"Heartache Tonight" hate surprised me, that's totally one of the best Eagles tonight
― some dude, Saturday, 26 July 2014 18:17 (nine years ago) link
er best Eagles songs
BLAST First (from politeness) billy joel – captain jack2 moody blues – nights in white satin3 loggins and messina – your mama don’t dance4 sammy hagar – I can’t drive 555 supertramp – the logical song6 emerson, lake & palmer – karn evil 9 (1st Impression, part II)7 don henley – all she wants to do is dance8 don henley – dirty laundry9 the eagles – take it to the limit10 bob seger – old time rock and roll
― one way street, Saturday, 26 July 2014 18:17 (nine years ago) link
Aqualung-Prog is a blind spot for me, and flutes make me angry. Clarinets too.
― campreverb, Saturday, 26 July 2014 18:19 (nine years ago) link
thought gary glitter would take this
― relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Saturday, 26 July 2014 18:42 (nine years ago) link
feel like people here have generally not held the crimes of the person against their music, and in Glitter's case the crimes have kind of eclipsed whatever feelings the music generated
― some dude, Saturday, 26 July 2014 18:49 (nine years ago) link
Also: In America, his most famous recording is something most people don't know (A) who performs it, and (B) what the song is actually called.
― Randall "Humble" Pie (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 26 July 2014 18:52 (nine years ago) link
Worst:
1 Stevie Ray Vaughan – Pride And Joy2 The Rolling Stones – Brown Sugar3 George Thorogood – Bad To The Bone4 Bob Seger - Old Time Rock and Roll5 Dire Straits – Money For Nothing6 Bryan Adams – Summer Of ‘697 Glenn Frey – The Heat Is On8 John Fogerty – Centerfield9 Bob Seger – Turn The Page10 The Tubes - She's a Beauty
― carl agatha, Saturday, 26 July 2014 18:57 (nine years ago) link
Also re:the Doors: I hate their collected body of work, but none of their individual CR canon songs is as bad as any of the songs on my worst list.
― intheblanks, Saturday, 26 July 2014 18:57 (nine years ago) link
If I did a top 30 worst, there might be a Doors song., but none are so egregious as to make top 10.
― intheblanks, Saturday, 26 July 2014 18:58 (nine years ago) link
btw, at the conclusion of the top 100 on Friday, i will start a ballots thread, and will encourage people to hold off on posting their ballots for the poll and subpolls until then
― some dude, Saturday, 26 July 2014 19:01 (nine years ago) link
She's A Beauty?
― campreverb, Saturday, 26 July 2014 19:09 (nine years ago) link
it got literally 1 point on the worst poll. it is the least worst.
― some dude, Saturday, 26 July 2014 19:14 (nine years ago) link
my most hated:
Bachman-Turner Overdrive – Takin’ Care of BusinessJimmy Buffett – MargaritavilleBlood, Sweat & Tears - You've Made Me So Very HappyBob Seger – Old Time Rock & RollThe Eagles – Hotel CaliforniaBilly Joel – It’s Still Rock And Roll To MeVan Halen – Hot For TeacherSammy Hagar – I Can’t DriveLoggins & Messina-Your Mama Don't DanceLittle River Band - Reminiscing
― cross over the mushroom circle (La Lechera), Saturday, 26 July 2014 19:28 (nine years ago) link
"Still Rock and Roll to Me" got robbed
― Euler, Saturday, 26 July 2014 19:35 (nine years ago) link
the song Billy Joel wrote after his bandmates convinced him that there was a hip new musical genre called "Funny Butt"
― some dude, Saturday, 26 July 2014 19:52 (nine years ago) link
Reminiscing was right on the bubble for me. so dreadful.
― campreverb, Saturday, 26 July 2014 20:08 (nine years ago) link
Mostly for the execrable, misogynist video, which was on heavy rotation on Philadelphia's home grown video show Video Rock and was egregious even for the early 80s.
― carl agatha, Saturday, 26 July 2014 20:49 (nine years ago) link
i like "old time rock n roll" a lot, it sounds more pissed off than joyous to me.
― brimstead, Saturday, 26 July 2014 20:57 (nine years ago) link
It's definitely not that joyous but I don't find the reactionary grumpiness particularly compelling, even as someone who generally prefers rock to disco: is this really what we listen to rock and roll for? More importantly, I don't feel like the obvious chug-along music makes a very strong case for rock and roll. American heartland rock is my blind spot, though. (I voted for one Springsteen song.)
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Saturday, 26 July 2014 21:08 (nine years ago) link
More importantly, I don't feel like the obvious chug-along music makes a very strong case for rock and roll. Think there was a thread about this kind of song but can't seen to find it
― Sorry Somehow Forgot To Take Out The Trash (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 26 July 2014 21:11 (nine years ago) link
All I could find was this Not liking old music doesn't make a young person stupid. Liking new music doesn't make an old person smart.
― Sorry Somehow Forgot To Take Out The Trash (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 26 July 2014 21:13 (nine years ago) link
haha i am listening to the 'worst' playlist and GROOVING. "Captain Jack" and Cocker's "With A Little Help" are a-OK with me.
― some dude, Saturday, 26 July 2014 22:55 (nine years ago) link
fuck, even the drums on "I Shot The Sheriff" kind of knock
― some dude, Saturday, 26 July 2014 23:06 (nine years ago) link
Good enough for epmd
― Οὖτις, Saturday, 26 July 2014 23:09 (nine years ago) link
Homages to 1950s/early 1960s rock recorded in the 1970s always sound so odd to me. It makes me wonder to what extent the '70s artists were conscious of making an up-to-date, contemporary tune with a "Golden Oldies" subject matter versus sincerely trying to emulate or evoke a retro sound, because the results always sound more of the '70s than the '50s in terms of feel and sonics. Thinking of songs like "Old Time Rock & Roll," the Carpenters' "Yesterday Once More," or even straight-up covers like Linda Ronstadt's version of Buddy Holly's "It's So Easy."
― Josefa, Sunday, 27 July 2014 00:01 (nine years ago) link
"Bad to the Bone" is such shit. It comes on the radio every single car trip, and I want to die.
― jmm, Sunday, 27 July 2014 00:23 (nine years ago) link
So glad I wasn't the only one to vote for Brown Sugar. Ugh. Cannot imagine the people for whom it is, apparently, preferable to ''Teach Your Children,'' ''Walk of Life'' and motherfucking ''Come Sail Away.'' However, the entire exercise has probably been worth it for 'Eric Claptop.'
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 27 July 2014 02:22 (nine years ago) link
Clappin' your troubles away with the Claptop.
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 27 July 2014 02:23 (nine years ago) link
''I Shot The Sheriff's'' drums are also, I think, sampled on King Biscuit Time's ''I Walk The Earth,'' which rides the loop for like six minutes or something without getting old. So I'll give that to ol' Claphand.
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 27 July 2014 02:24 (nine years ago) link
I don't understand why no-one nommed The goddamed stupid Stroke & why it isn't #1
hate u guys so much right now
*kicks dirt*
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 27 July 2014 02:37 (nine years ago) link
My votes for worst (nothing in the top ten)
Asia - Heat of the MomentChicago - Does Anybody Really Know What Time It IsDon Henley - Dirty LaundryThe Eagles - Heartache TonightJourney - Lovin' Touchin' Squeezin'Loverboy - Working for the WeekendMeatloaf - Paradise by the Dashboard LightQuiet Riot - Cum on Feel the NoiseRick Derringer - Rock & Roll Hootchie KooToto - Africa
― that's not my post, Sunday, 27 July 2014 02:38 (nine years ago) link
Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is gets extra points for stupid pseudo-philosophical gibberish lyrics. I know what time it is: time to stop playing this song forever.
― that's not my post, Sunday, 27 July 2014 02:40 (nine years ago) link
Oh I totally voted for Heat of the Moment
hate that stupid song
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 27 July 2014 02:42 (nine years ago) link
I think about this tweet at least once a week.
http://i.imgur.com/6ljismA.png
― pplains, Sunday, 27 July 2014 03:22 (nine years ago) link
lol
tayngoooooow
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 27 July 2014 03:32 (nine years ago) link
Oh fuck, I totally meant to vote against The Stroke. Wtf? Sorry Veg.
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 27 July 2014 04:06 (nine years ago) link
Heat of the moment is positively hilarious
― brimstead, Sunday, 27 July 2014 04:14 (nine years ago) link
that tweet is wrong, bob's just like a roots rocker in the 90s bitching about the swing revival
― brimstead, Sunday, 27 July 2014 04:15 (nine years ago) link
his message is "fuck all these 'dance moves' and shit lef's break bottles and holler"
― brimstead, Sunday, 27 July 2014 04:17 (nine years ago) link
it's "get off my lawn" in song form
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 27 July 2014 04:44 (nine years ago) link
pretty sure i voted for DSB and margaritaville in my top 100 songs.
'old time rock and roll' is horrible, it's just that kind of garbage early '80s midwest midtempo rock that kind of seemed to soundtrack my upbringing bc everybody from the generation right before mine just thought it was the most incredible hardcore shit and it just had soul and was just about the swingingest tune of all time, i swear it was played on jukeboxes more than any song in my town aside from probably 'the joker', until it was temporarily unseated by 'black velvet' for a period of about six months or so there. then it went right back to the top. such a shitty song, you'd never imagine the dude responsible for it was also responsible for 'ramblin gamblin man'.
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Sunday, 27 July 2014 05:11 (nine years ago) link
or, for that matter, "2+2=?"
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 27 July 2014 05:26 (nine years ago) link
there's two bob segers
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 27 July 2014 05:29 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, but I thought the other one did "Shakedown".
― pplains, Sunday, 27 July 2014 05:36 (nine years ago) link
― that's not my post, Saturday, July 26, 2014 10:38 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
six great songs here
i'm gonna stay out of this thread i don't think i understand it
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Sunday, 27 July 2014 05:54 (nine years ago) link
"Heat of the Moment" is great IMO
― Lewis - J'Agour (crüt), Sunday, 27 July 2014 06:24 (nine years ago) link
Everybody's worst list is like 50/50 "oh yeah, good call" and "WTF that was in my top twenty on the main poll." Bodes well for a super unpredictable and fraught rollout. Still wish this could be like, one song a day for the next three months.
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 27 July 2014 06:35 (nine years ago) link
To be fair, Seger stole that lyric from Chuck Berry ("Rock and Roll Music"). At least the tango - despite Bob's gringo pronunciation thereof - is an actual dance, unlike such inventions as the "congo" (from Chuck Berry) or the "mamba" from Starship's "We Built This City."
― Josefa, Sunday, 27 July 2014 06:42 (nine years ago) link
this was my worst list:
The Beatles – Get BackEric Clapton – Wonderful TonightGolden Earring – Twilight ZoneEurope – The Final CountdownSteve Miller – The Joker Pink Floyd – Comfortably NumbRed Rider – Lunatic FringeStyx - RenegadeEmerson, Lake & Palmer – Karn Evil 9 (First Impression, Part II)John Lennon – Imagine
― some dude, Sunday, 27 July 2014 10:25 (nine years ago) link