#110

I’m not sure if you guys also had it over there, but the worst was the radio edit of Champagne Supernova the rock stations would play here in the US that cut out the entire build / guitar solo / outro. The loud chorus only happened once, it made no sense.

#111

Oh wow that sounds awful :joy:

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#112

There are some wrong opinions in this thread. Blue Monday is masterpiece, it’s just not a great New Order song.

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#113

Aw that’s the pick-me-up I needed this morning :heart_eyes: you too

#114

Rowland S Howard - Shivers.

Some good lines but musically it’s a plodding 2 chord slog. Had Rowland been older than his 16 years when he wrote it, and from a country that wasn’t a rock n roll backwater at the time, it wouldn’t be nearly as venerated.

#115

I Need My Girl by the National. It has 50 million plays more than any of their other songs on Spotify.

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#116

Really good shout. Not even close to being the stand out track on a weaker album by their standards, and yet has somehow become one of their biggest and a staple of live shows.

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#117

I’ll throw England in there too. Cannot understand the love for that song.

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#118

*their best album

#119

far from a favourite but I still love that bullet with butterfly wings, the chorus is a bit big generic alt rock but love the sinister sound of the verse, the dark chimey guitars, that little melodic line that comes in the second verse, the bridge where it just goes into meltdown and then emerges into that propulsive middle 8th where jimmy’s drums are punctuating the vocals, ends back on the dark sinister mood. I am a bit bias though

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#120

Absolutely love that one!

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#121

No Surprises

#122

Broken Social Scene - Meet me in the Basement, pretty rubbish and always close sets with it, don’t get it when you have It’s All Gonna Break there :man_shrugging:

#123

Carry the zero by built to spill. Like, it’s a really good song, but how can anyone call it their best when they got away exists

#124

Sugar Hiccup is amazing but the other songs on the Sunburst and Snowblind ep (one of the greatest records ever made, in my opinion) are probably better - especially Hitherto. With the Cocteaus I think the songs with more intelligible lyrics probably get slightly wider exposure, but those aren’t always the best songs. To be honest though most of their stuff is a niche affair with the possible exception of Pearly-Dewdrops Drop which was a sort of hit (29 in the charts, but if you got that high in the charts in 1984 you sold quite a lot of records).

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#125

I really love the first album - Coming On Strong. Just really charming, heartfelt, homemade-sounding pop music. All of their stuff (apart from Over and Over, obviously) is really good though.

Try this (from the second album)

Or this one (from later)

#126

The Good Life by Weezer

#127

Like the Cribs version:

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#128

I’d also actually throw Mens Needs as a suggestion for this. Think that lumps them in for people with the rest of the awful indie at that time when they’re so much more

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#129

Think someone said it already, but Friday I’m In Love is the obvious answer to this for me. My Radiohead pick would probably be Just, although that whole album sounds pretty cringey now. Any of Oasis’ best known tracks also fit the bill.