SONGS YOU LOVE (by artists you hate)

"Epic" by Faith No More.

"Wicked Game" by Chris Isaak.

the 2 phil collins songs i like -- "i don't care anymore" and "take me home"

Marcello Carlin: a critical resurrection of The Bangles on your blog has just become U & K.

Dan Fogelberg- "Another Auld Lang Syne"
Partly nostalgia (introduced to it by my college roommate, and we would sing it the rest of that year, which was one of the best for me), partly the Harry Chapin feel. It's like a bourgeois version of "Taxi". I like the theme of exs running into each other unexpectedly, the mixture of bittersweet. Has admittedly tawdry moments (the "laugh until we cried" part in the grocery store, "the snow...turned into rain" punchline, the Kenny G sax touches at the end), but that only seem to add to the magic. I've loathed most, if not all, of the rest of what I've heard from him: "Leader of the Band" and "Longer Than" are particularly dreadful. Though Chris Hillman from The Byrds covered one of his songs which I also liked, "Morning Sky".

Wham- "Freedom"
I have a respect for "Careless Whisper", but the rest of their catalog for me ranges from indifference to major annoyance. "Freedom" is a great song, though. I like the little details: the Motownish rhythm section, immensely singable chorus, and that regal trumpet solo and rhythm guitar at the end.

Journey- "Don't Stop Believing"
I don't like Steve Perry's voice, it's that pure and simple. If I did, there would be probably more I liked by them. This is their best song, by a long shot.

Peter Frampton- "I'm in You"
Lyrically laughable ("You can't buy, what we made, you and I...") and I wouldn't blame anyone if they couldn't make it past the title, but the music to this ballad is stunning. Striding, cautiously descending piano chords that moodily shift from minor to major and back again, combined with light string backing...it really makes the song.

Night Ranger- "Don't Tell Me You Love Me"
Particularly, I love the duelling guitar solos exchanged in the middle of the song (they should have used these for the Bill and Ted movies)--goofy and sweet, shredding before shredding became completely correlated with hair spray to move units. I mean Brad Gillis toured with Ozzy before this stint, right? What more legitimacy does one need...And the chorus is pure Asia. :)

Bryan Adams- "This Time"
Don't LOVE this one, but I think it is a likeable pop song, that
doesn't overstay its welcome (I have to admit, I don't even really like "Cuts Like a Knife" or "Heaven," two songs that I think probably have more proponents than this one).

The Bee Gees- "How Deep Is Your Love"
I was about 5 years old when SNFever was in full manic effect and this was perpetually on the radio. As one might expect from a 5 year-old boy into KISS and the Jim Rice-era Red Sox, I completely hated it--the pale washes of electric piano, the mewling vocals, etc. How ironic that today, after being subjected through my teens and early adulthood to endless 70s/retro/disco revivals where "Stayin' Alive" and such is dragged out yet again, this is pretty much the only song by them I can bear to listen to them without complaint. As with the other tunes listed above, bad lyrics from what I can make out of them (hey, it's the Bee Gees), but the music is actually fairly sophisticated for such a major commercial pop tune.

The Bloodhound Gang - "Your Only Friends are Make-Believe"

YES! Me too!

I usually can't stand Sleater-Kinney, but "You're No Rock'N'Roll Fun" is sheer brilliance.

Another vote for Summer of 69, too.

Also: Keep on Dancing or whatever by No Doubt, sounds like some German electro from two years ago. Quality. And the second single from Jimmy Eat World's new album, that's pretty neat too.

Unlike some of you I have been gifted with an inborn hatred for the voices of Bryan Adams and Phil Collns, helping me to at least preserve that portion of my hipness no matter what.

There's probably other artists I'm forgetting.

"Take You On A Cruise" - Interpol
"Any Day Now" - Elbow
"Two Step" - Dave Matthews Band
"Maps" - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
"Moonchild" - M83
"All We Have Is Now" - The Flaming Lips
"Disarm" - Smashing Pumpkins
"Cliquot" - Beirut
"Moya" & "The Dead Flag Blues" - Godspeed You Black Emperor!
"Girls" - Death In Vegas
"Salt" - Mugison
"Dust in the Wind" - Kansas

I feel awful saying this but seriously, that Interpol song is so tiny and mournful, lost in the wind.

forgot this thread! at some point i should also have mentioned Malibu by Hole. i guess Corgan is partially the reason why that stands apart, but then i'm pretty indifferent to most of the Pumpkins stuff too, so there it still is.

lol @ "moonchild" by m83. that song has probably the most unintentionally hilarious monologue i've ever heard.

Foreigner-double vision

I'll take Foreigner - "I Want to Know What Love Is," and admit a little fondness for "Feels Like the First Time"

Pet Shop Boys - "What Have I Done to Deserve This" (of course, they brought in a ringer I am incapable of hating)

dexy's midnight runners - come on eileen
shakermaker - oasis (i had a brief oasis infatuation lasting about a month in which i was impressed by liam's cool charm and raunchy voice; until i stopped listening to them obsessively and finally realized how utterly fucking boring they actually are)

The Smiths - How Soon Is Now?
Eminem - My Name Is
Radiohead - Just
Coldplay - Yellow
Madonna - Holiday

Kraftwerk - Trans Euro Express (this is good but computer music has no soul)

ABBA - Dancing Queen (mindless pop for idiots but this is a guilty pleasure)

Reelin' In The Years - Steely Dan (slick studio craftsmanship < raw emotion of real rock and roll)

Sara - Fleetwood Mac (the epitome of empty cocaine fueled narcisissm)

kornrulez why are you so mean

4'39'' by John Cage. Though I have never listened to it (kind of difficult to hear it) and I probably got the title wrong. But that's probably the best he has ever done. Silence is sexy sometimes.
― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Sunday, November 3, 2002 6:32 PM (7 years ago) Bookmark

it's 4'33"

no wonder he hasn't heard it!

I'm just messing around

dexy's midnight runners - come on eileen

Really? This is one of the worst Dexy's songs. Have you actually ever listened to Searching for the Young Soul Rebels?

I pretty much dislike the Rolling Stones but I like "Miss You".

i don't really really hate him the way i might've when i was younger but i have listened to "dont ask me why" by billy joel like 18 times since that 80s joel poll. in terms of hugest gulf between how i feel about one song by an act vs every other song by that act winner is definitely "boys of summer" by don henley.

wasn't "malibu" pretty much straight courtney (i remember her mentioning it in an interview w/ stevie nicks like a year or so beforehand)? i thought corgan's fingerprints were all over "celebrity skin"?

Don Henley- The Boys of Summer

50 Cent- In Da Club

i'm gradually growing more and more distant from merriweather-era animal collective. nothing has actually triggered this, but i seem to feel embarrassed whenever i listen to these guys.

malibu is on celebrity skin, no?

boys of summer for me too.

Giuseppe Verdi - Messa da Requiem

Jay Z- "Cashmere Thoughts"

John Adams - Violin Concerto

Billy Joel: My Life

Bruce Springsteen: Hungry Heart

Foo Fighters: Big Me

Smashing Pumpkins: 1979

U2: Stay (Faraway, So Close)

Oasis: Whatever

Foo Fighters is a good one. I'd go with 'Everlong'.

Cliff Richard - "Wired for sound"

Cliff has a small handful of late 1970s/early 1980s bangers. Devil Woman, We Don't Talk Anymore, Carrie, Some People . . .

A small handful is all it is, though.

Eurythmics - Here Comes the Rain Again

I also kind of like the "Hero" song with Josey Scott guy

― Hannah GAPDY (Whiney G. Weingarten)

That's a corking tune, even if it is basically Kiss From a Rose.

Rod Stewart - Young Turks
Billy Idol - Eyes Without A Face
Athlete - Wires
One Direction - Fireproof
Rolling Stones - Under My Thumb
Momus - Hairstyle Of The Devil
The Libertines - What A Waster

I heard "Shine" by Take That in the car there on Saturday and I have to concede it a bit of a choon in fairness

"back for good" also good too obv

Momus

wow, rude

Momus

wow, rude

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Most of my list is artists I otherwise don't understand as apposed to hate (Athlete being the only exception). Hairstyle Of The Devil is a 10/10 though.

The Doors - Peace Frog

I also like some bits of “riders on the storm” but I’ve heard edits/remixes/samples of it which I like better than the original.

Bright Eyes - Nothing Gets Crossed Out
Emeli Sandé - Heaven (I definitely don't hate her, but it's crazy how much better this song is than all her other materiel)

The Doors - LA Woman

Emeli Sandé - Heaven (I definitely don't hate her, but it's crazy how much better this song is than all her other materiel)

Agreed. All her other hits are bland as fuck.

WEEZER - EL SCORCHO

I don’t actually hate them but this is the only song by them that makes me want to sing my lungs out, I didn’t love any song by them beforehand but I think I started loving this one by proxy of Allo Darlin’s “kiss your lips” which hijacks the chorus from Scorcho in a really fun way.

'Ramblin' Gamblin' Man' is a hot, hot track.

Have you heard “east side story”?

Nah, I hadn't heard anything else that made me think listening to one minute more of Seger was a good use of my time. But I'll check it out.

do it!!!

And while you're at it, check out "2+2=?"

^

Jackson Browne - These Days

(more indifference than hate, and it's Nico's version that I love)

Drake - The Motto