So in short I was asked to work on a version of "Show Me Heaven" by Jimmy Nail for a friend's mum's birthday. She love a sing-a-long and this song is apparently special to her even though I had honestly never heard it before. I have mixed feelings about Jimmy - I grew up with him on TV as a kid and have a deep nostalgic love for him but have also spent plenty of time sniggering at the thought of him being a singer songwriter even though he does a fairly decent job of it. In truth I was expecting this song to be the usual hammed-up but catchy country and western wannabe affair. I was however pleasantly surprised at what I had to work with.
Listening to it though got me thinking about my actual point about God awful bits that ruin, seriously date or cheese-up records that would have been far better without them. For instance, who on earth thought "I know... PANPIPES!!" here?
I also whole-heartedly nominate the first 1:37 of He Man Woman Hater by Extreme. Not only is it cheesy, pointless and plain cockish but whoever looked around at a band containing Nuno and thought "Let's get Dweezil in to do that bit... Don't worry about timing we will overlay a dodgy wavering metronome after." Clearly was not in a healthy frame of mind and should have been removed from the studio... Perhaps given a holiday until the album was finished. Or perhaps rewarded as I have since been reminded of the horrific reality that it was in fact Nuno's work.
My muse is not a horse and art is not a race.
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Never thought the middle 8 to Huey Lewis, Power of Love had any business being there.
I play guitar and take photos of stuff. I also like beans on toast.
I also whole-heartedly nominate the first 1:37 of He Man Woman Hater by Extreme. Not only is it cheesy, pointless and plain cockish but whoever looked around at a band containing Nuno and thought "Let's get Dweezil in to do that bit... Don't worry about timing we will overlay a dodgy wavering metronome after." Clearly was not in a healthy frame of mind and should have been removed from the studio... Perhaps given a holiday until the album was finished.
Um - that part is Nuno, Dweezil's is the first solo after the riff kicks in and the outro solo.
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
I don't mind that one at all, but the one in Kelly Clarkson's Because Of You is painful and nearly ruins a great song.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Yeah, that's another one for me. Gets positively cringeworthy with age.