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Location: Columbus, OH | "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. "
Boy are you naive. There are many hit records that have nothing to do with good music. And there are innumerable great songs that will never be a hit record for any number of reasons. You make absolutely no sense. |
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Location: SoCal | This is one of the sillier discussion this board has ever had. And the saddest comment is that this is my first post on it. I'm slipping. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Paul,
Maybe you should go back to scaring off new guys!
:rolleyes:
The terms "Good Music" and "Artist" are so subjective it isn't worth getting wrapped around the axle. |
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Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | "There are many hit records that have nothing to do with good music."
Ain't that what this thread is all about? It may be silly, but I've had a few good chuckles reading people's lists of "stinkers." |
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Location: Tulsa, Oklahoma | I've got to stop laughing!!!... Now I've got songs playing in my head that I thought I had gladly forgotten... But noooooooooo... you guys had to bring up McCarther Park!.... I've got to go have a few cold ones at happy hour and hope they've got some decent music playing!!....
My worst:
Under Cover Angel.... Donald O'Day
Rap
Rap
Rap
and Rap
and most of the ones everyone else has already posted.... This thread has been too funny but also too painful because of the bad songs I've got bouncing around in my head...
Geald |
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Location: SoCal | Woodrow, I stopped trying to scare off new people when I couldn't scare you off. Hell, you just seemed to get more comfortable and feel like you were home.
Which you are. |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Gerald
Dang You, I was doing fine till you said "songs in my head" and suddenly my all time hated song that I have managed for years to keep out of my conscious thought returned with a vengeance.
I am now cursed, probably till I die as I don't have many years left, with Tim McGraws "Please Don't Take The Girl" ensconced in my waking and sleeping worldly experience.
5 most hated
1) Please Don't Take the Girl
2) Please Don't Haunt My World
3) Please Don't Take My Brain
4) Please Don't Sing So High
5) Please Leave Before I Die
Much worse than McCarthur Park (which I sort'a like)
Bailey :D |
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Location: Central Oregon | Originally posted by DavidE:
There are many hit records that have nothing to do with good music.
"Ooo Ahh Ooo Ahh poop poop diddy" suddenly started running through my poor tired unprotected brain.
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Location: Converse, Texas | 5 most hated songs... let's see if I can narrow it to just 5. 3 of them are tied for first!
1) Billy Don't Be A Hero -- I hate this one so bad I can't remember who did it.
1) S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y Night -- Bay City ROllers
1) Don't Worry Kyoko -- Yoko Ono and the Plastic Ono Band
4) Back Off Buggaloo -- Ringo Starr
5) Smells Like Teen Spirit -- Nirvana |
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Location: NJ | I once went to a jam and started playing "don't worry kyoko ...." The bass player started playing it along with me and also knew the tune. I promised never to drink that much again. |
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Location: Florida | Aw man....
On that list has got to be
Smoke on the Water
Bohemian Rhapsody
Knowing Me Knowing You
Hooked on a Feeling
and the classic
Jerimiah (Was a Bullfrog) |
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Location: Las Vegas | Here's what I'm going to do:
Long after every last molecule of American soil has been blasted into its respective atoms, I'm going to keep every note, every word, every nuance of the performance of, not only McArthur Park, but of every song on the two albums Jimmy Webb produced with Richard Harris, alive in my memory and in my soul so that they can be shared and appreciated with people that, when someone says the word "America" they will go "Huh?" with a blank stare.
Long after America has been long forgotten, Jimmy's and Richard's music will be available to the delight of God and to all those who have ears to hear and minds to understand and REMEMBERED. God willing, I might even hook Jimmy and Richard up again with 100 or so musicians to produce even more.
That's MY promise.
You see, Brooks and Dunn aside, music was intended as spiritual communication with God, and few even bother to attempt it. Those that do, and against all odds, somehow succeed, are dumped on by those that will never get it.
Which is fine. Nothing wrong with not being able to "get it."
Now, for those that do have ears to hear now, and do get it, this is something I threw together 12+ years ago. I have to thank you for making me dig it up. Of course today I quite blessedly have access to real musicians and a real harpsichord and piano, drums and other instruments to produce such music, but for two proteus, modules, one R-8 drum machine, one DX-7, and a brand new used (at the time) VS-1680, it ain't half bad, and just maybe one person who doesn't yet get it will go "Oh."
Maybe.
http://lvdi.viawest.net/~xbj/LeslieLeeBell_McArthurPark.mp3
Oh, by all means, keep firing away.
Leslie Bell |
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Location: Converse, Texas | Leslie:
Thanks a lot for putting that song in my head... |
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Location: SoCal | Jimmy Webb has written some of the best songs the world has ever heard. And there are some lines in MacArthur Park that are wonderful, such as
"And after all the loves of my life
I'll be thinking of you
and wondering why"
I love that. Trouble is, you gotta listen to the rest of the song to get to it. Such is life. |
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Location: SE Michigan | You know, I always kind of liked MacArthur Park, and I started this thread. I think its a beautiful song and the orignal version is well -performed. At least it doesnt grate on my nerves like "Hot Blooded" or Achy-Breaky Heart" |
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Location: Queens, NY | I will probably get beat up for this, but even though I consider Led Zeppelin one of my favorite bands ("When the Levee Breaks" is one of my all time favorites), a handful of their songs were real clunkers:
The Crunge
D'yer Mak'er (Deep lyrics "Oh Uh Oh Oh Ah Oh Oh...")
Kashmir (nice guitar riff, but drags on too long and Robert Plant sounds like he just rolled out of bed with a head cold)
Stairway to Heaven (Not that it's a bad song, but it's just been played to death)
Also:
Roundabout, Yes (See "Stairway to Heaven")
Toccata, Emerson Lake and Palmer (just too weird for me)
Bad, but in a good sort of way:
Why Don't We Do It In The Road, The Beatles
Farmer John, Neil Young and Crazy Horse |
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Location: Queens, NY | Hizzoner,
I may be wrong, but I think it was John Lennon that screamed "I got blisters on my fingers!" at the end of "Helter Skelter". |
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Location: California | Let us not forget, "Ice, Ice Baby" by the genius that is Vanilla Ice. |
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