Posted October 24, 200816 yr contrary to the other thread and inspired by normas 'joke'.. lest name good artists who have produced a real stinker of a track! david bowie 'the laughing gnome'
October 24, 200816 yr Eurythmics - There must be an Angel... Loved them a lot apart from this drivel, although a lot of that album has dated really badly.
October 24, 200816 yr Not a retro song but a retro band... St Anger - Metallica Zbuk96kW9LM Proper $h!t. There's loads a few others that i can think of but doubt they'd worth being mentioned.
October 24, 200816 yr Celine Dion - My Heart Will Go On Culture Club - Your Kisses are Charity and The War Song Human League - Soundtrack to a Generation (even if that Holy Cow! line is funny), I need your lovin' ABBA - SOS Guns N Roses - Sympathy for the devil, The Garden of Eden Queen - Hammer to Fall, I'm Going Slightly Mad, Breakthru'
October 24, 200816 yr Eurythmics - There must be an Angel... Loved them a lot apart from this drivel, although a lot of that album has dated really badly. :o I love that song!
October 24, 200816 yr I don't know if Oasis count has retro, but Sunday Morning Call from 2000 was absolutely dire (it's possibly the worst song I've heard from them).
October 24, 200816 yr Radiohead - Creep. I think Radiohead are the greatest band of the last 15 years, but Creep is awful Nirvana-lite (OK Pop Is Dead is even worse but it was not a big hit) that makes Stiltskin's Inside seem superior by comparison. Little wonder the band got sick of that albatross of a song that seems to be the only Radiohead song liked by people who don't like Radiohead.
October 24, 200816 yr The Corrs - The Right Time (overly twee and ruins Forgiven Not Forgotten for me as the rest of the album is much more serious) Savage Garden - The Animal Song (what on earth was this!?!) All Saints - Bootie Call (generally a respectable girl group but this track was just diabolical) Pet Shop Boys - New York City Boy (cringeworthy, didn't fit with the 1999 music scene at all, was very out of date, You Only Tell Me You Love Me When You're Drunk from the same album was much better)
October 24, 200816 yr Radiohead - Creep. I think Radiohead are the greatest band of the last 15 years, but Creep is awful Nirvana-lite Not hearing Nirvana in there at all...didn't back then either. Radiohead needed 'Creep' - 'The Bends' would have been ignored if they hadn't left us with a big hit to keep us waiting for 'My Iron Lung', 'High and Dry', 'Fake Plastic Trees', 'Street Spirit' and their most feted work.
October 24, 200816 yr Radiohead - Creep. I think Radiohead are the greatest band of the last 15 years, but Creep is awful Nirvana-lite (OK Pop Is Dead is even worse but it was not a big hit) that makes Stiltskin's Inside seem superior by comparison. Little wonder the band got sick of that albatross of a song that seems to be the only Radiohead song liked by people who don't like Radiohead. I put that in the $h!t artist good track thread :rofl:
October 25, 200816 yr Author All Saints - Bootie Call lol.... viva la difference! i think its great, just how do they sing that low?...
October 25, 200816 yr Not hearing Nirvana in there at all...didn't back then either. Radiohead needed 'Creep' - 'The Bends' would have been ignored if they hadn't left us with a big hit to keep us waiting for 'My Iron Lung', 'High and Dry', 'Fake Plastic Trees', 'Street Spirit' and their most feted work. Classic Nirvana = Quieter brooding melancholic verses followed by loud agressive rousing anthemic choruses. How is that not like Radiohead's Creep? Personally, that song put me off getting into Radiohead until their continous release of singles from The Bends finishing with Street Spirit made me go out and purchase The Bends and made me realise what a brilliant album it is. After the album of the 1990s OK Computer came out I went back and bought Pablo Honey ........ big mistake, save Anyone Can Play Guitar it is hard to believe a band who made such a lame derivative post-Grunge debut album would go on to far greater things.... that they continue to release today. Besides the fact the band dropped The Air That I Breathe :lol: Creep from their setlists in 1998 and have seldomly played it since tells you what the band think about the song, and the fact they've allowed the likes of Tears For Fears, G4, Duran Duran & Damien Rice to cover it says something. Creep is to the Radiohead's canon what The Laughing Gnome is to David Bowie's IMHO.
October 25, 200816 yr Human League "Don't You Want Me" (Being massively overplayed doesn't help, but that aside, vocally rubbish, annoying riff and just generally very irritating!) Bjork "It's Oh So Quiet" (like Radioheads noted "Creep", people who like Bjork hate this one and people who don't like her, just like this one! Bjork hates it and it was rejected from her best of CD, which was compiled by her fanbase!)
October 25, 200816 yr Radiohead - Creep. I think Radiohead are the greatest band of the last 15 years, but Creep is awful Nirvana-lite (OK Pop Is Dead is even worse but it was not a big hit) that makes Stiltskin's Inside seem superior by comparison. Little wonder the band got sick of that albatross of a song that seems to be the only Radiohead song liked by people who don't like Radiohead. this reminds me that i should have brought up this point the other day when i was having a beer with some of my mates...was talking to me mates girlfriend and she's like ms alternative...liking all the usual suspects when it comes to retro music (who, kinks etc etc) because she cant do with people who are not original - tho a big big fan of radiohead who are like so original and such innovators that she cant deal with anybody who might be seen as radiohead-lite from the last few years... yeah i read a few months ago in something like the word that in like the early britpop era everybody hated radiohead for being like soo american and grunge-lite and like wannabe seattle types that it was only till they had a massive massive hit on the us alt-rock and billboard charts - than anyone in the uk not into the now passe grunge scene took much notice.... so that quite ironic tho tbh she would have only been 7 when creep came out :lol: Human League "Don't You Want Me" (Being massively overplayed doesn't help, but that aside, vocally rubbish, annoying riff and just generally very irritating!) yeah thats bad but even worse is open your heart...i tried to play dare the other day but couldn't get past that song - i guess it has the same effect as a dog whistle to a dog - high piercing noise of c**p synths.... :puke2:
October 25, 200816 yr Besides the fact the band dropped The Air That I Breathe :lol: Creep from their setlists in 1998 and have seldomly played it since tells you what the band think about the song, and the fact they've allowed the likes of Tears For Fears, G4, Duran Duran & Damien Rice to cover it says something. Creep is to the Radiohead's canon what The Laughing Gnome is to David Bowie's IMHO. ..but at least The Laughing Gnome is so rubbish with puns so bad is it essential and hillarious....esp compared to some of the c**p you could end up with on the best of bowie dvd from the mid 1980s.... btw think Tears For Fears and Duran Duran may fall into a $h!t artist good track feature...along with boy george
October 25, 200816 yr Author yeah thats bad but even worse is open your heart...i tried to play dare the other day but couldn't get past that song - i guess it has the same effect as a dog whistle to a dog - high piercing noise of c**p synths.... :puke2: nah... 'open your heart' was good... much better all round then 'dont you want me' which was schoolboyishly simple, it could have been written by a 14 year old.
October 25, 200816 yr nah... 'open your heart' was good... much better all round then 'dont you want me' which was schoolboyishly simple, it could have been written by a 14 year old. no both dreadful - first track alright - more like older bef human league...and was good whn richard x used the first time around with kelis and the sos band (ooh jam and lewis link there)!!!
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