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Name me some names of artistes who made one good song, either by accident or design, but the rest of whose output was utter excreta. This occurred to me while listening to Jethro Tull's 'Living In The Past' and wondering how they could have thought 'Aqualung' was any good after writing that.

I know it's a Sunday but roolz are there to be broken.

― Venga, Sunday, 2 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Please don't kill me...

Limp Bizkit - "Rearranged"

I don't know, there's a sort of subtlety to this track that redeems it. It would be immesurably improved, as with all their songs, were it an instrumental.

― Simon H., Sunday, 2 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Mansun 'Wide Open Space'.

― DavidM, Sunday, 2 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i agree on limp bizkit, only the song is 'n2gether now'.

― ethan, Sunday, 2 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

We've done this before.

― JM, Sunday, 2 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oasis: "Whatever"

― Kodanshi, Sunday, 2 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Living In The Past" could actually easily qualify for this as far as I'm concerned, though more the production than the actual song.

OK then. "Enjoy The Silence" and "Everything Counts", for me, double- handedly redeem the turgid Depeche Mode, and "The Road To Mandalay" elevates Robbie Williams from ubiquitous fool to sporadic enlightener.

― Robin Carmody, Sunday, 2 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think there's a SUPERTRAMP song that I like.

― duane, Monday, 3 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

'Sporadic enlightener' sounds like suspiciously high praise to me. I mean, it's *Robbie Williams* we're talking about here.

― the pinefox, Monday, 3 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

But "The Road To Mandalay" *does* enlighten, in that it proves that "You Are My Love" by Liverpool Express has actually been influential on someone. That may not be good, but it's certainly revealing and surprising.

― Robin Carmody, Monday, 3 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

twelve years pass...

Oasis- She's Electric
Stereophonics- I Wouldn't Believe Your Radio

― that is how ghosts laugh (bends), Saturday, 14 September 2013 14:25 (twelve years ago)

The only ilx thread about She's Electric is mainly people mocking the lyrics, the lyrics for She's Electric are pretty great though, I think! Evocative, even. They get across a sense of this character and this relationship in a concise way, and I love the way the 'She's got one in the oven But it's nothing to do with me' bit is slipped in as this bitter conclusion to this jaunty song, like it's describing this moment in time where the protagonist gets caught up in this infatuation, thinks this girl may make help him transcend his day to day existence, but at the end he reverts to type and fucks off leaving her with a kid, denying all responsibility.

― that is how ghosts laugh (bends), Saturday, 14 September 2013 14:41 (twelve years ago)

Don Henley - "New York Minute"

― Neanderthal, Saturday, 14 September 2013 14:42 (twelve years ago)

Ocean Colour Scene- The Day We Caught The Train

― that is how ghosts laugh (bends), Saturday, 14 September 2013 14:44 (twelve years ago)

I like She's Electric so much that I've thought maybe I was underestimating Oasis and have tried from time to time to listen to other songs of there's to see if there was something I was missing, but no, She's Electric is the only good one.

― that is how ghosts laugh (bends), Saturday, 14 September 2013 14:47 (twelve years ago)

I have a feeling that Diesel Park West and All the Myths on Sunday is an example of this, but I haven't listened to enough of their work to really say.

― that is how ghosts laugh (bends), Saturday, 14 September 2013 14:49 (twelve years ago)

it's okay, apart from
I'll be you and you'll be me, there's lots and lots for us to see...
which i think even Noel himself has admitted was an exceedingly naff line
― stevem (blueski), Friday, December 19, 2003 11:01 AM (9 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This is a great line, wtf.

― that is how ghosts laugh (bends), Saturday, 14 September 2013 15:01 (twelve years ago)

he nicked it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Jyhfq8u8Xk

― Cap'n Save-a-Co. (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 14 September 2013 15:05 (twelve years ago)

The song captures so well that infatuation/ crush thing where it seems you have the chance to step out of your own life and into someone else's? The lyrics about all of her relatives, these people who are in orbit of her, and it's like I could become part of this world. I can't think of many other songs about infatuation that get across that sense of how all these banal things about your crushes life become incredibly invested with meaning and feelings.

― that is how ghosts laugh (bends), Saturday, 14 September 2013 15:10 (twelve years ago)

"he nicked it"

oh, i'd never heard that before. Is that from a TV show that would have been on when Noel was a kid? I guess it fits in with the sense of a crush taking you temporarily back to this childhood feeling that the future is filled with limitless possibilities, like Mermaid Smiled by XTC.

― that is how ghosts laugh (bends), Saturday, 14 September 2013 15:13 (twelve years ago)

it was on in the 70s and i've always assumed the lift was deliberate, that song was stuck in my head from childhood too

― Cap'n Save-a-Co. (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 14 September 2013 15:18 (twelve years ago)

Arctic Monkeys - "Cornerstone"

― Old Boy In Network (Michael B), Saturday, 14 September 2013 19:36 (twelve years ago)

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