― Hongroe (Geir Hongro), Thursday, 7 April 2011 00:03 (2 years ago) Permalink
It Ain't Neccessarily So
― Pigmeat Arkham (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 7 April 2011 00:09 (2 years ago) Permalink
The Frog Chorus is a pretty good kids song though
Is Mike Love a genius?
― OH RICHEY, WHY. (PaulTMA), Thursday, 7 April 2011 00:11 (2 years ago) Permalink
Well... Certain people in Beach Boys are/were, but it could be argued Mike Love is not among them... :)
― Hongroe (Geir Hongro), Thursday, 7 April 2011 00:17 (2 years ago) Permalink
Mike Love is a little underrated for sure, but SDT is indeed poop. I dunno who exactly performed on it, but I assume Brian and Dennis were elsewhere.
― OH RICHEY, WHY. (PaulTMA), Thursday, 7 April 2011 00:19 (2 years ago) Permalink
― Iago Galdston, Thursday, 7 April 2011 00:56 (2 years ago) Permalink
laughing gnome haters can take a hike!
― scott seward, Thursday, 7 April 2011 01:06 (2 years ago) Permalink
Must Be Santa is also totally charming
― Enrique, Thursday, 7 April 2011 03:45 (2 years ago) Permalink
hahaha wait did 10cc just get brought up in the genius list up there
― broke my o_O face o_O (jjjusten), Thursday, 7 April 2011 03:51 (2 years ago) Permalink
Thought he was taking the piss but it's geir so anything is possible.
There's actually songs by all of these artists which I find more dull and stupid than these ones.
― Moka, Thursday, 7 April 2011 09:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
10cc were surely geniuses. But not anymore in 1983....
― Hongroe (Geir Hongro), Thursday, 7 April 2011 10:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
(Might have brought up "Dreadlock Holiday" as well, but in spite of really stupid lyrics, that song still works somewhat musically)
― Hongroe (Geir Hongro), Thursday, 7 April 2011 10:42 (2 years ago) Permalink
10cc were surely geniuses.
No. Great band though.
― Tom D (Tom D.), Thursday, 7 April 2011 10:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
Sack the chorus, and "Dreadlock Holiday" is a perfectly fine song.
― Mark G, Thursday, 7 April 2011 11:35 (2 years ago) Permalink
Must Be Santa is also totally charmingYeah, I mean Dylan's released his fair share of dreck over the years but what's not to love about that cover (and video, which I played over and over again when it first came out)?
― Jazzbo, Friday, 8 April 2011 15:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
Alright, alright, it's charming! For my own edification, please serve up some Dylan dreck more suitable to the thread
― Iago Galdston, Friday, 8 April 2011 17:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
Aw man, I LOVED that Cab Calloway clip!
― Hardcore Bangage (Dan Peterson), Friday, 8 April 2011 18:14 (2 years ago) Permalink
Dreadlock Holiday is amazing.
― Parenthetical Grillz, Friday, 8 April 2011 20:46 (2 years ago) Permalink
i always thought "wiggle wiggle" was dylan's nadir
― free karl kani (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 8 April 2011 21:07 (2 years ago) Permalink
OK, yeah, that's pretty odious
― Iago Galdston, Friday, 8 April 2011 22:11 (2 years ago) Permalink
i couldn't find a youtube for "handy dandy" from the same album
― free karl kani (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 8 April 2011 22:30 (2 years ago) Permalink
Elvis Presley did some pretty horrible stuff in the mid 60s and mid 70s. Any idea what might be the worst?
― Hongroe (Geir Hongro), Friday, 8 April 2011 22:46 (2 years ago) Permalink
With Elvis, the Harum Scarum soundtrack is top to bottom bad. I don't think he even released a single from it, whereas even such masterworks as Kissin' Cousins had their own promotional tie-in singles that charted. (Although the Harum Scarum LP somehow made the Top Ten).
I don't have any use for Elvis's post-1972 singles, "Raised on Rock" standing out as one I especially don't care for. But his records of that final phase of his life are filled with gospel-style backing vocals, interesting country/rockabilly guitar-picking, and Tony Joe White-style swamp rock, among some amusingly bombastic arrangements. All mitigating factors raising it above the '60 soundtrack hackwork.
― Josefa, Saturday, 9 April 2011 15:05 (2 years ago) Permalink
Yeah, I've talked before about Elvis's trilogy of albums released in '74 and '75 - Good Times, Raised On Rock and Promised Land, parts of each of which were recorded at Stax. Each one is about 50% schlock, and 50% really awesome country/gospel/rockabilly/soul that nobody else ever did anything like. But some of the movie soundtracks? Gurgh.
― that's not funny. (unperson), Saturday, 9 April 2011 15:10 (2 years ago) Permalink
I like Promised Land too (It's Midnight in particular) - and on Good Times he covered O'Keefe's Good Time Charlie's got The Blues, a fine fine choice.
― Marco Damiani, Saturday, 9 April 2011 15:48 (2 years ago) Permalink
The Elvis 70s box (Walk A Mile In My Shoes) is one of the most consistently brilliant boxes I've heard. He had incredibly precise control over his (increasingly rich and complex) voice, and his band was the swingingest and most emotionally invested he'd had since the Sun era.
― Funky Mustard (People It's Bad) (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 9 April 2011 16:03 (2 years ago) Permalink
really don't need to resort to mike love
― iatee, Saturday, 9 April 2011 16:05 (2 years ago) Permalink