Thread for songs you used to like, but in hindsight realise they're not very good (1 Viewer)

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Was trawling through 90s music with the kids while driving the other day, and realised that Parklife wasn't very good after all. Nothing really much to it, like - just some geezer rabbiting on, and a fairly generic britpop chorus. Girls and Boys is similar - I'd probably dance to it if it was in the disco and it came on, but ... well, it's a bit underwhelming. And repetitive. And they're playing too slow. I always hated Oasis, but could Blur have been equally shit?

 

[seanc]

I hope this thread gets legs.
The whole Britpop thing was a bit rubbish. There's good bands in there, but....

It took me a very very long time to see later Megadeth stuff to be middle aged millionaire rock.

A friend who I used to occasionally come to blows with over his love of Oasis and my enjoyment of metal, has strangely not mentioned the M(w)anc-ers much in the last 20 years. As is proper.

I also occasionally get big into say hiphop stuff, and it usually runs out of road after a few listens. Strange genre. If you sample everything, arranging it for use in a mix, then you're just playing people stuff they already know quite well.

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

Those Blur songs just remind me of band times (dancing in the night club in Mullingar), but still, Oasis were way worse

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

I was into a bit of Nu Metal as a teenager - stuff like Korn, Slipknot and Deftones. Most of it has aged terribly and gives me the cringes. Deftones still sound good to me, but they feel like the Pulp of Nu Metal - always doing their own thing and only becoming part of the trend by accident.

 

[egg_]

I know if I say "The Doors" everyone will say "well obvs", but I always thought I loved "When the music's over", mostly from listening to my brother play it on the piano - it's such a great groove. But on the actual record the band keeps slooooowing doooooown, and I can't listen to it

 

[Kermit McDermott]

Most things are underwhelming, in hindsight.

 

[egg_]

Ah I dunno. I listened to Tom Waits's Bone Machine for the first time in 20 years lately, and loved it

 

[snakybus]

Context, lads Nothing exists in a vacuum, lads. Except maybe a vacuum.

 

[snakybus]

Also, Tom Waits is music for grown ups, maybe. Blur is for girls and boys.

 

[Anthony]

Coffee and TV. Used to think it was a good song. Now it's just WAY too long.

 

[ann post]

They had some Blue PR/MEdia show looping on some bbc channel last week, it was nice enough.
Also agree context is everything. Blur churning out of the moment hits to annoy Oasis was an amazing patch of creativity for them.

 

[seanc]

Also, Tom Waits is music for grown ups, maybe. Blur is for girls and boys.

I had a few weeks of post MASSIVE TEENAGE BREAKUP WITH THE LOVE OF MY LIFE!!!! GAWD!!!! listening to Closing Time, on repeat, in my bedroom, being sad. Now, while the songs are still "nice", while I'd fairly happily go through the whole album, I find it a bit mawkish. 'OL 55 and Grapefruit Moon still get me. Ice Cream man is fun.

It's all context really isn't it.

 

[pete]

I was into a bit of Nu Metal as a teenager - stuff like Korn, Slipknot and Deftones. Most of it has aged terribly and gives me the cringes. Deftones still sound good to me, but they feel like the Pulp of Nu Metal - always doing their own thing and only becoming part of the trend by accident.

When the video for Blind appeared on Headbangers Ball it was different and new and really stood out. It’s not their fault everyone else jumped on the bandwagon.

 

[David Kronenbourg]

Most stuff that came out of the UK in the 90s is embarrassing rubbish in hindsight

 

[magicbastarder]

Coffee and TV. Used to think it was a good song. Now it's just WAY too long.

for reasons i cannot remember, i put on 'jungleland' in the car a couple of months back and my wife started comedy snoring about hafway through. maybe not a bad song, but one that needed more judicious editing.

 

[chris d]

Oh yeah, it's the day for ragging on Blur when I order their new album. Typical of you pricks.

 

[chris d]

Coffee and TV. Used to think it was a good song. Now it's just WAY too long.

Bad milk drinking acting at the end of the video, outside of that I can't fault it.

 

[ann post]

Oh yeah, it's the day for ragging on Blur when I order their new album. Typical of you pricks.

I gave that a background listen last week and was thinking it was shaping up to be a good one.

 

[ann post]

Most stuff that came out of the UK in the 90s is embarrassing rubbish in hindsight

That doesn't stop at the 90s IMHO.

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

When the video for Blind appeared on Headbangers Ball it was different and new and really stood out. It’s not their fault everyone else jumped on the bandwagon.

True but it still hasn’t stood the test of time for me. I never got into Limp Bizkit or any of that wave of bands so I don’t have too much to be embarrassed about and honestly, I have a soft spot for Korn because I did love them at the time but couldn’t get through a song now.

Marilyn Manson I still like up as far as the third or fourth album but can’t listen to him because he’s a horrendous sex pest.