oh SHIT i hate people
― Stop relegating Hull you miserable gits! (country matters), Friday, 27 March 2009 23:42 (fifteen years ago) link
oh my god so many people actually need to have their ears surgically removed right now-
um, l-jag it probably* has everything to do with the fact that it was marketed as a single, was a huge 90s radio hit in the alternaboom, and subsequently still gets incredible airplay on every rock station in the world. Not because the world did some awesome critical litmus test and chose it over awesome* songs like "Weird Fishes/Arpeggi"
*definitely*not awesome
― donky tonk women (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 28 March 2009 01:02 (fifteen years ago) link
I can't think of any rap song this works for, except maybe "Juicy," which was a pretty big hit in its own right.
― donky tonk women (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 28 March 2009 01:06 (fifteen years ago) link
but dude......it's their worst song by like 57 parsecs, it's pure bedwetter-rock-inventing evil, thom yorke regrets it, it spawned Coldplay, summoned Snow Patrol, trained Athlete......it's probably in my top 10 most hated songs ever by anyone and i just want you to UNDERSTAND the sheer unrelenting hatred i bear for that song
i mean, karma police, creep, sit down stand up*, these would have all been fine, understandable choices, but for THAT SONG to have like 3x the nearest challenger is just fkn sickening imo and indicative of where a huge proportion of radiohead 'fans' are coming from, i.e. fake-macho-sensitive 'alt-rock' hell
anyway, if that's their legacy song, it's a legacy that they have thankfully disowned
*joeks bruuuv
― Stop relegating Hull you miserable gits! (country matters), Saturday, 28 March 2009 01:08 (fifteen years ago) link
Actually, I'm thinking this might apply to lots of hard (or hardish) rock acts who wound up having their biggest pop successes with way-past-their-prime power ballads that are hopefully now forgotten -- Aerosmith's biggest hit by far (and their only #1, for four weeks!) was "I Don't Want to Miss A Thing," right? "Paranoid" and "Ironman" didn't make the Top 40, and "Crazy Train" never even made the Top 100, but Ozzy's Lita Ford duet "Close My Eyes Forever" went Top 10. Plus Meat Loaf, Bryan Adams, Heart, people like that (maybe even a couple former hair metal bands) -- though maybe I'm deluding myself by thinking that nobody cares about all their chart-topping late-period mush anymore.
― xhuxk, Saturday, 28 March 2009 01:24 (fifteen years ago) link
xpost
people who are embarrassingly protective about who listens to radiohead and how is outdated model, dude. you're supposed to be like that about animal collective now.
― donky tonk women (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 28 March 2009 01:28 (fifteen years ago) link
but "Don't Want To Miss A Thing" is Aerosmith's top-selling iTunes song, xhuxh!
― donky tonk women (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 28 March 2009 01:30 (fifteen years ago) link
Really?? Wow. That's so sad. (I haven't been checking the itunes charts, admittedly. Though I'm not sure whether I'd necessarily equate "biggest itunes seller" with "a band's legacy song," either. I have no problem at all with "Creep," though.)
― xhuxk, Saturday, 28 March 2009 01:33 (fifteen years ago) link
(it isn't Creep)
― Stop relegating Hull you miserable gits! (country matters), Saturday, 28 March 2009 01:35 (fifteen years ago) link
xp It's their #1 Rhapsody stream, too! Here's their top 10 there:
I Don't Want To Miss A Thing (5:01) Dream On (4:52) Walk This Way (4:10) Janie's Got A Gun (5:30) Sweet Emotion (5:57) Angel (5:07) Cryin' (5:09) Dude (Looks Like A Lady) (4:24) Jaded (3:34) Livin' On The Edge (6:21)
― xhuxk, Saturday, 28 March 2009 01:36 (fifteen years ago) link
xp Okay, I see that you said that now, Stop Relegating. What, "Paranoid Android" then? I'm actually amazed "Creep" isn't Radiohead's biggest song. But it's not like I make any attempt to keep up with those guys.
― xhuxk, Saturday, 28 March 2009 01:38 (fifteen years ago) link
Stop Relegating
Start Executing?
I love "Paranoid Android". Not that one either.
― Stop relegating Hull you miserable gits! (country matters), Saturday, 28 March 2009 01:40 (fifteen years ago) link
Maybe I'm doing something differently, but looking at iTunes right now I see "Creep" at number one, "15 Step"(!) at number two, and "High and Dry" at three.
― legendary North American forest ape (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Saturday, 28 March 2009 01:49 (fifteen years ago) link
I remember watching Radiohead play their legacy song "Creep" on MTV while young people sat by the pool. They were probably too busy to get into Kid A years later.
― james k polk, Saturday, 28 March 2009 02:10 (fifteen years ago) link
oh lol maybe I'm the one doing it wrong, but from my end it seems that High And Dry is fucking flavour of the millennium, followed a long way back by Karma Police and THEN Creep
― Stop relegating Hull you miserable gits! (country matters), Saturday, 28 March 2009 02:11 (fifteen years ago) link
and then High And Dry again
xp I never heard of "At Last" until last year!
I think this is one of the most shocking revelations I've ever read on ILM.
― legendary North American forest ape (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, March 27, 2009 4:27 PM (4 hours ago)
Seriously, mind blown.
― WmC, Saturday, 28 March 2009 02:22 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh, here I was thinking your rant was about "Creep"!
(it made sense)
(not that I agree with it)
― one art, please (Trayce), Saturday, 28 March 2009 02:27 (fifteen years ago) link
...I dont even know what "High and Dry" is actually. Is it a newer one?
― one art, please (Trayce), Saturday, 28 March 2009 02:28 (fifteen years ago) link
/lex
i wish i had your unknowledge
― Stop relegating Hull you miserable gits! (country matters), Saturday, 28 March 2009 02:30 (fifteen years ago) link
ignorance really is bliss in this instance
high and dry is what fake plastic trees would be if it sucked
― butt-rock miyagi (rogermexico.), Saturday, 28 March 2009 02:38 (fifteen years ago) link
"High And Dry" is fine.. it's just not their best.. relax.
― billstevejim, Saturday, 28 March 2009 04:23 (fifteen years ago) link
"Creep" is No. 1 in American iTunes
― donky tonk women (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 28 March 2009 04:32 (fifteen years ago) link
Stone Temple Pilots' "Creep" is their No. 3TLC's is their No. 2Mobb Deep's is their No. 81
― donky tonk women (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 28 March 2009 04:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Lust for Life
― 2 ears + 1 ❤ (Pillbox), Saturday, 28 March 2009 04:51 (fifteen years ago) link
Where do Roxy Music fit in this equation? ("Love Is The Drug" their only U.S. Top 40 ever; "Dance Away" just missed; "More Than This" not even Top 100.)
― xhuxk, Monday, 13 April 2009 17:27 (fifteen years ago) link
I think post-1980 Roxy Music have been all but forgotten in US+Canada, but people still remember "Love Is the Drug". So IOW, their biggest hit is also their legacy song.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Monday, 13 April 2009 17:33 (fifteen years ago) link
but for THAT SONG to have like 3x the nearest challenger is just fkn sickening imo and indicative of where a huge proportion of radiohead 'fans' are coming from, i.e. fake-macho-sensitive 'alt-rock' hell
But this is the thing, Louis, that the people who are buying "Creep" are more than likely not Radiohead fans at all. And I don't mean that in the sense of "they're not TRUE fans!", I mean that that may be the only Radiohead song they've heard, and they're buying it because they suddenly got nostalgic for the alt-rock they used to listen to in high school and so they used the iTunes gift certificate they got for Christmas to buy that and "Today" and "No Rain" and "All Apologies."
― Bianca Jagger (jaymc), Monday, 13 April 2009 17:41 (fifteen years ago) link
xp I dunno about that -- Here are the top 20 streams on Roxy's rhapsody page. (I have no idea what several of those highest placed songs are, but then again I stopped paying attention to new stuff by them at some point.) (Somebody else can check itunes):
More Than This (4:30) Lyrics Avalon (4:16) Lyrics Love Is The Drug (4:11) Lyrics India (1:44) To Turn You On (4:16) Lyrics Tara (1:43) Take A Chance With Me (4:42) Lyrics The Space Between (4:30) Lyrics Virginia Plain (2:58) Lyrics The Main Thing (3:54) Lyrics While My Heart Is Still Beating (3:26) Lyrics True To Life (4:25) Lyrics Dance Away (3:46) Lyrics Ladytron (4:26) Lyrics Jealous Guy (4:57) Lyrics Over You (3:27) Lyrics Same Old Scene (3:58) Lyrics If There Is Something (10:37) Lyrics Re-make/Re-model (5:14) Lyrics Is There Something (6:34)
― xhuxk, Monday, 13 April 2009 17:47 (fifteen years ago) link
More Than This (4:30) LyricsAvalon (4:16) LyricsLove Is The Drug (4:11) Lyrics
This is the exact order of their top 3 songs on iTunes as well. I think "More Than This" got a big boost from Lost in Translation.
― Bianca Jagger (jaymc), Monday, 13 April 2009 17:49 (fifteen years ago) link
Wes Anderson/Sofia Coppola movies do magic for the Stuff White People Like axis of iTunes downloads
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 13 April 2009 17:51 (fifteen years ago) link
LL Cool J:
1. Control Myself ft. Jennifer Lopez2. Headsprung3. Going Back To Cali4. Doin' It5. Mama Said Knock You Out.
But I guess his "legacy song" is up for debate
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 13 April 2009 17:53 (fifteen years ago) link
And "Control Myself" was probably one of his biggest hits
His "legacy song" is up for debate, but it's certainly not either of the top two
― The-Reverend (rev), Monday, 13 April 2009 17:55 (fifteen years ago) link
And "Control Myself" might be one of his highest-charting songs, but it seemed like a hit for about two weeks, where a bunch of his earlier hits were ubiquitous for months if not years.
― The-Reverend (rev), Monday, 13 April 2009 17:57 (fifteen years ago) link
it's pretty fucked up that "Control Myself" is 3 years old and still up there imo
― brewer and what (some dude), Monday, 13 April 2009 18:01 (fifteen years ago) link
i would think if anything "Luv U Better" would be the highest seller of his last few albums
― brewer and what (some dude), Monday, 13 April 2009 18:02 (fifteen years ago) link
I don't hate "Lose Control" or anything, it just seems bizarre.
xp: I probably hear "Headsprung" more than anything else from the past decade.
― The-Reverend (rev), Monday, 13 April 2009 18:04 (fifteen years ago) link
"Lose Control" "Control Myself" lol
wtvr, practically the same song
― The-Reverend (rev), Monday, 13 April 2009 18:05 (fifteen years ago) link
"Around the Way Girl" is his legacy song in my heart.
― Bianca Jagger (jaymc), Monday, 13 April 2009 19:06 (fifteen years ago) link
I mean that that may be the only Radiohead song they've heard, and they're buying it because they suddenly got nostalgic for the alt-rock they used to listen to in high school and so they used the iTunes gift certificate they got for Christmas to buy that and "Today" and "No Rain" and "All Apologies."
I feel sorry for them. Not in a superior "these songs suck" kinda way, but it sounds like the soundtrack to suburban kid turns 30, marriage/long term relationship breaks up, and loses job. I feel sorry for the life circumstances that in my mind has inspired this nostalgia.
― photoshop your disgusting ass partner into passive-aggressive notes (sarahel), Monday, 13 April 2009 19:08 (fifteen years ago) link
I think post-1980 Roxy Music have been all but forgotten in US+Canada
wtf I hear "Dance Away" and "More Than This" a lot more often than "Do The Strand" and "Virginia Plain."
― I'm crossing over into enterprise (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 13 April 2009 19:09 (fifteen years ago) link
Jaymc I was talking about "High And Dry" which came top of popularity in Britain for some reason :-/
― yes threads (country matters), Monday, 13 April 2009 19:10 (fifteen years ago) link
x-post Totally, I almost never hear pre-"Avalon" Roxy on the radio, and certainly plenty of "Jealous Guy."
Flaming Lips "Do You Realize?" is arguably their legacy song, though not a "hit" like "She Don't Use Jelly."
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 13 April 2009 19:11 (fifteen years ago) link
xp Ha, I misread.
― Bianca Jagger (jaymc), Monday, 13 April 2009 19:14 (fifteen years ago) link
like i say, i'd have no problem with 'creep' being top of r-head downloads, and that's how it seems to be in the usa...maybe i didn't go to the right page or something
― yes threads (country matters), Monday, 13 April 2009 19:19 (fifteen years ago) link