Bad Songs by Great Artists

[Geir]

no kari its fabulous

you are kidding .. right

[Migs]

The Lemonheads (especially Evan Dando)

That bastardo stole my girlfrined Alison Galloway ... just because he wrote a song about her, she decided he was better.  And no, I'm not bitter.

[Greeny]

Shiny Happy People by R.E.M....absolutely horrible, and I don't care if it's supposed to be ironic, tongue in cheek, whatever...it's just a terrible, annoying song.  Did I mention I'm not fond of this song?

Scott

I've heard REM themselves hate it too!

[AndyR]

Shiny Happy People by R.E.M....absolutely horrible, and I don't care if it's supposed to be ironic, tongue in cheek, whatever...it's just a terrible, annoying song.  Did I mention I'm not fond of this song?

Scott

I've heard REM themselves hate it too!

Yeah, and I understand Blue Oyster Cult hated (Don't fear) The Reaper.

And I was amazed when I heard Elkie Brooks say she's never liked Don't Cry Out Loud, but they forced her to do it and it turned out to be a hit... It's one of my MOST FAVOURITE songs ever.

Her performance of it after that intro was perfunctory and very disappointing to the late-40s version of the dreamer who fell in love with it and her when he was 14 or or so (rest of the gig was fab, but that really disappointed me).

Mebbe she ought to talk to Donny. Donny hated Puppy Love. He tells a story at gigs about how he used to sing it for years in a p1ss-take fashion because he hated it so much, and he thought the audience would share the joke... but then a 30/40 year-old came backstage after a gig one day and tore him a new one over his behaviour during the show, pointing out that it was her pre-teen years he was taking the p1ss out of... and after telling the story he sits at a piano and sings a truly beautiful version of what is actually a superb song - even the two or three blokes that were in the sell-out audience were crying . He doesn't hate it anymore, it's just not one of his favourites.

Unfortunately folks, Shiny Happy People is a very good song - a chorus and a verse and a tune you can hum (^TM ORH ) (Actually, I'm not sure it has an identifiable verse and chorus, can't remember, but you know wot I mean...). It's just not in a style that most REM followers (and REM themselves) actually appreciate. Personally, I'm not that fond of most of what REM did, but I do find this one pleasantly listenable (as long as I don't hear it more than once a year or so! ). I have one REM album, it's the one that has that on, can't remember the album title and that's the only song I can remember off of it... there's one other on there that I like, it's those two songs I put the CD on for, if at all... but I can't remember the name, any lyrics, the sound, the tune or anything about the other song.