10 songs you like by people whose songs you generally don't like
 

Bjork - Unison
Radiohead - Pearly
Sebadoh - Spoiled
Oasis - Slide Away
U2 - Zoo Station
The Beatles - While My Guitar Gently Weeps
The Rolling Stones - 2000 Light Years From Home
Gary Ogan and Bill Lamb - I Wanna Live
Lady Gaga - Telephone
Woodbine - Neswik

What a great idea for a thread.

MGMT - Kids.
Sebadoh - Ocean
Echo and the Bunnymen - Killing Moon
Shania Twain - You're still the one
Dead Kennedys - Take this job and shove it...
The Rolling Stones - Paint it Black [although I'm warming to a handful of their songs now]
Led Zep - Black Dog
Stevie Wonder - Ma Cherie Amour [Yes, I know I should like Innervisions, I just don't, ok?]
Jamiroquai - Virtual Insanity
Raised Fist - Words and Phrases [though they are awesome live, their records usually bore me]

There are 2 songs by Sebadoh and U2 that I've heard years ago which I'd like to hear again. The one by Sebadoh I'm fairly sure was on some EP I haven't been able to track down online. The one by U2 is from another EP my brother has (or used to have), so I should ask him. It was played on the radio.

U2 - New Year's Day
Fever Ray - Dry & Dusty
Swirlies - Sunn
Husker Du - Something I Learnt Today
Kana Nishino - Best Friend
Neon Indian - Deadbeat Summer
Phantogram - Mouthful of Diamonds
Ride - Kaleidoscope
Green Day - I Was There
and Lady Gaga - Telephone (as mr. Death said)

Nice thread yeah

The Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter
The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
Oasis - Rock n' Roll Star
The Clash - White Riot
TV on the Radio - Halfway Home
XTC - Helicopter
Vampire Weekend - Cousins
Interpol - PDA
Hella - 1-800-Ghost Dance
Slint - Washer

Razorlight - Vice
Rolling stones - Paint in black
dino jr - the wagon
sum 41 - in too deep
jay z - 99 problems
soft cell - tainted love
metallica - seek and destroy
Girls Aloud - Love Machine
U2 - The Sweetest Thing

Trapt- Headstrong
30 Seconds to Mars - Welcome to the Universe (actually the whole first album isn't half bad-yeah, the lyrics suck, but there are some good riffs/arrangements, and Jared Leto actually sings like he's got balls for the most part)
the newest song by Flyleaf (can't think of its name)
White Town- Your Woman (a textbook example of a one hit wonder's one hit being their only good song)
Orgy- Stitches
Finger Eleven- Paralyzer
Soft Cell- Tainted Love
Sum 41- Still Waiting
Dave Matthews Band- Don't Drink the Water
the Temptations- Papa Was a Rolling Stone (OK, I get it's blasphemous to admit you don't like the Temptations in some circles, but I just can't get into them all that much)

You'd pick one of the worst Girls Aloud songs for this list? Crikey.

Edit: not GK, obviously.

ORGY! YES!

Also, foxben, "washer" by slint? Interesting..

Ok, there are actually TWO songs by Pavement I like ("Grounded" and "Gold Soundz"), but I think it'll qualify

At least you like two of the BEST ones. So that's cool.

Anyway,

Bruce Springsteen - I'm On Fire
Weezer - Sweater Song
Metallica - Four Horsemen
Ride - Here and Now
The Eagles - Witchy Woman
Brooks and Dunne - You're Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone
Michael Jackson - Billie Jean
Aerosmith - Dream On
Rancid - Time Bomb
Vanilla Ice - Ninja Rap

10 more.
Simple Minds - New Gold Dream
Pavement - Finn
Shampoo - Trouble
Alice In Chains - Would
Haddaway - What Is Love?
Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy
Atzec Camera - Oblivion
White Town - Your Woman
All Saints - Black Coffee
Spiller - Groovejet

Or 'Anal Fisting Love' as it's known round my house.

Smashing Pumpkins - 1979
Stereophonics - Not Up to You
Pearl Jam - Given to Fly (but, frankly, the whole Yield album is pretty good)
Bardo Pond - Tantric Porno

Well, yeah, since I don't like Spiderland and they released only two LP's, I guess it's not a band that I like very much... But, seriously, "Washer", it's a very good song actually, I could have put "the ending to Good Morning Captain" too.

90s indie special:

Stereophonics - Local boy in the photograph
60ft dolls - Happy Shopper
Bennet - Mum's gone to Iceland
Symposium - Drink the Sunshine
Ocean Colour Scene - The Riverboat Song (I completely missed how brilliant the drums are on this at the time)
Stone Roses - I am the Resurrection
Deus - Roses
Imperial Teen - You're a one
Ultrasound - Floodlit world
3 colours red - Nuclear Holiday

Honorary mention to Tiger's Shining in the Wood. I still quite like them in spite of evidence that they were probably a bit cack.

Actually, most of these are a bit cack really, aren't they? I was at a party on Friday with a load of kids who were 20-odd. They were all going on about how great the 90s were for music. I should really have given them a slap.

Edit: I was also trying to find a jangly indie number but I couldn't remember the name of the band - the chorus went 'she longs to be seen/ she's the summer holiday queen/ sitting in a cheap bikini/ swimming in the dirty sea' - anyone remember that one?

Edit 2: It was Posh, but I can't remember what the song was called. Boo.

Found it. Thanks, Google!

Edit: FUCK ME that's aged badly. I'm never being a teenager with a record player again.

Uh.. okay?

Haha, yeah, I've noticed that it's a crime to dislike Spiderland :D Yeah, I dislike Spiderland and I like King of the Beach, how about that ? :)

No crime, just bizarre. But to each their own. You'll come around! I've been obsessed with spiderland for ... in a few years, it'll be half my life... just... whoa.

Well, yeah probably, it took me about three years to really enjoy Loveless

It took me 9 years to realize Loveless truly sucks.

I'm just kidding. It's alright. Would be a great ep -- WHAT YOU WANT is truly great.

Eric Clapton - Why does Love got to be so Sad
Dinosaur Jr. - Feel the Pain
Eagles - Doolin Daltons
Led Zep - How Many more Times
Mariah Carey - We Belong Together
Smashing Pumpkins - 1979
U2 - Streets Have no Name
ELP - Honky Tonky Train Blues
David Bowie - Panic in Detroit
Simon & Garfunkel - The Boxer

yes, you're very true on this one.

red hot chilli peppers: otherside, californication


I always dispised them

grizzly bear - knife
the antlers - bear
arcade fire - neigborhood #1 (tunnels)*
the police - message in a bottle*
naked raygun - vanilla blue
godspeed you black emperor! - storm
archers of loaf - web in front
yeasayer - 2080*
brightblack morning light - everybody daylight

errrr...this is where i start running out. i really don't pay attention to single songs of bands i don't like all too much. i usually just forget about the band altogether.

*really guilty of these

Great idea for a thread.


INXS - The One Thing
Hole - Garbadge Man
John "Cougar" Mellencamp - Paper In Fire

fuck this is hard. it is tough to think of bands/artists whose records I do not buy but that I like a song or two from them....

Jamiroquai - Canned Heat
Meat Puppets - Sam
Gypsy Kings - Hotel California
Haircut 100 - Love Plus 1
Big Moe - Purple Stuff
Chris Isaac - Wicked Game
Sir Mix A Lot - The Possee's On Broadway

yet you like the songs off their most shitty, bland, AOR rock bullshit?

odd.

I know i do not get it!!!!!!!! I think cause otherside is about drug abuse and i llike the lyrics, also my cd player is broken in the car so i get excited at more mediocre songs that they play on the radio

;)

hee hee

it happens to us allllll

and supercreep, you really don't like naked raygun except for one song?

got no shame in my game better than dirty heads or some shit

to be fair, i haven't listened to them in three years. that's the only song that has stuck with me.

enjoy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ecq_l3x-Teo

Rooney...worst band ever...but I like the song Blueside.

yep blueside fucking rules

here's a great one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7UvbwCjXUk

WALKIE TALKIE MAN!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRLByszys-I

bumblebeez - pony ride

this song's weird as hell and awesome; but I don't want a whole cd of this stuff..

bollocks band compilation #2

Arcade Fire - Rebellion
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Maps
The Kills - Love is a Deserter
Television - Marquee Moon
Natasha Beddingfield - I Bruise Easily
Raveonettes - Love in a Trashcan
Tegan & Sara - Back In Your Head
Talk Talk - I Believe in You
Natalie Imbruglia - Shiver (also, God, she's beautiful)
Sting - If I Ever Lose My Faith in You (yes, really!)

Yeah they're terrible. John Frusciante is one of the best musicians ever though... 'Niandra Lades' and 'Smile From The Streets You Hold' are 2 of my favourite albums of all time.