I mean -- c'mon. Just because the winner, in perpetuity, of the coveted PowerPop No-Prize© -- for suggesting the theme of this week's EQ -- is Friend of the Blog/proprietor of the invaluable Burning Wood Sal Nunziato, who has (coincidentally) done me numerous personal and professional favors over the years, how could anybody be cynical enough to believe that I chose his entry over any of the plethora of excellent reader submissions for any reason other than merit?
I mean, that would be like Affirmative Action or something. 😎
Oh well, in any case thank you Sal, and congrats on your prize. Enjoy -- you deserve it.
And thank you to everybody else who made suggestions -- they were all really terrific, and as I said last week, I'm planning to steal/make use of them whenever I get stuck for a subject again.
Which leads us, inexorably, to today's business. To wit:
...and the post-Elvis/pre-21st century song that is universally beloved but that you personally cannnot stand is...???
Discuss.
No arbitrary rules except for the time frame. Which is designed, deliberately, to eliminate any mention of contemporary annoyances including both Geese and Goose. 😎😎
In any event, Sal was inspired to come up with his submission by seeing the trailer for the new Spaceballs movie, and realizing that as much as he loved, nay lurved, Mel Brooks, he found the original film painfully unfunny. That being the case, I just want to add that although I like it a little better than Sal does, I would be the first to admit that it's not one of Mel's best efforts.
As for the song that everybody else seems to love but which just rubs me the wrong way? Pound for pound, I gotta say it's...
...wait for it...
John Lennon's "Imagine."
Yeah, yeah, I know...that's like saying you hate motherhood and apple pie. But hey -- I just think it's sappy, sentimental and too dirge-y for words. So sue me.
BTW -- I'm aware that these guys disagreed.
Alrighty then -- what would YOUR choices be?
Back on Monday with a) some more upbeat musical stuff more befitting of this here blog and b) some news of how our current vacation in the south of France is going (maybe).
Meanwhile -- have a great weekend, everybody!!!
21 comments:
B-B-B-Bennie and the Jets.
God, it's awful. Melody sucks. Vocals squeal.
When Vinny Testaverde played for Tampa Bay, the stadium announcers shoved that song down our throats, trying to get "Vinny and the Bucs".
Just too "squishy".
Couldn’t agree more, but I could add a couple of other Elton songs. Not a fan.😎
As memorable as the Big Bang Theory episode in which Sheldon and Leonard's mother (portrayed by Christine Baranski) bond and sing a Rock Band duet is - I never liked the song, and I like it even less now - Journey's "Any Way You Want Me". It's not Journey in general I dislike - "Wheel in the Sky" is great, "Girl Can't Help It" has a wonderful live performance on YouTube.
Thank you! Um...I have nothing prepared. I'd like to thank the academy and uh...
Anyway, my choices would be Fleetwood Mac's "Don't Stop" and "Sara." Both huge hits and both make my skin crawl, though I am a fan of the two albums they came from.
R.E.M.'s Shiny Happy People is pretty awful and Out Of Time is my least favorite of their catalog.
- Paul in DK
Rolling stones -Start me up. All the great songs by the Stones and radio stations would play that
Well, since Imagine has been taken, and Elton John has been mentioned, I guess I will have to be trite and go with Piano Man by Billy Joel, and as runners up, every hit he ever had.
This is easy. American Pie.
Sticking with ex-Beatles, "My Love" by Paul. Ugh. What a piece of crap.
And may I just add:
Whoa whoa whoa whoa.
Whoa whoa whoa whoa.
If I never hear “Don’t Stop” again etc.😎
Bruce Springsteen Born to Run no melody sung in a yelling monotone hate it.
rs
Horse with No Name. The melody and performance are fine, BUT those lyrics!!!
It reached number one in my town, despite its saccharine ghastliness. Only Macca's Christmas song is worse.
I would nominate the unavoidable 'Crocodile Rock.' As 1950s pastiches go, none is more synthetic.
I'm from flyover country and, while we gave the world the Shadows of Knight and Cheap Trick, we also inflicted REO Speedwagon and Styx upon the culture. The latter's 'Come Sail Away' and 'Lady' are pure audio cringe.
“You’re in the desert. You’ve got nothing to do. Name the fucking horse.” 😎
"Silly Love Songs"
Just heard it on the car radio, wanted to do a Harvey Keitel/"Bad Lieutenant", but I was unarmed.
"The heat was hot..." as opposed to the heat being cold.
Alzo: Macca's nadir was his 9/11 song, "Freedom." Simple-minded one-dimensional sing-song dreck.
I saw Tommy Shaw describe a Dallas festival on a brutal summer day when they did Mr Roboto. The crowd did not want any aluminum foil opera.
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