I'm sure that we had a thread on a similar subject before, because I remember submitting Scorpions Wind of Change, a untypical ballad and one that's proving to be somewhat less than prophetic.
Bohemian rhapsody is just three fairly representative queen song fragments welded together is a bizarre way. There's nothing really in there that isn't in their other stuff/ A bit of choral stuff, a bit with a piano, and then a bit of rocking out. It only really works because of how much they commit.
The title track of Innuendo is a pretty deliberate attempt to emulate the Bohemian Rhapsody formula, being as it is another six-minute cut-and-shut with slow, operatic bits, a guitar solo and seemingly profound lyrics that are in fact completely meaningless.
Would Boomtown Rats Mondays be one for inclusion? If you played their run of early hit singles-and the brief few that followed- to somebody for the first time they could only conclude how far it was from being representative of the band catalogue.
I think that’s a pretty good shout, personally.
To most of America, that was the only song they ever recorded.
I bought the album off the fact that I liked the single, and the entire rest of it was experimental bullshit. If he did something tuneful elsewhere then I may admit I'm wrong, but to me he's the worst of the arthouse wankers who think that the "process" of music of music ismore important than the "listenablility"
Whitney Houston's "It's Not Right But It's OK" is steely and bitter and streetwise and really different to most of her stuff. It was a massive hit on the UK garage scene of the late 1990s and it was very surprising to learn it was her.
I bought the album off the fact that I liked the single, and the entire rest of it was experimental bullshit. If he did something tuneful elsewhere then I may admit I'm wrong, but to me he's the worst of the arthouse wankers who think that the "process" of music of music ismore important than the "listenablility"
Not something of which I think I could ever accuse Beck: he was always far too independent and self-deprecating to be considered any kind of ‘arthouse w*nker’. Not only that, but he gave the impression of having a very good understanding of most genres of popular music.
A companion to "My Ding-a-Ling" might be Sammy Davis Jr's "Candy Man". Two novelty records that provided Berry and Sammy with their biggest chart hits.
And St Winifed's School Choir. We know them from that grandma song and Matchstalk things, but most of the time they did Krautpunk instrumentals with sexually-charged lyrics.
Originally posted by Nocturnal SubmissionView Post
I'm sure that we had a thread on a similar subject before, because I remember submitting Scorpions Wind of Change, a untypical ballad and one that's proving to be somewhat less than prophetic.
The recent thread was band's whose most well known song is their worst. So considerable overlap.
Would people agree that Oh So Quiet is Björk's best known song?
Army of Me was a slightly bigger hit in continental Europe, but It's Oh So Quiet was bigger in the Anglosphere. No other Björk song comes close to those two.
Mr Big's To Be With You is absolutely nothing like their other songs. Up against Daddy, Brother, Lover, Little Boy (The Electric Drill Song) or Colorado Bulldog, or even one if the less eclectic straight rock songs like Big Love, it's night and day.
Although with rock bands, I think the ballad is an accepted part of the canon, almost be expected of late 80s/early rockers. Not always purely acoustic, but it always has them strumming away in the intro and the background, and often the final chords.
Army of Me was a slightly bigger hit in continental Europe, but It's Oh So Quiet was bigger in the Anglosphere. No other Björk song comes close to those two.
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