Guilty Pleasures II: Good Songs by Godawful Bands

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This one is a stretch because it is arguable about whether this group can be considered 'god-awful' or not.

There is a pop group from Denmark called Junior Senior. On album, this group is one svelte multi-instrumentalist chap (Junior) and a big gay bear of a singer (Senior). They had one incredible successful single in the UK which was alrightish. My friend liked this song quite a lot so he bought the record. At the time, I was between cars so I spent a lot of time in his vehicle listening to this record on repeat, slightly mad that he didn't want to listen to Kyuss during the day. Secretly, I didn't mind it so much. Junior Senior were a decent enough pastiche of the B52s, Run DMC and assorted pop shite from the 80s. They also made a decent enough second album a few years later on, which could hardly be called 'god-awful'. Most of their songs are tolerable, with one exception.

Nestled later on in the first record is the song 'Boy Meets Girl'. I'm not kidding you here, this is one of the greatest pop songs ever written. The sound could be described as what would happen if Phil Spector remixed a song from the first B52s album. It's been on every feel good mixtape I have made in the past five years or so. I never tire of it, it's just fucking superb. Off hand, I can't think of a pop song I enjoy anywhere near as much.
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Guilty Pleasures II: Good Songs by Godawful Bands

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SecondEdition wrote:
robert thefamilyghost wrote:
SecondEdition wrote:Umm...New Order, "Ceremony," "Everything's Gone Green," "Blue Monday," and "In A Lonely Place." Four brilliant songs out of an oeuvre of crap. Especially "In A Lonely Place" - that song is Joy Division, plain and simple, and Stephen Morris's Curtis-esque vocals are fantastic.


!? "Procession," the entire album Movement...you can't fuck with that stuff...


I listened to a couple songs from "Movement" and they didn't move. Even that "Dreams Never End" song that a lot of people seem to like didn't really do anything for me.

Never heard "Procession" though.


It's on Substance, disc 2. And it rocks.
iembalm wrote:Can I just point out, Rick, that this rant is in a thread about a cartoon?

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