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Post by Ulythium on Jun 17, 2024 20:12:59 GMT
A thread for those songs to which you keep returning, even though you don't like anything else by the band/artist that recorded it.
Jimmy Eat World - 'Bleed American' (a.k.a. 'Salt Sweat Sugar')
I never really 'got' Jimmy Eat World. Nothing else I've ever heard by them has inspired me to dig deeper, while the other big single released from this album ('The Middle') left me cold. This one's a certifiable banger, though.
Blink-182 - 'Adam's Song'
My go-to "pop-punk" band is, and always has been, Green Day - by contrast, Blink seemed like juvenile wannabes. I do like this one, though.
King Adora - 'Whether'
One of the myriad 'androgynous rock' bands that came along in the late '90s/early '00s, while the acts like the Manics and Placebo were at their commercial peak, King Adora just kind of fizzled out (as did most of the others, now that I think about it). This was a good tune, mind.
Hell Is for Heroes - 'I Can Climb Mountains'
Another "Who? Oh, those guys" band for me - Symposium with a different singer, if memory serves (which it may, or may not).
The Who - 'Baba O'Riley' and 'Behind Blue Eyes'
I'll make no bones about it: I've never liked The Who. I respect them for how influential they were, but that doesn't make me want to listen to them (nor does it stop me from thinking that both surviving members are total dickbags). The live versions of these two songs are still great.
Morrissey - 'Everyday Is Like Sunday'
I LOVE The Smiths. Never cared for Morrissey's solo work, even before he became the embittered old bigot he is today... but hot damn, do I ever adore this song.
EDIT: Removed embedded videos and replaced them with links, as embeds do tend to make threads load very slowly indeed.
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Post by dfunked on Jun 17, 2024 20:19:37 GMT
Interesting that you like that Morrissey song out of all of them. It's him in peak dreary bollocks mode.
I love it, but it's also my go-to song for annoying my missus who absolutely hates him.
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Post by Ulythium on Jun 17, 2024 20:25:18 GMT
dfunked In fairness, I could probably name half a dozen Morrissey songs I quite like - including 'Suedehead', his cover of 'That's Entertainment', plus a couple from We Are the Quarry - but 'Everyday...' is the only one I genuinely love. Can't even explain it.
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Post by hedben on Jun 17, 2024 20:32:06 GMT
It’s not that I don’t like Pepe Deluxe, but this one track speaks to me in ways nothing else I’ve heard by them (or anyone else) does. I’m fascinated with how it makes slightly off-key wrong tunes somehow work.
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Post by retro74 on Jun 17, 2024 20:39:17 GMT
I can’t stand The Who but that Baba O’Riley is a proper tune
They played a gig at the rugby ground near where I live earlier this year and a few of my mates went. They asked me but I told them to get fucked
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Post by retro74 on Jun 17, 2024 20:42:54 GMT
I don’t like the Stereophonics at all but Local Boy in the Photograph and Dakota are great songs
I read somewhere that the ‘proper’ Stereophonics fans don’t rate Dakota at all though and it’s one of their worst
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Post by Ulythium on Jun 17, 2024 20:50:55 GMT
retro74 Stereophonics are a good call - I don't know 'Dakota', but I like 'Local Boy...' and 'A Thousand Trees'.
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Post by retro74 on Jun 17, 2024 20:53:54 GMT
retro74 Stereophonics are a good call - I don't know 'Dakota', but I like 'Local Boy...' and 'A Thousand Trees'. You’ll probably know it if you heard it, probably their most popular song |
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Post by simple on Jun 17, 2024 21:21:10 GMT
You mean you don’t even like this JEW song? youtu.be/oX5My-pWSnQAnd yeah, you’re basically right about HIFH being the second coming of Symposium. I think it was only two or three of them but one was the guy who wrote all the songs in both bands, or something like that. Definitely agree on Baba O’Riley. I’ve never got the Who but that is a tune. |
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Post by Danno on Jun 17, 2024 21:23:50 GMT
Oh we're making another borderline unloadable thread huh. Stereophonics are the progenitor of landfill indie and I will not have a good word said about the cunts. |
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Post by motti82 on Jun 17, 2024 21:28:01 GMT
Wow, King Adora, I remember them supporting Mansun in about 2000 or 2001. I only remember the song that was their biggest hit, Smoulder.
My addition to this thread is My Chemical Romance - Helena. Couldn't abide them at the time but this one kicks hard.
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Post by Danno on Jun 17, 2024 21:29:15 GMT
I guess I'll join in in the spirit of the thread tho:
Bought the album this is on and it's proper bin water but this track is some joyous call to arms shit and I adore it
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Post by Danno on Jun 17, 2024 21:37:40 GMT
Slightly outside the thread title. I should absolutely hate this. Over and lazily produced like Mark Ronson was involved, touch of auto tune, too much reverb, weird outro. Got its hooks into me though.
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Post by simple on Jun 17, 2024 21:47:19 GMT
I suppose a big one for me is Club Foot by Kasabian. That bassline in the intro is absolutely undeniable even though I am not remotely into anything else about them
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Post by Danno on Jun 17, 2024 21:50:57 GMT
I suppose a big one for me is Club Foot by Kasabian. That bassline in the intro is absolutely undeniable even though I am not remotely into anything else about them Very good shout And as a big White Stripes fan I feel like it could have been the sports chant as well over the dirtification of Seven Nation Army. Works very well with drunk cunts too. |
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Post by Ulythium on Jun 17, 2024 22:27:38 GMT
In all honesty, no - it sounds like every other Hot Topic emo band I've ever heard (and if I wanted to listen to something of that ilk, I'd throw on some Rites of Spring).
No offence to any JEW fans among our number.
Sorry for all the embeds, Danno! Knew it was an iffy idea to include so many. |
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Post by simple on Jun 17, 2024 22:39:18 GMT
Boo! Although I do think JEW suffer the Nirvana problem* so its totally understandable if you didn’t get into them as a teen it probably won’t happen as an adult. * They did something cool 20-30 years ago that a million shit bands copied without knowing why it was good and ruined the sound for everyone who came to it later.
Also see, anyone who isn’t Eddie Vedder trying to do an Eddie Vedder voice |
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Post by Nanocrystal on Jun 17, 2024 23:47:54 GMT
QotSA - No One Knows is incredible, but I can't stand any of their other stuff, it all sounds boring and anemic in comparison.
Toploader - Achilles Heel is a brilliant song by a cringingly awful band.
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Post by simple on Jun 18, 2024 6:33:47 GMT
I’m almost the opposite with QOTSA and prefer the weird droney psychedelic side to the rocking out one. I do love that they can nail both though.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 18, 2024 6:43:21 GMT
I suppose a big one for me is Club Foot by Kasabian. That bassline in the intro is absolutely undeniable even though I am not remotely into anything else about them I saw them supporting Liam Gallagher without Tom Meighan (which I of course get) and they were turgid. The crowd, which was about 65 per cent lout/hooligan anyway, were even more obnoxious during their set than Gallagher’s (or maybe they weren’t but I didn’t have the music to distract me). I thought Kasabian were surprisingly good at Glasto when they headlined though. And I HATED them. But it sounded undeniably big and I kinda got it that they were basically trying to be an indie Prodigy or something. But yeah after the singer battered his Mrs they were damned if they did and damned if they didn’t as Serge Gainsbourg or whatever he is called is a charisma-less black hole of non self-aware pretentiousness! |
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Post by hedben on Jun 18, 2024 6:49:30 GMT
Might be slightly off topic but there’s a couple of female artists where I’d always dismissed them as “fine, just not for me” until I heard one song that stood out massively
Beverley Knight - Get Up
Kelis - Trick Me
J Lo - Play
And the classic “should have been a one hit wonder” - it was all downhill after:
Sugababes - Overload
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Post by elstoof on Jun 18, 2024 7:01:51 GMT
Sugababes started out great, all 3 are very talented. Went to shit with the new lineup and pumping out chart friendly mashups, but Siobhan Donahey’s album Revolution In Me is fantastic. The original 3 reformed a while back and put out the banging Flatline which Blood Orange produced, shame the album never got released but you can download it from the high seas
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Post by dfunked on Jun 18, 2024 7:25:08 GMT
Can't say I've ever been a Linkin Park fan, but this one is quite touching, especially after what happened to Chester. Everything else they do is just noise.
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Post by Ulythium on Jun 18, 2024 7:47:21 GMT
I'll admit to liking 'In the End' by Linkin Park, albeit with a modicum of embarrassment - it has certainly held up better than anything else I've heard from them, and everything else from the whole 'nu-metal' genre.
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Jun 18, 2024 8:18:14 GMT
I’m not a fan of the band at all (who is?) but Get Off by The Dandy Warhols is genuine one of my favourite songs ever. It’s got a good beat you can dance to.
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Post by Ulythium on Jun 18, 2024 8:34:22 GMT
Then there are 'guilty pleasure' songs, which are a whole other can of tuna - for instance, I can think of at least three tracks for which I still have some affection, mainly because I used to fancy the singers back in the day.
I'm not posting them here, though!
No way, no how. I have a reputation to maintain!
Nope. Not happening.
'Born to Try' by Delta Goodrem, 'How Do I Deal' by Jennifer Love Hewitt, and 'Torn' by Natalie Imbruglia.
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Post by darkling on Jun 18, 2024 8:41:03 GMT
King Adora - 'Whether'
One of the myriad 'androgynous rock' bands that came along in the late '90s/early '00s, while the acts like the Manics and Placebo were at their commercial peak, King Adora just kind of fizzled out (as did most of the others, now that I think about it). This was a good tune, mind. Chuffin ell. King Adora. There's a blast from the past. My choice would be Enjoy the Silence by Depeche Mode. |
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Post by simple on Jun 18, 2024 8:41:33 GMT
Nothing wrong with that last one Ulythium
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Post by Bill in the rain on Jun 18, 2024 8:43:21 GMT
Torn is a great song though. [edit] ninja'd![/edit]
I kinda like Last Resort Blood Brothers by Papa Roach, but I think that's mainly due to playing way too much Tony Hawk back in the day.
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Post by darkling on Jun 18, 2024 8:46:00 GMT
Torn is a great song though. [edit] ninja'd![/edit] I kinda like Last Resort by Papa Roach, but I think that's mainly due to playing way too much Tony Hawk back in the day. I thought Blood Brothers was the Papa Roach song on Tony Hawk? |
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