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Post by eva on Aug 7, 2020 7:40:30 GMT -5
this could be a fun game... The Beatles: Best Song: Take your pick (for me, anything off of Revolver) Worst Song: Wild Honey Pie - I mean, even if you are high it still sounds like rubbish yeah, The Beatles was the first band that came to mind
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Post by The Escapist on Aug 7, 2020 21:38:57 GMT -5
Let's be honest, Oasis have to be up there, and with several examples. One of the best bands ever from 93-98. A barrel of grey mush from 2001-2007. Compare the brilliance of Champagne Supernova to, well, Mucky Fingers.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 9, 2020 1:58:29 GMT -5
There aren't many pop songs as perfect as "Care of Cell 44". Why this song didn't become more popular ? It's a mystery.
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Post by Mean Mrs. Mustard on Aug 9, 2020 3:56:13 GMT -5
There aren't many pop songs as perfect as "Care of Cell 44". Why this song didn't become more popular ? It's a mystery. Not yer regular subject matter either; someone writing to their partner in jail, who'll be released soon.
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Post by glider on Aug 10, 2020 0:03:36 GMT -5
this could be a fun game... Radiohead Pop Is Dead (1994) ...... to... Let Down (1997) One of the best songs I've ever heard.
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Post by Elie De Beaufour on Aug 10, 2020 11:52:00 GMT -5
this could be a fun game... Queensryche imo: Best: The Whisper (1986) Worst: I'm American (2006)
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Post by mkoasis on Aug 12, 2020 15:00:50 GMT -5
this could be a fun game... I’d agree with the sentiment in that tweet. I can’t stand Tide is High. It makes me cringe in a way that very very few songs by great bands do.
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Post by Mean Mrs. Mustard on Aug 12, 2020 17:24:34 GMT -5
So...that's just naming your favourite and least favourite song by someone then?
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Post by Mr. Bigglesworth on Aug 13, 2020 2:12:55 GMT -5
There is no better band than the Brian Jonestown Massacre.
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Post by glider on Aug 13, 2020 9:47:53 GMT -5
So...that's just naming your favourite and least favourite song by someone then? It's actually naming songs from an artist where one is a track you just vehemently find rancid, and another you find absolute perfection, so two extremes of a song's quality. The Verve for instance don't have a song in their catalogue I think is completely horrible, just some mediocre ones here and there. You could say the same for the Beatles (Wild Honey Pie is a throwaway so I wouldn't really count that one, maybe Revolution 9?).
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Post by theyknowwhatimean on Aug 14, 2020 15:01:39 GMT -5
So...that's just naming your favourite and least favourite song by someone then? It's actually naming songs from an artist where one is a track you just vehemently find rancid, and another you find absolute perfection, so two extremes of a song's quality. The Verve for instance don't have a song in their catalogue I think is completely horrible, just some mediocre ones here and there. You could say the same for the Beatles (Wild Honey Pie is a throwaway so I wouldn't really count that one, maybe Revolution 9?). I think 'Revolution 9' is an utterly brilliant sound collage. But I can see why some people take against it. It certainly is a challenging listen.
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Post by matt on Aug 14, 2020 15:17:38 GMT -5
So...that's just naming your favourite and least favourite song by someone then? It's actually naming songs from an artist where one is a track you just vehemently find rancid, and another you find absolute perfection, so two extremes of a song's quality. The Verve for instance don't have a song in their catalogue I think is completely horrible, just some mediocre ones here and there. You could say the same for the Beatles (Wild Honey Pie is a throwaway so I wouldn't really count that one, maybe Revolution 9?). Bungalow Bill is the absolute pits - the worst Beatles song by far.
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Post by The Crimson Rambler on Aug 14, 2020 16:20:29 GMT -5
Revolution 9 starts good but I quickly loose interest. Unless it were to be significantly edited down I would've chosen for it to not have been included on the album.
Wild Honey Pie sounds like weird b-side or outtake. Not as bad as some make out but certainly not great either. Another veto.
For me there's something really enjoyable about Bungalow Bill. That one's a keeper.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2020 21:39:45 GMT -5
Bungalow Bill is very poor for me. The verses share some melodic similarities with the brilliant "I'm So Tired" but don't sound as good. And then there is that chorus, one of the worst from Lennon (at least with The Beatles). It's definitely one of my least favourite Beatles tracks, along with Don't Pass Me By, Good Morning Good Morning and Maxwell's Silver Hammer.
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Post by Elie De Beaufour on Aug 14, 2020 23:11:36 GMT -5
Was there ever a German version of Bowie's Heroes or is Till Lindemann and Apocalyptica doing a novel idea by having Till sing in German?
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Post by Mean Mrs. Mustard on Aug 15, 2020 2:27:47 GMT -5
It's actually naming songs from an artist where one is a track you just vehemently find rancid, and another you find absolute perfection, so two extremes of a song's quality. The Verve for instance don't have a song in their catalogue I think is completely horrible, just some mediocre ones here and there. You could say the same for the Beatles (Wild Honey Pie is a throwaway so I wouldn't really count that one, maybe Revolution 9?). Bungalow Bill is the absolute pits - the worst Beatles song by far. Really loved it as a kid.
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Post by The Crimson Rambler on Aug 15, 2020 15:45:19 GMT -5
Revolution 9 starts good but I quickly loose interest. Unless it were to be significantly edited down I would've chosen for it to not have been included on the album. Wild Honey Pie sounds like weird b-side or outtake. Not as bad as some make out but certainly not great either. Another veto. For me there's something really enjoyable about Bungalow Bill. That one's a keeper.Bungalow Bill sounds like the theme tune to some warped cartoon from the 60s. It's just good old fun. The mocking lyrics... the way Lennon and Ono really lean into their performances... the sudden juxtapositions between the annoyingly hooky choruses and the eerie verses... The flamenco guitar intro... The trombone outro with the whistles and applause... I think it's a great song and provides so much character. Makes me smile every time. " Allthechildrensing!"
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Post by mkoasis on Aug 15, 2020 17:18:11 GMT -5
It's actually naming songs from an artist where one is a track you just vehemently find rancid, and another you find absolute perfection, so two extremes of a song's quality. The Verve for instance don't have a song in their catalogue I think is completely horrible, just some mediocre ones here and there. You could say the same for the Beatles (Wild Honey Pie is a throwaway so I wouldn't really count that one, maybe Revolution 9?). I think 'Revolution 9' is an utterly brilliant sound collage. But I can see why some people take against it. It certainly is a challenging listen. I agree. Listening to it alone at 3am at night on headphones is terrifying but very powerful.
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Post by mkoasis on Aug 15, 2020 17:21:33 GMT -5
Listening to a lot of Travis lately. A list of personal favourites:
Where you stand What will come As you are Good feeling Indefinitely Selfish jean Quite free Happy to hang around I love you anyways Safe Slide show
And of course, every single performance of All I Want to Do is Rock.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2020 17:24:31 GMT -5
Which 90's band has the best "big hits" ? Putting Oasis aside, I think you can't really go wrong with Radiohead biggest hits. The Smashing Pumpkins had also killer popular singles.
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Post by glider on Aug 15, 2020 18:36:25 GMT -5
Listening to a lot of Travis lately. A list of personal favourites: Where you stand What will come As you are Good feeling Indefinitely Selfish jean Quite free Happy to hang around I love you anyways Safe Slide show And of course, every single performance of All I Want to Do is Rock. Great list, here's my top 10 in no order: My Eyes Luv Pipe Dreams Blue Flashing Light Chinese Blues Love Will Come Through As You Are The Beautiful Occupation Song to Self Turn
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Post by defmaybe00 on Aug 15, 2020 19:01:21 GMT -5
Which 90's band has the best "big hits" ? Putting Oasis aside, I think you can't really go wrong with Radiohead biggest hits. The Smashing Pumpkins had also killer popular singles. I have a soft spot for RHCP singles tbh The Verve's most popular stuff off Urban Hymns (Bittersweet Symphony, Lucky Man, Sonnet, The Drugs Don't Work) is also quite amazing
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Post by matt on Aug 16, 2020 11:38:36 GMT -5
Since it’s been 25 years since the Oasis/Blur chart battle, it reminds me of something that’s become apparent the last few years - I’ve stopped listening to Blur.
Used to love them ten years ago, I’ve got all their albums.... but they’ve aged badly. There’s great songs there but it’s come to the point their songs never hit me emotionally. I feel their artsy quirky image to be a bit contrived and hollow now (like most Britpop bands). The albums that still contain my favourite work of theirs - Modern Life Is Rubbish and Parklife - well I came to realise The Kinks do that much better. And their stylistic change for the self-titled album in 1997? Beetlebum’s a great song but the rest is all lo-fi rip offs that again, another band does much better (this time ripping off from Pavement). 13 is their one genuinely experimental album but just feels lacking in depth and tuneless nonsense for the most part (the highlight being Tender). The final two after that, well I can barely remember a tune from it aside from Sweet Song. Under The Westway in 2012 was a great single but The Magic Whip album that followed is tuneless and again confirms for me that Albarn has completely lost the ability to write a tune.
Once I began to hear the music that inspired them, their music has become emotionally hollow and contrived. It’s hard to imagine why some consider them better than Oasis. Weirdly for Oasis, you can go away and listen to the acts that influence them but it never changed my opinion of them in the way it did for Blue. And I think it’s because, regardless of the obvious influences in Oasis music, they have the sincerity, the heart, the primal emotion, the rawness and spirit that is completely absent in Blur.
I can only imagine for those that think Blur to be better is because it unconsciously appeals to some sort of white middle class sense of pretence. Strip that away, and you have a band that is completely meaningless in a way that Oasis never were in the 1990s.
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Post by The Escapist on Aug 16, 2020 16:12:59 GMT -5
Blur were just a half-decent singles band, for me. Their "Best Of" is class, but their albums are shite to my ears.
Tonnes of bands from that era who are a cut or two above them.
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Post by Lennon2217 on Aug 16, 2020 16:20:50 GMT -5
Blur were just a half-decent singles band, for me. Their "Best Of" is class, but their albums are shite to my ears. Tonnes of bands from that era who are a cut or two above them. I’ve always enjoyed Parklife Blur 13
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