Best use of a bad idea/Worst use of a good idea

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Came up in discussion last week while on vacation w/a bunch of music-freak friends. Mine were, respectively, the overdubbed talking on the Velvet Underground's "Temptation Inside Your Heart" (who cares about this crap? oh wait, it actually enhances the song), and Crosby, Stills & Nash (at the time, the idea of a supergroup based around singing and songwriting rather than instrumental virtuosity was a refreshing one; too bad they ended up epitomizing hippie excess even more than Cream or Blind Faith). Yours?

― M. Matos, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Smashing Pumpkins could've taken 'arena rock' and 'guitar solos' up to the next level, if they hadn't been the worst band in existence

― dave q, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

and does that make them a good use of a bad idea or a bad use of a good idea?

― M. Matos, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Worst band in existence? Hah, hardly.

― JC, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Combustible Edison - great idea, horrible execution (blame Miss Lily's variable sense of pitch)

― dave q, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Worst band in existence" - this has been proved by democratic science, though.

― Tom, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

As I never tire of saying (or starting up threads concerning), every idea anybody's ever had has been turned into aural swill by Bill Laswell. The man's a magician - give him ANY idea, especially utterly foolproof ones, and he'll show you how wrong he can possibly make it go. Most extreme example was the idea of having Tony Williams and Derek Bailey on the same record, a prospect that had me rabid with anticipation, until I heard the bloody thing, which just solidified Laswell's 1,000 batting average for turning out Body Shop music no matter who he's working with.

― dave q, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh bollocks, Painkiller's fantastic.

― nathalie, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Worst band in existence" - this has been proved by democratic science, though.

I misread this as "this has been proved by domestic science" and I thought "Blimey, even cookery writers are with us on this one - where have the Smashing Pumpkins got left to run?"

― Nick, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

What about that Damned album produced by Nick Mason? Unfortunately, I never heard 'Punk Floyd', and it seems like everybody who did tried to forget about it. Sounds like an interesting idea...

― dave q, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Allowing Eno to leave Roxy Music after just two albums. He should have been chained to his VCS (or whatever that brand of synthesizer was) in order to restrain Bryan Ferry's MOR leanings.

― X. Y. Zedd, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'll also cast my vote for Laswell. Operazone?? Someone needs to stuff his beret in his mouth and chain him to the radiator. The real problem is that so often his pan-global freaky-deaky fusions read good...the cat's got about a million ideas, only one seeming way of executing them. Badly.

― Jess, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Lumpy Gravey goes both ways depending on if you like FZ.

― zacko, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"That Damned Album" has Lol Coxhill on it, and a grate sleeve by Barney Bubbles. I hav not heard it for 20 years or more: I hav decided when I do I shall proclaim i the greatest record evah made.

― mark s, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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