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And i would walk 500 Miles and i would walk 500 more to be the man who would walk 1000 miles blah blah blah blah 😭🔫
And it’s sad too because on the same album, there’s a song called Sunshine on Leith, which is a great song, but nobody ever listened to it because they heard 500 miles and they were expecting everything to be exactly the same.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iesps9w4HFw
500 miles does not fit to the rest of the album.
same for Smash Mouth from what i’ve heard. I guess you could say that’s how Limp Bizkit and to a lesser extent 311 became pop too.
Same for Blur and Song 2
I’m a crusty metal head. It takes a lot, and I mean A LOT, to make me hate a song. Design the Skyline’s 2011 flaming pile of shit Surrounded by Silence is the single worst metal song I’ve ever listened to. At a time where we had major musical juggernauts like BTBAM, Periphery, Protest the Hero, After the Burial, and so many other great technically sound musicians just hitting their stride or deep in their prime, Design the Skyline said ‘this’ll do.’
I could rip into this thing a million different ways. Lets just start with the fucking aesthetics. It’s 2011. I’m a year into college. Hipsterism is on the rise. Scene kids are dying out. These guys are the last vestige of an embarrassingly low period of teenage subculture. You got two lead screamers. A gelfling, and Rhea Ripley 12 years before her time. The bassist is little brother Ethan after Mom said let your little brother be in the band. 3 nondescript other dudes wearing girls clothing who are too embarrassed to show their faces at all. And a drummer who is too good for this shit. They’re children of that time. The first thing I thought to my self as soon as they show up in the video even back then is, ‘we’re still doing this?’
The start of the song is the best part. It’s this techy synth stuff with great dynamics that fits the era. It’s long enough to make you think we’re in for a good ride. Then it drops out and the actual band starts and hooooo boy is it bad. It’s pure WHAT THE FUCK! The two screamers go back and forth unintelligibly. The guitars are playing fuck all. The bass drops out like fucking Hetfield was mixing And Justice For All. It’s just chaos.
Then you get to the chorus. It’s autotuned to shit. In the actual video the gelfling is battling snow that keeps falling into his mouth. The Rhea clone is dry heaving and singing at the same time. He legit looks like he’s gonna be sick the way he’s moving. Then little brother Ethan comes in. He’s the most awkward, no confidence looking mother fucker of the whole video. He looks like he spent the whole day getting yelled at to move like this and you’ll look cool, but it was really a joke and he just looks stupid. To the point there’s a shot of the Rhea clone staring off and rolling his eyes while little brother Ethan is singing, like why is he here? It’s just a fucking mess. The best part of the chorus is this is the only time in the whole song it happens.
Then it returns back to the chaos of nothingness musically and you feel shock. Why am I being bombarded by this? What is the point of this song? What is the point of my life? There are legit musicians at this period of time. Misha Mansoor is working hard on P2. The boys in BTBAM are working hard on P2. Everybody is waiting for the next Contortionist album. You got a whole new movement in Djent. Then this shit forces it’s way into the spotlight like a distraction from the Epstein Files.
And when I tell you the description I’m writing is nothing compared to the hate this song got at the time, I fucking mean it. They released their record then split up. The amount of hate they got broke the band up. There was no way anyone was taking any of this shit seriously. That’s how bad it was.
Here it is. Do not enjoy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViSZI6UJEUQThe only other songs that makes me a fraction as upset as the above is Pause and Rib Woman on Frosting by Bent Knee. I can’t prove it but I really think those two songs caused a rift in the band that got Ben and Jess kicked out the band. Ben with out of control creativity that tanked a record on Pause. Whoever decided to have a high pitched alarm go off for a whole song deserves to be whipped. Nobody wants to listen to Jess moan for a whole song like Rib Woman. They’re lucky they had the cover of covid to leave, but man that record really upset a lot of people. None more than the band itself. They’ll never say it but it’s pretty obvious. The Hyperpop experiment was a failure.
It’s basically low effort very amateur metalcore. I get the feeling they are trying to achieve something similar to Electric Callboy but Emo but fail spectacularly.
On the bright side, you’d given me a perfect example to share when they ask me why I don’t like 00s+ emo culture (in general), and their influence then and now in rock and metal music.
Idk, the vibe they are going for isn’t particularly bad, it’s something like metalcore but Emo. The issue is that they put 0 effort into making an actual proper song.
Linking park has a similar-ish vibe and their songs are good. Electric Callboy has a very different vibe but their metalcore is what this song would dream to be.
Don’t blame Emos for the lack of care for the craft this band had.
Big Yellow Taxi by Joni Mitchell and covered by Counting Crows. I had to look up the actual name of the song because I just know it by the lyric " Paved paradise, put up a parking lot". It’s just repetitive, depressing, and unimaginative.
By today’s standards it may be unoriginal, but it was a fairly well received message when it came out and also when I was young.
But of a Tangent, Maynard James Keenan is an absolutely huge Joni Mitchell Fan. He thinks Joni’s Blue album is one of the best albums from an production/engineering perspective
Anything by Cake. I have a visceral reaction.
Oh man I absolutely love Cake. We are not the same lol. I’ll happily take your share of the world’s Cake
“Pump it” by the Black Eyed Peas, They ruined a perfectly good song (Misirlou)
Reminds me of hearing Come with me and being like Zeppelin let this pos use Kashmir?!
I still love Kashmir though so at least it wasn’t ruined for me.
Oh God, I forgot about Come with me…
Sorry
Pumped up Kicks. Like… jesus christ…
I’m familiar with it and it’s meh, why does it bother you?
“Children,” by Robert Miles.
It became even worse when lyrics were added.
when lyrics were added.
WTF.
I love an instrumental piece. Mammagamma (Alan Parsons Project) is probably my favorite, and I do quite like Childten. But lyrics? WTF.
“Don’t Stop Believing” by Journey. That song makes me want to vomit
I always try and sing with or without you in my head and try and do my own mashup(thank you axis of awesome!)
Jessie’s Girl. It’s very catchy, but the lyrics are about being jealous of your friend, and the description of the girl involved is just so ridiculously minimal - she has eyes she looks with, she has a body, and she loves Jessie. That’s everything single thing said about her.
Coheed & Cambria wrote a track called Jessie’s Girls 2. It’s about how how he regrets his decision because she is full on bonkers. It’s a great track. Check it out.
Does Scotty know?
Scotty dodged a bullet, apparently. He’s sleeping soundly not knowing.
Sleeping very soundly, on a Saturday morning? Dreaming they were Al Capone by chance?
Pearl Jam’s Last Kiss sends me into a blind rage. I respect people’s right to like this song but it is terrible, and they played it on the radio all the fucking time. I’m getting pissed just typing this out.
All of Pearl Jam belongs in the dumpster
Such a good band, what a wild take. Any chance you care to share what is it you dont like? Not trying to convince you of anything just want to hear why, if that’s not too much to ask
Originally by the Proclaimers I believe. I love the song lol
Sultans of Swing. Everyone and their uncle thinks its the best thing ever, so I hear it all the fime. Repetitive music, barely any actual singing, and just frankly sounds shit. I can’t believe it was so popular that I am now cursed to hear if on every oldies station.
I could never hate Sultans of Swing, but I hear you. It’s the one Dire Straits song that ever gets played, and even worse, the radio edit cuts out a lot of the virtuosic guitar solos, which are really the best part of the tune.
It’s also extremely well recorded and is a great song for testing new audio gear. Same with Hotel California.
I can definately see people getting sick and tired of it though. Not me.
One Headlight - I don’t even know why other than that the song is the epitome of meh, but I fucking hate that song.
I thought it was interesting that the singer is Bob Dylan’s son
Anything by an artist that turned out to be a pedo, RHCP, aerosmith, etc. It makes me sick knowing they’re still making royalties and not facing consequences.
Oh man you’re gonna hate when you find out that’s almost all music
I’ve reached the point where I don’t want to know anything about musical artists. I don’t want to see what they look like, I don’t want to know about their personal lives. Just play me the music and I will judge it on sound alone, because once you learn anything about them non-musically, most of the biggest stars are godawful people.
Don’t meet your heroes is very old expression.
Mr. Brightside by The Killers.
Really, anything by the Killers, but this one is so incredibly over played and it makes my brain hurt why anyone ever liked that song in the first place.
Do you hate the song, or the killers/their version of it?
Because I found a cover of it in the style of A7X that is probably the best version of it possible
E: added link
Both, but probably mostly just the killers.
Reviewing the lyrics, yeah, def not a fan of the song and (what I see as) the under lying message. And messages like that in songs are fairly important to me enjoying them.
That’s legit. I’m not a fan of the message necessarily (toxic monogamy is rather frustrating), but that version is just a massive ear worm for me
Interesting. Iirc this is a song that’s supposed to be describing how shitty thoughts get in that moment before we know if a betrayal has happened. Supposedly it’s a song meant to bring awareness to how shitty we can be in those moments when invasive thoughts start to take over. Which that’s why it’s never confirmed in the song if the cheating is real or just feared
The song is often misinterpreted. I would find an explanation of the
dungsong by Brandon Flowers if you want to be less bothered by the messaging of the song, even if that is so not the only reason you dislike it
Anything by Dylan.
Jacob (Wallflowers) or his dad Bob?
