extremely broad topic so more interested in insipid, calculated, artistically compromised efforts, especially by artists who hadn't yet really broken out
― rip van wanko, Sunday, 27 May 2018 18:46 (eight years ago)
so "Song #2" maybe, even though it's a good one imo, but that that heavy riff just wasn't very Blurry
― rip van wanko, Sunday, 27 May 2018 18:48 (eight years ago)
Mott The Hoople : All The Young Dudes.
though they never wrote it …
― mark e, Sunday, 27 May 2018 18:53 (eight years ago)
Alice Cooper - 'Poison'
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Sunday, 27 May 2018 19:21 (eight years ago)
i don't know about "insipid" but "can't explain" was that sort of song, wasn't it?
― Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Sunday, 27 May 2018 19:28 (eight years ago)
Lean on
― California scheming (Ross), Sunday, 27 May 2018 19:32 (eight years ago)
Smells Like Teen Spirit (*ducks*)
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Sunday, 27 May 2018 20:02 (eight years ago)
‘beth’
― mookieproof, Sunday, 27 May 2018 20:09 (eight years ago)
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 27 May 2018 20:18 (eight years ago)
I recall reading that The Move were instructed to come up with a hit and did so, though I can't remember which song ("I Can Hear the Grass Grow"?).
― eatandoph (Neue Jesse Schule), Sunday, 27 May 2018 20:36 (eight years ago)
blink-182 - "The Rock Show" and "First Date." Producer told Mark & Tom that Take Off Your Pants and Jacket didn't have enough uptempo songs/potential hits so he challenged them both to go home and write some and they did.
― flappy bird, Sunday, 27 May 2018 20:40 (eight years ago)
Weezer - "Hash Pipe," "Island in the Sun," "Dope Nose," "Beverly Hills"... just assuming based on RC's spreadsheet strategy in this era of the band.
― flappy bird, Sunday, 27 May 2018 20:41 (eight years ago)
Yes those Weezers certainly fit the bill and I don't like any of them!
― rip van wanko, Sunday, 27 May 2018 20:43 (eight years ago)
They get exponentially worse as the list goes on imo. "Hash Pipe" is cool, "Beverly Hills" was a pox in 2005.
― flappy bird, Sunday, 27 May 2018 20:44 (eight years ago)
FB OTM
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Sunday, 27 May 2018 21:13 (eight years ago)
The most recent LP was good though, maybe they've gotten over it
― rip van wanko, Sunday, 27 May 2018 21:28 (eight years ago)
I'm probably maligning the Dandy Warhols, but always I got this vibe from 'Bohemian Like You'.
― Luna Schlosser, Sunday, 27 May 2018 21:49 (eight years ago)
Or NIYWTLJOE
― rip van wanko, Sunday, 27 May 2018 21:56 (eight years ago)