"I Kissed a Girl," which may be the most blatantly calculated hit song in the history of pop.
I reckon that title is already taken by the abysmal Natasha Bedingfield, and her song "These Words" where she sings "These words are my own...", which incidentally, they are not, before singing the diabolically bad "Read some Byron, Shelly and Keats, Recited it over a Hip-Hop beat, I'm having trouble saying what I mean, With dead poets and drum machines". Ugh.
Plus she has a stupid face. And her brother is a gimp. Harsh constructive criticism, I know.
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Posts: 827 | Location: Glasgow | Registered: 21 December 2006
um, I just downloaded Santogold, and I'm glad I didn't spend money on it. I'm sorry if some of you guys are attached to it, but it bored me to tears in 2 tracks.
Hah! That's funny about Natasha Bedingfield. I like that song, even though those lines definitely make me cringe too. But the chorus is such a ridiculous, gloriously producer-orchestrated ocean orgasm....
The debut album from Scars on Broadway leaked today (2 members of SOAD* are in it) and I'm pretty sure without even listening to it that it's the worst album of 2008.
*I loved System of a Down, they were the only "nu-metal"/"metal" band I have ever enjoyed.
Posts: 211 | Location: Vancouver, BC | Registered: 21 February 2008
Natasha Bedingfield is pretty offensively bad. The Santogold album though...I like it. It's not a GREAT album by any means, but it's fun. I find it enjoyable.
But Katy Perry, good god, that's some of the worst music I've ever heard. Not just this year, ever.
Originally posted by cuneyt81: Natasha Bedingfield is pretty offensively bad. The Santogold album though...I like it. It's not a GREAT album by any means, but it's fun. I find it enjoyable.
But Katy Perry, good god, that's some of the worst music I've ever heard. Not just this year, ever.
I think mediocre bothers me more than offensively bad, if that makes any sense.
Girl Talk - Feed the Animals Unlistenable crap as well as the last album... How could he dare to blend for a example a sample from the Beach Boys with nauseous mainstream rap??
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Halfway through 2008, right now my vote goes to Made In the Dark by Hot Chip.
I like this band, enjoyed The Warning...and while about half this albums tracks have decent moments...overall the bands approach this time is just so unappeallingly disjointed, there isn't a single song that sustains any level of excitement for it's full duration, and the album's weaker tracks (Bendable Poseable, Wrestlers just to name two) are truly dreadful.
I hate the Fleet Foxes album, because I have a hatred towards Crosby, Stills and Nash. Plus, it bores me to absolut tears (literally, I'm crying Absolut whenever I listen to it). Worst of '08 for me. Oh, and the Fuck Buttons album. As a bit of background, I like challenging albums. They Were Wrong So We Drowned is one of my favourites. I can't even listen to Street Horrrsing. Bores me to tears....and not even absolut tears.
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Posts: 87 | Location: Toronto | Registered: 30 July 2008
Originally posted by DrAwesome: What if it's Crosby, Stills, Nash, and YOUNG? Does that make it better? Maybe the new J. Tillman addition will be the Young for you...
Neil Young makes all sorts of things more palatable....but unless J Tillman is a crusty old speed-freak curmudgeon genius then, no, I probably still won't like Fleet Foxes *L* I must admit, though, CSNY--FAR SUPERIOR--to straight CSN
I am a lost soul/I shoot myself with rock n' roll/The hole I dig is bottomless/But nothing else can set me free/
Posts: 87 | Location: Toronto | Registered: 30 July 2008
I found Goldfrapp's old album irresistibly annoying, with some singles that would never escape from my mind, no matter how many beers I drowned. Seventh Tree however, is just boring. If you're going to reinvent yourself, at least make sure you hold on to the listeners for the whole album.
Posts: 305 | Location: AVA | Registered: 24 June 2006
I hate to say it, but I was SO disappointed by the new My Morning Jacket album "Evil Urges". I waited weeks after it was released on CD for my local record store to get in the vinyl copy.
I had heard good things about it (mostly) so I was willing to shell out twice the amount the Cd would have cost. But the album is just BAD. It's so... predictable. It just doesn't seem like they spent much time and effort writing/recording it. Just flat boring.
What a huge step back from the excellent Z.
Posts: 155 | Location: St Louis | Registered: 24 July 2008
Um. A lot of the "electonic" stuff I've been trying to choke down is basically steaming anonymous crap of the lowest order. I can't even think of their names, they're all such samey idiocy. I've been really disappointed trying to sift through this stuff for a whiff of decency. I'll try to be more specific in a follow-up post when I've sufficiently differentiated these crappy albums one from another.
Originally posted by goathouse's enlarging prostate: Um. A lot of the "electonic" stuff I've been trying to choke down is basically steaming anonymous crap of the lowest order. I can't even think of their names, they're all such samey idiocy. I've been really disappointed trying to sift through this stuff for a whiff of decency. I'll try to be more specific in a follow-up post when I've sufficiently differentiated these crappy albums one from another.
I'll be waiting.
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