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Fun Stuff => BAND => Topic started by: Vancroth on 07 Dec 2007, 03:49
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What were the songs from this year that you found appalling? What made them bad/disappointing? I'm thinking more along the lines of songs from artists you expect more from and less the typical chart rap/alt-rock/pseudo-emo crap.
I'm going to go with an obvious choice, "The Party" (or "Tthhee Ppaarrttyy") by Justice. Sure there's Uffie, but it is less the awful vocals themselves that make me dislike this song and more so the way it totally throws off the flow of the album. The first time I heard †, I was rocking out in my seat and then Uffie kicked me in the crotch. I mean the robots would never let someone perform some weak rap over their...
But seriously, what songs gave you a similar feeling?
Edit: Changed the topic title to something closer to what I meant.
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The entire Feist album. I was expecting so much more.
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I hate threads like this, simply because there were literally dozens of terrible songs released this past year.
I'd be here for hours if I was to list them all.
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i don't listen to bad music so i'm gonna go ahead and say "none."
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I don't like these threads cause someone is bound to read them and discover their favourite song of the year on it. And though I'm sure they'll get over it, it's never a good feeling.
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i don't listen to bad music so i'm gonna go ahead and say "none."
and that's all that this will be, subjectiveness.
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What I meant was more along the lines of disappointing '07 songs from albums you otherwise enjoyed. Obviously, there were a lot of really bad songs from 2007. I guess it was meant more as a "this album would have been even better if this song was left off or if had done this instead of that." Sorry, if I wasn't clear.
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Oh, in that case Neon Bible.
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"Antichrist Television Blues" and the reworked "No Cars Go" on Neon Bible.
"Lice in the Rainbow" off of White Williams' Smoke.
"Honey Honey" from Feist's the Reminder.
Other than those, I can't think of much. My favourite albums tend to be my favourite because they're solid front to back. I don't actually like Neon Bible all that much for that reason; two weak tracks are enough to turn me off.
And for the record, I love The Party. At first I was pretty ambivalent about it, just another song on a great album....and then I caught my jock little brother freaking out and dancing to it. I did not realize how much of my music he had jacked, how much he liked it, and how much of a little hipster he'd become (I hadn't seen him in four months). It warmed the cold, dark recesses of my heart.
Without that experience though...I can see people not liking it so whatever. It's cool. Folk on the internet need to calm the fuck down about other people's proclamations about loved/hated music. Ideally, that sort of conflict would turn into a good discussion of the merit or lack thereof of said music, leaving both participants with some new ideas...but alas. It's still the internet. Not going to happen.
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That goddamn System of a Down-lite song about bombs on the new Ted Leo. There's just no need. Stick to what you know best Ted, you're really good at it.
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That's possibly the only TL/Rx song I ever skip over. "A Bottle Of Buckie" and "Who Do You Love" really make up for it, though.
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System of a Down-lite
SOAD-lite? Wouldn't that be like drinking diet coke with a mixer?
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More like Dasani with an H2O mixer. Was well aware of the connotations, it's that boring.
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like watering down a bacardi breezer.
with kool aid
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That goddamn System of a Down-lite song about bombs on the new Ted Leo.
It doesn't sound anywhere even remotely close to System of a Down. I'm going to have to disagree with you here. It's not a bad song by any means.
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I liked Sky Blue Sky, but I usually skip over "Shake It Off"
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I liked Sky Blue Sky, but I usually skip over "Shake It Off"
Yeah. I'm starting to like that now, but I still usually skip it.
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Sky Blue Sky is the very definition of a grower.
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Neon Bible :(
And I'm pretty sure the Kings of Leon are now all on crack.
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Off the new Buck 65 album, the song "Benz" is just irritating. It doesn't work. Even when many of the other songs don't fit into the album's concept, it doesn't work. Blah.
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heh, i dug "neon bible". it's still on my playlist...
i'd go with "my body is a cage".
i guess if i had to pick, from pop artists i trust, since i'm not too picky:
MIA "the turn" and "come around" on KALA
Radiohead "faust harp" on In Rainbows (actually, i kinda can do without 1/3 of that album)
Bjork "wanderlust" on Volta. bjork fans seem to love this track most; i dont get why. it actually makes me wince.
cant think of more. lots of solid work came out recently.
i guess Klaxons, Battles, and Black Kids' albums dont qualify since they're new? i <3 them all, but they all had at least one track i could do without... but only if i were super duper picky pickles.
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I didn't like Neon-Bible that much. In my books, Funeral was a million times better...
l can't quite put my finger on exactly what I disliked... But, I do know that I never really like a religious theme... Whether it be anti-religion or pro-religion, I prefer to keep my music completely apathetic to religion.
Still a pretty good album in my opinion, but pales in comparison to Funeral!
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Funeral, Neon Bible and their s/t EP are structured, as an album, in the same way.
NB: THIS IS MERELY A STATEMENT REGARDING THEIR RELEASES
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Note that I didn't point out a valid reason for not liking Neon Bible... I basically just said that for some reason I liked Funeral a lot more, and thus, was a bit disappointed. Otherwise still a decent album.
l can't quite put my finger on exactly what I disliked...
See?
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I don't like it because they're not really making music I care about anymore. Or rather, they're not making me care about their music.
The eponymous fire is gone.
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I knew that I didn't really enjoy it, but I couldn't put a finger on the reason. I think Johnny just nailed it though. Neon Bible simply failed to incite anything in me. It was just music.
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I don't care if you want to eviscerate ska with a rusty spoon, Streetlight Manifesto's Somewhere In The Between was glorious, though "Forty Days" didn't quite do it for me.
"Alcohol" off of Gogol Bordello's "Super Taranta!" was pretty weak as well.
This is my first post, and I'm praying I didn't violate some sacred forum rule.
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The first few tracks on Saturday Looks Good To Me's Fill Up The Room are pretty dire, although the rest of the album definitely makes up for them.
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I'm going to respond to the thread title instead of just listing bad songs. Listing bad songs on good albums is far more interesting than just tossing out any annoying song you heard on the radio.
Robert Wyatt: Just As You Are (On Comicopera)
Miranda Lambert - Everybody Dies Famous In A Small Town (On Crazy Ex Girlfriend)
White Stripes - Conquest (On Icky Thump)
White Stripes - The one where him and Meg are pretty much just talking, saying stuff like 'Wow, look at all this stuff!' where it's unclear what the point is except that you can tell it's really pretentious (On Icky Thump)
Lilly Allen - Window Shopper (On Alright, Still)
Arcade Fire - "Look at me, I'm Bruce Springsteen!" or Antichrist Television Blues (On Neon Bible)
And the award for worst song on a good album of all time:
A tie between
O-Bla-Di by the Beatles
Blood Money by Primal Scream
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I would just like to state that Antichrist Television Blues is one of my favorite songs on the album
that being said I could really do with out "The Ghost of You Lingers" off of Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
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White Stripes - The one where him and Meg are pretty much just talking, saying stuff like 'Wow, look at all this stuff!' where it's unclear what the point is except that you can tell it's really pretentious (On Icky Thump)
"RAG AND BONE"
FUCK YOU I LOVE THAT SONG
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I would just like to state that Antichrist Television Blues is one of my favorite songs on the album
that being said I could really do with out "The Ghost of You Lingers" off of Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
This guy is making the most sense to me out of anybody in this thread.
Um, I'm going to say "Black Wave" off Wincing the Night Away. Pretty much boring.
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What is wrong with "The Ghost Of You Lingers"?
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I can't speak for mobius, but I don't necessarily see anything wrong with it, it just didn't feel like it belonged on Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga. If anything, I think it would have fared far better in my mind on the bonus disc (Get Nice!).
I was mostly agreeing with the opinion on "Antichrist Television Blues," though.
Also, whoever put down "My Body Is a Cage" clearly hasn't bothered to play it full volume in a dorm room with the door open and sing along as heart-felt as possible with a handful of other guys while getting incredulous looks from the Dashboard-loving jock-wanna-bes who pass by. That, more than anything, makes the song worth keeping for me.
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Try it with "In The Backseat." No, seriously.
I'll wait.
Ah, there come the tears.
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I don't care if you want to eviscerate ska with a rusty spoon, Streetlight Manifesto's Somewhere In The Between was glorious, though "Forty Days" didn't quite do it for me.
"Alcohol" off of Gogol Bordello's "Super Taranta!" was pretty weak as well.
This is my first post, and I'm praying I didn't violate some sacred forum rule.
You're not the only Kalnoky fan here. I'm listening to "Receiving End of It All as I type this"
Yeah, "Forty Days" isn't one of their better songs.
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Actually, when it comes to the new Arcade Fire album, my least favorite song must be Intervention. Then again, the album didn't really elicit any kind of reaction from me anyway. It's fun to listen to, but it fell kind've short in recording. Live the songs take on a whole new life, although Les Savy Fav were still the highlight of that show, standing next to LCD Soundsystem and Blonde Redhead in a nice second.
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heh, i dug "neon bible". it's still on my playlist...
i'd go with "my body is a cage".
i guess if i had to pick, from pop artists i trust, since i'm not too picky:
MIA "the turn" and "come around" on KALA
Radiohead "faust harp" on In Rainbows (actually, i kinda can do without 1/3 of that album)
Bjork "wanderlust" on Volta. bjork fans seem to love this track most; i dont get why. it actually makes me wince.
cant think of more. lots of solid work came out recently.
i guess Klaxons, Battles, and Black Kids' albums dont qualify since they're new? i <3 them all, but they all had at least one track i could do without... but only if i were super duper picky pickles.
Coincidentally, your least favorite songs off of Neon Bible and In Rainbows are two of my favorites.
And I'm pretty sure the Kings of Leon are now all on crack.
now???
As for me, I really dislike the song "Sound of Silver" off of, well, Sound of Silver. I hate chanting though.
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the new spoon album .now i love spoon but to me there new album is not up to snuff.( i dont like cherry bomb at all it pains me to hear it)
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Oh now that's just ridiculous.
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It's been growing on me, but "Return To Melanesia" from The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets' The Shadow Out of Tim is a track I usually skip over. It's a damn good album, but I really don't see much need for an a capella track just thrown in there. Though, like I said, it has been growing on me nonetheless.
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Gallows - Orchestra Of Wolves - Stay Cold - It's just not very interesting and hard to distinguish from any other band, whereas the rest of the album isn't like that.
Fountains Of Wayne - Traffic And Weather - Fire In The Canyon - Kinda a boring country-ish song that's just a bit shit on an album of soaring power-pop.
Jamie T - Panic Prevention - Pacemaker - The least tuneful song on the record where his vocals get a bit painful to listen to in places.
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Black Wave/Bad Vibrations - Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
I loved the rest of the album, but this song struck me as undeniably repetitive and emo (not even their usual caliber of depressed-but-not-depressing music, but crap-emo!)
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I really enjoyed the new Okkervil River album. In some ways it reminds me of Neon Bible. Not that they sound similar, mind you, but simply b/c it's a very good album that pales compared to much of the band's earlier work. That being said I still like "Stage Names" quite a lot. Sadly, the song "Savannah Smiles" is awful. I'm talking pretty much unlistenable. I skip this song without fail every time it comes on. It's far and away the worst Okkervil River song and it even lessens my overall impressions of the album as a whole.
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Arcade Fire - "Look at me, I'm Bruce Springsteen!" or Antichrist Television Blues (On Neon Bible)
Yes yes yes.
I'd also like to add:
Deerhoof- Look Away- It's long and pointless. I always end the album after "Matchbook Seeks Maniac".
Modest Mouse- Little Motel- This sounds like Modest Mouse trying to be Coldplay. No one should ever try to be Coldplay.
The National- Racing Like A Pro- I don't know why, but I find something about this song immensely irritating.
Panda Bear- The beginning of Good Girl/Carrots- What the hell is this?
Wilco- Please Be Patient With Me- Jeff Tweedy's voice sounds terrible on this one. What happened?
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White Stripes - The one where him and Meg are pretty much just talking, saying stuff like 'Wow, look at all this stuff!' where it's unclear what the point is except that you can tell it's really pretentious (On Icky Thump)
"RAG AND BONE"
FUCK YOU I LOVE THAT SONG
You're not the only one. Easily the best song on Icky Thump, it's hilarious.
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Deerhoof- Look Away- It's long and pointless. I always end the album after "Matchbook Seeks Maniac".
I get the feeling you have not listened to much of their early material
Since half of it is pretty much "Look Away"
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Oh, and I'm really surprised with the amount of people who've dissed on all sorts of Neon Bible songs that no one's mentioned "Windowsill." Absolutely abysmal 'political' lyrics that white college kids will cheer for.
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lyrics that white college kids will cheer for.
Huh?
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He's suggesting we kill whitey
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I am amazed that some people didn't realize Arcade Fire want to be Bruce Springsteen until "Antichrist Television Blues" (which is my favorite song on Neon Bible next to "Intervention").
The Boss is awesome. Who wouldn't want to sound like him?
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Deerhoof- Look Away- It's long and pointless. I always end the album after "Matchbook Seeks Maniac".
I get the feeling you have not listened to much of their early material
Since half of it is pretty much "Look Away"
No, I have. And I've disliked it.
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"No Cars Go" on Neon Bible.
Heresy. That's one of the best songs on the entire album, which, by the way, is a masterpiece and surpasses Funeral.
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I think you'll find yourself overwhelmingly refuted in that prospect. Perhaps you haven't heard the original "No Cars Go," a rather beautiful and simple number that carries a heck of a lot of emotion. Perhaps you'd also like to explain why you think Neon Bible is better than Funeral. I personally found Neon Bible to be to clean, over produced, glossy and impersonal. Funeral was jammed with emotion and powerful song writing. It had a lot more depth to it and a lot more emotion. Neon Bible threw in everything but the kitchen sink and went political and a lot of the originality and power of Funeral was lost in the resulting high gloss clutter. That's how I see it. That being said, I did enjoy the album and I did like the version of No Cars Go. It's just that neither come close to what preceded them.
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I don't think much of Funeral personally. Neon Bible has the advantage over it in just having, in my mind, consistently better songwriting. It's one of the few mainstream indie albums that I really loved this year. Based on Funeral I had placed them firmly in the category of "bands which are good but which don't really do a lot for me", a box which also contains The Decemberists and, sadly, about half of everything Bright Eyes has done since Fevers and Mirrors.
Not that those three necessarily sound alike, just saying.
So, I was very pleasantly surprised by Neon Bible, as were most of my friends who similarly were ambivalent at best towards Funeral.
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Oh hey, uh...
"Bomb.Repeat.Bomb." on the TL/Rx album. Horrid.