Decent Songs by Rubbish Bands
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@majorrage said in Decent Songs by Rubbish Bands:
There's quite a few songs on the trip albums which would qualify here. This band ma have a few other good ones, but I've always struggled to get into theme beyond this The River.
Yeah I tried hard to get in to the tea party but rest of album was pretty meh. Still listening to heaps of 90s grungy rock at the moment.
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@kruse this one?
I like it, but possibly due to sentimentality as it was on radio alot when TR Jnr was born and it often calmed him and I have it as the soundtrack to a clip I made of him as a baby to send to in-laws.
I can't recall anything else of thiers i like.
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@taniwharugby said in Decent Songs by Rubbish Bands:
@kruse this one?
I like it, but possibly due to sentimentality as it was on radio alot when TR Jnr was born and it often calmed him and I have it as the soundtrack to a clip I made of him as a baby to send to in-laws.
I can't recall anything else of thiers i like.
Yeah - that was probably it. Absolutely super-cringey bollocks, but you can see how it would be popular, especially if it coincided with certain life events.
Which brings me to another category of music, probably doesn't warrant it's own thread, but worth a digression...
Songs that my mate(s) decided would define moments of their life, or certain summers, or whatever - but were fucking shit and/or irritating-as-shit-when-played-20-times-a-fucking-day.
I had me mate who put me through the following for one reason or another:- Puff Daddy's cover of I'll Be Missing You
- Savage Garden - something about a mountain?
- No Doubt with Don't Speak
- I can't think of the others, but there were more.
Before anybody else suggests it - yes, he is already dead, and yeah, fair enough.
I'm not even going to go into when one gets to one's university years, and an entire hostel is filled with the sounds of Live's Lightning Crashes whinging out from every room for a couple of months (holy shit... emotions!), only to be replaced by goddamn Oasis.
And I'm not claiming to be immune... I fucking own a legitimate copy of a Live CD, and What's the Story. But even I got sick to goddamn-death of that shit at the time. -
I goddam fucking HATE Lightning Crashes.
As much as I hate that fucking Zombies song.
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Reading this thread, you realise what a thin line there is between loving a song or hating it sometimes.
Arms Wide Open is about 10x better if you've never seen that video. Lightning Crashes is tolerable if you remember being at uni, lying flat on your back, pissed and stoned off your nut, belting it out at the top of your lungs just to take your mind off the world spinning green around you.
Good times
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@bones said in Decent Songs by Rubbish Bands:
All Over You is alright though eh...
I like a few Live songs
Just not fucking lightning fucking crashes
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@bones said in Decent Songs by Rubbish Bands:
@kruse that reminded me of going to see Dire Straits On Every Street and really liking the support band - Hothouse Flowers. Can't for the life of me remember what song struck a chord...but I've just googled and they're Irish (not Aussie as I thought) so I'm not interested in finding out.
Don’t go.
You’re welcome
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@majorrage said in Decent Songs by Rubbish Bands:
There's quite a few songs on the trip albums which would qualify here. This band ma have a few other good ones, but I've always struggled to get into theme beyond this The River.
I really liked these guys. Cool Rocky guitar with a bit of middle eastern shit thrown in ( just for @Bones ) and a singer who sounded identical to Jim Morrison. They shoulda been the biggest band of their era. Funny how things turn out.
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@bones said in Decent Songs by Rubbish Bands:
Are Spacehog actually any good? Because In The Meantime is aaaaaabsolutely top notch listening, but I've never heard anything else.
Same with Gerry Rafferty. Or am I just going down the one hit wonders list?
Rafferty has some bangers (Right Down the Line) and was a very good song writer.
Spacehog were absolutely one hit wonders. Not a fit for this thread.
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@mn5 said in Decent Songs by Rubbish Bands:
@majorrage said in Decent Songs by Rubbish Bands:
There's quite a few songs on the trip albums which would qualify here. This band ma have a few other good ones, but I've always struggled to get into theme beyond this The River.
I really liked these guys. Cool Rocky guitar with a bit of middle eastern shit thrown in ( just for @Bones ) and a singer who sounded identical to Jim Morrison. They shoulda been the biggest band of their era. Funny how things turn out.
The Tea Party might sound a bit cringe now, but they had some good songs on several albums.
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@mariner4life said in Decent Songs by Rubbish Bands:
I goddam fucking HATE Lightning Crashes.
As much as I hate that fucking Zombies song.
Both awful cringe songs.
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@mn5 said in Decent Songs by Rubbish Bands:
@majorrage said in Decent Songs by Rubbish Bands:
There's quite a few songs on the trip albums which would qualify here. This band ma have a few other good ones, but I've always struggled to get into theme beyond this The River.
I really liked these guys. Cool Rocky guitar with a bit of middle eastern shit thrown in ( just for @Bones ) and a singer who sounded identical to Jim Morrison. They shoulda been the biggest band of their era. Funny how things turn out.
I saw them at the Powerstation in Auckland, they were at the end of their tour and they sucked until the last couple of tunes.
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@mariner4life Ironically, I've never really had a problem with either of the two bands you mention.
I've not forgotten the first time I heard Creed. My Own Prison was on the radio and I was driving with a couple of mates to get F & C. It started and it all went quiet, then we continued to sit and listen after arrival til the song ended. AT which point we were all like WTF was that ... totally awesome. Used to regularly listen to my own prison going across the Kaimai's between home and uni.
Nickelback ... they have some catchy tunes, everybody just needs to accept that. Yeah, they are in it for the money, but so what. As I sit here between meetings about utterly pointless shit that nobody gives a fuck about, they play huge gigs across Canada and a few other parts ....
They had one thing in common though. A massive image problem across their target markets.
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@mariner4life said in Decent Songs by Rubbish Bands:
@bones said in Decent Songs by Rubbish Bands:
All Over You is alright though eh...
I like a few Live songs
Just not fucking lightning fucking crashes
Sounds a brill song title to me. About breakup sex orgasms in a moving car while stoned or something.
