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Classic old songs that are massively overplayed and clichéd that you hear one day and instead of the normal "meh" you re-hear it as if with fresh ears and think "this is amazing"
My Girl just came on the radio. Thought it was boring and cheesy for years, but it really just hit me again. That plucked guitar part, the drums and vocals coming in, the horn part. Goosebumps.
What other songs have done this for you recently.
Sure you can say I should have posted this on the music board, but that will of course merely confirm everyone's suspicion that you're a raving paedophile and you and Saville were thick as thieves back in the day.
tracks of my tears
TOMT by SRatM is GOAT-tier
Thinly-veiled 'I've got a girl' thread
great thread idea
this has happened to me a lot lately. getting new ears it would seem.
the first realisation was for take on me by a-ha. LOVE THAD BAND.
you got an upgrade?
^ my mums favourite song.
He's a huge leap forward from the soup150.
i always think
why isn't it called "what a night"?
It's called
December, 1963 (Oh What A Night)
That's a lot of punctuation for a song title. Can't think of any others with a comma AND brackets.
yeah dude long times back
where you been at?
(...And) I Will Do Anything, For Love (But I Won't - Do /THAT!/)
here and there brobro
have a party sometime
Twisted (Everday Hurts)
Hedonism (Just Because it Feels Good)
Brazen (Weep)
consecutive skunk anansie singles
When I was in LA a while back
I woke up at like 5am in this shitty motel to jump in my car and drive north to San Francisco. As soon as I got on the freeways, just as it started getting light, (there was barely any traffic) "It's Not Unusual" came on the radio.
Think it could've been pretty much any fucking song but it felt like the time of my life...I'd never liked that song much but I was like "yeeeeeah" and I've appreciated it ever since.
It doesn't have a chorus. Weird.
house of the rising sun came on while i was driving through
some fucking horrible backwater place in california. sun was out though and it was amazing
Do I Love You (Indeed I Do)
by Frank Wilson. I was never a big Northern Soul kid but I really love this. It was on the soundtrack of Cemetery Junction (most unrealistic night club scene ever) which made me realise how good it is. I do this a lot with songs: I might be indifferent to them and then hear them in a film and love them as a consequence.
That is an awesome song
I find it hard to imagine ever hearing it without thinking how brilliant it is.
Moves Like Jagger
This is a serious answer by the way
When it first came out and it was being played 3984 times a day on the radio I thought 'This is the worst thing to happen to music since Mark Chapman' but now when it comes on sporadically every few weeks it's like a smooth diamond-encrusted sword cutting through a big crusty block of cheese dirge.
it's amazing
A few people at Chelsea have tried to turn that into a chant for Mata
Football scumbags trying to hit that note sound AWFUL
I think there is a Liverpool equivalent
Move like Agger...
Slowly
was listening to Bob Marley 'Legend' today.
3 or 4 on there.
When I downloaded Marvin Gaye hits or something
then realised What's Going On is a fucking masterpiece.
Brilliant, brilliant song
Also Mercy Mercy Me
Born in the USA once brought tears to my eyes
tune.
YOUR SEX IS ON FIIIIIIRREEEE
my mam always sings
MY GIRLLL
GEO-R-GIA-S MY GIRL
its probably because i'm her only girl
that's nice
I sing this to my daughters all the time
The oldest one (age 2) does the last "my girl" in the chorus in a hilarious falsetto. She then demands that we sing it again. And again.
It will be a sad day when she realises Daddy really cannot sing.
Bohemian Rhapsody
Fucking Bohemian Rhapsody.
Hey Jude
you just have to try and not imagine at 60 year old paul mccartney playing it at some massive global bore fest event when you listen to it.
hard i know.
*Hey Dude
hey meths
dont be afraid
to never post again.
Tears Of A Clown
Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Any More
Yazoo - Only You
Every single song the Bee Gees did
Particularly Jive Talkin'.
bu bow bubu bow bububub bow
lisa stansfield - all around the world
massive this
my way by frank
i find it genuinely touching
John Farnham - You're The Voice
It was just one of those songs that I'd heard and been all like 'meh' about. But then I saw him belting it out at the AFL grand final a few years ago with bagpipes and shit and 100,000 people going nuts for it. Properly made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.
Journey - Don't Stop Believing
hated it until i saw the Sopranos
Love it w/ Journey- Hated it with Glee :(
gloria estefan - anything for you
Quite underrated, was Glo
Gloria Estefan Greatest Hits
is quite the record, soundtracked my childhoo
my girl shouldnt come under that category!
I adore it. Wish I heard it more.
Mine was always 'Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For' by U2. Then again I don't always hear that song, but because I hate U2 I never try and listen to them or it. But when you rarely hear it, WOAH.
I have spent 30 years dismissing U2 songs but
many of them are excellent, it's just a shame Bono sings them. When you hear a good cover version you realise how well crafted they are: good example is Keane doing With Or Without You
I'm on a youtube run now
currently 'In the Name Of Love'.
Such a shame Bono is involved because otherwise they'd be great songs.
new years day
is such a tune
the edge is masterful
3 chords
Every time I'm a bit drunk and hear a classic song I tend to start banging on about how great, like REALLY great it is,
like no seriously there's something in it which really CONNECTS with people, listen to the little drum bit, and the lyrics, don't you see how clever that metaphor is?
It's probably quite annoying to those around me.
But in one of these drunken reveries I once discerned Carly Simon's You're So Vain to be a genuine and indisputable masterpiece.
I drunkenly do this with Madonna stubs
fucking *songs
no regrets
walker bros
pretty much anything by the Walker Brothers
the sun ain't gonna shine any more, especially
true
said that one to get guaranteed forum-points.
I've never heard this and not thought it was amazing.
Walk on by
Abba - The day before you came
My mum adores Whole of The Moon and ruined that for me as a child
but it's really, really good when not played on repeat for three hours. Does that count?
Course it counts
It's an amazing song by an amazing band.
Didn't mean to this that
Meant to reply
YOU SAW BRIGADOON
Love that song
One of my favourite songs ever that
I don't like U2 really
but I got this with Streets Have No Name a month or two ago. It's so cliche these days, it almost doesn't mean anythign but I watched a documentary about making it and all the problems they had and how Brian Eno tried to delete it and got into a fight and how when the Edge came up with it he was jumping around his house in joy.
It all makes for an amazing story. Then you actually here the finished article and it's like "wow" and for a moment you forget everything shit that you associate with it.
docu link?
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dotted eights
MONEY
Abba - SOS
i remember being at the silent disco at leeds fest
and yellow came on by coldplay and i thought 'this is actually really good' then i realised that i was with people i loved and i think that was one of my highest points, now i adore that song
This happens every Christmas
whenever I hear The Pogues' Fairytale Of New York
bonafide work of genius with best lyrics ever
from memory...
s:i could of been someone
k:but so could anyone
k:you took my dreams from me
k:when i first found you
s:i kept them with me babe
s:i put them with my own
s:can't make it all alone
s:i built my dreams around you.
*crawls away sobbing*
I fucking hate that tune..
At Christmas when I hear that track or Slade's number...Jeez it really makes me wish I had no ears.
'Walking in the air', too
sublimely beautiful melody, that.
I get this quite a lot as I get older
Usually it's some R&B tune I slagged off on here 7 years back and now realise to be AMAZING.
This week: Alicia Keys' 'Fallin''
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Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time
Actually that isn't massively overplayed or clichéd
that song is a masterclass in songwriting
Miles Davis didn't cover any old rubbish did he?
don't dream it's over
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9gKyRmic20
http://drownedinsound.com/community/boards/social/4417388#r7077824
did you (untrue) keep linking to that a while back?
i never paid attention to you then
the guitar bit in that song is too good
this was never EVER an overplayed, bloated, clichéd song
it's ALWAYS been sublime
Yes
and anyone that says that Crowded House is MOR has no ears.
have to say
alot of these songs never got cliched for me
oh man party playlist right here
wait
Come on Eileen and Video Killed The Radiostar, yes
the more I hear video killed the radiostar the more i HATE it
loved it as a wee boy
The Cars - Drive
http://youtu.be/HFZmRVjUJnY
yep i still cry to this on a semi-regular basis
Copperhead Road by Steve Earle
Normally I dislike both kinds of music - Country AND Western - but I make an exception for this.
Great song
Pulp, Common People
Heard it a million times and never cared for it, then a few weeks ago found myself waiting at the bar in a total dive in Reading, drunk, 10 years older than everyone else, with that song blaring. It's an amazing song.
Don't You Want Me, Human League
The entirety of "Dare," really.
Unchained Melody
its a fucking incredible song, much as it pains me to admit it.
You Are Always On My Mind
It has that slight desperation about it that can really get you in the pit of your stomach when you're in the right mood.
Paul Simon - You Can Call Me Al
When I first heard it in clubs it just struck me as annoying cheesy 80s track.
It still does. But now I think it's GREAT.
You Can Call Me Al is my ringtone
And also my alarm in the morning. Now THAT'S a surefire way to get sick of a song fast.
Still a great song though.
Come On Eileen
Cheesy wedding discos aside, the production and arrangement is utterly sublime.
Roy Orbison in general.
'You Got It' and 'I Drove All Night' from the late 80s/early 90s were big hits, but also big turn-offs for me at the time. Then a couple of years ago it went from being "gah, that ol' crooner again", to "woah, this guy is a definite cut above".
All gold:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8ZVFngqvzA
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PLq0_7k1jk
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ls2lC7DQFMI
www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8s9dmuAKvU&t=0m40s
Quite a lot of Led Zeppelin
They've been part of the cultural wallpaper for so long that they become remote and routine. Then one day you hear Black Dog playing on a good stereo and suddenly realise: fucking hell, this was a BAND. And they played like THIS. It's quite amazing.
Not Stairway To Heaven, though. That song will never fail to make me cringe.
Stairway to Heaven is brilliant
absolutely brilliant.
Kashmir comes to mind, too
Hairway to Stephen
came here to post Stairway...
because, after I learned to play guitar, I found it contained my favorite guitar note on record by anyone, ever. It's the one at the end of the phrase about seven bars into the solo...
Take On Me
The Sun Always Shines On TV
Not really an old one
But I always feel this way about "Call Me Maybe" by Carly Rae Jepson. I don't think I'll ever be sick of that song.
Anything by MJ
Listened to Bad reissue the other day, there are an amazing amount of singles on the album and found myself singing along to 90% of it plus the live at Wembley gig is just too good.
yeah, same
that title track... sweet Jesus
Leave Me Alone
is fucking awesome.
Hmm, anything?
Obviously the guy's responsible for some stone-cold classics, but I find his schmaltzier stuff, like Childhood, almost unbearable.
Anything in terms of the overplayed classics
I wouldn't consider heal the world or earth song or childhood one of these for the pure fact that unless you listen to magic or local radio you wouldn't hear them. I do agree with you, some of the saccharine stuff does leave sugar oozing from your pores
Pat Benatar - Love is a Battlefield
believe...
One of my housemates has been listening to that all weekend. Just reading her name makes me feel ill.
straight banger imo
Just about anything by Abba
I went to Manchester Uni between 1991 and 1995 - I don't know how things are now, but then students were OBSESSED with Abba. We didn't have 70s nights, we had Abba nights. Even if you went to a night that wasn't specifically about Abba, Abba came on... time and time again. I came to absolutely loathe them.
But you look at their stuff now and firstly, a lot of it is really really odd. Like properly strange. "Money Money Money" is MENTAL. There has been nothing like it before or since, and a lot of it borders on genius.
Came here to say this, almost to the letter
Except I was at Newcastle 91-96. Watched main club night change from one naked in honour of New Order to chintz alcopop shite - and ABBA was the soundtrack.
But Dancing Queen... holy crap. The scale, the swells, the emotional tugs. I want Kevin Shields to remaster it and then music will be complete.
freda payne - band of gold
struggled to think of something for this, but this fits perfect. every time i hear it i realise it's top 20 of all time material, but i forget about it so easily. dunno why. it's always a nice surprise when i remember it tho.
every element of it is complete perfection.
This happens to me almost every week while listening to Desert Island Discs
I think its because instead of being that same old cliched song you've heard so many times its because I'm hearing it through the experience of someone else, hearing the song fresh again.
head over heels is one of their best tunes
Bangles - Eternal Flame
Pump this up loud, perhaps in the car on a cold night when you are driving a car down a motorway back to the one you love. Brings tears to my eyes, lovely tune.
tiny dancer just blew my brains out
theo, have you actually bothered to move this to the music board?
JFC.
The Eagles - Take It Easy
There's some belters on those Eagles albums. Country rock and 4 part harmonies is a winning combo
Smells like Teen Spirit
The Smiths- This Charming Man
Other than How Soon Is Now soundtracking Charmed, this is the best-known Smiths song, and the one that teenage rock cover-bands tend to dish out even if they've heard little else from the Smiths.
Just stuck it on now. It really is awesome. Not their best, but awesome.
Neil Young has a few
Cinnamon Girl and Down By the River still reward close listening
I'll have to think about this...
But what a great idea for a thread. Happens sometimes, but I've never given it a second thought. It certainly does deserve to be acknowledged
East 17 - Stay Another Day
Used to think it was shite, but now it makes me think of happy Christmasses of my youth feeling all snug and warm for some reason.
Early Madonna
Was NOT a fan at all at school. I was into Iron Maiden, Scorpions, etc. Obviously your tastes change over time and when she released Ray Of Light, my opinion of her changed. I loved Frozen and the title track. Listening to the early Madonna songs now, I can appreciate most of her early work. Like A Virgin, Borderline, Papa Don't Preach are all excellent pop songs.