Rubbish artists / bands with one great song

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  1. Merde Tete

    Merde Tete Well-Known Member

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    It's not even in my top 50 REM songs, although a lot of that is due to over-exposure. It still sounds absolutely amazing 30 years down the line.
     
    Merde Tete, Apr 17, 2023
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    Chumbawumba's Tubthumping
     
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    Tubthumping wasn't even the best song on that album - Amnesia was. And "Anarchy" had "Timebomb", "Homophobia" and "Enough is Enough". All better than Tubthumping.

    IIRC the last ever Chumbawamba gig was at Elsecar (if not last, one of the last) - but most of the band from their successful period had left by then.
     
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    Scoff Well-Known Member

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    The first five REM albums - along with The Replacements, Husker Du, Minutemen and Sonic Youth - did more to influence American alternative and popular guitar-based music of the last 30 years than probably any other.
     
    Scoff, Apr 17, 2023
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    I see the original bass player walking his dog on Woodhouse Ridge. He used to have a vegan cafe in Grand Arcade, a few doors up from my old record shop.
     
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    Outrageous
     
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    I saw them 4-5 years ago in San Fransico on the ritual de lo habitual anniversary tour and they were brilliant, weird (like people dangling from the ceiling by hooks in their back weird), but brilliant. And they're definitely more than a one song band, the album before ritual - Nothing Shocking is amazing.
     
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    I have a couple of Candlebox albums in my collection. I couldn't describe them as amazing, but rubbish would be harsh.

     
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    I’d add Daniel Johnston to that list. A golden generation of American bands.
    As with Patti Smith, Blondie, Stooges, Ramones, NY Dolls, Television, Big Star etc, 10 years earlier. I’m not forgetting the Velvet Underground... :cool:
    I can’t believe someone called REM rubbish..? :eek:
     
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    Wife saw them a few times in their heyday, and she said they were really good live, but we saw them at Doncaster Dome and it was either a crap venue, they'd had an argument or were just phoning it in because they were terrible. Most underwhelming concert I've been to.
     
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    A song that hints at what could have been if she'd lent her voice to disco and house:

     
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    This one ain’t bad. Complete Replacements steal, missing the poetic shithousery & inability to give a fck about anything..:)
     
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    Simple minds' Belfast child' the rest were crap.
     
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    Ride - 0X4

    They were mainly Shoegazing rhubarb, but this is genuinely brilliant.

     
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    Great track, but I must admit I'm also a huge fan of the "shoegazing rhubarb" that is Twisterella!
     
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    I did say mainly!
     
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    Saw them in Manchester about 10 years ago on the Nothing's Shocking anniversary tour & they were excellent, likewise when I saw them supporting Nine Inch Nails. I think Scoff must have seen them on an off night.
     
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    Pah. Everything they did up to and including Going Blank Down was excellent. Their comeback albums have been good aswell, best to ignore their mid nineties stuff
     
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