotely a duffer amongst them. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzPUfZ32GLw 4. The Beatles - Something - How can anyone argue with Frank Sinatra calling this track the greatest love song of the 20th Century? Musical perfection by the Best band that ever stood upon the planet. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0dbHAnawLA 5. Paul McCartney - Maybe I'm Amazed - Taken from his first solo album where he played every single instrument on it & produced & engineered it. This love song was written for his new wife Linda. A trck he never surpassed in his successful solo career. The fact this standard has been covered by The Faces, Paul Weller, Carleen Anderson, P.P. Arnold, Jem, Ray Charles & Joe Cocker, etc speaks volumes. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oV-vA50oJSM 6. John Lennon - Woman - Taken from his last studio album. How ironic that the best McCartney love song not written by Paul, was written by his former brother in arms. His untimely death makes this track even more poignant. But it surely would have become a standard & global hit if he was still around today. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaLfDnShEn0 7. Bee Gees - How Deep Is Your Love - I had to include a track from the collective pens of the Brothers Gibb, and this epic from Saturday Night Fever is it. Although this is not the version of this song that reached #1 in the UK. This version is the musical equivalent of eating caramel chocolate in a bubble bath. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCj0F0o9u-8 8. Billy Joel - Just The Way You Are - "The American Elton John" finally came into his own in the second half of the 1970s thanks to tracks like this, which complimented his more rockier sound. Many of you will probably prefer the UK hit version of this song by "The Walrus of Love" Barry White. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRTHIKvK3fg 9. Elvis Presley - Love Me Tender - The King. Personally I prefer Roy Orbison vocally, but in terms of all round vocal ability, agility, suppleness, sensuality & sheer sex appeal, there ain't been anyone close to him. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZBUb0ElnNY 10. Carpenters - Close To You - What can you say about Karen Carpenters voice. Proof to the Whitney's, Celine's, Mariah's, Xtina's, Beyonce's, Kelly C's, Leona's, etc of the world that you don't need to sing 19 notes when 1 will do. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKh86kOoiWQ 11. Wet Wet Wet - Love Is All Around - A song so overplayed, it is almost impossible to realise how brilliant this version of the song was when originally (under)performed by 60s also rans (in a musical, if not necessarily popular sense) the Troggs. Even if it did not appear in Four Weddings and a Funeral, it surely would have sold over a million anyway. Especially considering how the Troggs & Reg Presley tried and failed to cash in on the runaway success of the Wet's version. Personally a contender for the best ever cover version as it is a vast improvement on the under developed original, largely thanks to ex-Art of Noise's Anne Dudley's string arrangement and the fact that as Marti Pellow admitted in 2004 they ripped off REM's arrangement of the song. Whilst don't forget the record company (Polygram) deleted the CD single so that it fell off the #1 spot (although they kept producing the cassette version of the single) after 15 weeks. Besides if you don't like this song, remember it kept that utterly appalling I Swear by All-4-One at #2 for six weeks & blander than Johnny Hates Jazz coveringa Shakatak track Let Loose Crazy For You at #2 for 5 weeks. 12. Take That - Back For Good - Quite simply the greatest British song written in the last 25 years IMHO. As a British songwriter I rate Gary in the same league as Lennon, McCartney, R Davies, P Townsend, D Bowie, E John, E Costello, P Weller, K Bush, P Collins, G Michael, N Gallagher, D Albarn, C Dennis & G Chambers. :lol: Thanks to a cocktail of the lazarus like comeback of the far more charismatic, but less talented Robbie, the British media turning on him, the hilarious but utterly cruel character assassination of him on Rock Profiles, and an over compromised solo album his solo career soon disappeared. From the return of Take That it is clear he has lost none of his criminally underrated songwriting & vocal ability. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMSUnEOPY5I
April 23, 200817 yr the comparison is simple, you cite www @#1 for umpteen weeks as proof of their superiority, but fail to credit westlife whos chart history is far superior to the wets. IF you are using sales or chart success as a measure of 'whos best', then it has to work both ways :) the other comparison is glareingly obvious.... both the wets and westlife are rubbish! :lol: Any song that spends more than 5 weeks at #1 or sells well in excess of a million copies does so for a reason = it is very popular amongst the Great British public at that period of time. Seeing that Westlife have not come close to achieving either of those two things, and seeing that most of Westlife's singles spent 1 week at #1, and are band infamous for miming. Whilst Wet Wet Wet debuted on Channel 4's the Tube as an unsigned act. All their original songs were penned by themselves, as opposed to being written by other songwriters, they were an excellent live act (I saw them at the Princes Trust concert (I think it was 1988) and they were really good). As for Marti Pellow he has one of those pitch perfect voices, to dismiss his vocal ability is like knocking the Celine's, Mariah's & Whitney's of the world, as he is a unquestionably a great singer. His Olivier Award winning run on the West End in the musical Chicago was recent proof of that, or are you going to argue that Alison Moyet who performed in the same show is c**p as well or though as she did not win an Olivier then that makes her worse than Marti Pellow? Or Darius is c**p because his pop career is over, yet Trevor Nunn was so impressed with his voice that he choose him to open in the West End version of Gone With The Wind as Rhett Butler? You might not like his voice but to say he is rubbish like Westlife is just being stupid. A bit like comparing Mick Hucknall with Ronan Keating. Mind you I don't see why I should be bothered by someone who thinks one of the most offensive acts in British musical history (S Club Juniors) are good. :lol: As for the Troggs, personally I think they are one of those acts, if you wanted to argue that actually the 1960s werent as good as they are made out to be, then I would have to agree as personally I think Reg Presley is a pretty poor singer, whilst musically the Troggs were rather poor as performers, especially compared to the likes of the Small Faces, the Pretty Things or the Yardbirds.
April 23, 200817 yr Author Any song that spends more than 5 weeks at #1 or sells well in excess of a million copies does so for a reason = it is very popular amongst the Great British public at that period of time. Seeing that Westlife have not come close to achieving either of those two things, and seeing that most of Westlife's singles spent 1 week at #1, and are band infamous for miming. Whilst Wet Wet Wet debuted on Channel 4's the Tube as an unsigned act. All their original songs were penned by themselves, as opposed to being written by other songwriters, they were an excellent live act (I saw them at the Princes Trust concert (I think it was 1988) and they were really good). As for Marti Pellow he has one of those pitch perfect voices, to dismiss his vocal ability is like knocking the Celine's, Mariah's & Whitney's of the world, as he is a unquestionably a great singer. His Olivier Award winning run on the West End in the musical Chicago was recent proof of that, or are you going to argue that Alison Moyet who performed in the same show is c**p as well or though as she did not win an Olivier then that makes her worse than Marti Pellow? Or Darius is c**p because his pop career is over, yet Trevor Nunn was so impressed with his voice that he choose him to open in the West End version of Gone With The Wind as Rhett Butler? You might not like his voice but to say he is rubbish like Westlife is just being stupid. A bit like comparing Mick Hucknall with Ronan Keating. Mind you I don't see why I should be bothered by someone who thinks one of the most offensive acts in British musical history (S Club Juniors) are good. :lol: As for the Troggs, personally I think they are one of those acts, if you wanted to argue that actually the 1960s werent as good as they are made out to be, then I would have to agree as personally I think Reg Presley is a pretty poor singer, whilst musically the Troggs were rather poor as performers, especially compared to the likes of the Small Faces, the Pretty Things or the Yardbirds. well broadly i agree.. im not bothered how 'good' marti pellows voice might be, the material ive heard by him is awful...but thats my personal opinion. true though i wouldnt factually rope the wets in the same catagory as westlife, although i dont like the wets at all.... they live up to their name! for a manufactured pop act id suggest that the scj product produced better pop songs then most in that catagory.... but again thats a personal opinion. i agree that the troggs were not in the same league as the kinks, beatles, small faces, yardbirds etc.. nor that reg presleys voice was particually good...it wasnt... but i like their original version, the production had far more 'soul' in it then the much weaker karaoke bland version the wets did. may i ask.... which version did you hear first? i ask because its normal for people to prefer the first version of a track.
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