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Fri Feb-27-04 09:18 AM
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CONFESS!!!! The one song you hate recorded by your all time favorite band |
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We all have our all-time favorite groups or singers. For me it's Led Zeppelin - I worship all things done by Led Zeppelin except one song...
I FREAKING HATE HATE HATE 'STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN'!!! If the song comes on the radio, I flip stations immediately. For me to listen to LZIV, I always skip over that song. I would probably think the fourth album was the best but it has that horrible song on it.
What is your favorite band and what song did they record that you absolutely hate
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Fri Feb-27-04 09:22 AM
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In one sense it's good because it's the song that made them become known and we may not have had an OK Computer or Kid A without it, but man that song is so below them. Pablo Honey as a CD isn't as bad as it has a rap for, but Creep just isn't a good song.
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Fri Feb-27-04 09:23 AM
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2. The Doors - Morrison's poems to music, tracks |
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Always sounded kind of cheesy to me. I prefer to read his stuff.
"Horse Latitudes" is a crappy song, too.
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Fri Feb-27-04 09:23 AM
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Fri Feb-27-04 09:29 AM
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It sounds really whiny and self-pitying to me. I love Andy Partridge, I think he's a genius. But I always want to kick him in the butt and tell him to "dry it up" when I hear that song.
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Fri Feb-27-04 10:08 AM
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21. Well, I'll give you credit. You're the first XTC fan I've heard of |
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who hates that particular song. As for me, I don't like.....none of them. We are talking about XTC after all!
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Fri Feb-27-04 02:12 PM
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52. "Sacrificial Bonfire" - XTC |
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i love "dear god", but moulding's vocals on "sacrificial bonfire" irritate the hell out of me. i always stop "skylarking" after "dying".
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Fri Feb-27-04 09:26 AM
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5. Mr. Jones by Counting Crows |
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I don't hate it as much as I used to, though.
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Fri Feb-27-04 09:27 AM
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6. Children of Bodom - The Trooper (Iron Maiden cover) |
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I hate the Children of Bodom version of "The Trooper" it just simply sucks...
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Fri Feb-27-04 09:28 AM
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7. Iron Man by Black Sabbath |
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The radio just played it to death. It would not have been too bad without the over exposure. I don't understand why they chose that one song to play. There are much better Black Sabbath songs as far as I'm concerned.
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Fri Feb-27-04 09:28 AM
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8. Queen - We Will Rock You n/t |
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Fri Feb-27-04 01:04 PM
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31. Yes, a plodding song, but... |
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Brian May's superb guitar solo at the end almost makes up for it. Doesn't help that "We Will Rock You" moves right into "We Are the Champions," which I can't stand. But for me, "Bicycle" is a Queen song I never have to hear again, ever.
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Fri Feb-27-04 02:16 PM
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Arrrgh! The other one is You're My Best Friend.
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Fri Feb-27-04 09:35 AM
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Fri Feb-27-04 09:41 AM
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Fri Feb-27-04 12:59 PM
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The lyrics aren't exactly deep---what does "Tangerine" even mean, in relation to the rest of the song? Some woman's nick-name? But it's a mellow, melancholy, minor-key acoustic number, and I can still listen to it now, 25 years after I first heard Led Zep III.
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Fri Feb-27-04 09:36 AM
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By the Beatles on the White album.
I sure wished John had left Yoko at home and out of the studio.
Other than that, there is nothing the Fab Four ever did that was anything short of perfection.
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Fri Feb-27-04 09:42 AM
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that was a perfect spot for Hey Jude, which was recorded around the same time and but appeared on an original album.
I could have done without Octopus' garden too.
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Fri Feb-27-04 01:00 PM
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29. Try playing "Rev.#9" backwards. |
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Fri Feb-27-04 02:52 PM
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58. Turn me on dead man. Turn me on dead man. |
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Turn me on dead man. Turn me on dead man.
Paul isn't really dead, guys.
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Fri Feb-27-04 02:50 PM
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I thought there was something wrong with me, because if the Beatles did it, it had to be cool....but I really did not "get number 9 number 9 number 9" and I DID play it backwards, too!
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Fri Feb-27-04 09:38 AM
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12. The Kinks: (Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman |
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Their 80s comeback hit. It ain't no "Apeman." They did so many good songs that just stayed on albums, and then something like "Superman" breaks out.
The kicker was seeing that song performed by Bert Parks the very last time he hosted the Miss America Pageant. :scared: Oh, the ignominy.
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Fri Feb-27-04 09:45 AM
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15. Smoke on the Water - Deep Purple |
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Fri Feb-27-04 09:51 AM
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16. TIE--"Louie, Louie" Motorhead |
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"Chinatown" Thin Lizzy...just filler tracks.
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Fri Feb-27-04 09:53 AM
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17. Kissing Willy -- Jethro Tull |
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(Depending on favorite band of the moment)
Gregory Peccary -- Frank Zappa I second Tangerine by Led Zeppelin Peggy-O -- The Grateful Dead
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Fri Feb-27-04 10:06 AM
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"Peggy-O" is one of my favorite Dead songs! I've got a few versions from 1974 that are just heartbreakingly beautiful....So you'd take another version of "Me and My Uncle" or "Around and Around" over "Peggy-O?!?" Weird.
And "Greggary Peccary" is a MASTERPIECE! That one has turned a few friends into rabid Zappaholics. Frank meticulously assembled that one with such excruciating care; it was obvious he thought it was special. One of my favorite Zappa epics.
And "Tangerine?" My god, why do people hate that song? It's so beautiful!
Wow, I'm like your total opposite.
(Never heard the Tull song, so...)
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Fri Feb-27-04 11:10 AM
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I can't understand what folks have against Tangerine - I absolutely adore the song
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Fri Feb-27-04 09:57 AM
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18. Zappa: "Tryin' to Grow a Chin." |
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Edited on Fri Feb-27-04 10:02 AM by RandomKoolzip
Okay, the song's just not that great to begin with. Then Frank puts out FOUR different versions of the damn thing on four different albums! Sheik Yerbouti, YCDTOSA, vol. 1, YCDTOSA, vol. 6, and the Lather box! It features nothing musically interesting and I've never been a fan of Terry Bozzio's vocal "stylings." So this one I ALWAYS skip over when playing my Zappa CDs.
He also put out three different versions of "Advance Romance," but since that one at least has an extended, improvised guitar solo, you can make the claim that it's an informed decision. The versions of "Tryin' to Grow a Chin" feature no guitar solos, and were all performed by essentially the same 1976-7 lineup...except the one on YCDTOSA, vol.1, which is by the 1979 band with Denny Walley on vocals. Why, Frank? Why not a version of "Inca Roads" from early 1979? Or a "Zoot Allures" from 1982? Or a completely unreleased song, like "Portuguese Lunar Landing?" Or some more early Mothers material? Sometimes I think he was a little out of touch with his fanbase.
My other favorite band, Guided by Voices, has put out LOTS of obvious filler. I have often mulled over making mix tapes of the bad shit and calling it "The Worst of Guided by Voices." It's just that the good stuff is SO good that it makes a drooling fanboy like me pretty forgiving. Although I think that "The Old Grunt" really ruined the flow of one of my fave GbV Cds, "Mag Earwhig!", so I guess I'll vote for that one.
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Fri Feb-27-04 01:24 PM
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47. Give me a starting point for Guided by Voices. |
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I downloaded some and I assume I got the filler, because I hated ALL of it.
-C
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Fri Feb-27-04 01:35 PM
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48. If you can download song by song, and their whole catalog is |
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available (and it's a large catalog, over 20 albums so far), start with any of these tunes:
Echoes Myron Motor Away I Am a Tree Jane of the Waking Universe Quality of Armor The Brides have Hit Glass Glad Girls Teenage FBI The Best of Jill Hives Your Name is Wild
Or get the entire "Alien Lanes" album first. Sorry you didn't like it....sometimes they grow on ya though.
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Fri Feb-27-04 10:06 AM
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19. Hotel California. n/t |
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Fri Feb-27-04 11:27 AM
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24. The Beatles - "Come Together" |
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Everyone is entitled to one mistake, and boy, what a doozy that was! I loathe everything about that song. x(
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Fri Feb-27-04 01:13 PM
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43. That's a first for me... |
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....never heard of anyone disliking Come Together before. :shrug:
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Fri Feb-27-04 11:28 AM
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25. A "Like a Virgin" remake by Marilyn Manson |
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And "TV Shit" by Sonic Youth.
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Fri Feb-27-04 11:35 AM
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26. 'Shiny Happy People' - REM |
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Fri Feb-27-04 02:07 PM
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50. Yeah, well I hate all of Automatic for the People. All of it. |
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I'm such a contrarian it figures that the one album of theirs that found the most commercial and popular acceptance is the one I can't STAND.
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Fri Feb-27-04 11:43 AM
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27. Anything off of Springsteen's "Ghost of Tom Joad" album |
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What a terrible collection of music. I thought he was trying to recapture the lightning in a bottle that "Nebraska" was, but it just didn't work. I've had GOTJ since it came out and listened to it twice.
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Fri Feb-27-04 01:02 PM
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30. The Beatles - "Flying" |
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What the hell were they thinking?
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Fri Feb-27-04 01:06 PM
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Fri Feb-27-04 01:08 PM
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33. a_r_j, you're the first person I've ever known to say that. |
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And I know *lots* of Beatle fans.
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Fri Feb-27-04 01:09 PM
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36. Actually, I like it so much |
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I sampled it for a trip-hop song I was working on. It's got a great laid back funny beat.
Besides I love the weird stuff. You ever hear - You Know my name(so look up the number)?
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Fri Feb-27-04 01:11 PM
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39. You Know My Name is the greatest B side EVER! |
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The version on the Anthology CD is priceless.
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Fri Feb-27-04 02:38 PM
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55. And for those who know the music, here are the lyrics... |
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Note: These will not make ANY sense to you if you've not heard the record.
The Beatles: You Know My Name (Look up the Number)
You know my name Look up the number You know my name Look up the number You you know you know my name You you know you know my name
Good evening and welcome to Slaggers Featuring Denis O'Bell Come on Ringo, let's hear it for Denis
Good evening You know my name Better look up the number You know my name (That's right) look up the number You you know you know my name You you know you know my name You know my name Ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba Look up my number You know my name That's right look up the number Oh you know you know You know my name you know you know you know my name.
Huh huh huh huh You know my name Ba ba ba pum Look up the number You know my name Look up the number You-a you know you know my name Baby you-a you know you know my name You know my name you know you know you know my name Go on Denis, let's hear it for Denis O'Bell
You know my name you know you know you know you know you know my name Prrr you know my name and the number You know my name and the number you know you know my name Look up me number You know my number three you know my number two You know my number three you know my number four You know my name you know number too You know my name you know my number What's up with you?
You know my name That's right Yeah.
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Fri Feb-27-04 02:53 PM
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59. Ohh, I thought you were gonna post the lyrics for flying... |
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Ringo needs to stick with the drums...
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Fri Feb-27-04 01:10 PM
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38. That and "Ob-La-Di-Ob-La-Da" |
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A preview of how treacly P McC was going to be as a solo act.
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Fri Feb-27-04 01:13 PM
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Never fails to get me happy!
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Fri Feb-27-04 01:08 PM
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35. Steely Dan: "Rikki Don't Lose That Number" and "Do It Again"... |
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Overplayed overplayed overplayed.
I even skip over them when I'm listening to the CDs. :puke:
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Fri Feb-27-04 02:12 PM
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53. Yep, I skip over them too... |
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And I love the Dan. Overplay on radio is to blame, I'm sure, but I can never go back to a time when I can hear this songs a-fresh, since I've been having them ground into my brain-pan since I was ten.
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Fri Feb-27-04 01:09 PM
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37. Smashing Pumpkins - The End is the Beginning is the End |
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On the Batman & Robin soundtrack. I hate that god damn song. But then the movie was a big steaming pile so I guess I can't complain.
The crazy part? There's a different version on the same CD which I really love. :crazy:
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Fri Feb-27-04 01:12 PM
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Box of Rain. John It's just way, WAY too hippie for me. And I don't think, among my 130 or so Dead bootlegs, that I've ever heard it done without someone singing off-key on it.
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Fri Feb-27-04 01:14 PM
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44. Off-key singing on a Dead bootleg?! |
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I'm shocked..shocked, I tell you.
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Fri Feb-27-04 01:20 PM
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45. It never happened! Don't believe your ears. |
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It's about as likely as Bob Weir forgetting the lyrics to a song he's sung 5,000 times before. John I'd suspect it's drug-related myself, but what are the chances there'd be drugs at a Dead show?
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Fri Feb-27-04 01:22 PM
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46. I fucking HATE "Brick" by Ben Folds. |
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Everything else Ben Folds and the Ben Folds Five have ever done has been awesome. EXCEPT FUCKING "BRICK."
-C
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Fri Feb-27-04 01:39 PM
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Maybe the instrumental version of "Letter to Memphis" the Pixies put out as a B-side in '91. What a half-assed attempt at filler (fer Chrissakes, the lead just copies the vocal melody from the album track -- no imagination at all).
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Fri Feb-27-04 02:10 PM
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51. Who scared you....Doors B side of single |
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Fri Feb-27-04 02:50 PM
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57. All these songs suck. |
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Ooops, sorry. Wrong thread.
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Fri Feb-27-04 03:13 PM
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62. The Smiths: How Soon Is Now |
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Ironically, the song that got me in to the smiths became the most annoying song that ever left Morrissey's mouth. I think this song is single handedly responsible for Morrissey forever being labeled a "miserablist"
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