What's your least favorite song by your favorite band? Can you make a CD-worth?
New York Dolls are my favorite band. They only did two albums and I love every track on each album. This may be a factor in why they are my favorite band.
First album, s/t.
Personality Crisis
Looking for a Kiss
Vietnamese Baby
Lonely Planet Boy
Frankenstein
Trash
Bad Girl
Subway Train
Pills
Private World
Jet Boy
Nope. No duds.
In Too Much Too Soon
Babylon
Stranded in the Jungle
Who Are the Mystery Girls?
(There's Gonna Be A) Showdown
It's Too Late
Puss 'N' Boots
Chatterbox
Bad Detective
Don't Start Me Talkin'
Human Being
Still beyond criticism. Unquestionably the most perfect and (more importantly) most fun rock and roll of all time.
Can I just throw everything from the Kinks' Preservation, Act Two on the pile?
erinaceous: Hippo. Hippo. Hippo. Hippo.
That's the only good part of that song!
ABBA - I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do. It really only needed to be said once.
(My favourite band does actually change by the minute.)
Lifelong Love Affair With Music Ends At Age 35
Heh. Hell, I hit that wall earlier than 30. It
is
like a relationship though.
It's funny because it's true. I've gone through multiple major re-evaluations of Music and Me.
There was: "I don't care if it it's Springsteen or Lollapalooza, I'm never seeing a ginormous show again. If it's not in a small club, I just don't get a charge."
And: "Fuck it - I can't see shows that start after midnight and go to work the next day. Plus, my back starts killing me if I have to stand for two hours."
And: "Gah! Why do I have all these albums that I don't listen to, just to be a completist. That's it! If I haven't listened to it in two years it's out the door!"
Buying a tape deck specifically to make mixes dramatically changed both my listening habits and my collection.
And getting the iMac has also drastically changed my listening habits again.
I'm much much more of a musical archeologist than somebody keeping up with current trends.
A few of my most hated songs by my most beloved bands/artists:
U2 "Red Light" (from "War")
REM "West of the Fields" (from "Murmur")
Just a big, fat "yuck" on both counts.
"Fuck it - I can't see shows that start after midnight and go to work the next day. Plus, my back starts killing me if I have to stand for two hours."
Wimp. I'm older than you are and I still do it. I can sleep when I'm dead.