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
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 01:48 (Yesterday)
NO
― acoleuthic, Wednesday, 18 August 2010 19:34 (thirteen years ago) link
over my head - the fray
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.
finally something I can agree with!
― michangelo wuz a party d00d (San Te), Thursday, 19 August 2010 10:12 (thirteen years ago) link
"Wonderful Tonight" is the most boring song ever, proven by science. A trite chord progression, played at a turgid tempo for what seems like forever, with a riff that barely qualifies, as if Clapton were just checking to see if he was in tune after bending a string. Even he can't be arsed to care about the melody, and the bass line came out of a white box with black lettering reading "BASS LINE (1)."
― a mix of music (Lionel Ritchie) and kicks (my tongue) (Phil D.), Thursday, 19 August 2010 11:02 (thirteen years ago) link
.. and those are its good points.
― Mark G, Thursday, 19 August 2010 11:10 (thirteen years ago) link
oh my God do I hate Wonderful Tonight.
― michangelo wuz a party d00d (San Te), Thursday, 19 August 2010 13:03 (thirteen years ago) link
i used to like that song, way -- way -- back, and now i can't stand a single measure of it.
i really can't stand much eric clapton. not sure why. he is a very good guitarist, i'm sure, but . . .
― Daniel, Esq., Thursday, 19 August 2010 13:05 (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, August 19, 2010 1:09 AM (7 hours ago)
― The one time I don't do the dishes, I get ebola! (James Morrison), Thursday, August 19, 2010 1:09 AM (7 hours ago)
whoa, I didn't know Parts & Labor played on that song. is there an extended mix with a drum solo or something?
― nonviolent j (unregistered), Thursday, 19 August 2010 13:15 (thirteen years ago) link
funny that a song that is extremely short goes "on and on and on"
― michangelo wuz a party d00d (San Te), Thursday, 19 August 2010 13:17 (thirteen years ago) link
I think Thom Yorke's solo bunk is painfully boring.
― van smack, Friday, 20 August 2010 02:19 (thirteen years ago) link
Anything by Neil Diamond
― albino python on cocaine (corey), Friday, 20 August 2010 02:24 (thirteen years ago) link
die
― van smack, Friday, 20 August 2010 02:26 (thirteen years ago) link
hahaha
― albino python on cocaine (corey), Friday, 20 August 2010 02:51 (thirteen years ago) link
I second Neil Diamond. I have 0 tolerance. I'm sorry.
― Chanté Ackerman (Stevie D), Friday, 20 August 2010 03:43 (thirteen years ago) link
Part of my irrational dislike of Diamond, however, stems from an awful road trip through Canada or the Poconos or something, where my dad + stepmom INSISTED on playing Neil Diamond Gold on repeat in the car, and the only thing I had to combat it was The Bends, but one side of my headphones was broken, so it was the infuriating futility of trying to play Radiohead loud enough in one ear to block out Neil Diamond from the other.
― Chanté Ackerman (Stevie D), Friday, 20 August 2010 03:45 (thirteen years ago) link
There is nothing boring about Hot August Nights. That is GOLD
― van smack, Friday, 20 August 2010 03:54 (thirteen years ago) link
An A+ live album if I may say so
I found the real list...
http://stereogum.com/477821/nme-50-best-new-bands-of-2010/top-stories/lead-story/
― billstevejim, Friday, 20 August 2010 04:07 (thirteen years ago) link
scroll down.. there is a soundcloud playlist of the 50 most boring songs i've ever heard in my life.
― billstevejim, Friday, 20 August 2010 04:08 (thirteen years ago) link
boredom induces relativistic time dilation
― The one time I don't do the dishes, I get ebola! (James Morrison), Friday, 20 August 2010 06:18 (thirteen years ago) link
― Chanté Ackerman (Stevie D), Friday, August 20, 2010 3:43 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark
Boring does not = bad, people! FFS. If you hate neil diamond, whatever, but his songs are like the opposite of boring. They're fun pop songs.
― Matt Armstrong, Friday, 20 August 2010 06:27 (thirteen years ago) link
KInda suspect that the most boring songs would be totally forgotten by everyone, making their appearance here pretty unlikely, and making the thread kinda self-defeating.
Sorry if someone's already made this point - I'm too drunk to read the entire thread.
PS - Just realized that the George Harrison song I just finished listening to w/out its making a single impression on me - thus making it a viable contender - is called "Run of the Mill", which is pretty amusingly appropriate.
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Saturday, 21 August 2010 04:25 (thirteen years ago) link
i love brian eno as much as anyone, but i put on the first disc of that instrumentals box today at work and jeez i was bored to tears. had to take it off. i mean it was probably my mood but it just sounded so zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz to me at the time.
― scott seward, Saturday, 21 August 2010 04:31 (thirteen years ago) link
That song that is in every commercial for a romantic comedy made now with the lyric that goes "FEEL THE RAIN ON YOUR SKIN"
This is "Unwritten" by Natasha Bedingfield, which is kind of fun, even if it's not very good.
I vote for "Have A Nice Day" by the Stereophonics. It just doesn't DO anything.
― ailsa, Saturday, 21 August 2010 10:07 (thirteen years ago) link
I've never liked any version of "Lean On Me" tbh, it has a nasty false positive vibe in my head. That Snow Patrol song about lying down in the middle of the road and wanting a cuddle off a gurly-wurly is probably pretty boring too but it brings me out in so much spitting radge that it's hard to tell.
― 'ray Clamence (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 21 August 2010 10:12 (thirteen years ago) link
Stereophonics songs may not do anything but dude's voice is like sandpaper on the eardrums, thus ruling them out of "boring"
Think that David Gray album was probably playing during 50% of restaurant meals between 1999 and 2003 but I can't remember anything off it except the title line of "Babylon". Like, Coldplay are pretty boring but I can manage to hate them for it; David Gray was just there, and maybe you'd notice, maybe not.
Look at me with my up-to-date musical references. At least that turn of the century coffee-tablism seems to have died out a bit. Though there's a bunch of stuff these days which is just edged out of boring by fucking awful autotuned vocals, so maybe the kids who grew up with autotune can find that stuff dull, but it sets me on edge too much.
― vampire headphase (a passing spacecadet), Saturday, 21 August 2010 11:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Don't buy the "truly boring songs are forgettable" idea tbh. Truly boring songs are memorable for boring you to tears every time you hear them imo
― 'ray Clamence (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 21 August 2010 11:18 (thirteen years ago) link
there are no boring songs only boring people
― max, Sunday, August 15, 2010 6:44 PM (6 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― ranked #12 amongst 'false metallers' (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 21 August 2010 14:04 (thirteen years ago) link
(also: On Bended Knee by Boyz II Men)
I've never liked any version of "Lean On Me" tbh
this ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 21 August 2010 14:06 (thirteen years ago) link
― ranked #12 amongst 'false metallers' (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, August 21, 2010 9:04 AM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark
fuck you, suck a dick, DIE, bitch (cheap sound effect of tek blast)
― michangelo wuz a party d00d (San Te), Saturday, 21 August 2010 14:22 (thirteen years ago) link
oh come on that song is a pile...
― ranked #12 amongst 'false metallers' (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 21 August 2010 14:23 (thirteen years ago) link
I didn't even mention "I'll Make Love to You" bcz it does have a memorable chorus despite its (almost transcendent) plodding sappiness. But On Bended Knee, the follow-up? Feh!
― ranked #12 amongst 'false metallers' (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 21 August 2010 14:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Brand New Heavies - Dream On Dreamer
― Not the real Village People, Wednesday, 25 August 2010 00:56 (thirteen years ago) link
aka the theme song from the Hills. Terrible but not boring.
― akm, Wednesday, 25 August 2010 02:47 (thirteen years ago) link
That minimalist piano instrumental on Talk Talk's Missing Pieces.
― Mr. Snrub, Friday, 27 August 2010 01:35 (thirteen years ago) link
The 4 songs on "Tales From Topographic Oceans" are tied for this honor.
― ImprovSpirit, Friday, 27 August 2010 02:33 (thirteen years ago) link
I want to add "You Gotta Be" by Des'Ree.
― Chanté Ackerman (Stevie D), Friday, 27 August 2010 03:02 (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