I second Neil Diamond. I have 0 tolerance. I'm sorry.
― 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
That song that is in every commercial for a romantic comedy made now with the lyric that goes "FEEL THE RAIN ON YOUR SKIN"
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
there are no boring songs only boring people
― max, Sunday, August 15, 2010 6:44 PM (6 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― 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