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Bands you secretly love but everyone else hates

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kiwi pie wrote:
Hard News wrote:
Oi, Surge. No !
 
"I admire Mark Knopfler's guitar ability and appreciate his brand of contemporary MOR white man's rhythm and blues, and all the work he's done for the headband industry, but if he came round my gaff, all lagered up and frightening the missus, I'd say, "Oi! Knopfler, no!" and give 'im a slap!"


Particularly if he pulled out the striped strides and headband again!!!





E + R + O

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Gooner 4 Life wrote:
kiwi pie wrote:
......also Billie Jean kicks arse too.......
 
Chris Cornell's version certainly does.
 
And Shinehead's, in a very loose, gonna-fall-apart-at-any-minute kind of way.
 

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After youtubing both those versions I'm gonna have to go with Shinehead...
 
CC's v. sounds like Creed meets Nickleback.....
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kiwi pie wrote:
Creed meets Nickleback.....


If those dots aren't followed by "in a joint machine gun suicide plot" I am bitterly disappointed.

How's my driving? - Whine here

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This is probaby more in the category of "guilty pleasures" than "bands you secretly love but everyone else hates" but I like The Beach Boys and The Mamas And The Papas. Even if it's just for "God Only Knows" and "California Dreamin'" respectively, which are two of my favourite singles ever. John Phillips' vocal on "California Dreamin'" is pure soul.
 
I also love "Informer" by Snow. It's a monstrous dancehall killer and I never understood why the guy took so much crap for it (apart from being a nerdy, white Canadian wearing glasses and singing in a Jamaican patois).
 
 
 

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Do you own "12 inches of Snow"?
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Hard News wrote:
kiwi pie wrote:
Creed meets Nickleback.....


If those dots aren't followed by "in a joint machine gun suicide plot" I am bitterly disappointed.
 
 
 
"Hard News in side-splitting humour shock."
Nix, Leyton Orient and Alloa Athletic supporting schmuck.

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One thing I've never got are the accolades festooned upon the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds album. It's rated by many as the greatest album ever released. how? Why? I'm not saying there is anything wrong with the band - some great pop in their day - but Pet Sounds is a bland mish-mash of bad ideas. And a godawful title and cover too.

Nix, Leyton Orient and Alloa Athletic supporting schmuck.

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I like a lot of Dancehall. Now that's a confession. Cheesy stuff too, like Red Rat and Beenie Man.
Nix, Leyton Orient and Alloa Athletic supporting schmuck.

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kiwi pie wrote:
Do you own "12 inches of Snow"?


Nah, just a CD single version I picked up somewhere.

Flesh D-Vice did that joke years earlier with "12 Inches of Hard Flesh" anyway.

Ahhh, Flesh D-Vice. Happy days. I've said it before "Flaming Soul" is the second best Phoenix theme tune after "Phoenix City". Don't burn out on me...

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Gary Glitter. Funny how you never hear him on the radio any more.
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Not rock, but seeing as Dido is in here (hot btw), I own Barry White's greatest hits... When you can sing along to Barry with your missus, how can it be bad?
 
 
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Your wife must have a deep voice then Rainman!

Apparently I'm apathetic, but I couldn't care less.

"Being a Partick Thistle fan sets you apart. It means youre a free thinker. It also means your team has no money." Tim Luckhurst, The Independent, 4th December 2003

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girl I don't know, I don't know why......
 
Ah, The Walrus Of Love, you gotta love him!
 
..and strangely enough, I'm currently listening to the Fun Loving Criminals singing about Barry White.
Jag2008-07-18 11:18:58

Apparently I'm apathetic, but I couldn't care less.

"Being a Partick Thistle fan sets you apart. It means youre a free thinker. It also means your team has no money." Tim Luckhurst, The Independent, 4th December 2003

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ok im surprised no one has said like genesis or phil collins or peter gabriel... i wasnt born in that era but love their music
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wainuis finest wrote:
ok im surprised no one has said like genesis or phil collins or peter gabriel... i wasnt born in that era but love their music
 
Where are ya News. Mentioning P**l C*****s in a music thread surely deserves the Banstick

Apparently I'm apathetic, but I couldn't care less.

"Being a Partick Thistle fan sets you apart. It means youre a free thinker. It also means your team has no money." Tim Luckhurst, The Independent, 4th December 2003

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jag, as a fellow referee lol, im sure you can let me off lol
in the air tonight is good, and love when it gets the p*** taken out of it with the gorilla
wainuis finest2008-07-18 11:29:25
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Jag wrote:
Where are ya News. Mentioning P**l C*****s in a music thread surely deserves the Banstick


Feverish is a big fan.  Need I say more ?

How's my driving? - Whine here

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wainuis finest wrote:
jag, as a fellow referee lol, im sure you can let me off lol
in the air tonight is good, and love when it gets the p*** taken out of it with the gorilla
 
Stop talking now.
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kiwi pie wrote:
wainuis finest wrote:
jag, as a fellow referee lol, im sure you can let me off lol
in the air tonight is good, and love when it gets the p*** taken out of it with the gorilla
 
Stop talking now.
 
   

Apparently I'm apathetic, but I couldn't care less.

"Being a Partick Thistle fan sets you apart. It means youre a free thinker. It also means your team has no money." Tim Luckhurst, The Independent, 4th December 2003

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I found a Judas Priest video in the cupboard recently and watched it again. At least it stayed in there longer than Rob Halford.
I can't imagine what they'd look like or sound like in Auckland in e few months
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I'll let you know, cos I'll be there.
 
 

Apparently I'm apathetic, but I couldn't care less.

"Being a Partick Thistle fan sets you apart. It means youre a free thinker. It also means your team has no money." Tim Luckhurst, The Independent, 4th December 2003

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Amazing selection here, I lurched from glam rock to punk to disco then new romantics then heavy metal, music stopped for me around 1986.
did someone mention Slade?  Anyone heard of The Sweet.  Al Kooper (Making Plans for Nigel)
Does anyone know how dismantle a car CD, Billy Joel has been stuck in there for about a year, I've heard "Scenes from an Italian Restaurant" about 500 times.
Now that I've got kids, must admit Christine Aguillera sounds good (hangs head in shame)....
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I'm not sure I like the band, but I like 48 May's track Leather and Tattoos.

I really shouldn't.

(Digging this up as I just heard the track sandwiched between Rhombus and Shapeshifter).

How's my driving? - Whine here

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I don't venture into off topic very often and this is exactly why.  Hard News at his nerdy, bespectacled, train spotting best.
 
GEEK.

Incredible stamina. No shame. Yellow Fever.

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Hard News wrote:
I'm not sure I like the band, but I like 48 May's track Leather and Tattoos.

I really shouldn't.



No you shouldn't cause it's sh*t.

Three for me, and two for them.

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Sylvester
Imagination
KC & the Sunshine Band
Profile pic. Should you be interested. Lakhsen, on the right, lost touch with him.
Mohammed, on the left, I'm still in touch with. He's now living in Agadez, Niger. More focused on his animals now as tourism has dried up. Is active with a co-op promoting local goods, leather work and bijouterie, into Europe. 
20/5/20

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dairyflat wrote:
Sylvester
Imagination
KC & the Sunshine Band


Sorry man, I like them too.
And Shalamar
and Kool & the Gang
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miley Cyrus
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Miley is better. She sings about real life situations, like how here heart cant rest til she redeems herself, next time she hangs out.

I can really feel her pain.
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Three for me, and two for them.

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Hard News wrote:
Miley or Hannah ?
 
i'm not selective there news, although she/they just turned 16 which adds a whole new dimension to her/them
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Bevan wrote:

Sorry man, I like them too.
And Shalamar
and Kool & the Gang
 
Shalamar? That one shining moment must be  - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVAm_obRPQ8
 
Profile pic. Should you be interested. Lakhsen, on the right, lost touch with him.
Mohammed, on the left, I'm still in touch with. He's now living in Agadez, Niger. More focused on his animals now as tourism has dried up. Is active with a co-op promoting local goods, leather work and bijouterie, into Europe. 
20/5/20

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Gangsta! wrote:
Miley is better. She sings about real life situations, like how here heart cant rest til she redeems herself, next time she hangs out.

I can really feel her pain.


I think her acting and the associated TV show is much under-rated as an example of the frustrations of youth.

Well, youth who grow up with an alter-ego that is a huge teen popstar.  Something we can all relate to.

How's my driving? - Whine here

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Delta goodrem
Tatu
enya
madonna
Shakira
I think that's all my dirty little secrets. I used to like Aha as well.

Maybe I overdid it.... I like Korn, Seether, Disturbed and Dimmu Borgier as well, does that balance things out?

"Well, youth who grow up with an alter-ego that is a huge teen popstar.  Something we can all relate to."

Yellow Fever the musical?

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Since when did everyone hate Shakira? She's fooking awesome!!!

Three for me, and two for them.

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