I was 10'ish when that song came out and remember thinking, good lord, that's cheesy and awful. And same goes for the video.
OT: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Nominees for 2018
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Disagree...its a fun song that a bunch of snooty writers found cool to bash
Off the top left of my head here are some worse songs....Macarena, Shake It Off, Ice Ice Baby, Don't Worry Be Happy, I've Never Been To Me
How often do 4Real, T and I agree on something? No snooty writers here - most people simply don't like the song. If you do that's fine, but don't try to pretend it's only a few critics who don't.
thats great but it hit #1, its an easy song for people to pile on where the legend grows...but when it was out, people loved it
You're arguing with at least two people who were grown adults when it came it and we hated it when it came out, so despite it being a #1 hit, not everyone loved it. And it's no coincidence that the song has made the top of many "worst song" lists over the years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Built_This_City
Boston is an interesting case study for the RRHOF. They had one album that broke all kinds of new ground and was immensely popular and was, in a feat rare for modern-era recorded music, start to finish good. Their follow-up was derivative and unmemorable. So do you let them in based on 1 huge success? Is that the bar?
Link to cast a fan vote:
https://www.rockhall.com/fan-vote/2...10.1139646023.1507522803-269276933.1507522803
https://www.rockhall.com/fan-vote/2...10.1139646023.1507522803-269276933.1507522803
wait just a minute.. you like the Go-Gos but not "Shake it Off"? That could easily be a Go-Gos song.
Does not compute.
Let me join those who disagree with you. The band went down hill over time and that song is terrible.
There were far worse songs than that, gotta agree with bac on this one.
This opinion from the guy who had Minnie Ripperton on his playlist
It was a cheesy song. Not saying the worst ever, but bad
Hey, hey, HEY!!!!
Don't be hatin' on my girl Minnie!
How can you not love this song?
Moody Blues were big when i was in college.
over 70 mil records sold, and more impressive, played major venues as headliners for at least 3 decades.
one of the big head scratchers how they weren't inducted a long time ago. (seems to be a RRHOF bias against the more progressive bands).
long overdue, with many acts with resumes absolutely dwarfed by the Moodys already in.
Timothy Leary would approve.
over 70 mil records sold, and more impressive, played major venues as headliners for at least 3 decades.
one of the big head scratchers how they weren't inducted a long time ago. (seems to be a RRHOF bias against the more progressive bands).
long overdue, with many acts with resumes absolutely dwarfed by the Moodys already in.
Timothy Leary would approve.
Sad. Green Day. The confluence of punk and bubble gum. More derivative than a calculus text. Chacun....
no doubt Dire Straits would be in, and would have played big arenas for another 20 yrs, had Knopfler not left.
still should be in without a doubt.
held the biggest selling CD ever title for a while.
over 100 mil total records sold.
Sultans and Brothers In Arms alone should get them in, and Tunnel of Love live has as great an extended guitar solo and finale' as a song can have.
Bad mood? I can't stop laughing. Green Day! You must like KC and the Sunshine band as well.
my greatest live extended guitar solos, in no particular order, are Stairway To Heaven, the Song Remains The Same version at MSG, Comfortably Numb, Pulse version, Sultans Of Swing, Alchemy version, Dire Straits Tunnel of Love, Wembley 85, which i posted above, Brothers In Arms, Mandela live version, Runnin Down A Dream, take your pick.
that Knopfler has 3 of those, (and i maybe should have included Local Hero as well), is impressive.
2 great albums?
for studio albums, i'll go with Making Movies as their best, but Brothers In Arms was the biggest selling CD ever in it's day, and the title song is rock greatness. Brothers was the great song here, but the rest of the album didn't stack up to Making Movies or Love Over Gold.
Love Over Gold i have to consider great as well.
that said, Alchemy was the maybe the best live album ever made when it came out, and that was pre the song Brothers In Arms.
the interesting thing about Alchemy, is that it's "as recorded live", no redos or touch ups or digital fixes.
this is the performance of Sultans Of Swing that's on Alchemy iirc. as recorded live, no fixes, pretty impressive. (go to the 6 min 50 second mark for guitar greatness).
Making Movies by Dire Straights is an all time great , not to mention Sultans of Swing. I'm guessing the only song you know is Money for Nothing.
and you would be wrong.
anyhow it looks like this is generational, the older guys on the board gravitate more towards 60s and 70s and the younger guys 70s to 90s
they are not going to put in all the older bands so between the Cars, Moody Blues and Dire Straits, the latter is the odd man out
lol. That song sucked in 1985 as much as it sucks today. An embarrassing effort from the members of a formerly groundbreaking band.
You're way off base on this one, my friend. Green Day were absolutely punk when they came out, having plugged away for years in the Berkeley/Oakland DIY punk scene. Their 2nd album, Kerplunk, presaged their success with the worldwide smash Dookie in 1994 - saw that tour at the Stone Pony just as "Longview" the huge first single was breaking and they were electrifying, live.
It's always hard to know why some bands make it big and some don't, but these guys certainly worked for it and made great punk with enough melody to be enjoyed by the masses. Thought their next several albums were very good and American Idiot was brilliant. Haven't followed them as closely since then, but they absolutely deserved to be a first ballot inductee.
Who ever thought it was smart for websites to have auto play videos is an a-hole. Particularly love the ones that take some time to load and start blasting out the video.
Agreed. I like quite a bit of pop and there's not a lot of distance between the Go-Gos big hits and "Shake It Off."
"Shake it Off" and "We Built This City" should be locked in a cage and forced to fight to the death.
This deserves consideration:
And any Nickelback song should be high on the list. This one deserves special consideration.
Calling someone a Nickelback fan is perhaps the biggest insult that you can dish out to anyone who cares at all about music.
That Disturb cover is terrible, they clearly have no idea what the lyrics are about. It reminds me of all of those horrific lame covers of good songs I keep hearing during movie and video game commercials... someone please stop that trend.
That Disturb cover is terrible, they clearly have no idea what the lyrics are about. It reminds me of all of those horrific lame covers of good songs I keep hearing during movie and video game commercials... someone please stop that trend.
Sorry, Numb3rs. Couldn't disagree more. You stated it yourself, "melody to be enjoyed by the masses." Derivative bubble gum punk. Nice bad boy band. Been that way for a quarter of a century. I guess you can like the "Oh boy, it's got a hard edge, but I can still sing along," formula, but they just seem as phony as a three dollar bill to me. I have them in the John Cougar Mellencamp, Bon Jovi, Elvis, Bread category of those who knew how to cash in.
Hey, more power to them. They've lasted a long time and sold a ton of records. Of course, Justin Bieber has sold a ton of records.
