Gratuitous. 1/10.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mutatis-Mutandi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_4Ok35HEJQ
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Gratuitous. 1/10.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mutatis-Mutandi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_4Ok35HEJQ
9/10. Love that song.
But, gratuitous, what the hell does that even mean? Good musicians who know how to write a song and perform is gratuitous? Please, explain, as it makes absolutely no sense.
Just for that non-sensical rating, the next person has to rate this:
"Carve a ****" by Maggot Stuffed **** (explicit)
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Originally Posted by Mutatis-Mutandi
I think he means - and I'm happy to be corrected - that the composition gave the impression that all that virtuosity was being employed for its own sake; without any purpose or justification other than displaying itself. And I tend to agree with him.
You obviously disagree with him - but that doesn't mean he makes no sense.
As for the kids saying 'dick' in class, I wish them all the success they deserve. 0/10
Going back a bit...
Brilliant! 10 Big Ones/10
Amazing how some things just get better - wonder if I can find a video of Miles' Walking?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTfBpKzu6XA
Much as I like Bowie, I do sometimes find him a bit cringe-making when he waxes philosophical. I mean, he gets away with it on Changes and even Oh! You Pretty Things, and if you sprinkle Time with a pinch of salt, you can swallow it pretty easily. And Life on Mars? is unimprovable, of course. But Width of a Circle and My Death are each a pretension too far for me. 5/10
From the same era, you look like a star, but you're still on the dole.
Okay - probably good for its era 7/10 - nowhere near as good as this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsDpznl8eIs
I think we can agree to disagree about the relative merits of Mott and AC/DC. I'll give the song 7/10. As I would any of their songs. On account them all being the same song.
Here's one I despised at the time, but I heard it the other day - stripped by time of all the pop-pretty-boy hype I associated with it - and I thought, "Man, that's a well-written song."
Hideous. Just whinging with an upbeat backing track. 2/10
How about something with a bit of passion and va-va-voom?
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Originally Posted by Lokasenna
If there's one thing that really irritates me, it's a show tune. That whole hoofin', choreographed, production-number pizzazz just triggers something in me that wants to commit arson at several establishments in the West End and on Broadway. I cannot for the life of me see the appeal. It's so contrived and stylised. And because of that, the last thing it is, for me, is passionate, and it carries all the va-va-voom of a Safeway own-brand microwave hamburger.
2/10, for the legs.
Love - you can't give it away.
That video isn't available in my country.
That doesn't justify an idiotic rating.Quote:
Originally Posted by MarkBastable
This has passion.
I'm afraid that video isn't available in my country.
Let's have another go at this one - which isnt available in your country, Mutatis. Love - you can't give it away.
Great song. 8/10.Quote:
Originally Posted by MarkBastable
It's important not to takes these things to heart Mutatis. There is nothing scientific, or even anything particularly consistent, about the numerical ratings. Suffice to say that, as far as my approach to this thread is concerned, anything below 5 is rubbish. I consider the Bela Fleck song to be a particularly unfortunate example of the phenomenon to which Mark refers and to which I have an acute and longstanding aversion. Hence the 1.Quote:
That doesn't justify an idiotic rating.
As for the RATM, 8/10.
On that note...Quote:
Originally Posted by sixsmith
Please do not personalise your comments.
Post containing off-topic and/or inflammatory remarks will be removed without further notice.
Unless you feel ready to have the song you posted criticised, please refrain from taking part as the game is solely based on the idea of telling others what we think of their choice of songs.
Agreed. I've posted a song on the back of this Six as you didn't.Quote:
Originally Posted by sixsmith
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWjDZkY1ILU
I always felt they were underrated.
I had a friend years ago who was unashamedly into disco stuff. He recounted how he was in the queue in the "record shop" (funny how antiquated that is now) feeling a little wimpy asking for "I Lost My Heart to a Starship Trooper" after the bloke in front had been buying The Dead Kennedys and Stiff Little Fingers. :smilielol5:Quote:
Originally Posted by MarkBastable
I don't mind the song too much, but the lyrics are a tad cloying, 5.5/10
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AINBEN-t-30