would have to include "Careless Whisper" and "Sex and Candy"
― Chanté Ackerman (Stevie D), Saturday, 14 August 2010 05:07 (thirteen years ago) link
Vanilla - No Way, No Way
― Joanie Loves Shakuhachi (corey), Saturday, 14 August 2010 05:10 (thirteen years ago) link
3 Doors Down - Kryptonite
― life behind bras (admrl), Saturday, 14 August 2010 05:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Dude, this music is so BORING.
― buzza, Saturday, 14 August 2010 05:17 (thirteen years ago) link
fuck this thread
― billstevejim, Saturday, 14 August 2010 05:21 (thirteen years ago) link
otm
― Bee OK, Saturday, 14 August 2010 05:22 (thirteen years ago) link
― billstevejim
― you doesn't hasta call me johnson (CaptainLorax), Saturday, 14 August 2010 05:22 (thirteen years ago) link
that butterfly kisses song. a john prine song. a john parr song. welcome to the boomtown.
― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 14 August 2010 05:24 (thirteen years ago) link
can you feel the love tonight. some celine dion song(s).
― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 14 August 2010 05:25 (thirteen years ago) link
In the Arms of an (the) Angel. sometimes I hear it at work 3 times a day by some classical hack bitch. Sometimes I hear it on tv while tortured puppies pay. AAAAARrrroooWWWWWWWWW
― it made sense when i did it (Zachary Taylor), Saturday, 14 August 2010 05:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Everything by R.E.O. Speedwagon
― Joanie Loves Shakuhachi (corey), Saturday, 14 August 2010 05:31 (thirteen years ago) link
That would be Sarah McLachlan.
Yo, "Careless Whisper" is SO GODDAMN AWFUL, it is like the cheesiest of smooth jazz and just omg ugh
― Chanté Ackerman (Stevie D), Saturday, 14 August 2010 05:32 (thirteen years ago) link
That song that is in every commercial for a romantic comedy made now with the lyric that goes "FEEL THE RAIN ON YOUR SKIN"
― Joanie Loves Shakuhachi (corey), Saturday, 14 August 2010 05:35 (thirteen years ago) link
Any of that trite Lady Antebellum bullshit.
― van smack, Saturday, 14 August 2010 05:39 (thirteen years ago) link
John Cage - 4'33"
― Darin, Saturday, 14 August 2010 05:59 (thirteen years ago) link
I find most Celine Dion too hilariously excessive to be boring.
― Chanté Ackerman (Stevie D), Saturday, 14 August 2010 06:01 (thirteen years ago) link
Billy Joel, Piano Man
― iago g., Saturday, 14 August 2010 12:50 (thirteen years ago) link
The Long and Winding Road
― iago g., Saturday, 14 August 2010 12:51 (thirteen years ago) link
fuck that careless whisper suggestion.
Let It Be.
― reallysmoothmusic (Jamie_ATP), Saturday, 14 August 2010 12:57 (thirteen years ago) link
Probably something by Godspeed You Black Emperor!
― Mr. Snrub, Saturday, 14 August 2010 13:19 (thirteen years ago) link
I know we probably have a lot of Billy Joel apologists here (I have indulged), but Piano Man....please. I listen to classic rock stations a lot and the one Billy Joel song they play is Piano Man. It is not rock. It is not remotely cool.
― i like barbecue ribs (u s steel), Saturday, 14 August 2010 13:23 (thirteen years ago) link
wait I don't get it, where does it say it has to be cool? or not rock? Did I miss something? I really like Billy Joel up through The Stranger, but that song is interminable...the endless verses, the chorus you wish would stop from the first notes. C'mon!
― iago g., Saturday, 14 August 2010 13:49 (thirteen years ago) link
careless whisper??!
how's about this turd:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MP5j_Q9CZ3w
― piscesx, Saturday, 14 August 2010 13:51 (thirteen years ago) link
.the endless verses, the chorus you wish would stop from the first notes.
The lyrics that just don't quite work...
"they're sharing a drink they call lonelinessbut it's better than drinking alone"
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Saturday, 14 August 2010 14:22 (thirteen years ago) link
a john prine song
what on EARTH?!
― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 14 August 2010 14:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Picture by Kid Rock and Sheryl Crow. might even be the worst song ever.
― plate of dinosaurs (San Te), Saturday, 14 August 2010 14:25 (thirteen years ago) link
some alt country song. or a song by the band death cab for cutie.
― what if "middlebrow" is pubes? (Matt P), Saturday, 14 August 2010 14:25 (thirteen years ago) link
I can't imagine any planet on which a John Prine tune isn't anything but the funniest, catchiest song ever written.
― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 14 August 2010 14:26 (thirteen years ago) link
btw SBing anybody else who says Careless Whisper sucks unless they are referring to the Seether version
― plate of dinosaurs (San Te), Saturday, 14 August 2010 14:26 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mhv6gipA3dc
― Joanie Loves Shakuhachi (corey), Saturday, 14 August 2010 14:37 (thirteen years ago) link
"Nomad" by Iron Maiden. it just drones on and on with a really godawful melody for an eternity
― plate of dinosaurs (San Te), Saturday, 14 August 2010 14:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Mike & The Mechanics - Silent Running (Over Dangerous Ground)Faithless - We Come OneThe Lighthouse Family - LiftedSnow Patrol - How To Be Dead
None of them do anything interesting whatsoever, they're just there.
― Gavin in Leeds, Saturday, 14 August 2010 14:43 (thirteen years ago) link
ahh come on Silent Running is cool.
― plate of dinosaurs (San Te), Saturday, 14 August 2010 14:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Clay Aiken - Invisible
― Joanie Loves Shakuhachi (corey), Saturday, 14 August 2010 14:50 (thirteen years ago) link
Jay-Z - Empire State of Mind. blase lyrics, and his flow is just annoying on this one, like he had an appiontment to keep
― plate of dinosaurs (San Te), Saturday, 14 August 2010 14:51 (thirteen years ago) link
ITT: a list of the most SBed POSTS of all time
― 'ray Clamence (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 14 August 2010 14:52 (thirteen years ago) link
not really aimed at "Empire State of Mind" that
agreed with NV, I almost feel like using this thread to make a playlist instead
― plate of dinosaurs (San Te), Saturday, 14 August 2010 14:53 (thirteen years ago) link
It really bugs me how there's that weak keyboard riff over and over again with the vocal line following it in the chorus... It shouldn't bug me but it does. Blame BBC Radio 2, they kept playing it loads a couple of years back for some reason.
― Gavin in Leeds, Saturday, 14 August 2010 15:04 (thirteen years ago) link
I heard it ad nauseum as a kid, mostly cuz I used to insist that it was "can you hear me, Rudy?". I was obsessed with the Cosby Show at the time.
― plate of dinosaurs (San Te), Saturday, 14 August 2010 15:07 (thirteen years ago) link
Whitney Houston and Enrique Iglesias - Could I Have This Night Forever
― Joanie Loves Shakuhachi (corey), Saturday, 14 August 2010 15:13 (thirteen years ago) link
I half suspect that anyone naming names in this thread is already wrong, because the songs that are TRULY the most boring of all time won't have made enough of an impression on yr brain to have the name of the song stick.
― Sean Carruthers, Saturday, 14 August 2010 15:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Though I'll pre-emptively note that I'm probably full of shit because my definition of boring is likely different than the ones being used to judge above. Some of these things aren't "boring" to me, they're just irritating.
― Sean Carruthers, Saturday, 14 August 2010 15:29 (thirteen years ago) link
bah, 90% of these songs are too awful and grating and hateable to qualify as boring. the other 10% are genuinely good & some of you people are insane. this may as well be a worst songs of all time thread with some contrarian bullshit thrown in for good measure.
― unregistered, Saturday, 14 August 2010 15:31 (thirteen years ago) link
(uh yeah, what Sean said)
― unregistered, Saturday, 14 August 2010 15:32 (thirteen years ago) link
Turkey In the Straw-trad.mid
― plate of dinosaurs (San Te), Saturday, 14 August 2010 15:36 (thirteen years ago) link
the best I can come up with is The Kinks' "No Return", which I just looked up on Wikipedia and listened to on Youtube to confirm that it actually exists. nothing offensive — it's just a blank spot on one of my favorite albums, and it vanishes from my brain without fail about 30 seconds after it ends, even though I've heard it many dozen times.
― unregistered, Saturday, 14 August 2010 15:43 (thirteen years ago) link
see, my first nominee ("picture") is a song I consider both infuriating and boring. like when something is boring, I can't wait for it to be over so that my interest can be piqued again. and that's how I feel when I hear the song.
do we need to set groundrules in this thread? I don't think we should conflate "boring" with "unmemorable" as they aren't necessarily the same thing (although they certainly can me).
― plate of dinosaurs (San Te), Saturday, 14 August 2010 15:45 (thirteen years ago) link
a song can definitely be boring and memorable at the same time. "Picture" is so bland and sappy and MOR that (I assume) it sticks in your head as a particular bad relic of the early '00s. it's definitely boring, but it's dullness is mitigated somewhat by the fact that it distinguishes itself as a terrible song.
to be the most BORING SONG of all time, rather just a run-of-the mill boring song (of which there are thousands), requires a particularly high level of unmemorableness, to the point where it barely even registers as offensive. That Kinks song is the best I can do right now, but it just got a little less boring now that it's been nominated for something.
― unregistered, Saturday, 14 August 2010 16:00 (thirteen years ago) link
so boring you couldn't even remember the title properly.
tbh i like quite a few of these songs! :'(
― teledyldonix, Saturday, 14 August 2010 17:03 (thirteen years ago) link
Every syllable that ever left the mouth of James Taylor. He always sounds completely disinterested, like he's singing the song with roughly the same amount of passion reserved for eating a sandwich or trimming his toenails. To a slightly lesser extent, the sae is true of Jackson Browne.
― SNEEZED GOING DOWN STEPS, PAIN WHEN PUTTING SOCKS ON (Deric W. Haircare), Saturday, 14 August 2010 18:34 (thirteen years ago) link
whatever silversun pickups songz they play on alt radio
― markers, Saturday, 14 August 2010 18:40 (thirteen years ago) link
LCD Soundsystem - All My Friends
― AVANT-ELECTRO METAL IST KRIIIIIIIEEEEGGGGGGGGGGGG (acoleuthic), Saturday, 14 August 2010 18:44 (thirteen years ago) link
If a song is memorable then isn't it in a way innately not boring?
― you doesn't hasta call me johnson (CaptainLorax), Saturday, 14 August 2010 18:48 (thirteen years ago) link
anything with Alicia Keys, but she bores me so much that i actually get irritated, so idk if she counts
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Saturday, 14 August 2010 18:48 (thirteen years ago) link
I find Ruby by the Kaiser Chiefs to be an incredibly dull song, especially when it gets to the guitar solo which has no imagination and just copies the boring vocal melody of the verse.
I heard Chasing Cars recently but I'm not sure that's any more boring than the songs already mentioned by them on this thread.
― Kitchen Person, Saturday, 14 August 2010 19:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Interchangeable, really.
― Joanie Loves Shakuhachi (corey), Saturday, 14 August 2010 20:32 (thirteen years ago) link
― FRESH MEAT (MFB), Saturday, 14 August 2010 20:47 (thirteen years ago) link
Hey Jude
― Enrique, Sunday, 15 August 2010 04:48 (thirteen years ago) link
ILX just exploded
― plate of dinosaurs (San Te), Sunday, 15 August 2010 04:51 (thirteen years ago) link
everyone around here is bored by hey jude. except me.
― iago g., Sunday, 15 August 2010 05:26 (thirteen years ago) link
"Careless Whisper" is beautiful.
― Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Sunday, 15 August 2010 07:44 (thirteen years ago) link
I meant to say that instead of bumping would have to include "Careless Whisper" and "Sex and Candy
I don't care about "sex and candy"
― you doesn't hasta call me johnson (CaptainLorax), Sunday, 15 August 2010 07:57 (thirteen years ago) link
time can never NAH NA NAH NA NA NAH NAH the careless whisper HEY AY JUDE. I never wanna dance again JUDEY JUDEY JUDEY JUDEY JUDEY AAAAAAAAAAAA of a good friend. and canday xpost.
― it made sense when i did it (Zachary Taylor), Sunday, 15 August 2010 08:00 (thirteen years ago) link
baby baby baby baby baby baby baby baby
― you doesn't hasta call me johnson (CaptainLorax), Sunday, 15 August 2010 08:00 (thirteen years ago) link
BREAD ....Everything I Own....and all covers of it. In fact, NO Bread is really worth anything. I love oldies but Bread HAS NO REDEEMING VALUE AT ALL.
― i like barbecue ribs (u s steel), Sunday, 15 August 2010 09:05 (thirteen years ago) link
FUCK BREAD
― plate of dinosaurs (San Te), Sunday, 15 August 2010 09:12 (thirteen years ago) link
The Cars "Fine Line"Gary Numan "This Is Love"
― ziontrain2010, Sunday, 15 August 2010 10:26 (thirteen years ago) link
I love Gary Numan, but you're right...he does have some dreadfully dull songs.
― i like barbecue ribs (u s steel), Sunday, 15 August 2010 10:37 (thirteen years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elbow_(band)#Discography
― PaulTMA, Sunday, 15 August 2010 13:39 (thirteen years ago) link
wtf careless whisper is a CLASSIC
― call all destroyer, Sunday, 15 August 2010 14:09 (thirteen years ago) link
the saxophone bit alone=happiness
― plate of dinosaurs (San Te), Sunday, 15 August 2010 14:09 (thirteen years ago) link
I used to love 'This Is Love' but I'm guessing it probably is quite dull.
I find a lot of emo and metalcore of the last ten years boring just because it's so interchangeable. Bands such as Athlete, Snow Patrol and Coldplay are bordering more on offensive but are still pretty fucking boring.
I wonder if anyone finds minimal house/techno/electronica or ambient music boring...
XP
― Duran (Doran), Sunday, 15 August 2010 14:50 (thirteen years ago) link
you bread haters are crazy!
― dell (del), Sunday, 15 August 2010 14:52 (thirteen years ago) link
I love bread
― plate of dinosaurs (San Te), Sunday, 15 August 2010 14:53 (thirteen years ago) link
usually white, but sometimes wheat tickles my fancy more
however Bread can eat a bag of dicks after they've been dipped in cocoa butter
― plate of dinosaurs (San Te), Sunday, 15 August 2010 14:54 (thirteen years ago) link
My gf and I - both completely out of the "indie" loop - recently decided we'd listen to the new National album to see what all the fuss was about. I downloaded it and put it on my iPod and we tried listening to it in the car - AND WE KEPT FORGETTING THAT IT WAS ON. We'd listen for a few minutes, then get distracted by something, start talking, and then be all "shit, let's go back, we just missed like three songs," and we'd go back, and the same thing would happen.
That's far worse a fate than hearing "Lady In Red" and demanding it be turned off immediately (which I have done). Who was it that said the opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference?
"No Return" is madness, that song rules. "If...If I could see / just...how lonely MY LIFE would be / if yooooou...passed me by..."
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Sunday, 15 August 2010 15:01 (thirteen years ago) link
Indeed. Lady In Red is Abu Ghraib torture. The National is... what exactly? I've heard three albums by them and seen them live three times and I couldn't tell you a single thing about them...
― Duran (Doran), Sunday, 15 August 2010 16:05 (thirteen years ago) link
i had a high school friend who was really into Chris DeBurgh -- never could figure out WHY.
― The Beatles are not pizza!!! (Eisbaer), Sunday, 15 August 2010 16:10 (thirteen years ago) link
this happens to me with a lot of albums, not just indie ones. and yeah, it's partially true with this new nat'l album, but i have to exclude bloodbuzz ohio from that assessment. that song's a compelling, memorable monster.
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 15 August 2010 16:34 (thirteen years ago) link
most boring songs fron bands who arent boring:
Love - Revelation
LCD Soundsystem - Somebody's Calling Me
...
― Zeno, Sunday, 15 August 2010 16:50 (thirteen years ago) link
congrats assholes/airport, you're the 47 thousandth guy to talk about how the national is boring!
― call all destroyer, Sunday, 15 August 2010 16:54 (thirteen years ago) link
not sure what the point of the music in the car thing was, I lose focus on music in the car all the time, has to do with the fact that I dunno, YOU'RE DRIVING and stuff.
― plate of dinosaurs (San Te), Sunday, 15 August 2010 16:55 (thirteen years ago) link
In some ways I think the car is the ideal place to experience an album for the first time. Home is where I'm distracted.
When we listened o the new Swans album on the same trip, we both just shit right the fuck up and let it play. Then we wanted to hear it again.
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Sunday, 15 August 2010 18:06 (thirteen years ago) link
I mean yea I get distracted at home too but I can't listen to really involved things like progressive rock in the car cuz I miss too much due to concentrating on the road.
― plate of dinosaurs (San Te), Sunday, 15 August 2010 22:31 (thirteen years ago) link
"Solo Dolo" from the Kid Cudi album, mostly because it is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO SLOW.
― plate of dinosaurs (San Te), Sunday, 15 August 2010 22:43 (thirteen years ago) link
it's pretty inoffensive but puts me to sleep
there are no boring songs only boring people
― max, Sunday, 15 August 2010 22:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Anything from Roddy 'Idlewild' Woomble's solo album. Utterly dreary earnest folk rock, about as charismatic as a piece of toast. Was subjected to this in Artisan Roast, Glasgow. Nice coffee, but sort your music out!
― Count Palmiro Vicarion (Stew), Sunday, 15 August 2010 22:49 (thirteen years ago) link
Faithless - We Come OneThe Lighthouse Family - Lifted
OTM x10000
― Not the real Village People, Sunday, 15 August 2010 23:23 (thirteen years ago) link
keep reading this as MOST BONING SONGS
― zorn_bond.mp3, Monday, 16 August 2010 00:00 (thirteen years ago) link
Tom Jones - Sex BombGeorge Michael - Jesus to a Child
― Not the real Village People, Monday, 16 August 2010 06:09 (thirteen years ago) link
over my head - the fray
― oohhh weennnddddyyy weennnddyy what went wrrrooonnnnggg (kelpolaris), Monday, 16 August 2010 07:12 (thirteen years ago) link
superman (it's not easy) - five for fighting
― smart, sexy, sassy and full of beans (crüt), Monday, 16 August 2010 07:15 (thirteen years ago) link
That Richard Ashcroft solo single.
― Daniel Giraffe, Monday, 16 August 2010 08:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Reading through this thread is more boring than most of the song choices.
― billstevejim, Monday, 16 August 2010 10:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Agree with Lighthouse Family. Always hated Hero by Enrique Iglesias.
― Sgt. Biscuits, Monday, 16 August 2010 10:41 (thirteen years ago) link
Foreigner - "I want to know what love is"
Mike & The Mechanics - "The Living Years"
Whitney Houston - "One moment in time", "Didn't we almost have it all"
Nelly & Kelly - "Dilemma"
Uncle Kracker - "Drift Away"
― LeRooLeRoo, Monday, 16 August 2010 22:38 (thirteen years ago) link
LeRooLeRoo has the first list I largely agree with (except for "Dilemma", not a huge fan of the song but I can think of much worse). btw ILX is going to eviscerate you for that one.
― plate of dinosaurs (San Te), Monday, 16 August 2010 22:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Careless Whisper is the only George Michael song I will tolerate, because it is fantastic
― glitter hands! glitter hands! razzle! dazzle! (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 16 August 2010 22:42 (thirteen years ago) link
yes it is although I <3 George Michael in general. well, the Faith album mostly (though Listen Without Prejudice had many high poitns too).
― plate of dinosaurs (San Te), Monday, 16 August 2010 22:43 (thirteen years ago) link
I disagree with your selection. The song you consider to be boring is in actuality quite exciting. Conversely, whenever I think of boring songs, your favorite instantly springs to mind.
― kornrulez6969, Monday, 16 August 2010 22:48 (thirteen years ago) link
btw ILX is going to eviscerate you for that one.
Eviscerate away ILX! I just think it does nothing and goes nowhere, therefore is pretty boring. The melody in the chorus especially is very basic, repetitive and uninteresting.
― LeRooLeRoo, Monday, 16 August 2010 22:56 (thirteen years ago) link
Bittersweet Symphony
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Tuesday, 17 August 2010 00:47 (thirteen years ago) link
I like him usually but Tom Petty's "Learning to Fly" has always seemed like the dullest, most generic single possible.
― clotpoll, Tuesday, 17 August 2010 00:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Look Back in AngerChasing Cars
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Tuesday, 17 August 2010 00:50 (thirteen years ago) link
Sorry, that should be Don't Look Back in Anger. Look Back in Anger is a not boring at all David Bowie song.
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Tuesday, 17 August 2010 00:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Anything by the Goo Goo Dolls or any other 90s alternative-lite act.
― daavid, Tuesday, 17 August 2010 02:02 (thirteen years ago) link
I was actually thinking of a specific song by them, but it's so boring I can't even remember the title. You all probably know which one I'm talking about.
― daavid, Tuesday, 17 August 2010 02:04 (thirteen years ago) link
erm, the Goo Goo Dolls weren't some alternative-lite act until Dizzy Up the Girl, they were actually a very catchy power pop act for many years...especially on Hold Me Up, Jed, and A Boy Named Goo.
― plate of dinosaurs (San Te), Tuesday, 17 August 2010 03:39 (thirteen years ago) link
Wow, I'm way surprised "Careless Whisper" is so widely considered classic. It just sounds unbelievably cheesy to me. I just think of, like, two people massaging each other in a candle-lit hot tub with rose petals all around and a Barbara Walters glow. In some Lifetime movie in 1995
― Chanté Ackerman (Stevie D), Tuesday, 17 August 2010 05:04 (thirteen years ago) link
It's not that bad imo but not worthy of indignation. The only Wham! song I really like is "Everything She Wants".
― albino python on cocaine (corey), Tuesday, 17 August 2010 05:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Everything She Wants is great. I think all the Wham singles were mostly great, their album tracks were extremely boring though. "Credit card Baby"?
― plate of dinosaurs (San Te), Tuesday, 17 August 2010 05:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Careless Whisper is definitely pretty cheesy. Also brilliant.
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Tuesday, 17 August 2010 08:54 (thirteen years ago) link
I love oldies but Bread HAS NO REDEEMING VALUE AT ALL.
Balls. "Guitar Man" = awesomeness.
Beatles own this thread IMO
― tom d: he did what he had to do now he is dead (Tom D.), Tuesday, 17 August 2010 11:35 (thirteen years ago) link
I like a bit of Blondie now and then, but "One Way Or Another" has to be one of the most mind-meltingly boring tracks of all time.
― village idiot (dog latin), Tuesday, 17 August 2010 11:45 (thirteen years ago) link
U2
― I DON'T 'RAP' (Pillbox), Tuesday, 17 August 2010 13:38 (thirteen years ago) link
k lock this thread, the challops are becoming self-aware
― plate of dinosaurs (San Te), Tuesday, 17 August 2010 13:50 (thirteen years ago) link
Sarah Mclachlan
― MarkoP, Wednesday, 18 August 2010 03:47 (thirteen years ago) link
snow patrol are really awful and dull but i love that song that martha wainwright sang on (set the fire to the third bar ft. martha wainwright, a song so good that they even apparently put her name in the song title so you'd know which, of the dozens of boring snow patrol songs, was the good one)
― akm, Wednesday, 18 August 2010 05:52 (thirteen years ago) link
― village idiot (dog latin), Tuesday, August 17, 2010 11:45 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark
wowwwww
― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, 18 August 2010 09:37 (thirteen years ago) link
Any and all versions of "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" or "Light My Fire".
― Bill A, Wednesday, 18 August 2010 10:03 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm quite interested in boredom and repetition in music so I have a couple of questions about this thread. As this is a list thread, it may be best to post your answers on this thread - Dude, this music is so BORING.
The first is this - Would any of you who have posted boring tracks mind explaining why you think they are boring?
The second is - To what extent are you distinguishing between songs that are boring and songs that you don't like and, if you are, how are you doing so?
― Neil A.Simpson, Wednesday, 18 August 2010 13:58 (thirteen years ago) link
Rolling Stones - I'm Free - especially the Soup Dragons versionStereo MCs - Step it up
I find a lot of stuff from the baggy era unlistenably boring; it might be the repetition, or the tempo that's unbearably slow or plodding while the music is kind of trying to force an upbeat style... I don't know. There's probably stuff I love that could be described in that way.Also when the tune doesn't go anywhere or there's one sample that's just played over and over again with no variation.There's a lot of music I don't like but if something's boring as well it makes it 1000 times worse.
― Not the real Village People, Wednesday, 18 August 2010 19:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh yeah, "Have a nice day" by the Stereophonics
― Not the real Village People, Wednesday, 18 August 2010 19:11 (thirteen years ago) link
The "humorous" songs by Barenaked Ladies are fucking excruciating. The "earnest" songs by Barenaked Ladies are fucking boring.
Toad the Wet Sprocket is hella boring.
Big Head Todd and the Monsters are goddam boring.
James, lately I've been trying to give you a chance to win me back over, but I'm pretty sure you are essentially boring.
― Sun Tea (Pillbox), Wednesday, 18 August 2010 19:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Doors-Riders on the Storm. Aural Ambien.
― Sabbath to Ulver: "Suck It" (Bill Magill), Wednesday, 18 August 2010 19:32 (thirteen years ago) link
― clotpoll, Tuesday, 17 August 2010 01:48 (Yesterday)
NO
― acoleuthic, Wednesday, 18 August 2010 19:34 (thirteen years ago) link
aw i like this song. i (unfairly) extrapolate from the song that they're a boring band but i like the song
― dont wear sh@q without the fu (tremendoid), Wednesday, 18 August 2010 19:53 (thirteen years ago) link
WE KEPT FORGETTING THAT IT WAS ON. We'd listen for a few minutes, then get distracted by something, start talking, and then be all "shit, let's go back, we just missed like three songs," and we'd go back, and the same thing would happen.
I quite often put something on and then realise that I haven't paid any attention at all for 3 tracks. Quite often it's a compilation, and I've missed tracks by bands I wanted to hear, and I'll rewind but be completely unable to take any of it in after 20 seconds again.
But on one occasion I didn't even realise it had been there without me listening. I actually went up to the CD player to put something else on and was surprised it was already playing. "Oh... this aural wallpaper thing is music I deliberately put on, I remember now." Can't even remember what that was, which is how unmemorable it was, or I'd vote for it here.
― vampire headphase (a passing spacecadet), Wednesday, 18 August 2010 21:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Tracy Chapman's Fast Car, which just goes on and on and on in a whiny, whiny way
― The one time I don't do the dishes, I get ebola! (James Morrison), Thursday, 19 August 2010 05:09 (thirteen years ago) link
OK JUST STOP IT
― michangelo wuz a party d00d (San Te), Thursday, 19 August 2010 05:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Most things by Train
― Chanté Ackerman (Stevie D), Thursday, 19 August 2010 06:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Train is a very, very boring band.
finally something I can agree with!
― michangelo wuz a party d00d (San Te), Thursday, 19 August 2010 10:12 (thirteen years ago) link
"Wonderful Tonight" is the most boring song ever, proven by science. A trite chord progression, played at a turgid tempo for what seems like forever, with a riff that barely qualifies, as if Clapton were just checking to see if he was in tune after bending a string. Even he can't be arsed to care about the melody, and the bass line came out of a white box with black lettering reading "BASS LINE (1)."
― a mix of music (Lionel Ritchie) and kicks (my tongue) (Phil D.), Thursday, 19 August 2010 11:02 (thirteen years ago) link
.. and those are its good points.
― Mark G, Thursday, 19 August 2010 11:10 (thirteen years ago) link
oh my God do I hate Wonderful Tonight.
― michangelo wuz a party d00d (San Te), Thursday, 19 August 2010 13:03 (thirteen years ago) link
i used to like that song, way -- way -- back, and now i can't stand a single measure of it.
i really can't stand much eric clapton. not sure why. he is a very good guitarist, i'm sure, but . . .
― Daniel, Esq., Thursday, 19 August 2010 13:05 (thirteen years ago) link
Tracy Chapman's Fast Car, which just goes on and on and on in a whiny, whiny way― The one time I don't do the dishes, I get ebola! (James Morrison), Thursday, August 19, 2010 1:09 AM (7 hours ago)
― The one time I don't do the dishes, I get ebola! (James Morrison), Thursday, August 19, 2010 1:09 AM (7 hours ago)
whoa, I didn't know Parts & Labor played on that song. is there an extended mix with a drum solo or something?
― nonviolent j (unregistered), Thursday, 19 August 2010 13:15 (thirteen years ago) link
funny that a song that is extremely short goes "on and on and on"
― michangelo wuz a party d00d (San Te), Thursday, 19 August 2010 13:17 (thirteen years ago) link
I think Thom Yorke's solo bunk is painfully boring.
― van smack, Friday, 20 August 2010 02:19 (thirteen years ago) link
Anything by Neil Diamond
― albino python on cocaine (corey), Friday, 20 August 2010 02:24 (thirteen years ago) link
die
― van smack, Friday, 20 August 2010 02:26 (thirteen years ago) link
hahaha
― albino python on cocaine (corey), Friday, 20 August 2010 02:51 (thirteen years ago) link
I second Neil Diamond. I have 0 tolerance. I'm sorry.
― Chanté Ackerman (Stevie D), Friday, 20 August 2010 03:43 (thirteen years ago) link
Part of my irrational dislike of Diamond, however, stems from an awful road trip through Canada or the Poconos or something, where my dad + stepmom INSISTED on playing Neil Diamond Gold on repeat in the car, and the only thing I had to combat it was The Bends, but one side of my headphones was broken, so it was the infuriating futility of trying to play Radiohead loud enough in one ear to block out Neil Diamond from the other.
― Chanté Ackerman (Stevie D), Friday, 20 August 2010 03:45 (thirteen years ago) link
There is nothing boring about Hot August Nights. That is GOLD
― van smack, Friday, 20 August 2010 03:54 (thirteen years ago) link
An A+ live album if I may say so
I found the real list...
http://stereogum.com/477821/nme-50-best-new-bands-of-2010/top-stories/lead-story/
― billstevejim, Friday, 20 August 2010 04:07 (thirteen years ago) link
scroll down.. there is a soundcloud playlist of the 50 most boring songs i've ever heard in my life.
― billstevejim, Friday, 20 August 2010 04:08 (thirteen years ago) link
boredom induces relativistic time dilation
― The one time I don't do the dishes, I get ebola! (James Morrison), Friday, 20 August 2010 06:18 (thirteen years ago) link
― Chanté Ackerman (Stevie D), Friday, August 20, 2010 3:43 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark
Boring does not = bad, people! FFS. If you hate neil diamond, whatever, but his songs are like the opposite of boring. They're fun pop songs.
― Matt Armstrong, Friday, 20 August 2010 06:27 (thirteen years ago) link
KInda suspect that the most boring songs would be totally forgotten by everyone, making their appearance here pretty unlikely, and making the thread kinda self-defeating.
Sorry if someone's already made this point - I'm too drunk to read the entire thread.
PS - Just realized that the George Harrison song I just finished listening to w/out its making a single impression on me - thus making it a viable contender - is called "Run of the Mill", which is pretty amusingly appropriate.
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Saturday, 21 August 2010 04:25 (thirteen years ago) link
i love brian eno as much as anyone, but i put on the first disc of that instrumentals box today at work and jeez i was bored to tears. had to take it off. i mean it was probably my mood but it just sounded so zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz to me at the time.
― scott seward, Saturday, 21 August 2010 04:31 (thirteen years ago) link
This is "Unwritten" by Natasha Bedingfield, which is kind of fun, even if it's not very good.
I vote for "Have A Nice Day" by the Stereophonics. It just doesn't DO anything.
― ailsa, Saturday, 21 August 2010 10:07 (thirteen years ago) link
I've never liked any version of "Lean On Me" tbh, it has a nasty false positive vibe in my head. That Snow Patrol song about lying down in the middle of the road and wanting a cuddle off a gurly-wurly is probably pretty boring too but it brings me out in so much spitting radge that it's hard to tell.
― 'ray Clamence (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 21 August 2010 10:12 (thirteen years ago) link
Stereophonics songs may not do anything but dude's voice is like sandpaper on the eardrums, thus ruling them out of "boring"
Think that David Gray album was probably playing during 50% of restaurant meals between 1999 and 2003 but I can't remember anything off it except the title line of "Babylon". Like, Coldplay are pretty boring but I can manage to hate them for it; David Gray was just there, and maybe you'd notice, maybe not.
Look at me with my up-to-date musical references. At least that turn of the century coffee-tablism seems to have died out a bit. Though there's a bunch of stuff these days which is just edged out of boring by fucking awful autotuned vocals, so maybe the kids who grew up with autotune can find that stuff dull, but it sets me on edge too much.
― vampire headphase (a passing spacecadet), Saturday, 21 August 2010 11:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Don't buy the "truly boring songs are forgettable" idea tbh. Truly boring songs are memorable for boring you to tears every time you hear them imo
― 'ray Clamence (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 21 August 2010 11:18 (thirteen years ago) link
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― ranked #12 amongst 'false metallers' (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 21 August 2010 14:04 (thirteen years ago) link
(also: On Bended Knee by Boyz II Men)
I've never liked any version of "Lean On Me" tbh
this ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 21 August 2010 14:06 (thirteen years ago) link
― ranked #12 amongst 'false metallers' (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, August 21, 2010 9:04 AM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark
fuck you, suck a dick, DIE, bitch (cheap sound effect of tek blast)
― michangelo wuz a party d00d (San Te), Saturday, 21 August 2010 14:22 (thirteen years ago) link
oh come on that song is a pile...
― ranked #12 amongst 'false metallers' (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 21 August 2010 14:23 (thirteen years ago) link
I didn't even mention "I'll Make Love to You" bcz it does have a memorable chorus despite its (almost transcendent) plodding sappiness. But On Bended Knee, the follow-up? Feh!
― ranked #12 amongst 'false metallers' (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 21 August 2010 14:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Brand New Heavies - Dream On Dreamer
― Not the real Village People, Wednesday, 25 August 2010 00:56 (thirteen years ago) link
aka the theme song from the Hills. Terrible but not boring.
― akm, Wednesday, 25 August 2010 02:47 (thirteen years ago) link
That minimalist piano instrumental on Talk Talk's Missing Pieces.
― Mr. Snrub, Friday, 27 August 2010 01:35 (thirteen years ago) link
The 4 songs on "Tales From Topographic Oceans" are tied for this honor.
― ImprovSpirit, Friday, 27 August 2010 02:33 (thirteen years ago) link
I want to add "You Gotta Be" by Des'Ree.
― Chanté Ackerman (Stevie D), Friday, 27 August 2010 03:02 (thirteen years ago) link
"45" by cornershop
― funky brewster (San Te), Friday, 27 August 2010 14:43 (thirteen years ago) link
"The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," Gordon Lightfoot
― Jazzbo, Friday, 27 August 2010 15:01 (thirteen years ago) link
^^^^^^otm
― peacocks, Friday, 27 August 2010 15:03 (thirteen years ago) link
I saw NRBQ close a show with this song back in 1982. Terry Adams was reading the lyrics from a piece of paper and kept pretending he was falling asleep as the band slogged through it. They left the stage to thunderous applause, came back for an encore and started right back up again with the same song. This time boos.
― Jazzbo, Friday, 27 August 2010 15:08 (thirteen years ago) link
The only post you need in this thread is all in this link:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Essential_Kenny_G
― Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Friday, 27 August 2010 22:00 (thirteen years ago) link