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― plate of dinosaurs (San Te), Saturday, 14 August 2010 15:36 (thirteen years ago) link
the best I can come up with is The Kinks' "No Return", which I just looked up on Wikipedia and listened to on Youtube to confirm that it actually exists. nothing offensive — it's just a blank spot on one of my favorite albums, and it vanishes from my brain without fail about 30 seconds after it ends, even though I've heard it many dozen times.
― unregistered, Saturday, 14 August 2010 15:43 (thirteen years ago) link
see, my first nominee ("picture") is a song I consider both infuriating and boring. like when something is boring, I can't wait for it to be over so that my interest can be piqued again. and that's how I feel when I hear the song.
do we need to set groundrules in this thread? I don't think we should conflate "boring" with "unmemorable" as they aren't necessarily the same thing (although they certainly can me).
― plate of dinosaurs (San Te), Saturday, 14 August 2010 15:45 (thirteen years ago) link
a song can definitely be boring and memorable at the same time. "Picture" is so bland and sappy and MOR that (I assume) it sticks in your head as a particular bad relic of the early '00s. it's definitely boring, but it's dullness is mitigated somewhat by the fact that it distinguishes itself as a terrible song.
to be the most BORING SONG of all time, rather just a run-of-the mill boring song (of which there are thousands), requires a particularly high level of unmemorableness, to the point where it barely even registers as offensive. That Kinks song is the best I can do right now, but it just got a little less boring now that it's been nominated for something.
― unregistered, Saturday, 14 August 2010 16:00 (thirteen years ago) link
Whitney Houston and Enrique Iglesias - Could I Have This Night Forever
so boring you couldn't even remember the title properly.
tbh i like quite a few of these songs! :'(
― teledyldonix, Saturday, 14 August 2010 17:03 (thirteen years ago) link
Every syllable that ever left the mouth of James Taylor. He always sounds completely disinterested, like he's singing the song with roughly the same amount of passion reserved for eating a sandwich or trimming his toenails. To a slightly lesser extent, the sae is true of Jackson Browne.
― SNEEZED GOING DOWN STEPS, PAIN WHEN PUTTING SOCKS ON (Deric W. Haircare), Saturday, 14 August 2010 18:34 (thirteen years ago) link
whatever silversun pickups songz they play on alt radio
― markers, Saturday, 14 August 2010 18:40 (thirteen years ago) link
LCD Soundsystem - All My Friends
― AVANT-ELECTRO METAL IST KRIIIIIIIEEEEGGGGGGGGGGGG (acoleuthic), Saturday, 14 August 2010 18:44 (thirteen years ago) link
If a song is memorable then isn't it in a way innately not boring?
― you doesn't hasta call me johnson (CaptainLorax), Saturday, 14 August 2010 18:48 (thirteen years ago) link
anything with Alicia Keys, but she bores me so much that i actually get irritated, so idk if she counts
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Saturday, 14 August 2010 18:48 (thirteen years ago) link
I find Ruby by the Kaiser Chiefs to be an incredibly dull song, especially when it gets to the guitar solo which has no imagination and just copies the boring vocal melody of the verse.
I heard Chasing Cars recently but I'm not sure that's any more boring than the songs already mentioned by them on this thread.
― Kitchen Person, Saturday, 14 August 2010 19:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Interchangeable, really.
― Joanie Loves Shakuhachi (corey), Saturday, 14 August 2010 20:32 (thirteen years ago) link
bah, 90% of these songs are too awful and grating and hateable to qualify as boring. the other 10% are genuinely good & some of you people are insane. this may as well be a worst songs of all time thread with some contrarian bullshit thrown in for good measure.
― FRESH MEAT (MFB), Saturday, 14 August 2010 20:47 (thirteen years ago) link
Hey Jude
― Enrique, Sunday, 15 August 2010 04:48 (thirteen years ago) link
ILX just exploded
― plate of dinosaurs (San Te), Sunday, 15 August 2010 04:51 (thirteen years ago) link
everyone around here is bored by hey jude. except me.
― iago g., Sunday, 15 August 2010 05:26 (thirteen years ago) link
"Careless Whisper" is beautiful.
― Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Sunday, 15 August 2010 07:44 (thirteen years ago) link
I meant to say that instead of bumping would have to include "Careless Whisper" and "Sex and Candy
I don't care about "sex and candy"
― you doesn't hasta call me johnson (CaptainLorax), Sunday, 15 August 2010 07:57 (thirteen years ago) link
time can never NAH NA NAH NA NA NAH NAH the careless whisper HEY AY JUDE. I never wanna dance again JUDEY JUDEY JUDEY JUDEY JUDEY AAAAAAAAAAAA of a good friend. and canday xpost.
― it made sense when i did it (Zachary Taylor), Sunday, 15 August 2010 08:00 (thirteen years ago) link
baby baby baby baby baby baby baby baby
― you doesn't hasta call me johnson (CaptainLorax), Sunday, 15 August 2010 08:00 (thirteen years ago) link
BREAD ....Everything I Own....and all covers of it. In fact, NO Bread is really worth anything. I love oldies but Bread HAS NO REDEEMING VALUE AT ALL.
― i like barbecue ribs (u s steel), Sunday, 15 August 2010 09:05 (thirteen years ago) link
FUCK BREAD
― plate of dinosaurs (San Te), Sunday, 15 August 2010 09:12 (thirteen years ago) link
The Cars "Fine Line"Gary Numan "This Is Love"
― ziontrain2010, Sunday, 15 August 2010 10:26 (thirteen years ago) link
I love Gary Numan, but you're right...he does have some dreadfully dull songs.
― i like barbecue ribs (u s steel), Sunday, 15 August 2010 10:37 (thirteen years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elbow_(band)#Discography
― PaulTMA, Sunday, 15 August 2010 13:39 (thirteen years ago) link
wtf careless whisper is a CLASSIC
― call all destroyer, Sunday, 15 August 2010 14:09 (thirteen years ago) link
the saxophone bit alone=happiness
― plate of dinosaurs (San Te), Sunday, 15 August 2010 14:09 (thirteen years ago) link
I used to love 'This Is Love' but I'm guessing it probably is quite dull.
I find a lot of emo and metalcore of the last ten years boring just because it's so interchangeable. Bands such as Athlete, Snow Patrol and Coldplay are bordering more on offensive but are still pretty fucking boring.
I wonder if anyone finds minimal house/techno/electronica or ambient music boring...
XP
― Duran (Doran), Sunday, 15 August 2010 14:50 (thirteen years ago) link
you bread haters are crazy!
― dell (del), Sunday, 15 August 2010 14:52 (thirteen years ago) link
I love bread
― plate of dinosaurs (San Te), Sunday, 15 August 2010 14:53 (thirteen years ago) link
usually white, but sometimes wheat tickles my fancy more
however Bread can eat a bag of dicks after they've been dipped in cocoa butter
― plate of dinosaurs (San Te), Sunday, 15 August 2010 14:54 (thirteen years ago) link
My gf and I - both completely out of the "indie" loop - recently decided we'd listen to the new National album to see what all the fuss was about. I downloaded it and put it on my iPod and we tried listening to it in the car - AND WE KEPT FORGETTING THAT IT WAS ON. We'd listen for a few minutes, then get distracted by something, start talking, and then be all "shit, let's go back, we just missed like three songs," and we'd go back, and the same thing would happen.
That's far worse a fate than hearing "Lady In Red" and demanding it be turned off immediately (which I have done). Who was it that said the opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference?
"No Return" is madness, that song rules. "If...If I could see / just...how lonely MY LIFE would be / if yooooou...passed me by..."
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Sunday, 15 August 2010 15:01 (thirteen years ago) link
Indeed. Lady In Red is Abu Ghraib torture. The National is... what exactly? I've heard three albums by them and seen them live three times and I couldn't tell you a single thing about them...
― Duran (Doran), Sunday, 15 August 2010 16:05 (thirteen years ago) link
i had a high school friend who was really into Chris DeBurgh -- never could figure out WHY.
― The Beatles are not pizza!!! (Eisbaer), Sunday, 15 August 2010 16:10 (thirteen years ago) link
this happens to me with a lot of albums, not just indie ones. and yeah, it's partially true with this new nat'l album, but i have to exclude bloodbuzz ohio from that assessment. that song's a compelling, memorable monster.
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 15 August 2010 16:34 (thirteen years ago) link
most boring songs fron bands who arent boring:
Love - Revelation
LCD Soundsystem - Somebody's Calling Me
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― Zeno, Sunday, 15 August 2010 16:50 (thirteen years ago) link
congrats assholes/airport, you're the 47 thousandth guy to talk about how the national is boring!
― call all destroyer, Sunday, 15 August 2010 16:54 (thirteen years ago) link
not sure what the point of the music in the car thing was, I lose focus on music in the car all the time, has to do with the fact that I dunno, YOU'RE DRIVING and stuff.
― plate of dinosaurs (San Te), Sunday, 15 August 2010 16:55 (thirteen years ago) link
In some ways I think the car is the ideal place to experience an album for the first time. Home is where I'm distracted.
When we listened o the new Swans album on the same trip, we both just shit right the fuck up and let it play. Then we wanted to hear it again.
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Sunday, 15 August 2010 18:06 (thirteen years ago) link
I mean yea I get distracted at home too but I can't listen to really involved things like progressive rock in the car cuz I miss too much due to concentrating on the road.
― plate of dinosaurs (San Te), Sunday, 15 August 2010 22:31 (thirteen years ago) link
"Solo Dolo" from the Kid Cudi album, mostly because it is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO SLOW.
― plate of dinosaurs (San Te), Sunday, 15 August 2010 22:43 (thirteen years ago) link
it's pretty inoffensive but puts me to sleep
there are no boring songs only boring people
― max, Sunday, 15 August 2010 22:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Anything from Roddy 'Idlewild' Woomble's solo album. Utterly dreary earnest folk rock, about as charismatic as a piece of toast. Was subjected to this in Artisan Roast, Glasgow. Nice coffee, but sort your music out!
― Count Palmiro Vicarion (Stew), Sunday, 15 August 2010 22:49 (thirteen years ago) link
Faithless - We Come OneThe Lighthouse Family - Lifted
OTM x10000
― Not the real Village People, Sunday, 15 August 2010 23:23 (thirteen years ago) link
keep reading this as MOST BONING SONGS
― zorn_bond.mp3, Monday, 16 August 2010 00:00 (thirteen years ago) link
Tom Jones - Sex BombGeorge Michael - Jesus to a Child
― Not the real Village People, Monday, 16 August 2010 06:09 (thirteen years ago) link
over my head - the fray
― oohhh weennnddddyyy weennnddyy what went wrrrooonnnnggg (kelpolaris), Monday, 16 August 2010 07:12 (thirteen years ago) link
superman (it's not easy) - five for fighting
― smart, sexy, sassy and full of beans (crüt), Monday, 16 August 2010 07:15 (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