PigSooie Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 I really really liked that the first time I heard it. I mean, I called the radio station. God, I'm sorry. You called it wondering who sang it so you could by the album, or requested an encore? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Artifice Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 I really really liked that the first time I heard it. I mean, I called the radio station. God, I'm sorry. The amount of board cred you must have to freely admit that is staggering. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
cryptique Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 The amount of board cred you must have to freely admit that is staggering."was" Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Stewart Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 "was" I think you meant "had." Quote Link to post Share on other sites
redpillbox Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 Kind of off-topic: Did anyone ever hear that episode of 'This American Life' about the guy who tried to scientifically create the most annoying and most pleasing songs ever, by polling people about what they liked/hated most in songs and then built songs around those things. Turned out the "most annoying" song was infinitely more interesting. Couldn't find the link to the actual episode, but I found this, which I think references the same project: http://blog.wired.com/music/2008/04/a-scientific-at.html MP3: Scientific Attempt To Create Most Annoying Song Ever By Eliot Van Buskirk April 18, 2008 | 10:32:48 AMCategories: Free Download, MP3s and Music Reviews An online poll conducted in the '90s set Vitaly Komar, Alex Melamid and David Soldier on a quest to create the most annoying song ever. After gathering data about people's least favorite music and lyrical subjects, they did the unthinkable: they combined them into a single monstrosity, specifically engineered to sound unpleasant to the maximum percentage of listeners. The song is not new, but it resurfaced on Dial "M" for Musicology. Amazingly, this "most unwanted music" contains little dissonance -- that would have been too easy. For the most part, they seem to have tried to assemble these elements in a listenable way. Komar & Melamid and David Soldier's list of undesirable elements included holiday music, bagpipes, pipe organ, a children's chorus and the concept of children in general (really?), Wal-Mart, cowboys, political jingoism, George Stephanopoulos, Coca Cola, bossanova synths, banjo ferocity, harp glissandos, oompah-ing tubas and much, much more. It's actually a fascinating listen, worthwhile for the opera rapping alone. (We didn't think that was possible either.) UPDATE: Ok...found the link and coincidentally, it's actually up for free download this week (for 3 more days) as it happened to have reaired this last week (that's crazy): http://thislife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=88 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bobbob1313 Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 Two songs that need to be sent to their grave:"Sex & Candy" by whichever assholes do "Sex & Candy"andthat "I'm not sick but I'm not wellllllll!" song by Harvey Danger I like one of those songs. But LFO is fucking terrible. That is maybe the worst song ever. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
froggie Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 > Jeff called, and wanted to make sure that we had his vote for "I Thought I Held You." i'll belt him!. was that the one he described as dogshit at the residency shows? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
theashtraysays Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 > Jeff called, and wanted to make sure that we had his vote for "I Thought I Held You." i'll belt him!. was that the one he described as dogshit at the residency shows? Yeah. Suggested a pee break for everyone, and said it was a "contractual obligation only" Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Stewart Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 I like one of those songs.Please tell me it's the Harvey Danger song. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ZeroCharlie Posted January 11, 2009 Share Posted January 11, 2009 That song by the Spin Doctors. You know the one. "Two princes" is a good song. Although I might be biased because I like the rest of pocketful of kryptonite more. Kind of like people who love Bob Dylan at least excuse some of his lesser work. But seriously Try listening to "forty or fifty" and "What time is it?" two of my favorite songs. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ZeroCharlie Posted January 11, 2009 Share Posted January 11, 2009 Please tell me it's the Harvey Danger song. Yes! "Flagpole Sitta" is just fun to listen to. Maybe it's just the 90's nostalgia thing. Has it been long enough to call it nostalgia? Oh well (*goes off to listen*) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Lammycat Posted January 11, 2009 Share Posted January 11, 2009 "Two princes" is a good song. Although I might be biased because I like the rest of pocketful of kryptonite more. Kind of like people who love Bob Dylan at least excuse some of his lesser work. But seriously Try listening to "forty or fifty" and "What time is it?" two of my favorite songs.I'm right there with you, Zero....That Chris guy is a good cat, to boot. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
dondoboy Posted January 11, 2009 Author Share Posted January 11, 2009 "Two princes" is a good song. Although I might be biased because I like the rest of pocketful of kryptonite more. Kind of like people who love Bob Dylan at least excuse some of his lesser work. But seriously Try listening to "forty or fifty" and "What time is it?" two of my favorite songs.Ugh! I was so happy to watch that band just disappear. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Lammycat Posted January 11, 2009 Share Posted January 11, 2009 Ugh! I was so happy to watch that band just disappear.No skin off your back either way though, eh? And for all intents and purposes...they did. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ZeroCharlie Posted January 11, 2009 Share Posted January 11, 2009 Mayer is a hulking pile of steaming vomit and I can't be convinced otherwise, no matter how many licks he can play on the guitar.Okay the breathy soft vocals annoyed me for a while because they sound so fake (especially when you hear his real voice) but I appreciated him when I listened to the John Mayer Trio. Seriously, I know you're not into him but see if you like this. It is his songs, just, Better. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ZeroCharlie Posted January 11, 2009 Share Posted January 11, 2009 The Blues Traveler tune also.Oh no! Ahh well if you didn't like Spin Doctors Blues traveler was soon to follow. They started out together opening at each others shows until both bands were playing together. I'll agree idk if I want to hear "Hook" or "Run-around" for a while (Thanks mainstream radio!) but their other stuff is killer. Haha at their shows half the people were fans of all their other music, and hated their two radio hits, then the other half were only there for those hits. Listen to "Crash and burn" siiiiiiiiick harmonica, And actually all the musicians are good, but it is overshadowed by John Popper because honestly, how many times do you see a harmonica virtuoso in the public eye? and if you're still not into them after "Crash and Burn" then I will feel at ease knowing you just don't like that kind of music, and not overplayed radio hits. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ZeroCharlie Posted January 11, 2009 Share Posted January 11, 2009 Okay here we go haha "Highly suspicious" Is freaking awesome. I laugh whenever I hear the deep voices "hiiiiighly suspicious!" but You gotta love when an awesome band says "Hey we don't take ourselves seriously! To prove it, here's some prince"It's kind of like Queen. Obviously they took themselves kind of seriously, (I mean when you're selling out Wembly Stadium and having one of your songs be used as a rally cry at every major sporting event, it comes with the territory) But their songs were obviously not the best songs ever, hence why they are good. Like how Gomez sang "Boo hoo boo hoo" in "Cry on demand" it's almost refreshing to go hey, they're just like normal people they have a sense of humor about themselves and thus their work. So I'm sorry queen haters but I cherish "Don't stop me now" I mean c'mon: "200 degrees that's why they call me mr. fahrenheiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit!" hahaha kills me everytime. Awesome. That "memories of lookin out the back door" or whatever Nickleback song was used in my high school montage (the video was about 10 minutes long so it was played a few times) and I just sat in awe that someone could one, put that out saying "this is us, we're tender but we're rugged" and also take it seriously. That kills me. To write stuff like that for some laughs is good, but nobody gets the joke when you're not established enough to have been taken seriously ever (refer back to previous mmj albums, "Hopefully" is freaking perfect. for me at least. Reminds me of Neil young in a slick way). Same goes for Creed and those other bands that sprang up after human clay came out, trying to get in on the latest "Hey mainstream rock doesn't sound all the same enough. Let's make it so NOBODY can tell us apart!". For the newest examples see the new prepubescent whiny vocals "don't call us pop because we're hardcore and we're cool because we have contortionists at our shows to draw attention from our lyrics which we write as narrations to soap operas" ("haven't you people ever heard oooooof closing the god damn doooooor no!")And in rap try that super synth voice that everyone uses now? Can't think of titles off the top of my head and I've already been listening to "Cruel Summer" and "Every rose" so I am maxing out on awful hits today. Rap is not where I need to be. Where did I put that living room convert disk? Magic Stick- 50 cent should be up here. Terrible. Also that it is exactly the same as his other one "Candy shop" maybe I'm wrong. Don't care enough to find out. Can't remember who said it, but that kid rock summer "sweet home Alabama" half cover thing sucked. It was really modern hit country. I didn't even like him when he was modern hit mushmouth. ("baw wit da baw da bang da bang diggy diggy diggy said the boogie said upjump to boogie" or was it upchuck the boogie? I seem to remember that was a much disputed "lyric" for some reason) Limp Bizkit. Enough said?Okay maybe a little more. Fred Durst. I think when you are trying to become a director and as a joke to your friends pretend to be "ghetto" (his words, not mine) and somehow you get a record deal and Give up your dream because you're making more money in "music" you know you've taken a wrong turn. He did go back to directing though, made some terrible movie with the rock i think. But when that failed guess what? THEY'RE REUNITING.Every trash has a story. For me, I couldn't find the worst one from this band (I was on my suitemate's computer and it came up) so this one will have to doSky Eats Airplane- "Giants in the Ocean" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlkxoTAGG9A Lykke Lihonestly, It wasn't as bad as I thought. But it's pretty bad. I say loose the tambourine, take your celesta guy and become auxillary members in the Arcade Fire. They just plain do it better. Who let the dogs out. Lammycat, I like the way you think. Gel-collective soul. Jesus Etc84, agreed. Terrible. But I will go out on a limb to say that their earlier stuff I liked. "The world I know". And "December" (ok so I liked their two hits. Does that constitute calling it "Stuff"? makes me sound like I actually listen to them as a band. oh my). Though I think this is more of my obsession with the 90's. Those two songs were just on the bus radio going to school. I think it's more the time they make me think about rather than the work themselves. Do I hate or love? Your call. In the covers category I have both ends of the spectrum. "How I Could Just Kill a Man" -Cypress Hill (orig.)"How I Could Just Kill a Man"- Rage Against The Machine. Like the rage one a hell of a lot more. Something about that voice in Cypress Hill. That weird twang that makes it sound like his face is stretched sideways and it chomping down on his teeth. Seriously try singing it yourself. "Hier iss seymtheing you caint ahhndah stayend" (Listen. You will realize I am not crazy.) John Mayer Discussion. My two cents: I don't like the stuff they play on the radio really but I must say I like some of the stuff I've been given. In a much less soulful martin sexton way. He's like that superstar that is also a music hipster's guilty pleasure. (I liked waiting for the world to change, but was already sick of it halfway through the first listen ((I have a soft spot for Glockenspiel)) )Every time John Mayer comes up in conversation it goes to what is happened in this thread. "Soft voice blek!" "But he's a great player!" "that don't make it good music!" blah blah blah etc. But even the people I know who hate him at least respect him and eventually say they kind of like him after hearing The John Mayer Trio. Seriously. I feel like a talking billboard but if you are trying to understand why people like him, I say this is pretty accessible. It is blues fused and cool. And it's a trio, so. yeah (Hey worked for john butler and ben folds five!) It is like me. I have at least a little respect for Justin Timberlake after seeing "A very special Christmas gift" on SNL. Sorry to get on this again but seriously? Nobody else for Spin Doctors? haha I grew up on that record. "You never lost your frozen freight! Tangibles and bloodless meats!" haha Listening to it right now. Funky! And Lammycat you met Chris? Okay I'll shut up now. I am obviously young board member wise, so I don't have much weight to say but this is some of the most fun I've had on VC. Oh terrible music. Keep on "rockin". You make me appreciate other artists even more Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Lammycat Posted January 11, 2009 Share Posted January 11, 2009 Chris is a nice cat. Very friendly/humble. Realizes the sideways "success,'"too. Just trying to play/sing some melodic tunes. I like your take on things, Zero. Good input. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ZeroCharlie Posted January 11, 2009 Share Posted January 11, 2009 That's so cool that you met him! That band actually always seemed like those guys that you start talking to during intermission at a show, relaxed and friendly. Thank you. I got a little winded. For a second I thought I was too harsh on Durst. Then I took another listen... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
dondoboy Posted January 14, 2009 Author Share Posted January 14, 2009 Looks like Mayer is up to something new! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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