Comments on: Songs You Like That You’re Pretty Sure No One Else Does

By: AlanM

AlanM — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 03:33:20 +0000

#51, Uncorrected Personality Traits is great, so you aren’t the only one (IThe spoiled baby grows into, the escapist teenager to, the adult alcoholic to, the middle-aged suicide (oy!)).

This is more along the lines of embarassing admissions, but I’ve always really liked _Spirit in the Sky_ (Greenbaum) and _Angels Watching Over Me_ (Amy Grant, I think), which is pretty bizarre for a lifelong atheist.

Oh, #1, everyone likes Mmmmbop. Not everyone is willing to admit it.

By: Corby Kennard

Corby Kennard — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:13:28 +0000

Reading this list, I find that I know more than 70% of the bands and songs, and do indeed like almost all of them.

Either I’m incredibly cutting edge, or I just devour media like Cloverfield ate New Yorkers.

By: Christopher Garlington

Christopher Garlington — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 14:14:30 +0000

“Donald Sutherland,” by the Ass Ponies.

By: Xopher

Xopher — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 01:43:13 +0000

“Little Neutrino” by Klaatu.

And now I’m passing through
The one who’s known as you
And yet you’ll never know I do
(I really do.)

By: Craig M

Craig M — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 01:38:47 +0000

I’ve got to get in on this.

Zabe #114 Dave Edmunds – “Slipping Away” always liked that tune. Also. There are some parts of Ontario that you cannot gain access to unless you can recite at least a line from a Kim Mitchell song.

My favorite song that I’m pretty sure no one else likes: “Fear No Evil” by GrimReaper. It’s from the eighties, it’s metal, they were not very pretty but they were not very ugly either. I call it simply: tasty, juicy, metal music.
However, in the golden age of 80′s video, even during the “Power” hours, the above description guarantees obscurity.

By: Lauretta

Lauretta — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:23:15 +0000

Sorry, Laura, I also liked Pilot of the Airwaves.
And One Tin Soldier.

Ok, folks – Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through, from Bat Out of Hell 2 album, sung by Meatloaf. Yeah. Sorry.

But I’ve always thought Jim Steinman and Carl Orff had a lot in common. Loud music, repetition, lots of instrumentation, repetition, raunchy themes, did I mention repetition?

Thank you all – I now have several ear bugs vying for my subconscious.

By: JamieCC

JamieCC — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 16:16:55 +0000

Happy Rhodes: “The Wretches Gone Awry”

By: aw2pp

aw2pp — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 03:59:09 +0000

I am fairly certain that one of my favorite B-52′s songs, Dance This Mess Around, has thoroughly annoyed everyone upon whom I’ve foisted it.

By: pizzangst

pizzangst — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 23:59:13 +0000

Wow, the thread count is up there…really risk sucking the last available oxygen out of this one.
Lots of great suggestions–I’m definitely going to order the “Until the End of the World” soundtrack. And, #153 schooled me on The Bears genealogy. I’m guessing you’ve seen them live several times. Forgot to mention that Belew was Bowies guitarist on Tour in 1990. Supposedly the last tour Bowie was going to play his greatest hits.

Funny how many others dig the songs we’re sure nobody else likes. I guess there must be other Shriekback fans partial to spoken/sung ode to the periodic table with a jungle groove “The Reptiles and I.”

By: Christopher Hawley

Christopher Hawley — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 19:11:51 +0000

Djscman @177:
Just watched that cover… I was braced for high sarcasm (yours), but darn it, you’re right: WS can sing more than passably. Who’d've thunk it?

(On the other tentacle, the accompanying visuals just about broke my brain.)