General Most Loved/Hated Music

[MarkG]

I've got a 7" of "Too Nice To Talk To" kicking around somewhere.

I saw both current versions of the Beat play the Boileroom in the last few years. First the Ranking Roger version. Then a few years later the Dave Wakeling version.

Ranking Roger sadly passed, and his son Ranking Jnr is now toasting, but I don't know whether the two bands are touring together or as separate bands.

 

[m]

I’m rubbish at this sort of question, I like lots of things and hate plenty, or certainly am sick of hearing them. I always love to hear Another Girl Another Planet by the Only Ones, and can’t bear the tinny, cheesy sound of Wham.

That is an excellent choice of always like to hear.

A truly timeless classic.

 

[Big Ron]

I saw both current versions of the Beat play the Boileroom in the last few years. First the Ranking Roger version. Then a few years later the Dave Wakeling version.

Ranking Roger sadly passed, and his son Ranking Jnr is now toasting, but I don't know whether the two bands are touring together or as separate bands.

Neither featuring founding members Andy Cox & David Steele who then formed Fine Young Cannibals!

 

[SteMerritt]

Neither featuring founding members Andy Cox & David Steele who then formed Fine Young Cannibals!

Really liked "The raw and the cooked" back in the day, another album I've not heard in years.

 

[stokeu]

Love (will change in 5)

V.E.N.O.M. - Pulled Apart By Horse
Inglorious - Silver Ginger 5
Just A Ride - Virginmarys
24 Hours (U.S.E.D.) - The Candyskins
Bless This Acid House - Kasabian
Liar- Queen
Burn Baby Burn - Ash
My Baby Is A Headf*ck - The Wildhearts
Links 2 3 4 - Rammstein


Hate

Too many to list but anything from The Town End

 

[BeechRoadBokelberg]

Have to say, I still think the best thing they ever did was Ain't no Love (Ain't no Use). Even at 45, I suspect that would get me on the dancefloor still.......

Top 5 would vary with mood, but along the lines of:

Beth Orton - Stolen Car
Hybrid - If I Survive
Rammstein - Adios
Ian Dury & the Blockheads - Itinerant Child
And something by Radiohead......probably dominated by a Greenwood bass hook....maybe 'National Anthem' or 'Where I end and you begin'

There's lots of songs I hate, but nothing turns me psychotic and makes me never want to listen to music ever again like Eternal ****ing Flame by the ****ing Bangles.

Great shout on Hybrid!

I just had to dig that cd out - great album! Reminded me of care free times!

 

[Witney Yellow]

Is anyone going to admit to being a fan of Queen? Someone must be?

Yes, I love Queen, seen them loads, bought all the albums, great musicians.
Also like, Hendrix, Beatles, Who, Stones, Yes, Bowie, Rush, Pink Floyd, Genesis, Quo, Led Zeppelin, Springsteen, Dylan, Thin Lizzy.
I'm sure that would be musical hell to many on here, but each to their own.
Rock on!

 

[tonyw]

Great shout on Hybrid!

I just had to dig that cd out - great album! Reminded me of care free times!

Loved all of their first four albums (though yeah, Wide Angle is probably the best).

Then Chris Healings left, and their stuff has been that little bit poppier, and little bit less interesting ever since.......

 

[bicesterox]

Listen mostly to Planet Rock at work,, but I like loads of stuff from the 50s onwards.

Saxon, Springsteen, Deep Purple, Buddy Holly, Sweet, Ozzy, REM, Floyd etc etc

Can't stand 80s electronic stuff and disco,

 

[holdsteady]

This aint gonna be easy as most will change in 5 mins time ( faves)

10 fave homegrown ( Oxford) Tracks - no order

Supergrass - Sun Hits The Sky

Candyskins- Wembley

Radiohead - Pop is Dead

Ride - OX4

Holy Roman Empire - My Life for Yours

Mystics - Lucy's Factory

Black Candy- Allergy

Thurman- Loaded

Lab 4 - Reformation


5 current raresoul/ funk 'wants' - no order

Willie Dale - Let your light Shine


Soul Motivation - Hard Times (are coming)


Solid Gold - Message to Planet Earth

Willie and West - Attica Massacre

Vontells- Ta Hula Hoop

- may add top 5 60s, 70s, 80s & 90s at some point- there again I might not


Cant stand - no order

Neil Diamond - Sweet Caroline

Paul McCartney- Frog Song

Cher - Believe ( and its countless 'warble pop' sounalike clones )

I was on holiday in Crete on a lad’s holiday when that Cher song came out, it was one of only two cds

This aint gonna be easy as most will change in 5 mins time ( faves)

10 fave homegrown ( Oxford) Tracks - no order

Supergrass - Sun Hits The Sky

Candyskins- Wembley

Radiohead - Pop is Dead

Ride - OX4

Holy Roman Empire - My Life for Yours

Mystics - Lucy's Factory

Black Candy- Allergy

Thurman- Loaded

Lab 4 - Reformation


5 current raresoul/ funk 'wants' - no order

Willie Dale - Let your light Shine


Soul Motivation - Hard Times (are coming)


Solid Gold - Message to Planet Earth

Willie and West - Attica Massacre

Vontells- Ta Hula Hoop

- may add top 5 60s, 70s, 80s & 90s at some point- there again I might not


Cant stand - no order

Neil Diamond - Sweet Caroline

Paul McCartney- Frog Song

Cher - Believe ( and its countless 'warble pop' sounalike clones )

Are No Order a New Order cover band?

 

[holdsteady]

Yes, I love Queen, seen them loads, bought all the albums, great musicians.
Also like, Hendrix, Beatles, Who, Stones, Yes, Bowie, Rush, Pink Floyd, Genesis, Quo, Led Zeppelin, Springsteen, Dylan, Thin Lizzy.
I'm sure that would be musical hell to many on here, but each to their own.
Rock on!

I like Springsteen, Bowie, the Who, Beatles, The Stones, Dylan, you can have Queen to yourself though.

Walked past the big haired guitarist once in Hyde Park though, one of those famous people that the a pair of sunglasses so nothing to make them less recognisable.

 

[SteMerritt]

Are No Order a New Order cover band?

No, that is Peter Hook and The Light

 

[Essexyellows]

Loved - by band,in no particular order most of whom I`ve seen live, some several times.
Motorhead
Thin Lizzy
Blondie
Toyah
The Clash
Dead Kennedys
Green Day
Linkin Park
The Macc Lads
Otway & Barrett
Siouxsie & the Banshees
Sham 69
Sex Pistols
Buzzcocks
Undertones
The Stranglers (except Golden Brown)
Generation X

Randoms
Altered Images - only because I got to snog Clare Grogan at Oxpoly
Handel - Zadok the Priest
William Blake - Jerusalem
Vanessa Mae - Storm
Wagner - The Ride of the Valkyries
Perkele - Yellow & the Blue



Hated
Anything by James Blunt.
The Stranglers (Golden Brown)

Bet you wish you never asked.......................... there are more!

 

[Sarge]

Well I hope you fill in the missing Oxford track, you promised 10, before you start any decades nonsense

maths never my strong point

the missing one ( from the 10) was/is

Spacehopper- Colourless

 

[LowerSouth]

This is not definitive, how could it be.
We all have so many tunes and artists that touched us at a particular time/gig.
Some we revisit, others not .
Loved:
Top 65/66 Radio Favourites:
Positively 4th Street by Bob Dylan.
Turn,Turn,Turn by The Byrds
Northern Soul:
I was born to love you by Herbie Hunter-it’s one of very many early tunes from 67 which I heard at all nighters in Derby,Nottingham & Manchester.
Folk:
The Lady by the late Sandy Denny.
Sandy had a wonderful voice.
Saw her first with Fairport and then Fotheringay at Oxford Town Hall in 1970.
Indie(?)
Born to Die by Lana Del Ray- top album and top track by a unique “ chalk or cheese”artist.
She’s s**t live !
Jesus to a child by the late George Michael- his last Earls Court gigs were epic.
Alison by Slowdive - timeless from 93(?).
Reformed in 2017-live gigs are a wall of sound .

 

[Osei Yaw]

Like others, what I like listening to moves around a lot. Currently:

Love:
Blur - Tender
Busy Earnin' - Jungle
Electric Feel - MGMT
Bleed It Out - Linkin Park
Bulls On Parade - Denzel Curry (cover of RATM)
Everlong - Foo Fighters

I'm consistent in that I always hate the following:

Sweet Caroline - Neil Diamond

Pretty much anything by Black Eyed Peas. 'I've Gotta Feeling' ruined Wembley in 2010. Although their first song was actually ok. They should've stopped after that.

Glory Of Love - Peter Cetera. I heard this on the radio once and had to look it up as I assumed it was a joke song.

Any s**t 'wedding' music. Macarena, Cha Cha Slide. That one when everyone sits down and slaps the floor.

 

[Sarge]

This is not definitive, how could it be.
We all have so many tunes and artists that touched us at a particular time/gig.
Some we revisit, others not .
Loved:
Top 65/66 Radio Favourites:
Positively 4th Street by Bob Dylan.
Turn,Turn,Turn by The Byrds
Northern Soul:
I was born to love you by Herbie Hunter-it’s one of very many early tunes from 67 which I heard at all nighters in Derby,Nottingham & Manchester.
Folk:
The Lady by the late Sandy Denny.
Sandy had a wonderful voice.
Saw her first with Fairport and then Fotheringay at Oxford Town Hall in 1970.
Indie(?)
Born to Die by Lana Del Ray- top album and top track by a unique “ chalk or cheese”artist.
She’s s**t live !
Jesus to a child by the late George Michael- his last Earls Court gigs were epic.
Alison by Slowdive - timeless from 93(?).
Reformed in 2017-live gigs are a wall of sound .

HH would likely feature in some (- they change frequently depending on mood etc) of my fave classic northern/rare soul tunes 'top picks) , a real classic of the genre ( still have my first issue original , bought at Yate allnighter mid - late 70s)

 

[Big Ron]

Have to say, I still think the best thing they ever did was Ain't no Love (Ain't no Use). Even at 45, I suspect that would get me on the dancefloor still.......

Top 5 would vary with mood, but along the lines of:

Beth Orton - Stolen Car
Hybrid - If I Survive
Rammstein - Adios
Ian Dury & the Blockheads - Itinerant Child
And something by Radiohead......probably dominated by a Greenwood bass hook....maybe 'National Anthem' or 'Where I end and you begin'

There's lots of songs I hate, but nothing turns me psychotic and makes me never want to listen to music ever again like Eternal ****ing Flame by the ****ing Bangles.

Unexpected choice of Ian Dury song Tony - I've always really liked and thought it stood up well against the earlier, better known tracks. Mr Love Pants is a very underrated album.

 

[m]

There's lots of songs I hate, but nothing turns me psychotic and makes me never want to listen to music ever again like Eternal ****ing Flame by the ****ing Bangles.

Yeah, everyone knows the Atomic Kitten version is where it's at.

 

[LowerSouth]

HH would likely feature in some (- they change frequently depending on mood etc) of my fave classic northern/rare soul tunes 'top picks) , a real classic of the genre ( still have my first issue original , bought at Yate allnighter mid - late 70s)

Close your eyes and your back there @Sarge