IMO, any song by Joy Division would qualify as one of the worst songs ever. Ian Curtis was a terrible lyricist and their music is extremely dull. I absolutely loathe that band.
I don't care for Steve Miller, but I'd much rather listen to "Jet Airliner" or "Abracadabra" than "Love Will Tear Us Apart."
Restraining myself from having this discussion "go south."
Let's all palate cleanse with some nice Christian Crabcore:
Whoops! Never mind - I missed page 14 somehow...
TL, were you about to rush to the defense of Steve Miller or Ian Curtis? Because the answer to that question is frankly fascinating to me, more so because I can't guess the answer.
You will, I hope, note that the forum hasn't gone after Sizzla or Buju Banton. Respect.
Respect indeed! But here I go, about to break that streak - I have to admit I find it much harder to justify supporting so many of these Dancehall guys through their sometimes blatant and violent homophobia again. It was something that I just chose not to deal with for so long because, for example, "Inna Heights" was SUCH an amazing record, and evinced what seemed to be a rather compassionate soul in Buju Banton, in contrast to a lot of his previous work, like "Boom, Bye-bye" that just showed the mind of another violent gangster waxing tough, and I always want to believe that people can grow and change (because then there's hope for myself, you know?). But then it started to bug me too much. Hell - I went through a DECADE of not listening to the Bad Brains before making a still somewhat shameful deal with myself to not deny the genius that WAS my favorite band of all time because the singer went off the rails into nut-job Rasta religious and/or political fundamentalism (and, a few years after writing the offending song, also went through an extremely queeny phase, living as a "kept man" for some rich dude in LA, then became "just a nut-job"). It's a familiar story, I guess - Wagner, the first couple of Skrewdriver records, a lot of Black Metal, a lot of Rap, etc. How do you accept a body of work that has these offending bumps in the road (or in the case of Skrewdriver, of course, takes a complete left turn into offense so cartoony that it would almost be laughable if there wasn't a direct correlation between their music and the actual injury and death of human beings)? And for that matter, am I revealing a bleeding heart or a selfish skill at avoidance in even suggesting that there's a question?
And on top of THAT, why did I stay up twittering about CrabCore so late last night? It's put me in a mood to question everything.
But NOT my love for Ian Curtis, to answer your other question. I honestly can't even address the idea that he was a "terrible lyricist" and that their "music was dull" with getting hot under the collar.
So I'm gonna go jump in the ocean instead.
