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Old 12-07-2015, 16:14
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Albatross - Fleetwood Mac

Ring of Fire - Johnny Cash

Born in the USA - Bruce Springsteen

Imagine - John Lennon
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Old 12-07-2015, 16:48
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Imagine for sure. There was a thread elsewhere about John Lennon and from other stuff I have read about him, he was a pretty cynical and selfish man for much of his life and the lyrics just seem too good to be true.

Coming from Manchester, ANYTHING by the Stone Roses. Men my age go misty eyed for them, I do not get it at all. I kept hearing about 'Spike Island', if everyone who claims to have been there was there, Spike island must be the size of Cuba
Two Biggies there...

I do like Imagine, but do understand why folk would go right against it, especially when Lennon was hardly a saint and can be seen as hypocritical...
But it is "Imagine", a quite brilliant view of how the world Could be. Definitely a Marmite track.

I am a Big Stone Roses fan, absolutely love em, but when I hear their most famous track (in the public's eyes) Fools Gold, being played in a public place, and seeing folk doing " the Fools Gold dance"... It does make me cringe. I admit I almost hated that song for twenty years, but their 2012 live version was awesome.

I wasn't at Spike Island, but I was as Ally Pally in 89.

Another similar Manchester tune that has always hacked me off because of the audience, is James "Sit Down". I like James, but don't like that very twee number, and despise those that Sit Down.

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Old 12-07-2015, 17:08
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Bland polyester songs like 'Waiting for a Girl Like you', 90% of Elton John's output, the song 'Smooth Operator'..
Angels by Gobbie Williams, Babycakes and Pass Out by 'Tiny Temper' are basically the soundtrack of the underclass.
So basically most of Smooth and Magic's playlists? And which songs make up the other 10% of Elton John's output that you like? Speaking of Foreigner, add I Wanna Know What Love Is to that list. So overplayed

Are either of those songs really considered "classics"?
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Old 12-07-2015, 17:23
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"I can't Liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiive, if Livin' is without Yoooooooooou" - enough said any version is excruciating to listen to!
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Old 12-07-2015, 18:59
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Hey Jude - sooooo boring!!!
Me too! Particularly hate it when it's a sing a long at a concert and it goes on, and on, and on and on .......

Don't Stop Me Now - Queen
This was used at my place of work as a "motivational" piece with stills of people at our works being shown to try and match the lyrics. E.g. Someone on a phone when Freddie sings 'give me a call'. Totally cringeworthy. I wasn't keen on the song to start with but this just finished me off. I turn it off when it comes on.

Albatross - Fleetwood Mac

Ring of Fire - Johnny Cash

Born in the USA - Bruce Springsteen

Imagine - John Lennon
These except for Ring of Fire. I now always burst into giggles when I hear it as a friend sings some of it when he's had a hot curry!
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Old 12-07-2015, 19:01
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Thriller...awful song awful lyrics.
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Old 12-07-2015, 19:02
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"I can't Liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiive, if Livin' is without Yoooooooooou" - enough said any version is excruciating to listen to!
I bet you'll like this version.
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Old 12-07-2015, 19:04
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Beyoncé - Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)
The Village People - YMCA
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Old 12-07-2015, 19:36
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Wonderwall can literally go choke on itself.
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Old 12-07-2015, 19:44
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Wham! - Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go
Culture Club - Karma Chameleon
Lady Gaga - Poker Face, Bad Romance
Madonna - Like a Virgin, Material Girl, Dress You Up, True Blue, Causing a Commotion, etc. - Infantile crap
Christina Aguilera - Beautiful
Katy Perry - Firework
Spandau Ballet - Gold, True
Lionel Richie - Hello
Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
Beyonce - Dangerously in Love
John Lennon - Imagine
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Old 12-07-2015, 20:22
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Love Is All Around by Wet Wet Wet played incessantly at the time
Not a patch on the original by The Troggs
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Old 12-07-2015, 20:39
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Can't go for that ( no can do ) by Hall & Oates, awful song,
Single Ladies by Beyonce, some parts of the song are not understandable,
Right As Rain by Adele, she sounds like she's short of breath when she sings that.
I'm on fire by Bruce Springsteen, a pointless song.
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Old 12-07-2015, 21:02
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Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
This! I absolutely HATE it
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Old 12-07-2015, 21:04
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Thriller...awful song awful lyrics.
I love MJ but even I agree with this, well, I don't think it's awful, but so overrated IMO
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Old 12-07-2015, 21:06
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Beyoncé - Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)
The Village People - YMCA
That Beyoncé song is one of the worst songs in history
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Old 12-07-2015, 21:38
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This! I absolutely HATE it
Can't argue with that.
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Old 12-07-2015, 22:19
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Sometimes it's the singer rather than the song. The original of "I will always love you " is rather good but the song has been all but ruined by Whitney Foghorn bellowing it out.

Imagine, however, is abysmal full stop.
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Old 12-07-2015, 22:24
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Are either of those songs really considered "classics"?
I'd say that 'Pass Out' is considered a classic amongst those who seek to define the cancer that is 'urban' music as having any credibility. 'Babycakes' is also loved by the sufficient millions of underclass we have to probably qualify as a classic by sheer weight of number.
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Old 12-07-2015, 22:28
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Imagine and I Will Survive. Both of them are bilge of the highest order.
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Old 12-07-2015, 22:31
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I'd say that 'Pass Out' is considered a classic amongst those who seek to define the cancer that is 'urban' music as having any credibility. 'Babycakes' is also loved by the sufficient millions of underclass we have to probably qualify as a classic by sheer weight of number.
'Underclass'? Most of the people who liked that poppy rubbish were middle-class and/or little kids!
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Old 12-07-2015, 22:38
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Love Is All Around by Wet Wet Wet played incessantly at the time
Not a patch on the original by The Troggs
This! I absolutely HATE it
Can't go for that ( no can do ) by Hall & Oates, awful song,
Single Ladies by Beyonce, some parts of the song are not understandable,
Right As Rain by Adele, she sounds like she's short of breath when she sings that.
I'm on fire by Bruce Springsteen, a pointless song.
I don't mind the Wet Wet Wet version but the original is so much better

Can understand why people hate Bohemian Rhapsody but I think its an absolute masterpiece

Never heard that Adele track, but surprised no one's mentioned the awful Someone Like You
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Old 12-07-2015, 22:58
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I don't mind the Wet Wet Wet version but the original is so much better

Can understand why people hate Bohemian Rhapsody but I think its an absolute masterpiece

Never heard that Adele track, but surprised no one's mentioned the awful Someone Like You
Me too. I think its an absolutely extraordinary song. Maybe its over played on radio though and that's prompted the negativity.
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Old 12-07-2015, 23:10
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Imagine - childish pap

Grease - is it really 'the word', and does it have 'groove' and/or meaning?

The Greatest Love of All - hideous, shameless, self-worship. Possibly even worse than My Way.
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Old 12-07-2015, 23:14
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With a Little Help From My Friends...I cannot stand it sung by anyone.
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Old 12-07-2015, 23:48
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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 love One, and Stand By Me is ok but I don't like any of the others

Don't Stop Me Now - Queen
Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
I don't like either of these, nor It's a Kinda Magic nor Freddie Mercury's solo hit Barcelona.

Albatross - Fleetwood Mac

Ring of Fire - Johnny Cash

Born in the USA - Bruce Springsteen

Imagine - John Lennon
I don't like Albatross nor another "classic" song Bruce wrote: Because the Night from Patti Smith Group.

Imagine and I Will Survive. Both of them are bilge of the highest order.
I don't like I Will Survive but do like Imagine. The most over-rated song by John Lennon is Number 9 Dream.
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