Anything by these two, literally anything from their back catalogue or anything that’s whizzing around the space between their ears..Dull, whiny, monologues..
Lovely Day – Bill Withers. It’s like he had an extra couple of minutes to fill at the end so simply repeated Lovely Day until time was up and he could go home.
Have you noticed there’s some advert using the joke song (the real) Ricky Gervais used in The Office? Like it’s a proper song! Crazy basterds.
(something to do with Freeway)(I have to unremember awful music for my own sanity)
I dash to turn off the radio as soon as I sense Courtney Barnett is about to start one of her moany recitations of her to do list or her shopping list.
It’s amusing the number of your worst songs that go down really well when I pick up a guitar. I spent an evening in a Compostelle albergue with an international group of all ages. The ones people joined in with were the Beatles; Here comes the Sun, Norwegian Wood, Hard Day’s night and When I’m 64 (bass line played on a classical guitar). Greenday; American Idiot, Basket Case, Good Riddance. Oasis; Don’t Look Back in Anger (best response of the evening), Live Forever, Whatever and WONDERWALL!
Kylie and Jason – Especially For You deserves at least a dishonourable mention in this category along with Rick Astley. Songs that defined an era and sold millions of copies though so who am I to say worst (other than someone who happens to not like that sort of thing).
I bet if a Rick Astley fan went through my metal collection they’d find some nominations of their own that they felt strongly about – although they’d be wrong of course!
This has a great arrangement, it’s fairly generic, well mastered and the production is probably too smushy.. She sings it well, well enough for me to want to throw any kind of playing device out of a window..
I detest manufactured bands, maybe these weren’t I don’t honestly know but dear God they sure sound like a group of spotty teenagers in the school band that everyone hated. Quite how they became “popular” is beyond my simple comprehension.
Rolling Stone ranked “God Save the Queen” number 175 on its list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time[18] and it is also one of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll.[19] It was Sounds magazine’s Single of the Year in 1977.[20] In 1989, it was eighteenth in the list of NME writers’ all-time top 150 singles.[21] Q magazine in 2002 ranked it first on its list of “The 50 Most Exciting Tunes Ever…”[22] and third on its list of “100 Songs That Changed The World” in 2003
Pistols songs are ace, almost everyone everywhere has heard them. The opening riffs get people leaping. I slipped Pretty Vacant into a set in a trendy blues bar, the boss of the club was pissed off, the audience loved it.