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Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | "(not a bad song, just ruined by association)"
That reminds me of another one to add to the Music Hall of Shame: Cherish, by The Association. |
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Location: hatzic lake, bc, canada. | 1.Yellow submarine. The beatles
2.Yellow submarine. The beatles
3.Yellow submarine. The....Ahh i guess that should cover it. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Anything where William Shatner sings!
...or talks! |
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Location: south east Michigan | Please...whatever Shatner does..don't call it "singing". |
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Location: Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey | Didn't he just release a new cd? |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Yes he did but it's still not called singing. Even Spock hates it. |
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Location: Columbus, OH | So many interesting choices so far. I disagree with several, but then again I still like to play and sing Mustang Sally.
But there's one song with lyrics so horrible I can't understand how it became a hit, let alone a classic.
MacArthur Park. Someone left a cake out in the rain.....
Who the f**k cares??? It's a freaking CAKE!!! And maybe you shouldn't have had that recipie in the first place!!!!! Oy....
But then again, listen to the words of the incredible song Sitting On The Dock of the Bay... |
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Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | I can only assume the recipe called for a liberal amount of marijuana to be baked into the cake, which WOULD make leaving it out in the rain a bit of a disaster. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | For those of you too young to get the William shatner reference - you can "Buy it Now".
You might need to borrow a turntable though!
Shatner LP |
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Location: Las Vegas | "Who the f**k cares??? It's a freaking CAKE!!! And maybe you shouldn't have had that recipie in the first place!!!!! Oy...."
What NEVER ceases to amaze me is, with about 99% of ALL the pop songs in the universe being about love and relationships, is that SOME PEOPLE STILL can't understand a simple metaphor for a FAILED RELATIONSHIP. And the metaphor extends all the way to God's despair at the ruination of all creation.
Unbelievable. McArthur Park is a GREAT song by a GREAT songwriter, and an ever GREATER record by that same great PRODUCER/ARRANGER, Jimmy Webb. And I am TIRED of people THAT DON'T GET THE OBVIOUS, trashing it out of their own inability. On MANY levels. Inability to write, inability to create, inability to produce decent music period.
Just for your information, almost every other song mentioned in this thread got on the radio in the first place by airtime being bought and paid for by payola. McArthur Park, on the other hand, was the ONLY song that got on the radio because ONE woman at ONE radio station loved it enough to play it for the program director, who put it on in the middle of the night. From there THE PUBLIC (who apparently are smarter than the folks bitching here) GOT IT, and made it the hit it was. NO promotion, NO payola, a more than 7 minute song by an ACTOR became a number one pop music hit. One single instance out of an entire decades-long pop music MYTH that cream actually does rise to the top.
Crap will always sell if someone pays enough to get it heard and enough people hear it enough. And for every song listed here, there is someone somewhere to whom that song is probably their favorite song for SOME reason or the other, if only because they heard it so many times and relate it somehow to something in their lives. THAT'S WHAT POP MUSIC IS.
Get over it. Useless thread.
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Location: SE Michigan | OK, you have inspired me; my second set of five hated songs
Just A Gigolo – David Lee Roth. Imagine how much better Van Halen could have been without this clown.
Take the money and run – Steve Miller – another case of pushing rhymes to the very limits common decency.
One Week by the Barenaked Ladies – reminds me of when I drink too much coffee. I like most of this band’s stuff but this song makes me want to go and lie down.
Candle in the Wind – English Rose - Elton John. Take a classic great song and a great person (Princess Dianna), combine them, and it’s an insult to both. If you liked her that much Elton, at least write her her own song, after all it's not that hard for you.
All I really want – Alanis Morissette – Again someone whose material I generally like, but could this song be any more bitchy? You have got to have pity on the man her life. |
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Location: south of munich, Germany | I really love it, German Pop-Singers do songs in english language... best (or worst) example:
Sasha: I Feel Lonely (Lo-lo-lo-lo-lonely)
most hated "Band":
Modern Talking (German Duo started in the 80s.. everything sounds the same...)
thinking of these examples of most hated songs, my mind is not clear enough to name more than these ;-) |
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| Springstien Did Blinded by the Light??? Yeah it's the Manfred Mann dudes. They just gotta go!
Ohh yeah were do I get a copy of Billy Shatners greatest hit's?
I'm gonna bury it in the back yard with my Cat Steven's records!
Right after I whizz on em!
whoops I did it again! Sorry? |
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Location: Yucaipa, California | Sugar Shack....plus all of the above! |
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Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | My understanding is that "The Boss" wrote Blinded By The Light, but it was the Manfred Mann version that was a hit. Nobody could understand the words following "blinded by the light" in the chorus, but websites about misheard lyrics suggest it's "revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night." Supposedly "deuce" is a reference to the Little Deuce Coupe hot-rod.
Springsteen wrote the song, but I don't know if he recorded it. |
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Location: Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey | I did hear a live recorded version of his version of Blinded By The Light, and I hardly recognized it.
I'm not saying whether that's a good or bad thing. |
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Location: Tennessee | Springsteen released the song on his first album, "Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.". |
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Location: Columbus, OH | Yes, I have no ability to recognize a shitty song. Yes, it's a simple metaphor. I don't think it's a particularly good metaphor. I may be an idiot, but I'm not stupid. I understood what the song was about. Frankly, I still think it sucks. Obviously many others disagree. This stuff is objective. You can't tell me that's it's good or bad. You think it's an amazing piece of music. I think it sucks. Neither of us is wrong.
What NEVER ceases to amaze me is that people like you think your opinion, and I stress it's an opinion!, is the only valid one. The thread wasn't useless at all. In fact, I found it quite entertaining.
P.S. regarding another post, Just A Gigilo was not a Van Halen Song. It was a post Roth era solo tune from the king of schmaltz. And we know what VH was without Roth; a hit making machine with Sammy Hagar. And a pos with Gary Cherone. I like Roth VH and I like Hagar VH. I prefer the songs of the Roth era. Stupid lyrics and all. ;-)
What NEVER ceases to amaze me is, with about 99% of ALL the pop songs in the universe being about love and relationships, is that SOME PEOPLE STILL can't understand a simple metaphor for a FAILED RELATIONSHIP. And the metaphor extends all the way to God's despair at the ruination of all creation.
Unbelievable. McArthur Park is a GREAT song by a GREAT songwriter, and an ever GREATER record by that same great PRODUCER/ARRANGER, Jimmy Webb. And I am TIRED of people THAT DON'T GET THE OBVIOUS, trashing it out of their own inability. On MANY levels. Inability to write, inability to create, inability to produce decent music period.
Just for your information, almost every other song mentioned in this thread got on the radio in the first place by airtime being bought and paid for by payola. McArthur Park, on the other hand, was the ONLY song that got on the radio because ONE woman at ONE radio station loved it enough to play it for the program director, who put it on in the middle of the night. From there THE PUBLIC (who apparently are smarter than the folks bitching here) GOT IT, and made it the hit it was. NO promotion, NO payola, a more than 7 minute song by an ACTOR became a number one pop music hit. One single instance out of an entire decades-long pop music MYTH that cream actually does rise to the top.
Crap will always sell if someone pays enough to get it heard and enough people hear it enough. And for every song listed here, there is someone somewhere to whom that song is probably their favorite song for SOME reason or the other, if only because they heard it so many times and relate it somehow to something in their lives. THAT'S WHAT POP MUSIC IS.
Get over it. Useless thread.
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Location: Las Vegas | Originally posted by DavidE:
[QB]Yes, I have no ability to recognize a shitty song. Yes, it's a simple metaphor. I don't think it's a particularly good metaphor. I may be an idiot, but I'm not stupid. I understood what the song was about. Frankly, I still think it sucks. Obviously many others disagree. This stuff is objective. You can't tell me that's it's good or bad. You think it's an amazing piece of music. I think it sucks. Neither of us is wrong.
Yes, I'll just have to take solace in the fact that Jimmy Webb wrote many great hit records and you wrote, ah yes, NONE. |
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Location: NJ | anything by Jimmy buffet |
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Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | And Martin goes and makes not one, but two, Jimmy Buffet signature models, the Pollywog (term for a sailor who hasn't crossed the Equator) and the Shellback (term for one who has). Go figure...
As for xbj's last comment, I guess that means that, unless you've written a hit record, you're not allowed to have an opinion about music. Well, that leaves me out; I guess I'll have to zip my lip from now on. |
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Location: NJ | "Free Bird"
"Born to Run" (at one time some asswipe actually proposed a referendum to make it the "official state song of NJ" . . . . probably never bothered to read the lyrics).
"Sweet Home Ala(f^%#*g)Bama"
80's HairMetal
Any and All post-9/11 "anthems" written/performed by some 10-gallon in-bred jaggoff capitalizing on a tragedy so that he/she got to play their "song" at national sporting event. |
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Location: Las Vegas | As for xbj's last comment, I guess that means that, unless you've written a hit record, you're not allowed to have an opinion about music. Well, that leaves me out; I guess I'll have to zip my lip from now on.[/QB]
That's NOT what I said. What I said is, if you've never written a hit record, you have to have the RIGHT opinion about music!
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No, actually what I was really saying is that the grain of salt you have to take certain opinions with is proportionate to the acheivements of the person making the opinion. Opinions of critics that "can't do" should and actually do matter far less than opinions of critics that "can do" and "have done". That's why Grammy awards are still valued far more than the many "People's Choice" awards. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | But after all that is said and done, McARTHUR's PARK still sucks, right? Webb has written some great stuff, but in my opinion McArthur isn't on the list. At least the original version. Now, the Larry McNeely instrumental version rocks! That's the one to cling on to. Saw a Jimmy Webb and Art Garfunkel solo concert (just vocals and piano) about 2 years ago and it was fantastic.
Funny thing about this thread, I would easily list dozens of my "most hated" songs. Then come back tomorrow and list dozens of my "favorite" songs and some songs would probably be on both lists. I think our frame of reference is always changing. At least that's what Einstein said.
Bottom line, if you are stupid enough to leave a cake out in the rain, you deserve to go to bed hungry. As far as failed relationships, I have a hard time topping Michael Jackson and his Rat named "Ben". |
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Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | Sorry, xbj, I don't buy your argument. You're making sweeping generalizations. Writer/critic Robert Hughes may not paint or sculpt, but his analyses of art demonstrate a razor-sharp intellect and a profound knowledge,understanding, and appreciation of the subject.
You're also making a big assumption in implying that Grammy-winning music is by definition quality music. |
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