Originally Posted by biscuitfactory:
“This seems to have become a "here's a list of mediocre crappy pop songs I don't like" thread.
I thought this thread was supposed to be about "classic" songs we can't stand.
i.e. songs which are held up in great esteem by other people, not just any old off-the-conveyer-belt shite that you don't like because you're cool and you've got some musical integrity and taste, and god forbid anyone might think otherwise about you.”
I refute that. I chose David Bowie's "Heroes" as my choice, and you can't find many more celebrated "classics" than that. I think it's a horrible recording and not much of a tune, with only Robert Fripp's guitar line going for it IMHO.
Any song that gets played a lot tends to become a classic of some description. Therefore if people say "I don't like anything by ABBA" or "anything by Queen" that seems fair enough, since those kind of acts are so big and ubiquitous a whole load of their songs have become regarded as classics.