PODIUM INCOMING!!!
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Unless I missed it, I’m still alive.
All three songs on the podium completely nailed the category - a good song by a band that has plenty of fans and at least a few known songs - but also, in fact, kinda sucks. Or really sucks.
They only had one album…which I own.
I assume people know this, but 4 non blonde is Linda Perry who wrote like a billion #1 billboard pop songs since.
Did not know. She should have written a second one for herself.
she wrote Christina Aguilara’s Beautiful and Pink’s Get the party started, which i assume is enough to have a lot of millions.
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#3 - Yes - Owner of a Lonely Heart
Someone did their homework on this one and noted that Yes is one of my most hated bands. And fortuitously they also picked the only Yes song I can kinda stand.
This is another one of those songs that hits a very specific nostalgic time for me - when MTV was new and you’d actually watch videos after school - along with stuff like Billy Idol - Dancing with Myself, Bryan Adams - Cuts like a Knife (for the epic side boob), etc. Also most crucially - this was before I knew I hated Yes. So it snuck in.
But my hatred of Yes is still always eternally doing battle with my nostalgia fo this song. So it is banished to a state of purgatory forever - much like these guys:
This is exactly the kind of song I had envisioned for the category fit. So it medals.
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Robbed.
So we got NBZ and guessing PaulW or Trolly left. Unless pyatnitski surprised me.
The chord progression is even the same which is strange because it’s mostly a repeating I-ii-IV-I which is sort of odd in terms of common chord progressions you might see in many pop songs.
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Owner of a Lonely Heart is actually a good song by Yes because a real producer told them to stop making keyboard garbage rock for a minute and do something that didn’t completely suck. It wasn’t like Yes thought to release it themselves.
Remember when Motley Crue tried to be a grunge band? That didn’t work out.
That would be an interesting category for the future - band that tried to completely change their style (not just a one song departure). Then again that rarely works out.
Nice! I usually have to make people listen to it a couple times to see that.
Is that better or worse than when Vanilla Ice went nu metal?
#2 - Nickleback - Animals
Nickelback sucks. And not in a “kinda” way. This song does not.
Fuck yeah, now we’re talking category fit. Someone else did the work to find the one good Nickleback song so I didn’t have to. My secret plan is revealed.
The song is pretty good. It moves my butt around in my chair a little. I didn’t dread listening to it multiple times. It’s maybe right on the border of something I’d put on my iPod. But I’d probably start skipping it after a while.
Just to rub it in a little, this song autoplayed next:
Dear God. Sometimes I feel bad because Nickleback has become the lazy default whipping post for bad music. Butnahhh, holy cow do they deserve it.
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This would be mine.
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