Ah, the WORST song on "69 Love Songs" why don't you?

Well, that's got everyone thinking!

i don't mind most of the "bad" ones since they tend to be short and break up the mood of the album a bit, but "How Fucking Romantic" has always annoyed me

I Shatter

Experimental Music Love is lame, Punk Rock love is shit and lame and a failure. How Fucking Romantic might be shitter than both of those though.

"Underwear." The Experimental Music/World/Punk love songs at least fit the theme. "Underwear" is just cringe-inducing.

My wife would pick "The Way You Say Goodnight" for its use and pronunciation of the word "extraaaavaganza."

i shatter is gr8! experimental music love is such a throw away. punk rock love is hard to like. Wi' Nae Wee Bairn gets on my goat though. so that

"I Shatter" is amazing seconded

I Shatter is the bee's knees.

I can't pick an inoffensive throwaway thing like Punk Love, not when there are fucking annoying things like Roses and Love Is Like Jazz, which get Disc 2 off to such a bad start.

Wotsit's delivery on Sweet-Lovin' Man does my head in too. Don't understand why some people like it.

Roses or Sweet Lovin' Man, I think.

I find How Fucking Romantic pretty much unlistenable.

Punk love is great. I skip right to it all the time. ILM consensus confounds me sometimes. Although yeah How Fucking Romantic is terrible.

Whoever said upthread that "Experimental Music Love" sounds lame, I agree with them.

"I Shatter" and even "Wi' Nae Wee Bairn" (if that's how it's titled) I like alright.:)

"Underwear" is fab, and how ppl look in their undies -- no, not thematically related at ALL

"Experimental Music Love" is jokey filler

love is like jazz is pretty bad

but I voted for i shatter since I can physically not listen to it with my headphones...

'Roses' and 'I shatter' are great!

everyone else otm about little entr'actes not being that annoying.

'how fucking romantic' is indeed awful. i'm also have special dislike for 'washington d.c.'

looking at the titles of disc 3 right now, i'm can't really remember how most of them go. weird.

Experimental Music Love sets up Meaningless perfectly.

"love is like jazz"

i don't mind "experimental music love" all that much but "punk love" is pretty awful, yeah

Bitches, I will throw down with anybody who says that I Shatter is good.

C'mon, it's like the Velvet Underground and stuff.

The problem with I Shatter is it's too white, it doesn't swing. Somebody should write an article about that.

I went with "Roses" here, just plain dull.

I'm assuming that the votes will be limited to about 5-8 songs hers.

here. not hers.

love is like jazz

I don't mind "Punk Love", it's short and funny.

Definitely "Love is Like Jazz." At least the punk one is short. Same with "Roses." Hating "Experimental Music Love" is akin to hating the Sgt. Pepper outgroove - where will it get you? I suppose people think it's cheating because it's not really a song (more like an interlude or an intro to "Meaningless" as suggested above) and thus shouldn't count as one of the 69. But christ - YOU write 69 songs and see if you don't fall back on an interlude.

Faulting "Underwear" for failing to fit the concept is to not have listened to the song at all. How exactly DOESN'T it fit the concept? I'm no fan of "I Shatter." But faulting it for being too white and non-swinging is to fault the entire project. What song ISN'T too white and/or non-swinging? ("Too" should be in quotes, I suppose.)

And I suspect the rather baffling hatred for "How Fucking Romantic" has to do with how it puts the queerness of the voice(s) right in your face (or ears).

No, y'all, it's "Love is Like Jazz." It should've lasted as long as the punk and experimental tracks but instead is just shy of three dreary minutes. Also, love ISN'T like jazz. They don't call jazz folk douchebags for nothing.

yeah, don't get the "How Fucking Romantic" hate. It's like a brief, aggro Pet Shop Boys number: Neil Tennant, totally hammered.

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This one took time to figure out because this record's pretty near unassailable in my book, and everything suggested so far suits me fine, but "I'm Sorry I Love You" has never done much for me, it just kind of sits there.

experimental is the only one i *always* skip. i don't mind punk rock love, even if there's nothing remotely punk rock about it. HFR is shit but it's not the worst.

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righto.

Who voted Washington DC? You'd have to hate the whole album to hate on that song, surely?

Well, it's one of my bottom five to be honest.

i love about half those voted for. hurrah. busby berkely dreams?!? bunny rabbits?!?!?!!!!!eleven

http://stephinsongs.wiw.org/tab/69ls1.html

Also, I'm Sorry I Love You is pretty difficult to hate.

Great link Alan! I need some new songs to strum along badly to and piss my flatmates off.

There are some crazy votes there. Also "I Shatter" is clearly fantastic (although it was one of several songs here that I thought were merely good before seeing them played live, and then thought were great - they could definitely have recorded it way better).

Yeah, at least six of the songs that received votes are pretty damn great!