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I’ve got over 70,000 tracks in my Music library
that would play for around a year of waking hours without repeat. I think if I had that much music on tap it would be hard to say if I liked any of it because there must be swathes of it that I'd never hear. A 70,000 track library is to a large extent a library of music you effectively never listen to.
I now regularly delete stuff - this threads a good example really - some bands only have one or two good tracks - if theres a band you only really like one or two tracks by - why have the rest of their album. The tracks have had a chance to grow on me, the haven't - Delete. The more stuff I've removed from my iTunes library the more I enjoy listening to it.
and Rill Rill by Sleighbells
That's odd, cos most of their stuff is very similar!
I've only ever listened to one song by System of A Down - Sugar. I should hate it cos of all those cliched guitar sounds and sreeching, but it's awesome. No desire to hear anything else by them.
and Rill Rill by Sleighbells
That’s odd, cos most of their stuff is very similar!
Just doesn't work for me though - that one track is in a weird sweet spot where I really like it but even their most similar tracks I find quite annoying.
I really like fresh squeezed orange juice but don'l like eating oranges even though they are almost exactly the same thing.
I think if I had that much music on tap it would be hard to say if I liked any of it because there must be swathes of it that I’d never hear. A 70,000 track library is to a large extent a library of music you effectively never listen to.
Er, nope. No offence like, but you're talking rubbish.
New Radicals - You Get What you Give
Tina Arena - Sorrento Moon
Others had already taken Mansun, Beloved, Flock of Seagulls etc
I really like fresh squeezed orange juice but don’l like eating oranges even though they are almost exactly the same thing.
Fair enough! Be interesting if there's anyone who feels the same about The Fall! 😀
Er, nope. No offence like, but you’re talking rubbish.
I'm only talking from my own experience. Culling my collection really improved the experience of listening to music - I think the point of music is to hear it. Owning so much of it that you can't physically listen to it all once, let olone listen to anything often, doesnt make sense to me. Might as well just put the radio on.
It occurred to me recently that since its release in 1989 I've always had a copy of Pauls Boutique in my car - on tape, on CD, on mix tapes and CD, theres always tracks from it on any playlist on iPod or phone. I've heard some or all of that album once a week, pretty much every week for nearly 35 years. I don't have a specific playlist of those tracks - but they're in the library and will pop up when I'm listening and I'm always happy to hear them. So - safe to say I like them. So whats the point of creating a condition where I almost never hear them?
Go with the Flow - Queens of the Stone Age. It's astonishing. The stars aligned, everyone bought their A game...whatever, just an amazing piece of music...The entire rest of their catalogue I could leave in a skip.
Crime Wave - Crystal Castes - And not least because of the things that Alice Glass accused Ethan Kath of...Anyway this? Brilliant, the rest; not so much.
My Sterophonics song is Vegas Two Times, and I have the same feeling that others do about the rest of their output.
.. doesnt make sense to me.
This is it. What works for someone else, doesn't work for you. We're all different.
I'm sticking to the topic now, anyway. 🙂
I used to love the Charlatans, now Weirdo is the only song of theirs that doesn't just sound old and dull.
Loved this recently, but all their other stuff is a dirge.
Dancing Queen by Abba
John Miles - Music
Perhaps because it evokes my early naive teens. Listening to other stuff on Spotify it's just dross
Stereophonics -Boy in the photograph
(Aand don't think anything by The Fall gets on my play list)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lAsvjVx-Mg4
I don't know why as they had a lot of good stuff but this is the only one I really like
Brim full of Asha - Cornershop
The single was a Norman Cook remix and was not on the album. The remix ended up nothing like the rest of the bands output. I bet a lot of folk did like I did and bought the album and were disappointed in it
Ace of Spades, Motorhead. Everything else they did is dreadful. I've heard some truly terrible student bands who produced better music. Motorhead are a one-trick pony, except they only got the trick right once. They just played stuff so loud at concerts, the entire audience went deaf and couldn't actually hear the dross they produced. Which was probably a mercy tbh.
Lol @ brownperson. But hey, what about... you must have a soft spot for...
80s novelty at it's finest 😀
Everything else they did is dreadful.
I always thought that was the whole point of Motorhead, more punk/rock 'n' roll than the punks, sort of thing?
Resurrected to thank @sc-xc for introducing me to Waxahatchee but think they should take a listen the new Tigers Blood album, for which it appears Right Back to it was the lead single. It’s the best song on there, but definitely surrounded by quality.
It’s been…
Thought I was about to find a rich vein after randomly hearing this, but haven't found anything else by them which hits the spot in the same way.
@martinhutch Get Me Away From Here, I’m Dying is far and away B&S’s best effort, and this is a hill on which I am prepared to die.
Will check it out. All I was finding was slightly more insipid folky stuff.
EDIT: Not bad. Will stick it on a playlist and see if it sticks.
How can anyone not like Dragon Attack by Queen or Electro cardiogram by Kraftwerk?
You listen to Belle and Sebastian, but you don't HEAR Belle and Sebastian, man.
A few from my youth which I tried searching out more of their stuff (but didnt find anything that I liked).
Harvey Danger - Flagpole Sitta
Wheatus - Teenage Dirtbag
Mazzy Star - Fade into you
Well, I suppose this is one example of the genre.
The Quads - There must be Thousands. Too thick to do linky thing.
I bought many copies to give to friends as presents
This was good, nothing else they did was. Also the lyrics seem very apt now perhaps it was just 30 years too early
I'm struggling with this. Each time I think of a song I search their back catalogue and find other tunes I like. I think it would probably be a guilty pleasure song.
I liked Moloko's first 2 albums until sing it back went all disco.
The dandy Warhol's did some good stuff on their earlier albums.
The Bucket by Kings of Leon.
Just Can't Get Enough by Depeche Mode.
Tom Sawyer by Rush.
And there is a word for people who only like Ace of Spades from the entirely of Motorhead's output. And that word is Milquetoast.
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Brim full of Asha – CornershopThe single was a Norman Cook remix and was not on the album. The remix ended up nothing like the rest of the bands output. I bet a lot of folk did like I did and bought the album and were disappointed in it
I can see where you went wrong there 🙂
The single mix is appalling.
The album is a work of genius.
Ed Harcourt, Apple of your eye. As far as I remember it was the more upbeat song on an album of unmemorable toss. Really like Apple of your eye though.
I’ve only ever listened to one song by System of A Down – Sugar. I should hate it cos of all those cliched guitar sounds and sreeching, but it’s awesome. No desire to hear anything else by them.
Then you’re sadly missing a whole world of awesomeness. There’s a reason Chop Suey is one of the most viewed things on YouTube.
Blind Melon, one song! Their second album is fantastic. Badly reviewed at the time due to being very different from the first album and a bit out there. Bloody great album. Even has a song about Ed Gein with a kazoo solo.
I’m struggling to think of any band or artist where I only like one song.
Radiohead My Iron Lung and Idlewild These Wooden Ideas spring to mind. Oh and Blur Song 2.
Go shake your head. The Cure have always been astonishingly amazing.
Yea, misread the thread. I've seen The Cure several times. But Lullaby is my favourite.
@ gordimhor - Soundgarden were a superb band, alongside Faith No More for having outstanding singers, fine musicians and great songwriters. While I like Metallica, overall they have a selection of great songs but I struggle to listen to an entire album, whereas the other two bands both have a majority of albums I can happily listen to right through.
Fortunate to have seen all three, as well.
I can’t think of any bands off the top of my head where I really only like one track from an album, there’s lots of tracks I just have the one, because the style or genre isn’t normally something I’d listen to, but most stuff I’ll listen right through an album quite happily.
There have been lots where I’ve heard something interesting, downloaded the album, got partway through and deleted it, or on the case of Pink Floyd’s ‘The Wall’, bought the vinyl album on first release, listened to it once then sold it.
I can’t think of any bands off the top of my head where I really only like one track from an album
I've struggled with this too ... and apart from hearing a Claire Martin song once but not knowing the name of it and buying one of her albums and being disappointed the only other contender would have to be...
I think kayak is the only person playing this game properly with crazy horses.
In a similar vein
Although technically it fails because wired for sound is also great.
There's some proper great songs on this thread even if, as others have observed, I can think of more I like by many of the artists.
My nomination (because it's the most commercial of his output), Freeze by Cut La Roc.
@Countzero I agree Chris Cornell was an excellent song writer, and a good singer - I liked a lot of his stuff with other bands. He was also an all round good guy.