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Offlinedletm08

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What is everyone's least favorite MK songs?
« on: February 23, 2013, 10:24:38 PM »
I think it is easier to list my least favorite MK songs than it is to rank my favorite songs by him.   I'm just counting the standard album tracks.  None of the bonus track or movie soundtracks since I probably haven't heard every one of those.   

I'm not saying these are horrible songs, I'm just saying I can't get into them like I do the rest of his songs. 

Marbletown
Daddy's gone to knoxville
Junkie Doll
Whoop de doo
All that matters
Before gas and TV
You can't beat the house

What is everyone else's least favorite? 

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Re: What is everyone's least favorite MK songs?
« Reply #1 on: February 24, 2013, 12:01:02 AM »
"The Fish and the Bird"....yawn.. ;)
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Re: What is everyone's least favorite MK songs?
« Reply #2 on: February 24, 2013, 12:43:24 AM »
I can name a bunch of his songs I dislike, specially from the last releases.

Vic and Ray
Prairie wedding
Fare the well Northumberland
Marbletown
Sucker row
Back to Tupelo
Donnegan's gone
The scaffolder's wife
The fizzy and the still
The fish and the bird
Hard shoulder
Haul away
Don't forget your hat
Hot or what
Kingdom of gold
Today is okay

The worst above all? Can't decide...

Love over gold, mind over matter

Offlinedletm08

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Re: What is everyone's least favorite MK songs?
« Reply #3 on: February 24, 2013, 01:21:52 AM »
I didn't like the fish and the bird either for a while, but I have since changed my mind. 

Kingdom of Gold grew on me also in the same way so far from clyde did.  They have a similarity, but I can't put my finger on it. 


Fare Thee Well Northumberland and vic and ray almost made my list. 

I keep hoping my least favorites grow on me, but it just doesn't seem to be happening   :-\

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Re: What is everyone's least favorite MK songs?
« Reply #4 on: February 24, 2013, 03:20:38 AM »
Least favorite... Do America -- I have to skip that one each time.  Lyrics are not THAT bad, but the melody is boring and senseless to me.

And while at first I didn't love some of the songs nabobo mentioned, such as:
Vic and Ray
Prairie wedding
Marbletown
The scaffolder's wife
The fizzy and the still
...I DO like them now!
If you ain’t got whiskey
(really, seriously) Don’t tell me that you ain’t got gin

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Re: What is everyone's least favorite MK songs?
« Reply #5 on: February 24, 2013, 09:34:24 AM »
No Can Do
Do America
Donegan's Gone - Although I did like it played live in 2010.
Goin' into Tow Law....

OfflineJulienFlamand

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Re: What is everyone's least favorite MK songs?
« Reply #6 on: February 24, 2013, 10:12:56 AM »
Vic and Ray
Daddy's gone to Knoxville
You don't know you're born
True love will never fade
Hard shoulder
Time in the sun
Hot or what

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Re: What is everyone's least favorite MK songs?
« Reply #7 on: February 24, 2013, 12:00:07 PM »
All That Matters
Before Gas and TV
The Car Was the One
The Fizzy And The Still
Heart Full Of Holes
The Fish And The Bird
Don't Forget Your Hat
Got To Have Something
Today Is Okay
"...and I blew up the radio in pretty short order."

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Re: What is everyone's least favorite MK songs?
« Reply #8 on: February 24, 2013, 01:25:10 PM »
By chronological order:
- Les Boys: I'm 100% sure that Mark did not have any homophobic intentions, but still, this one gave a bad image (even though I really love the hilarious telling of the story during Boston'80).
- Walk of Life: the song that, more than the BIA album itself, led people into thinking that DS was nothing more than a 80's pop group... a real decadence after the Pink Flyod progressive rock style of the wonderful LOG album ! (Money for Nothing is forgiven, even though it was massively commercialised it is a damn good song, unlike WOL).
- Cannibals: same as above
- Do America: same as above
- Song for Sony Liston: can't understand why Mark treats this as a live classic
- Donegan's gone: same as above
- All that matters: dull, dull, dull... what the hell GF was thinking when I replaced the wonderful "I dug up a diamond" with THIS on the RLRR CD ???
- True Love will never fade: dull, dull, dull...
- You can't beat the house, don't forget your hat... all this kind of stuff...





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Re: What is everyone's least favorite MK songs?
« Reply #9 on: February 24, 2013, 01:29:02 PM »
Ticket To Heaven
I'm The Fool
Red Staggerwing
Secondary Waltz
You Can't Beat The House
Don't Forget Your Hat

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Re: What is everyone's least favorite MK songs?
« Reply #10 on: February 24, 2013, 02:09:25 PM »
Herlock - Les Boys and WOL are DS songs.   My list would have been much longer otherwise!    ;D
Goin' into Tow Law....

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Re: What is everyone's least favorite MK songs?
« Reply #11 on: February 24, 2013, 02:29:22 PM »
Herlock - Les Boys and WOL are DS songs.   My list would have been much longer otherwise!    ;D
Well, all DS songs are MK songs ! save for negligeable stuff, such as the Carrousel Waltz, the credits for sting in MFN, and "what's the matter baby" :)

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Re: What is everyone's least favorite MK songs?
« Reply #12 on: February 24, 2013, 02:41:08 PM »
Herlock - Les Boys and WOL are DS songs.   My list would have been much longer otherwise!    ;D
Well, all DS songs are MK songs ! save for negligeable stuff, such as the Carrousel Waltz, the credits for sting in MFN, and "what's the matter baby" :)

OK, in that case, I'll amend my list:    :)

No Can Do
Do America
Donegan's Gone - except for 2010 live version
I'm The Fool
Hand in Hand
Les Boys
Industrial Disease
Walk of Life
One World
My Parties
Ticket to Heaven
Goin' into Tow Law....

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Re: What is everyone's least favorite MK songs?
« Reply #13 on: February 24, 2013, 03:33:32 PM »
Some of your disliked songs are my favourits , so it

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Re: What is everyone's least favorite MK songs?
« Reply #14 on: February 24, 2013, 03:39:30 PM »
Some of your disliked songs are my favourits , so it

 

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