Have you ever heard a song you haven't heard in many years, a song you once liked, but upon hearing it again, you realize that the song is really just terrible, abhorrent, without merit ? You ask yourself : What was wrong with me? How could I have been such a poor judge of quality ? Does my taste still suck ? Well, it just happened to me.
Back in 89, this song got some airplay on the local alternative station (WEQX!), and I liked it so much I ran out and bought the album, and played it over and over. Then I stopped listening to it, lost the CD, never heard it again, forgot all about it - until last week.
Gack! The video is all new romantic, goth-lite, but it's not a goth song. The band wants to look like a metal band, but it's not a metal song. The singer overdoes his faux-operatic shtick while looking like early Ian Asbury - but sounding more like the guy from Queensryche than Jim Morrison. And this was the single... I don't even want to know what the rest of the album sounds like.
I'm so ashamed.
ha ha. They suck! Who were they again?
We all have the skeletons of crap bands in our closets. A lot of that 80s stuff sounds horribly dated now (although some aged well). I used to love Howard Jones – solo synth-pop at it’s worst – I heard some recently and made me cringe. At the time (1984) I thought it was simply amazing.
The question is which bands we love today are going to sound crappiest in 20 years? :)
that’s Darling Cruel.
the chorus is all happy and bouncy with that choppy little piano. but the video’s all dark and gloomy. makes no sense.
i saw Howard Jones once… no wait, that was Jesus Jones, with Ned’s Atomic Dustbin (dueling bassists!) on my 21st birthday.
who’s gonna suck in 20 years? White Stripes.
The White Stripes!!! How VERY dare you sir!
heh :)
honestly, i based that on nothing.
My hall of shame song goes back a little farther…
Ram Jam “Black Betty”
I thought it was awesome when it came out, but now not so much.
As far as hall of shame bands go, I used to like Angel.
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Angel
Dude, you’ve got nothing to be ashamed of. I used to play “Dog And Butterfly” over ‘n’ over when I was thirteen.
Then came The Pistols and thank god for that.
Only problem w/ The White Stripes is all the eight trillion drum/guitar bands out now. Yeesh.
i dunno… Heart is miles above Darling Cruel.
Oh, Cleek, I’m so sorry you went through that. I’m so sorry I activated the youtube link, too.
I look into my old collection and I actually had the 7″ of Rupert Holmes Escape (Pina Colada Song). I was in 5th grade, but still.
(I secretly love when it comes on the radio and the kids are in the car and i sing at the top of my lungs and they are alternately embarrassed as hell/cracking up in stitches).
I’m so sorry I activated the youtube link, too.
i can’t get that fucking thing out of my head, since i posted it here.
I actually had the 7? of Rupert Holmes Escape
oh yeah, me too. and Rod Stewart’s “Do Ya Think I’m Sexy” and a bunch of lame-ass disco, and Air Supply. blech. i had all the top-40 45s from 79-82. of course i lived across the street from a juke-box supply company.
then one day i grabbed all my 45s, took them down to the lake and me and my friends threw them in, one at a time, like frisbees.