Friday OT #2 - S****y Music You Can’t Quit

[pourcyne]

I can safely say that I was not expecting this. So many elongated vowel sounds.

Singing is like that. The Beatles didn't sound Brit when they sang. Same for the Aussie BeeGees.

And check this from Norwegian Ane Brun (she has the same enunciation as Emmy Lou Harris)

 

[JayV]

I get it. The Locomotion video wins me over.

Not necessarily during that video but, her backside, wow. Does she really sing? Per Kylie, "My bum is it's own entity."

Don't miss her commercial for Agent Provocateur.

And really, don't miss her turn in Street Fighter and Bio Dome either.

 

[JM4CY]

I enjoy Coldplay AND Nickelback. I assume this is a bannable post. So long friends, it was fun!

 

[BurgundyClone]

I can always enjoy some late 90’s/early 00’s pop punk. Blink 182, Green Day, old Fallout Boy, All American Rejects, Rancid, Alkaline Trio, etc.

Those are uncool? yikes!

 

[0u812]

I am normally a rock, metal and alt country guy....

But I do love the 80s. One hit wonders. Same with some 70s folk rock...say Gordon Lightfoot, Dan Fogelberg, etc....good stories within.

I find myself listening to the Weeknd. Good boom chicka bow wow tunes....

 

[somecyguy]

I enjoy Coldplay AND Nickelback. I assume this is a bannable post. So long friends, it was fun!

The first 2 Coldplay albums are great. Even X&Y has some decent stuff. Nickelback's first album is good too. They just sold out quickly to pop rock.

 

[MeanDean]

I've always really liked Coldplay, which has become a harder thing to admit after Forty Year Old Virgin came out.

I loved X & Y. Went back and bought their two previous albums. Nope.

 

[jcyclonee]

Don't miss her commercial for Agent Provocateur.

And really, don't miss her turn in Street Fighter and Bio Dome either.

I have no idea what she's selling in that commercial but I'm buying it. And, no, I am not gong to stand up right now.

 

[MeanDean]

Some 60's tripe that is far too sappy and poppy for anyone who wasn't living through it. And lots of people that were. Doowop, especially black vocal groups 1952-63 time frame. Herman's Hermits (their later stuff, minor hits as their popularity was waning). A lot of mid 60's garage stuff that is really simple and somewhat amateurishly recorded. Best example I can think of.

 

[JM4CY]

The first 2 Coldplay albums are great. Even X&Y has some decent stuff. Nickelback's first album is good too. They just sold out quickly to pop rock.

I would argue Death and All His Friends was pretty damn good too actually. After that, not so much.

 

[JM4CY]

I can always enjoy some late 90’s/early 00’s pop punk. Blink 182, Green Day, old Fallout Boy, All American Rejects, Rancid, Alkaline Trio, etc.

Those are uncool? yikes!

Anyone that has a problem with any of those bands has a problem with me.

 

[NickTheGreat]

I can always enjoy some late 90’s/early 00’s pop punk. Blink 182, Green Day, old Fallout Boy, All American Rejects, Rancid, Alkaline Trio, etc.

Wait . . . are we not supposed to enjoy that stuff?

 

[Drew0311]

As a fan of all of these bands… how dare you include Rancid on this list!

Back when Spotify was more interested in being awesome than profitable, the algorithm sent me down a mid/late 90’s “alternative” rabbit hole. “Based on what you’ve listened to, would you like this?” Yes I would!

Good lord, some of the stuff that they would play on the radio… Paw, K’s Choice, Marcy Playground, Jimmie’s Chicken Shack… I could very literally make better sounding records in my office today. Utter garbage. I love it all.

Shout out 93 K-Rock and 101.9 The Edge for putting this questionable nonsense on the air.

Rancid is awesome. For anyone to put them on a crap
List is terrible

 

[1UNI2ISU]

I find myself more and more drawn to storytellers. Harry Chapin, Kenny Rogers, etc.

Mr Tanner is an objectively great song. Right?!?

I'm apparently aging rapidly.

 

[diaclone]

Hard to find many of these as "terrible." Billy Joel is in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Coldplay will be. Everyone on @Al_4_State 's list seem like good quality music to me.

Someone I enjoy, that I get a lot of weird looks and comments for is Kylie Minogue.

I love Kylie - esp her cover of "Give Me Just A Little More Time"

 

[KnappShack]

Man, if you like it then listen to it.

Music can't be ****** if you like it.

 

[JM4CY]

Bowling for Soup is another underrated pop punk band. I got into this album again awhile back. Great stuff.

 

[Lexclone]

 

[JM4CY]

 

[Bipolarcy]

What is music that you know is terrible, but you absolutely cannot quit? Maybe sort of guilty pleasures.

I have an abiding love for The Bee Gees, Hall & Oates, and Billy Joel, and do not care how uncool they are.

What are yours?

I love the Bee Gees too, but I came by it honestly. I was a Bee Gees fan before they turned to disco. And really, the Bee Gees disco songs at least had some substance to them -- they were more musical than some of the crap that passed for music in those days. I also like Hall & Oates and I'm a frequent viewer of Live From Darrel's House on Youtube.

My biggest guilty pleasure is I love to sing along with Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin or Bobby Darrin, or I just mute them and try it by myself sometimes if I have the lyrics in front of me.

But it's funny this topic came up today because I had a dream last night that featured "High on You" by Survivor and now I can't get it out of my head. I wouldn't necessarily call that a pleasure, but I am guilty, however. I was trying to figure out what movie that appeared in, but I'm not having much luck.