Name a band/singer, a great song by them, and an absolutely putridly horrible song by them

[Tommy_Carcetti]

I'll start.

Band: Heart.
Great song: Magic Man
Absolutely putridly horrible song: All I Want To Do Is Make Love To You

[begin_within]

1. Rolling Stones / Can't You Hear Me Knockin' / Miss You

[malta blue]

4. i like both of those songs

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[TwilightGardener]

80. Yep...or "Gimme Shelter" vs. "She's So Cold".

[begin_within]

85. Or even "Monkey Man" vs. "It's Only Rock 'n Roll"

Seems like the Rolling Stones have done as many stupid songs as they have done great ones.

[guitar man]

2. Styx

Styx

Great Song-Renegade
Horrible Song- Mr Roboto

[jobycom]

28. Good choice, but that could have fit the damned subject line.

Thanks for making my click, Hitler! :rofl:

[SoxFan]

34. A band that had some great pop songs and some real cheesy clunkers

Dennis DeYoung, Tommy Shaw, and JY Young all have great pop instincts, but absolutely no sense of shame!

Another one of my "guilty pleasures", even though they produced glurp like "Babe".

[SacredCow]

65. As I gather.... Dennis DeYoung was the driving force behind Mr. Roboto and Babe....

and the others were vehemently opposed to them (perhaps not enough to hit the road, though).

For the record, Tommy Shaw is one hell of an under-rated guitarist.

[BeachBaby]

47. Ding ding ding!!!!

We have a winnah!!!! :thumbsup:

[TZ]

53. uh

I love Renegade...but I also like Mr. Roboto...


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[BeachBaby]

54. NOOOOOOEEEESSSSS!!!!!

Don't flirt with my DTBB list, girlie. You don't want to do that! :scared:

[Lyric]

3. Ozzy Osbourne

Great song: Crazy Train
Horrible song: See You on the Other Side

[Initech]

103. Ozzy's nothing without Randy Rhodes

[Guava Jelly]

5. k

Band: Weezer
Great song: My name is Jonas
Absolutely putridly horrible song: Beverly Hills

[av8rdave]

6. Billy Squier

Great song: Lonely is the Night
Absolutely putridly horrible song: Everything else

[Justyce]

7. Aerosmith.

Great song: Dream on.
Awful song: Love in an elevator, amongst others since then.

[Phillycat]

12. I love Love in an Elevator!

Now, "I Don't Want To Miss a Thing" would qualify. :D

[jobycom]

31. And I like "Don't want to miss a thing."

So there!

Aerosmith doesn't really have horrible songs, they just have increasingly irrelevant songs. It's like they've never released something that made me cringe and lunge for the buttons, but their songs increasingly made me yawn and scan gently away.

[SoxFan]

35. Great: Before 1988 Crap: After 1988

Two exceptions: "Honkin' on Bobo", which wasn't a regular Aerosmith album, but a blues side project; and the foolish attempt to go forward without Joe Perry.

[jobycom]

39. You didn't like "Janie's Got a Gun?"

It wasn't on the level of the early stuff they did, but Pump was a good album for what it was. If a new band had come out with that same album, it would have become an instant classic and people on Lounge threads would mention it every time a "Name an underrated album/band" thread popped up. But because it was a serious letdown from "Dream On" and "Sweet Emotion" people act like it was trash.

I just think of Aerosmith as two bands. There was the great 70s rock band, and then there was the 80s pop band that slowly faded into irrelevancy.

[Justyce]

45. Completely agree with your last sentence. I used

to love Aerosmith, but it's like a completely different generic repetitive sounding band now since the latter 80s. I think they've used up whatever they originally had. ;)

[SoxFan]

51. I think you guys summed it up better

It really has been a slow and steady decline. "Love In An Elevator" was a pretty cool piece of Aerosmith's smirky teenage boy attitude and bluesy riffs, but it's painful to think that "I Don't Wanna Miss A Thing" comes from the same band that gave the world "Toys In The Attic" and "Back In The Saddle".

[SteppingRazor]

8. Grateful Dead/ Stuff Jerry sings / stuff Bobby sings.

:popcorn:

[azmouse]

9. Van Halen

Great song: Dance the Night Away (or any song from their first 2 albums)
Bad song: Jump

[madinmaryland]

10. Rush.

Great song: N/A
Absolutely putridly horrible song: Everything they did.

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[Bake]

16. I was gonna say Rush, but I couldn't think of a "great" song by them.

Bake

[TZ]

17. Alan Jackson

Good---"She got the rhythm, I got the blues"
Bad----"Murder on Music Row"



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[Bake]

22. No, those are both EXCELLENT, especially Murder on Music Row

Now, "Gone Country," that's a bad one.

Bake

[jobycom]

32. I loved Murder on Music Row. I hated his "Small Town Southern Man"

He was trying to preach and to recapture the charm of some of his early hits, and it just failed.

[motely36]

24. Yeah, I thought of doing that too

:)

[jobycom]

62. You're not trying very hard. "Girls, Girls, Girls" sucked but "Smoking in the boy's room" was decent

Vince Neal married Heidi Mark, too.

That's right, isn't it? Rush--lead singer was Neal, Vince Neal? Something seems wrong there.... :(

[Bake]

70. No, dude ... the band YOU'RE talking about ROCKED

Rush sucks.

Bake

[jobycom]

72. I certainly agree on Rush. Not a big fan of the other one, either, though.

Motley C was an okay party band, but I always saw them as a glam imitation of Van Halen. Still, they were better than the later bands who tried to imitate them--Warrant, Poison, Ratt, and others I try hard every night to forget ever hearing.

[Guava Jelly]

18. .

:applause:

[TZ]

19. nice post asshole!

:P

[Guava Jelly]

27. What?

I just never liked the band.
:D

[ghostsofgiants]

38. YES.

[jobycom]

63. WHO?

[ghostsofgiants]

66. The Who blow both Yes and Rush out of the water.

:P

[jobycom]

68. Yes.

[TZ]

69. Whos on first!

:rofl:

[jobycom]

73. I thought that was The Outfield?

[Phillycat]

11. Stevie Wonder, As, I Just Called To Say I Love You

[HEyHEY]

37. Top five crimes perpetrated by stevie wonder in the 80s!

Sub-question!

[Phillycat]

83. You know, I ran a record store for 10 years.

That movie is like a documentary. :D

[HEyHEY]

87. Yeah, I never worked in a record store

But it pretty well is a doc of every conversation my fellow music nerd friends and I have had.

[Bake]

71. That's the sucky one, right? "Signed Sealed Delivered" is the KILLA!!!!

Bake

[Phillycat]

82. No, "As" is the Killa. The song is called "As." But SSD is also AWESOME!

[Left Is Write]

96. Higher Ground is my favorite.

[SacredCow]

13. Black Eyed Peas....

Great song: The bits of silence between tracks
Absolutely putridly horrible song: Their entire catalog
Complete and utter human rights violation of a song: My Hump/Lump/Bump et al... :puke:

[kwassa]

21. The Flight of the Conchords did a great satire on that song

talking about how all the women were looking at their "sugar lumps". Drop-dead funny.

[ghostsofgiants]

40. No, their output before Elefunk was actually solid stuff.

Before Fergie joined the group.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQxxOM7-OSg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nD-u4mSE3Zo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiqOnxVxCQU

[SacredCow]

42. I admit to never hearing of them pre-Fergie....

I can't listen at work, but listening to her solo efforts... I don't have a hard time accpeting that her input drove them to the levels of suck illustrated by my hump/lump/bump/chump/dump.

[ghostsofgiants]

43. Make note of the lyrics in the first song I linked.

[Throd]

14. The Clash: "London Calling"/everything else

[SoxFan]

30. WTF?

White Riot?
Garageland?
Clash City Rockers?
Police On My Back (yes, I know it's an Eddy Grant song)?
Magnificent Seven?

[ghostsofgiants]

41. Sorry, try again.

[driver8]

49. What??!!

You obviously are clueless when it comes to the music of The Clash!

[Rabrrrrrr]

15. Jefferson Airplane: Everything before they became Starship

Starship: We Built this City

[cemaphonic]

105. for that matter, Bernie Taupin "Tiny Dancer' vs "We Built this City."

[qb]

20. Chrissie Hynde: 2000 Miles / I Got You Babe

I hear she was pissed about the latter showing up on the Pretenders 'Singles' album.

[Left Is Write]

84. 2000 Miles is one of the best songs ever.

[kwassa]

23. Kool and the Gang

Early and very funky Kool: Jungle Boogie, Hollywood Swinger, Funky Stuff.

Late and bad pop Kool: Celebrate, the fixture of every wedding reception.

[motely36]

25. Chicago

Good: Before Cetera
Bad: After Cetera

Doobie Brothers
Good: Before McDonald
Bad: After McDonald

:hi:

[Sebastian Doyle]

58. I know what you meant to say, but there's no such thing as "Before Cetera" in Chicago

He was one of the founding members. With Chicago though, it's really three levels:

Good: with Terry Kath.
Bad: after Terry Kath.
Pathetic: After Cetera

[lifesbeautifulmagic]

26. Rod Stewart

great - Every picture tells a story - the whole album

putridly horrible - just about anything afterward, especially his "singer of the songs of history" recent period.

[Sebastian Doyle]

59. Rod Stewart hasn't been worth a shit since The Faces broke up

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

[lifesbeautifulmagic]

67. true, thanks for posting the video

i had to smile, Rod's haircut is exactly how I wore my hair back in highschool in the 70's. :-)

[kwassa]

99. I like his first couple of solo albums

I saw his band rehearse for a national tour in about '82, on a sound stage in Hollywood. Smokin' hot, and I was not really a fan. They rehearsed without Rod, he showed up late. He was joking around, and a very funny guy.

[Left Is Write]

95. I'm angry at Rod Stewart for ruining a perfectly good Van Morrison song.

("Have I Told You Lately")

[distantearlywarning]

29. Rush

Great Song: Workin' Them Angels

Horrible Song: By-tor & the Snow Dog

[TZ]

44. so far of all the Rush I've listened to

By-tor and the Snow Dog is the one song I truly can't stand.

[SoxFan]

33. Poison

Great Song: "Talk Dirty To Me", the greatest Cheap Trick song that Cheap Trick never wrote

Foul Song: Pretty much the rest of the catalog, although "Every Rose has It's Thorn" is a guilty pleasure.

[jobycom]

36. What's a "Guilty pleasure?"

You like it or you don't. If you do, be proud! What's with this common attitude that a song (or any art form) should meet some standard other than whether a person likes it?

I refuse to feel guilt over anything I like. If I like something and others hate it, screw them, they are wrong, not me! So blah!

And I hate Poison, except "Every Rose." :P

[SoxFan]

57. But I'll lose my Cool Kid Street Cred Card!

All of those hours as a 1980s college radio DJ will be for naught!

[jobycom]

61. Rejecting the cool kids is way cool!

And if you were college radio DJ, then your opinion means more than theirs, anyway.

[Left Is Write]

94. I don't think Talk Dirty To Me is Cheap Trick-ish at all.

[SoxFan]

98. It's the illegitimate child of "She's Tight"!

[Orrex]

46. David Bowie--Great song: Heroes/Putrid song: The Secret Life of Arabia

Of course, he's had some real stinkers since then, but the proximity of these two songs on the same album earns them a special commendation IMO.

[BeachBaby]

48. Jefferson Airplane/Starship.

Great song: White Rabbit
Putrid song: We Built This City on Rock and Roll

[SacredCow]

64. I was in HS when WBTCORAR came out.....

From first listen, I clearly remember thinking, "OK, if the difference between this and White Rabbit, Somebody to Love, etc... is the drugs you were doing in the '60's.... Get back on the drugs, RIGHT NOW!!!!!!"

[BurtWorm]

50. Band: Beatles

Great song: The Night Before (McCartney song edition)
Absolutely putridly horrible song: Why Don't We Do It in the Road?

Great song: Dr. Robert (Lennon song edition)
Absolutely putridly horrible song: Baby You're a Rich Man

Great song: Taxman (Harrison edition)
Absolutely putridly horrible song: Blue Jay Way

You know, even at their most absolutely putridly horrible, the Beatles, when they was Beatles, were eminently listenable. I actually like Why Don't We Do It in the Road?, Baby You're a Rich Man, and Blue Jay Way.

[Glorfindel]

111. Me, too. The only song of theirs I dislike slightly is "Come Together"

The one I LOVE that nobody else does is "Maxwell's Silver Hammer"

[CreekDog]

52. Rush

Great: any song with the volume off
Bad: that one song that they did 1000 covers of.

[TZ]

56. Who do you like?

Barry Manilow? :P

[motely36]

90. Hey!

:spank:

[SoxFan]

55. Even Steve Earle!

Crap: "Condi, Condi". Yes, even Steve Earle has produced a clunker. Look, Steve, we all know the Bush Administration was a soup sandwich, but come on...

Gems: Copperhead Road, Someday, Guitar Town, Hillbilly Highway, Johnny Come Lately, Transcendental Blues, Ellis Unit One (both versions), CCKMP, The Unrepentant, Hard-Core Troubadour, And the Rain Came Down, Mystery Train Part II, NYC, Fort Worth Blues, Taneytown, Dixieland...

[Resuscitated Ethics]

74. Sorry, "Condi..." was funny, rocked, and fit in with the themes

of "The Revolution Starts NOW!" I split a gut laughing when I first heard that. Condoleeza was a Bush tool, so strict. I still love the mental dismantling of the image that little calypso number gave me.

[SoxFan]

76. Meh

I thought it was cheesy and below SE's level. Leave the novelty tunes to someone else.

[Resuscitated Ethics]

77. 2004: different times

I agree: another listen tells me that song is better in memory than actuality. Bet it was CARNIVAL live though.

[XemaSab]

92. Condi, Condi

is my FAVORITE DAMN SONG on that WHOLE ALBUM! :o

[LisaM]

60. The Guess Who

American Woman/Talisman (it really, really sucks).

[Iggo]

75. Rush

Great: Working Man
Sucky: Anything not Working Man.

[blondeatlast]

78. INXS: Great song: Don't Change

Putrid song: Never Tear Us Apart

They did some grand love songs, but the love songs that became hits generally were pretty bad.

[TwilightGardener]

79. How about good bands with awful solo spawn? Eagles: Good. Joe Walsh and Glenn Frey: Bad.

Genesis: OK. Phil Collins, Mike and The Mechanics: Baaad. Beatles: Good. Paul McCartney and Wings: My God.

[Initech]

81. Band: The Who

Great fucking album: Who' Next

Shitty fucking album: Endless Wire :puke:

[Sebastian Doyle]

100. The Who ceased to exist when Keith Moon died.

And when Entwistle passed away, they couldn't even fake it anymore. :(

[Initech]

101. Certainly true.

They really need to retire "The Who" moniker. It's just Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey now sort of playing Who songs.

[begin_within]

86. Can you believe Paul McCartney did "Eleanor Rigby" and "Silly Love Songs?"

[Taverner]

88. Led Zeppelin

Good: No Quarter
Bad: Dyer Maker

Irony: same album (Houses of the Holy)

[blondeatlast]

89. Rolling Stones great: Paint It Black. Putrid: any Motown cover. nt

[WinkyDink]

91. Chicago~~~Entire Chicago 1---Entire Chicago 3

[XemaSab]

93. NIN/high Trent/sober Trent

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[Initech]

102. Well, as a major NIN fan I will say this:

Both With Teeth and The Slip, while they definitely were not the best NIN albums, certainly had their moments. Year Zero was fucking spectacular, and ranks as one of my 10 favorite albums ever.

Oh and let's not forget about Ghosts I-IV. Highly enjoyable instrumental tunes, and I hope Trent releases more volumes in the future.

And the recent tour was fuckin' incredible.

[XemaSab]

104. I used to consider myself a major fan

but the last few albums just haven't had the same OOMPH as the earlier work. :shrug:

[Tommy_Carcetti]

107. It's not that the past couple of albums are bad, it's just that they're rather repetitive...

Dare I say that Trent is putting out too much music. He used to space his albums out a lot more, and in the past couple of years he's just put out too much material.

Nothing stands out all that much, and the songs are more or less interchangable. The Slip barely registered on my memory radar, which is sad. And this is coming from a guy who lists Pretty Hate Machine in his top 3 albums of all time.

[Initech]

108. Yeah that is true.

Like I said, I absolutely loved Year Zero and Ghosts but the rest are kinda interchangeable. And did I mention how much the 2008 tour kicked all kinds of ass?

[mac56]

97. Band: The Bangles

Great songs: Hero Takes A Fall, Going Down To Liverpool, If She Knew What She Wants, September Gurls, Different Light
APH songs: Eternal Flame, Hazy Shade Of Winter

Even "Walk Like An Egyptian" is better than what came afterward.

[cemaphonic]

106. Hmm, I think Hazy Shade is a surprisingly decent cover by a pretty crappy band.

I would divide The Bangles into the following categories:

1) Songs written by Paul Simon or Prince, good.

2) Songs not written by Paul Simon or Prince, bad.

[fizzgig]

109. weezer

putrid: buddy holly
great: everything else off the blue album

[WildEyedLiberal]

110. Bruce Springsteen

Great song: Oh hell, take your pick.

Absolutely putrid horrible song: Santa Claus is Coming to Town

:scared: Bruuuuuuce, why?