Least Favourite Song Page 3

"Evergreen" by Will Young. Whenever it comes on the radio I've been known to hurt my finger in my haste to turn the f**king thing off. It's the most sickening, mawkish, insipid pile of meaningless pop-turd my ears have ever suffered. Combine that with Will himself in the video, lisping for England with his fat Jamie Oliveresque tongue, whining, dewy-eyed into cam like a man made entirely of limp lettuce - the only thing that's Evergreen is the hot, steaming vomit inexorably clawing its way up my throat.

Don't have nightmares!

Quote: zooo @ November 2 2011, 12:29 AM GMT

Don't have nightmares!

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Quote: Lee Henman @ November 2 2011, 12:22 AM GMT

Will Young, whining, dewy-eyed into cam like a man made entirely of limp lettuce.

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It's crazy to think that the kids of today have to put up with shit like that, while my parents' generation got the Beatles and the Stones.

Quote: Kevin Murphy @ October 31 2011, 8:37 PM GMT

I wish that I could fly
So very high
Into the sky

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Lenny Kravitz? He must have been taking the piss.

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I wonder the same about Noel Gallagher on the first Oasis album Definately Maybe.

Lines so cringing about Doctors on helicopters, Noel was on the way to becoming a modern William McGonagall- http://www.mcgonagall-online.org.uk

To be fair, Gallagher has improved.

Angels by Robbie Williams never ceases to remind me of the very worst part of being a student in the late nineties.

Saturday Night by Whigfield is the worst song ever recorded.
Barbie Girl by Aqua is the second worst song ever recorded.
Have A Nice Day by The Stereophonics is the third worst (and worst 'serious') song ever recorded.

Dan

Quote: zooo @ November 2 2011, 12:29 AM GMT

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Looks like he's about to get cyberman bukake

This is another of those puzzlingly successful songs that I mentioned the other day: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p30DUmx9v3Q

I don't know whether it was popular here, but in America it was big, especially in clubs. I just don't understand how any sane person can listen to such a repetitive pile of shit without screaming, "Are you having a laugh?!!" Look at some of the comments underneath the clip. One person even hails it as a "masterpiece", and says something about kids of today not knowing what they're missing!

Honestly, tracks like that give sample-based music a bad name. I can just imagine struggling musicians, who've spent years learning to play instruments, listening to that and swearing at the radio, or ripping their hair out in frustration. When I used to make a bit of music using samples, my main concern was to try and make it sound like it WASN'T sample-based, which meant no repetitiveness. If I wanted to hear the same looped sound over and over again like that I'd put an old scratched record on my turntable, not pay good money for that crap.

Quote: catskillz @ November 2 2011, 12:39 PM GMT

I just don't understand how any sane person can listen to such a repetitive pile of shit without screaming, "Are you having a laugh?!!" Look at some of the comments underneath the clip. One person even hails it as a "masterpiece", and says something about kids of today not knowing what they're missing!

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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I don't call myself a dance music fan but I quite like a few dance tracks, tracks that make me feel nostalgic n the like. Some of the repetitive sample loops are annoying some of them sound good on the ear. I'm surprised you don't relate emotion to music. What do you see/feel when you listen, I can only imagine your minds eye fills with binary code.

Quote: Leevil @ November 2 2011, 1:14 PM GMT

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I don't call myself a dance music fan but I quite like a few dance tracks, tracks that make me feel nostalgic n the like. Some of the repetitive sample loops are annoying some of them sound good on the ear. I'm surprised you don't relate emotion to music. What do you see/feel when you listen, I can only imagine your minds eye fills with binary code.

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I do relate emotion to music, but the only emotion I experience when I hear that last song is annoyance.

If you're gonna stick to the formula of simply looping a certain instrument, and putting a looped drum beat under it, you can really only get away with it if you use the funkiest samples known to man, like the ones on this clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoLHIsAez8E

I was being stupid, of course you relate emotion to music. I suppose I just meant nostalgia. There's a lot of dance hits from the 90s I wouldn't normally like but they stuck with me and take me back whenever I hear them.

In regards to looping in particular, I still don't agree with you completely. I myself, can't see much difference in using loops instead of notes from an instrument. It may not take as much talent but it's just about creating new sounds, experimenting and having fun. Music would never evolve if nobody did that and it would suck. Suck hard.

Quote: Leevil @ November 3 2011, 5:45 PM GMT

it's just about creating new sounds, experimenting and having fun. Music would never evolve if nobody did that and it would suck. Suck hard.

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True, true, true- but I think it should be the law that any sample or cover version has to include in the price the original. It hurts me that there are people who think of The Tide Is High as an Atomic Kitten song.

I like Atomic Kitten's version of The Tide is High.

Blondie's cover version is also very good however, alot better than the original by The Paragons.

Covers can be indeed be great, like the Blondie one, I just think it's a shame that there isn't a system in place to get people hearing music they wouldn't have otherwise known. One of my favourite covers is Type O Negative's Summer Breeze. Tune.