Songs That The Musician Doesn't Deserve

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Songs that are so much better than anything else that the artist recorded that they seem to have been inserted into the artist's reportore by some heavenly deity.

Example: "Mr. Roboto."

Discuss.

― Christine "Green Leafy Dragon" Indigo (cindigo), Monday, 18 November 2002 15:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Steve Miller Band did not deserve nor could they do justice to "Jet Airliner". Check out the original version by Paul Pena, and suddenly that annoying chunk of make-me-puke-classic-rock-radio-fodder becomes a powerful ode to traveling-and-homesickness that only a depressed homesick blind man can pull off properly.

― nickalicious, Monday, 18 November 2002 15:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Kenny Loggins is so desperately, telethon-beggingly shit that even if he did 1,000 more rewrites of "I'm Alright" they wouldn't be a festering chancre on the ass of the original, which is one of the greatest songs of all time!

― dave q, Monday, 18 November 2002 15:51 (twenty-three years ago)

that pink song "just like a pill". i cant believe how good it is (not that she wrote it of course..)

― pattycake, Monday, 18 November 2002 21:51 (twenty-three years ago)

that pink song "just like a pill". i cant believe how good it is (not that she wrote it of course..)

I can't believe how bad it is. I would say she doesn't deserve "Get This Party Started."

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 18 November 2002 21:54 (twenty-three years ago)

Nick Gilder: "Hot Child in the City"

― Yancey (ystrickler), Monday, 18 November 2002 21:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Lifehouse, "Hanging by a Moment"

― Adam A. (Keiko), Monday, 18 November 2002 22:03 (twenty-three years ago)

nickalicious: I meant original songs, not covers. However, I will make a point of finding a copy of Paul Pina's original version. Where can I find it?

― Christine "Green Leafy Dragon" Indigo (cindigo), Monday, 18 November 2002 22:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Bogdan Raczynski's third track on 'Samurai Math Beats'. Tricked me into buying two more albums because it was so good. That fucker.

Basement Jaxx' Eu Nao. Absolutely BLAO house track preceded and followed by a career of filler.

Closer Musik - One Two Three (No Gravity) everything else I've heard by them just really sucks but this is great.

I'm not talking about techno anymore because there's far too many examples, probably. Derrick May is another good one.

Flock Of Seagulls. Thomas Dolby (science). Can't think of anything else at the moment. Very bad list, sorry.

― Tom Millar (Millar), Monday, 18 November 2002 23:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Skyrockets in flight,
Afternoon delight!

― Joe (Joe), Tuesday, 19 November 2002 23:45 (twenty-three years ago)

Flock Of Seagulls had a few great songs: I Ran, Space-Age Love song, Wishing (I had a photograph of you)
and those are the only songs I've heard of them. (other than thier 90s album)

― A Nairn (moretap), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 02:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Santa Monica by Everclear. I don't care what any of you say.

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 02:53 (twenty-three years ago)

whoa dave q JINX mode is ON - take-out BBQ on table, TV on, there's a movie starting up and the theme song's playing.... I'm like "Matt what IS that?! it's like Devo singing a Cars song!!" So I've got that going for me.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 03:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Ally and Dave Q are dead on, as usual. Not that he wrote it, but Justin Timberlake really didn't deserve to get his hands on "Like I Love U".

― James Blount (James Blount), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 03:45 (twenty-three years ago)

Yancey, have you heard the rest of "City Nights" (the album Hot Child in the City is from)? There's a bunch of other really killer tracks on it... really! I

― Sean (Sean), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 04:42 (twenty-three years ago)

omg stfu james!! i adore like i love u but still justin deserved much better!! his first single instead shouldve been 'gotta get thru this' crossed with 'when the last time'

― s trife (simon_tr), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 04:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Jordan Knight deserved "Like I Love U"

― James Blount (James Blount), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 04:55 (twenty-three years ago)

P.S. - Chuck Eddy's talk shit about Tupac on this - What is the most famous musical artist you've never heard?

'Sic Em!

― James Blount (James Blount), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 04:57 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm not talking about techno anymore because there's far too many examples, probably. Derrick May is another good one.

so, tom millar, which one track doesn't derrick may deserve?

strings of life?
the dance?
nude photo?
it is what it is?
beyond the dance?
kao-tic harmony?
the beginning?
drama?
icon?
r-theme?
illusion?
sinister?
wiggin?
sueno latino (remix)?
praise (remix)?
wild times (remix)?

― michael wells (michael w.), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 09:41 (twenty-three years ago)

"Those Shoes". The Eagles sit around smokin' hash and listening to P-Funk albums. Then Don Henley falls, hits his head and hallucinates the whole thing laid out in front of him like he discovered the Flux Capacitor. Why couldn't they've ALWAYS been this robo-sleazy?

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Friday, 22 November 2002 03:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Crazy Town and "Butterfly". I still stand by that being one of the best rap songs of the year, loving where so many others play. Sure you had to get past the tatoos and white-i-tude, but it was a surefire hit I still enjoy hearing. When I finally heard the rest of the album, I was shocked just how monotonously and idiotically it represented the worst in rap-metal. The Oakenfold single made me hope that Shifty Shellshock would stick to dippy raps about hotties, but their new single is a horrible ode to their alleged "fame" that repeatedly asks if Shifty is "drowning" (dude, if YOU don't know, why the fuck are you asking me?). I really wish Limp Bizkit had done "Butterfly" so I could defend it at the same time I'm defending all of Fred Durst's maesterstroke power cuts.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 22 November 2002 03:42 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

Eminem: "Cleaning Out My Closet". Really great and beautiful song. Can't believe it's him.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 4 October 2004 00:36 (twenty-one years ago)

And, yes, even more obvious: New Kids On The Block: "Tonight"

They are, like, one of the worst "bands" ever. Completely dreadful and absolutely rubbish. And then, along comes an absolutely brilliant piece of 60s influenced baroque pop. Still incredible that it is actually them.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 4 October 2004 00:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Pattycake was OTM with "Just Like a Pill".

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Monday, 4 October 2004 00:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I like "Mr Roboto" but don't really see what makes it better than other Styx hits.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Monday, 4 October 2004 00:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I feel that way about a couple of Clapton songs -- Can't Find My Way Home comes to mind. I guess he had his hands in enough decent songs though that it's fair to say he deserved one or two really good ones.

Santana really doesn't deserve the mind blowing live Woodstock track "Soul Sacrifice" -- it's all in his band. Santana is a fucking lame guitar player and the rest of his career proves it.

It seems like the easy route is just to name a one-hit wonder, but it's harder to come up with someone who actually had a successful but awful career and yet has one transcendent song.

I almost want to say "Turn the Page" by Bob Seger, but some of the lyrics in that song are bad.

― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 4 October 2004 02:53 (twenty-one years ago)

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