I dare you to admit a song you really liked and played over and over in your youth, but now realize was extremely lame to your ears now. For me, those songs existed largely in middle school when I first discovered girls and got all pie faced and sappy about it. My lame song I dare to admit:
10cc I'm not in Love.
Ok, GO! I dare you.
Steve Thompson
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Fair enough...can't really think of ever playing any lame song somebody else made, as right from the start I almost exclusively played my own songs.
I did learn a handful of songs like Heaven & Hell and Fade to Black etc. but they aren't lame to me even now.
BUT some of my own songs sure were lame...here's one off my second ever studio session...it was, um, 1989 and I was ~18...singer/songwriter/guitarist...forgive me, I had only really done it for a year by that time. As a side note the clean guitar is a Bill Lawrence tele D/I and the driven is an am.std.strat with lace sensors into a JCM800 half-stack.
Pretty damned lame, even saxophones etc. Back then I was still into blues and jazz and all that lame-o stuff, because I hadn't really learned to play and sing rock yet ;-)
Dee
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Oh, I didn't mean you had to have played it yourself musically. I only played that 10cc song on an 8 track tape or something. I just meant one you listened to a lot. I would not call your personal work lame.
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Ah, OK...well I grew up on classical & some jazzy stuff, but when I was maybe nine or ten, my sister had some pop stuff I would probably not listen to any more...like...can't find them on YouTube...Clyde Shelton Singers or something...and some, like Jackson 5 or similar I listened to for a while before I found Judas Priest :-)
Dee
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Not too long after my gramma gave me a pocket transistor radio, it became pretty clear to my parents that I was sicko for sound. They got me one of those little record players in the close up case, you know, with the fuzzy grey turntable? Man, did I wear out those 45's. OK, here comes the embarrassing part, man this is tough ~~~
G GG Gaaaa Gary Lewis and the Playboys. There, I said it. LOL I used to come home from school and sing my little slowly dropping nuts off. But I widened my horizons quickly and was singin' Da Do Ron Ron before you knew it. There was a bunch of good stuff. When the records got so worn out they skipped constantly I tried something I heard somewhere. I took my mom's lipstick and rubbed it on the record. When that spike of a needle ran through it like a plow it filled in the low spots of the ridges and it worked for a while. Uh, yeah, it did make a major mess
Guess I was more stoned back then than I thought I was,cause I always thought Paul McCartney and Wings sang that song.I was always thinking man where's the Beatles? Sumi
Yeah that's a good thread...and there are many songs that sound lame to my ears whn I isten to them now, but I loved listening to them when I was young.
My no 1 "so lame now song" is: Wonderful Life by Black - a British band
BUT there is one song I loved it since I was a kid, I played it a million times, and everytime I listen to it I like it like it was the first time I'm listening to it.
The song is called "No Easy Way Out" by Robert Tepper. This song is from the ROCKY IV soundtrack - man, I love that song!!!!
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10cc "I'm Not in Love"? Um, me too!
Although sappy as can be, I loved the synth vocal sounds in the song. Even today, I still like that sound when I'm goofing around on a synth.
I'm trying to remember anything I liked back then that is embarassing... Ted Nugent's Double Live Gonzo album? Nahhh, it rocked!
How about some of Supertramp's music? I wasn't a big fan, but their bass player, Dougie Thompson, was over at our house one night in 1981... Friend of a friend kinda thing.
I'll admit that I was a Pat Benitar fan. She had some serious pipes and was cute as a button back then.
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How about some of Supertramp's music? I wasn't a big fan, but their bass player, Dougie Thompson, was over at our house one night in 1981... Friend of a friend kinda thing.
Bingo, Supertramp for me too. And John Denver.
Originally Posted by Tig
I'll admit that I was a Pat Benitar fan. She had some serious pipes and was cute as a button back then.
Let's just say that in retrospect, Leroy Brown might not be as bas as his reputation might otherwise suggest.
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By the way, is that David St. Hubbins on vocals?
Desolation Blvd. Was the first album I ever sold. I felt some shame/embarrassment about 4 years after buying it. Runner up goes to Carry on My Wayward Son. Second album I ever sold...
Btw... "I'm Not in Love" still one of my all time faves. Know nothing else from 10cc but that one does it for me every time.
LOL!! This is great! Marnold, that was classic and gave me a much needed laugh. Spud, so how stoned do you think the guy talking in the Dr. Hook video was?
Steve Thompson
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