General Most Loved/Hated Music

[Sarge]

Ah it’s pinched from Eighties by Killing Joke!

plagurism is and always has been rife in music - isn't there only something like 40 chord patterns ? - its how its presented ( re presented) when used again. Some are clever others more blatant

Take Led Zepplin - Whole lotta love, Led Zeps US lawyers sued the a**e off Acid Jazz records after Gold Bug* put out an updated reworking/ cover with pearl n dean theme worked in. The irony was Led Zepplin literally ripped off Small Faces - You need loving ( Robert Plant was a SF fan) , then ,(of course), Small Faces reinvented Muddy Waters - You Need Love, for their version of the song Led Zep 'stole'- and their American lawyers went after Acid Jazz records over ( nearly bankrupted Acid Jazz too)

* bit of local/Oxford trivia re Gold Bug - locally based at the time ( on BBLeys) Scottish ex pat female singer Sandi was the lead vocalist on Gold Bugs recording - for their TOTP appearance Sandi had been replaced

 

[Lost Marbles]

But I do think that What's the Story was then a massive step back in quality, mostly just poppy nonsense, and possibly the most overrated album in history. And everything they did after that was patchy.......

Funnily enough, Noel agrees with you. In the Live Forever documentary, he says he can't get his head around the fact there are a huge number of people who own What's the Story but not Definitely Maybe. "What's that about?" is his presumably rhetorical question.

Liam on the other hand likes Be Here Now and has an extremely suspect music taste (only liking things that sound a bit like Oasis as far as I can tell).

 

[SteMerritt]

Oasis: great debut, OK follow up, then a catalogue of mediocrity. Can't stand Liam, can put up with Noel.

I was at their last UK show, V Festival, can't remember the year. We left after 3 songs of their set as Mrs M was struggling with her hip after a whole day standing, she had a replacement op not long after.

 

[Mad Dog]

God you lot have got AWFUL taste in music!

TOP SONGS:
Jimmy Nail - Crocodile shoes
Charles & Eddie - Would I lie to you?
Craig McLachlan - Mona
Ace of Base - All that she wants
Billy Ray Cyrus - Achy breaky heart

WORST SONGS:
Friends theme tune
Eastenders theme tune
Birds of a feather theme tune
Bread theme tune
Going for Gold theme tune

Mic Drop

 

[Marked Ox]

My favourites although these will probably change if I had another think about it:

Frightened Rabbit - Either Roadless or Floating in the Forth
Phoebe Bridgers - Killer or ICU. The band, Boygenius, she is in have also produced some good music
Bear's Den - Elysium, Auld Wives or Crow
Paulo Nutini - Iron Sky
Ocean Colour Scene - The day I caught the train
Tracy Chapman - Crossroads (cracking album as well)
SAULT - Free

Dislike:

ABBA - They could be my whole list as I had to suffer their greatest hits on repeat for most of 2 days (bar sleeping), and whilst indifferent before I really dislike them even now.
Boybands like Westlife, Boyzone and Take That because you couldn't escape them on the radio or TV, even if you changed channel as they'd just pop up again.

 

[Marked Ox]

God you lot have got AWFUL taste in music!

TOP SONGS:
Jimmy Nail - Crocodile shoes
Charles & Eddie - Would I lie to you?
Craig McLachlan - Mona
Ace of Base - All that she wants
Billy Ray Cyrus - Achy breaky heart

WORST SONGS:
Friends theme tune
Eastenders theme tune
Birds of a feather theme tune
Bread theme tune
Going for Gold theme tune

Mic Drop

Hey, don't diss the 'Going for Gold' theme tune.

 

[Wandering Yellow]

My favourites although these will probably change if I had another think about it:

Frightened Rabbit - Either Roadless or Floating in the Forth
Phoebe Bridgers - Killer or ICU. The band, Boygenius, she is in have also produced some good music
Bear's Den - Elysium, Auld Wives or Crow
Paulo Nutini - Iron Sky
Ocean Colour Scene - The day I caught the train
Tracy Chapman - Crossroads (cracking album as well)
SAULT - Free

Dislike:

ABBA - They could be my whole list as I had to suffer their greatest hits on repeat for most of 2 days (bar sleeping), and whilst indifferent before I really dislike them even now.
Boybands like Westlife, Boyzone and Take That because you couldn't escape them on the radio or TV, even if you changed channel as they'd just pop up again.

Nutini's "candy" is an underrated tune in my opinion.

 

[Marked Ox]

Nutini's "candy" is an underrated tune in my opinion.

Yes, a really good tune.

 

[Wandering Yellow]

Yes, a really good tune.

Not the most flattering cover:

https://www.tiktok.com/video/7302521942936915232

 

[holdsteady]

God you lot have got AWFUL taste in music!

TOP SONGS:
Jimmy Nail - Crocodile shoes
Charles & Eddie - Would I lie to you?
Craig McLachlan - Mona
Ace of Base - All that she wants
Billy Ray Cyrus - Achy breaky heart

WORST SONGS:
Friends theme tune
Eastenders theme tune
Birds of a feather theme tune
Bread theme tune
Going for Gold theme tune

Mic Drop

The Going For Gold theme tune was class.

 

[Mad Dog]

The Going For Gold theme tune was class.

The show was great, I used to watch it whilst eating gold bars (the biscuits, not actual gold bars)

 

[holdsteady]

The show was great, I used to watch it whilst eating gold bars (the biscuits, not actual gold bars)

Bought some a while back, still delicious.

 

[Mojofilter]

What is your favourite Mingus?

That's tougher than Sophie's choice. I fall back on "oh yeah" or "the clown" but more for my own association with them rather than because I think they're the best.

 

[Paul Cannell]

Nick Lowe, Jonathan Richman, Wreckless Eric

Happy days. Brinsley Schwarz, man!

I deliver shopping to a girl called Veronica (she's 70-odd), always gets me humming "I'm a soldier (bang, bang), I really wanna hold her" as I bring her dog dental sticks.

 

[m]

The heat is on, the time is right
It’s time for you, for you to play your game
‘Cause people are coming, everyone’s trying
Trying to be the best that they can
When they’re going for, going for gold!

 

[Paul Cannell]

"Three lions on my shirt"?

Somebody mentioned me and the Beatles. I hate the Beatles and everything about them. 2 levels:

1. They are anti-rhythm - little ditties that get up my nose.

2. They represent a look-at-me glibness that's the salient feature of the unreflective, want-to-be-well-thought-of aspirant that makes me choke on my muesli and;

3. No-one who has the remotest scintilla of a sense of irony could write "Imagine" or "Ebony and Ivory", plus -

4. They are the proximate cause of Pink Floyd, Yes, Genesis and quite possibly The Strawbs.

 

[Paul Cannell]

And, I'm horrified that not one of you has mentioned the filthiest performer of all (maybe): Tanya Stephens. "We can do that" is simply horny as f**k.

I like Sizzla Beenie Man more and more as dotage laps warmly at my ankles, too. [edit: that's dotage right there.]

 

[Essexyellows]

If we are talking horny filth............

 

[Eric Blair]

"Three lions on my shirt"?

Somebody mentioned me and the Beatles. I hate the Beatles and everything about them. 2 levels:

1. They are anti-rhythm - little ditties that get up my nose.

2. They represent a look-at-me glibness that's the salient feature of the unreflective, want-to-be-well-thought-of aspirant that makes me choke on my muesli and;

3. No-one who has the remotest scintilla of a sense of irony could write "Imagine" or "Ebony and Ivory", plus -

4. They are the proximate cause of Pink Floyd, Yes, Genesis and quite possibly The Strawbs.

It's a decent case you put forward

 

[Big Ron]

If we are talking horny filth............

We weren't actually, we were discussing lyrical content. Doesn't that post make you feel like a dirty old man?