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King Hippo

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I was randomly browsing music on YouTube (aka “Spotify for teh olds”) and this crossed my mind. Songs that your really, REALLY like by bands that you otherwise are meh about (or worse). For me, very easy. “At Home” (this version only) by Crystal Fighters:

Many times have I listened to this 4 or 5 times in a row. It’s hauntingly beautiful. The rest of the album? Or especially the NEXT one? Flaming sack of monkeyshit.

Flip side of this is Soundgarden’s “Spoonman.” I love everything they’ve recorded except this, which of course was perhaps their most commercially successful track.

What say you, people of DFO?

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King Hippo

Oh shit, I forgot to list a controversial one, now that we are all done with this thread: I can’t fucking stand “Under the Bridge.” Lamest heroin song EVER. Find all other RHCP pretty to very good, though. Especially Dani California.

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Cuntler

They aren’t bad, but they really need to stop using state names so much in their songs. It’s like Flea and Anthony Kiedis just got their first U.S. map or something.

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ballsofsteelandfury

I hate Under The Bridge too.

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King Hippo

I mean compare that milquetoast to this masterpiece:

Pay proper respect to your drugs, damn it!

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WhyEaglesWhy

“Under The Bridge” is one of those songs I recognize as a good song while never wanting to listen to it, ever. And I really like RHCP, as unfashionable as that is.

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laserguru

And I would walk 500 miles and I would walk 500 more.

It was always catchy.

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

When I saw “older” I thought you meant older.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdYV6Ist6AA

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Read words in post…. read words.

But here is mine.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQjqqy2hhDA

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BrettFavresColonoscopy

No one’s gonna say it? No one?

Fine. I enjoy Taylor Swift’s Blank Space even though it’s garbage.

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scotchnaut

+1 Pokerface

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ballsofsteelandfury

Is that code for her vagina? In that case, I agree.

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WhyEaglesWhy

I enjoy “Shake It Off” quite a bit.

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scotchnaut

Love this tune but have no use whatsoever for the Weezer (Buddy Holly can suck Peggy Sue’s dick) but Beverly Hills is thirstytightawesomehot.

https://youtu.be/HL_WvOly7mY

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BrettFavresColonoscopy

I’m kind of the opposite. I have a soft spot for Weezer and think El Scorcho, Pink Triangle, and others are great, but I think Beverly Hills is a piece of shit song.

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scotchnaut

I’d fight you…but it’s Weezer.

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King Hippo

I wanted to make “Hash Pipe” my ringtone (back when people still did stuff like that), then imagined my phone going off during a client meeting. Plus, I lazy.

The only Weezer I hates (HEY, Buddy Holly may be my very favourite, Scotchy!!), is that “I am the greatest” nonsense.

Nerd rock 4evs!!!!

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WhyEaglesWhy

I really like Weezer, but “The Sweater Song” can eat a bag.

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laserguru

Here’s one.

Everclear – “Santa Monica”.

I really like this song, still do, but the rest of their catalog is just shit awful. I think they turned country which doesn’t win a single goddamn brownie point as far as I’m concerned.

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scotchnaut

This is interesting because they are mostly shit but I thought they got something with “Wonderful”.

https://youtu.be/_Ib5H5auk-c

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scotchnaut

Hmmmm. Somebody’s maybe knee-deep in The Dalwhinnie…

https://youtu.be/hDDjsoORd_0

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King Hippo

TOTALLY AGREE.

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WhyEaglesWhy

Outlier Song: “Golddigger”, Kanye West. Usually my ears fail to see how his music organizes into, you know, “songs”. But goddamn I love that song.

Flip Side: “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For”, U2. They’re my favorite band, but I hate this song. To me, it epitomizes everything that people hate about U2.

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Cuntler

Nah, Bono’s transformation into super douche Africa spokesman with a charity that donates hardly anything is the reason people like me got tired of them. That and no good music since ’92. But Peter King is a big fan!

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ballsofsteelandfury

+9.7 Courics

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King Hippo

Yeah, there’s that too.

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Old School Zero

Tyler, The Creator – Sandwitches

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEySJnqJbRY

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scotchnaut

The Mission suck Andy Reid’s sebaceous back cyst yet here I am…

https://youtu.be/TwpYyObrB2o

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The Right Reverend Electric Mayhem

THREADJACK 2: ELECTRIC MAYHEM BOOGALOO

Anyone have any experience with web hosting services for a small bidness? Good, bad, etc.?

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scotchnaut

THREAD JACKING REVEREND’S THREAD JACK!

Man, it’s god damn busy at work! Is anyone else REALLY busy at work right now?

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sunrisesunrise

No. And I am leaving the office for a three day weekend because of how not busy I am.

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scotchnaut

So you got a great discount on a shit ton of parkas. They’re not going to sell themselves in Atlanta. Ya gotta stick with it-things will come around…

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Covalent Blonde

Work is fucking apeshit bananas busy. I have had to pee for 2.5 hours–yet I chose DFO refresh instead. Me and my shitty priorities!

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scotchnaut

Urine big trouble if you don’t go soon.

/As a bartender back in the day, I made many a hostess giggle with variations on that line

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King Hippo

ok, who else has peed in an old coffee cup during particularly long conference call they couldn’t duck out on? just me?

FUCKING LIARS!!!!

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Cuntler

A coffee cup? How small is your bladder? Are you having prostate issues? Or is it some automatic incontinence you get from being a Cardinals fan?

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The Right Reverend Electric Mayhem

Kinda with Cuntler here- if I have to go that badly, it’s because I could fill up a Big Gulp.

Which I have done. Conference calls suck.

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King Hippo

I must have a bladder like a walnut. Back when I used to do things like leave the house to go see a movie, if’n I got a beer or a Coke it was a guarantee I would have to pee at least twice before the film ended.

That one time I was stuck in the customs line driving back from BC into the US, driving solo such that I couldn’t make a mad dash to the woods without leaving the car unattended and possibly creating an international incident….

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ballsofsteelandfury

A friend and I had a site for a small business via GoDaddy and they hosted it. Everything was pretty smooth. The business didn’t go anywhere, but it wasn’t the web hosting service’s fault.

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Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Talk to Chris (DTZM) – not to speak for him, but that is pretty much what he does for a living.

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Sep

Ooo Ooo Ooo, The Vines – Outtathaway is a fine example of the early 2000’s love affair with Garage Rock.

Everything else they did, though, eeehhhhhhhh not so good.

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Covalent Blonde

I have been impressed by nothing else of JXL. Nothing. See Netherlands! Not everything you do is perfect!

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BrettFavresColonoscopy

An ex-gf put that song on my iPod, and I was very surprised at how infrequently I skipped it.

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Cuntler

I feel this way about so many ’90s bands.

Anthrax – “Bring the Noise”
The Breeders – “Cannonball”
Soup Dragons – “I’m Free”
Rammstein – “Du Hast”
Blur – “Song 2”
Hole – “Celebrity Skin”
Garbage – “Stupid Girl”
Fiona Apple – “Criminal”
Presidents of the United States of America – “Peaches”
L7 – “Andre” (I guess “Pretend that We’re Dead” is okay)

Non-90s division:

Sex Pistols – “Anarchy in the UK”
Outkast – “Hey Ya!”
The Hives – “Hate to Say I Told You So”

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Cuntler

One more: The Runaways – “Cherry Bomb”

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Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

I actually liked more of Hole’s music than I expected to. Fun celebrity story: one time I helped Eric Erlandson (Hole’s guitarist) move a washing machine he was giving to my ex-girlfriend.

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Cuntler

Yeah, that first album that Kurt Cobain wrote was pretty good.

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Cuntler

I am assuming you did all of the moving yourself, since he probably looked at you and screamed “GO ON, TAKE EVERYTHING! TAKE EVERYTHING! I WANT YOU TO!”

/sorry
//not sorry

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scotchnaut

Hmmmm. Cuntler hates The Breeders, Hole, Fiona Apple, L7, Garbage and The Runaways…

https://youtu.be/_Ib5H5auk-c

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Cuntler

Just meh about their other stuff. I like Lucious Jackson, Elastica, Blondie, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Sonic Youth, the Pretenders and many many more. I love women! Just like Aaron Rodgers! But I really love C+C Music Factory! EVERYBODY DANCE NOW!

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King Hippo

Man, “Shadowboxer” was fan-fucking-tastic.

“Celebrity Skin” and everything else Hole ever did makes me want to set myself on fire. I hate songs that bitch about being famous, especially from fame whores like Courtney Love (she never gets to use the Cobain name in my book, talentless hack).

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Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Sorry to threadjack, but the idiocy on display in the comments here are a pretty succinct example of why I refuse to click or comment on Uproxx Sports stories (unless I get tricked).

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Cuntler

So much slut-shaming in the name of the Dongslinger. And they don’t understand Sterger’s quip. All of us are SMH at them SMH IMO.

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Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

And shamed sluts need the MOST attention!

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Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

It’s from a long way back, but I really loved “Let’s Go All the Way” by Sly Fox when I was a wee little mongoose. So much so that I ordered the cassette via Columbia House. The rest of that album…hoo boy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mme0h76vJyk

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Horatio Cornblower

I just started playing this song and my wife just came in and started to shake her ass. Now I also like this song.

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scotchnaut

So glad she’s shaking her ass for someone other than me.

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Sep

How Soon Is Now – The Smiths. I straight up can’t stand Morrissey.

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ballsofsteelandfury

Wait. Are you saying you like this song and this song only and the rest of the Smiths songs you can’t stand?

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Sep

I like this song and everything else can go cut itself.

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King Hippo

What in the world do you cut yourself to, then?? smgdh

/there is a light, and it never goes out!!!

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scotchnaut

How Soon Is Now is the brilliant-est song. As far as The Smiths are concerned, I like Frankly, Mr. Shankly for its kitchy-ness and then almost nothing else.

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King Hippo

To take another outlier “like” – I’m not at all fond of Smashing Pumpkins, but like everything else on the wonderful “Singles” soundtrack, I really like “Drown.”

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ballsofsteelandfury

Smashing Pumpkins and R.E.M. are great examples for me. Most of their stuff I can take or leave, but they each have one or two songs that I really really like.

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King Hippo

When I think about it, both (also U2) could suffer from being in the category of “backlash” bands. That is, certain annoying people portraying them as the greatest, “edgy” band of all-time.

And the handful of songs really works for U2 as well (Seconds, Bullet the Blue Sky). For REM, I would add Drive and Radio Song (Jeebus, how white does that make me look, but I think the KRS-One collaboration was a combo that worked) to Nightswimming.

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ballsofsteelandfury

U2 is a great example.

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BrettFavresColonoscopy

Pumpkins were great, but Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness was an overrated (double) album. I’ll take Siamese Dream to this day.

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Horatio Cornblower

God help me Ace Frehley’s ‘Back in the New York Groove’

I hate KISS.

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ballsofsteelandfury

Pick any of the one-hit wonders from the 80’s and 90’s. Holy shitballs some of their other songs were pure crap!

I like the tack Yeah Right took. I’m a huge Cure fan and I think some of their deepest tracks are the best. Every time I hear “It’s Friday, I’m in Love”, however, I cringe and I turn the station. God, how I hate that song!

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King Hippo

Not that REM hasn’t put out other mediocre stuff (though I still maintain tracks like “Nightswimming” really were magical), but they really should be ashamed of Shiny Happy People.

That and “It’s Friday, I’m in Love” are joined at the hip, in my mind.

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Horatio Cornblower

You shut your whore mouth about ‘Shiny Happy People’; Kate Pearson sings on that, and she sings like a damn angel!

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BrettFavresColonoscopy

Nightswimming sucks a whole bag of dicks.

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WhyEaglesWhy

I love “Friday I’m In Love”, but I hate The Cure. It works backwards too!

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ballsofsteelandfury

As OSZ says, SERIAL KILLER!

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laserguru

I am, obviously, a huge Talking Heads fan but one of their biggest singles really annoyed me. “Love For Sale”.
Felt like it was a blatant attempt to chart a single.
Every other damn thing they did was magical.
They also put on one of the best live performances ever. I saw them 3 times back in their heyday.

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laserguru

In addition, copy this exact comment, word for word but change the band to Oingo Boingo and the song to “We Close Our Eyes.”

Holy fuckballs these guys could rock the shit live.

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ballsofsteelandfury

Totally agree.

I mean, you put out Who Do You Want To Be Today, arguably the greatest live song ever, and then you put out that piece of crap?

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King Hippo

It’s like David Cross and those goddamned Alvin and the Chipmunks movies. I mean, yeah, I know the guy has gotta eat, and I would totally sell out in a nanosecond BUT I EXPECT MORE FROM DR. TOBIAS FUNKE, ANALRAPIST.

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sunrisesunrise

I always associate Love For Sale with True Stories. I saw Byrne in concert a few years back. One of the most fun shows I’ve seen.

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Darkest Timeline Zack Morris

I like Bananarama.

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ballsofsteelandfury

Don’t you ever apologize for that!

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King Hippo

+ Cruel Summer

/faps

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laserguru

Oh dear Jesus. I..

I….

I like Cinderella! OK?!

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ballsofsteelandfury

That could be its own post: Most Embarrassing Band or Artist that you like.

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Covalent Blonde

Yeah, but it would be such a short post with 30 likes:

Aqua–“Barbie Girl”

…wait. You said artists. Then:

Aqua or even Len

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King Hippo

Does she like…butter tarts??

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Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

What a stupid lyric. Who DOESN’T like butter tarts?

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Cuntler

I used to get drunk in my 20s and listen to that Chumbawumba song really loud. My neighbors probably hated me. I am not ashamed!*

*Totally ashamed

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ballsofsteelandfury

Sounds like you got knocked out, but you got up again. Good work!

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Cuntler

Piiiiiissssssinnnnnggg. thhhhhheeeeee niiiiiiggghhhtttt aaaaaawwwwwaaaaaayyyyy…

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