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So everyone hates the hits ... that's original ....
Teenage Kicks - great song about masturbation. And most people don't seem to know that!
Love Will Tear Us Apart - great song of it's time. Atmosphere is better .... some of the other stuff they did is out of tune guff ....
Rolling Stones - great back catalogue - but file the stuff after about 1985
Is this a thread where people disown their favourite bands most popular songs because too many people who aren’t “real” fans like them ?
It does seems like it. It's a bit of a hipster thing to do, I'm [s]a bit disappointed in STW[/s][i] not entirely surprised[/i].
So everyone hates the hits ... that's original ....
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'What brand of bike do you like, but which model of theirs do you not like?'
'Well, I used to love Saracen, owned and loved three of them from Backtrax to Protrax to Kili Flyer - but then in my opinion they went from inspired and hand-built to tat-baubles in Halfords, seemingly overnight. Massively successful re sales, but not my thing anymore.
'Ah, a brand snob. How original'
'Wait, don't you think you're projecting a little?'
'No, see it all the time. You're a living breathing stereotype. Same as those vegetarians who used to eat meat and then they decided instead to be fashionable'
'But wait, you're accusing me of disliking Saracen because [i]they[/i] became fashionable, not because [i]I wanted to be fashionable[/i]
'Yeah, same thing but in reverse.'
'So - bottom line, unless I like the same things as you then I'm a dishonest, hollow, fashion-conscious inverted-snob stereotype who both hates and yet loves fashion - nothing at all to do with actual biking or music or personal taste?'
'Pretty much.'
'But I think that claim reflects more upon you, because I really just 'don't like what I don't like', for reasons you somehow assumed, yet never asked me about. Simple as that.'
'He protesteth too much. Same as those people who won't drink Coca Cola yet drink herbal tea. You know there's something up with that behaviour. They are TRYING. TOO HARD!
'Once again, projection?'
'Your game is up, my 'edgy' little friend
'Guess so 🙄 '
'So why didn't you post the more obscure disliked tracks by bands that you like'?
'OK I really like Magma, massively, but never got along with 'Hhai'
'WTAF now you're taking the piss'
'No, I really don't like it'
'So why not just name a mainstream band that other people can relate to? Instead of some 'edgy' obscure band?
'They're not actually [i]that[/i] obscure'
'No, but are mainstream acts just to 'uncool' for you?'
... cont'd
'OK, mainstream, right.. er, Led Zep. Can't stand the track 'D'yer Make'Er '
(Silence)
'Did I get it right that time?'
'I think so'
'Phew, eh?'
I'm [s]a bit disappointed in STW[/s] not entirely surprised.
Same.
The clash - should I stay or should I go? And rock the casbah. Probably their weakest album but seemingly their two most popular songs. The best single on the album (straight to hell) is a classic but nobody seems to know it.
Oasis - their b side output from 94-97 is fantastic.
Is this a thread where people disown their favourite bands most popular songs because too many people who aren’t “real” fans like them ?
No , I picked a band I'm not a great fan of and an album that I think really works as a whole but has a single tacked onto it that feels out of place.
I just called to say I love you isn't a patch on most of Stevie Wonder's other work
^ heretical! Plus - hipster alert 😛
Seriously - I think that was his Bittersweet Symphony
Black Sabbath and Paranoid, it's not even in their top 20 songs imo.