Friday Frittering - Week 2

[digitaldiscipline]

30 Week Music Meme
Week 02 - your least favorite song

Wow, this is surprisingly difficult. It comes as no surprise to anyone that there are a lot of songs that put my teeth on edge (yea, verily, there are entire swathes of the musical landscape that I would not merely avoid, but nuke from orbit to avoid ever having inflicted on me again). However, I'm again going to revisit my preferred genre, and pull forth the pair of songs that are guaranteed to make me not just leave the dance floor, but, whenever possible, the entire floor of the club in which they're being played, so that I don't even need to hear the bass thump of them.

What are these egregious offenses to my drinking and dancing sensibilities? The obnoxiously overplayed duo of Bigod20's "New York, New York" and Lords of Acid's "Rough Sex."

For the first, it's more insipid than the average looped lyric crunch-fest, in addition to just repeating the name of one of my least-favorite places on the planet. People I don't even fucking like Frank Sinatra's paean to the Big Apple, why the fuck would I want to listen to four minutes of some kind of electronic Cookie Monster wannabe gargling the same two words over and over?

For the second, it's not just the content - dude, you shouldn't be "talkin' bout good sex, deep sex, hard sex, rough sex," you should just go fucking HAVE it. I'm fucking embarrassed for the band when I hear this. These are the same people who made some of the sexiest club music going ("Crablouse," "I Sit on Acid"); this song is trying so hard, and it fails completely, that it's passed beyond the point of cheesy train wreck into the realm of actually inducing nausea.

I hate these songs so much, I refuse to even try and find audio or video links. Anyone who posts them in the comments is going to get pimp-slapped, and your post WILL be deleted.

Comments

[marchenland.livejournal.com]

You can hate it all you want, but "New York New York" was MCL (Microchip League), not Bigod 20 (although Andreas Tomalla was involved in both).

I don't care for it either, but you should hate the right band for it! ;)

[etcet.livejournal.com]

Fair enough. I will aim my bile accordingly. :-)

[marchenland.livejournal.com]

Well, I stand corrected! I wasn't aware of that. But I still think Rafe was talking about the MCL version, since a live, unavailable one is unlikely to be the source of his consternation!

I know some people consider MCL and BiGod 20 to be "the same band," which gets into that whole issue of where a individual musician stops and a band starts. In the case of MCL and BiGod 20, we may be talking about, essentially, 2 versions of the same band. But I generally avoid that, assuming that (unless the bad was renamed for legal reasons *cough*Sisterhood*cough*, the new name means a new direction. And when there's only one same person in 2 different bands, I don't consider them "the same band."

[drcuriosity]

Speaking of Lords of Acid, interesting music choice here:


Can't think why they didn't include any of the lyrics ;-)