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
That Richard Ashcroft solo single.
― Daniel Giraffe, Monday, 16 August 2010 08:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Reading through this thread is more boring than most of the song choices.
― billstevejim, Monday, 16 August 2010 10:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Agree with Lighthouse Family. Always hated Hero by Enrique Iglesias.
― Sgt. Biscuits, Monday, 16 August 2010 10:41 (thirteen years ago) link
Foreigner - "I want to know what love is"
Mike & The Mechanics - "The Living Years"
Whitney Houston - "One moment in time", "Didn't we almost have it all"
Nelly & Kelly - "Dilemma"
Uncle Kracker - "Drift Away"
― LeRooLeRoo, Monday, 16 August 2010 22:38 (thirteen years ago) link
LeRooLeRoo has the first list I largely agree with (except for "Dilemma", not a huge fan of the song but I can think of much worse). btw ILX is going to eviscerate you for that one.
― plate of dinosaurs (San Te), Monday, 16 August 2010 22:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Careless Whisper is the only George Michael song I will tolerate, because it is fantastic
― glitter hands! glitter hands! razzle! dazzle! (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 16 August 2010 22:42 (thirteen years ago) link
yes it is although I <3 George Michael in general. well, the Faith album mostly (though Listen Without Prejudice had many high poitns too).
― plate of dinosaurs (San Te), Monday, 16 August 2010 22:43 (thirteen years ago) link
I disagree with your selection. The song you consider to be boring is in actuality quite exciting. Conversely, whenever I think of boring songs, your favorite instantly springs to mind.
― kornrulez6969, Monday, 16 August 2010 22:48 (thirteen years ago) link
btw ILX is going to eviscerate you for that one.
Eviscerate away ILX! I just think it does nothing and goes nowhere, therefore is pretty boring. The melody in the chorus especially is very basic, repetitive and uninteresting.
― LeRooLeRoo, Monday, 16 August 2010 22:56 (thirteen years ago) link
Bittersweet Symphony
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Tuesday, 17 August 2010 00:47 (thirteen years ago) link
I like him usually but Tom Petty's "Learning to Fly" has always seemed like the dullest, most generic single possible.
― clotpoll, Tuesday, 17 August 2010 00:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Look Back in AngerChasing Cars
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Tuesday, 17 August 2010 00:50 (thirteen years ago) link
Sorry, that should be Don't Look Back in Anger. Look Back in Anger is a not boring at all David Bowie song.
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Tuesday, 17 August 2010 00:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Anything by the Goo Goo Dolls or any other 90s alternative-lite act.
― daavid, Tuesday, 17 August 2010 02:02 (thirteen years ago) link
I was actually thinking of a specific song by them, but it's so boring I can't even remember the title. You all probably know which one I'm talking about.
― daavid, Tuesday, 17 August 2010 02:04 (thirteen years ago) link
erm, the Goo Goo Dolls weren't some alternative-lite act until Dizzy Up the Girl, they were actually a very catchy power pop act for many years...especially on Hold Me Up, Jed, and A Boy Named Goo.
― plate of dinosaurs (San Te), Tuesday, 17 August 2010 03:39 (thirteen years ago) link
Wow, I'm way surprised "Careless Whisper" is so widely considered classic. It just sounds unbelievably cheesy to me. I just think of, like, two people massaging each other in a candle-lit hot tub with rose petals all around and a Barbara Walters glow. In some Lifetime movie in 1995
― Chanté Ackerman (Stevie D), Tuesday, 17 August 2010 05:04 (thirteen years ago) link
It's not that bad imo but not worthy of indignation. The only Wham! song I really like is "Everything She Wants".
― albino python on cocaine (corey), Tuesday, 17 August 2010 05:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Everything She Wants is great. I think all the Wham singles were mostly great, their album tracks were extremely boring though. "Credit card Baby"?
― plate of dinosaurs (San Te), Tuesday, 17 August 2010 05:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Careless Whisper is definitely pretty cheesy. Also brilliant.
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Tuesday, 17 August 2010 08:54 (thirteen years ago) link
I love oldies but Bread HAS NO REDEEMING VALUE AT ALL.
Balls. "Guitar Man" = awesomeness.
Beatles own this thread IMO
― tom d: he did what he had to do now he is dead (Tom D.), Tuesday, 17 August 2010 11:35 (thirteen years ago) link
I like a bit of Blondie now and then, but "One Way Or Another" has to be one of the most mind-meltingly boring tracks of all time.
― village idiot (dog latin), Tuesday, 17 August 2010 11:45 (thirteen years ago) link
U2
― I DON'T 'RAP' (Pillbox), Tuesday, 17 August 2010 13:38 (thirteen years ago) link
k lock this thread, the challops are becoming self-aware
― plate of dinosaurs (San Te), Tuesday, 17 August 2010 13:50 (thirteen years ago) link
Sarah Mclachlan
― MarkoP, Wednesday, 18 August 2010 03:47 (thirteen years ago) link
snow patrol are really awful and dull but i love that song that martha wainwright sang on (set the fire to the third bar ft. martha wainwright, a song so good that they even apparently put her name in the song title so you'd know which, of the dozens of boring snow patrol songs, was the good one)
― akm, Wednesday, 18 August 2010 05:52 (thirteen years ago) link
― village idiot (dog latin), Tuesday, August 17, 2010 11:45 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark
wowwwww
― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, 18 August 2010 09:37 (thirteen years ago) link
Any and all versions of "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" or "Light My Fire".
― Bill A, Wednesday, 18 August 2010 10:03 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm quite interested in boredom and repetition in music so I have a couple of questions about this thread. As this is a list thread, it may be best to post your answers on this thread - Dude, this music is so BORING.
The first is this - Would any of you who have posted boring tracks mind explaining why you think they are boring?
The second is - To what extent are you distinguishing between songs that are boring and songs that you don't like and, if you are, how are you doing so?
― Neil A.Simpson, Wednesday, 18 August 2010 13:58 (thirteen years ago) link
Rolling Stones - I'm Free - especially the Soup Dragons versionStereo MCs - Step it up
I find a lot of stuff from the baggy era unlistenably boring; it might be the repetition, or the tempo that's unbearably slow or plodding while the music is kind of trying to force an upbeat style... I don't know. There's probably stuff I love that could be described in that way.Also when the tune doesn't go anywhere or there's one sample that's just played over and over again with no variation.There's a lot of music I don't like but if something's boring as well it makes it 1000 times worse.
― Not the real Village People, Wednesday, 18 August 2010 19:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh yeah, "Have a nice day" by the Stereophonics
― Not the real Village People, Wednesday, 18 August 2010 19:11 (thirteen years ago) link
The "humorous" songs by Barenaked Ladies are fucking excruciating. The "earnest" songs by Barenaked Ladies are fucking boring.
Toad the Wet Sprocket is hella boring.
Big Head Todd and the Monsters are goddam boring.
James, lately I've been trying to give you a chance to win me back over, but I'm pretty sure you are essentially boring.
― Sun Tea (Pillbox), Wednesday, 18 August 2010 19:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Doors-Riders on the Storm. Aural Ambien.
― Sabbath to Ulver: "Suck It" (Bill Magill), Wednesday, 18 August 2010 19:32 (thirteen years ago) link
― clotpoll, Tuesday, 17 August 2010 01:48 (Yesterday)
NO
― acoleuthic, Wednesday, 18 August 2010 19:34 (thirteen years ago) link
aw i like this song. i (unfairly) extrapolate from the song that they're a boring band but i like the song
― dont wear sh@q without the fu (tremendoid), Wednesday, 18 August 2010 19:53 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
I quite often put something on and then realise that I haven't paid any attention at all for 3 tracks. Quite often it's a compilation, and I've missed tracks by bands I wanted to hear, and I'll rewind but be completely unable to take any of it in after 20 seconds again.
But on one occasion I didn't even realise it had been there without me listening. I actually went up to the CD player to put something else on and was surprised it was already playing. "Oh... this aural wallpaper thing is music I deliberately put on, I remember now." Can't even remember what that was, which is how unmemorable it was, or I'd vote for it here.
― vampire headphase (a passing spacecadet), Wednesday, 18 August 2010 21:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Tracy Chapman's Fast Car, which just goes on and on and on in a whiny, whiny way
― The one time I don't do the dishes, I get ebola! (James Morrison), Thursday, 19 August 2010 05:09 (thirteen years ago) link
OK JUST STOP IT
― michangelo wuz a party d00d (San Te), Thursday, 19 August 2010 05:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Most things by Train
― Chanté Ackerman (Stevie D), Thursday, 19 August 2010 06:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Train is a very, very boring band.