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It's shit but I love it - confess your musical sins

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JohnnyYen

23:18 / 05.02.03

OK, tonight I got back from the pub and listened to:

Rod Stewart: I Don't Wanna Talk About It
Billy Joel: Movin' Out, Allentown, Goodnight Saigon, It's Still Rock 'n' Roll To Me
Sam Brown: Can I Get A Witness?
Bruce Springsteen: The River, Hungry Heart, Dancin' In The Dark
All Saints: I Know Where It's At
Alice Deejay: Better Off Alone

And Godamnit, EVERY SINGLE ONE is beautiful. So come on kids, 'fess up your shameful, uncool, all-your-friends-would-laugh fave songs here. We'll be understanding. Ish.

SevenRedBlurs

23:48 / 05.02.03

Alright, well, here goes...

Name a Phil Collins hit, chances are I love it. Except for Sussudio.

He's not the only artist that would bring my taste into question, but he's the only one I still get a tinge of shame about.

Lesse, what else

Billy Joel- Bottle of Red/Bottle of White, Allentown

Too many Duran Duran songs

JohnnyYen

01:12 / 06.02.03

I know I said I'd be understanding but PHIL FUCKING COLLINS?

Nah to be honest if there's enough booze and loneliness in me I'll cry at "Against All Odds". Let's face it even the Mariah Carey and Westlife version's better than whatever NME told us was cool that week.

Brigade du jour

21:53 / 10.02.03

You've been reading last week's Guardian Guide haven't you? Heh heh me too it was gooood.

Okay, Iron Maiden. My first favourite band. Aah. Mind you, even I thought Bring Your Daughter To The Slaughter was the worst record of the 20th century.

I think it's the consummate musicianship I like best, and it ain't bad for a bunch of headbangers from Leytonstone.

Brigade du jour

21:54 / 10.02.03

Btw, I like 'Tell Her About It' and 'Uptown Girl'. Makes me feel like an eight year old. Uh-oh, I could have put that better ...

The Return Of Rothkoid

23:13 / 10.02.03

I can't believe you're eschewing the proto-uptown-funk of "The Stranger" in favour of dreck like "Allentown", though...

JohnnyYen

13:10 / 11.02.03

Re: Allentown - I'm from the North East, after a few pints anything about the decline of heavy industry gets to me. BTW If the Manic Street Preachers had written "Big River" instead of Jimmy Nail, everyone'd think it was a sweepingly emotional work of genius.

Bear

13:29 / 11.02.03

*Hides Best of the Beast CD under a newspaper*

Actually, No! What's wrong with Iron Maiden!?

There's no point in me admitting anything, just pick a band you really hate and I'll probably really like them

rizla mission

14:57 / 11.02.03

Nothing wrong with 'Maiden, dammit!

The Natural Way

17:53 / 11.02.03

That Guardian stuff pissed me off. Esp the shit about how we all SAY we go home and crank up LCD Soundsystems when really, if we're honest, we're all listening to S Club - cause that's like, y'know, our *secret taste*. The whole thing smacked of that irritating, guilty attitude.

Runce-reply: No, Journo! Fuck off! I actually DO listen to LCD Soundsystems, and maybe you should think about not lying about yr taste in order to look cool.

Brigade du jour

20:23 / 12.02.03

Hey bear, has Best of the Beast got The Trooper on it? How about Purgatory? Those songs rock bigtime, and the CD wouldn't be worth the plastic if it were missing them.

videodrome

00:30 / 13.02.03

Thread hijack --->

UP THE Fucking IRONS!

(breaks out location-specific tour shirt with Eddie eating stone letters that say 'Texas')

Sunny

23:50 / 14.02.03

kurt cobain died for your musical sins!

JohnnyYen

11:12 / 15.02.03

Really? I thought it was the smack and the lax gun laws. Besides which when you see the terrible things done in the name of "alternative", it's a shame he didn't die before he recorded Nevermind. I know it sounds harsh, but think about it - no Nevermind, no "grunge explosion", no MTV-sponsored pseudo-alternative decade of pish, no Limp Bizkit, no Avril Lavigne, no Blink 182. Result.

Oh and redunderunce, you really think those journos confessing to liking Dire Straits was "in order to look cool"? Fucking ill-judged if it was.

Lea-side

14:37 / 15.02.03

Toto.

Rosanna just makes me wanna dance. mmm.

Shortfatdyke

18:12 / 15.02.03

"There's no point in me admitting anything, just pick a band you really hate and I'll probably really like them"

Ok, Bear, two words: Simply Red. Think very, very carefully before you reply, if you ever want me to talk to you again.

I do like a bit of Neil Diamond, although I suppose he'd be regarded as 'uncool' rather than shite.

Saint Keggers

23:55 / 15.02.03

Neil Diamond is now considered Retro-Cool...much better than kitzch-cool like the Osmonds.

The Return Of Rothkoid

05:57 / 16.02.03

no Nevermind, no "grunge explosion", no MTV-sponsored pseudo-alternative decade of pish, no Limp Bizkit, no Avril Lavigne, no Blink 182. Result.

Oh, come on. Kurt's non-existence wouldn't have stopped any of these things happening (well, maybe the first one. And perhaps the second.) - if such evils didn't exist, it would be necessary to invent them, surely?

And don't go knockin' Dire Straits. "Romeo And Juliet" is fuckin' awesome. And I say that without delusions of coolness, ironic or otherwise.

The Apple-Picker

11:17 / 16.02.03

I agree with Rothkoid. Nothing could have stopped the coming of Avril Lavigne.

Tryphena Absent

14:15 / 16.02.03

Can we have less of the Avril Lavigne and more of the April La-vig-ne. Pronounce her name correctly and her demon might get you. Wouldn't want to call attention to ourselves- you know she can hear us anywhere.

JohnnyYen

16:40 / 16.02.03

It's no coincidence she's an anagram of "R Evil Vagina"

jeff

18:59 / 16.02.03

For my sins, a little bit of Cab Calloway has never done me any harm. Though I may be wrong.

Sunny

19:46 / 16.02.03

I guess if you want to get really literal, then yeah heroin and a shotgun blast to the head did it, and theres some other stuff that set that stuff in motion. but fuck that, thats kind of wrong and petty, I wish he'd never died.

The Return Of Rothkoid

20:17 / 16.02.03

Cab Calloway! C'mon, man! The suits! The songs about getting fucked up and dumped! He's rockin'! How could shit come anywhere near him?

(And, as a side note, how could I use so many instances of ! in one post?)

Brigade du jour

20:28 / 16.02.03

Definitely with Rothkoid on this one - how can anyone who was in The Blues Brothers possibly be shit?

NotBlue

16:30 / 17.02.03

"Here I go again on my own"

'cos always do.

"'-'"

Attempt at smiley version of the "rock sign"

videodrome

17:55 / 17.02.03

You mean like this:

?

Yeah.

beatorbebeat

16:11 / 18.02.03

Ultimate sin: The Sex Pistols - Great Rock And Roll Swindle. Bunch of useless tits, pretending to be punk and emerging as the most influencial boy-band...ever. The 'Pistols will never be the Clash, but Johnny Rotten cracks me up and Sid Vicious gives them a punk sensibility

Jack The Bodiless

20:28 / 18.02.03

You mean thick as pigshit, covered in blood, and dying in a corner all alone?

Kind of, I guess.

Billy Joel rocks very hard. Try 'A Minor Variation' off his last actual album... ironic and bluesy. Magic. And let's not forget 'Christy Lee' - a murder ballad with no blood.

I prefer 'Tunnel Of Love' to 'Romeo and Juliet', by the way, but only because it has the gorgeous guitar solo at the end, bringing the romance hard into the fore. Utterly magical.

Brigade du jour

00:12 / 10.04.04

Oh, and Queen. Which makes me want to kill Ben Elton even more than The Thin Blue Line.

Mind you, the 'surviving members' of the band seemed most acquiescent. And why do they always say 'surviving members'? It's not like there was a plane crash.

HCE

17:25 / 12.04.04

You guys are amateurs. When you are strong enough to admit to liking Milli Vanilli and the Backstreet Boys, come talk to me. (As if anybody will ever talk to me again after this).

Spaniel

19:36 / 12.04.04

Lol

Fred, you may be strongest one there is, But I'm the most **CLASSIC**.
How's about John Farnham's "The Voice" for some amazing rock action?

"... Take a look at each other [beat] through the barrel of a gun.

There's a voice try and understand it. Make a noise and make it clear..."

Nobody's girl

00:16 / 13.04.04

Queen are fucking ace. Posthumous stuff was pants, but who doesn't like at least one song from greatest hits one?

Spaniel

10:51 / 13.04.04

I, for one, hate Queen.

I hate every one of their songs.

Ev er y one.

Scrambled Password Bogus Email

16:30 / 13.04.04

What, even the Highlander soundtrack

*shocked*

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