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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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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 ![]() 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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Bland polyester songs like 'Waiting for a Girl Like you', 90% of Elton John's output, the song 'Smooth Operator'..
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Angels by Gobbie Williams, Babycakes and Pass Out by 'Tiny Temper' are basically the soundtrack of the underclass.
Are either of those songs really considered "classics"? |
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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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Hey Jude - sooooo boring!!!
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Don't Stop Me Now - Queen
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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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Thriller...awful song awful lyrics.
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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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Beyoncé - Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)
The Village People - YMCA |
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Wonderwall can literally go choke on itself.
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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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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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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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Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
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Thriller...awful song awful lyrics.
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Beyoncé - Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)
The Village People - YMCA |
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This! I absolutely HATE it
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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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Are either of those songs really considered "classics"?
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Imagine and I Will Survive. Both of them are bilge of the highest order.
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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.
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Love Is All Around by Wet Wet Wet played incessantly at the time
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This! I absolutely HATE it
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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. 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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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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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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With a Little Help From My Friends...I cannot stand it sung by anyone.
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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! Quote:
Don't Stop Me Now - Queen
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Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
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Albatross - Fleetwood Mac
Ring of Fire - Johnny Cash Born in the USA - Bruce Springsteen Imagine - John Lennon Quote:
Imagine and I Will Survive. Both of them are bilge of the highest order.
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