Three songs I hate and why:
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1. Powderfinger - DAF. People may think that Powderfinger have gone crap since Internationalist, but this annoying aural pastel from c.1997 shows that they have always been the hard core of crap in Australian rock. There is no concievable reason why anyone would want to listen to this song twice.
2. Nickelback - Figured You Out. I wonder why a song this pornographic was considered for airplay. Probably because males aged 16-25 can’t get enough of it.
I like the way you still say please
While you’re looking up at me
You’re like my favourite damn disease
I don’t mind people saying that, I just wish they’d analyse it because the chord that it strikes in people is not always a good one.
3. Nirvana - Heart-Shaped Box. Kurt Cobain was a totally underrated lyricist, and this song annoys me because, although it’s the most boring thing he ever wrote, it’s one of his most popular songs. Listen to Tourette’s, or the sublimely transcendent Sliver for that sense of confusion and urgency that makes Cobain a thousand times better than Eddie Vedder.
That’s my three, now write your own. Oh, by the way, you can RSS this stuff with the link at the bottom of this page, guys.
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I’m not going to bite on that Cobain/Vedder line…
Comment by Robert — Thursday June 17 2004 @ 1:40 am
#2. yes thank you. Having had a fair bit to do with intelligent independent women over the years, this song stunk of the kind of stupid misogyny that girlfriendless dorks that couldn’t cope with women would love. Yet heard a woman at the vid store singing along - sad, eseteemless
3 songs I hate and why coming soon. A bit of writing to do on this one so be warned.
Comment by anthony — Friday June 18 2004 @ 12:22 am
lol, I was hoping that taking sides over Eddie vs. Kurt would get someone’s goat.
Comment by Mark — Friday June 18 2004 @ 8:11 pm
Fack, my slowly developed song rage is all gone now. Anyway I hate lots of music and needed a filter and thought “political songs”. Now I like heaps of them even though I’m not convinced they actually work, but if they do, then there are serious real world consequences over and above just being crap. Here they are…
Sting - Russians “If the Russians love their children too…” “Point of view” “Bury you” Bwoaaarrghhh- the gagging sentimentality for opposing nuclear war set a new low bar for international ethics. The Baby on Board argument. Oh and rhyming “biology” with ideology.
Boy George - “The War Song” Historians may scour for the influence of agents provocateur in the anti-War movement but I know the cause of world peace was set back 3 decades by this madness. “War War is stupid and people are stupid…”
Ace of Base - “All That She Wants” I’ve made millions from lame Europop - so I think I’ll hang some shit on single mothers.
Sigh. I think I’ll stop being an angry old man and get back to my Dead Kennedys “Live at the Deaf Club” CD
BTW This isn’t a trick to get a list of covers to provoke an audience riot on Friday is it?
Comment by anthony — Monday June 21 2004 @ 9:32 pm
Are you *sure* that’s what ‘All That She Wants’ is about?
Comment by Mark — Tuesday June 22 2004 @ 12:32 am
Well that and a thinly veiled attack on fox hunting.
Comment by anthony — Tuesday June 22 2004 @ 8:28 am
Ectually, I thought that song with the girl saying ‘Please’ is kind of cute. My perception of the world must still be rose-coloured.
Comment by Lulu — Wednesday June 23 2004 @ 12:27 pm
No you’re right Lulu - it’s not your rose-coloured glasses
- more to do with my beer goggles at the time.
Comment by anthony — Thursday June 24 2004 @ 11:54 am
DAF: Certainly a fair call. But how can you say DAF when songs like
“Like A Dog” exist? What a bloody lame half arsed attempt at a political
song. It’s clouded in the sort of intentional lyrical obscurism that you
talk about in a later post here and it makes me feel annoyed. Not at the
prime minister (which I am already) but at the band. Lame-os. So that can
be my #3. Bugger it, no it can’t, I hate songs more than that, but you brought
Powderfinger up and now I have to pass comment.
#3: Wierd Al Yankovich: Anything by him. At all. So I’m in a band that’s
occasionally funny, yeah? And people love to tell comedians jokes, so why
not cruelly twist fate and have everyone in the bloody world play me Wierd
Al Yank-bloody-vich when I go over there. Two words I now dread: “Have you
heard this, man?” and another three: “how funny is this shit?”. The answers
are “Yes, too often” and “Not very. It is neither insightful, incisive or
entertaining”.
#2: Cold Chisel - Khe Sahn.
The fact that after years of it being at #1, I kinda like it now, appreciating
it for the great, direct, lyrical narrative pop tune that it is rather thatn
the bogan singalong makes me feel like I’m getting old and that I might die
soon.
#1: David Bowie - Every track on the “Reality” album after “New Killer Star” and even that has a lame title.
I bought this record thinking it would carry on the excellence of “Heathen”
and the upwards curve of his 90’s work (Tracks on “Hours…” after Survive
except “The Pretty Things Are Going To Hell” which kinda rocks a little
excepted) but it is the most frustrating record ever. I can’t pick a single
track, as they are all equally annoying but the stupid Phil Collins production
makes it impossible to want to listen to this CD and… no, I’m angry now…
I won’t stop, I can’t… the tracks on the “bonus” disc are disgusting.
What is that version of “Rebel Rebel”? Not that I have a particularly high
opinion of that Stones-rip-off in the first place but what the hell is up
with turning it into a sparse, bad-parts-of-the-80’s arrangement? DAVID,
WHY HAVE YOU LET ME DOWN? YOU SAID YOU’D “NEVER LET ME DOWN” ON THE TITLE
OF ONE OF YOUR OTHER EQUALLY CRAP ALBUMS BUT AT LEAST I KNEW THAT ONE WOULD
BE CRAP WHEN I BOUGHT IT AND JUST NEEDED IT TO FILL A SPACE IN MY COLLECTION!
WHY!?! WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS TO ME?!!?! WHAT DID I DOOOOOOO…?
Comment by Tomás Ford — Tuesday June 29 2004 @ 4:41 pm