Just looked at a post saying that Whats up by 4 non blondes is awful.
I would like to go on record in saying that I love it. I also like Belfast child by Simple minds.
Surely I am not the only person here who likes records that most folk hate?
Care to share yours?
Sniffity says
The Planner’s Dream Goes Wrong by the Jam
Hawkfall says
I thought it was physically impossible to like Belfast Child.
Is there a special yoga position or something that you need to get into when you listen to it?
welshbenny says
I will defend Shiny Happy People and The Frog Chorus till my last breath.
As bubblegum pop goes, Shiny is great. There were much bigger crimes in 1991 than that song.
And The Frog Chorus is FOR KIDS.
I thankewe.
Leedsboy says
The Clapping Song. Just the most irritating song ever. Closely followed that 4 Non Blondes dirge.
Alias says
I love this version by T Bird and the Breaks
deramdaze says
I don’t know when it started (sometime in the dire 1980s maybe) but the go-to song in order to slag off The Beatles, alongside ‘Maxwell’s Silver Hammer’, seems to be the utterly fabulous ‘Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da’.
Not to be confused with the limp cover by The Marmalade which amazingly made it to No. 1.
Jackthebiscuit says
I love Maxwells silver hammer.
deramdaze says
Me, too.
It never occurred to me that anyone wouldn’t!
DougieJ says
I can happily listen to Obla-di, although I feel it works best sandwiched between Glass Onion and Wild Honey Pie.
Maxwell I can take or leave. However, as with EverySingleBeatlesRecordingEver, there is enjoyment to be mined here also.
davebigpicture says
Obla-di is the first music I remember hearing on the kitchen radio, I would have been about 4. I don’t know if it was the HJHs or Marmalade but it holds a lot of memories for me.
Bingo Little says
I don’t usually like pop music all that much, and particularly not the sort that seems to have been specifically written for melodramatic ten year olds, but I secretly regard this as a cracking tune:
Steerpike says
The tune might be good Bingo but there is a noticeable whiff of Mariah Carey about the vocals
Bingo Little says
Vocals awful. Singer awful. Video awful. But it is a tune nonetheless.
DougieJ says
It’s ok, but I can’t abide the rapid lip movement of this X-Factor generation, supposedly signifying that they ‘truly feel it’. I could just about tolerate it with Whitney and, to a lesser extent, Mariah, but their followers? Nah.
I find this wonderful, despite its uber-melismatic quality:
https://youtu.be/zryovw_FD4Y
Luther Vandross – A House is Not a Home
RubyBlue says
I adore this. I’m so, so sorry.
I sing along in private. In fact, I am doing so now.
davebigpicture says
We have a winner!
RubyBlue says
I played this (twice) today and got chills. That monumental key change! ‘Yoooouuuuu’re!! Heeeeaaaar!!..’ Superbly epic.
More seriously there is a lovely song in there if it wasn’t for her wailing.
deramdaze says
It would be rude not to throw in David Bowie’s greatest three minutes at this point in the proceedings.
Step forward ‘The Laughing Gnome’, a song I must have heard 50 times for every one ‘Heroes’ or ‘Young Americans’.
Milkybarnick says
Completely with you there. Not sure if it’s the tune or the puns (probably both) but I love it.
ClemFandango says
Do Ya Think I’m Sexy
Always held up as the point where Rod completely lost the plot. Could never understand why, its great, drums are fantastic, always loved the keyboard bass and slightly Eastern intro hook.
Wonder what kudos if would have got if Daft Punk had written it..
Johnny Concheroo says
Yes, I love it.
Likewise Rod’s football record Ole Ola
minibreakfast says
The correct title (which I only noticed recently) being “Da’ Ya’ Think I’m Sexy?”
More confusingly, he never actually sings the words Do Ya or Da’ Ya’ at any point.
Johnny Concheroo says
And Rod was always at pains to point out that he was singing the song in the third person. That’s is to say, he wasn’t asking if we thought HE was sexy.
Declan says
Jorge Ben, or his people, sued Stewart for borrowings from this. Never did hear how the case ended.
Rigid Digit says
I think it was “settled out of court”, and no party allowed to say what the outcome was.
Although in his autobiog, Rod did admit to (sort of) nicking it.
Archie Valparaiso says
Is that Carmine Appice?
Rigid Digit says
Yup – co-writer of the track.
With Rod for 4 albums (in his leopard print spandex, inflatable arse, disco period)
Clive says
You’ll know this Archie… is it Apiss or Apeachy? We were never sure. Cue: Witty retorts re ‘you can go for a piss but you can’t etc…’.
Clive says
You know you love it you slags…
Black Celebration says
No. It should have been called “Pot Calling the Kettle Black”. Why? How about this phew! Rock n roll line :
“Who cares? They’re always changing corporation names!”
Remind me…who this song is by? Jefferson Starship? Jefferson Airplane? Jonathan Livingston Starship…?
Oh it’s Starship! I got confused you see because they’re always changing their name.
ClemFandango says
Not sure that Carmine’s prog-tastic double bass drum kit in the video is really in keeping with the song
Can’t see any singer these days letting the drummer putting their own name across the bass drum skins in a video either
ianess says
Here’s a belter for you all to cackle with scorn. Couldn’t have hated it more on release, but, some time ago, realised what a cracking pop song it is – ‘Sugar, Sugar’ by The Archies. Apparently, turned down by The Monkees.
Jackthebiscuit says
I love Sugar sugar by the Archies – great call.
DougieJ says
Yep. Great record. Enjoy it before it’s (and we’re) taxed to oblivion 😉
Sid Williams says
My choice too. The anthem of my paper round.
ip33 says
Along the same lines as above but a brilliant sunshine pop tune
BigJimBob says
I’ll get my coat
DogFacedBoy says
*throws bottle of piss*
Adele’s ‘Make You Feel Me Love’ is better than Dylan’s innit?
Douglas says
I cannot summon up any ill-feeling towards High School Musical, after my daughter spent about a year loving it to pieces.
And in the live concert album version of Breaking Free, they stop at one point to let the audience sing the chorus – you just hear several thousand 10 year old girls clearly having the time of their lives and singing their wee hearts out – just lovely.
James Blast says
I feel sick now
SteveT says
Not sure everyone disliked Richard Marx but there was a fair amount of sneering in the press I seem to recall. I was quite schmaltzy. However I really liked this song at the time and still like it now:-
DougieJ says
Nice tune. A Melody FM reworking of The Boss’s The River, and nothing wrong with that.
davidks says
Yes, I like this.
walker1 says
A second vote for Mr Marx- or at least for this particular record.
Black Celebration says
I think this is a terrific song.
todayoutof10 says
Great thread and I also really like some of these. Especially Celine Dion. Nice choice @rubyblue. For reasons unknown to me Daniel Bedingfield hasn’t been given proper respect for writing a truly great love song. His debut album, which features this track, is practically perfect pop. I heart him.
RubyBlue says
Ha, thanks, it’s wonderful/dreadful. @todayoutof10
I do like that big hit that Daniel B. had but can’t for the life of me remember the name.
Steerpike says
Bedingfield. Now there’s a name you don’t hear much anymore.
Sid Williams says
Lay Lady Lay. Don’t care if it’s pub singer period, I love it..
davidks says
I’m not sure if this is universally derided, but I really like Cry Me a River by Justin Timberlake. Great tune.
Rigid Digit says
Transvision Vamp – I do still pull the first two albums out for an airing occasionally. It’s not big, it’s not clever, it’s just a big dumb sound of energy and fun.
First 2 albums are great fun – by the time the 3rd came round, I think they had run out of talent.
Tiggerlion says
I’m partial to a bit of penny whistle, shambolic drumming and a granny on upright piano.
Lieutenant Pigeon – Mouldy Old Dough
Walter Rego says
Not sure if this is ‘universally hated’ or not, but certainly down the dodgier end of things, but this is my first memory of Top Of The Pops and still think it’s a corker.