Song was huge when I was a kid, my brother had the CD. 7/10
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1TSbCDyYBY
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Song was huge when I was a kid, my brother had the CD. 7/10
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1TSbCDyYBY
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Originally Posted by OrphanPip
Partially ruined by the Pet Shop Boys. 6/10.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUysNOckNUw
5/10. Good melody, but it kind of just meandered, especially the piano. I was waiting for it to build, for some sort of a climax, but it never happened. And the vocalist trying to hit that high not on "tonight" made me cringe a little.
"Laid to Rest" by Lamb of God
4/10 because I can't sing along with it. I never did have a twenty a day habit.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mutatis-Mutandi
I can sing along to this jolly one though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOe9PJrbo0s
5/10, Sex Pistols never did it for me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF3D2oiy6YA
2/10. Sorry. Bon Jovi. Just . . . no.
Now for something on the complete opposite end of the spectrum.
"Osaka Bondage" by Naked City
I didn't like it, but it was interesting. 3/10
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOxB55gIMgo
How about some one-hit-wonder 80's pop.
Wang Chung had a couple hits though I think.
I love the saxophone part in that song, 7/10
Here's a poorly conceived "live" performance.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNdBSH_Tv2k
My God man, where do you find this sh.. stuff?Quote:
Originally Posted by OrphanPip
I'll give it 6/10 for being sooo bad!
Two can play at this game:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPnGPIMUnus
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Some of my favorite bands come out of Sweden. This is not one of them. But this is so horrible it has absolutely no redeemable features; a rare feat. 10/10.
I'll continue this trend, also.
Pink Floyd's "Comfortably Numb" by Worst Band Ever
That was painful, I couldn't get past 1 minute, 0/10
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEQxEJ5_5zA
It hasn't quite got the epic resonance of California Dreamin', has it? 4/10, out of sheer respect for Mama Cass's role in the Canyon scene.
Incidentally, harking back a few, can I just opine that I Lost My Heart to a Starship Trooper is one of the best singles ever made, and probably the only twelve-inch re-mix I ever bought. The lyrics were written by Bob Calvert. Of Hawkwind. No, really.
....Coup de Ville to Illinois....... I'm not impressed by the sentiment, but you can't fault the groove
Ya, it's alright, nothing too memorable though. 5/10Quote:
Originally Posted by MarkBastable
I pretty much agree, I just picked that because it's the first Mama Cass video that popped up after a search, and Mama Cass was the only thing that came to mind when I ran out of weird videos.Quote:
Originally Posted by MarkBastable
I'm not sure it's one of the best singles ever, haha. Sarah Brightman is something interesting too, she was the first person to perform the role of Christine in Phantom of the Opera as well. She had a pretty big hit with "Time to Say Goodbye" a few years back:Quote:
Originally Posted by MarkBastable
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lp7rZEKClk4&feature=fvst
It's my feeling that her career peaked with Trooper and it's been a dizzy plunge into middlebrow mediocrity ever since. I'd be nastier about her, but she was married to Andrew Lloyd-Webber, so she's suffered enough. 3/10
This new frame of mine...
I've heard that before, there's something interesting about it. 7.5/10
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6N4a7RX5x7E&
Not bad. Not usually my kind of music, but I enjoyed it. 7/10.
"Desert of Song" by Between the Buried and Me (no screaming/growling in this)
Bump. Let's get this going again!
Not the worse thing I've ever heard, 6/10.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWdHOm256N4
I've always thought I should have paid more attention to Kate Bush than I did. 7/10
She's on this one, too. I think PG's a bit over-rated, but he had some great moments.
PG is way overrated, imo. Songs are way too repetitive. 5/10.
"Next" (live) by Bela Fleck and the Flecktones
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
I like it. 8/10Quote:
Originally Posted by OrphanPip
It reminded me of this, which in turn reminds me of a weeks holiday I spent in a caravan in Exmouth in 1983. How times have changed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f67UP...eature=related
I like some disco. One of the prerequisites is that it has to have a band, so this gets a 3/10.
Prog rules!
When I was at school, an informed and longhaired fifteen-year-old had to make a tribal choice between heavy (Deep Purple, Robin Trower, ZZ Top), glam (Mott, Alice Cooper, Bowie) or prog (Yes, ELP, Genesis).
I was in the second group, though I did have a lot of time for Selling England by The Pound.
My problem with Yes was (and I'm not being provocative) that they exhibited so much of the gratuitousness that sixsmith mentions - and in the case of Tales from Topographic Oceans, about three days of it.
But I went through a phase recently of downloading tracks by bands I haven't listened to for thirty years, just to see if my opinion had changed. I discovered that there's about an album's worth of Yes that I think deserves space on the hard-drive, and Roundabout is high on the list of qualifiers. 8/10
(By the way, Pip and Paul, I've always found the Beautiful South hard to take too, although I'd never understood why they inspired nausea rather than indifference. Then I was having lunch with a music critic when the subject of the band came up, and my lunch companion nailed it for me. "God, I can't stand the Beautiful South. They're so wholesome.")
Got you in a dimestore. (Without researching it, who's doing the second vocal? It's as about as unlikely a Brit as you can imagine guesting with Alice.)
I dig it, Mark 8/10.
Ladies, you know it! ;) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWKnA...eature=related
Liked it OK (not as much as some of his other songs, though): 6/10Quote:
Originally Posted by The Comedian
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVmG_d3HKBA