Oh god, another reference to the curse of "Sylvia's Mother". Sylvia's Mother says to stop calling her daughter. She's not your girlfriend! All you do is stare at her in Chemistry class. She talked to you ONCE in the library to ask if you knew where the bathroom was. Now you're calling here 12 times a day and it needs to stop! Sylvia's mother says to grow a pair, you puss! You're not cute, you're creepy as fuck. Go find a girl who actually likes you instead of obsessing over my daughter. Do restraining orders mean nothing to you?
I've known several guys* like the narrator of this song and I've wanted to scream at all of them.
This song is a 1 for me.
*- a couple of them have been me
These should be easy like Sunday mornin'
Wk1: Lennox>Cole>Depeche
Wk2: Dre>Positive K
Wk3: REM>Jade>>>Everybody else (I'd forgotten that stupid Jeremy Jordan song until now)
Wk4: FNM (this one's easy)>Whitney
Wk5: INXS>Spin Dr.s
Wk6: Go West>Sir Elton
Wk7: Cube rules all
Whole New World - 6. Nostalgia's a motherfucker.
Rag Doll (not the Aerosmith one) - 4 (10 for the Aerosmith song). Most Four Seasons vocals grate on my nerves. This is no exception.
I Get Around (Not the 2Pac song) - 10 (same for 2Pac). When I think of the Beach Boys, this is what I hear.
I gotta wonder how much of that is projection from Prince, who notoriously hated anyone covering him. I don't know how Chaka could be mad at Whitney, when Chaka's biggest hit was a cover of, wait for it, a Prince song. I mean, Chaka's in the IEW video, and Whitney gives her several shout-outs in the song (something she doesn't do for Prince).
I've never understood why Little Bird wasn't more of a success on the Hot 100, especially after her previous single (falling down falling down bustin' my aaaaaasssss).
ARE YOU GONNA GO MY WAY – Lenny Kravitz Front to back bangers.
COVERDALE-PAGE For those of you who thought pairing these two up would be gold, this proves you wrong.
SONGS OF FAITH AND DEVOTION – Depeche Mode I have SACD versions of 3 DM albums. This is one of them*
HOME INVASION – Ice T After Body Count (the good album), but before Law & Order
TEN SUMMONER’S TALES – Sting My second favorite Sting album, after Nothing Like The Sun
14 SHOTS TO THE DOME – LL COOL J Had to look up whether this was the one with "Doin' It" and "Hey Lover" (Narrator: It is not).
GET A GRIP – Aerosmith One of the only Hard Rock bands to come out of the Hair Metal era with their popularity still intact (They weren't even affected by the Wayne's World II debacle). Tom will have to write about one of their later 90's songs, but that's not on this.
PORK SODA – Primus After "Jerry was a race car driver, but before "Wynonna's Big Brown Beaver", this one has "My Name Is Mud", which is a 10.
SHANIA TWAIN – eponymous debut album More country than the pop she would make with producer/unfaithful husband Mutt Lange
PORNO FOR PYROS – First of two albums from the short-lived successor to Jane's Addiction.
A little too weird for my tastes.
WEEK 1
Johnny Have You Seen Her? - The Rembrandts
WEEK 2
Symphony Of Destruction - Megadeth
WEEK 3
Love Is On The Way - Saigon Kick
WEEK 4
The Last Song - Elton John
WEEK 5
Drive - R.E.M.
WEEK 6
Rhythm Is A Dancer - Snap!
WEEK 7
All Alone On Christmas (From "Home Alone 2") - Darlene Love
WEEK 8
In The Still Of The Nite (From "The Jacksons") - Boyz II Men
WEEK 9
No Ordinary Love - Sade
WEEK 10
Walk On The Ocean - Toad The Wet Sprocket
WEEK 11
I Got A Thang 4 Ya! - Lo-Key?
WEEK 12
Sweet Thing - Mick Jagger
WEEK 13
Ordinary World - Duran Duran
WEEK 14 - TIE!
7 - Prince And The New Power Generation
Sweet Thing - Mary J. Blige
This is my problem with both the song and the show. No band that looks like this struggles at anything and nobody struggles to write this crap. This is the kind of 'song' that Dianne Warren shits out at 4 am because REO Speedwagon is coming over tomorrow morning in need of a hit.
Scratch that, this song is beneath REO Speedwagon. It's sub-Styx. Who else would record this? Maybe Ambrosia (who I like) or Leo Sayer or Air Supply or Paul Young or Will to Power or probably Richard Marx.
Mr. Plow's Hot Takes
-I'm surprised I never watched this show. It seems right up my alley - a young band tries to make it. But this band looks like no band I want to listen to. These guys are so pretty they make Duran Duran look like Motorhead.
-Now that we're hitting Tom's tween/adolescence, you can see some biases coming out. Good memories don't make good music otherwise, Kokomo would be a 10 for me. This one's a 2.
-On behalf of the Justice for Magic club (of which I am recording secretary), I would like to point out that Tom thinks this song is better than Magic. Which it so clearly not.
-Looking back, it's nice to see End Of The Road join our illustrious 700 Club. Members include:
Abracadabra (1982) - 717 comments
We Are The World (1985) - 767
With Or Without You (1987) - 794
Roll With It (1988) - 755
Don't Worry, Be Happy (1988) - 887
Baby, I Love Your Way/Free Bird (FreeBaby) (1988) - 745
I'll Be There For You (1989) - 708
When I See You Smile (1989) - 702
We Didn't Start The Fire (1989) - 1037
She Ain't Worth It (1990) - 703
Save The Best For Last (1992) - 751
End Of The Road (1992) - 700
It's nice to see a bland-ish song achieve such a place. Most of the 700 Club members are universally loved, universally reviled, or vehemently both. End Of The Road is quite middle-of-the-road for most.
With everyone mentioning "I'll Be There For You" further up-thread, it's nice to see a good Rembrandts song here. A highlight of their second Untitled album.
Notable Albums Released this Month
KEEP THE FAITH – Bon Jovi – Speaking of End of the Road (dated reference), This was it for Bon Jovi's Imperial period. 1 top 10 hit (at #10 - Bed of Roses). They'd drop out until late 94's Hits package.
RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE – Still play this regularly, and then I do what they tell me
THE BODYGUARD SOUNDTRACK – First Movie Soundtrack to win Album of the Year Grammy since Saturday Night Fever
LOVE DELUXE – Sade What makes No Ordinary Love for me is the muted distorted guitar starting in the pre-chorus. I listen for it every time
THE PREDATOR – Ice Cube - Like Dre, but with harder hitting lyrics
THE CHRONIC – Dr. Dre Like Cube, but with more dope beats
Favorite Spinners Songs
1) Rubberband Man
2) I'll Be Around
3) Could It Be I'm Falling In Love
4) Working My Way Back To You/Forgive Me Girl
5) Then Came You
9 4 9 6
Stay - Early 90s classic. 9
She's Playing Hard To Get - The song's playing ''Hard to Like' - 4
Could It Be I'm Falling In Love - My 3rd favorite Spinners song* - 9
Your Mama Don't Dance - Better than the Poison version - 6
How did anyone think that "The Heights" would be a good name for a band? No wonder it failed.
The TV show came before the band (not chronologically but in importance). The Heights is a shitty band name, but Toe Jam Pirates or Ruptured Achilles or The Crusty Hotplate are even worse names for Aaron Spelling TV dramas.
I've always thought that the "Digging in the dirt" lines were the chorus, while the "This time..." and the following "Don't talk back..." parts were the pre-chorus (A & B).
Yes, it's odd that the pre-chorus parts are the kickass parts & the following chorus is relatively quiet.
Read 'em and weep boys. 4 Nines.
Smoke - A little too simplistic to be a 10
Drift Away - Did the 90s cover boost this to a 9, or drop it to a 9?
Ain't No Woman - Not God-tier 4 Tops, but still great.
Make Up - Ditto Ain't above.
That's true, but I can't fault the song for that, just lazy-ass TV & Movie people (especially whoever creates movie trailers). The song is flawless & moving, and the video is even better.
BIGGER, BETTER, FASTER, MORE! – 4 Non Blondes featuring “What’s Up?” Can't let this go without posting
https://c.tenor.com/uJm_ZTk5WGMAAAAC/heman-hey.gif
GRAVE DANCERS UNION – Soul Asylum includes “Somebody to Shove” and “Runaway Train” Peak Soul Asylum. Somebody To Shove is a 10
OUR TIME IN EDEN – 10,000 Maniacs features “These Are Days”, “Candy Everybody Wants”. A marvelous album Just great
LOVE SYMBOL – Prince and the New Power Generation includes “Sexy MF” and “My name is Prince” Prince's Up-His-Own-Ass period. SEven, Morning Papers, and Continental are bangers
MAIN OFFENDER – Keith Richards and the X-Pensive Winos I prefer my Stones Keef-less (at least on vocals)
AUTOMATIC FOR THE PEOPLE – R.E.M. featuring “Drive”, “Man on the Moon”, “Everybody Hurts” “The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite” etc 10 after 10 after 10. Their best album.
CARNIVAL OF CARNAGE – Insane Clown Posse’s debut Uhhh, ok
EROTICA – Madonna includes “Fever”, “Erotica”, “Deeper and Deeper” etc etc The end of her Imperial period, when people just got tired of all the Shock
HARVEST MOON – Neil Young featuring “Harvest Moon” My first Neil Young record, but not my last.
Also, #Justice4Sinead!
Not right in the title, even initialized. At least not in a released single. There's a straight line from Sexy MF to Short Dick Man to Fuck You (Forget You) to WAP.
5 1 8 10
Celine - 5. Patti did this one better.
Billy Ray - 1. Fuck Billy Ray in his achy breaky asshole.
Jon - 8. This song sounds cheap, but his voice is nice.
Stevie - 10. Classic.
WELCOME TO WHEREVER YOU ARE – INXS Their last great album; totally underrated. One of the best album sides
DON’T TREAD – Damn Yankees - Should've called it Don't Buy
UNPLUGGED – Eric Clapton featuring “Tears in Heaven” – The only Clapton album I still listen to regularly
NEW MISERABLE EXPERIENCE – Gin Blossoms Soundtracmk to my early-mid 90s; heard these songs everywhere
BOBBY – Bobby Brown Disapointing follow-up
AMERICA’S LEAST WANTED – Ugly Kid Joe I wonder who had the 'Genius' idea to cover Cats In The Cradle? Sacrilege. Like if Winger covered Time In A Bottle or Warrant did Dock Of The Bay.
BONE MACHINE – Tom Waits Anything he does is great
BLIND MELON – Blind Melon Loved this, even though the rest of the album didn't sound like No Rain
CORE – Stone Temple Pilots Thought these guys were posers, but still played the fuck out of this
DIRT – Alice in Chains Definitely not posers
US – Peter Gabriel This stayed in my car stereo for over a year. Steam is probably the weakest track (besides 14 Black Paintings). Love To Be Loved, Digging In The Dirt, and Secret World still rule
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