the jjjusten top 5:
U2 - "Desire" (5 weeks)REM - "Stand" (2 weeks)Lou Reed - "Dirty Blvd" (4 weeks)Public Image Ltd. - "Disappointed" (1 week)The B-52s - "Love Shack" (4 weeks)Tears For Fears - "Sowing the Seeds of Love" (1 week)
― Tina Tina Cheneuse (DJP), Thursday, 16 December 2010 18:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Hm, "Peekaboo" is pretty cool.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Thursday, 16 December 2010 19:04 (thirteen years ago) link
voted Mayor of Simpleton and regretted it instantly. P-Furs, Reed, The Replacements and the motherfucking Love Shack all deserve it more. I even like that Siouxsie song.
― gospodin simmel, Thursday, 16 December 2010 19:09 (thirteen years ago) link
Ha -- on the 1990 poll I don't think anyone admitted to remembering "I'll be Your Chauffeur."
― Gus Van Sotosyn (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 16 December 2010 19:37 (thirteen years ago) link
hahahaha i swear i didnt look at DJP predictions until now but yeah pretty much dude kinda knows my tastes yall
LOVE:Siouxsie and the Banshees - "Peek-A-Boo" (2 weeks)The B-52s - "Channel Z" (3 weeks)Camper Van Beethoven - "Pictures of Matchstick Men" (3 weeks)The Jesus and Mary Chain - "Blues From A Gun" (3 weeks)
OK:REM - "Orange Crush" (8 weeks)Elvis Costello - "Veronica" (1 week)XTC - "The Mayor of Simpleton" (5 weeks)The Cure - "Fascination Street" (7 weeks)Love and Rockets - "So Alive" (5 weeks)Hoodoo Gurus - "Come Anytime" (3 weeks)Ian McCulloch - "Proud to Fall" (4 weeks)
DONT CARE/BLAH:Psychedelic Furs - "All That Money Wants" (3 weeks)Tears For Fears - "Sowing the Seeds of Love" (1 week)
HATE:U2 - "Desire" (5 weeks)REM - "Stand" (2 weeks)Lou Reed - "Dirty Blvd" (4 weeks)The B-52s - "Love Shack" (4 weeks)The Replacements - "I'll Be You" (1 week)Public Image Ltd. - "Disappointed" (1 week)Kate Bush - "Love and Anger" (3 weeks)
WORSE THAN I COULD HAVE IMAGINED:Big Audio Dynamite - "Just Play Music!" (1 week)
NOWHERE ON YOUTUBE SO IDK:Julian Cope - "Charlotte Anne" (1 week)
― O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Thursday, 16 December 2010 19:47 (thirteen years ago) link
srsly tho holy shit i cant believe how fucking awful that big audio dynamite song is jesus christ
― O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Thursday, 16 December 2010 19:48 (thirteen years ago) link
I find it difficult to believe a BAD song from that time period could be WORSE than I can imagine; I mean, I lived through "Rush".
― Tina Tina Cheneuse (DJP), Thursday, 16 December 2010 19:48 (thirteen years ago) link
no me too, look it up on youtube, its astounding!
― O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Thursday, 16 December 2010 19:49 (thirteen years ago) link
what the hell is this
― Tina Tina Cheneuse (DJP), Thursday, 16 December 2010 19:49 (thirteen years ago) link
we are going to need a new emoticon to accurately capture my reaction to this
― Tina Tina Cheneuse (DJP), Thursday, 16 December 2010 19:50 (thirteen years ago) link
i know right?!?
― O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Thursday, 16 December 2010 19:50 (thirteen years ago) link
what the fuck is happening in the middle of this fucking song
― Tina Tina Cheneuse (DJP), Thursday, 16 December 2010 19:52 (thirteen years ago) link
it's like they decided Starship was too tough and inaccessible for romcom soundtracks and they wanted to show them how you REALLY do it
oh just wait it keeps coming, right around the 3 minute mark it becomes particularly o_O
― O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Thursday, 16 December 2010 19:53 (thirteen years ago) link
btw I have been trying very very hard to ignore the blatant trolling at the beginning of the thread but The Knife has fuck-all to do with "Peek-A-Boo"
phew, that made me feel a little better, only I still have listened to that awful awful song
― Tina Tina Cheneuse (DJP), Thursday, 16 December 2010 19:54 (thirteen years ago) link
xp: that's what prompted the Starship comment!
nest time somebody gets all the only band that matters about the clash im going to ludovico technique them with mick jones and his dance moves from this video
― O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Thursday, 16 December 2010 19:55 (thirteen years ago) link
Alex in NYC (vassifer) wrote this on thread In defense of Big Audio Dynamite on board I Love Music on Apr 4, 2003
Love everything up through The Globe, but am thinking they should now change their moniker to Big Audio Mistake.
― some dude, Thursday, 16 December 2010 19:55 (thirteen years ago) link
situation no win
― Gus Van Sotosyn (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 16 December 2010 19:57 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't understand the series of decisions necessary in going from sounding like "E=MC2" to... that
― Tina Tina Cheneuse (DJP), Thursday, 16 December 2010 19:57 (thirteen years ago) link
like I guess I understand not wanting to sound like your old band, but if it's a choice between that and sounding like complete and utter shit...?
― Tina Tina Cheneuse (DJP), Thursday, 16 December 2010 19:58 (thirteen years ago) link
i srsly cant stop watching that video
― O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Thursday, 16 December 2010 19:59 (thirteen years ago) link
This must've been the thing that caused BAD to split and BADII to form.
― Lightning Is For Babies (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 16 December 2010 19:59 (thirteen years ago) link
"Rush" was MASSIVE; heard it in stores, pizza parlors, etc. Ubiquity did not accentuate its charms, though.
― Gus Van Sotosyn (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 16 December 2010 20:00 (thirteen years ago) link
Rush was fine. I actually still like that BADII album.
― Lightning Is For Babies (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 16 December 2010 20:02 (thirteen years ago) link
ok i just checked the tracklisting for "Megatop Pheonix" which I have positive feelings toward and am relieved to see that that song is nowhere on there.
― O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Thursday, 16 December 2010 20:06 (thirteen years ago) link
holy crap @ that BAD track. It's like something that missed the cut for Miami Sound Machine album filler.
I once had a copy of the "Rush" single.. on cassingle!
― jerkstore cowboy (Pillbox), Thursday, 16 December 2010 20:25 (thirteen years ago) link
'the globe' >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 'rush'
― jerkstore cowboy (Pillbox), Thursday, 16 December 2010 20:26 (thirteen years ago) link
"Rush Rush" >>>>>>>>>> "Rush"
― Gus Van Sotosyn (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 16 December 2010 20:27 (thirteen years ago) link
It's as meh as Copey gets and really not worth the effort but here you go:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-wix_pKEE8
― Insane Clown 2 Electric Juggalo (onimo), Thursday, 16 December 2010 20:34 (thirteen years ago) link
my iphone wont recognize that youtube but it might just be mad at me for listening to that big audio dynamite song so many times
― O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Thursday, 16 December 2010 20:37 (thirteen years ago) link
dude I'm pretty sure Megatop Phoenix is also fucking terrible
― Tina Tina Cheneuse (DJP), Thursday, 16 December 2010 20:51 (thirteen years ago) link
i remember rewind being pretty good and there being some decent cutty pasty sampling stuff going on but its uh been years so i could be really really wrong.
around the girl in 80 days was def a huge piece of shit tho
― O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Thursday, 16 December 2010 20:54 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRuQOCMd2mI
does this jog yr memory
― Tina Tina Cheneuse (DJP), Thursday, 16 December 2010 20:55 (thirteen years ago) link
"Rewind" is all right though, I will grant you that
― Tina Tina Cheneuse (DJP), Thursday, 16 December 2010 20:57 (thirteen years ago) link
"This video contains content from Vevo, who has blocked it in your country on ow my head grounds."
― Rage Against the Man-Cream (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 16 December 2010 21:00 (thirteen years ago) link
hahaha
― Tina Tina Cheneuse (DJP), Thursday, 16 December 2010 21:00 (thirteen years ago) link
ok i am rapidly being convinced that an instrumental version of megatop phoenix would be awesome, but such dreams are not to be
― O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Thursday, 16 December 2010 21:18 (thirteen years ago) link
ok listened to more of this album uh just never mind
― O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Thursday, 16 December 2010 21:28 (thirteen years ago) link
lol
― Tina Tina Cheneuse (DJP), Thursday, 16 December 2010 21:29 (thirteen years ago) link
I had forgotten this Furs song and it is pretty good.
― _Rudipherous_, Thursday, 16 December 2010 21:51 (thirteen years ago) link
holy sh!t these are all untouchable
Siouxsie and the Banshees - "Peek-A-Boo" (2 weeks)Psychedelic Furs - "All That Money Wants" (3 weeks)The Replacements - "I'll Be You" (1 week)The Cure - "Fascination Street" (7 weeks)Love and Rockets - "So Alive" (5 weeks)Tears For Fears - "Sowing the Seeds of Love" (1 week)The Jesus and Mary Chain - "Blues From A Gun" (3 weeks)
― i genuinely thought when i first joined that he was the admin (ilxor), Thursday, 16 December 2010 21:56 (thirteen years ago) link
The only possible way to choose between these is to narrow it down to "songs that are superb and that I'm worried won't get votes," so it's "Stand" or "Come Anytime" for me. But which? The Hoodoo Gurus are way more forgotten and ignored (not even mentioned on this thread, I think!) and they represent very well this weird genre of straight-ahead rock record that was "alternative" only by virtue of being kind of unpopular (see also: The Smithereens) On the other hand, "Stand" is a masterpiece which is wrongly hated by everyone from REM themselves on down. That chugging run of decending open-E bar chords under "If wishes were trees..." -- amazing!
But I'm not going to change anybody's mind about "Stand" so I'll vote for the Gurus.
It might actually be the case that "Love Shack" is the song I most admire here.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 17 December 2010 01:49 (thirteen years ago) link
Charlotte Anne
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 17 December 2010 02:23 (thirteen years ago) link
my Top 5 would look something like this:
The Cure - "Fascination Street" (7 weeks)Love and Rockets - "So Alive" (5 weeks)The Jesus and Mary Chain - "Blues From A Gun" (3 weeks)Siouxsie and the Banshees - "Peek-A-Boo" (2 weeks)The B-52s - "Love Shack" (4 weeks)
― World Series champion San Francisco Giants (Bee OK), Friday, 17 December 2010 02:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Screw you guys, I love "Just Play Music" (Don Letts amateur deejaying and all) and "James Brown" (West Side Story sample is genius) and "Around the Girl in 80 Ways" (Prince ska)! But not "The Globe" or "Rush." P.S. I also wore spandex shorts in 1988.
How did a boring CVB cover of "Pictures of Matchstick Men" make it to modern-rock No. 1? We will agree to disagree. "The Mayor of Simpleton" is nice but to me this list epitomizes the dullness of late-'80s "modern rock" MOR college crap except the B-52 singles, which are transcendent, and maybe "Peek-A-Boo." The rest is just the sound of programmers strenuously ignoring hip hop, metal, house, or punk. "Orange Crush" is timeless, I guess, but it's opaque to the point of seeming pro-war... which was just great for the late '80s.
― Pete Scholtes, Friday, 17 December 2010 04:29 (thirteen years ago) link
Pro-war? It's a dude who got poisoned in Vietnam! (I think.)
― would like a calmer set (Eazy), Friday, 17 December 2010 04:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Then, now, forever: Love Shack. As I said on the Cosmic Thing thread, I've adored them since their first van tour to Minneapolis in 1979. The very idea that a tacky little dance band from Georgia could parlay that first DB Records single into cult success on a major label, lose their founding member to AIDS, regroup a decade later and release a GAZILLION-selling worldwide hit still completely boggles my mind. Time (and wedding receptions) have not dimmed its luster for me. Anyone who hates Love Shack, well, I'll make like Fred and just holler "I can't HEAR you!!!"
― He stayed true to what he is. Now he murders deer! (Dan Peterson), Friday, 17 December 2010 15:14 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLGsT_dEQ8U
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Friday, 17 December 2010 15:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Sund4r, I can't believe it, I was thinking of that exact Beavis & Butthead clip. I was even thinking of looking for it, although I'd forgotten it was for that particular song (but I figured it had to be from close to the same time).
― _Rudipherous_, Friday, 17 December 2010 15:56 (thirteen years ago) link