h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

The title says it all! The antithesis of "cr*p songs that you can't help liking"

By current hate?
"Dry your eyes" by "The Streets"

Rap without passion; dreary tune; Artist's name? Well, not on the streets round here!!

Don't get me started on the Streets, someone please give that guy some singing lessons.




This is going to annoy people:
But I can't stand 'Imagine' by John Lennon

The music is nice, but the lyrics are just plain daft.

Pretty much everything that has been in the UK top forty in the last decade or so and a lot of it before that from the beginnin go the 80s onwards

Daft lyrics haven't been much of an obstacle for hit songs unfortunately...

Most of the Beatles' output. OK, it might have been groundbreaking at the time, but now it sounds like twee nonsense.

RF

Seconded for 'Imagine'. Right down there with 'wouldn't it nice nice if everybody was nice'.

Anything by the Streets... I ask Mr. Skinner: what exactly is so groundbreaking about talking over a sample loop?

Oh, not forgetting Slipknot, Linkin Park, all of Marilyn Manson's post 1996 output, Metallica's last album, Oasis, the Verve... I'll be here all day if I keep going.

Oh, and Rio, by Duran Duran.

RF

Marylin Manson's recent output has been alright, he is simply working his way through every song Marc Almond was involved with. As most of those are quite reasonable songs the end result (while worse than the version he was ripping off) isn't bad.

Agreed about the Beatles, and when they started 'making it big', they weren't even the best group about doing what they were doing, they were just the one that 'got the lucky break', plenty of other groups at the time on the pub circuit were doing the same kinda stuff Or so I've been led to believe by someone who was there at the time, and invovled in quite a few groups about at those kinda times I've never even heard of slipknot never mind, bet there c**p new metal trash

What's wrong with the Verve? Good and different sounding songs. And I would say the Beatles have been surpassed several times since they were together. They are good, but not untouchable.

How does Slipknot actually fit in under "critically acclaimed"?

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Because I keep seeing things in magazines going on about how good they are.

As for what's wrong with the Verve: how does 'bunch of moaning greasy chip pan heads' do you?

The Beatles are a bit of an easy target. They started 40-odd years ago, so maybe they are a bit dated or sound twee now.

Just out of interest though, I had a look at what else was at number one around the same time. Cilla Black, Peter and Gordon, Brian Poole and the Tremeloes, Cliff Richard....

Good luck to the Beatles, I say!

Yeh, compaired to the stuff in the charts at the time; but a whole number of groups were 'doing the beatles sound' at that time in pubs and suchlike small bans, and the beatles just made it big cause they did, and I doubt as is often teh case, they were not hte necessarily best of the bunch availible at the time musically I'm getting seriously fed up with music the last few years, well decade, its rediculus its either teen boppy c****y pop rubbish, with group me members chosen on teh basis of their breast size, or this awful version of rock which really hastn't added anything to what we already had previously, I think I should go back to some good honest 15 centuary pop music you knew where you were with that...

I think it's called "closest thing to crazy" or something.

Sickly syrupy twee sh*t.

I also find Dido lyrics scarily obsessive. Hope she's not really a bunny-boiler.

I think the answer to all the world music problems would be simply skinning Simon Cowell. His pelt would make a wonderful throw rug and his meat and bones could be used to feed the underground rock movement, those lads from Interpol could do with some good square meals. Then his fatty tissue could be used to fuel the fires that will burn Girls Aloud and Westlife. Ahh....I had a dream. But Jim Morrison wasn't in it.
H(listens to Australian Radio when he can because the UK Music Charts are )F

To resuscitate an old string...
Congratulations, by Sir Clifford of Rich. Somebody must've liked it in the 60's; me, never, even as a kidlet!