• From: BELGIUM
  • Registered: 2007-01-27
  • Posts: 3,403

Topic: FARTISTS?!?

I love that name to describe bad artists.
- this includes Singers
- guitar, drum, bass.
SOME SONGS SOLD MILLIONS COPIES.

A LIST OF THE WORST BANDS OR SONGS:
1)- BARBIE GIRL, by AQUA
2)- MACARENA by LOS DEL RIOS (history sais that the song being a huge success in Puerto Rico, was heard by thousands of " cruise line" passengers, and so it become a SUPER HIT) Wasn't it stolen from a street musician? At least it was a "hype": song + the silly dance moves. I admit this song "has it"', a kind of magic.
3)- WHO LET THE DOGS OUT by BAHA MEN
4)- OBLADI-OBLADA by THE BEATLES. WHAT THE F*** DID THEY MEAN by this song, see MARMALADE. Comments: The song was a so called homage to the emerging reggae movement? Lennon HATED the Macca song, like all songs, credited Lennon/McCartney (I LOVE THAT TUNE, but it isn't worth a BEATLES song. Did they write it for fun? who knows.
5)- THE DOORS “The End† 1967: The most pretentious rockstar’s most pretentious song.
I looked a to find a lot of information about Jim Morisson and the Doors: BE HONEST: do you like to listen 3 times, consecutive, to that song? I AGREE, in association with the movie APOCALYPSE NOW, there is no better song.
6)- REDNEX: “Cotton Eye Joe† 1995 a Swedish techno-bluegrass crossover.

So far my list, and I tried to add some comment, which is more difficult. I am sure that you won't agree with certain songs, that's why I call it MY list. Your list can be similar, or you choose different "FARTISTS". Important to know is = I like these songs, which makes it a lot more difficult to "create a list". Like who didn't dance on the Macarena? or "cotton eye Joe"?
PLEASE ADD YOURS.

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  • Registered: 2007-03-24
  • Posts: 1,108

Re: FARTISTS?!?

Kid Rock and Sheryl Crow...I can't remember the song (Picture? Photograph?). Makes them both honary "Fartists". That song is a steamy pile of pop monkey sh**

I used to be disgusted; now I try to be amused.
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  • Registered: 2006-03-04
  • Posts: 2,662

Re: FARTISTS?!?

Lieven,
The Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da song was about a highly popular, and powerful, type of acid(LSD) that was going around at the time. I heard this information straight from Ringo's mouth in an interview.

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  • From: Texas
  • Registered: 2007-07-31
  • Posts: 950

Re: FARTISTS?!?

[q]6)- REDNEX: “Cotton Eye Joe��  1995 a Swedish techno-bluegrass crossover.[/q]

  So THATS who's responsible for that. I was at a friend of mine's 'professional wrestling' event, and they had hired a DJ. It started playing this techno song, and around half way through i realized it was cotton eyed jo.... a crying shame.
And yeah picture's the name of it... honestly i understand its nothing spectacular but i didnt find it half as nausiating as 99% of he hip hop wanna be 'pop' songs that are floating around.

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  • From: BELGIUM
  • Registered: 2007-01-27
  • Posts: 3,403

Re: FARTISTS?!?

South, I agree, and it gets better: I believe that millions of people, still can sing obladi-oblada.
It is, on his own a VERY CATCHY TUNE, and my statement was/is: that this song isn't representative for the Beatles, I love that tune but compared to other songs ???!!!???
If you see the songs they wrote fo others: google: the song the Beatles gave away. Here an interesting link = http://www.bootlegzone.com/album.php?na … ;section=1

It's an amazing list, you will certainly enjoy it, being a Beatle lover

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  • From: The Land Of Song
  • Registered: 2007-12-10
  • Posts: 5,704

Re: FARTISTS?!?

I still sing Obladi-Oblada in my set, [I'm a guitar/vocalist doing local pubs and clubs in UK].

The audiences still sing along and dance to it and many others, I do some just to annoy people like;
The Birdies Dance [yeh honest]
Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep
Doo Wah Diddy
and there's more...

But I try to even up the dumb/intelligent balance by playing;
Something Inside So Strong
Drift Away
I Saw Her Standing There  ... a cracking Macca song, I'm sure you'll agree
Wonderful Tonight
etc etc

I wont even go into the lower forms of music like; rap punk or Oasis [lol]

In all honesty, modern music, maybe goes more into the less innocent themes, [not the I love you, you love me..forever and ever stuff of the 50's and 60's], it's more brutal these days, and maybe that's sad in itself, as maybe pop music is committing suicide.
Music for the masses, it may be, but styles and fashions are created and directed by the suits and  producers, whose only interest is making another million on the backs of the young and gullible.

Check out Simon Cowell; eats `em up and spits `em out. In other words, he makes and act, [usually mildly talented] makes them into household names, then before they can ask to actually have a say in their next recording he drops them for another flash in the pan!

Sorry...another sermon, I'd better log off

if your a wannabe...keep trying and ignore the above

Phill

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