General Most Loved/Hated Music

[Lost Marbles]

Snuff - I must have seen them about 20 times! A great night out with those fellas.

Yeah they must be one of the most underrated bands in the country - unlike a lot of punk bands they have proper melodic tunes with fantastic lyrics that would 100% stand up if they were played in a different style / genre.

Going to see them in Brum on Sunday.

 

[Sarge]

Loveless by My Bloody Valentine is amazing.

Reef go down as an awful awful band.

Controversially I think the Clash are massively over-rated.

Fair shout MBV

Fair shout re Reef

disagree re The Clash though

 

[m]

On Snuff: my hard drive threw up 'not listening' the other day.

I repeated it twice.

#dullbuttrue

 

[Eric Blair]

I think 2 Live Crew were telling us now much they 'liked pussy' back in the 80s and I'm not sure they were referring to Shrek.

Songs were slightly more suggestive than overtly filthy back in the 30s, but take a listen to 'Sweet Honey Hole' by Blind Boy Fuller or 'Banana In Your Fruit Basket' by Lucille Bogan, or even 'Blackpool Rock' by George Formby. Nothing changes, it just evolves.

Wait a minute @Big Ron - are you trying to tell me that Blackpool Rock by George Formby isn't about Blackpool Rock?

 

[Sarge]

Yeah they must be one of the most underrated bands in the country - unlike a lot of punk bands they have proper melodic tunes with fantastic lyrics that would 100% stand up if they were played in a different style / genre.

Going to see them in Brum on Sunday.

Put em on a coupla times (Snuff) when I was promoting live bands at the White Horse 'Wycombe

 

[SteMerritt]

I am loving how much appreciation Doves are getting on here.

 

[Big Ron]

Wait a minute @Big Ron - are you trying to tell me that Blackpool Rock by George Formby isn't about Blackpool Rock?

Now, sit quietly, me and you need to have a chat about the birds and the bees..........and a stick of rock.

 

[Eric Blair]

I'll see you outside!!

I know. I always get this reaction. I honestly think they sound like bad pub rock playing cod reggae. All my mates love them but I genuinely cant do it. And I love a bit of punk / post punk - Damned, Dead Kennedys, Fall, Wire etc etc

Pretty sure you and @Sarge now want to give me a good kicking.

 

[SteMerritt]

I know. I always get this reaction. I honestly think they sound like bad pub rock playing cod reggae. All my mates love them but I genuinely cant do it. And I love a bit of punk / post punk - Damned, Dead Kennedys, Fall, Wire etc etc

Pretty sure you and @Sarge now want to give me a good kicking.

I could imagine that would look a little like this...

 

[Wandering Yellow]

I am loving how much appreciation Doves are getting on here.

I thought I was on my own hating Mr Brightside and Bohemian Rhapsody, so conversely, I'm loving the slamming they are getting. If so many people don't like it, why can you not escape it at wedding receptions et al. Painful!

@Eric Blair The Clash are amazing in my opinion, London Calling is an all-time track!

 

[Eric Blair]

I thought I was on my own hating Mr Brightside and Bohemian Rhapsody, so conversely, I'm loving the slamming they are getting. If so many people don't like it, why can you not escape it at wedding receptions et al. Painful!

@Eric Blair The Clash are amazing in my opinion, London Calling is an all-time track!

Is there anyone on here who thinks the Clash are over-rated or will I die alone?

 

[Eric Blair]

Would go so far as to put Wrong Em Boyo on my all time worst songs list

 

[m]

I actually think Mr Brightside is alright.

Sorry.

 

[Big Ron]

I know. I always get this reaction. I honestly think they sound like bad pub rock playing cod reggae. All my mates love them but I genuinely cant do it. And I love a bit of punk / post punk - Damned, Dead Kennedys, Fall, Wire etc etc

Pretty sure you and @Sarge now want to give me a good kicking.

No, occasionally I can see that, sometimes you just look at music that was so personally important at the time in some sort of golden glow.

Although I listen to a broad old selection of music now (especially jazz), that 76 - 79 era is time I really started to form my own tastes and go to see bands. Between the Poly and Friar's in Aylesbury I saw just about every act of note, except the Pistols and I'm still collecting singles now. I'm actually going to give a shout to Paul Beasley who introduced me to a few bands.

Having worked in and around the music business for about 40 years I even put together this CD box-set back 1999:

https://www.discogs.com/release/1388773-Various-1-2-3-4-Punk-New-Wave-1976-1979

 

[holdsteady]

I thought I was on my own hating Mr Brightside and Bohemian Rhapsody, so conversely, I'm loving the slamming they are getting. If so many people don't like it, why can you not escape it at wedding receptions et al. Painful!

They are singalong sing songs when you are drunk that people know, it can’t all be obscure b sides at a wedding.

 

[SteMerritt]

Is there anyone on here who thinks the Clash are over-rated or will I die alone?

If you want a bigger shovel, follow up by saying you think the Sex Pistols are over-rated as well...

 

[holdsteady]

I actually think Mr Brightside is alright.

Sorry.

I don’t mind it, obviously overplayed but that’s what happens with big hit songs.

 

[Wandering Yellow]

This thread has evolved in a very strange way - the two younger participants (MY and WY) actually sound like my Dad watching Top Of The Pops in the 80s and bemoaning the state of society! Oddly, the older posters seem much open to new music and new experiences.

The Kooks, Klaxons and Hard-Fi are a rum old bunch of older acts to still want to listen to. You don't need to be 'in the know' just interested - there are loads of blogs, podcasts and specialist broadcasters like Revenant and SohoFM, as well KCRW from Califonia. 6Music even has it's moments, as long as it's not Craig Charles - there are some great shows, not least of all Huey on a Saturday, Gideon Coe and Marc Riley in the night or the Guy Garvey shows on a Sunday.

I am not saying any of these bands are particularly amazing, they were simply popular in my youth and thus I find them nostalgic and like some of the tunes.

I'm not sure what's made you think I'm not open to "new music and new experiences." Bizarre thing to say. I am open to new music, I just don't enjoy the vast majority of the output I hear these days, and I've listened to plenty of Grime/Rap and generally speaking, I hate it. I actually don't mind older tracks like Biggy Smalls "Juicy", I just don't like the trend toward "trap" music, which is massive, at least in the part of London I live in.

I've never claimed to be any sort of music connisseur, but saying I'm not open to new music is well wide of the mark.

 

[Lost Marbles]

I thought I was on my own hating Mr Brightside and Bohemian Rhapsody, so conversely, I'm loving the slamming they are getting. If so many people don't like it, why can you not escape it at wedding receptions et al. Painful!

@Eric Blair The Clash are amazing in my opinion, London Calling is an all-time track!

I think there's some revisionism with The Killers because everyone else seemed to f*****g love them at the time. I remember refusing to dance / going out for a cigarette when they came on in an indie club whilst everyone else hollered and my friends called me a miserable bastard.

Once I was coming back from Oxford late and the entire bus (apart from me) sang Bohemian Rhapsody. Apart from they kept forgetting where they were in the song so the torture went on for over half an hour.

Agree on The Clash - even if you don't like all of it, there's something to love for everyone there (some people would say the same about Queen!)

 

[SteMerritt]

No, occasionally I can see that, sometimes you just look at music that was so personally important at the time in some sort of golden glow.

Although I listen to a broad old selection of music now (especially jazz), that 76 - 79 era is time I really started to form my own tastes and go to see bands. Between the Poly and Friar's in Aylesbury I saw just about every act of note, except the Pistols and I'm still collecting singles now. I'm actually going to give a shout to Paul Beasley who introduced me to a few bands.

Having worked in and around the music business for about 40 years I even put together this CD box-set back 1999:

https://www.discogs.com/release/1388773-Various-1-2-3-4-Punk-New-Wave-1976-1979

Warsaw by Joy Division Up there with 'No Love Lost' in my favourite JD tracks. The Joe Jackson song didn't really seem to fit though. Good track mind, in fact the album it is taken from is decent.