"Hero" by Chad Kroeger and some other hairy bloke.
It's nonsensical, Big Rock Ballad guff of the first order, but I find it genuinely stirring. That quiet midlle-eight bit gives me the shivers.
― Wooden, Thursday, 22 July 2004 15:54 (twenty-one years ago)
― zebedee (zebedee), Thursday, 22 July 2004 15:56 (twenty-one years ago)
― angel duster, Thursday, 22 July 2004 16:00 (twenty-one years ago)
― Wooden, Thursday, 22 July 2004 16:01 (twenty-one years ago)
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Thursday, 22 July 2004 16:01 (twenty-one years ago)
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Thursday, 22 July 2004 16:02 (twenty-one years ago)
I also professed my love for Westlife's version of "Mandy" in my Focus Group X comments. Perhaps it is best that those words never see the light of day.
― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 22 July 2004 16:09 (twenty-one years ago)
― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 22 July 2004 16:12 (twenty-one years ago)
Cockney lead singer: I need some luv like I nevah needed luv before!!
Cockney backing shouters: Wanna make luv to yeh Babee!!!
― Wooden, Thursday, 22 July 2004 16:17 (twenty-one years ago)
― peepee (peepee), Thursday, 22 July 2004 16:18 (twenty-one years ago)
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Thursday, 22 July 2004 17:08 (twenty-one years ago)
― Gear! (Gear!), Thursday, 22 July 2004 17:14 (twenty-one years ago)
― Wooden, Thursday, 22 July 2004 17:19 (twenty-one years ago)
Oh man, so OTM. Some of the greatest drum fills in rock history.
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Thursday, 22 July 2004 17:21 (twenty-one years ago)
― frankE (frankE), Thursday, 22 July 2004 17:22 (twenty-one years ago)
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 22 July 2004 17:23 (twenty-one years ago)
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Thursday, 22 July 2004 17:24 (twenty-one years ago)
― Wooden, Thursday, 22 July 2004 17:26 (twenty-one years ago)
how much of this is due to its utterly sublime use in Boogie Nights?
― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 22 July 2004 17:37 (twenty-one years ago)
― shookout (shookout), Thursday, 22 July 2004 17:49 (twenty-one years ago)
― Seb (Seb), Thursday, 22 July 2004 18:25 (twenty-one years ago)
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 22 July 2004 19:18 (twenty-one years ago)
i get a little weepy over the housemartin's "flag day"
― paulhw (paulhw), Thursday, 22 July 2004 20:18 (twenty-one years ago)
― g--ff (gcannon), Thursday, 22 July 2004 20:21 (twenty-one years ago)
― Seb (Seb), Thursday, 22 July 2004 20:38 (twenty-one years ago)
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Thursday, 22 July 2004 20:40 (twenty-one years ago)
― 6335, Thursday, 22 July 2004 20:48 (twenty-one years ago)
It was a great relief to me when I walked into the jazz section of a local store and found an employee singing along to this song, with no apparent irony at all. This employee happens to help run an avant-garde jazz series which has brought people like Peter Brotzman to town, for petesake.
― Rockist Scientist (rockistscientist), Thursday, 22 July 2004 20:59 (twenty-one years ago)
― Rockist Scientist (rockistscientist), Thursday, 22 July 2004 21:00 (twenty-one years ago)
― artdamages (artdamages), Thursday, 22 July 2004 21:02 (twenty-one years ago)
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 22 July 2004 21:07 (twenty-one years ago)
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 22 July 2004 21:08 (twenty-one years ago)
― artdamages (artdamages), Thursday, 22 July 2004 21:10 (twenty-one years ago)
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 22 July 2004 21:11 (twenty-one years ago)
― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Thursday, 22 July 2004 21:21 (twenty-one years ago)
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 22 July 2004 21:23 (twenty-one years ago)
xpost - Fox on the Run is objectively GREAT!
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 22 July 2004 21:25 (twenty-one years ago)
― paulhw (paulhw), Thursday, 22 July 2004 21:57 (twenty-one years ago)
Lyrix: http://www.lyricz.net/H/Harpo/141822/
― j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Thursday, 22 July 2004 22:04 (twenty-one years ago)
― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 22 July 2004 22:06 (twenty-one years ago)
― j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Thursday, 22 July 2004 22:15 (twenty-one years ago)
― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Thursday, 22 July 2004 22:45 (twenty-one years ago)
― Wooden, Thursday, 22 July 2004 22:47 (twenty-one years ago)
― artdamages (artdamages), Thursday, 22 July 2004 22:51 (twenty-one years ago)
What an iconoclast! A real go-against-the-grain type he is!
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 22 July 2004 22:54 (twenty-one years ago)
― Musical Bear, Thursday, 22 July 2004 22:56 (twenty-one years ago)
― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 22 July 2004 22:57 (twenty-one years ago)
― Musical Bear, Thursday, 22 July 2004 23:00 (twenty-one years ago)
― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 22 July 2004 23:10 (twenty-one years ago)
I always hated that drum fill on "In the Air Tonight"...it was the worst bit of the song to me because it was massively over-produced.
― Ian Moraine (Eastern Mantra), Friday, 23 July 2004 01:20 (twenty-one years ago)
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 23 July 2004 01:22 (twenty-one years ago)
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 23 July 2004 02:57 (twenty-one years ago)
I don't think I agree w/'im. but there is an interesting post on k-punk about the guilty pleasure thing.
― artdamages (artdamages), Friday, 23 July 2004 06:14 (twenty-one years ago)
My new answer, however, it Solex's cover of Shady Lane. I love it *because* it is a little bit rubbish. (Of course it's rubbish, it's a Pavement cover. But it's a twisted, sugarpop version of a Pavement cover.)
― Ma$onic Boom (kate), Friday, 23 July 2004 07:08 (twenty-one years ago)
― cinniblount (James Blount), Friday, 23 July 2004 07:54 (twenty-one years ago)
I suspect this is at the heart of why Focus Group X remains unpublished (unless I've just missed it?) - me, you and Matt DC have so far confirmed high scores for this. Can FT stand the shame of it winning?
― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 23 July 2004 08:20 (twenty-one years ago)
i compiled about four volumes of CDs based on this concept of 'rubbish songs you love', somewhere on ILM
― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Friday, 23 July 2004 08:25 (twenty-one years ago)
― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Friday, 23 July 2004 08:31 (twenty-one years ago)
― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 23 July 2004 12:39 (twenty-one years ago)
Come to think of it, Motely Crue's First 2 albums. Complete rubbish, but I love 'em anyway.
― cw28 (cw28), Friday, 23 July 2004 12:58 (twenty-one years ago)
― Ma$onic Boom (kate), Friday, 23 July 2004 12:59 (twenty-one years ago)
― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 23 July 2004 13:00 (twenty-one years ago)
fantastic. but you never heard me say that.
― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Saturday, 24 July 2004 08:04 (twenty-one years ago)
― AaronHz (AaronHz), Saturday, 24 July 2004 08:08 (twenty-one years ago)
― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Saturday, 24 July 2004 08:10 (twenty-one years ago)
― noodle vague (noodle vague), Saturday, 24 July 2004 09:56 (twenty-one years ago)
― scg, Saturday, 24 July 2004 10:58 (twenty-one years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 24 July 2004 12:07 (twenty-one years ago)
Limp Bizkit - RollinOPM - Heaven is a Half PipeCrazy Town - ButterflyNelly Furtado - Forca
― scg, Saturday, 24 July 2004 12:14 (twenty-one years ago)
― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Saturday, 24 July 2004 13:43 (twenty-one years ago)
"INSHALLAH...we'll be together...FOREVER!"
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 24 July 2004 13:44 (twenty-one years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 24 July 2004 13:46 (twenty-one years ago)
― Clarke B. (Clarke B.), Saturday, 24 July 2004 17:41 (twenty-one years ago)
― Wooden, Saturday, 24 July 2004 22:27 (twenty-one years ago)
― Atnevon (Atnevon), Sunday, 25 July 2004 16:26 (twenty-one years ago)
― roger adultery (roger adultery), Monday, 26 July 2004 04:57 (twenty-one years ago)
Especially "Double Vision"...
― bohford, Monday, 26 July 2004 18:10 (twenty-one years ago)
― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Monday, 26 July 2004 18:13 (twenty-one years ago)
my first lp evar! m.
― msp, Monday, 26 July 2004 18:17 (twenty-one years ago)
― frankE (frankE), Monday, 26 July 2004 18:20 (twenty-one years ago)
― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 26 July 2004 18:29 (twenty-one years ago)
reviving this because today has reminded me of both "Magic Jewelled Limousine" by NASA and "Slave" by Revenge, both of which more than qualify for this thread (although in fairness to Revenge, "Slave" is nowhere near as objectively terrible as "Magic Jewelled Limousine")
― Yeezy reupholstered my pussy (DJP), Thursday, 2 December 2010 19:57 (fifteen years ago)
'Africa' by Toto--totally indefensible for many reasons, and yet I find it weirdly moving
― buildings with goats on the roof (James Morrison), Thursday, 2 December 2010 23:48 (fifteen years ago)
'boys of summer'
― Moka, Friday, 3 December 2010 05:09 (fifteen years ago)
ooooh boys of summer totaaly
― the tune is space, Friday, 3 December 2010 06:02 (fifteen years ago)
That song's great but it's ruined by its chorus :(
― Frank Lloyd Webber (Trayce), Friday, 3 December 2010 06:09 (fifteen years ago)
'Arriving UFO', Yes
― one-time Perrier winner Frank Woodley plays a loveable dad (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 3 December 2010 06:29 (fifteen years ago)
almost everything The Dandy Warhols ever did
― gospermaban sim gishel (acoleuthic), Friday, 3 December 2010 06:32 (fifteen years ago)
Boys of Summer isn't rubbish on any fuckin level
― The reverse TARDIS of pasta (Niles Caulder), Friday, 3 December 2010 06:42 (fifteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dg_7TL5PAzA
― jumpskins, Friday, 3 December 2010 07:47 (fifteen years ago)
"Torn"
― ban this sick stunt (anagram), Friday, 3 December 2010 08:53 (fifteen years ago)
"One of Us" by Joan Osborne
The entire Hi Infidelity album by REO SPeedwagon. I unironically love every song.
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 3 December 2010 08:55 (fifteen years ago)
Soak Up The Sun
― Julian Osage Orange (kkvgz), Friday, 3 December 2010 10:15 (fifteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBoxECCK81whttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCT36MXTMz0
― let's all go down the strand.....galifianaaakis (MaresNest), Friday, 3 December 2010 10:36 (fifteen years ago)
xxp Yeh, Bohemian Like You is a monster tune, there's worse things to knock off than the stones.
― 전승 Complete Victory (in Battle) (NotEnough), Friday, 3 December 2010 12:54 (fifteen years ago)
'Wannabe', Spice Girls
― Shin Oliva Suzuki, Friday, 3 December 2010 13:07 (fifteen years ago)
oh shit! I haven't heard "Dr. Heckyll & Mr. Jive" since I was about 5 years old, seriously. thank you!
(not as good as I remember, but what ever is?)
― 'The Road'(a hundred less-than signs)'Taken' (bernard snowy), Friday, 3 December 2010 13:21 (fifteen years ago)
'Africa' by Toto--totally indefensible for many reasons, and yet I find it weirdly moving― buildings with goats on the roof (James Morrison), Thursday, December 2, 2010 11:48 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
― buildings with goats on the roof (James Morrison), Thursday, December 2, 2010 11:48 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
― 'The Road'(a hundred less-than signs)'Taken' (bernard snowy), Friday, 3 December 2010 13:24 (fifteen years ago)
plus I mean... it's just a good song
The entire Hi Infidelity album by REO SPeedwagon. I unironically love every song
Is "Can't Fight This Feeling" on that? Coz that one.
― ban this sick stunt (anagram), Friday, 3 December 2010 13:26 (fifteen years ago)
The Drums - "Best Friend"
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Friday, 3 December 2010 13:27 (fifteen years ago)
just a ride - jemwhole again - atomic kittensay what you want - texas
― jumpskins, Friday, 3 December 2010 13:29 (fifteen years ago)
haha a lot of these i think are legit good :'(
― teledyldonix, Friday, 3 December 2010 13:38 (fifteen years ago)
yeah, I like 'just a ride'
― Shin Oliva Suzuki, Friday, 3 December 2010 13:40 (fifteen years ago)
Milli Vanilli - Girl You Know It's True
― for the next throbbing minutes (corey), Friday, 3 December 2010 13:42 (fifteen years ago)
it is evident based on most of the choices posted that very few of you have ever heard the Nasa song I referenced, as you would never list "Africa" or "Torn" in the same category
http://www.myspace.com/video/vid/100340302
― Yeezy reupholstered my pussy (DJP), Friday, 3 December 2010 15:00 (fifteen years ago)
Pretty much everything released during the '96-'98 Lillith Fair thing (Adia, Sunny Came Home, Torn, One Of Us, etc etc)
― CCH Peniston (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 3 December 2010 15:22 (fifteen years ago)
Also most of St Etienne's catalog
― CCH Peniston (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 3 December 2010 15:27 (fifteen years ago)
strawberry wine is my mid 90's ladies jam of choice.
― dynamicinterface, Friday, 3 December 2010 15:35 (fifteen years ago)
Not a bit rubbish at all, tbh.
― one pretty obvious guy in the obvious (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 3 December 2010 15:42 (fifteen years ago)
90% of ilm would not call any of this "a bit rubbish" o_O
― i genuinely thought when i first joined that he was the admin (ilxor), Friday, 3 December 2010 15:47 (fifteen years ago)
eminem ft. rihanna - love the way you lierihanna ft. eminem - love the way you lie pt. 2
;___; sad i know
― i genuinely thought when i first joined that he was the admin (ilxor), Friday, 3 December 2010 15:48 (fifteen years ago)
Scooter - HOW MUCH IS THE FISH? Brilliant
― frogbs, Friday, 3 December 2010 15:52 (fifteen years ago)
Everything by Dido.
― ban this sick stunt (anagram), Friday, 3 December 2010 20:33 (fifteen years ago)
Oh I was just kidding abt St Etienne
― CCH Peniston (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 3 December 2010 20:34 (fifteen years ago)
lol, I am assuming that ppl are either too scared to click on that link or fell over dead after listening to "Magic Jewelled Limousine"
― Yeezy reupholstered my pussy (DJP), Friday, 3 December 2010 20:35 (fifteen years ago)
"Whole Again" is a wonderful song! It's the perfect balance of lyric to performer - it's the kind of thing you can imagine the girls coming up with for themselves.
― o0o00h really? (boxedjoy), Friday, 3 December 2010 21:00 (fifteen years ago)
okay I've got another one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzsFJolrYuI
― Yeezy reupholstered my pussy (DJP), Friday, 3 December 2010 22:37 (fifteen years ago)
that mid 90s remix of kung fu fighting for me
― NI, Saturday, 4 December 2010 12:45 (fifteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ri3kU7nZN-g
proto donk
― NI, Saturday, 4 December 2010 12:46 (fifteen years ago)
i like it in the way i like jersey shore (plus the original track cant be beat)
i think tom or someone wrote about this on freakytrigger/here many years ago
― NI, Saturday, 4 December 2010 12:49 (fifteen years ago)
oklol.
― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Saturday, 4 December 2010 13:29 (fifteen years ago)
paula deanda feat. the d.e.y. - walk away (remember me)
― teledyldonix, Tuesday, 7 December 2010 06:16 (fifteen years ago)
Freur - doot doot
― meisenfek, Tuesday, 7 December 2010 08:02 (fifteen years ago)
ctrl+f dirty bit
― ed smanger (cozen), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 08:36 (fifteen years ago)
Doot Doot is incredible!! I actually own both Freur albums and they are pretty good. Hopelessly mired in that 80's new romantic thing, but actually they surprised me.
― frogbs, Wednesday, 8 December 2010 17:15 (fifteen years ago)
REO Speedwagon - Take It On The RunMariah - HeartbreakerLife Is A Highway - Tom Cochrane
Basically greatest hits of supermarket shopping but so much fun to sing along to!
― Square-Panted Sponge Robert (VegemiteGrrrl), Wednesday, 8 December 2010 18:36 (fifteen years ago)
white horse-Laid back
― nakamura, Thursday, 9 December 2010 07:16 (fifteen years ago)
the Steven Tyler sung promo song for the new Space Battleship Yamato movie. anyone who's watched Japanese TV any time in the last couple of months will know what I'm talking about
― missingNO, Thursday, 9 December 2010 07:47 (fifteen years ago)
? couldnt find this one :(speaking of the feature anime itself, the only song is at the end titles. and the male singer sounds very keen to his part...
ok RONG, i see.live action
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOuOZZrTCBU
― meisenfek, Thursday, 9 December 2010 09:03 (fifteen years ago)
> I actually own both Freur albums and they are pretty good.
listening to the complete Freur album (Doot Doot) is on my eternal 2do list now for 25 years (oh my)
― meisenfek, Thursday, 9 December 2010 09:07 (fifteen years ago)
I don't see what's stopping you. It's pretty easy to find on CD these days. I think there is a neat two-fer pack that includes both albums on one CD, though they have to edit a few songs for length. I realize you must think there is like a 5% chance of the album actually being good, all I can say is hey, I like it... :)
― frogbs, Thursday, 9 December 2010 13:04 (fifteen years ago)
anything by toad the wet sprocket really....urgh.
― Yeah, there's an ass for that. (chrisv2010), Thursday, 9 December 2010 14:26 (fifteen years ago)
More than a few Kid Rock songs from his Southern rock leaning period, before his last album.
― one pretty obvious guy in the obvious (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 9 December 2010 14:31 (fifteen years ago)
i am faithful :)
― meisenfek, Thursday, 9 December 2010 16:44 (fifteen years ago)
I like anything goth from the 80s even if it is third rate goth. I mean, musically a lot of it sucks but I like the atmospherics.
― you are entertainment trash in the global scheme of things (u s steel), Thursday, 9 December 2010 17:07 (fifteen years ago)
50 Cent - "Baby by Me" (ft. Ne-Yo)
~LOL~
― i genuinely thought when i first joined that he was the admin (ilxor), Thursday, 9 December 2010 17:15 (fifteen years ago)
Mike and the Mechanics, Par Avion - really.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJSMuSBsGtQ
― Kim, Thursday, 16 December 2010 15:28 (fifteen years ago)
Familie Hesselbach - blonde frauhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDCkZzNtc-w
― meisenfek, Thursday, 16 December 2010 19:10 (fifteen years ago)
Ne-Yo - "Beautiful Monster"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2J2dwFVZHsY
― i genuinely thought when i first joined that he was the admin (ilxor), Thursday, 16 December 2010 19:16 (fifteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzJGsmS0mYY&feature=related
― ENBB, Sunday, 27 February 2011 01:48 (fifteen years ago)
omg I can't believe I'm admitting these
― ENBB, Sunday, 27 February 2011 01:49 (fifteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0-5dG_oX-Y
― ENBB, Sunday, 27 February 2011 01:50 (fifteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3I64m0x6wI
― ENBB, Sunday, 27 February 2011 01:53 (fifteen years ago)
damn, E
― Myers and the Obese Olympics triceratops climbing event (Pillbox), Sunday, 27 February 2011 01:58 (fifteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXBAllqCpJ8&feature=related
― nakhchivan, Sunday, 27 February 2011 02:00 (fifteen years ago)
ok I've got one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWTkDWHwFQQ
― Myers and the Obese Olympics triceratops climbing event (Pillbox), Sunday, 27 February 2011 02:03 (fifteen years ago)
'sex intelligent' is this year's 'ignitionRemix' in Stakes of funny looks when I tell norms about my love for it
― cosdeling barier chough a fat in a ballman thrantume (dog latin), Sunday, 27 February 2011 03:17 (fifteen years ago)
we've all ridden on the Vengabus, ENBB. hell, a few of us have even driven it. no need to get embarrassed about it.
― administratieve blunder (unregistered), Sunday, 27 February 2011 03:52 (fifteen years ago)
Madonna Lucky Star-Just an early 80's harmless pop song no one seems to like much. I like it. It's like candy to my auditory centers
― The Startrekman, Sunday, 27 February 2011 04:59 (fifteen years ago)
Fannypack's "Camel Toe"Fannypack's "Camel Toe"Fannypack's "Camel Toe"Fannypack's "Camel Toe"Fannypack's "Camel Toe"Fannypack's "Camel Toe"Fannypack's "Camel Toe"Fannypack's "Camel Toe"Fannypack's "Camel Toe"Fannypack's "Camel Toe"Fannypack's "Camel Toe"Fannypack's "Camel Toe"Fannypack's "Camel Toe"
― egregious fannydangling (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 27 February 2011 05:50 (fifteen years ago)
Startrekman otmfm
― hapshash jar tempo (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 27 February 2011 06:17 (fifteen years ago)
wtf, who doesn't like Lucky Star?
― gospodin simmel, Sunday, 27 February 2011 11:12 (fifteen years ago)
or cameltoe
― teledyldonix, Sunday, 27 February 2011 20:42 (fifteen years ago)
YEAH
― ENBB, Sunday, 27 February 2011 21:03 (fifteen years ago)