I thought it was 1979 everybody grudgingly liked. Even my lady, who absolutely hates Corgan.

There are many bands whom I'm generally just indifferent towards that have released one or two songs I've liked." Message in a Bottle" and "Every Breath You Take" by the Police (although I do hate Sting as a solo artist), "I Don't Like Mondays" by the Boomtown Rats and Rush's "Fly by Night" come to mind.

Two rare examples of good songs by bands I do actually hate would be "Live Forever" by Oasis and - I shame-facedly admit - "Turn it on Again" by Genesis.

I can't stand Rush. I feel like 2112 is one of the worst albums out there. Endless pointless noodling.

Yet when "Tom Sawyer" comes on I turn the radio up. Great song.

Bluegum LaBloat wrote: Mon Nov 27, 2023 6:40 pm ^I was going to post this, but I didn't because don't hate Radiohead either; I just think they're second-rate and boring, and they do just enough synthesis and development from their influences to avoid being called copyists. It's funny and emblematic of them that their best song is built around a plagiarised sample.

I thought I'd read that they had gotten permission for the sample in question. I remember running across the original composer's website waaaaaay back in the day where he talked about the band contacting him? Maybe I mis-remember.

Radiohead definitely ripped off the Hollies though!

pachinko-devil wrote: Tue Nov 28, 2023 12:06 pm

Bluegum LaBloat wrote: Mon Nov 27, 2023 6:40 pm ^I was going to post this, but I didn't because don't hate Radiohead either; I just think they're second-rate and boring, and they do just enough synthesis and development from their influences to avoid being called copyists. It's funny and emblematic of them that their best song is built around a plagiarised sample.

I thought I'd read that they had gotten permission for the sample in question. I remember running across the original composer's website waaaaaay back in the day where he talked about the band contacting him? Maybe I mis-remember.

Radiohead definitely ripped off the Hollies though!

I don't believe that plagiarism is reliant upon permission or not. I also think "lifted" is the more accurate descriptor for what Radiohead did on Idioteque. It's a 3 second sample? Hardly plagiarism.

I don’t like Alice In Chains, except for “Would?”

I don’t like Incubus.

But I like the Incubus song that sounds like Alice In Chains songs that don’t sound like “Would?”

zorg wrote: Tue Nov 28, 2023 8:29 am I thought it was 1979 everybody grudgingly liked. Even my lady, who absolutely hates Corgan.

It's okay I guess. "Like" is too strong of a word.

My lady also absolutely hates Corgan. Smart women.

jimmy spako wrote: Tue Nov 28, 2023 1:52 pm

I love that record. And I love Tim Hecker. I was privileged to see him in an old church last time he was in Los Angeles. Got there late and all the seats (pews) were taken. So went up to the front and just lied there on the floor, eyes closed. Was wonderful.