Barking Spiders

As well as Sweet Child of Mine, Paradise City has a cracking start then Axl Rose has to go and spoil it all with his p1$$p00r excuse for a vocal On the subject of the vocals ruining songs after great intros there's a myriad of Led Zep tunes which have cracking intros and then...meh... Rock n Roll, Whole Lotta Love, In The Evening, Ramble On, Tramped Under Foot, Gallows Pole, Immigrant Song, Communication Breakdown, When the Levee Breaks, Ramble On, Kashmir...

The first 15 seconds of One of These Nights 👍. The next 198 secs 🤮 Layla - nice first 8 seconds before the lead guitar notes kick in Mystery Song by Status Quo (single version)- cracking first 30 seconds with the flanged guitar and then it's back to the usual fare

Mention of Stiltskin in the one hit wonders thread got me thinking about songs with great intros and then, usually when the vocal kicks in, it all goes rapidly downhill That one aside another one that immediately comes to mind is this.. Great for the first 35 seconds and then the singing starts and the tempo drops So bring it on, with vids and the timing when the song goes t1ts up...

sound good to me! 👍 It kinda worked for the Arctic Monkeys, Stray Cats, Iron Butterfly, Fleet Foxes, Atomic Kitten, Def Leppard, Modest Mouse..

S' easy . Two words, second word, name of a small to medium mammal or insect (just small, unless you've seen a medium or large one). First word, pretty much any adjective of your choice. Job done.

scuse me people. the OP isn't meant to be about just naming one hit wonders but it's about the ones you rate AND ALSO what other singles released by the same bands should've been hits but sank without trace e.g. House of Pain, best known for Jump Around but the follow up Shamrock and Shenanigans is just as good...IMO

whoops, typo there but it still kinda works Obviously most one hit wonders are cheesy novelty tunes that either fizzle out forever or manage to make their way onto wedding party playlists e.g. Hey Macarena. Then there are a few that become classics and even though the performers still maintain long careers they never trouble the charts again even though their other singles might be even better than the hit. So, which hits do you rate and which other singles by the same acts do you reckon should've also been as big. To kick things off... Blue Oyster Cult - Reaper is still a staple of rock radio but I always though Godzilla should've charted seeing as it came from a RIAA gold disc album. The Vapors -Turning Japanese is now a bit of an evergreen but I was surprised when the follow up News At 10 never charted, what with being off the same album and with a sound that should've appealed to Jam fans.

For me the best SM albums are Sons & Fascination/Sister Feelings Calls and NGD both of which are largely made by the basslines and keyboards. For me although not their career, things went a bit downhill after DF left which shows he was the bedrock of their sound

he's most definitely credited with bass on their only proper album

what bugs me lyric wise are those of the 'look for the hero inside yourself' , 'learning to fly' , 'being strong'/not giving up the fight' types which frankly make me wanna barf first and then lash out. About time someone wrote about searching for your inner bastid or accepting being a spineless loser! At least to their credit Radiohead and Beck have written lyrics of this nature

what about this beaut from Marillion By the way didn't I break your heart? Please excuse me, I never meant to break your heart So sorry, I never meant to break your heart But you broke mine I like a good lyric ..if it's well sung. Paul Weller and Joe Strummer, fr'instance, wrote some strong lyrics but went and ruined it all (for me) with awful vocals

I'm 50 in January. I haven't been in a band in about 10 years other than the occasional depping for function bands but am still on the lookout for like-minded types. The trouble is finding them! So, carry on trying. They way I see it older players are more experienced and so better! 😊

I actually prefer your lead guitarist's solos to the original! Very good rendition all round 👌

Not that this'll be of much interest to 90% of BCers 😏 it's mostly been the sampler CD for Underworld's upcoming Drift box set which compiles tracks that have been released digitally at a rate of one a week over the last 12 months. If the tunes on the sampler CD are owt to go by the 7 CD box set 'll be a monster.

TBH from my experience burglars are unlikely to be connoisseurs of electric bass brands or any other instrument . A while ago we were burgled twice within two years and weirdly neat and tidy the perps were too! I had an American Telecaster and a Martin Dreadnought on stands and they weren't touched. They did take 2 laptops, the flat screen TV, my car keys, my wallet, my wife's purse, some of her jewellery and a Nikon camera. Together those guitars were more valuable than the haul they took

Def one of the better bass led tunes I've heard in a while. Not sure I'd want to listen to a whole album of this type of thing but the odd tune now and again, 👌

Yep, with you there all the way. It may be though I've always found SoC so irritatingly right-on and self-righteous that it brings out my inner Tory boy from the recesses of the darkest part of my soul and so taint my view of her music

I hope you kept an eye on the road tooTeebs

A good while back I also bought this album thinking I oughta if I was to improve as a player. At the same time I also bought a Show of Hands by Victor Wootten and Thonk by Michael Manring. After 2 or 3 listens to each, which required some serious perseverance, I put them up on Amazon though it took a good half year for each one to sell. I appreciate the dextrous skill shown by each player but man alive, ditch-water has a shiny rainbow-like lustre in comparison. It was at this point I stopped listening to virtuosos for inspiration, opting instead for decent tunes.

To me she was Year Zero for the horrible style of vocal gymnastics perpetrated on us by the likes of Mariah Carey and the myriad of anonymous X Factor drones wanting to be like her. Sure she had the range , timbre etc but her material was very meh. I detest her version of I Will Always Love You. It's only when you hear the Dolly Parton original you realise how much of the soul and feeling Houston had sucked out of it.

I don't 'moan' about today's music, simply because the majority of pop (in its broadest term) was shoite in the 60s, largely pants in the 70s, pretty much garbage in the 80s and since then it's morphed into a vast sea of inconsequential, empty nothingness. I'm guessing everyone thinks that 99% of music they hear is gash but differ in their thinking which 1% is good.

surprised nobody's mentioned Inner City Blues with ole Bob Babbitt. Luvverly stuff Also For the Love of Money, if that counts as slow All Cats Are Grey by The Cure. Not difficult but it works really well

Pleased to see it all works out for Gerald in the end I've been bending my ears to assorted Family Guy tunage , fr'instance

However cr@p they were, they were relatively entertaining compared to the rest of the all-female bill . WTF is that tosh with a girl/woman singing while hitting drums?

The most interesting thing about the show are the different breeds of mullet on display among this Amyl and the Nitrates whatever collective . Here is an earlier vid of Amyl with her own pet mullet . Anyway, the return of the mullet is most welcome at a time when hipster beards, skinny jeans and shoes without socks are still prevalent, well in the backwoods of Gloucs anyway. As for rest of the show, I'm going to watch my living room wall as a more interesting alternative