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From the Four Tops' "It's The Same Old Song" to Aerosmith's "Jaded", some records are a dream come true for the lazy critic. Your favourite examples....?

― Tom, Tuesday, 17 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

PSB's "Being boring"

― Guy, Tuesday, 17 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

any indie band with a self-deprecating name, e.g. wank.

― fred solinger, Tuesday, 17 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Daft Punk's 'Too Long' of course. Apparently there is a law that states that every review of Discovery has to comment something like "blabla and then things close with 'Too Long' (which it really is)".

― Omar, Tuesday, 17 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Probably been here before — I'm in love — but the deathmetal group Thou Shalt Suffer.

― mark s, Tuesday, 17 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Dick Dale & his Del-Tones "Take it Off"

― AP, Tuesday, 17 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

The La Monte Young benefit gig I went to had on the posters "The purpose of this concert is not entertainment."

"Too Long" by Daft Punk is too long, though. See also "One More Time" which very few people seemed to pick up on.

― Tom, Tuesday, 17 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Depeche Mode - It's No Good (though I actually like this single) Gene - As Good as it Gets

― Nicole, Tuesday, 17 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Oh God, that reminds me of the currently inescapable Just Enough Education To Perform, by the Stereophonics. So essentially, lads, you're saying it's barely competent?

― Tom, Tuesday, 17 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Suede - "Trash" (ha-ha, I am being too clever for my own good)

― Simon, Tuesday, 17 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Dane Bowers "Shut Up and Forget About It".

― james edmund L, Tuesday, 17 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Kelly Jones et al are saying that they're educated *just enough* while anyone who hates them has been pretentiously overeducated. Apparently.

Oh, "Too Much" by Bros *and* "Too Much" by the Spice Girls must have been rather apt, coming out as they both did during the backlash period against the groups' overexposure.

― Robin Carmody, Tuesday, 17 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Country Teasers' album _Destroy All Human Life_.

― Sean Carruthers, Wednesday, 18 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Blue Oyster Cult "Goin' Through the Motions" Aerosmith "Same Old Song and Dance" Sex Pistols FLOGGING A DEAD HORSE

― AP, Wednesday, 18 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

No suggestions right now, but can I just chime in and say that "Too Long" is perfect? Not too long at all. i dislike the way all the reviews rubbish one of "One More Time" and "Too Long" in comparison to the other (if they don't rubbish both). Can't I love them both?

― Tim, Wednesday, 18 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I don't think it needs comparing to "One More Time" at all - in fact I had to rack my brains to see why people would - but I think "Too Long" is the weakest thing on the album by a distance. I can only ever remember one of its hooks and it just seems to flab around for a bit. It also seems poorly placed after the two toughest-sounding tracks on the record.

― Tom, Wednesday, 18 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

It always struck me that the obvious answer to the question "Why Does My Heart Feel So Sad?" was "Because you are stuck being sampled on the naffest Moby track by far".

― Ally, Wednesday, 18 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

There was a Lee Hazlewood album called Poet, Fool or Bum that Charles Shaar Murray reviewed in the early 70s. It was a one word review:

Bum

― Mark S, Wednesday, 18 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

'Stop me if you think you've heard this one before' - The Smiths

Or was that song too self-aware to qualify?

― Nick, Wednesday, 18 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Re: the Lee Hazelwood review
I've always had a fondness for the one-line zingers that J.D.Considine used to pull off in Musician. My favourite along those lines was his review of L.A. Guns' Cocked and Loaded album, the full text of which read "...and shooting blanks." I have a few other favourites, but it's perhaps getting away from the spirit of the original question.

― Sean Carruthers, Wednesday, 18 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

My favourite one line review was of the film of Isherwood's 'I am a Camera'; "Me no Leica".

― stevie t, Wednesday, 18 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

That's the OTHER Mark S, by the way, talking about the OTHER Charlie Murray (ie not the racist American conservative demagogue that Robin mentioned, but the way cool UK rock-crit who's even older than me: weird thing is, tho, I was trying to recall EXACTLY the same Lee Hazelwood review).

― mark s, Wednesday, 18 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Slight tangent, but NME's review of Spinal Tap's "Break Like The Wind" was "Shit Sandwich. Obviously"

― carsmilesteve, Wednesday, 18 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Gene: 'Where Are They Now?'

― the pinefox, Wednesday, 18 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Bowie 'Rock & Roll Suicide' Human League's 'Blind Youth' James Brown 'super bad' Crass 'Do they owe us a living?' Grandaddy 'Kim you bore me to death' Wire 'Mercy' Beck 'Dead Melodies' Roxy Music "Could It happen to me?' Godspeed you black emperor 'sleep'

― Guy, Wednesday, 18 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

ten months pass...

Nelly Furtado - "Turn Off the Lights"

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 13 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Creem's (or was it Record's?) review of GTR's album: SHT

― Christine "Green Leafy Dragon" Indigo, Wednesday, 13 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Who, "Had Enough"
Grace Jones, "Bullshit"
Marianne Faithfull, "Why'd Ya Do It" (although I like that song)

Oh god, bizarre moment - that cover version of "A Little Respect" just came on - appropriate, huh?

― Bayonet Bulb, Wednesday, 13 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Richard Cook in the NME circa 1980, reviewing an album by MoR classicists Sky: "Look, I'm a tolerant bloke, but Sky's the limit."

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 13 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Alanis Morissette Under Rug Swept

― Curt, Thursday, 14 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

English Beat Wha'ppen?

― Curt, Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I remember Robert Christgau reviewing Dave Mason's "It's Like You Never Left". The review said, "It's more like I was never there in the first place."

Yes - "Union" - sounds a bit like "Onion" - stinks.

― Dave225, Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Tim Buckley, Look at the Fool. Alas...

― Prude, Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

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