TheThorne
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Post by TheThorne on May 4, 2020 9:23:50 GMT 1
Sometimes peer pressure, the media, critics and eventually everyone decide a band is very uncool or bad and you really shouldn't like their music.
The most famous example of this is of course Nickelback but nobody will ever convince me that 'How You Remind Me' is not still a total banger.
I heard a similar band on a playlist yesterday and they were actually played on the Sunday Rock show. Almost 20 years later I think its ok to say again that Blurry by Puddle Of Mudd is still a total tune as well. Also very fitting for these times.
Any have any more suggestions?
Ps. Least said but his recent Nirvana cover the better mind you.
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Post by suedehead on May 4, 2020 10:39:55 GMT 1
Surely the best example is The Osmonds' Crazy Horses.
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Post by Milliways on May 4, 2020 11:12:35 GMT 1
Savage Garden - I Want You
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Post by greendemon on May 4, 2020 11:53:19 GMT 1
Savage Garden have SO many great songs though - 'To the Moon and Back' is my favourite!
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Post by Razzle Dazzle on May 4, 2020 12:17:32 GMT 1
ok I'm going old-school here, The Archies, they had a #1 in UK and USA with Sugar Sugar but the fact they were a fictional band from an animated TV series consisting mainly of session musicians their popularity quickly fell off a cliff but that is a 60's classic released in 1969 by 1971 their albums and singles weren't even reaching the top 100 despite tunes like this
I love this one and Sugar Sugar is a stone cold classic to the point the hate has gone full circle its just appreciated for the music again
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Post by Roo. on May 4, 2020 13:06:10 GMT 1
Good Enough. How You Remind Me is an absolute classic, Rockstar can never take that away from the world!
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Post by Whitneyfan on May 4, 2020 13:20:11 GMT 1
If we're allowed solo artists then surely the best example is this:
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Post by TheThorne on May 4, 2020 13:45:57 GMT 1
If we're allowed solo artists then surely the best example is this:
debatable hehe but only because the rest of his music was 100x worse
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Post by vastar iner on May 4, 2020 14:30:05 GMT 1
Taking the thread title literally...
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Post by Panda on May 4, 2020 15:15:59 GMT 1
I didn't mind Dodgy. Their summer festival fodder like 'Good Enough' was annoying but 'In A Room' was a great song and they did some interesting stuff later when no-one cared about them anymore.
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Post by Panda on May 4, 2020 15:18:04 GMT 1
I'll have to think of a few submissions for this thread as I have a theory that every band (and I mean actual bands), no matter how bad they are, has at least one good song. Having said that, I've yet to hear one by Imagine Dragons.
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Post by TheThorne on May 4, 2020 17:14:49 GMT 1
I'll have to think of a new submissions for this thread as I have a theory that every band (and I mean actual bands), no matter how bad they are, has at least one good song. Having said that, I've yet to hear one by Imagine Dragons. I thought 'It's Time' was a great song but it was a bit of a red herring, bit of a new folk bandwagon song then they showed their true colours. I don't mind most Imagine Dragons songs but nothing matched that for me.
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Post by raliverpool on May 4, 2020 18:56:40 GMT 1
Surely the best example is The Osmonds' Crazy Horses. And that is the definitive answer.
In my opinion never has an act been more successful with horrific pop dreck & saccharine over emoted bad cover versions than Westlife. (Excluding their comeback which has been OK and most unlike them inoffensive to my ears... but still not a patch on Take That MK2):
But they actually made one rather good record first time around .... which of course was released as the B-side of their more typical insipid Queen Of My Heart:
Westlife - When You're Looking Like That
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Post by Panda on May 4, 2020 19:05:13 GMT 1
Surely the best example is The Osmonds' Crazy Horses. And that is the definitive answer. In my opinion never has an act been more successful with horrific pop dreck & saccharine over emoted bad cover versions than Westlife. (Excluding their comeback which has been OK and most unlike them inoffensive to my ears... but still not a patch on Take That MK2): But they actually made one rather good record first time around .... which of course was released as the B-side of their more typical insipid Queen Of My Heart: Westlife - When You're Looking Like That
See this is why I only include actual bands in my theory because literally any karaoke singer can sing something good if they choose/are told to.
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Post by raliverpool on May 4, 2020 20:35:51 GMT 1
I'll have to think of a new submissions for this thread as I have a theory that every band (and I mean actual bands), no matter how bad they are, has at least one good song. Having said that, I've yet to hear one by Imagine Dragons. I thought 'It's Time' was a great song but it was a bit of a red herring, bit of a new folk bandwagon song then they showed their true colours. I don't mind most Imagine Dragons songs but nothing matched that for me. I see your Imagine Dragons and I raise you Limp Bizkit.
It takes a special "talent" to destroy such bomb-proof songs such as George Michael's "Faith" & especially The Who's "Behind Blue Eyes" but Fred Durst & co managed it.
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Post by Whitneyfan on May 4, 2020 20:45:05 GMT 1
I thought every song on the first Imagine Dragons album was brilliant.
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Post by TheThorne on May 4, 2020 21:01:35 GMT 1
I thought 'It's Time' was a great song but it was a bit of a red herring, bit of a new folk bandwagon song then they showed their true colours. I don't mind most Imagine Dragons songs but nothing matched that for me. I see your Imagine Dragons and I raise you Limp Bizkit.
It takes a special "talent" to destroy such bomb-proof songs such as George Michael's "Faith" & especially The Who's "Behind Blue Eyes" but Fred Durst & co managed it.
I must admit I still have a soft spot for 'Rollin' and 'Break Stuff' was an anthem but yes those covers were horrific
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Post by Panda on May 4, 2020 21:14:07 GMT 1
I thought 'It's Time' was a great song but it was a bit of a red herring, bit of a new folk bandwagon song then they showed their true colours. I don't mind most Imagine Dragons songs but nothing matched that for me. I see your Imagine Dragons and I raise you Limp Bizkit. It takes a special "talent" to destroy such bomb-proof songs such as George Michael's "Faith" & especially The Who's "Behind Blue Eyes" but Fred Durst & co managed it.
Boiler was pretty good. A few others of theirs are tolerable but I would agree Fred Durst managed to get very far with very little talent.
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Post by Panda on May 4, 2020 21:22:44 GMT 1
So my first proper contribution is:
Hard-Fi - Hard To Beat
I genuinely hated everything else they ever did, especially 'Live For The Weekend', which was lowest common denominator indie-rock with lyrics aimed at unimaginative idiots (basically "I've got a job I don't like, I've got paid and I'm going out." Nice work, Chaucer.) But there's no getting away from it, 'Hard To Beat' was, as the kids say these days, a banger, even if the lyrics are crap.
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Post by Whitneyfan on May 4, 2020 21:26:05 GMT 1
Oh, I absolutely loved Hard-Fi. 'Tied up too tight' is even better than 'Hard to beat' I think.
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