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Post by Deleted on Dec 3, 2023 11:59:15 GMT
So we've had should've-been-hits and one-hit-wonders. How about songs you really love by bands/singers you otherwise can't stand. Here's one of mine: |
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Post by Alan on Dec 3, 2023 14:56:05 GMT
Bros - Cat Among The Pigeons. It was a double A-side with their version of Silent Night which I always listen to at least once during December (so it’s due for an airing). Actually some of their other songs I quite like, but I cannot stand them (well, Luke and Matt Goss anyway. The third member, Craig Logan, who exited the act after this single, stayed in the music industry as a manager). That cringeworthy film that Matt and Luke did the other year proves they haven’t really changed. As annoying and conceited as ever.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 3, 2023 19:29:24 GMT
Exactly. We all hear things slightly differently. HC just don't generally do it for me, though there are one or two other tracks I quite like such as the rather obscure 'Mindless Boogie'. But 'Every 1's a Winner' really is right in my wheelhouse - monster riff, some nifty brass and just a generally good stomp to it. Never tire of it.
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Post by Michal on Dec 4, 2023 7:08:39 GMT
I can't stand Modern Talking as a group. But when one of their songs come up on the radio, I can enjoy it (it doesn't matter which one), unless they play two in a row. All their songs have basically the same formula and they sound so alike to me, that hearing more then one at a time is irritating.
Bee Gees have similar effect on me, but the irritation comes a bit later - third song at the earliest 😄
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Post by Deleted on Dec 4, 2023 8:44:40 GMT
I can't take the Bee Gees either. Just can't be doing with all that falsetto stuff. BUT...I rather like this one, for some curious reason: Bros - it's a big 'no' from me, too. I suppose 'When Will I Be Famous' at a push. Modern Talking - no particular opinion, personally. They've never really blipped strongly on my radar, one way or the other. |
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Post by foreverfan on Dec 4, 2023 15:06:57 GMT
Without making this a Modern Talking thread..lol. I have to agree, but that said in my long distant youth, I used to go to a club with a German DJ And you can guess a fair bit of MT.... 100 years and Jet Airliner are reall 80s blasters and when the blond one went his own way while the other got a haircut ! Magic Symphony was pretty good for its time....
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Post by HOMETIME on Dec 4, 2023 19:43:46 GMT
I find Morrissey eminently slappable, but I absolutely love "The More You Ignore Me, The Closer I Get" and "Every Day Is Like Sunday." I have no time for Justin Beiber but love his song "Friends." Nana Mouskouri leaves me cold but her 1962 song "No Moon At All" is gorgeous. Sexy, even.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 5, 2023 8:21:42 GMT
Back in 1979 - and as massive a fan of ABBA as I was - 'I Was Made for Lovin' You' was actually my single of the year and the parent album ('Dynasty' - or 'Dine-asty' as certain territories called it) was my album of the year. Needless to say, my schoolmates were even less impressed that I'd got into KISS (or "all this KISS cr*p" as they dubbed it) than they were that I'd got onboard the ABBA express. Still occasionally listen to a bit of KISS and got to see them 'live' in '99, but they haven't stood the test of time nearly as well as ABBA. Never liked the Thompson Twins, but ended up buying this one:
Big fan of The Smiths and really like some of Morrissey's solo output, but I totally 'get' that some people can't abide that stuff. |
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Post by richard on Dec 5, 2023 17:43:41 GMT
Hijacking the remit of this thread a bit, I can't stand Oasis - their music and the Gallagher brothers' personas (no doubt it's all linked in my mind) - so much so that I'd be reluctant to choose a favourite track of mine from them - even if I had one! Do you have a similarly visceral dislike of an artist that it possibly prejudices you against their music?
I'm not really a fan of Cilla Black's voice, but I love the single she did of a Lennon/McCartney song - but I think it was really McCartney who wrote it: 'It's For You' (1964). Slightly jazzy in parts and in 3/4 time, it strikes me as one of Paul McCartney's most sophisticated songs, even though it was written in his early twenties. This orchestral arrangement was added later to the original track. (But I also like the original version).
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Post by Deleted on Dec 5, 2023 20:23:55 GMT
Do you have a similarly visceral dislike of an artist that it possibly prejudices you against their music? Take That/Gary Barlow. I'd cross a room - indeed a small continent - to switch off a radio playing bloomin' 'Shine', in particular. |
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Post by mymamasaid on Dec 8, 2023 19:48:53 GMT
I can't take the Bee Gees either. Just can't be doing with all that falsetto stuff. BUT...I rather like this one, for some curious reason: Bros - it's a big 'no' from me, too. I suppose 'When Will I Be Famous' at a push. Modern Talking - no particular opinion, personally. They've never really blipped strongly on my radar, one way or the other. What! BG are disco/pop royalty mate! SNF the soundtrack is almost perfect... |
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Post by johnny on Dec 25, 2023 12:55:35 GMT
It's Christmas and there are lots if Christmas songs by artists I don't normally like
Mariah Carey - All I Want for Christmas is You
Wham - Last Christmas
Greg Lake - I Believe in Father Christmas
Shakin' Stevens - Merry Christmas Everyone
And Christmas songs from Brenda Lee, Andy Williams abd a few others
Outside Christmas
Dire Straits - Sultans of Swing
Bryan Adams - Summer of 69
Phil Collins - In the Air Tonight
Radiohead - Creep
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Post by iiwftn on Jan 13, 2024 17:56:01 GMT
Generally, I can’t stand dance/house music but there’s an early-90s track from The Time Frequently called ‘New Emotion’ which is one of my favourite songs.
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