my first association with bad middle eights is Marshall Crenshaw. I like a lot of his songs off his excellent first album, but I always dread that inevitable middle eight, because it's always so awkward and forced. Maybe the best analogy is that his songs are like delicious tootsie roll pops with poop-filled centers.
for example, this song:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a93gTsNiW4k
and this one:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwE58OUShE8
Related thread:Great Middle Eigths
― Poliopolice, Friday, 4 May 2012 01:57 (fourteen years ago)
The scat-singing part from "Home in the Country" by Paul McCartney comes to mind
― spastic heritage, Friday, 4 May 2012 02:10 (fourteen years ago)
I like that part. Played on flute and string bass with the Mike Sammes Singers on Thrillington.
― timellison, Friday, 4 May 2012 04:09 (fourteen years ago)
I mean, the worst thing is when these middle eights are added not because they actually contribute anything good to the song, but because it's "supposed" to be there
― Poliopolice, Friday, 4 May 2012 17:01 (fourteen years ago)
I'm not crazy about the part of "God Only Knows" that begins at 1:04 and ends at 1:12.
― Pat Finn, Saturday, 5 May 2012 02:44 (fourteen years ago)
britney spears "womanizer":
maybe if we both lived in a different world (womanizer womanizer womanizer womanizer)it would be all good and maybe i could your girl but i can't 'cause we don't, youuuuuuuu
perplexingly horrible
― teledyldonix, Saturday, 5 May 2012 06:47 (fourteen years ago)
I thought of this question today while listening to Grant McLennan's "Lighting Fires" and its "No matter what you say, no matter what you do" bit -- ugh.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 5 May 2012 12:16 (fourteen years ago)