How Can ANYONE not like this song?

[melon1]

This board is specifically about listing a song or songs that you simply can't understand why anyone and everyone doesn't dig it.

[melon1]

I'll start with "Going To California" By Led Zep.

[luke]

"Live Forever" by Oasis. Though most everyone does.

[riley]

Here's a bunch I just can't imagine anyone not liking. Pop songs granted, but quality pop songs I would think would appeal to just about all walks.

"Bohemian Like You" - The Dandy Warhols

"No Matter What" - Bad Finger

"Money City Maniacs" - Sloan

"September Gurls" - Big Star

"Surrender" - Cheap Trick

"Substitute" - The Who

"Sick Of Myself" - Matthew Sweet

"I Wanna Be Adored" - The Stone Roses

"Another Nail In My Heart" - Squeeze

"A Good Idea" - Sugar

[bowiglou]

nice list Riley...here are some of mine:

Lust for Life--Iggy Pop (just the opening drum solo is enough to get one fruggin on the dancefloor)
Rock and Roll---The Mekons
Heavenly Pop Song---The Chills
I Should Have Known Better--The Beatles
Achin to Be---The Replacements
Driver 8--REM
Street Fighting Man--The Rolling Stones
Perfect Skin--Lloyd Cole and the Commotions
Whats so funny (about peace love and understanding)--Elvis Costello
Pins and Needles--as covered by the Ramones
Hyacinth House--The Doors
Ashes to Ashes--David Bowie
Pretty in Pink--Psychedelic Furs
Beds are Burning--Midnight Oil
Dreaming--Blondie
Life During Wartime--Talking Heads
Pillar to Post--Aztec Camera
Waterloo Sunset---The Kinks
I Can't Explain (or Substitute)--The Who
Love Lies Bleeding--Elton John
Fire and Rain--James Taylor
When the Levee Breaks--Led Zepplin
Gouge Away--The Pixies
A Song from under the Floorboard--Magazine
Have You ever Fallen --the Buzzcocks
Dr. Wu--Steely Dan
Heros are Hard to Find--Fleetwood Mac
Bell Bottom Blues---Eric Clapton
Badge--Cream
Tangled up in Blue--Bob Dylan
Passion is No Ordinary Word---Graham Parker
I'm the Man--Joe Jackson
Maggie May--Rod Stewart
Cindy Incidentally ---The Faces
Father and Son----Cat Stevens
Pride of Man---Quicksilver Messenger Service
Back on the Chain Gang---The Pretenders
Age of Consent--New Order
Love will Tear us Apart Again--Joy Division
Old Man--Neil Young
Somebody Got Murdered --The Clash
In The Big Country--Big Country
Wind Up--Jethro Tull
Time Passages--Al Stewart
Whiter Shade of Pale--Procul Harum
Track of My Tears--Smokey Robinson
My Girl--Temptations
To Sir with Love--Lulu
Waiting for the Man--Velvet Underground
New Sensations--Lou Reed

[Mary]

Interesting category. Seems to call for songs that are just so damn catchy they could appeal across the board - instead of idiosyncratic stuff that appeals to your personal quirks. Soooo, for example:

the mekons - club mekon
the clash - gates of the west (the great lost power pop song, seriously!)
the byrds - so you wanna be a rock n' roll star
the cure - just like heaven
echo and the bunnymen - the killing moon
the pixies - here comes your man
the zombies - she's not there
the shangri-las - leader of the pack (and TONS of other girl group songs - all ridiculously catchy and head-boppin')
thin lizzy - jailbreak
diamanda galas - there are no more tickets to the funeral

ok, just kidding about diamanda.

Cheers,
M

[bowiglou]

mary, great call on The killing Moon........I really don't see how anyone can be dismissive of that one..Mary, I actualy have an EP of that song upon it's release that's a 9 minute or so version...i think you would love it...

[ClubberLang]

melon1 said:

I'll start with "Going To California" By Led Zep.

when i was about 15 i was knee-deep in my rap phase. I listened to some rock n roll but it was mostly 'lighter" stuff like Billy Joel, The Beatles, The Eagles, stuff like that. My friends were all into Zeppelin and i i just didn't get it(I was a stupid kid obviously). I especially hated Going to California. When Plant hits those high notes,"I think i might be sinking!" it would make me cringe. My buddies used to hold me down and make me listen to it because it annoyed me so much. Eventually i grew to love Zeppelin and Going to California, but whenever i hear that song it reminds me of what my friends did to me whenever they played that song. Funny stuff

[Ayinger]

ah, I've got the same Echo ep I believe....has a good live vers. of "Do It Clean" perhaps on it?

"Just Like Heaven" off Mary's list gave me a slight smile....I used to love popping that on when I DJ'd dances or in a bar. Have to pull back from the Thin Lizzy pick though...just my opinion but that cut always left me a bit cold on an otherwise 5-star album.

[Kensterberg]

Yeah, I've got to agree that Just Like Heaven is an absolutely perfect song.

Call me contrary, but The Killing Moon is waaaaay down my list of Echo and the Bunnymen tracks. It's a decent tune, but it's a bit too overblown to me. Give me the cuts off Crocodiles or Porcupine (that was the name of the second LP, wasn't it?) that have more of that brittle post-punk sound. I guess Do It Clean and All That Jazz are actually my favorite by Echo et al.

[Kensterberg]

Some songs that I think (should) have (almost) universal appeal ...

The Beatles, "Help!"
The Clash, "Gates of the West" (I swear I was the one who coined the "great lost power pop song" but I could be wrong: anyway, it's absolutely perfect, and if you don't love this track, you don't love rock and roll)
The Ramones, "Sheena is a Punk Rocker" (and "Needles and Pins" as Bow noted earlier)
The Jam, "Town Called Malice"
J. Geils Band, "Love Stinks"
R.E.M., "So.Central Rain (I'm Sorry)"
Jefferson Airplane, "Somebody to Love"
The Zombies, "She's Not There" (I just put this one in for Rocky)
Del Shannon, "Runaway"
tons of girl group songs, pretty much all of the Motown hits
Jimi Hendrix, "Purple Haze" (hell, I don't like Hendrix, and I like this song)
The Band, "The Weight"
Oasis, "Don't Look Back in Anger" (IMHO this was easily one of the top five songs of the nineties, and I just don't understand folks who can't hear that)
Tom Robinson Band, "2, 4, 6, 8 Motorway"
Blondie, "Dreaming"
Palchabel's "Canon in D"
New Order, "Age of Consent"
Wilco, "Outtasite (Outtamind)"
The Replacements, "Alex Chilton"
The Beatles, "Something," "Yesterday"
The Rolling Stones, "Jumpin' Jack Flash," "You Can't Always Get What You Want," "Beast of Burden"
U2, "With or Without You," "Bad"
Iggy Pop, "Lust for Life" (yeah, there's a lot of overlap between me and Bowiglou musically)
David Bowie, "Heroes," "Suffragette City," "Changes," "Modern Love"

That's enough for now ...

[Dr. Drum]

No way my dad is going for The Beatles, Zeppelin or freakin' David Bowie. However, he does like Suzanne Vega.

My name is Luka
I live on the second floor

[Kensterberg]

Your dad doesn't even like the Beatles? My dad's an old curmudgeon (well, at least he was when he knew what was going on around him), but even HE liked the Beatles. He couldn't stand Bob Dylan, though, or Bowie.

[Dr. Drum]

Actually, these days I might get "Yesterday" or "When I’m 64" past him. When I was growing up though, not a chance. All that stuff was just the absolute dregs – not even real music.

[Mary]

kenholzman said:

Call me contrary, but The Killing Moon is waaaaay down my list of Echo and the Bunnymen tracks. It's a decent tune, but it's a bit too overblown to me. Give me the cuts off Crocodiles or Porcupine (that was the name of the second LP, wasn't it?) that have more of that brittle post-punk sound. I guess Do It Clean and All That Jazz are actually my favorite by Echo et al.

I'm not sure if I'd call you contrary so much as hearing-impaired

tee hee... sorry... but, sure, the Killing Moon is rather long and dramatic, but it's soooooo perfectly crafted, and gorgeously sung, that it's absolutely haunting.

Nooow, call me contrary (or hearing-impaired), but if I never ever ever ever hear motherfucking ch-ch-ch-Changes again, I'll be very happy. I find that song singularly irritating. And it sounds like it should be the theme song for a really lame sitcom.

I forgot one song that ANYONE who has ever been a teenager is morally obligated to love (well, actually, Cheap Trick's Surrender fulfills this category too, but rileydog already hit that) : SCHOOL'S OUT - ALICE COOPER. Damn straight.

Cheers,
M