Deep Blue Something - Breakfast At Tiffany's Vs Cranberries "Zombie"

maybe one at a time?

I originally thought she was honking "sorry" instead of "zombie" and, when my misconception was corrected, it had the counter-intuitive effect of making me hate the song

both terrible but zombie is far, far terribler

lol dan

breakfast at tiffany's is easily the worst of all the songs polled so far

plus these songs aren't really similar, my much superior dare i say genius original thread examined two songs that came out in close proximity to each other, originated from the same obscure corner of the globe, and have somehow both proved to be persistent on radio/in the larger culture. c'mon man.

my friend thought it was 'the army' in a french accent
z'army

Deep Blue Something are a hideous pile of shit within a hideous pile of shot on top of a hideous pile of shit.

yeah but these songs were hits globally!

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anyhow voting deep blue something cuz it may be a worse song but it's definitely a worse band and god knows worse band name

wish I could reverse the title: "Deep Blue Something" by Breakfast at Tiffany's.

Breakfast at Tiffany's is a great song, fuiud. Spin Doctors would kill their frontman to have a song like that on their repertoire.

I had never heard all of "Breakfast" til this thread and I still haven't, I made it to 1:48 before tapping out. Still "Breakfast" wins because at least its YouTube clocks in at 4:20

breakfast at tiffany's because it has like 3 notes and they all suck

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASQDzdiblNE

Spin Doctors would kill their frontman to for haveing a song like that on their repertoire.

L'enfer, c'est le Zombie

you know what, I am starting to like "Zombie" again

what the hell, ears

Carefully taking note of all the insane people in this thread. (Hint: They're defending "Breakfast at Tiffany's.")

I hate Zombie but I'm glad it was a success so that I could be lol'ing forever at this video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7SO67RydKc

Spin Doctors would kill their frontman to have a song like that on their repertoire.

the spin doctors would kill their frontman for the royalty checks from any international smash, though

Jesus, I don't hate all these songs but the VIDEOS are an abomination. The Edie vid was just painful, and this BaT one, while I like the song just fine, it's AWFUL.

WITH THEIR TANKS AND THEIR BOMBS AND THEIR BOMBS AND THEIR GUNS IN YOUR HEAD DO YOU SEE?

Carefully taking note of all the insane people in this thread. (Hint: They're defending "Breakfast at Tiffany's.")

― Here's the storify, of a lovely ladify (Phil D.), Monday, August 5, 2013 8:14 PM (49 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"That's one thing we've got"

Anyone want to explain the A.D.A.M. Feat. Amy - Zombie video to me?

can't believe long hair and boots and zombies and breakfast were ever things. fuck the 90s

judging songs by what the spin doctors would think, what the hell, that is just perverse

"Zombie" at least has a shred of self-awareness vis-a-vis the goofy absurdity of the chorus; "Breakfast at Tiffany's" is just overenunciated lukewarm dogshit.

man I watch these 90s videos and my mind just reels, these people were fucking BURNING money back then

between this pair and Dionne Farris' "I Know" early '95 was a fucking horrorshow

xp lol the 90s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5mNzOtm24I

neither of these songs are bad. zombie actually happens to be pretty great.

yeah in retrospect 'zombie' just a run of the mill shit altrock song w/ a hideous chorus, it's no worse than our lady peace or whatever. i'd be surprised if there are ten songs to hit #1 on the mainstream rock chart this century that are better than it. i think at the time i mainly hated it cuz this band i'd enjoyed as a very poor man's the sundays came back and scored a huge hit as candlebox performs a tribute to u2's war. it was a very key 'ok so this altrock revolution definitely wasn't worth it' moment.

treeship everybody

it was a very key 'ok so this altrock revolution definitely wasn't worth it' moment.

for me it was watching Alice in Chains get to #1

I would gladly burn a bundle of money if that will make Aero cover Breakfast at Tiffany's in Amsterdam this October :)

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I loved the music in the 90s (well early 90s to mid 90s) and will defend it to the end of earth but fucking hell it did have some of the worst music ever.

I've recently been doing a nostalgia project of sorts which involved listening to every Now! of the 90s and also cataloguing every top 40 single of the 90s. I'd agree with the above, as we get to 1999 it's just utter, utter, stinking waste. I hadn't realised how much of my most hated music came from the same year.

lol aero i have the same reaction watching 90s music vids, i posted the ll cool j vid for 'deepest bluest' the other day, a shitty soundtrack vid for a second tier would be summer hit movie, and was blown away by how much money had clearly been spent just as a matter of routine (it's not like it was an especially ambitious, costly video, it wasn't 'earth song' or whatever), couldn't imagine any video today - timberlake, beyonce, whoever - getting the kind of budget circa 1999 ll cool j got for his song about a shark.

I need to poll Jamie Walters' "Hold On" and Martin Page's "In the House of Stone and Light"

zombie is a solid tune, kind of ridiculous but its hooks don't really annoy me, though i think it does make one forget the cranberries had a pretty fun sundays-style first album. 'breakfast at tiffany's' is just horrible.

"Breakfast at Tiffany's" is sung from the point of view of a man who is on the verge of breaking up with his girlfriend on the basis that the two have nothing in common. Desperate to find something, the man brings up the Audrey Hepburn film Breakfast at Tiffany's, and his girlfriend recalls that they "both kinda liked it." He argues that this should serve as enough motivation for them to work out their problems based on the notion that love will always find a way to make things work.

doomed couple

i heard this piece of crap on the radio today and i think it deserves a runoff on the following grounds:
* shameless nirvana aping
* stupid overwritten lyrics containing the word "copacetic" and rhyming it with "pathetic" and "accept it"
* this awful video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2Oe5YKhzCE

Oh, god, I almost forgot that shitty little guitar riff after the choruses in BaT. Like, why even bother, if that's the best riff you can come up with? Why didn't someone just pull down the fader on that during mixing?

some crazy money was spent on videos for sure back then

This is for you, LL - Kay Hanley of Letters to Cleo performing the same song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwGKbDEK5m0

i remember getting into some arguments over 'breakfast at tiffany's' in college. lots of people loved, loved that tune.

leong said, "What about 'Breakfast at Tiffany's?'"
She said I think I remember the song
And as I recall I think, we both kind o' liked it

wtf that Dionne Farris song is fantastic Alfred

Also that Local H song rules

BAT is awful in every way. awful idea for a song, shitty tune, shitty vocals, bad lyrics. it's not even catchy, for god's sake.

ftr original poll was on ile by mistake

ilm: polling threads
ile: rolling threads

lol crut

I think the connection between the songs is that "Zombie" is about two people killed in an IRA bombing, and "Breakfast at Tiffany's" made all who heard it envy the victims.

I enjoy threads of terrible 90s memories

tbf i'm with Trayce on this, i stay the heck out of ILM

i love polls but that doesn't mean they're good for me

always vote for 'zombie' in any context

that's my philosophy, marty

That reminds me, Worlds End is on in the cinemas now.

this seems notable urdu cover of zombie that switches to english for some reason 1/2 way through. at a few points this woman is wearing makeup that looks sort of like corpse paint.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-E1EdxcbG4

omg balls. Great story. No, you've never told me that before, and I didn't drink back then so I would remember! Somehow it's the shamed shuttering of ye olde college rock that most sticks out to me, although I do love, for ''moral victory'' reasons, the idea that 99X's listenership would have gone gaga for indie rock if it'd only been presented to then. (Tangent: they did introduce me to the Apples in Stereo through their 'Cage Match' feature playing ''Seemed So,'' and a year or so later they became the first band I ever saw at a club, notwithstanding the opener Azure Ray.)

Maybe it's because I just rewatched The Big Lebowski but the late 90s filter, the rug-pissing story, and call all destroyer echoing John Goodman ''say what you will about the tenets of National Socialism, at least it's an ethos ...there's a pattern here, man. Lotta ins, lotta outs.

I like "Breakfast at Tiffany's"

ok I'm going to be a dick here , but can we not fill ILE up with pointless comparison shit song polls? the original was a joke. setting off a string of trainspotty comparison polls because of it is kind of unfunny.

― It is like ganging up on Enya (Trayce),

god, if it really offends people that much move it to ilm or ilf or something

Can you start a The Rembrandts - I'll Be There For You vs. Tal Bachman - She's So High poll while you're there?

because balls thread was on ile(i dont remember you complaining on that thread about it)

I just noticed this. I don't know what you mean by this reply, and I don't have time to read ILE every day/every single thread but these two are currently at the top of new answers and it seems very incongruous. Carry on.

hows life i dunno who tal bachman is
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will do

btw if it really does annoy people id ask on the mod thread to move them but then it would piss them off. but if a mod reading the thread thinks trayce is right and it should be moved to ilm then on you go. its no big deal and noones forcing anyone to click on it but whatever.

i'm annoyed by breakfast at tiffany's but mods haven't responded to my request for a target specific memory trepanning.

And she said "please don't post music polls on ILE"
and I said "I'd move it, but it might make the mods mad"
And she said "IIRC, that's the fucking point of Mod Request Forum"
And I said "Well, you may have a point"

(shitty guitar riff)

wasnt like that when djp was a mod!
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hows life i dunno who tal bachman is

He's the son of Randy Bachman of The Guess Who/Bachman Turner Overdrive fame, if nothing else.

"She's So High" is not a bad song. It's not exactly a good song, but it's not a bad song. Not the way "Breakfast at Tiffany's" is.

I'm only speaking for myself, its more the idea I think multiple pollls of results of polls are a bit sad. I was concerned it'd snowball into a pile of pollsanity. Dont GAF what I think tho. Carry on.

tbh I mostly was drawn to this thread because it finally gave me a place to spew my hatred towards this song.

(BAT, that is)

understandable

hate both of these, voted breakfast at tiffany's. in junior high i carpooled with a family to school and they had the single of this song with all the different versions and listened to it all the time. fuuuuuck this song sucks

all the different versions

aahahhhghhg new glimpses of hell

I mean at least Zombie is laughable and you can you can totally sing your own overwrought ridiculous version making fun of it, whereas that other song, whose title I don't even want to type, is just patently horrible with no redeeming qualities whatsoever.

Well OK Neanderthal's revised lyrics were good, but that is the sole mitigating factor here.

the BAT video did have some unintentional LOLs.

Like after every chorus, one of the guitar players did one of those patented rock star "leaps", as if he was playing some fiery cock-rock riff and not some shitty arpeggio that sounds like a MIDI file

I love the way that the singer is carrying around a book (Breakfast at Tiffany's, one reasonably assumes) at the beginning, looking all 90s sensitive guy.

was there a pejorative term coined for the type of rock that Dog's Eye View and Deep Blue Something made?

Better Than Ezrock

this one should be in the mix somewhere

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7TLTjqUyog

Better Than Ezrock

― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Wednesday, August 7, 2013 6:09 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha

I actually could tolerate CS a lot more in that middling "soft rock" mode, as opposed to their laughable attempts to rock a la "Where the River Goes"....

Start a thread, now, baby just spit me out.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Kinda shocking. Sorta thought ILX's hatred of the Cranberries was, well, the one thing we'd got.

man, not quite Tyson - Spinks, but a trouncing nonetheless.

4 Non-Blondes "What's Up" vs Edie Brickell "What I Am"

The 1990s Most Hated Song Final : 4 Non Blondes "What's Up" vs Deep Blue Something - "Breakfast At Tiffany's"

judging songs by what the spin doctors would think, what the hell, that is just perverse

― ⚓ (elmo argonaut), Monday, August 5, 2013 7:17 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The BAT chorus is rough, but its the versus that make you want to drive into oncoming traffic.

The chorus is like stream of consciousness horseshit.

Also the guitarist looked like a dork in the vid...ferociously leaping to strum his three clean chords

in 8th grade i carpooled to school with a family that had the BaT single and they would listen to it every single morning over and over, all the different versions on it, like we would drive to school every day and listen to breakfast at tiffany's every fucking day

Did u seek crisis counseling

You know Casey Kasem had to be saying "are you fucking kidding me?" every week.

damn it's traumatizing just reading that anecdote.

thanks to a C90 I had, in my head BaT will forever segue into ".. AND I WOULD WALK FIVE HUN DRED MUYLES AND I WOULD WALK FIVE HUNDRED MORE JUST TO BE THE MAN WHO WALKS A THOUSAND MUYLES TO FALL DOWN AT YOUR DOOR DUHDUTT DUHH DUHDUTT DUHH DUHDUTT DUH DUHDUTT DUH DUHDUHDUHDUNDUHDUHDUNDUHDUHDUNDUHDUHDUNDUHDUH DUHHHH