― Tanya, Wednesday, 4 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― duane, Wednesday, 4 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― anthony, Wednesday, 4 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Bill
― Bill, Wednesday, 4 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― masonic boom, Wednesday, 4 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Or else something by Dio.
― mark s, Wednesday, 4 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― tarden, Wednesday, 4 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
I got it! One of these must be universally liked:
'Staying Alive', 'I Feel Love', and hell even the most rockist of rockers loves 'Le Freak', yes?
― Omar, Wednesday, 4 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
i have one : Ring Of Fire
another: Ace of Spades.
Has anyone disliked Waterloo Sunset yet? I by no means think it's great but it's quite a pleasant listen, so that may be our best bet.
― Tom, Wednesday, 4 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― gareth, Wednesday, 4 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Missus Mo, Wednesday, 4 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
I still back Tom E on the Kinks. People that don't like it can resign. I like 'Wichita Lineman' too, though, like everybody else.
'Rattlesnakes'. 'Are You Ready To Be Heartbroken?'.
― the pinefox, Wednesday, 4 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Infact i am willing to bet a years worth of G&T's on the outcome.
I'm glad you don't mean it when you say we don't know country music (if that's what you're saying; it can be hard to tell). I mean, Tim Hopkins is reading this. Possibly.
I'll nix both 'Waterloo Sunshite' and 'Candy Says'...sorry.
Okay another path, how about Blondie - Heart of Glass. Surely anyone who does not like this song also has no soul, yeah? And if that does not work we'll have to pull out the big one, yep, ABBA.
'Tears of a Clown' is a yes btw.
'Heart Of Glass' is acceptable but not my favourite Blondie.
I don't think that that was the real fake Tanya Headon above - rather a fake fake one. Right?
Tanya - Okay, songs enjoyed by all ILMers who aren't professed music- haters then :).
Masonic Kate - oh, it would be fairly easy to find a performer no one here likes, I think. I don't think anyone has yet found a way to rehabilitate Michael Bolton.
― Patrick, Wednesday, 4 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
As for 'Heart of Glass', without being able to see Debbie Harry her voice is far too annoying.
I back 'Waterloo Sunset', but some miserable bugger has already scuppered that I believe. So I'll have to canvas opinion for 'Hi-Ho Silver Lining'. What a stomper! Or failing that, 'Sunday Morning' by the Velvets. Possibly.
― Add, Wednesday, 4 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
again with the disco, I fear
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 4 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Or "Rebel Rebel"?
Or something by Meatloaf...
What about The Magic Number by DeLa Soul? Or Sitting On The Dock of the Bay? Or The Man Don't Give A Fuck by SFA?
I veto all Kraftwerk records.
― Matt D'Cruz, Wednesday, 4 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
But, Boney M = excellent choice!
― Geoff, Wednesday, 4 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Rebel Rebel is 6 out of 10 but 6 in this case is enough.
"Surfin Bird"?
And yes, 'Rasputin' is silly, that's the bleedin' point...jeez, a black guy sporting an afro with a fake beard doing a russian dance isn't exactly Tolstoy, innit? ;)
― scott, Wednesday, 4 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Yet to elicit any complaints: "Louie Louie", "Let's Stay Together", "Bring The Noise", "Don't You Want Me", "Common People", "Love Hangover" and "Theme From Mahogany" (unless they're on Motown, in which case Omar says nay), "Upside Down", "Ace Of Spades", "Unfinished Sympathy", "Rockafeller Skank", "Rasputin" and "Rebel Rebel" (I have chosen not to read anything into Pinefox's "ouch" comment).
Nixed on account of not famous enough: "The Man Don't Give A Fuck", "Out Of Space", "Hi-Ho Silver Lining", "Walter Carlos", "Are You Ready To Be Heartbroken", "Rattlesnakes" and "Maple Leaf Rag".
― Billy Dods, Wednesday, 4 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
And ahem...I'll say all of Motown except Smokey Robinson.
How about these boots are made for walking
― X. Y. Zedd, Wednesday, 4 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
...anyone?
― JM, Wednesday, 4 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
1. My 'ouch' comment meant: I don't like this '"dance" 'music' "stuff"' of yours.
2. 'Rattlesnakes' and 'Heartbroken?', not famous??? Who are you trying to kid? Foul on Lloyd, I say. Referee!!
If we're going to nominate an AC/DC song, it should be "Back In Black". And get that namby-pamby disco shit out of here. 10,000+ people in Old Comiskey Park burning vinyl can't be wrong.
― David Raposa, Wednesday, 4 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Things needed to be kicked up a notch. The list was full of stuff like "Tighten Up" and "I'm A Boy" that no one was particularly enthusiastic about but that still weren't getting vetoed, 'cause not enough people knew them. So in the end our Winner will truly have unanimous across-the-board wall-to-wall criticism-proof ILM approval. Or something close enough, give me a break :-p
BTW, there are 2 songs left.
― Patrick, Saturday, 7 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― fritz, Saturday, 7 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
i generally make an effort to learn more about and thus know more about musics that interest me. (was parliament really that obscure?)
80s dance/pop only gets radio play here on the "80s lunch hour" on the top 40 station. a lot of music from 1976-1986 does still get regular rotation on commercial radio here but it's the aor and hard rock from that time, with a bit of the worst new wave (police, cars, payolas) mixed in. i'm willing to pit my knowledge of '76-'86 hard rock against yours. actually, now that we have a commercial alt- rock station, the cure, depeche mode, new order, and at least one smiths song do get rotation. maybe they play "don't you want me?" too. i couldn't tell you though because i don't know how the song goes.
― sundar subramanian, Saturday, 7 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Any bells Sundar? It gets played near daily in Toronto.
― Kim, Saturday, 7 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
oh, and "flash light" too.
― duane, Saturday, 7 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Hey, Sundar just vetoed one of the 2 remaining songs ("Be My Baby"), so we have a winner !
Onto records everyone hates, but it has to be something otherwise acclaimed. Surely no one actually likes "Yesterday"?
― Graham, Saturday, 7 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Omar, Sunday, 8 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Nick, Monday, 9 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― gygax!, Wednesday, 11 December 2002 03:03 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Curtis Stephens, Sunday, 19 January 2003 01:32 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ian Johnson, Sunday, 19 January 2003 22:48 (twenty-one years ago) link
― amateur!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 03:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― Be sure to Loop! Loop, Loop, Loop. (ex machina), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 03:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 03:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― Be sure to Loop! Loop, Loop, Loop. (ex machina), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 04:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 04:22 (nineteen years ago) link
ππππππππBUSY SIGNAL β’ BALLOON (floating, floating, everybody floating)ππππππππ
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 30 August 2019 13:59 (four years ago) link
Even I like it. Even LJ likes it.
Will the naysayer(s) please step forward?
― pomenitul, Friday, 30 August 2019 14:00 (four years ago) link
I mean, itβs not my style, so no I donβt enjoy it
― Stub yr toe on the yacht rock (morrisp), Friday, 30 August 2019 14:52 (four years ago) link
This new flag button is fiddly but it works
― Joe Proroguin' (Noodle Vague), Friday, 30 August 2019 14:57 (four years ago) link
It's pleasant, and I don't have any problem with it, but I wouldn't say it grabs me in an exceptional way yet, as a relative outsider to the genre. I'll give it time.
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Friday, 30 August 2019 15:17 (four years ago) link
Tbf I don't love it. But I do like it.
― pomenitul, Friday, 30 August 2019 15:18 (four years ago) link
can't say I give a shit about this song. the sound is super-tinny, I don't like that.
― Ξα½ΟΞΉΟ, Friday, 30 August 2019 15:18 (four years ago) link
balloon
― jakey mo collier (voodoo chili), Friday, 30 August 2019 15:42 (four years ago) link
On one hand, I'm a dancehall stan and I wouldn't necessarily have picked this as a world-uniting crowd-pleaser (Koffee's "Toast" would be a safer bet I'd think?). On the other, I sent this song to a friend after she got harassed by nazis on twitter all day and she said it cheered her up
― rob, Friday, 30 August 2019 15:44 (four years ago) link
xpost on my third hand, just seeing the word balloon now puts this song in my head
― rob, Friday, 30 August 2019 15:45 (four years ago) link
"Toast" does a lot more for me on first listen.
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Friday, 30 August 2019 15:57 (four years ago) link
BALLOON
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 30 August 2019 16:20 (four years ago) link
https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2019-08/12/21/campaign_images/6bb41dc312bc/the-guy-who-makes-videos-popping-balloons-with-a--2-1362-1565646542-0_dblbig.jpg
― breastcrawl, Friday, 30 August 2019 16:23 (four years ago) link
Kinda can't believe it hasn't been suggested yet but I think we'll be able to lock thread with this one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBiHysKnvGs
― McGrief the Crying Dog (Old Lunch), Friday, 30 August 2019 16:34 (four years ago) link