![]() Usually with bands I like I don't really have only 1 favorite song. When I think QOTSA that song is exactly what comes to mind, no others. ![]() I'd agree with you on the QOTSA though - I dont' mind them, but mediocre is exactly how I'd describe them, not bad, just never great. I confess to having not heard any other albums they may or may not have. Still think I'm Gonna Be is just in a whole other league compared to the rest of the album. I no longer own a casette player after my last Technics unit died. Most of them have never heard the full album however (I'm not suggesting you haven't heard it).Īctually I had the tape - and I liked a few tunes on it, I believe the album title is also a good song - correct me if I'm wrong, been years since I heard it. I love that disk and it used to get frequent play in my house.īut I know a lot of other people who think that The Proclaimers only had one good song. Pick me! Pick me! The whole album (Sunshine on Leith) that I'm Gonna Be (500 miles) is on is great IMO. A little discussion doesn't hurt, and I would sooner participate in a web forum that looked for reasons to have audio discussions instead of one that finds reasons to not have them. I've got thick enough skin if someone wants to disagree with me that The Proclaimers wrote 1 great song and no others. So people take exception to a few choices - whoop dee doo. The original poster was very clear what they wanted this discussion to be, made it excplicit that we could provide our own lists, and take exception to his/hers. I'm not buying the argument that each person's arbitrary recognition of song quality prevents us from having this discussion. It's quite obvious a difference of opinion was expected. The original post didn't say your choices had to withstand the scrutiny of the community and that you had to prove them quantitatively or qualitatively. But that's a subjective opinion and can't be measured or proven. I think Billy Joel sucks so bad he could reverse explode Petra Haden Sings The Who Sell Out into a good album if you put him near it. That can be used in a debate about how much influence an artist has (even one-hit wonders) but not about quality, that's subjective and leads to debates instead of easy answers. If you don't want to participate, fine, but don't tell me what I can and can't do just because people are likely to disagree with my selections. I take exception with those who would presume to tell me I can't have this discussion because they take exception to choices made. Success is a bit more vague and if we use it in the relative sense it's much more useful than "sales" for this discussion. That's reducing this discussion to a statistical analysis. I don't care much about sales because they're a poor indicator unless you compare to artists in the same genre with the same target audience in the same time period. I suppose indirectly sales contributes to that. I was thinking more along the lines of break through, notoriety, ie, if we asked the artist what one song they got known for what would they most likely respond with. What facts? The only facts are sales and critical reaction. It sounded like that was exactly what you were saying with "forget subjective appeal, just look at the facts".
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