Moon Cat
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Re: Top ten worst ever rock ballads
Aug 08, 2012, 13:51
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Boo Radleys?
Though I do like the 'hit' as a song.
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IanB
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Re: Top ten worst ever rock ballads
Aug 08, 2012, 13:57
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Moon Cat wrote: Boo Radleys?
Though I do like the 'hit' as a song.
Whatever happened to that band with the singer who looked like he should be in Birdland and had a hit with that "Creep" song?
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Toni Torino
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Edited Aug 08, 2012, 14:05
Re: Top ten worst ever rock ballads
Aug 08, 2012, 14:04
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IanB wrote: Moon Cat wrote: Boo Radleys?
Though I do like the 'hit' as a song.
Whatever happened to that band with the singer who looked like he should be in Birdland and had a hit with that "Creep" song?
Creep always reminds me of Sugar Baby Love. Or perhaps The Air That I Breathe.
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Moon Cat
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Re: Top ten worst ever rock ballads
Aug 08, 2012, 14:05
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IanB wrote: Moon Cat wrote: Boo Radleys?
Though I do like the 'hit' as a song.
Whatever happened to that band with the singer who looked like he should be in Birdland and had a hit with that "Creep" song?
Bit of a weirdo as I recall. Think they split up when the follow up "Happy Happy La La La" failed to chart.
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Moon Cat
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Re: Top ten worst ever rock ballads
Aug 08, 2012, 14:51
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In a bid to blow the Irony-Meter to pieces, the place where I'm typing this from is playing Bon Jovi's "Always".
8^)
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Popel Vooje
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Re: Top ten worst ever rock ballads
Aug 08, 2012, 16:55
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Moon Cat wrote: Surely one of the very few positives about getting old is the freedom, the exhilarating liberation, to say "I like (insert certain song of your choice here) and I don't give a fuck!"
Hmmm ... let's see how watertight your conviction is.
I like "Milennium Prayer" by Cliff Richard and I don't give a fuck!
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IanB
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Edited Aug 09, 2012, 07:57
Re: Top ten worst ever rock ballads
Aug 09, 2012, 07:40
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keith a wrote: Moon Cat wrote: wychburyman wrote: Lawrence wrote: Sad Cafe were one of those Manchester England cult bands, the kind only really talked about in that area (I suppose.) If it wasn't for the Buzzcocks and Joy Division, that would be the only thing the city would be known for.
hahahhahha. I forgot about Sad Cafe. Didn't they do a song called "my oh my" as well?
Slade did a song called "My oh My" if that's what your're thinking of praps?
No, WBM is right - Sad Cafe did have a single called My Oh My. A top 20 hit in 1980. A bit Stonesy IIRC.
At the risk of losing that final tiny oz of credibility I really liked their first album, Fanx Ta Ra at the time (hello I Music Snob!), especially the single Black Rose, even though I was very into punk by then.
Funny you should say that. I was taken to see them at the (half empty) Lyceum in 1978 around the time of that album by my then girlfriend and they were really good. Much more muscular than you would expect from the records and akin to other nearly-but-not-quite-succesfful mainstream bands of that era. Bands with a lot of carefully tended facial hair - Crawler, Moon, Band Called O etc. Blandness on record was the curse of many a up and coming mainstream band in that era. In the face of Punk seems bands were being encouraged to go after the 10cc / Supertramp soft rock $$$$ in a Punk-free North America. Which you could argue left the door open for NWOBHM. Metal abhors a vaccum!
Whatever their merits it has to be said that Fanx Ta Ra had one of those hard to believe "what's wrong with being sexist?" front covers - an image that even Coverdale would think twice about. What were they thinking?!
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Seb
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Re: Top ten worst ever rock ballads
Aug 09, 2012, 09:17
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Nice topic.
A power ballad shouldn't bore you, it should make you want to secretly weep whilst punching the air. The following power ballads bore me to fucking tears and I despise them for it.
KISS - I Still Love You
Bryan Adams - Everything I do, I do it... blah blah
Cinderella - Nobody's Fool
Guns 'n Roses - November Rain
Guns 'n Roses - Estranged
Guns 'n Roses - in fact ALL the long shitty power ballads on the UYI albums
Scorpions - Still Loving You
Metallica - Nothing Else Matters
And although Aerosmith ballsed up their career with all the sodding ballads, their ballads aren't actually all that bad, they're better than most. Tyler has an artful way with a middle-eight, see The Reason a Dog from Done With Mirrors or Hole in my Soul from Nine Lives.
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Seb
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Re: Top ten worst ever rock ballads
Aug 09, 2012, 09:20
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Oh and Hey Jude and Let it Be both. Bilge. And I speak as a huge Macca fan.
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IanB
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Re: Top ten worst ever rock ballads
Aug 09, 2012, 09:30
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Seb wrote: Oh and Hey Jude and Let it Be both. Bilge. And I speak as a huge Macca fan.
Yes. "Maybe I'm Amazed" shits on both.
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