Sure, we should have Hilary Duff cover "Our Lips are Sealed"
Ahhh... Bad decisions... They seem to be rife in the music business. This week, ROUTE 1 celebrates the greatest bone-headed moves in music by asking the following FRIDAY QUESTION:
What is the worst idea EVER in the history of music?
Mike M. -- "4'33" is a musical work by avant-garde composer John Cage, often described as "four-and-a-half minutes of silence."
Ken B. -- The Spice Girls.
Rick T. -- Coming up with the phrase "Country Rock." It's either country or it's rock.
Inger H. -- European pop music. I still cannot quite comprehend how western cultures with so much similarity in terms of culture and shared history cannot get pop music the way the French and other European countries do. They had the Enlightenment, didn't they? They had a 60s youth rebellion, didn't they? What the heck? England gets it, boy, how they get it. What's up, France? Too uptight to shake your booty?
Brian C. -- The eight-track tape.
Dave B. -- The New Kids on the Block and the inception of boy bands. Because some clown thought it would be cool to put five teenage boys on stage to sing and dance for teenage girls, I now have to listen to that crap for the next 10 years.
Steve M. -- Atonal music? Lip synching? Ashlee Simpson?
Mike D. -- Sampling is a cheap way for lackluster artists to make a quick buck. Steal someone else's melody, add a few meaningless rap lines of your own and suddenly you're a Sugar Daddy.
Erik H. -- I applaud blue-eyed British soul singer Paul Young for "Everytime You Go Away" (my mom's theme song when my sister spent a year in the UK as an exchange student) and his cover of the Marvin Gaye gem "Wherever I Lay My Hat (That's My Home)." Those are fine songs, reinterpreted for the hipsters of the mid-80s.
So... Why did he have to cover Joy Division's "Love Will Tear Us Apart?"
Released on the "No Parlez" album of 1983, Young's version of "Love Will Tear Us Apart" came altogether too soon after the 1980 death of Joy Division singer Ian Curtis. Young could croon his way through any song, but this tune is just not *ANY* song.
What is the worst idea EVER in the history of music?
Mike M. -- "4'33" is a musical work by avant-garde composer John Cage, often described as "four-and-a-half minutes of silence."
Ken B. -- The Spice Girls.
Rick T. -- Coming up with the phrase "Country Rock." It's either country or it's rock.
Inger H. -- European pop music. I still cannot quite comprehend how western cultures with so much similarity in terms of culture and shared history cannot get pop music the way the French and other European countries do. They had the Enlightenment, didn't they? They had a 60s youth rebellion, didn't they? What the heck? England gets it, boy, how they get it. What's up, France? Too uptight to shake your booty?
Brian C. -- The eight-track tape.
Dave B. -- The New Kids on the Block and the inception of boy bands. Because some clown thought it would be cool to put five teenage boys on stage to sing and dance for teenage girls, I now have to listen to that crap for the next 10 years.
Steve M. -- Atonal music? Lip synching? Ashlee Simpson?
Mike D. -- Sampling is a cheap way for lackluster artists to make a quick buck. Steal someone else's melody, add a few meaningless rap lines of your own and suddenly you're a Sugar Daddy.
Erik H. -- I applaud blue-eyed British soul singer Paul Young for "Everytime You Go Away" (my mom's theme song when my sister spent a year in the UK as an exchange student) and his cover of the Marvin Gaye gem "Wherever I Lay My Hat (That's My Home)." Those are fine songs, reinterpreted for the hipsters of the mid-80s.
So... Why did he have to cover Joy Division's "Love Will Tear Us Apart?"
Released on the "No Parlez" album of 1983, Young's version of "Love Will Tear Us Apart" came altogether too soon after the 1980 death of Joy Division singer Ian Curtis. Young could croon his way through any song, but this tune is just not *ANY* song.
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