topcat(The most tip top) Posted April 11, 2022 Share Posted April 11, 2022 The band had been called Cinema when they started recording with Squire and Rabin on vocals - it immediately became Yes when Anderson added his vox. There is a demo of Rabin singing an early version of 'Owner', but it's very different, and not great. Rabin is a talented writer and performer, but his production tastes take things into Mutt Lange territory - when he was given full control to produce, as he was on the Yes album 'Talk', the results were turgid. Every day’s a school day 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
topcat(The most tip top) Posted April 11, 2022 Share Posted April 11, 2022 8 minutes ago, topcat(The most tip top) said: Every day’s a school day It's not just the vocals it's the building pre chorus that apparently got cut and the big dumb guitar behind the main chorus. It's fine when Bon Jovi, Bachman Turner Overdrive or AC/DC do it but seems out of place here. And crucially the final version has more cowbell 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheScarf Posted April 12, 2022 Share Posted April 12, 2022 That Eddie Vedder song has to be a piss take. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Kersey Posted April 15, 2022 Share Posted April 15, 2022 Trying waay too hard here, lads. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Kersey Posted April 26, 2022 Share Posted April 26, 2022 Sage wisdom from Mr T 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tattie36 Posted May 5, 2022 Share Posted May 5, 2022 (edited) Great thread and some absolute stinkers - Bobby Conn the massive exception, a brilliant song (particularly the proper lyrics) and magic video. Didn’t notice this imposter anywhere. Truly dreadful song writer and lyricist. Easy on the eye but awful. I’m sure she’s likely had worse than this one but I couldn’t believe how sh1t this was when it came out, heard it on the radio recently and my god it’s even worse than I remember. Edited May 5, 2022 by Tattie36 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
topcat(The most tip top) Posted May 20, 2022 Share Posted May 20, 2022 This one is odd. On one level it’s an out and thread closing winner but because they clearly set out to make a terrible song on purpose it’s actually a highly successful piece of conceptal art on its own terms which would make it good[/url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Most_Unwanted_Song 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GNU_Linux Posted May 20, 2022 Share Posted May 20, 2022 Kiss with face paint is terrible but Kiss without face paint is some how even worse. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GNU_Linux Posted May 20, 2022 Share Posted May 20, 2022 Speaking of Kiss 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Kersey Posted August 1, 2022 Share Posted August 1, 2022 Plenty of great stuff came out of the 90s indie scene.... unfortunately so did a load of absolute shite. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Kersey Posted August 18, 2022 Share Posted August 18, 2022 Band für Afrika was the German version of Band Aid, and it somehow managed to be even more shite... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DAFC. Posted August 30, 2022 Share Posted August 30, 2022 This got to number 1 in the UK charts. I absolutely despise it. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iminavest Posted September 13, 2022 Share Posted September 13, 2022 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted September 13, 2022 Share Posted September 13, 2022 When did young folk start looking at lame pisstakes of hip-hop and thinking, "aye, I'm having that"? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
topcat(The most tip top) Posted September 13, 2022 Share Posted September 13, 2022 tommy Lee of mötley crue wrote a piano ballad dedicated to his son Someone at a record company allowed it on to the album 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
topcat(The most tip top) Posted September 13, 2022 Share Posted September 13, 2022 7 minutes ago, BFTD said: When did young folk start looking at lame pisstakes of hip-hop and thinking, "aye, I'm having that"? 1997 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted September 13, 2022 Share Posted September 13, 2022 5 minutes ago, topcat(The most tip top) said: 1997 Probably earlier, thinking about it. It's hard to remember who was doing a terrible job of ripping off the people doing it right, and who just really liked Morris Minor and the Majors. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
topcat(The most tip top) Posted September 13, 2022 Share Posted September 13, 2022 3 hours ago, BFTD said: Probably earlier, thinking about it. It's hard to remember who was doing a terrible job of ripping off the people doing it right, and who just really liked Morris Minor and the Majors. That was 1987. 1997 was the debut single by "Puff Daddy" If we split the difference and go for 1992 was when Terminator X left public enemy to go and farm ostriches. Which is about as good a milestone as any 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Kersey Posted September 18, 2022 Share Posted September 18, 2022 Now, Euro-Disco is one of my guilty pleasures.... but this is just shite. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miguel Sanchez Posted September 22, 2022 Share Posted September 22, 2022 Ever since I started listening to music I've bought CDs rather than downloading or streaming. I still have all of them. There's some utter, utter shite that I'd never listen to now and that I'm quite embarrassed by, but I feel as if my collection is a complete snapshot of my life and I don't really want to lose parts of that. Recently I had the idea of starting at the beginning and going through them alphabetically. And sharing the shite with you. After hearing their only real hit, Wires, on a Now! CD I remember loving the Athlete album that song was on. Their third album was great and had some stuff on it that's almost interesting even now. I remember it took ages for me to ever find their first album in a shop and being wildly excited when I did. It wasn't good then, it's not good now. Listening to this album gave me the idea for doing this in this thread, and I genuinely couldn't pick which of the twelve songs to post. Chorus! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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