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Old 04-05-2016, 07:30
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Purple Rain - Prince
Another vote for that one! I don't really like any of his songs. I saw a linky on here to his playing the guitar brilliantly though, when he was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
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Old 04-05-2016, 18:48
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Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower
Anything by Oasis
Nearly everything by The Velvet Underground. Sorry but their music just does absolutely nothing for me EXCEPT (Yes there is an 'except')..................Who Loves The Sun. I quite like that record
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Old 04-05-2016, 19:01
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Purple Rain - Prince
its dreadful isnt it... but imho most of princes material is. . like bowie, i know they are good, but on a personal level i dont like them.
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Old 04-05-2016, 19:40
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Where Love Lives - Alison Limerick.

Guaranteed to get the dance floor filled but I absolutely hate it
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Old 04-05-2016, 20:09
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Best Things In Life Are Free ( Janet & Luther)
Disliked that song from day one.

The Beatles.... the list would be too long.
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Old 09-09-2016, 23:59
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Let us take the opportunity to add, by sheer incredulity of length at #1, that 'One Dance' bilge by Drake or Mallard or whatever it's called. Utter, unutterable bilge that completely sums up why the current generation's musical 'taste' is held in such contempt. Nursery rhymes have more prose and depth.
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Old 10-09-2016, 08:02
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Every post here has mentioned the limited playlists of British radio, no wonder you are all fed up with the same stuff pumped out, many great songs boring us all to death through the corporate blare.
Yep, I think that's part of the problem here. Familiarity breeds contempt etc. The stations tend to play safe and only broadcast the tracks that the artists are best known for. eg Mr. Blue Sky by ELO. Good song, but the group put out loads of other excellent tracks. Give us some variety!

Also, you can hear a song (that you initially liked) so many times that you don't really listen to it any more.

One I despise is 'I Don't Like Mondays' - Boomtown Rats.
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Old 10-09-2016, 08:34
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Let us take the opportunity to add, by sheer incredulity of length at #1, that 'One Dance' bilge by Drake or Mallard or whatever it's called. Utter, unutterable bilge that completely sums up why the current generation's musical 'taste' is held in such contempt. Nursery rhymes have more prose and depth.
to be fair, nursery rhymes have more prose and depth then 99% of pop songs..

completely agree about duck btw
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Old 10-09-2016, 13:11
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Where Love Lives - Alison Limerick.

Guaranteed to get the dance floor filled but I absolutely hate it
I do like it (and bought it / own it) but it's not a favourite and it certainly wasn't a real stand out track amongst the club records of its era. I feel there were much better records at the time that didn't blow up in the way that this did. I suppose that's often the way though.
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Old 10-09-2016, 14:06
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I absolutely hate "More Than Words" by Extreme.
The music is dull and the singers sound insincere and whiny.
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Old 12-09-2016, 00:09
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Tiny dancer - Elton John
There she goes - The La's
We built this city on rock and roll - Starship
Nothing gone to stop us now - Starship
Born to run - Bruce Springsteen
I wiill alway's love you - Whytney Huston
My heart will go on - Céline Dion
Girls just want to have fun - Cyndy Louper
Chasing cars -Snow Petrol
Love is all around - Wet Wet Wet
Candle in the wind Diana tribute - Elton John
Jump - Van Halen
Hello - Lionel Richie
There must be an angel playing with my heart - The Eurythmics
Abba - Dancing queen
Ebony and ivory - Paul Mcartney and Stevie Wonder
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Old 12-09-2016, 10:25
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Anything by The Style Council
To be fair, only Paul Weller thinks anything by The Style Council has gone down as a classic.
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Old 12-09-2016, 10:32
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Sweet Child O'Mine is just screechy to me.
I think Axel Rose sings everything like that. One of the strangest "singers" ever to me.
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Old 12-09-2016, 10:35
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I hate, hate, hate Bohemian Rhapsody. Don't see the appeal at all. I do think my strong feelings against it are mostly triggered by the praise it gets though, because I just don't get it!
It was a joke song, not a serious song. That was the appeal of it. It was sending up the classical pretensions of the '70s prog rockers.
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Old 12-09-2016, 10:42
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I can't understand why Against All Odds is so popular. It's a dull song even though I like Phil Collins
I think it's because of the "and you coming BACK to me!" bit. He gives it some welly and sounds like he means it, unlike many of his other ballads, which just seemed to come off a production line in the mid to late '80s.
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Old 12-09-2016, 10:45
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The Who's My Generation and Substitute are over-rated. Others of their songs such as I Can't Explain, Magic Bus, Who Are You? and You Better You Bet are good though.
I think almost the complete opposite of that. I like I Can't Explain and all the early singles up to The Seeker, but hated Won't Get Fooled Again (an old-fashioned rock dirge) and almost everything that came after that. Magic Bus, Who Are You? and You Better You Bet are awful.

The best Queen song was I'm In Love With My Car, possibly because Roger Taylor wrote it and sang on it.
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Old 12-09-2016, 10:47
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Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower
I must admit I'm truly shocked by that. That is one of the truly great all-time classics that deserves its place.
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Old 12-09-2016, 10:50
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Chris De Burgh - The Lady In Red
Hating The Lady in Red very quickly became a national sport. I've only ever met one person who admitted to liking it, which makes you wonder who sent it to number one for three weeks in 1986? Did Aled Jones buy all the copies of it or something?
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Old 12-09-2016, 10:57
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its dreadful isnt it... but imho most of princes material is. . like bowie, i know they are good, but on a personal level i dont like them.
Interesting. 10 pages in and the first mention of the late great Mr Bowie. I like a lot of Bowie's stuff. However, I would have to nominate Heroes as incredibly overrated. Let's be honest, it's a dirge and Bowie wrote much better tunes than that. It sounds badly recorded to me and hangs on a - admittedly very clever and distinctive - riff by Robert Fripp but doesn't progress past it. I knew as soon as he died it was going to be one of the tracks every news bulletin would play because the critics love it so much. Also interesting is that when it was originally released, it barely scraped the top 20.
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Old 12-09-2016, 11:21
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I think almost the complete opposite of that. I like I Can't Explain and all the early singles up to The Seeker, but hated Won't Get Fooled Again (an old-fashioned rock dirge) and almost everything that came after that. Magic Bus, Who Are You? and You Better You Bet are awful.
When it comes to The Who I have to agree with this ^^.
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Old 12-09-2016, 11:49
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I think it's because of the "and you coming BACK to me!" bit. He gives it some welly and sounds like he means it, unlike many of his other ballads, which just seemed to come off a production line in the mid to late '80s.
he DID mean it, he wrote against all odds when his marriage was breaking up, for me, i can understand completely that song because i applied it to myself when i went through a painful split.

When it comes to The Who I have to agree with this ^^.
yep.... another who liked early who but not later who , lol.
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Old 12-09-2016, 11:57
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he DID mean it, he wrote against all odds when his marriage was breaking up, for me, i can understand completely that song because i applied it to myself when i went through a painful split.
Actually, he wrote "How Can You Sit There" when his marriage was breaking up, then left it off his first album. He came back to it several years later when he was asked to write a song for the film "Against All Odds" and changed the song "How Can You Sit There" to Against All Odds. By then he was with his second wife and apparently quite happy. But he certainly sang it like he meant it and it had a stronger melody than most other Phil Collins songs, which is why I think it has stood out among the sea of ballads Collins has produced.
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Old 12-09-2016, 11:58
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Mr Brightside by The Killers

I really don't get why the dreary monotone dirge is so popular. I really like The Killers and I like just about everything they've done, apart from this. Weirdly it seems to be everybody else's favourite Killers track.
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Old 12-09-2016, 16:46
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I know this will be anathema to many people but I really can't stand The Wall. Comfortably Numb was the one track I thought was okay but I've got sick of that through hearing it too often. I absolutely hated the single and thought the whole pretentious album was just a case of privileged public schoolboys playing at being anarchists.
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Old 12-09-2016, 17:05
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Mr Brightside by The Killers

I really don't get why the dreary monotone dirge is so popular. I really like The Killers and I like just about everything they've done, apart from this. Weirdly it seems to be everybody else's favourite Killers track.
You're not alone, blooming awful track
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