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Fun Stuff => BAND => Topic started by: Tehz on 06 Oct 2007, 06:29
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Even on our favorite albums, there's usually at least one song that you just can't listen to, or at the very least like a lot less than all the other ones. I'll start with a few:
Radiohead - Bulletproof.. I Wish I Was - The Bends (Keep in mind, I still like this song, but it's by far my least favorite)
Modest Mouse - I Came as a Rat - The Moon And Antarctica
The Pixies - Cactus - Surfer Rosa
I think you get the point. Your turn.
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Modest Mouse - I Came as a Rat - The Moon And Antarctica
Really? I love that song. One of my favorites from The Moon And Antarctica.
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On 'Failure' by Assemblage 23, there's this song 'House On Fire' which is brilliant after say 20 seconds but has this godawful voice sample at the start which sounds like a drunken Homer Simpson. Shit, for all I know, that's what it is. It's just so irritating and I can't take the song as seriously as I'd like.
Also, on 'Raise The Alarm' by Sunshine Underground, for ages I had a copy minus track 6 without realising it, 'cos my friend burned it wrong and I was too cheap to buy the CD. When I finally got around to getting a full copy ('cos the other songs were all so awesome that I had to have the song I hadn't heard) it was just absolutely godawful and I had to delete it again instantly. The rest of the CD is so upbeat and dancey and just generally awesome and then track 6 is this horrible dirgey acoustic song with no personality whatsoever that just completely fucking destroys the momentum of the album. Fuck track 6 and the horse it rode in on.
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On Destroyer's Your Blues, I just can't take "Don't Become the Thing You Hated" or "The Fox and the Hound" (the latter more so). Both of them are just so slow, boring, BAD compared to the rest of the album that I always just skip them.
And the last song on Shout Out Out Out Out's Not Saying/Just Saying hurts my head. It's called "Do I Stutter?" and it's 4 minutes of stuttering electronics and AUGH IT HURTS.
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"Ellen & Ben" by the Dismemberment Plan annoys the shit out of me, but the rest of Change is spot on.
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"Night after night" on Dying to Say this to You by the sounds was a decent song, but kind of stuck out and ruined the flow of the album. It should have been the final track instead of the alternate version.
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'The Jitters' off of The Dismemberment Plan's Emergency & I. I love this song, but sometimes when I listen to the album it ruins the flow for me so it's by far my least favorite off of the album.
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Uhhhhhhhm, maybe "The Four Horsemen". London Calling is pretty damn solid all the way through.
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And the last song on Shout Out Out Out Out's Not Saying/Just Saying hurts my head. It's called "Do I Stutter?" and it's 4 minutes of stuttering electronics and AUGH IT HURTS.
I actually really like that one. Amuses me.
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And the last song on Shout Out Out Out Out's Not Saying/Just Saying hurts my head. It's called "Do I Stutter?" and it's 4 minutes of stuttering electronics and AUGH IT HURTS.
I actually really like that one. Amuses me.
Haha, I like the idea of it, but the execution? Paiiiiiiin.
In other news, I thought of another song: On Broken Social Scene's self-titled album, I always skip Ibi Dreams of Pavement. It's just.....meh. The most over-produced and muddy song on the album and I'm impatient with it.
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Car-Rubber Soul
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Modest Mouse - I Came as a Rat - The Moon And Antarctica
Really? I love that song. One of my favorites from The Moon And Antarctica.
Yeah I find it impossible to agree with or even find this statement valid in any way.
Even from the perspective of subjective opinion.
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"Conan Troutman" off "Welcome to Sky Valley" by Kyuss isn't my favorite. I tend not to skip it when I listen to the album, but it's the one I'd consider skipping.
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Elenor Rigby is really asuch a massive piece of shit compared to the rest of Revolver. Also Jackie off of Mass ROmanticm akes me want to puke and die.
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I really can't bring myself to like "Turn Blue" off of Lust for Life.
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People dislike some really good songs! Jeez.
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I do not really like that stupid ostrich song on Elliott Smith's From A Basement On The Hill
and i never really liked blue jay way either
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Elenor Rigby is really asuch a massive piece of shit compared to the rest of Revolver.
You're silly.
I almost always skip "Triad" on Tool's Lateralus (although it's started to grow on me)
"Glass Arm Shattering" by Porcupine Tree off of the album "Deadwing"
"The Perfect Crime" by The Decemberists from "The Crane Wife"
"I Want You (She's So Heavy)" by The Beatles from "Abbey Road"
I usually skip the last track on Dream Theater's "Scenes From a Memory," not because it's necessarily a bad song, but because it always feels like such a let-down after the preceding track.
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Accidentel Deth-Rilo Kiley-More Adventerous
That song was god awful.
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"I Want You (She's So Heavy)" by The Beatles from "Abbey Road"
...Say it isn't so..
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There is a live track on Swans' Soundtracks For The Blind that really makes no goddamn sense and pops up like right in the middle and I think it's just because they forgot to tie the two tracks before and after it together.
I really hate Everybody Hurts.
Beyond Repair on Silkworm's Blueblood is not a very good song.
Probably half of the White Album.
Fugazi's Polish and Latin Roots off of Steady Diet.
yeah.
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the cd bonus track for hit to death in the future head
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...Say it isn't so..
that's like the only good song they did :(
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Nick Cave's double album set Abattoir Blues/Lyre Of Orpheus has the highest quality control I've ever heard from a double album, but there's still one track on there that I can't stand - 'Fable of the Brown Ape,' which closes the first disc and seems to be virtually useless.
The Beatles...they have so many great albums, but there's usually a song I don't like on every one (I won't even go into the WHite Album..). On Revolver, it's 'Yellow Submarine'; on Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band it's yes, 'Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds.'
'No Other One' from Pinkerton by Weezer.
'Fucking The Sentiment' from Circles by Fony.
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It's a secret track, but 'How to Build a Time Machine' off The Angelic Process' 'Weighing Souls with Sand' is just really annoying and doesn't go anywhere.
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Here I come on Game Theory by the Roots
Its not that bad though, the album is pretty unbeatable
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"I Want You (She's So Heavy)" by The Beatles from "Abbey Road"
My favourite Beatles song.
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I really can't stand "Lucky" off of OK Computer. It goes from "No Surprises", one of Radiohead's best songs, to this. I find it boring and kind of irritating, as well; I think Thom's voice is really annoying on it.
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"Psalm" from Jets to Brazil's Perfecting Loneliness. It sticks out and pokes me in the ears.
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"I Want You (She's So Heavy)" by The Beatles from "Abbey Road"
What
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This thread is all ready to get up in everyone's face about the decisions we don't like eachother making. Maybe it would be better if we didn't try to convince others of how good it is to you. Although, it would be very interesting to be able to read reasons as to why certain songs are disliked, which most people are doing. I enjoy reading other's opinions.
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My favorite albums are my favorite albums because they're perfect or almost perfect. Regardless:
Oh Comely
La La Love You
Love You To
The Right Profile
Life Like Weeds
You Gotta Feel It
The Tourist
The Black Angel's Death Song
Who Is It?
Love Ain't For Keeping
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I think we might be missing the fact that one's "least favorite song" off their "favorite album" might still be a song they enjoy a lot. It just might not be as good as the rest of the album.
EDIT: Minkles, is Oh Comely seriously your least favorite song off ItAOtS? What makes you think that, out of curiosity? I only ask because I think it's a really brilliant song with some truly amazing lyrics.
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on Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band it's yes, 'Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds.'
Amen. My least favorite Beatles song. I can't listen to it.
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Oh, and I love Oh Comely. I think it's brilliant, like the rest of the album. I guess it loses some points for being a little repetitive and simplistic, and not as much fun to listen to. Any of the other songs I can listen to and instantly be happy, but Oh Comely sometimes feels like a chore.
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Oh Comely
La La Love You
Life Like Weeds
The Tourist
Completely and totally disagreed on this one. I know it's all a matter of opinion, but those four songs are excellent in my opinion (except for Oh, Comely. That one's just "good").
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"Her Majesty".
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Can I play with madness on 7th son of a 7th son by Iron Maiden. A song expressly written to be a nice poppy single on an awesome, albeit short, album. I'd trade it in a heartbeat for something worthy of a space on that disc.
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The Party
Uffie needs a good stabbin'
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The Party
Uffie needs a good stabbin'
I don't want to get into this again, but this song is brilliant. Easily my favorite on the album
I also am not a fan of the purely instrumental songs on Bowie's berlin albums.
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Get into what? A battle of opinions? If you like it then that's great. I am glad someone does.
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Thompson Girl off Phantom Power by The Tragically Hip
Novacane off Odelay by Beck
Cemetary Polka off Rain Dogs by Tom Waits.
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Get into what? A battle of opinions?
KNIFE FIGHT
TWENTY PACES
YOU WILL UNDERSTAND AT PACE NINETEEN
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This thread is all ready to get up in everyone's face about the decisions we don't like eachother making. Maybe it would be better if we didn't try to convince others of how good it is to you. Although, it would be very interesting to be able to read reasons as to why certain songs are disliked, which most people are doing. I enjoy reading other's opinions.
No, dude, fuck that. We've all got to have obstinate opinions of each other's taste, despite the fact that taste may or may not be subjective. You obviously don't understand the world we live in.
On topic: The Beatles - Two of Us. What a phony song, amirite?
EDIT: A good explanation of taste in a different context should be found here:
http://www.zefrank.com/theshow/archives/2006/07/071406.html (http://www.zefrank.com/theshow/archives/2006/07/071406.html)
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does touched count for loveless? if not, then loomer
then the clap for who will cut our hair when we're gone
and Memorial for The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place
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Oh, 'Lay Me Low' from Let Love In by Nick Cave.
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Untitled #5 is the least interesting song off of ( ) by Sigur Ros. It's a bit too long and doesn't really go anywhere. I still like it, but it feels a tad superfluous especially considering what follows it.
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"Proposition 61" on the Most Serene Republic's Underwater Cinematographer. It's dreary and sticks out sandwiched in the middle of an intensely optimistic album.
"A Mix of Sun and Cloud" on the Most Serene Republic's Population. It's loungey and sticks out sandwiched in the middle of some intensely ambitious art pop.
I need to stop listening to the Most Serene Republic exclusively.
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'she's out of my life' - from off the wall.
i actually kind of like 'girlfriend', it's so cheesy it's past cringe-worthy
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Lonely day- System of a Down, Hypnotize.
That really stands out to me. I don't listen to them that much anymore but I remember that song making me feel physically ill. I'm so glad Serj Tankian went solo and escaped Daron.
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"I Want You (She's So Heavy)" by The Beatles from "Abbey Road"
Wow, I really copped a lot of crap for this.
For the record, I feel like it drags on for longer than it should, doesn't really go anywhere and just feel completely without energy or impact on any level.
IMO
IMO
But then, I love Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds so maybe I'm just a big stupid-head.
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"Proposition 61" on the Most Serene Republic's Underwater Cinematographer. It's dreary and sticks out sandwiched in the middle of an intensely optimistic album.
The funny thing is, that's my favorite song off the whole album. I guess to actually contribute I'll throw another song out there. Let me preface this by saying I still like this song quite a bit, it just happens to be my least favorite on the album: Neighborhood #4 (Kettles) from 'Funeral'.
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But then, I love Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds so maybe I'm just a big stupid-head.
I think you'll find that by common opinion, it's both of us that are stupid heads. Whoever it was earlier in the thread is the only other person I've met that doesn't consider that song a psychedelic masterpiece.
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Mr. Ambulance Driver from Flaming Lips' At War With the Mystics
If it weren't for that song that album would be close to perfect
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Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds is a piece of shit.
Strawberry Fields Forever is a much better, more lushly arranged, vividly psychedelic song
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Whoever it was earlier in the thread is the only other person I've met that doesn't consider that song a psychedelic masterpiece.
o/
i also think it is poop
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Mr. Ambulance Driver from Flaming Lips' At War With the Mystics
If it weren't for that song that album would be close to perfect
Bizarro world!
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John Curtin, as one of the most renowned Prime Ministers of Australia I am interested to know what you think the weakest track on Revolver is.
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Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds is a piece of shit.
Strawberry Fields Forever is a much better, more lushly arranged, vividly psychedelic song
Strawberry Fields is a better song than Lucy, but that doesn't make Lucy a pile of poops.
There are no bad songs on Revolver.
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north & about- Hot Water Music's Fuel For the Hate Game. I usually change records 7 tracks in, but the first 7 are pure brilliance.
I didn't mean to hurt you- Spiritualized, Let It Come Down.
baby I'm a star- Prince, Purple Rain
Jusrt a couple off the top of my head....
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Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds is a piece of shit.
Strawberry Fields Forever is a much better, more lushly arranged, vividly psychedelic song
Strawberry Fields is a better song than Lucy, but that doesn't make Lucy a pile of poops.
There are no bad songs on Revolver.
'Yellow Submarine.'
I have never understood what anyone can possibly see in that song. I'd find it more forgivable if it fitted in on the record, which people may disagree about, but I don't think it does. On the White Album, maybe.
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Jeez. "Here, There and Everywhere". Snooze. Ville.
I actually nearly wrote "I Want To Tell You" because I completely forgot about "Here, There and Everywhere". That's how forgettable it is I guess?
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Here, There, and Everywhere is exemplary of cheese.
Gouda, Limburger, maybe Cheddar, but the cheddar would have to be really sharp.
The worst track on Revolver is Doctor Robert in my view.
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"I Want You (She's So Heavy)" by The Beatles from "Abbey Road"
Wow, I really copped a lot of crap for this.
For the record, I feel like it drags on for longer than it should, doesn't really go anywhere and just feel completely without energy or impact on any level.
IMO
IMO
Dude! I agree! I hate this song! It's like "Okay, we get it. You want her. You want her so bad! Do we really need to hear about it for the next ten minutes come on
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I think the music is more important than the words on that song.
I think Lennon's intention was quite the opposite.
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Waiting Room is actually not a good song in any respect
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Latin Roots off of Steady Diet.
how can you hate this song?
IT'S TIME TO MEET JAMAICANS, IT'S TIME TO MEET JAMAICANS, IT'S TIME TO MEET JAMAICANS. . .!
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I doubt that!
I've read in at least two fairly reputable books that Lennon was trying to use fewer and fewer lyrics in his songs by the late sixties, and that eventually - like Yoko Ono did with a poem in 1964 - he wanted to write a song that was simply perfection, using only one word.
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What the fuck's wrong with Polish?
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'I Want You (She's so heavy)' is maaaaybe the best song on the best Beatles album, and why bother arguing which is more psychedelic, 'Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds' (which is kinda shitty although I really like Paul's backing vocals) or Strawberry Fields (which is really good), when a song as excellent as 'Tomorrow Never Knows' exists?
I don't like 'Crescendolls' off Daft Punk's Discovery, there is just something about it that runs me the wrong way.
I don't like 'The Boy Done Wrong Again' off Belle and Sebastian's If You Are Feeling Sinister, it is just boring.
Although i wouldn't say I dislike it, 'The Model' s my least favourite track off Kraftwerk's The Man Machine.
I really dislike 'Shellshock' off New Order's Substance, although it probably doesn't count because it is a compilation of 12"s
I don't like 'Everybody Hurts' on R.E.M.'s Automatic for the People. It is just sappy and not up to scratch in an album that good.
(Nice Dream), Fitter Happier, Pull/Pulk Revolving Doors, We Suck Young Blood
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Waiting Room is actually not a good song in any respect
Where are you getting your crack from now?
Please defend it. Are the lyrics good or something? The song is like something a fifteen-year-old Bad Religion and Rage Against the Machine fan would write.
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That's most Fugazi songs for you.
Also, Planet Telex is gross.
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Not so fond of "Thunderbird" and "World Before Later On" from TMBG's The Spine
Also not big on Hovering Sombrero from Mink Car, but I kinda' like it.
Not big on two songs from Carbon Leaf (PLAYING THIS SATURDAY AT LAKE MATOAKA AMPHITHEATER WOO!) on the album "Love Loss Hope Repeat": A Girl and Her Horse (reminds me of the saddle club a little bit too much) and Texas Stars -- which would be great if it was just a little less repetitive.
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I don't like 'The Boy Done Wrong Again' off Belle and Sebastian's If You Are Feeling Sinister, it is just boring.
THANK YOU. I hate that track, but all of my friends scoff at me when I pass over it. I cant stand the constant repeating of the title lyric.
Also, though its an okay song by itself, 'Closedown' off of Disintegration just isnt good enough to be on that album. It doesnt fit.
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That's most Fugazi songs for you.
that's not right at all. not remotely
while Fugazi is pretty accessible as far as indie bands go, most of their material is pretty original-sounding.
there are only a few times I can actually say that their music sounds like one of their influences, that is to say sometimes Gang of Four or Mission of Burma shine through just a bit
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Mr. Ambulance Driver from Flaming Lips' At War With the Mystics
If it weren't for that song that album would be close to perfect
Yeah pretty much.
John Saw that Number - Fox Confessor Brings The Flood
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Pity For the Pious on World War III by KMFDM annoys me a fair bit. I tend to skip it.
Also, I'm not too much of a fan of some of the segues on Outside by Bowie. Sure, they're part of the whole concept album thing, but they get a bit annoying sometimes.
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The worst track on Revolver is Doctor Robert in my view.
Woah I think either Emilio completely missed this, or he is some kind of saint with infinite patience.
Yellow Subarmine
I have never understood what anyone can possibly see in that song. I'd find it more forgivable if it fitted in on the record, which people may disagree about, but I don't think it does. On the White Album, maybe.
The best I can explain it is, listen to it on a pair of headphones. Now, walk around in a public place. At the 1.50 mark, start singing along, but only to the background call and repeat parts, in the same ridiculous voice.
When you get to the "AH-HAH" just do it at the top of your damn lungs and maybe jump in the air and spin around 360 degrees or something.
That is what I enjoy the most about this song.
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OK, back on topic. I think "I'm pretty sure I can see Molecules" on Troubled Hubble's Making Beds in a Burning House Album, its just not very interesting and the lyrics are terrible and even the actual name of the song is terrible!
Also I think the Shankhill Butchers on The Crane Wife, by the Decemberists really slows down that album at the point where it seems like it is just picking up heaps of momentum and just kills it again.
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i very much dislile 'Yellow Submarine'!
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Most Belle and Sebastian albums have one song I don't like.
"Dress Up In You"
"Asleep on a Sunbeam"
"The Boy Done Wrong Again"
"Mary Jo"
....I have four albums by them, so yeah. One song per album.
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Anna Maria on any BOA album, i swear just makes my head hurt every time (Please God, let someone know who in thell i'm talkin about)
blue train by cibo matto, tho now i won't make my way over to my comp just to skip it, but i still don't like it
i am the walrus. i said it. it was a stupid song that made specifically to mean nothing at all and yet it's become this ridiculous debate about how the wlarus represents God and i'm all like "WHAT!?!?! That song meant nothing! It wasn't supposed to!" Yet is became really popular.
I think the music is more important than the words on that song.
IMO there is never a point where the "music is more important than the words" outside of electronic and remix and electro. The point of a song with words is to convey a feeling of tell a story. "Everyday is exactly the same" can be heard without words and convey a melancholy, but without the words u could easily feel just a calmness from the music.
just my opinion. I don't wanna argue on it, but I just think if a songs lyrics are dumb then the song isn't worth hearing. There was one on the radio i wish i could remember, the music is great, but i looked up the lyrics and decided it was the dumbest song i've EVER heard.
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i am the walrus. i said it. it was a stupid song that made specifically to mean nothing at all and yet it's become this ridiculous debate about how the wlarus represents God and i'm all like "WHAT!?!?! That song meant nothing! It wasn't supposed to!" Yet is became really popular.
I hate that song. But no way is it my least favourite on the Magical Shitstormy Tour.
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i dont know the album well enough to say it's the one i like the least, i just know i don't like it, and i especially hate that it's popular for all the wrong reasons.
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Also I think the Shankhill Butchers on The Crane Wife, by the Decemberists really slows down that album at the point where it seems like it is just picking up heaps of momentum and just kills it again.
That song pisses me off for a more specific reason, in that the subject matter is very sensitive and extremely politically potent, but Meloy strips it of ALL that to make some retarded coy nursery rhyme out of murders from a period of Northern Ireland's history that is still fresh in people's minds (that has shaped the following generation(s), ie. me).
It's arbitrary, exploitative and lazy.
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I'm really not a fan of New Thrash or Live at E's, while I absolutely love every other track of 40 oz. to Freedom.
Fashion Victim is good, but definitely not on par with the rest of Warning.
It'll Be A Long Time is probably the weakest (still good) song on Smash.
I'm so not indie, lol.
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Well, i guess for me it would have to be Lie buried with a vengence on Dir En Grey's album The Marrow of a Bone.
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How about 'Bandwitch' from Broken Social Scene's s/t? What a boring song. If they'd switched it places with 'Canada vs. America', the album would be perfect.
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You people like shit like Radiohead and Deerhoof and you dare to moan about Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds and Yellow Submarine?
I literally cannot get my head around other peoples musical taste.
My nominations for worst songs off of favourite albums, hmmmn... I suppose the obvious one is 'Twilight Twilight Nihil Nihil' off of Current 93's 'All the Pretty Little Horses'. It's far too long, not particularly inventive and simply doesn't fit in with the album at all (it would be more at home on some of C93's 80's material). That said, the version on Cats Drunk On Copper, where Dave got Michael Cashmore and Johnny Balance reading the lyrics with him in a round, and backed it up with the 'Long Shadows' loop, is fucking brilliance, so it's a good thing it exists. Still, it dethrones what would be C93's best album to only their third best (after 'Thunder Perfect Mind' and 'Soft Black Stars'). I can't think of any other particularly gratuitous offenders...maybe 'Science Never Sleeps' from Skyclad's 'Irrational Anthems', but the second half of that album is a bit weak compared to the first half anyway...more concrete Skyclad example might be 'Gammadion Seed' from Prince of the Poverty line, but the thing is, that is actually a pretty good song, just not quite as good as the rest of the album, whereas Science Never Sleeps is one of the very few Skyclad songs that I could do without. Along the line of good songs that aren't quite as good as the rest of the album, what about 'Lifebooks' from Death in Junes 'Rose Clouds of Holocaust', or 'Exile (Les Litanies De Satan)' from Ancient Rites' 'Dim Carcosa'. Both of those are good songs, but they ain't maybe quite good enough. Then again I feel this is more for tracks which are kind of crap on otherwise good or great albums, not for merely good songs on great albums.
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You people dare to different tastes? You bastards. If there was a law, it'd be against it.
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ignoring the terrible grammar in that quote, amen!
Regardless of what I think of the other man's opinions on songs, even if they're shooting down my favorite song, I am not just gonna come out and respond with the blanket statement, 'how could you possibly enjoy that load of bull?' it's just not polite.
I could see someone defending their musical tastes with an actual rebuttal, but the truth is, this world is filled with different people with different tastes, and while being PC is one thing that really bugs me sometime, there are boundaries that just go with common courtesy.
*steps off of soapbox*
I also dislike The Shankill Butchers when put in comparison to the rest of that album, however, I had no idea that it was based on true events, or that those events were recent. Hm. learn something new everyday I suppose. :-)
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Then you wouldn't like Irish traditional songs.
THEY'RE ALL ABOUT THE IRA KICKING THE BRITSES' ASS.
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Regardless of what I think of the other man's opinions on songs, even if they're shooting down my favorite song, I am not just gonna come out and respond with the blanket statement, 'how could you possibly enjoy that load of bull?' it's just not polite.
I guess I am just not a polite person.
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"Teclo" from PJ Harvey's To Bring You My Love.
That's one of my most favorite CDs of all time, but I just do not like that song.
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Also I think the Shankhill Butchers on The Crane Wife, by the Decemberists really slows down that album at the point where it seems like it is just picking up heaps of momentum and just kills it again.
That song pisses me off for a more specific reason, in that the subject matter is very sensitive and extremely politically potent, but Meloy strips it of ALL that to make some retarded coy nursery rhyme out of murders from a period of Northern Ireland's history that is still fresh in people's minds (that has shaped the following generation(s), ie. me).
It's arbitrary, exploitative and lazy.
Yeah but that's what nursery rhymes are and he succeeds in doing that. I agree that it does slow the album down. How about taking it out and placing Culling of the Fold in there. Or just go straight into Summersong.
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Do you mean that you think he was aware of what he was doing by using the form of nursery rhyme to approach the subject? Would you say there is an intentional irony to it that I am missing out on?
If not, I'd say the "yeah but it is what it is, and because it's that, it's okay" defense is unsuccesful.
Then you wouldn't like Irish traditional songs.
THEY'RE ALL ABOUT THE IRA KICKING THE BRITSES' ASS.
Are they?
I saw a guy in the photo thread on this board wearing a "Stereotype me, I'm Irish" t-shirt. I wants it. I'm also hoping to avoid mentioning where I'm from in other threads in case people begin thinking of me as "the whinging Irish twat."
ANYWAY
On topic, I was thinking about two albums. First, No Heroes by Converge. What a ferocious and energetic and rhythmically dazzling album, eh.... apart from the poorest attempt at an angst filled sludge epic I have ever heard. "Grim Heart/Black Rose" is a 9 minute smear of shit across the face of that album and it renders it barely listenable in one sitting, I find.
On a less extreme note, "God Is In the House", from Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' No More Shall We Part. I like the concept, and lyrically I like the execution, but the melody is boring and Cave's "character" that he uses is irritating and silly. Maybe. Still, I don't mind it, I just fucking adore the rest of the album.
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Do you mean that you think he was aware of what he was doing by using the form of nursery rhyme to approach the subject? Would you say there is an intentional irony to it that I am missing out on?
Yeah I do think that. Though I fully understand the originally context and what Murphy & his gang did. As with most nursery ryhmes the horrors are quickly subjugated by quaintness. One possible point is that he might have wanted to show the way that nursery rhymes deal with violence and death.
I Think I should start a nursery rhyme thread.
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Then you wouldn't like Irish traditional songs.
THEY'RE ALL ABOUT THE IRA KICKING THE BRITSES' ASS.
Are they?
I saw a guy in the photo thread on this board wearing a "Stereotype me, I'm Irish" t-shirt. I wants it. I'm also hoping to avoid mentioning where I'm from in other threads in case people begin thinking of me as "the whinging Irish twat."
Well, the more recent ones anyways. "Come out you Black and Tans" or "Sean South of Garryowen," for example. Maybe that's just coming from Cavan though...
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Refused - The Shape Of Punk To Come - The Apollo Programme Is A Hoax.
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Soilwork - Sworn to a Great Divide
Biggest letdown of 2007. Welcome to America Bjorn right this way to Clear Channel's legal offices.