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Re: What's the worst song by your favourite artist?
Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2021 2:22 pm
by Curry Pervert
I may draw some ire for this, but:
Joy Division - 'Atmosphere'
It's always felt kind of 'outside' their other stuff, like they were doing a cover of someone else's song and it doesn't really belong in their canon.
It's also boring, the vocal delivery is mediocre at best and the lyrics are, well.... a bit naff.
Probably doesn't help that it became a dirge for Ian Curtis, after the fact, and gets overused any time there's a doc, tv piece, or any reference at all to the band.
Re: What's the worst song by your favourite artist?
Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2021 2:23 pm
by four_oclocker_2.2
Geiginni wrote: Fri Aug 06, 2021 1:58 pm
jason from volo wrote: Fri Aug 06, 2021 11:55 am
four_oclocker_2.2 wrote: Fri Aug 06, 2021 11:52 am
For your consideration:
(clip of Rush's "Tai Shan")
I doubt that could be much farther away from what I like about Rush. Good... I mean very appropriate... choice.
I have a good friend who clearly prefers 80s/early 90s Rush to 70s Rush - which completely boggles my mind. The consensus amongst peers for the past 30+ years has been that 70s Rush is orders of magnitude better than 80s Rush, and the peak of their output was between Caress of Steel and perhaps Moving Pictures.
To know someone who considers Rush's best efforts to include Signals and Power Windows, up to Roll the Bones, has gotten me to rethink my notions of "inconceivable".
I mean, I get it. I like/love pretty much every record. And there are some days where
Power Windows sounds better than
Hemispheres to me. It's all good! Love is love!
Re: What's the worst song by your favourite artist?
Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2021 2:42 pm
by Dovira
Curry Pervert wrote: Fri Aug 06, 2021 2:22 pm
I may draw some ire for this, but:
Joy Division - 'Atmosphere'
It's always felt kind of 'outside' their other stuff, like they were doing a cover of someone else's song and it doesn't really belong in their canon.
It's also boring, the vocal delivery is mediocre at best and the lyrics are, well.... a bit naff.
Probably doesn't help that it became a dirge for Ian Curtis, after the fact, and gets overused any time there's a doc, tv piece, or any reference at all to the band.
Wild, man. It's one of my favourites. Least favourite of mine from JD is Love etc. I've always found the main melody irritating.
Re: What's the worst song by your favourite artist?
Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2021 3:39 pm
by Curry Pervert
kokorodoko wrote: Fri Aug 06, 2021 2:42 pm
Wild, man. It's one of my favourites. Least favourite of mine from JD is Love etc. I've always found the main melody irritating.
Yeah I don't mind Love... too much but it's the other one that gets way too much airspace.
Re: What's the worst song by your favourite artist?
Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2021 3:42 pm
by Curry Pervert
jason from volo wrote: Fri Aug 06, 2021 2:46 pm
*I* might draw ire for this, but I really don't like "Isolation".
It grooooooves! JD can make danceable songs too!
jason from volo wrote: Fri Aug 06, 2021 2:46 pm
Or, maybe more accurately, I really don't like it as the second track of
Closer.
Well it is a definite change of pace from the futuristic tribal funk of
Atrocity Exhibition, I can imagine that being jarring to some.
Re: What's the worst song by your favourite artist?
Posted: Sat Aug 07, 2021 5:47 pm
by Anonymous37
"Turquoise Fins" by Pere Ubu. The lyric "Did you ever wonder why / Your Elvis fans / Were so much nicer people than / The people who / Laugh at / Them?" is one of the most head-scratching-est things I've ever heard put to music.
Re: What's the worst song by your favourite artist?
Posted: Sun Aug 08, 2021 9:57 am
by pigeonkill
Big Black's Dead Billy. very lame riff..... most of the Lungs songs don't hold up that well besides Steelworker... come on steve, out of all of the songs to put into your live set, why Dead Billy????
Re: What's the worst song by your favourite artist?
Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2021 2:40 am
by tonyballzee
Krev wrote: Fri Aug 06, 2021 12:09 pm
S&M by Thin Lizzy.
But the flanged bass guitar on S&M is SO badass.
And I'll take Welfare Mothers over LOTS of Neil Young songs (like A Man Needs A Maid or Change Your Mind).
Re: What's the worst song by your favourite artist?
Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2021 6:04 pm
by Justin Foley
PASTA wrote: Thu Aug 05, 2021 6:49 pm
losthighway wrote: Thu Aug 05, 2021 5:00 pm
PASTA wrote: Thu Aug 05, 2021 4:54 pm
"Glueman"
Really?
I do think the record is a far cry from the live performances.
What turns you off about that blistering rocker?
It's something I've never been able to put my finger on. It rankles me.
Literally the only Fugazi song I NEVER like.
Weird. Different strokes. Fugazi's definitely one of my favorite bands, and I was always inspired by the two note guitar riff on this. Because it sets the atmosphere of the song well. And because when I was figuring out how to play guitar, I was like "well, I can play that song."
= Justin
Re: What's the worst song by your favourite artist?
Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2021 2:55 pm
by pencilpusher
the white stripes is not exactly my favorite band, but i can pretty clearly assert that their worst song is "the nurse." not sure why the hell they decided to put that on their greatest hits album.