Comments on: Three Nasty Songs

By: Glenn Aylett

Glenn Aylett — Fri, 09 Jul 2004 15:37:19 +0000

Bad songs, anything by the Karaoke Beatles meets the Sex Pistols AKA Oasis. Their cover of ” I Am The Walrus” has to be the biggest massacre of a classic song ever made. The cover of ” Cum On Feel the Noize” was dire as well. The Gallagher brothers are tuneless yobs who give people from Wythenshaw a bad name.

By: Tim Hall

Tim Hall — Wed, 23 Jun 2004 19:22:17 +0000

Yes, but you liked “Tormato”

I see I shall have to pay more attention to Mork’s OMS’s

By: Steve Jones

Steve Jones — Wed, 23 Jun 2004 08:22:14 +0000

Hmmmm, next to “Clutching at Straws” I think “Holidays In Eden” is my fave Marillion dosage

Anyway, I’ve just realised I never commented on the real subject of this thread, so here’s my three most vomitorious nomination:

1) Althea & Donna – “Uptown Top-Ranking”
2) Rod Stewart (I can see a trend emerging, here!) – “Sailing”
3) Whatever Mork is currently listening to

By: Tim Hall

Tim Hall — Wed, 16 Jun 2004 19:12:50 +0000

I wasn’t overimpressed by that album either (I saw them live on that tour, and it was a disappointing gig as well). The other album I could never really get into was “DotCom”. Too indie-flavoured; I like that even less than “Holidays in Eden”.

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 16 Jun 2004 18:41:19 +0000

The only Marillion album I’ve never gotten into is Holidays in Eden; blech.

I can’t wait until Oct. 6, when they play NYC.

By: Steve Jones

Steve Jones — Tue, 15 Jun 2004 21:32:16 +0000

Fear not – I won’t give up that easily. All of the post-Fish albums (with the exception of Seasons End) have taken me a while, so I know what’s required of me

By: Tim Hall

Tim Hall — Tue, 15 Jun 2004 21:00:48 +0000

Persevere with Marbles, it’s worth it. 16 days till I see them live now…

By: Steve Jones

Steve Jones — Tue, 15 Jun 2004 20:53:16 +0000

Yup. Having slept out behind the Odeon back then I managed to get tickets for both Birmingham gigs – well worth it as they were two of the most spine-tingly concerts I’ve ever seen.

The newer material worked exceptionally well live and that sold ‘Duke’ to me. I know where you’re coming from, though, as I thought ‘And Then There Were Three’ was a bit lightweight initially. Only much later when I saw the stuff performed in the flesh did it all click for me

Still struggling to get into ‘Marbles’ here…..

By: Tim Hall

Tim Hall — Tue, 15 Jun 2004 18:38:05 +0000

I thought most of “Duke” was tolerable. I never actually got to see Genesis live; their UK “Duke” tour was all small venues where people had to queue for 24 hours to get tickets.

Subsequent tours they’d completely sold out to the Kevin and Sharon audience and dropped much of the decent material, so I gave them a miss.

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 15 Jun 2004 13:50:36 +0000

I remember Geno! Wow, I’d completely forgotten it. Grrr…

The Stewart song is a good choice, and I’ll argue just which Genesis song qualifies:

Turn It On Again was the Jump the Shark moment for me, but I didn’t realize it at the time. In 1983, or thereabouts, when they toured for the eponymous album, the encore was, of course, Misunderstanding and Turn It On Again. However.

Turn It On Again morphed into horrors as the band played “Satisfaction” as part of it. The freakin’ Stones? What the hell was that all about?

I was so angry I never went to see them live again.