Quote: Tursiops @ March 27 2013, 2:25 PM GMTI quite like Annie's Song (don't hate me...)
I like it too. And Leaving On A Jetplane and Rocky Moutain High. I don't feel guilty.
Quote: Tursiops @ March 27 2013, 2:25 PM GMTI quite like Annie's Song (don't hate me...)
I like it too. And Leaving On A Jetplane and Rocky Moutain High. I don't feel guilty.
I'll give you "Leaving on a Jetplane" - but the others....!!!!
Quote: Lazzard @ March 27 2013, 2:32 PM GMTI'll give you "Leaving on a Jetplane" - but the others....!!!!
As a non English speaker I don't pay that much attention to the lyrics...so the patriotic cringewortiness of Rocky Mountain High doesn't bother me.
Quote: Lee @ March 27 2013, 1:47 PM GMTAny country music post 1980, anything before it can be forgiven.
Forty years after Gram Parsons funeral pyre at Joshua Tree and his forlorn fight to rehabilitate country music still goes on.
Forget the line dancing and power ballads sung by men in big hats, there has been some wonderful pure country in the past two decades from acts as diverse as Alison Krauss and Robbie Fulks, while country's bastard children, alt.country and Americana, have taken the sound in whole new directions.
Quote: Tursiops @ March 27 2013, 3:10 PM GMTwhile country's bastard children, alt.country and Americana, have taken the sound in whole new directions.
More like country's bastard grandchildren. Country's bastard children were said countryrockers such as Gram Parsons, Byrds (for a short period), Poco, CSN(Y) or *cough* Eagles.
I generally hate the Eurovision Song Contest. Usually a breeding ground for all kinds of musical garbage.
Quote: Gordon Bennett @ March 27 2013, 7:03 PM GMTI generally hate the Eurovision Song Contest. Usually a breeding ground for all kinds of musical garbage.
Except Abba of course.
Hip-F**king -Hop
Generic Xfactor singing
I love Bucks Fizz!
Quote: zooo @ March 27 2013, 7:24 PM GMTI love Bucks Fizz!
Does Buck's wife know?
>_<
Boy bands and cowell stuff.
So, so much but I'll start with . . .
Anything in the Leona Lewis, Beverly Knight formulaic shit style.
A word doesn't need 87 notes ! One or two at the most !
Not even MOR. Doesn't get off the pavement.
Quote: Billy Bunter @ March 27 2013, 7:24 PM GMTExcept Abba of course.
I'm not keen.
I've always been baffled at how slow 'Dancing Queen' is. Did they deliberately make it so that it was too slow to dance to, unless you're geriatric?