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post #51 of 185
11/30/07 at 12:39pm
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Originally Posted by RathBandu
"She doesn't own a dress, her hair is always a mess..."
I can't even remember what the song you're quoting sounds like, but if the rhyme is at issue, I feel it should be pointed out that Bowie rhymed the same two words in "Rebel Rebel."

I am not(!!!) defending Train here, by the way. I just think true terrible-ness must be earned by more than a lazy rhyme.
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post #52 of 185
11/30/07 at 12:48pm
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Originally Posted by Mattioli
Four years straight? What were you, the Mayor of Chumbatown?
Where is that located?!?! I must go!

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I am not(!!!) defending Train here, by the way. I just think true terrible-ness must be earned by more than a lazy rhyme.[
My room-mate insists that songs with an AABB, or an ABAB rhyme scheme are automatically inferior. Just because something ain't Shakespeare doesn't make it inherently bad.

I actually do enjoy 'Meet Virginia', but damn if the lead singer isn't kind of a jerk.
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post #53 of 185
11/30/07 at 1:03pm
Thread Starter 
It's like comparing apples to pieces of apple in my shit, but "Drops of Jupiter" is a far less annoying Train song.
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post #54 of 185
11/30/07 at 1:06pm
I've been handing out rep like candy in this thread.
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post #55 of 185
11/30/07 at 1:14pm
There is no worse song than "If It Makes You Happy" by that harpy who used to sing backup for Don Henley. She goes flat during the chorus, and it's nails on chalkboard time for the whole length of the song.

That record label's PR reps must have blown every music programmer in American radio - it's the only reason I can imagine why this song got any play.
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post #56 of 185
11/30/07 at 1:19pm
You're beautiful, it's true.
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post #57 of 185
11/30/07 at 1:24pm
Luca has reminded me: James Blunt is the animated essence of all whiny pop crap, combined into one very ugly British man. His album made me (who loves mopey, whining balladry) actually scream "Grow a pair!". Compared to James Blunt, Damien Rice sounds like Ted Nugent.
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post #58 of 185
11/30/07 at 1:31pm
"Worst" doesn't mean "most overplayed"...c'mon people, you're telling me NONE of you liked James Blunt, Smashmouth, John Mayer, Train, Chumbawumba, etc. the first few times you heard them? Ok, maybe not "liked", but you didn't vehemently hate them....did you?

Whereas, from the first moment "Who Let the Dogs Out" played, I hated it. I definitely think this one contends for the worst. "My Humps" i'd throw in a vote for as well, as I'd heard about its popularity before I actually heard the song, so the first time I heard it I couldn't believe how utterly retarded it was.
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post #59 of 185
11/30/07 at 1:35pm
Actually, I liked James Blunt the first time I heard it. The more I listened to it, the more I hated it. Now, I legitimately hate it. Whatever the name of the song is, it's one of my least favorite of all time.

But, airplay is a huge factor in this. I'm sure I could go on myspace music and find absolutely wretched attempts to create pop music that put the Black Eyed Peas to shame. But, that's a tree falling in the forest with no one around. I actually don't hate all the groups you list up there, but I can't blame someone for hating them. It's the other commenters who will help show us which ones are valid calls and which ones aren't.

EDIT: I always hated Chumbawumba. The trumpet part creeped me out. Or whatever horn that is playing solo.
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post #60 of 185
11/30/07 at 1:45pm
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Originally Posted by LisaNewYork
A little Nickleback, anyone?

"How did our eyes get so red,
and what the hell is that on joey's head?"

Ooohhh, so bad. So really really awful.

Oh! Great choice! I am ashamed that I didn't think of it. Truly horrible song made worse because Chad Kroeger comes accross too earnest, as if the song is a truly deep reflection of life.
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post #61 of 185
11/30/07 at 1:46pm
Thread Starter 
It's a trumpet, the LD, and it's awesome.
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post #62 of 185
11/30/07 at 1:56pm
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Originally Posted by Soul Ahn Ice
"Worst" doesn't mean "most overplayed"...c'mon people, you're telling me NONE of you liked James Blunt, Smashmouth, John Mayer, Train, Chumbawumba, etc. the first few times you heard them? Ok, maybe not "liked", but you didn't vehemently hate them....did you?
I hated everything you listed as soon as I heard them. Chumbawumba and Smash Mouth especially. I'll also add Semi-Charmed Life by 3rd Eye Blind (I know a lot of people think that song is good, and you people are fucking retarded) and anything by The Barenaked Ladies.
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post #63 of 185
11/30/07 at 2:01pm
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Originally Posted by radical friends
anything by The Barenaked Ladies.


Anything? Because I am an unabashed fan of their 90's catalog.
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post #64 of 185
11/30/07 at 2:03pm
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Originally Posted by Soul Ahn Ice
what about Black Eyed Peas "Let's Get it Started" or "Let's Get Retarded"...radio friendly version or not, I fucking hate that song.
See, that's a song where stupid lyrics (very literally) are tempered by a great beat.

Still, though, I don't see how any of these picks can touch "Inside Out". It's the total package: inane lyrics, overly earnest delivery, instrumentals that would have the Ramones rolling their eyes. There is no part of that song that it shouldn't humiliate that ginger-headed tool to think about.
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post #65 of 185
11/30/07 at 2:05pm
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Originally Posted by radical friends
and anything by The Barenaked Ladies.
Whoa there, boy. Them's fightin' words.
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post #66 of 185
11/30/07 at 2:08pm
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Originally Posted by radical friends
I'll also add Semi-Charmed Life by 3rd Eye Blind (I know a lot of people think that song is good, and you people are fucking retarded) and anything by The Barenaked Ladies.
Okay, I'll admit to Third Eye Blind being a guilty pleasure of mine, but there is no way Semi-Charmed Life is near the worst. It's at worst a very competent pop tune, and actually has a decent concept in that the sound is fluffy but the lyrics are about hard drug use.
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post #67 of 185
11/30/07 at 2:19pm
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Originally Posted by Doc Happenin
My room-mate insists that songs with an AABB, or an ABAB rhyme scheme are automatically inferior. Just because something ain't Shakespeare doesn't make it inherently bad.
Your roommate doesn't know what he's talking about. I have a problem with people like Trent Reznor who go for the easiest, obvious rhymes EVERY time, but most popular music that rhymes at all is in AABB, ABAB, or ABCB. Porter, Gershwin, Dylan, Springsteen, Costello, Waits... basically, the best lyricists of the 20th century all used (or use) these rhyme schemes or some slight variation on them with great regularity.

Meter is generally very flexible in pop music, and line breaks are a little fuzzier, but I bet you'll see a lot of rhyming words at the ends of those lines, and I'll wager the schemes are not ABBC BCCB CDC (for instance).
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post #68 of 185
11/30/07 at 2:21pm
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Originally Posted by Schwartz
Okay, I'll admit to Third Eye Blind being a guilty pleasure of mine, but there is no way Semi-Charmed Life is near the worst. It's at worst a very competent pop tune, and actually has a decent concept in that the sound is fluffy lyrics are about hard drug use.
While I find the "do-do-do" refrain irritating, I do have to admit some admiration for the slight subversiveness of that one, too.
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post #69 of 185
11/30/07 at 2:25pm
Yeah, I just went and read the lyrics...

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Originally Posted by That Idiot Stephen Jenkins
I'm packed and I'm holding,
I'm smiling, she's living, she's golden and
she lives for me, She says she lives for me,
Ovation, She's got her own motivation,
she comes round and she goes down on me,
And I make her smile, It's like a drug for you,
Do ever what you want to do,
Coming over you,
Keep on smiling,
what we go through.
The fact that he got that on the radio...I'm kinda impressed. Although, Liz Phair and Justin Timberlake both managed to the the F-word played consistently on pop radio. Not sure which is more impressive.
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post #70 of 185
11/30/07 at 2:53pm
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Originally Posted by Soul Ahn Ice
"Worst" doesn't mean "most overplayed"...c'mon people, you're telling me NONE of you liked James Blunt, Smashmouth, John Mayer, Train, Chumbawumba, etc. the first few times you heard them? Ok, maybe not "liked", but you didn't vehemently hate them....did you?
Usually, feeling passionately (one way or the other) about a song does take a number of listens for me, often spread across time as well. But every once in a while I can get an instant read on a song after the very first play.

I actually have a flashbulb memory of hearing the aforementioned Five For Fighting sonic abortion "100 Years". I can remember hearing it in the car while en route to pick up my wife, the hate pouring fast and freely into me, and being able to tell her moments later how I had just experienced unadulterated awfulness.

Fortunately, I also have positive vivid memories such as hearing Radiohead's "The National Anthem" for the first time, so at least some level of synaptic balance is achieved.
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post #71 of 185
11/30/07 at 2:53pm
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Originally Posted by Martin Savage
Chumbawamba with "Tubthumping"

Fuck that song. Along with Lavigne.
This was my first as well. Back in the day it deceived me at first, but it wasn't long before it pounded my brain into a sweet oblivion (courtesy of Eve 6). It makes my blood itch now, and that is a truly horrible, horrible sensation...

That Eve 6 song never bothered me too much. There is definitely worse eardrum abusing dreck out there. It makes me sad to think of the radio waves beaming out into space that may be assaulting alien earholes. If the earth is ever decimated by space invaders somewhere in the back of my mind I will remain convinced that one of the horrible songs mentioned here is responsible.

edit to add: I see soem love here for Tubthumping, so I will try to elaborate. It's well crafted to a degree and fun at first, but it is repetitive... Now, lots of songs are repetitive, but Tubthumping is somewhat hypnotic or something in its repetitiveness, in such a way that it now drives me insane after a while now... I can't listen to it now and I even bough the cd back in the day. Can't remember any other songs on it though...
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post #72 of 185
11/30/07 at 2:56pm
"Butterfly Kisses" in a rout.
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post #73 of 185
11/30/07 at 3:12pm
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Originally Posted by Justin Clark

Most club/trance music is benign. Reggae and dancehall are malignant. Bad hip-hop is metastatic. My Humps is the Middle Finger of God.
You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Justin Clark again.
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post #74 of 185
11/30/07 at 3:12pm
I continue to stand by my selection of "My Humps", but this, this right here, is the sound of my insanity.
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post #75 of 185
11/30/07 at 3:18pm
no idea who the song is by or if it qualifies as a hit, but I've heard it a few times while surfing radio stations on long road trips. all I really remember about it is that it sounds a bit like that Breakfast at Tiffanys song and it has a line that goes something like "I like to read and she likes to write and I like to sleep and she likes to stay up at night" and it makes me want to switch over to the Mariachi channels and never switch back.
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post #76 of 185
11/30/07 at 3:25pm
This wasn't a hit, but it has to be the worst wannabe hit pop song in a long while:

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

You're welcome for the link. I hope it makes your day/weekend/universend.
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post #77 of 185
11/30/07 at 3:32pm
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Originally Posted by AlmightyShmun
Whoa there, boy. Them's fightin' words.

Then I'll fight you over it.
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post #78 of 185
11/30/07 at 3:38pm
"How To Save A Life" by the Fray was an abomination when I was only hearing it, having to watch the video, almost constantly, at work made me loathe those fucking fey muppets so very, very, very, much.

There's just something awfully manipulative and corporate and plastic about the song and it just riles me up.
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post #79 of 185
11/30/07 at 3:44pm
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Originally Posted by radical friends
Then I'll fight you over it.
What grates on your nerves so badly about Barenaked?
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post #80 of 185
11/30/07 at 3:46pm
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Originally Posted by Kevin Matchstick
This wasn't a hit, but it has to be the worst wannabe hit pop song in a long while:

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

You're welcome for the link. I hope it makes your day/weekend/universend.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGHGGGHGHGHG. You win!
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post #81 of 185
11/30/07 at 3:51pm
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Originally Posted by C.Swicegood
What grates on your nerves so badly about Barenaked?
I can't put my finger on it, and really, the only song I can think of by them is that fucking "one week" song. But I hate that song with every inch of my being.

Also, I fight like a girl.
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post #82 of 185
11/30/07 at 3:56pm
I'd have to go with the others above and say that BN Ladies' catalog greatly eclipses the atrocity that is "One Week"....

...and also, overplaying may be the essence of a bad pop song, but it can't be the ONLY reason you hate an otherwise good or just acceptably subpar song. There has to be something inherently bad about it. But I may be overthinking the science of what makes a bad song.

But we can all agree that what Kevin Matchstick posted is definitively fucking terrible. holy mother of god.
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post #83 of 185
11/30/07 at 4:00pm
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Originally Posted by Disciple_72
no idea who the song is by or if it qualifies as a hit, but I've heard it a few times while surfing radio stations on long road trips. all I really remember about it is that it sounds a bit like that Breakfast at Tiffanys song and it has a line that goes something like "I like to read and she likes to write and I like to sleep and she likes to stay up at night" and it makes me want to switch over to the Mariachi channels and never switch back.
OAR - Hey Girl

Yeah, that does sound a lot like Breakfast at Tiffany's...

I'll throw in 'Umbrella', just because dammit, um-brell-a! Not um-ba-rell-a. And we wonder why the kids these days speak like they're from another world.
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post #84 of 185
11/30/07 at 4:01pm
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Originally Posted by Quarant
This on the other hand: Eiffel 65 - Blue
For a while there, Penn State was cranking this through the loud speakers at Beaver Stadium. I seriously considered transfering.
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post #85 of 185
11/30/07 at 4:03pm
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Originally Posted by Kevin Matchstick
This wasn't a hit, but it has to be the worst wannabe hit pop song in a long while:

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

You're welcome for the link. I hope it makes your day/weekend/universend.
I made it through one verse and almost a whole chorus. My respect and sympathies to those of you who made it through the whole thing.
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post #86 of 185
11/30/07 at 4:05pm
On the plus side, I've now seen the error of my popped collars and iphone. Until that video, I could never understand why sub-American Idol singers refused to talk to me.
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post #87 of 185
11/30/07 at 4:07pm
Verse and a half. What the hell...
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post #88 of 185
11/30/07 at 4:08pm
Christ, I forgot about that fucking O.A.R. song. I worked in the electronics section of Target when that was "big" and heard it about 20 times a day.

On the subject of overplay: when I first heard "Tubthumping" and "All Star", I thought they were just shitty radio commercial jingles because they're both so mediocre. I was irritated enough when they kept going and I realized they were actual songs, and that irritation increased a thousand fold. Hearing both in every single comedy trailer for the next couple years didn't help either.
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post #89 of 185
11/30/07 at 4:09pm
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Originally Posted by Doc Happenin
I'll throw in 'Umbrella', just because dammit, um-brell-a! Not um-ba-rell-a. And we wonder why the kids these days speak like they're from another world.
You're mad. "Umbrella" is a great song. I'm wondering, thinking back to songs that used to drive me mad: Daft Punk "Celebrate (One More Time)" .....bad song, or just overplayed song?

And man we haven't even started with the MOTHERFUCKING VENGABOYS. "Boom Boom Boom Boom", "We Like To Party"....kill me now.
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post #90 of 185
11/30/07 at 4:12pm
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Originally Posted by Soul Ahn Ice
I'd have to go with the others above and say that BN Ladies' catalog greatly eclipses the atrocity that is "One Week"....
I've heard others make this argument. I can't claim to have heard a substantial portion of their output, but if what their defenders say is true, then they can at least be condemned for not releasing the good stuff and unleashing upon the public not just "One Week," but "If I Had a Million Dollars" (a transgression that makes "One Week" come off like the bastard offspring of "Be My Baby," "Like A Rolling Stone," "A Day in the Life" and "Born to Run").
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post #91 of 185
11/30/07 at 4:19pm
Having been forced to listen to BNL on various occasions, I always got the impression that songs like "If I Had a Million Dollars" and "One Week" fit perfectly well into the rest of their oeurve.
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post #92 of 185
11/30/07 at 4:21pm
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Originally Posted by DaveB
...and unleashing upon the public not just "One Week," but "If I Had a Million Dollars" (a transgression that makes "One Week" come off like the bastard offspring of "Be My Baby," "Like A Rolling Stone," "A Day in the Life" and "Born to Run").
I knew there was another reason I hated them.

I hate "One Week" more, though, because it was in that car commercial with people singing along instead of vomiting.
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post #93 of 185
11/30/07 at 4:22pm
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Originally Posted by radical friends
Christ, I forgot about that fucking O.A.R. song. I worked in the electronics section of Target when that was "big" and heard it about 20 times a day.
Try going to Ohio State, where that atrocity of a band formed. It's all "Crazy Game of Poker" ALL THE TIME. Maddening.
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post #94 of 185
11/30/07 at 4:23pm
In terms of actual merit, Trio's "DA DA DA" from the popular Volkswagen commercial? Not as charming when repeated ad nauseum for 5 minutes.
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post #95 of 185
11/30/07 at 4:31pm
Since I think it's easy to pick songs from bands that were either one-hit wonders (Eiffel 65, Aqua, etc.) or are now hated (Third Eye Blind), I'd like to nominate 'Scar Tissue' from RHCP. I'm not a fan on their newer materials, anyways (though I'm entranced by the VH1-HD presentation of their concert in Madrid - I just can't pull away), they're still a huge band. It was Scar Tissue that really opened my eyes to how bad they've gotten post-BloodSugarSexMagic. A simple bass loop played over and over for three and a half minutes with some of the worst high-school poet lyrics you've ever heard. Just terrible, terrible music.
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post #96 of 185
11/30/07 at 4:38pm
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Originally Posted by Soul Ahn Ice
You're mad. "Umbrella" is a great song.
Oh, I agree with that, actually. Wonderful song. But that one sticking point just grinds it to a halt for me. Everything else about it, I'm totally fine with.

"Call and Answer", in my opinion, more than makes up for any transgression on BNL's behalf.
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post #97 of 185
11/30/07 at 4:39pm
My brain WANTS so badly to agree with you, GFC, you have no idea. And yet every single time I hear Dani California on the radio, I lose the ability to turn dials.

RHCP has become the very model of a radio band. They're the Pez candy of music. Perfectly harmless, but shameful from the perspective of where they once were.

Oh, and now that I don't hear them every 30 seconds like I used to, Third Eye Blind isn't nearly the ear molestation they were back in 99/2000.
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post #98 of 185
11/30/07 at 4:46pm
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Originally Posted by Guttenberg Fan Club
It was Scar Tissue that really opened my eyes to how bad they've gotten post-BloodSugarSexMagic. A simple bass loop played over and over for three and a half minutes with some of the worst high-school poet lyrics you've ever heard. Just terrible, terrible music.
For me it was "Californication," A boring song that goes on forever. There was a day when I was flipping channels on the radio and that same, terrible song was on three different stations. It was around then that I also realized I never really liked RHCP to begin with.
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post #99 of 185
11/30/07 at 4:46pm
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Originally Posted by Justin Clark
My brain WANTS so badly to agree with you, GFC, you have no idea. And yet every single time I hear Dani California on the radio, I lose the ability to turn dials.

RHCP has become the very model of a radio band. They're the Pez candy of music. Perfectly harmless, but shameful from the perspective of where they once were.
I can't disagree with that, and most of their current output is still miles better than 'Scar Tissue', but that song just killed them for me.
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post #100 of 185
11/30/07 at 4:59pm
Every time I see this thread I immediately think of "This is Why I'm Hot" by Mims.

It may not be the worst, but damn does it suck.
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