It was really hard to say no to Eddie Murphy, but man, I had to go with Herman’s Hermits. Just had to. I’m 'enery the eighth I yam, 'enery the eighth I yam I yam…
Perfect touch on this list. Songs that suck but the truly terrible is avoided. No Smashmouth, no We Didn’t Start the Fire. Anyway though the choice was tough but think long, think wrong. So Spandau Ballet it is, starting with Tony’s sob-choke delivery of the title.
I saw Chumbawumba at the Guinness Fleadh festival in San Jose in 1997 along with Wilco, X (or maybe just members of…), Shane MacGowan, and others I don’t remember. I knew nothing about Chumbawumba aside from Tubthumping and had zero expectations. They ended up being my favorite band by far. I love Wilco and Shane who were both fantastic. But Chumbawumba put on a show. They had full costume changes, theater without pedantry, and social commentary without triteness. I’ve bought most of their albums since and enjoy them all.
And there’s this, of course:
/youtube they might be Giants tubthumping
@lbcausey with the exception of that ‘true’ song and skid row (i don’t think i’ve heard of either) i didn’t need to click any of the videos to hear them either. made me smile though. i mean if you can’t laugh at yourself…
plus, it was the only time i’ve actually heard of more than one song in one of these meh video lineups.
Nora en Pure scored her first hit sampling/remixing Spandau Ballet’s “True” with “Saltwater” and it became a bigger Tropical House hit with her 2015 rework:
@djslack I’m not even sure why I bought that CD, because it wasn’t a great song and the rest of the CD wasn’t very good, either. Promotional stuff is always awesome, though.
This was actually a decent playlist. I can’t handle watching Caucasians trying to be “rappers” so I got out of watching two of them (Vanilla Ice anyone) and my website had a problem and reloaded on Eddie Murphy so that tells you something. But I stopped listening to music back in 2008 and I realized a while ago that the song I picked for Skid Row is now called on radio stations as “classic rock”. Depressing when you realize that when you thought you’re parents music was old is now your kids thinking your music is old. Man - I’m old.
@WTFsunshine i remember several years ago (adding insult to injury) overhearing a kid say ‘nine inch nails? that’s what my parents listen to’ with disdain. it was really…just strange.
i also remember when the ‘oldies’ station played 50s&60s music. now it’s 80s! and the ‘retro lunch’ is 90s music. what even.
but i think the most freaky thing for me is watching 90s fashion come back. chokers, mini backpacks, baggy tshirts, plaid button downs tied around the waist…that’s something that i didn’t consider happening for whatever reason. must be how my parents felt when i started going around in bellbottoms & clogs.
@jerk_nugget You said it just right about the clothes! Still wearing some from high school/college (apparently I’m the same way with my clothing as I am with my socks - why throw out perfectly good items if there’s nothing wrong with them?). But the styles keep rolling around so occasionally I’m on trend. Like Nine Inch Nails too - the song Closer is an incredible sex song! TMI? Sorry… but it is now on classic rock from what I’ve been told - so it’s still out there. 80’s being the oldies now may be true but it just feels wrong.
@WTFsunshine right? then what is all that 50s/60s music now anyway? really super extra oldies? jeez.
and yeah, i wore the same stuff from high school right on through into adulthood until i couldn’t fit in it, but my “style sense” (or lack thereof) is still the same. (and i still have plenty of it boxed away for various purposes.) so to that end, 90s fashion being “in” is kind of useful to me because i’m like “hey, look, stuff i actually want to wear for sale! cheap!”
i also used to raid my parents’ dressers for old tshirts - they had some really cool ones. especially because they don’t make soft tshirts that actually fit anymore (esp 15+ years ago) and these days they cost $$$ which is ridiculous. i’m not paying $60 for a tshirt. but as it turns out if you wear and wash a 20+ year old tshirt regularly for another 10 years it literally starts to disintegrate rip. (and re: being on trend - i’ve actually had a couple people ask me what my method is for tshirt ‘destruction’ lol. because i will wear those old tees to clubs ripped and safety pinned and sewn and whatnot. that always catches me off guard. i’m like ‘…uh…start with a really really old shirt, and when it starts to fall apart put it back together without any skill?’ XD)
and closer is a great sex song, although my favorite nin song for that purpose is their cover of “get down make love” from the sin halo. a bit on the nose maybe, but omg it’s so good.
@jerk_nugget I’m glad I didn’t offend. I couldn’t sleep so I came back down to log on to apologize if I had. Also, I listened to you list below. We have very similar taste and yes get down make love is on the “it’s time for animalistic sex” playlist. I’ll ask my Mom, who has XM radio, what her station is called. She loves the comedy channel apparently- has had to pull over when she get to laughing to hard. A Good Samaritan stopped one time to see if she was okay because they thought she was crying- that’s my Mom for you! Also, guilty of stitching up a seam on a t-shirt because it was so soft and comfy.
@WTFsunshine my partner listens to comedians on pandora, haha. i’m not sure if he’s ever had to pull over because of the giggles, but man i love the mental image of it! XD
and yes i actually had a mix tape in my car that was basically the “doin it” mix, haha. also not like nin at all but another favorite was poe’s “hey pretty” remix.
To avoid excessive radio channel-surfing, my wife and I each have “1 band plus 1 song” we’re allowed to always change without asking the other if it’s OK (avoiding the “hey, what are you doing? I was enjoying that”). My one band is Rod Stewart (had a roommate that would play nothing else and ruined him for me) and my one song is “True”.
@smyle I have a few songs that are emotional triggers and my friends are kind enough to change the station immediately when they come on. The two most painful get a lot of play on the most popular radio station in town. So I just listen to music on my phone via Bluetooth rather than the radio these days when driving.
I used to play ice hockey, and before a game started we had a 5 minute warm-up skate. Our rink had a huge sound system, and I used to slip a cassette with Tubthumping on it into the player just as we hit the ice. GREAT warm-up song to get fired up for the game: “I get knocked down, I get up again…” Brings back some great (muscle) memories.
oasis’ earlier stuff was excellent, and still is. blissful feel good pop rock. definitely maybe is a great album.
definitely had the snow (my friend actually does do a great karaoke version), len, and chumbawumba singles, and henry viii is a great song, my dad played it for me all the time. never really liked hanson but i won’t deny that it was pure catchy popness, everything a boy band should be.
there are other songs i can think of that i just flat out hated that other people seemed to be into - the macarena or eiffel 65’s ‘blue’ for instance. or anything by coldplay.
things that i love that most people hate? man there’s probably plenty (counting crows?) but i’m guessing this tops the list:
My vote was definitely for Skid Row. As far as rock-ballads go, it’s one of the better ones in my opinion. And I’m a sucker for a good hair metal guitar solo!
Plus, there’s always the Sebastian Bach as Gil from Gilmore Girls to keep me entertained whenever my wife is binge-watching girly TV…
wait! i just thought of a few more - the first i always yell when some idiot takes out a guitar (rather than yelling ‘freebird!’)
the second my bff as a kid & i used to listen to alllllll the time. at her wedding maybe ten years ago i begged and drunkenly begged the dj to play it for us and he kept saying he ‘didn’t have it.’ yeah right! who wouldn’t have this classic?
and what about this white person anthem?
or this song whose chorus still gets stuck in my head randomly without cause or warning?
I work at Staples, and for some goddamn reason, all of the music we play is pop hits from the mid-90s to early 2000s. Guys, I didn’t like Closing Time by Semisonic in 1999, and I sure as hell don’t like it any better now.
MmmBop was catchy. Doesn’t necessarily mean it was good.
I just remember someone saying that I looked like the middle Hanson brother. I had to ask if that meant I looked like a guy, or he looked like a girl. Apparently he looked like a girl. My hair was the same length and I was fairly thin then. Guess he could of been my sister.
The Weeknd- Starboy stuck in my head. I love his song and I think it’s his best song. I was looking for his concert schedule and found out that he is going to perform in Lollapalooza festival. I and my friends have already bought tickets and can’t wait for it. PS Muse must be there too.
Just in case, @thumperchick or other staff might want to remove the link in the comment above. Sorry, TC’s the only name I have memorized. Oh, wait. Also @woodhouse.
First two videos are wrong – literally. (Check your links.)
@phendrick OK, that’s better now. (The links; I’m not commenting on the music itself…)
@phendrick made ringtone from your song https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.audiko2.pro
I beg you to pipe a loop of your ukulele recording of “I’m Henry the VIII, I Am” into the White House.
@KDemo Second verse, same as the first!
@PocketBrain a little bit louder and a little bit worse?
@KDemo
Love this song. First pop band I ever saw live in concert.
So there.
@f00l - You may have my portion of whatever amount of this song I’m likely to hear in my lifetime.
@KDemo
K3w3l!
@f00l - You’re welcome!
Nice try, but I’m not listening to fucking Bieber.
Or Hanson.
You have brought shame and disgrace upon your family for generations.
I liked Party All The Time mostly because I thought it was called “Potty All The Time”.
Runner-up:
It was really hard to say no to Eddie Murphy, but man, I had to go with Herman’s Hermits. Just had to. I’m 'enery the eighth I yam, 'enery the eighth I yam I yam…
@Shrdlu
Perfect touch on this list. Songs that suck but the truly terrible is avoided. No Smashmouth, no We Didn’t Start the Fire. Anyway though the choice was tough but think long, think wrong. So Spandau Ballet it is, starting with Tony’s sob-choke delivery of the title.
@borisparsley And thankfully no Nickelback!
@borisparsley And what is wrong with Smashmouth?
@borisparsley i love we didn’t start the fire!
I saw Chumbawumba at the Guinness Fleadh festival in San Jose in 1997 along with Wilco, X (or maybe just members of…), Shane MacGowan, and others I don’t remember. I knew nothing about Chumbawumba aside from Tubthumping and had zero expectations. They ended up being my favorite band by far. I love Wilco and Shane who were both fantastic. But Chumbawumba put on a show. They had full costume changes, theater without pedantry, and social commentary without triteness. I’ve bought most of their albums since and enjoy them all.
And there’s this, of course:
/youtube they might be Giants tubthumping
How sad is it that I could hear all of these songs in my head before I could click on the videos?
@lbcausey …exceedingly?
@lbcausey because that’s how I feel
@lbcausey with the exception of that ‘true’ song and skid row (i don’t think i’ve heard of either) i didn’t need to click any of the videos to hear them either. made me smile though. i mean if you can’t laugh at yourself…
plus, it was the only time i’ve actually heard of more than one song in one of these meh video lineups.
none of em, I was watching this when the product changed
Pretty appropriate header image. We need that stuff to clean out our ears now.
You can deny it, but you can’t ignore it.
List got messed up, somehow Bieber made it on there.
@Ignorant You’re getting renominated for goat.
@narfcake
ASAP
I remember as a kid having a HUGE crush on the woman from Len. Don’t you dare say that song sucks!
My song that sucks, in the same 90’s vein, probably How Bizarre by OMC. There’s just something about it.
@novedrake I mean, just watch this video.
Nora en Pure scored her first hit sampling/remixing Spandau Ballet’s “True” with “Saltwater” and it became a bigger Tropical House hit with her 2015 rework:
I bought the 12 Inches of Snow CD, back in 1993. I loved about every song on that album.
I also had the Len CD
@TheCO2 this 12" vinyl was one of the promotional items I got during my radio tenure:
This looks like a label only but as I recall the one I had was printed on the whole record.
@djslack I’m not even sure why I bought that CD, because it wasn’t a great song and the rest of the CD wasn’t very good, either. Promotional stuff is always awesome, though.
@djslack I absolutely love this.
This was actually a decent playlist. I can’t handle watching Caucasians trying to be “rappers” so I got out of watching two of them (Vanilla Ice anyone) and my website had a problem and reloaded on Eddie Murphy so that tells you something. But I stopped listening to music back in 2008 and I realized a while ago that the song I picked for Skid Row is now called on radio stations as “classic rock”. Depressing when you realize that when you thought you’re parents music was old is now your kids thinking your music is old. Man - I’m old.
@WTFsunshine i remember several years ago (adding insult to injury) overhearing a kid say ‘nine inch nails? that’s what my parents listen to’ with disdain. it was really…just strange.
i also remember when the ‘oldies’ station played 50s&60s music. now it’s 80s! and the ‘retro lunch’ is 90s music. what even.
but i think the most freaky thing for me is watching 90s fashion come back. chokers, mini backpacks, baggy tshirts, plaid button downs tied around the waist…that’s something that i didn’t consider happening for whatever reason. must be how my parents felt when i started going around in bellbottoms & clogs.
@jerk_nugget You said it just right about the clothes! Still wearing some from high school/college (apparently I’m the same way with my clothing as I am with my socks - why throw out perfectly good items if there’s nothing wrong with them?). But the styles keep rolling around so occasionally I’m on trend. Like Nine Inch Nails too - the song Closer is an incredible sex song! TMI? Sorry… but it is now on classic rock from what I’ve been told - so it’s still out there. 80’s being the oldies now may be true but it just feels wrong.
@WTFsunshine right? then what is all that 50s/60s music now anyway? really super extra oldies? jeez.
and yeah, i wore the same stuff from high school right on through into adulthood until i couldn’t fit in it, but my “style sense” (or lack thereof) is still the same. (and i still have plenty of it boxed away for various purposes.) so to that end, 90s fashion being “in” is kind of useful to me because i’m like “hey, look, stuff i actually want to wear for sale! cheap!”
i also used to raid my parents’ dressers for old tshirts - they had some really cool ones. especially because they don’t make soft tshirts that actually fit anymore (esp 15+ years ago) and these days they cost $$$ which is ridiculous. i’m not paying $60 for a tshirt. but as it turns out if you wear and wash a 20+ year old tshirt regularly for another 10 years it literally starts to disintegrate
rip. (and re: being on trend - i’ve actually had a couple people ask me what my method is for tshirt ‘destruction’ lol. because i will wear those old tees to clubs ripped and safety pinned and sewn and whatnot. that always catches me off guard. i’m like ‘…uh…start with a really really old shirt, and when it starts to fall apart put it back together without any skill?’ XD)
and closer is a great sex song, although my favorite nin song for that purpose is their cover of “get down make love” from the sin halo. a bit on the nose maybe, but omg it’s so good.
@jerk_nugget the “get down make love” song is like porn for my ears. Listening to Trent breathing heavily is heaven.
Also. Still have my Downward Spiral t-shirt from high school.
@jerk_nugget I’m glad I didn’t offend. I couldn’t sleep so I came back down to log on to apologize if I had. Also, I listened to you list below. We have very similar taste and yes get down make love is on the “it’s time for animalistic sex” playlist. I’ll ask my Mom, who has XM radio, what her station is called. She loves the comedy channel apparently- has had to pull over when she get to laughing to hard. A Good Samaritan stopped one time to see if she was okay because they thought she was crying- that’s my Mom for you! Also, guilty of stitching up a seam on a t-shirt because it was so soft and comfy.
@WTFsunshine my partner listens to comedians on pandora, haha. i’m not sure if he’s ever had to pull over because of the giggles, but man i love the mental image of it! XD
and yes i actually had a mix tape in my car that was basically the “doin it” mix, haha. also not like nin at all but another favorite was poe’s “hey pretty” remix.
Several of these are better than the usual shit, sadly.
You guys forgot this one…
@Kevin lolol i can name that tune in one note. (and promptly closed the window.)
To avoid excessive radio channel-surfing, my wife and I each have “1 band plus 1 song” we’re allowed to always change without asking the other if it’s OK (avoiding the “hey, what are you doing? I was enjoying that”). My one band is Rod Stewart (had a roommate that would play nothing else and ruined him for me) and my one song is “True”.
@smyle yup - for me this is staind. my partner enjoys this sad bastard music for some inexplicable reason and it makes me want to tuck and roll.
the price i pay is never being able to listen to everclear when he’s in the car
@smyle I have a few songs that are emotional triggers and my friends are kind enough to change the station immediately when they come on. The two most painful get a lot of play on the most popular radio station in town. So I just listen to music on my phone via Bluetooth rather than the radio these days when driving.
@moondrake I mostly listen to podcasts these days. But on long road-trips we listen to the '80’s XM station for some stretches.
Sounds like you’ve got some top-notch friends!
I used to play ice hockey, and before a game started we had a 5 minute warm-up skate. Our rink had a huge sound system, and I used to slip a cassette with Tubthumping on it into the player just as we hit the ice. GREAT warm-up song to get fired up for the game: “I get knocked down, I get up again…” Brings back some great (muscle) memories.
If you can stomach it, listen to Una Paloma Blanca / George Baker.
oasis’ earlier stuff was excellent, and still is. blissful feel good pop rock. definitely maybe is a great album.
definitely had the snow (my friend actually does do a great karaoke version), len, and chumbawumba singles, and henry viii is a great song, my dad played it for me all the time. never really liked hanson but i won’t deny that it was pure catchy popness, everything a boy band should be.
there are other songs i can think of that i just flat out hated that other people seemed to be into - the macarena or eiffel 65’s ‘blue’ for instance. or anything by coldplay.
things that i love that most people hate? man there’s probably plenty (counting crows?) but i’m guessing this tops the list:
@jerk_nugget But without that original, we’d never get this lovely cover
@thejackalope that got posted quicker than i thought it might. you have won one extra internet.
/giphy gold star
@thejackalope My life will never be the same.
My vote was definitely for Skid Row. As far as rock-ballads go, it’s one of the better ones in my opinion. And I’m a sucker for a good hair metal guitar solo!
Plus, there’s always the Sebastian Bach as Gil from Gilmore Girls to keep me entertained whenever my wife is binge-watching girly TV…
wait! i just thought of a few more - the first i always yell when some idiot takes out a guitar (rather than yelling ‘freebird!’)
the second my bff as a kid & i used to listen to alllllll the time. at her wedding maybe ten years ago i begged and drunkenly begged the dj to play it for us and he kept saying he ‘didn’t have it.’ yeah right! who wouldn’t have this classic?
and what about this white person anthem?
or this song whose chorus still gets stuck in my head randomly without cause or warning?
/youtube Jim Carrey Imposter
(Back in the politically incorrect days of In Living Color.)
@narfcake The Popeye stuff killed me!
If I have to pick a Bieber, it’s this one:
Happy to say I don’t remember what any of these sound like. And not gonna tempt fate by pushing Play. No way no how.
Hospitality!
Lords and ladies veer from thee,
Filthy Royalty.
At the risk of being dead wrong about putting this song in among all these other guilty pleasures, here’s one I’ve been listening to recently…
@mrehorst i thought they looked familiar…had not heard that one before though. for me it would have to be:
Guess this one isn’t exactly a guilty pleasure. Not sure there could ever be pleasure involved in the listening.
22 min long
bagpipes
cowboy music
rap by a trained opera singer
children’s choir
pro-Walmart moments
featured guitarist Vernon Reid (Living Colour)
What more could you ever desire, besides deafness?
The Most Unwanted Song
@f00l Is this part of the musical genre Dystopian Discord?
@f00l I think I enjoyed that far more than I was supposed to…
/giphy unexpected pleasure
@f00l btw, the song featuring Vernon Reid, I just learned, was the almost as grating “The most wanted song”, not the unwanted one…
@thejackalope Re-listening to the unwanted song, and the screams accompanying the bagpipes eerily match up with the above giphy.
I work at Staples, and for some goddamn reason, all of the music we play is pop hits from the mid-90s to early 2000s. Guys, I didn’t like Closing Time by Semisonic in 1999, and I sure as hell don’t like it any better now.
@currawong sounds like they listen to the same Muzak station that my job does.
/youtube weird al closing time
Yeah, yeah, it’s nuts, and it’s just a sampling, with random people, but it does have Closing Time in it, and it’s fun!
@Shrdlu that was a fun trip down memory lane.
MmmBop was catchy. Doesn’t necessarily mean it was good.
I just remember someone saying that I looked like the middle Hanson brother. I had to ask if that meant I looked like a guy, or he looked like a girl. Apparently he looked like a girl. My hair was the same length and I was fairly thin then. Guess he could of been my sister.
/youtube The Darkness I Believe In A Thing Called Love
when I just saw Justin Bieber - “Baby” in the list it’s immediately stuck in my head
The Weeknd- Starboy stuck in my head. I love his song and I think it’s his best song. I was looking for his concert schedule and found out that he is going to perform in Lollapalooza festival. I and my friends have already bought tickets and can’t wait for it. PS Muse must be there too.
Just in case, @thumperchick or other staff might want to remove the link in the comment above. Sorry, TC’s the only name I have memorized. Oh, wait. Also @woodhouse.