And I can see those fighter planes
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 11 May 2023 23:37 (one year ago) link
Last Night On Earth was underrated.
― billstevejim, Thursday, 11 May 2023 23:39 (one year ago) link
Nothin but good U2 songs being mentioned, v good thread here. Ok well boots is the worst, might've worked best as a throwaway on a soundtrack with different arrangement choices, not on an album that was aspiring to be somewhat art rock. Moment of surrender is a really good one imo but as a top ten U2 pick? Insane.
― omar little, Friday, 12 May 2023 00:36 (one year ago) link
I honestly have never knowingly heard another one of his songs, but I've heard good things about Bobby McFerrin earlier work so feel like 'don't worry he happy' might qualify here.
― omar little, Friday, 12 May 2023 00:37 (one year ago) link
"Numb" is one of my fave U2 songs but lets be honest, its really a Brian Eno song.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Friday, 12 May 2023 00:39 (one year ago) link
In fact I think its all their most Enoey songs I love. "Unforgettable Fire", "Numb", "Lemon".
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Friday, 12 May 2023 00:43 (one year ago) link
I've done a kick-ass version of "Stay" at karaoke
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 12 May 2023 01:20 (one year ago) link
Eno helped layer Numb with the collage noises but quite a lot of the skeleton was there before himhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCHCSdTmiIE
Agreed on Boots being out of place on NLOTH, really that whole pop mid-section spoils things a bit.
My top 10 U2 songs would also have Lemon super high. Love Is Blindness (esp live) and Mofo would probably complete the top three.
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Friday, 12 May 2023 01:22 (one year ago) link
“The Pretty Things are Going to Hell” is my rock bottom Bowie pick. Turgid slop.
― Cow_Art, Friday, 12 May 2023 01:38 (one year ago) link
the worst zeppelin song is 'down by the seaside'
yes i know that many of you will rush to defend it but nevertheless
― mookieproof, Friday, 12 May 2023 02:35 (one year ago) link
Sabbath had a few missteps during the Ozzy era but "It's Alright" is beyond all sorts of pales, sorry Bill
― john cooper mellencamp (Matt #2), Friday, 12 May 2023 02:38 (one year ago) link
"Down By The Seaside" is fine, any of "D'yer Maker"/"Dancing Days"/"All Of My Love" I'd be happy never to hear again.
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Friday, 12 May 2023 03:15 (one year ago) link
never correct me in front of the children, steve shasta
― mookieproof, Friday, 12 May 2023 03:22 (one year ago) link
Do you still do the twistDo you find you remember things that wellI want to tell youSome go twistin' every dayThough sometimes it's awful hard to tell
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Friday, 12 May 2023 03:27 (one year ago) link
i do not, in fact, remember laughter
― mookieproof, Friday, 12 May 2023 03:52 (one year ago) link
It’s really nobody’s business if I choose to become alarmed when there’s a bustle in my hedgerow.
― Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Wayne Manor (morrisp), Friday, 12 May 2023 04:15 (one year ago) link
Sure, Absolutely Fabulous is pretty crap, but when it comes to PSBs, surely the winner is The Winner
― Xgau Murder Spa (nikola), Friday, 12 May 2023 08:07 (one year ago) link
I'm not a U2 fan, I've never been interested enough to check out their albums so I only know them from the singles, but I think Mysterious Ways is amazing and I've always liked Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me too.
I actually really like a lot of Bowie's lesser-regarded albums, even especially the Never Let Me Down album, and I also think Tin Machine II is much better than the first Tin Machine album. But one song I ever thought much of is Blue Jean (which is possibly one song most people do like from this period?).
― Valentijn, Friday, 12 May 2023 08:40 (one year ago) link
Blue Jean is an odd one because I like it but also feel like its charms are much too subtle and intangible to be the lead single from an LP from a major artist. It's like the Side B track 3 that you only start to really appreciate once you've started to tire of the album.
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 12 May 2023 08:51 (one year ago) link
That's a nice take, I can see that!
― Valentijn, Friday, 12 May 2023 09:00 (one year ago) link
I love Absolutely Fabulous : (But I have a major weakness for any minor eurodance melody like that
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Friday, 12 May 2023 11:01 (one year ago) link
I had forgotten the existence of “All of My Love,” that i certainly the Zep pick for me. awful song.
― Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Friday, 12 May 2023 11:32 (one year ago) link
My favourite Led Zeppelin song : (
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Friday, 12 May 2023 11:48 (one year ago) link
I'm usually not manipulated by what the song is about, personally, to the artist, but once i did learn what "All of My Love" was about it added a layer of poignancy to it for me.
Otoh I still think Clapton's "Tears in Heaven" is a piece of shit
― Qeq-hauau-ent-pehui (Neanderthal), Friday, 12 May 2023 12:04 (one year ago) link
McFerrin is legit. Listen to the voicestra arrangements.
Or the fun record he did with Yo-Yo Ma.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTstU-st-7o
― coolgnoscenti (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 12 May 2023 13:11 (one year ago) link
xp It's hard to criticize a song written about the singer's dead child.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 12 May 2023 13:18 (one year ago) link
i think we can still manage it
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 12 May 2023 13:24 (one year ago) link
srsly
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 12 May 2023 13:25 (one year ago) link
I haven't listened to "Tears in Heaven" in a long time, and I generally don't like Clapton at all, but I remember thinking it was better than most of Clapton's songs in that it was about something, and that it was an interesting continuation of the very specific literary micro-genre occupied by the medieval Pearl poem (perle plesaunte to prynces paye) and the Kipling short story "They," in which the grieving father is allowed a brief glimpse of his child in the afterlife.
― Lily Dale, Friday, 12 May 2023 13:38 (one year ago) link
xpost yeah I mean regardless of what you think of Clapton, Connor's fall was a tragedy.
but so is the song, unfortunately.
― Qeq-hauau-ent-pehui (Neanderthal), Friday, 12 May 2023 14:22 (one year ago) link
I was thinking more of "All of My Love"
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 12 May 2023 14:27 (one year ago) link
“Tears in Heaven” is meh. Lasts for way too long but I don’t hate it.
I think the super bland cover of Marley’s “I shot the sheriff” that somehow made it to #1 is a worse song.
Speaking of terrible covers: Red Hot Chili Peppers doing Love Rollercoaster is also one of their worst singles.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 12 May 2023 14:28 (one year ago) link
RHCP also didn't really play the funk riff accurately, and that dumb added rap was stupid af
― Qeq-hauau-ent-pehui (Neanderthal), Friday, 12 May 2023 14:29 (one year ago) link
"move over dad cos i"m a double dipper" or some shit like that
Red Hot Chili Peppers doing Love Rollercoaster is also one of their worst singles.
I just threw up in my mouth. Congrats!
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 12 May 2023 14:36 (one year ago) link
I'm only really thinking of terrible songs made at the artists' peak periods, not in their long declines. And as such there can't be an answer better (worse) than ATCQ's "Georgie Porgie" Luckily someone convinced them not to put it out.
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Friday, 12 May 2023 14:41 (one year ago) link
Ladies and gentlemen I give you Butch Vig's 1984 novelty song "Go Back to Chicago (The Waunakee Song)"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9LLf2z_tpQ
which is probably better known among Wisconsinites of a certain age than anything he did with Garbage. It's pretty bad!
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 12 May 2023 15:31 (one year ago) link
Been thinking about Bowie and I think my nomination is "China Girl"
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 12 May 2023 16:02 (one year ago) link
just you shut your mouth
― Qeq-hauau-ent-pehui (Neanderthal), Friday, 12 May 2023 16:05 (one year ago) link
jk it sucks and belongs on this list, jsut had to give the predictable response to that song
China Girl is like five times as good as Laughing Gnome, come on
― coolgnoscenti (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 12 May 2023 16:22 (one year ago) link
The Laughing Gnome is an obscure single from before he was successful, also it slaps.
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 12 May 2023 16:23 (one year ago) link
China Girl's another one of iggy's blunders, still not as awful as African Man though
― rincton monkspoon (NickB), Friday, 12 May 2023 16:25 (one year ago) link
I like China Girl but feel guilt about it. I rationalized it one way or another for a long time but at a certain point I heard a live version where he says “just you shut your mouth” in a chinese-ish accent and it was just embarrassing. “Oh Grampy Bowie, don’t do that…”
Does it work better with Iggy Pop or is it just bad? I dunno.
― Cow_Art, Friday, 12 May 2023 16:26 (one year ago) link
If you listen to his singles in order, China Girl is the moment he flips to Nope
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 12 May 2023 16:26 (one year ago) link
What's that really icky Iggy Pop music video from the early 80s? Don't know if I want to go looking for it.
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 12 May 2023 16:29 (one year ago) link
The first person to post "Real Wild Child" gets a flag.
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 12 May 2023 16:30 (one year ago) link
xp Oh yeah it's Bang Bang. Song is ok, video is not ok.
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 12 May 2023 16:32 (one year ago) link
Chris O'Leary offered a defense of that Tin Machine single.
I seem to be the world's biggest Reeves Gabrels fan and the sole person to repeatedly vote him "Bowie's best guitarist" over the likes of Alomar and Ronson (and I do believe I'm right)
TM2 isn't "saved" by Gabrels because he's not the problem, the problem is (for me) that Bowie is aping Black Francis so obviously (and completely missing everything about what makes Pixies work, when it works), it is so grotesque a steal-parody, it insults me as a listener, insults Gabrels as a guitarist, insults Black Francis as an influence and insults Bowie as a creator, it probably insults God as well
― ♪♫ you can’t Shazam a memory ♪♫ (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 12 May 2023 16:32 (one year ago) link
But, incredibly Drummer Sales manages to turn in the worst tracks on the album and yeah my vote for "the nadir" is "Stateside" over "I'm Sorry", by dint of the fact that I actually watched all eight minutes of the live version of "Stateside" from "Oy Vey, Baby" and it is the musical equivalent of walking in on your father masturbating
― ♪♫ you can’t Shazam a memory ♪♫ (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 12 May 2023 16:36 (one year ago) link