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If we're talking versions of classic songs that we hate, can I nominate Florence and the Machine's horrendous version of you got the love.
Have to turn that off within 2 secs of realising what it is.
really cannot stand Dexy's Midnight Runners 'Come on Eileen' - sends me into a psychotic rage
Who are they?
whole lotta love
Cowgirl - You Tube has a clip of Soft Cell and Jim Thirwell doing a version of Suicide's Ghostrider which is grrrreat.
I totally agree with that.
Pretty much anything by the Beatles, but especially Yellow Submarine.
agree with that Wilkie, but wasn't brave enough to offer it first! I find all their stuff a tedious dirge. But then it's not my gen-eeee-raaa-ch--iiiaaaan.
Anything by Bob Dylan. Rated as a "Legend" Sings through his nose.
He is nasal and drony but has written some great songs. Hendrix's version of All Along The Watchtower is amazing IMHO + The Byrds' Mr Tambourine Man.
Similar to Cat Stevens, who's not got a v good singing voice either but has written great songs successfully covered by others.
I actually like Echo Beach, but of those listed I hate mull of kintyre, that song (or indeed any song) by Whitney Houston, practically everything by Bob Dylan, Come on Eileen (good when it came out, awful when its wheeled out now) and I can list the decent songs by Queen on , erm, one finger. The same applies to U2 and Coldplay. How can we forget that Robin Hood song that was number one for 4 months, and I don't get the appeal of 'shouting' Tom Jones.
When "Hi ho silver lining" comes on at parties/weddings, you know its time to leave.
I'll exclude the Macarena, thread title says 'classics'
The description "classics" brings to my mind all the horrible middle-of-the-road stuff by Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Sammy Davis and their ilk, Never could stand any of that lot. Don't like Michael Buble either, he's got a good voice but chooses to go down the Sinatra road too. Yuck! Waste of talent.
I hate any so-called singers who can't. Whenever that awful "One Day baby we'll be old" comes on the radio I turn it straight off. That so-called voice is so appalling you can't even tell if it's male or female. I keep thinking it has to be someone's idea of a joke - like Tiny Tim's "Tiptoe through the Tulips" back in the 70s or whenever it was. The trouble is - the frog croaking it is making money! I'm going terribly wrong somewhere.
This has fallen off my iPod actually - must get it put back on. (Honestly, iTunes version 11.4 = crap!)
Adele is crap. Fact.
coldplay...any of them
Adele is a mediocre songwriter but she's pretty good at interpreting other people's songs, not my kind of thing though. Queen was always dull Dads music, I don't know how/why younger people started listening to them. If anyone considers Phil Collins to be a purveyor of classic rock then I'll add him to the list of artists I can't stand, The Police always creeped me out, as for McCartney no hell is deep enough.
Dustin - I never understood the appeal of Tom Jones either until I saw him live (Glastonbury 92) he owned the stage, the man had enough charisma to fill the whole of Somerset. As an indie loving teen it was quite disturbing to admit my favourite act was TJ...maybe I had sunstroke.
I never rated Tom Jones until I watched a documentary about his life and realised there was a bit more to him than "Delilah" and "What's New Pussycat?".
And, like him or not, he does have a very distinctive voice and certainly knows how to reinvent himself.
I do still think the nose job was a bad idea
McCartney was a total legend as part of the Beatles but most of his solo stuff is pretty awful.
"Simply Having A Wonderful Christmas Time" is one of the most annoying tunes that I can possibly think of but thankfully only turns up between December and early January.
I wouldn't say they have written any "classics" yet but why do people like Mumford & Sons? The name sounds a bit like a family Butchers and I'm not sure what genre the music fits into? best described as "Medievel Farm Music"?
Vellooo - I was there too, Glasters 1992...(I think?) The levellers, Carter, the Shamen and if I' have my years right a super sunday with Dodgy, Teenage fan club and Blur.
Given they played every year and every gig I'm sure the Frank and Walters were there too. Oh and Flowered Up (probably)
Oh dear God! I had an ex who really liked that - one of the reasons why he's an ex.
Yes - it's barn dance music. Cider and pies and a good old punch-up at the end of the night
or elbow , dear God , why....
I'm with Mathschick - I've only got to hear the first bar or so of 'Come on Eileen' before I fly into a rage.
I hate 'I Will Survive' and that awful Whitney Houston song too, but not as much as that horrible, horrible, horrible 'Come on Eileen'.
I love come on eileeen..it is one of those songs that transports you straight back to a time and place in history.........
I'm probably in so much trouble...