Big Ears
Music Lover
I'm Running by Yes. I love Yes, but this is terrible by any standard and the references to 'Jacaranda' make me cringe. Trevor Rabin seems to have a thing about them. Yes made some of my all time favourites, like Roundabout and close to the Edge, so what happened?
Seamus by Pink Floyd. Meddle is a great album, but it contains this unlistenable rubbish. Dave Gilmour seemed to think it was funny to have a dog howling while he sang. He was wrong and it isn't.
Did You No Wrong is the first track on Ladies Invited by J. Geils Band and I could get no further without experiencing extreme pain. This is the band that later made the fantastic Monkey Island. Ladies Invited is the only album I've taken out of the sleeve, thrown on the floor and jumped on with both feet.
Beauborg by Vangelis is unlistenable. Even Vangelis's family must have hated him for this.
Technical Ecstasy by Black Sabbath. Very disappointing and flat because (a) the band were bereft of ideas and (b) it followed the mighty Sabotage.
Amazing Grace by the Groundhogs from Who Will Save the World? The Mighty Groundhogs. It is not their best album and this track is just filler. Most of their other albums are consistently great.
Squeeze Box by The Who. Even the best bands can make a weak album at some stage and for The Who it is By Numbers. Squeeze Box was a hit single, but it is dire in comparison to the others, including I Can See For Miles, Pinball Wizard, Let's See Action, Relay, 5:15 and Who Are You.
Radio Ga Ga by Queen was a bad sign and foretold the horrors that were Hot Space. Ga Ga was on The Works which was poor anyway.
Weekend Warriors by Uriah Heep signaled the end of a once great band.
YYZ by Rush is not a song, it is a repetitive instrumental which represented the end (for me) of Rush's most productive period.
Moonshine by Wishbone Ash. The first two tracks on Locked In are really good and then they hit you with Moonshine which just leads to more banal rubbish. Wishbone Ash pioneered twin-lead guitars and harmony guitars, but they lost the plot with Locked In.
Again and Again by Status Quo from If You Can't Stand the Heat showed they had slipped into self-parody. Lancaster and Coghlan left presumably in disgust, while Rossi and Parfitt were knighted for services to hypocracy.
You Can't Hurry Love by Phil Collins. Collins was a good drummer and second singer for Genesis, but I did not like them when Gabriel and Hackett left. His solo work was even worse and this version of the Motown track makes me wonder what on earth he was thinking about. Collins didn't endear himself to me when he went on to say, "I never liked bands like ELP anyway."
Seamus by Pink Floyd. Meddle is a great album, but it contains this unlistenable rubbish. Dave Gilmour seemed to think it was funny to have a dog howling while he sang. He was wrong and it isn't.
Did You No Wrong is the first track on Ladies Invited by J. Geils Band and I could get no further without experiencing extreme pain. This is the band that later made the fantastic Monkey Island. Ladies Invited is the only album I've taken out of the sleeve, thrown on the floor and jumped on with both feet.
Beauborg by Vangelis is unlistenable. Even Vangelis's family must have hated him for this.
Technical Ecstasy by Black Sabbath. Very disappointing and flat because (a) the band were bereft of ideas and (b) it followed the mighty Sabotage.
Amazing Grace by the Groundhogs from Who Will Save the World? The Mighty Groundhogs. It is not their best album and this track is just filler. Most of their other albums are consistently great.
Squeeze Box by The Who. Even the best bands can make a weak album at some stage and for The Who it is By Numbers. Squeeze Box was a hit single, but it is dire in comparison to the others, including I Can See For Miles, Pinball Wizard, Let's See Action, Relay, 5:15 and Who Are You.
Radio Ga Ga by Queen was a bad sign and foretold the horrors that were Hot Space. Ga Ga was on The Works which was poor anyway.
Weekend Warriors by Uriah Heep signaled the end of a once great band.
YYZ by Rush is not a song, it is a repetitive instrumental which represented the end (for me) of Rush's most productive period.
Moonshine by Wishbone Ash. The first two tracks on Locked In are really good and then they hit you with Moonshine which just leads to more banal rubbish. Wishbone Ash pioneered twin-lead guitars and harmony guitars, but they lost the plot with Locked In.
Again and Again by Status Quo from If You Can't Stand the Heat showed they had slipped into self-parody. Lancaster and Coghlan left presumably in disgust, while Rossi and Parfitt were knighted for services to hypocracy.
You Can't Hurry Love by Phil Collins. Collins was a good drummer and second singer for Genesis, but I did not like them when Gabriel and Hackett left. His solo work was even worse and this version of the Motown track makes me wonder what on earth he was thinking about. Collins didn't endear himself to me when he went on to say, "I never liked bands like ELP anyway."
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