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I feel like it takes a combination of presence and praise for a disinteresting or just tiresome song to become really frustrating. It takes something like smells like teen spirit for that to happen....not Meatloaf
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Kevin Davis wrote:
I always take issue with lists like these, because most of what people describe as "the worst songs ever" are, at the very least, competently written songs with questionable aesthetic instincts, or which follow a bad cliche to the point of absurdity--something particularly annoying, which, precisely because the craft of the song is generally sound, causes those little pet peeves to resonate in your mind in a way that they wouldn't in a song that simply wasn't any good, which only annoys you further. But in reality, at most coffeehouse open mics, you will hear at least a dozen songs that are twice as bad as any of these within an hour.
I'd rather hear a dozen amateurs struggle their way through a song they can barely play than one of these carefully prepared and sterilized pieces of shit from a 'real' musician and his producers. I wouldn't consider a song from the latter to be better. Heart plays into it. Just ask Captain Planet.
I really love the line "it's gonna take a lot to drag me away from you," but then I remember he's not singing about an unrequited or lost lover, but rather his desire to go provide aid to Africa (which, as far as I know, he never actually did, so perhaps it didn't take that much to keep him away) and I love it much less.
always thought it was about his desire to bang a black chick
I always take issue with lists like these, because most of what people describe as "the worst songs ever" are, at the very least, competently written songs with questionable aesthetic instincts, or which follow a bad cliche to the point of absurdity--something particularly annoying, which, precisely because the craft of the song is generally sound, causes those little pet peeves to resonate in your mind in a way that they wouldn't in a song that simply wasn't any good, which only annoys you further. But in reality, at most coffeehouse open mics, you will hear at least a dozen songs that are twice as bad as any of these within an hour.
I'd rather hear a dozen amateurs struggle their way through a song they can barely play than one of these carefully prepared and sterilized pieces of shit from a 'real' musician and his producers. I wouldn't consider a song from the latter to be better. Heart plays into it. Just ask Captain Planet.
I probably would have said that once upon a time too, but 4-5 years on the Peoria, IL coffee shop circuit brought me to my senses. And don't get me wrong -- I'm not talking about kids who are just starting out and just need practice, I'm talking about people who can play fine but just have no knack for composing music.
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"Spending 106 weeks on the German Singles Chart, "Ein Stern (...der deinen Namen trägt)" is the first song to be on that chart for 2 years or longer, and also makes it the song with the longest run ever on that chart."
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