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Have to agree about Layla. Pretty awful song in general but when it gets to the second part (that doesn't seem to have anything in common with the first section) then it's real 'finger nails down a blackboard' stuff. Seriously painful to listen to.
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Wouldn't say I despise it but Hotel California is very overrated.
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Anything by T. Rex, but a special mention for
Metal Guru is it you Metal Guru is it you Sitting there in your armour plated chair Metal Guru is it true Metal Guru is it true All alone without a telephone Metal Guru could it be You're gonna bring my baby to me She'll be wild you know A rock'n'roll child Metal Guru has it been Just like a silver-studded sabre-tooth dream I'll be clean you know Pollution machine So deep, maaan. There's another T Rex song where they just go laalaalaaa for at least two minutes. Slightly before my time all this but I'm guessing 'you had to be there'. Marc Bolan was pretty good looking so I suppose that was the appeal. |
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You could probably write lots of lyrics down and they would look ridiculous. I'm not sure this is considered classic, wasn't it just throw away for the kids?
There's another T Rex song where they just go laalaalaaa for at least two minutes. Slightly before my time all this but I'm guessing 'you had to be there'. Marc Bolan was pretty good looking so I suppose that was the appeal. |
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The Weight can't be a classic, I've never heard of it!
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Wouldn't say I despise it but Hotel California is very overrated. People consider it to be one of the best songs ever but there are many better songs both by the Eagles and in general
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I'm so glad that I'm not the only person who thinks this is overrated. (But mind you, I'm not a great fan of the Eagles anyway.)
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You could probably write lots of lyrics down and they would look ridiculous. I'm not sure this is considered classic, wasn't it just throw away for the kids?
There's another T Rex song where they just go laalaalaaa for at least two minutes. Slightly before my time all this but I'm guessing 'you had to be there'. Marc Bolan was pretty good looking so I suppose that was the appeal. The llalalala song is 'Hot Love' and it is just that for singing along to. Bolan had a very personal way of expressing himself but some people just don't get the little rock elf? |
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Agree with most of the songs mentioned.
Everything I do - Bryan Adams. (Although Stewie does a mean cover version .) Songs such as these and the mentioned Hotel California are played to the point that my brain just shuts them out. Don't like Dancing Queen - ABBA or Heart of Glass - Blondie for the same reason. I'm nearly getting terminal brain shut out with School's Out - Alice Cooper. Some artists you would think have only ever done a couple of songs. |
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True. I think the T.Rex song that's become a classic in modern times is Children of the Revolution, which has the genius lyric "I drive a Rolls Royce/ 'Cos it's good for my voice". It's just nonsense. But they were considered important at the time and John Peel adored Bolan.
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Bland polyester songs like 'Waiting for a Girl Like you', 90% of Elton John's output, the song 'Smooth Operator'..
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I'd agree with both of those. And add a few of my own...
Spandau Ballet - True Sinead O'Connor - Nothing Compares To You U2 - One Ultravox - Vienna Robbie Williams - Angels Ben E King - Stand By Me Tedious dirges them all., IMHO of course! I really don't think Vienna is overplayed and it is an excellent song How Imagine was voted number 1 in Smooth's top 500 I will never know. Such a bland song with cheesy delusional lyrics which nobody really believes in |
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Last Christmas by Wham!
Can't stand it, yet it's considered one of the greatest Christmas songs ever. |
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No he didn't; he thought Get It On was atrocious and he never played any T Rex records after that point. It was the Tyrannosaurus Rex stuff that he liked the most, culminating in the classic, Beard Of Stars.
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Not looking for an argument but that's not quite how I thought it went. See http://peel.wikia.com/wiki/Tyrannosaurus_Rex for what I thought was the generally accepted version.
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I would not call it a classic but Bonnie Tyler's Total ecliple of the heart is a very overrated borefest and godawful song imho
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Hey Jude - sooooo boring!!!
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Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
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Born To Run
Listen To The Music Sweet Home Alabama Living On A Prayer Crocodile Rock Candle In The Wind We Are The Champions (in fact almost anything by Queen) Sweet Child O' Mine Sit Down The Weight Squeeze Box Rockin' In The Free World Won't Get Fooled Again Another Brick In The Wall Quote:
Anything by T. Rex, but a special mention for
Metal Guru is it you Metal Guru is it you Sitting there in your armour plated chair Metal Guru is it true Metal Guru is it true All alone without a telephone Metal Guru could it be You're gonna bring my baby to me She'll be wild you know A rock'n'roll child Metal Guru has it been Just like a silver-studded sabre-tooth dream I'll be clean you know Pollution machine So deep, maaan. have you ever seen a woman coming out of new york city with a FROG in her hand WTF? |
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Don't Stop Me Now - Queen
![]() I really hate Freebird by Lynyrd Skynyrd, and it's so bloody long too! Also, anything by Bruce Springsteen. He ain't the boss of me. |
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But doesn't that confirm everything I said?
![]() [Bolan had] sussed that the way through for him was by being a little hippie. He used me and he used John Peel. Peel's investment was far deeper, a personal commitment. He waved the flag for Bolan all the way through, until Bolan became huge and then Bolan gave him the old heave-ho in such a cynical fashion. - Bolan's manager Peter Jenner. |
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Any of Robbie Williams' hits but especially Angels, whichs makes me want to tear my own ears off.
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Angels is 90s isn't it?
getting threads confused?...
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Anything by Paul McCartney
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The chorus of Another Brick In the Wall sets my teeth on edge
The Who -,my generation Metallica - nothing else matters . I love Metallica and it's a good song just quite overplayed and not as great as people say Green day - American Idiot - same as above |
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Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
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I hate Sweet Child O' Mine with a passion and don't like Stairway to Heaven all that much either.
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Angels by Gobbie Williams, Babycakes and Pass Out by 'Tiny Temper' are basically the soundtrack of the underclass.
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Anything by Queen
Manic Street Preachers - Design for life Wonderwall The final countdown |
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