songs you know are crap but still love

irish_bob

for me its together in electric dreams by phil oakey

then again i could pick almost anything from the decade of good bad songs , 80,s

Dudess

Yep, tons of stuff from the 80s - power ballads in particular. Someone's gonna come along and say "well if you like it, that means it's not crap". I disagree. I think Tarzan Boy by Baltimora is awful **** but I still bloody well love it!

ZakAttak

For me its alot of stuff by Iron Maiden, 'cos it brings me back to my youth.

Dudess

Ah Maiden were ace!

Howard the Duck

Tiffany "I think we're alone now"

Jane Wheldon "Rush Hour"

Dudess

Ah, but Rush Hour is not crap

Notorayus

MC Hammer - Pray

Howard the Duck

Dudess wrote: »

Ah, but Rush Hour is not crap

Well it's not great either is it? Doesn;t really make much sense either..someone makes her feel like it;s rush hour.. what? like angry and frustrated thinking you'll never make it home? ... But i still love it

Dudess

Oh I think it's high quality pop. And she was in the GoGos - more kudos again!

Howard the Duck

Dudess wrote: »

Oh I think it's high quality pop. And she was in the GoGos - more kudos again!

Yep the GoGos were great

Phlann

irish_bob wrote: »

for me its together in electric dreams by phil oakey

I think that's actually by Giorgio Moroder. It's credited to them both but afaik it was already written and they were just looking for a vocalist by the time Oakey got involved.

That's my one act of music pedantry for the day, I can relax now.

JerryHandbag

That Simply Red song with that sample from Hall & Oates I Cant Go For That. Theyre a bloody awful band but that track is kinda funky.

Hall & Oates......now thats another story :P

bluto63

Visage - Fade To Grey and an almost identical song Kelly Osbourne - One Word

grumpytrousers

Howard the Duck wrote: »

Well it's not great either is it? Doesn;t really make much sense either..someone makes her feel like it;s rush hour.. what? like angry and frustrated thinking you'll never make it home? ... But i still love it

Ah but dude, you're missing the point; it IS a great song. It's brilliantly produced and within 20 seconds of hearing it, it's summer in your ears. Who gives a sh*t what it's about. You want lyrical introspection, the lads analysing Leonard Cohen are down the corridor third door on the right.

I've decided, actually, that it's not even a case of 'songs you know are crap but still love', it's *actually* "songs i love but everybody else thinks are crap and i could f*cking care less"

And i'll add

'Back to You' by Brian Adams and Mel C. Close harmony singing always gets me (Plant and Krauss ARE YOU LISTENING...THIS IS HOW YOU DO IT:D)
'Ain't no Doubt' by Jimmy Nail (the deadpan delivery of it is still brilliant)
'Rhinestone Cowboy' by Glenn Campbell (yes yes yes, i know Wichita Lineman is a better song - but i prefer this...now, where did i put by boots'n'spurs)

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Dudess

Is the Bryan Adams song you're referring to Baby When You're Gone? Cuz that is qua-li-tay.

Howard the Duck

Ok ok Rush hour is a good song i give in.But i have more... plenty more

Billie Piper - Honey to the Bee .. "Buzz me up to heaven baby"

Atomic Kitten - Whole again ... I think the guy from OMD wrote that song so i don;t feel too bad about liking it

g5fd6ow0hseima

Phixx - Love Revolution

nyarlothothep

50 cent, p.i.m.p. Its beyond bad, its not stereotypical of rap, its a cliche, thats why I like it

grumpytrousers

Dudess wrote: »

Is the Bryan Adams song you're referring to Baby When You're Gone? Cuz that is qua-li-tay.

yup - my bad. sh*te...that's two Brian Adams songs i like...:o

it is When You're Gone i meant tho!

grumpytrousers

Howard the Duck wrote: »

I think the guy from OMD wrote that song so i don;t feel too bad about liking it

He did indeed. Andy McCluskey. Whole Again isn't a patch on 'Enola Gay' but s'okay. If you fancy a really really *really* good McClusky pop song or two, have a scout around for 'Walking on the Milky Way' or 'Pandoras Box'. I don't know what the hell they put in the water in Liverpool, but between McCluskey, Ian Broudie (Lightning Seeds) and those four blokes who had a few hits in the 60's, there's a disproportionately high amount of quality pop that's come out of that place.

And that's before we mention yer man from The KLF...

Dudess

Yup. I'm not sure whether Liverpool gets enough recognition for its music besides the Fabs.

I've a major thing for Echo and The Bunnymen and Teardrop Explodes, some Lightning Seeds songs are just magical, and The Icicle Works were another band from Merseyside who I heard Dave Fanning play quite a bit in the early 90s - they were awesome.

The best OMD song I ever heard is Joan of Arc. It's beautiful.

KnifeWRENCH

90's classic "Life Is A Flower" by Ace of Base!

"We live in a free world, I whistle down the wind
Carry on smiling and the world will smile with you
Life is a flower so precious in your hand
Carry on smiling and the world will smile with you"

Terrible cheesy lyrics, god-awful video, but I absolutely love it!

Also, anything by The Spice Girls. They were fantastic!

Now everybody sing: "What I really really really want a zig-a-zig ah" :D

Latchy

Dudess wrote: »

Yup. I'm not sure whether Liverpool gets enough recognition for its music besides the Fabs.

I've a major thing for Echo and The Bunnymen and Teardrop Explodes, some Lightning Seeds songs are just magical, and The Icicle Works were another band from Merseyside who I heard Dave Fanning play quite a bit in the early 90s - they were awesome.

The best OMD song I ever heard is Joan of Arc. It's beautiful.

Remember going to see OMD at the stadium in dublin back in 80s.:)

Oh bla de , Oh bla da by the beatles is one of those love to hate songs .

It just plods along like a bad reggae track , like a farmers cart beling pulled along by a lazy donkey


......had to create some ( naff) illusion for the song

grumpytrousers

Dudess wrote: »

Yup. I'm not sure whether Liverpool gets enough recognition for its music besides the Fabs.

I've a major thing for Echo and The Bunnymen and Teardrop Explodes, some Lightning Seeds songs are just magical, and The Icicle Works were another band from Merseyside who I heard Dave Fanning play quite a bit in the early 90s - they were awesome.

The best OMD song I ever heard is Joan of Arc. It's beautiful.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_in_Japan

talk about six degrees of Kevin Bacon. That one Band linking *how* much liverpool music. You didn't think you could go from Tammy Wynette to Julian Cope in two steps, did you...

Dudess

latchyco wrote: »

had to create some ( naff) illusion for the song

LOL - perfect description of that song.:D Not one of their best...

grumpytrousers wrote: »

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_in_Japan

talk about six degrees of Kevin Bacon. That one Band linking *how* much liverpool music. You didn't think you could go from Tammy Wynette to Julian Cope in two steps, did you...

Heh, I love rock family trees. Remember there was a programme actually called that about 10 years ago? It was based on a weekly feature in either NME or MM back in the 80s/early 90s.

Oh yeah, forgot about Pete Wylie - Story of the Blues is awesome. I remember on one of those nostalgia programmes (I love 19eighty whatever) there was a feature on Boys From The Blackstuff and that was playing in the background. Had me blubbing like a baby...

And what was it with the name Ian? McCulloch, Broudie, McNabb...

Frankie Lee

Anything by Eazy E

Latchy

Dudess wrote: »

LOL - perfect description of that song.:D Not one of their best...

Yet surprise surprise Marmalade had a top 10 hit with their version of it

Heh, I love rock family trees. Remember there was a programme actually called that about 10 years ago? It was based on a weekly feature in either NME or MM back in the 80s/early 90s.

A great series .I Watched a few repeats recently on bbc 4 including clapton = yardbirds = Free = Clapton .

Remember they also covered Roy wood , mick fleetwood and may others evolutions.... into other groups .The Merseybeat explosion in rock family tress was brilliant .There were somthing like 500 bands playing the liverpool scene at one time and some competition to get recording contracts . .

Howard the Duck

grumpytrousers wrote: »

He did indeed. Andy McCluskey. Whole Again isn't a patch on 'Enola Gay' but s'okay. If you fancy a really really *really* good McClusky pop song or two, have a scout around for 'Walking on the Milky Way' or 'Pandoras Box'. I don't know what the hell they put in the water in Liverpool, but between McCluskey, Ian Broudie (Lightning Seeds) and those four blokes who had a few hits in the 60's, there's a disproportionately high amount of quality pop that's come out of that place.

And that's before we mention yer man from The KLF...

I'm pretty familiar with OMD my favourite song is "if you leave" i think ..but it's hard to choose one.

The lighting seeds were just brilliant if you are ever in a bad mood just start listening to them and their poptastic songs should cheer you up
"Pure" would be my fav song ..but again very hard to choose one.

Aisling(",)

wake me up before you go go by wham
everybody knows its not the best but i dont know anyone who dosent bop along when they hear it.

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5

I go ape-**** for anything off american idiot, just coz I was soooo into it around the age of 15 16, and it really brings me back. Also, I listen to Bleeding Love secretly sometimes even the version by the wombats :eek:

Dudess

Aw yeah Bleeding Love's pretty good.

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5

Yeah...plus with a little imagination you can easily interpret it as an extended menstrual metaphor and use it as a PMT song

Howard the Duck

Howard the Duck wrote: »

Billie Piper - Honey to the Bee .. "Buzz me up to heaven baby"

I flippin love that song

Morgans

I think Club Tropicana by Wham is a great pop song, but I can see why others wouldnt.

Together in Electric Dreams also brilliant, but probably not.

If Biology and Love Machine were sung by anyone else than Girls Aloud, I could probably admit to liking them. Shame they arent really.

grumpytrousers

Love Machine is a great pop song. In fact, , the choice of songs which Girls Aloud have brought out have been really really good. Nearly every one a belter. I mean, it's a conveyor belt and it's ruthless, but the team they have is *nearly* as good as the Goffin/King, Lieber/Stoller, Holland/Dozier/Holland boiler room teams from Tin Pan Alley in the 60s.

I don't rate the band particularly much, i only know them as the Ginger one, the one from Derry, the footballers wife, the blonde slutty looking one and the other one.

J.S. Pill

Where do I begin...some of my guilty pleasures include George Michael*, Grace Jones, Bony M & Erasure.

Yet I can happily listen to Metallica & Motorhead and feel no sense of contradiction.

*Yes, I've been known to play 'Outside' once or twice before I go out...

Whispered

OOOOOOOh I've so many of these,

Dolly Parton, Jolene, in the getto(i know it's elvis but prefer this version), and 9 to 5

Bonnie tyler - holding out for a hero

Donna summer - hot stuff

Black velvet

gypsies, tramps and thieves

Most power ballads

Man eater

Rhinestonecowboy - reminds me of being a kid and my dad running around the sittingroom with me on his back while that played on the record player

I'm a believer



So many more that I haven't heard in ages - I'm off to youtube!

hisroyalbadness

irish_bob wrote: »

together in electric dreams by phil oakey

I love that song, got them to play it on our student radio station in uni a few times

KnifeWRENCH

helena.ryan wrote: »

OOOOOOOh I've so many of these,

Dolly Parton, Jolene,

Black velvet

Both perfectly good songs, I think. Though I prefer The White Stripes version of "Jolene"

helena.ryan wrote:

Man eater

Hall & Oates or Nelly Furtado?
I like the latter, not sure about H&O though!

J.S. Pill

J.S. Pill wrote: »

Where do I begin...some of my guilty pleasures include George Michael*, Grace Jones, Bony M & Erasure.

Yet I can happily listen to Metallica & Motorhead and feel no sense of contradiction.

*Yes, I've been known to play 'Outside' once or twice before I go out...

I think I gave away a bit too much there. I really must stop drinking and posting

KnifeWRENCH

Love this gem from last years Eurovision!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XGMb5PakOQ

IanCurtis

I love "Hello" by Lionel Richie

"Hello...is it me you're looking for?"

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5

Surely the most innapproriate use of the verb "looking" ever used in a song, considering the video

Dudess

LOL - funniest unintentionally funny video ever.

markesmith

"Young Turks" by Rod Stewart. It's so bad, but actually not too bad in a cheesy, synth-driven early-80s way. For shame!

grumpytrousers

markesmith wrote: »

"Young Turks" by Rod Stewart. It's so bad, but actually not too bad in a cheesy, synth-driven early-80s way. For shame!

Tsk Baby Jane is FAR better/worse...

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(Checking the ratings in my own Mp3 software) mr dj music studio

Mc Hammer-Cant touch this
Spice Girls -Two Become one
Puff Daddy - Come With Me
Natalie Imbruglia - Beauty On The Fire.
Uniting Nations - Out Of Touch.

+Probably all dance remixes of 80 tunes tbh.

fifth

It's my life...,Bon jovi..lol

Craig David - (any of his new stuff...guillllllty pleasures)

That puff daddy and jimmy page collaboration.. haha.

And then I'll happily go and listen to rage, muse, soundgarden..etcetc

rainbow kirby

My guilty secret? Despite the fact I'm a huge metalhead, I love...



Abba.

gordon_gekko

rainbow kirby wrote: »

My guilty secret? Despite the fact I'm a huge metalhead, I love...



Abba.

deep down , everyone loves abba , its impossible not to

lisajane

I love anything by aqua, barbie girl, doctor jones and witch doctor by the cartoons. I would probably get shot for admitting to it.