The idea for today's post I'm nicking from somewhere I'm a lurker. My favourite West Ham fans' site, West Ham Online.
The title of the thread is "Bands/artists whose most famous song is one of their worst. "
I wholeheartedly agree with the following choices made by my fellow southern knobjockeys (see last few comments here)...
Radiohead - Creep
Pink Floyd - Another Brick In The Wall
Billy Joel - Uptown Girl
Dodgy - Staying Out For The Summer
Bruce Springsteen - Born In The USA
Stranglers - Golden Brown
Underworld - Born Slippy
Prodigy - Firestarter
REM - Shiny, Happy People
In addition, I'd like to offer...
Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah
John Lennon - Imagine
Yes - Owner Of A Lonely Heart
Bob Marley - Three Little Birds
Status Quo - Whatever You Want
Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer
Van Morrison - Brown Eyed Girl
Smokey Robinson - Being With You
Simple Minds - Don't You Forget About Me
David Bowie - Let's Dance
Marvin Gaye - Sexual Healing
UB40 - Red Red Wine
Stevie Wonder - I Just Called To Say I Love You
Dire Straits - Money For Nothing
Talking Heads - Road To Nowhere
The B52's - Love Shack
10CC - Dreadlock Holiday
Donna Summer - Hot Stuff
Blimey, that took it out of me.
Any more?
The Staircase in the Woods by Chuck Wendig
5 hours ago
You're mining a rich vein here Geoff. Or the rich & vein.
ReplyDeleteJeff Beck: Hi Ho Silver Bloody Lining
Hearing a song too many times ruins it of its magic, especially if it's a good one.
ReplyDeleteI agree with your list.
Bill Wyman - Je Suis Un Rockstar
ReplyDeletePaul McCartney - Frog Chorus
Again (!) Macca and Steve Wonder - Ebony and Ivory
ELO - Secret Messages
OMD - Joan Of Arc
Wizard - I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday
Boo Radleys - Wake Up Boo (aaaghhhhh - I HATE that song it's SHIT)
London Calling and Sheena is a Punk Rocker and My Favourite Cousin.
ReplyDeleteOwner Of A Lonely Heart...
ReplyDeleteMUST you remind me?
Rockmother - I have the Boo Radleys stuck in my head on repeat now. Gahhhhh!
ReplyDeleteThe entire Cliff Richard back catalogue, anything by James Blunt and Paranoid by Black Sabbath.
ReplyDeleteI agree with most of those (though being more a Trevor Horn fan than a progger, I always liked Owner Of A Lonely Heart - sorry).
ReplyDeleteSurely Mull Of F'Kintyre deserves a mention too?
And Everything I Do (I Do It For You).
And Sit Down by James.
And Rod Stewart's Sailing.
And anything by U2.
Hello, by the way.
The worst example ever in the history of popular music is ...My Ding-a-Ling by the marvellous Chuck Berry.
ReplyDeleteMurph - The drunk uncle's wedding reception song! To add to that: Come On Eileen.
ReplyDeleteBilly - Five times a year is enough.
Romo - A definite yes to Wizzard. Add to that Slade's Merry Xmas Everybody. Even if we hadn't heard them 50,000,000,000,000,000,000 times they still would rank among their worst songs. I'v enever heard any other Boo Radleys songs. Am I missing out?
Arabella - I can't stand either The Clash or The Ramones but even I can see that those are shitter than shit. "Phony Beatlemania has bitten the dust". My least favourite line in a song, ever.
MJ - Just repeat the words of Close To The Edge as a mantra to override it.
Boz - It could be worse. Actually, thinking about it...
Chris - I can see an audience of Sabbath fans booing them off as they play Paranoid as an encore. That's quite a funny image.
Rol - Welcome. I used to really really really hate Mull of Kintyre and Sailing but once I had a long break from hearing them they didn't seem so bad. Sit Down is one of the most annoying songs of the 20th century.
Kaz - Yes. Chuck was a brilliant rocker but a bloody awful hippy. I'm now reminded of The Joy Of Sex book. Yuck!
Sit Down is a disgrace of a song - I always rather childishly sing "oh fuck off, oh fuck off, fuck off away from me" when the chorus kicks in.
ReplyDeleteRol - sorry - it really is crap isn't it?
Anything by Jamie Olivers favourite band Toploader AND The Feeling should be banned from the radio/all shops
Frank Sinatra: My Way.
ReplyDeleteRomo - Good lyrics. We could have done with those when watching The Manchester Passion.
ReplyDeleteTim - Yes indeedy. Sid Vicious made it into a classic, though.
Rolf Harris - 2 Little Boys
ReplyDeleteIt's shit 'cos it makes me cry.
There's room on my horse for two.
ReplyDeleteBlue Monday.
ReplyDeleteI suppose this is why you're not the Morning Drive DJ eh?
ReplyDeleteI didn't happen to see Captain & Tenille's Muskrat Love?
Malc - I can understand why but I like it.
ReplyDeletePhoenis - Love Will Keep Us Together was bigger in Britain. America are the kings of Muskrat Love.