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Has this been done before?

Poor efforts from (otherwise great) artists who really should know better:

Elvis Costello - Party Party
David Bowie - Laughing Gnome
Bruce Springsteen - The Fuse
Christy Moore - Don't Forget Your Shovel
John Lennon - Woman
The Beach Boys - Lady Linda
Prince - We March
Suggs - Camden Town
Blur - Country House
Dexys - Come on eileen (I don't care how much money it made!)
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Out: John Lennon - Woman (I like that song!)
In: The Kinks - Plastic Man

Elvis Costello - Party Party
David Bowie - Laughing Gnome
Bruce Springsteen - The Fuse
Christy Moore - Don't Forget Your Shovel
The Kinks - Plastic Man
The Beach Boys - Lady Linda
Prince - We March
Suggs - Camden Town
Blur - Country House
Dexys - Come on eileen (I don't care how much money it made!)
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OUT: Suggs
IN: Hiatt (with the exceptions of Dave Alvin & Johnny Dowd, it's a bad idea for middle-aged men to write songs about young strippers)

Elvis Costello - Party Party
David Bowie - Laughing Gnome
Bruce Springsteen - The Fuse
Christy Moore - Don't Forget Your Shovel
The Kinks - Plastic Man
The Beach Boys - Lady Linda
Prince - We March
John Hiatt, Little Head
Blur - Country House
Dexys - Come on eileen (I don't care how much money it made!)
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Post by bobster »

Since WHAR and I form a two-man fan club for Party-Party...

OUT -- EC
In -- Mother of mercy, is this the end of Lil' Stevie?

David Bowie - Laughing Gnome
Bruce Springsteen - The Fuse
Christy Moore - Don't Forget Your Shovel
The Kinks - Plastic Man
The Beach Boys - Lady Linda
Prince - We March
John Hiatt, Little Head
Blur - Country House
Dexys - Come on eileen (I don't care how much money it made!)
Steve Wonder -- I Just Called to Say I Love You
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Post by Gillibeanz »

Out : Dexys Midnight Runners

In: Ringo Starr - Octopus's Garden


David Bowie - Laughing Gnome
Bruce Springsteen - The Fuse
Christy Moore - Don't Forget Your Shovel
The Kinks - Plastic Man
The Beach Boys - Lady Linda
Prince - We March
John Hiatt, Little Head
Blur - Country House
Steve Wonder -- I Just Called to Say I Love You
Ringo Starr - Octopus's Garden
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Out: Kinks (I like that song)
IN: EC - Broken


David Bowie - Laughing Gnome
Bruce Springsteen - The Fuse
Christy Moore - Don't Forget Your Shovel
Elvis Costello - Broken
The Beach Boys - Lady Linda
Prince - We March
John Hiatt, Little Head
Blur - Country House
Steve Wonder -- I Just Called to Say I Love You
Ringo Starr - Octopus's Garden
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Post by Otis Westinghouse »

Noise, you beat me to it.

Doof, I love Dexy's and that's a pop classic.

Can't bear to see this Ringo masterpiece (have loved it since being tiny) being dissed, even worse than the immortal Laughing Gnome being included (someone please change it!), so let's go for an awful cover by the Dame:

David Bowie - Laughing Gnome
Bruce Springsteen - The Fuse
Christy Moore - Don't Forget Your Shovel
Elvis Costello - Broken
The Beach Boys - Lady Linda
Prince - We March
John Hiatt - Little Head
Blur - Country House
David Bowie - God Only Knows (why I bothered to ruin this song on my worst ever LP)
Steve Wonder - I Just Called to Say I Love You
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Post by oily slick »

this is too hard. if it was that we could put in poor efforts (from otherwise frequently pretty good artists) artists who should really know better, it would be a might easier. anyway...

out: john hiatt cause he is a nice guy and stop picking on middle-aged men
in: jackson browne

David Bowie - Laughing Gnome
Bruce Springsteen - The Fuse
Christy Moore - Don't Forget Your Shovel
Elvis Costello - Broken
The Beach Boys - Lady Linda
Prince - We March
Jackson Browne - Disco Apocalypse
Blur - Country House
David Bowie - God Only Knows (why I bothered to ruin this song on my worst ever LP)
Steve Wonder - I Just Called to Say I Love You
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Out : Blur
In : Pretenders - I'll Stand by You (bland and sappy)

David Bowie - Laughing Gnome
Bruce Springsteen - The Fuse
Christy Moore - Don't Forget Your Shovel
Elvis Costello - Broken
The Beach Boys - Lady Linda
Prince - We March
Jackson Browne - Disco Apocalypse
Pretenders - I'll Stand by You
David Bowie - God Only Knows (why I bothered to ruin this song on my worst ever LP)
Steve Wonder - I Just Called to Say I Love You
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Out...Bowie (just for my mate Otis)
In: McCartney (sample lyric: "Like a castle needs a tower
Like a garden needs a flower, Yeah I need love" You need a sickbag macca!

Macca -Waterfalls
Bruce Springsteen - The Fuse
Christy Moore - Don't Forget Your Shovel
Elvis Costello - Broken
The Beach Boys - Lady Linda
Prince - We March
Jackson Browne - Disco Apocalypse
Pretenders - I'll Stand by You
David Bowie - God Only Knows (why I bothered to ruin this song on my worst ever LP)
Steve Wonder - I Just Called to Say I Love You
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Post by Gillibeanz »

OUT: Our Elvis - not only do I actually like this song we cant possibley have him in this thread! :lol:

IN: Middle Of The Road - Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep - a crappy song crappily sung!



Macca -Waterfalls
Bruce Springsteen - The Fuse
Christy Moore - Don't Forget Your Shovel
The Beach Boys - Lady Linda
Prince - We March
Jackson Browne - Disco Apocalypse
Pretenders - I'll Stand by You
David Bowie - God Only Knows (why I bothered to ruin this song on my worst ever LP)
Steve Wonder - I Just Called to Say I Love You
Middle Of The Road - Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep
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Post by so lacklustre »

Gilli, I think you've missed the point, it's meant to be shit songs by otherwise great artistes. Middle of the Road were a one hit novelty band, never great. For this reason I take it out and re-insert EC, who is mostly great. I like Broken too though!!

Macca -Waterfalls
Bruce Springsteen - The Fuse
Christy Moore - Don't Forget Your Shovel
The Beach Boys - Lady Linda
Prince - We March
Jackson Browne - Disco Apocalypse
Pretenders - I'll Stand by You
David Bowie - God Only Knows (why I bothered to ruin this song on my worst ever LP)
Steve Wonder - I Just Called to Say I Love You
Elvis Costello - I Wanna Be Loved
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Out: Pretenders - I'll Stand by You
In: The Who - You Better You Bet

Macca -Waterfalls
Bruce Springsteen - The Fuse
Christy Moore - Don't Forget Your Shovel
The Beach Boys - Lady Linda
Prince - We March
Jackson Browne - Disco Apocalypse
The Who - You Better You Bet
David Bowie - God Only Knows (why I bothered to ruin this song on my worst ever LP)
Steve Wonder - I Just Called to Say I Love You
Elvis Costello - I Wanna Be Loved
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Post by Chrille »

Out: E.C. I think this song is one of the few highlights on GCW, a great cover that benefits from the otherwise stiff sound on that album.

IN: Peter Gabriel's Kiss Of Life. This is the one and only song of his that I truly hate.


Macca -Waterfalls
Bruce Springsteen - The Fuse
Christy Moore - Don't Forget Your Shovel
The Beach Boys - Lady Linda
Prince - We March
Jackson Browne - Disco Apocalypse
The Who - You Better You Bet
David Bowie - God Only Knows (why I bothered to ruin this song on my worst ever LP)
Steve Wonder - I Just Called to Say I Love You
Peter Gabriel - Kiss Of Life
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Post by Gillibeanz »

so lacklustre wrote:Gilli, I think you've missed the point, it's meant to be shit songs by otherwise great artistes.
Oops!! - my fault I only read the thread title - sorry guys!! :oops:
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OUT: Prince. It's bad, but there are MUCH worse songs by him.
IN: EC, because I think there should definitely be one song by him on this list, just in principle.

Macca -Waterfalls
Bruce Springsteen - The Fuse
Christy Moore - Don't Forget Your Shovel
The Beach Boys - Lady Linda
Elvis COstello - The Only Flame In Town
Jackson Browne - Disco Apocalypse
The Who - You Better You Bet
David Bowie - God Only Knows (why I bothered to ruin this song on my worst ever LP)
Steve Wonder - I Just Called to Say I Love You
Peter Gabriel - Kiss Of Life
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OUT: Ms. Christy
IN: Pure dag

Macca -Waterfalls
Bruce Springsteen - The Fuse
Willie Nelson & Julio Iglesias - To All The Girls I Loved Before
The Beach Boys - Lady Linda
Elvis COstello - The Only Flame In Town
Jackson Browne - Disco Apocalypse
The Who - You Better You Bet
David Bowie - God Only Knows (why I bothered to ruin this song on my worst ever LP)
Steve Wonder - I Just Called to Say I Love You
Peter Gabriel - Kiss Of Life
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Post by Otis Westinghouse »

Gillibeanz wrote:Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep - a crappy song crappily sung!
Tracy Emin played this on Desert Island Discs the other week, saying it haunted her childhood, which was fraught with an absent father, and a mother who hard to work for hours on end in Tesco's or something. The song then took on this utterly tragic, utterly sinister tone, taunting, psychotic and disturbing. I'll never hear it in any other way from now on. An anthem for horribly absent parents.
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Post by Gillibeanz »

OTIS: Yep that is sad....but it doesnt change the fact its a bad song sung like a woman with a peg on her nose!

OK im with the programme!! Out The Who - in 2 superstars who should know better - this one stinks like gorgonzola!!


Macca -Waterfalls

Bruce Springsteen - The Fuse

Willie Nelson & Julio Iglesias - To All The Girls I Loved Before

The Beach Boys - Lady Linda

Elvis COstello - The Only Flame In Town

Jackson Browne - Disco Apocalypse

David Bowie - God Only Knows (why I bothered to ruin this song on my worst ever LP)

Steve Wonder - I Just Called to Say I Love You

Peter Gabriel - Kiss Of Life

Paul MacCartney and Stevie Wonder- Ebony and Ivory
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