steantval Posted May 13, 2018 Share Posted May 13, 2018 1 hour ago, lozkerr said: You admit to watching Eurovision? Congratulations on your bravery! Just the last 5 minutes to see what garbage has won. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BreadBin Posted May 13, 2018 Share Posted May 13, 2018 5 hours ago, steantval said: Just the last 5 minutes to see what garbage has won. I don't waste any of my attention on it. Pointless twattery. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lowdown Posted May 13, 2018 Share Posted May 13, 2018 On 11/05/2018 at 19:03, Reggaebass said: Anything by will young I just have to turn it off Yeah....Me too. That awful weedy, warbling vibrato, Nanny Goat voice makes me cringe. He sounds like one of those Swiss Mountain Goats. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thepurpleblob Posted May 13, 2018 Share Posted May 13, 2018 Whiskey in the Jar - all one-hundred-and-fifty verses of it. I don't mind Oasis in small doses. Goes down well in the right place. Noel Gallacher's High Flying Birds is a more reasonable compromise though. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BreadBin Posted May 13, 2018 Share Posted May 13, 2018 Noel Gallagher is doing some decent tunes in my opinion, unlike his brother 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosmo Valdemar Posted May 13, 2018 Share Posted May 13, 2018 On 11/05/2018 at 10:00, Skol303 said: Like my own nightmarish version of M. R. James' Whistle And I'll Come To You. 🤣🤣🤣 Quis est iste qui venit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
el borracho Posted May 13, 2018 Share Posted May 13, 2018 Sweet Child o' Mine I bought the Appetite for Destruction album when it first came out never having heard the band before. On first listen through I quite liked the album but commented to my girlfriend that I really didn't like that one song. The opening riff instantly irritated me. I can't believe that over 30 years later I still hear the song on a seemingly weekly basis - radio, TV, live bands... I can't get away from it!! Honourable mention to Blue Monday as well. There are also plenty of previously mentioned songs that I used to like but can't listen to anymore through over exposure. Often they are ones I have had to play live for years - eg Sweet Home Alabama, Alright Now etc etc 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gjones Posted May 13, 2018 Share Posted May 13, 2018 Anything by Depeche Mode. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest adi77 Posted May 13, 2018 Share Posted May 13, 2018 while my guitar gently weeps (shudder) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silverfoxnik Posted May 13, 2018 Share Posted May 13, 2018 On 5/11/2018 at 10:08, chris_b said: That was me, and I did play it twice in a row for the jammers. True, I don't like it (even the Hendrix version is pretty poor) but I've done much worse, like Spanish Eyes etc in working men's clubs. Well, the Guinness was cheap and I earned enough to buy rather a lot of it! I'll try anything but I will try to avoid songs that the guys in the band obviously can't play. The only thing I'll refuse to play is something that will make us look silly on stage. I play with guys all the time who refuse to play songs, sometimes for some pretty silly reasons and in some cases they choose songs which they shouldn't. The better players make better choices, so I try and stick with them. In one band I wanted to veto Tainted Love by Soft Cell. I was asked to give it one go and the audience reaction said it all. It is an instant floor filler and sing along, so as that was our job in the cover band the song was in the set. Lesson learnt. You may not like every song but if the audience does you're doing the best job you can. Your last paragraph sums it up really well, Chris. Most venues hire covers bands to entertain the audience so they'll stay in the venue and keep drinking. It's really that simple. The trick I guess is to find a covers band that plays to roughly the same level that you do, where you enjoy the company of your fellow band members, and where the set list follows the 80/20 rule, i.e. you like and enjoy playing about 80% of the set list. Having said that - and putting all reasonableness aside - I will take extreme (and violent measures if necessary 😁) to veto any attempt to cover Jamiroquai- crap tunes by any band I play in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jezzaboy Posted May 13, 2018 Share Posted May 13, 2018 Your so vain by Carly Simon. Decent enough song but every time I hear her getting interviewed, she insist on refusing to name who the song was about. Get the message love. WE DON`T F......N CARE!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barking Spiders Posted May 13, 2018 Share Posted May 13, 2018 I had to endure some of the Eurovision. Wall to wall, ceiling to floor dreck. Worse though were the fookin irritating presenters and the 'entertainment' between the songs. Not a good advert for Portugal. + 1 x 1,000 for Sweet Child of Mine. The p**s easy guitar riff is often cited as one of the greats. Then again so is the guitar newbie/entry level Smoke On The Water + 1 for Whisky in the jar, esp the Thin Lizzy version. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lurksalot Posted May 13, 2018 Share Posted May 13, 2018 (edited) Neil young , just everything , durges, lyrically either abysmal or far to clever for me, my heckles are just busting to rise on the very mention of his name. The f***ing house of the f***ing rising f***ing sun ....aaaaarrrrgggghhh American pie , I am happy to eat a bit of it but I just can't bear hearing it Edited May 13, 2018 by lurksalot 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
josie Posted May 13, 2018 Share Posted May 13, 2018 12 hours ago, adi77 said: while my guitar gently weeps (shudder) That's the one song where I get to totally unleash my fretless slide bass - love playing it the rare times I get the chance. Never listen to the original though! This thread is sort of mixing up "hate to play" with "hate to listen to"... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
12stringbassist Posted May 14, 2018 Share Posted May 14, 2018 Uptown top ranking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobbayne Posted May 14, 2018 Share Posted May 14, 2018 Hey Jude. Boring, boring, boring, bo,... zzzz. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulWarning Posted May 14, 2018 Share Posted May 14, 2018 31 minutes ago, Hobbayne said: Hey Jude. Boring, boring, boring, bo,... zzzz. sort of with you on that, but I think it's the way overly long ending that's the trouble with it, if it faded after 3.30 minutes it would have been ok ish, must have been the drugs. Sting is also guilty of over extending endings as well Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicko Posted May 14, 2018 Share Posted May 14, 2018 Almost everything the dull lifeless vocalist with a backing tape managed to kill in my local last night. Absolutely horendous versions of songs that wern't my cup of tea to begin with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest adi77 Posted May 14, 2018 Share Posted May 14, 2018 (edited) 13 hours ago, josie said: That's the one song where I get to totally unleash my fretless slide bass - love playing it the rare times I get the chance. Never listen to the original though! This thread is sort of mixing up "hate to play" with "hate to listen to"... cool i hate listening to it and playing it, there's not one thing about that song that i like Edited May 14, 2018 by adi77 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barking Spiders Posted May 14, 2018 Share Posted May 14, 2018 There are those shoite ads for the postcode lottery or some such that use Wing's ubertwee ' Let Them In' but an even worse version with 'someone's knocking at the dawwwawww'. Brings out my inner psycho 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldbass Posted May 14, 2018 Share Posted May 14, 2018 (edited) Oddly enough I don't hate Mustang Sally..sorry bit of reverse psycho etc Edited May 14, 2018 by oldbass Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krysbass Posted May 14, 2018 Share Posted May 14, 2018 Any song originally sung by Morrissey. Anything else I can live with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barking Spiders Posted May 15, 2018 Share Posted May 15, 2018 11 hours ago, Krysbass said: Any song originally sung by Morrissey. Anything else I can live with. ha ha, there's a challenge here., though I agree Morrissey is extremely irksome in both voice and manner. For me even more irritating is Craig David., his over-chiselled facial hair and his contribution to this tripe 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost_Bass Posted May 15, 2018 Share Posted May 15, 2018 Don't hate any song but asking me to play With Or Without You is about the worst thing the worst thing somebody can do to me... i could listen to it on the radio without changing station but playing it is boring as F***! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy_L Posted May 15, 2018 Share Posted May 15, 2018 On 11/05/2018 at 16:18, BrunoBass said: Songs I just hate: Dancing in the Moonlight by Toploader. I hate it and it’s phony geezer Jamie Oliver associations. Amen to that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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