Awful songs by bands you love

[Banned Tosspot]

I know it is. But I can't connect the condition of my genitalia with your second statement.

Kings of Leon are fuckin' awful. Nearly as bad as Mumford & Sons.

 

[Deleted member 77198]

I take your point, though. Nobody could seriously make out that Love Me Do, I Wanna Hold Your Hand, She Loves You are great music, could they? I actually find them quite listenable, even if they are jingles, because of the combination of those two voices, which was unique, and which you'd recognise any time, anywhere. Unlike yourself and @Stoned Rose, I don't think that the band are overrated, but I think their lasting reputation depends almost entirely on the mid-period stuff. The great mystery is how they developed from those first three albums to be producing stuff like Rubber Soul and Revolver within about three years. George Martin himself has gone on record as saying that he didn't understand it. Imo, it was a quantum leap.

When I listen to “Tomorrow Never Knows” and think what they were doing just one year earlier, I often think “where did that come from?!”

I know they discovered Indian folk music and French Musique Concrète, but from “You’re Gonna Lose That Girl” in 1965 to “Tomorrow Never Knows” in 1966 has to be the most extraordinary leap that’s ever been seen.

 

[Deleted member 77198]

Your Sex Is On Fire. Despise the pile of shit.

“Caceido’s on fire!”

Good shout though!

Their first three albums were good.

 

[lefty goldblatt]

Reminds me of a wedding I went to. At the piss up this came on and about 50 women in their 30s and 40s who'd had kids and were well past their sell by dates all went mental to it.

There was flab, varicose veins and cellulite all over the gaff.

You didn't video it, did you?
Asking for a friend

 

[Stoned Rose]

You didn't video it, did you?
Asking for a friend

Unfriend yourself immediately.

 

[Stoned Rose]

Kings of Leon are fuckin' awful. Nearly as bad as Mumford & Sons.

Death by drowning isn't as bad as Mumford and sons.

 

[BlueMoonRisin’]

Each to their own blue :)

You're right pal. Love that song mainly for Squire's moody guitar qualities.

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

When I listen to “Tomorrow Never Knows” and think what they were doing just one year earlier, I often think “where did that come from?!”

I know they discovered Indian folk music and French Musique Concrète, but from “You’re Gonna Lose That Girl” in 1965 to “Tomorrow Never Knows” in 1966 has to be the most extraordinary leap that’s ever been seen.

Fuuck, just listened to that again! I had forgotten. Light years ahead of anything else around at the time. But then, you just have to look at the cover, and you know that — as Dorothy would have said to Toto — you're not in Kansas any more.
It can fairly be said that, with that album, the art of being casually psychedelic had been invented.

By the way, among other things they had discovered… lysergic acid diethylamide. I think it played its part.

 

[Banned Tosspot]

I remember buying Revolver on CD around 1991 and almost took it back to HMV as I assumed Tomorrow Never Knows was a track mistakenly added on the end.

Mind was blown!

 

[skiddypants]

Madness, I like driving in my car.