10 Songs From Bands I Couldn't Otherwise Care Less About

[Vyn]

Up next: Don't care for anything this guy did solo, but this song is a timeless truism:

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

My 5th slection

The Dubliners with the Pogues - The Irish Rover

This was a big hit for The Dubliners and the The Pogues around 1987 (it was a UK top 10, y'know!). And while Irish sea shanty type songs are not really my thing there was something satisfyingly anarchic about this one. Things to look out for in the video include Shane McGowan's "pearly whites".

I don't know anything else by the Dubliners and except for Fairytale of New York, I know nothing else by The Pogues.

[Zzzptm]

The Dave Mason song makes me want to listen to Jimmy Buffet.

The shanty song makes me want to watch Father Ted, and that means a bonus song for me. It's a song I can't stand from an act I can't stand AT ALL except in one certain context...

"He's WORSE than Hitler!"

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

^^^
Blocked in the UK!

I'm going to add a bonus song of my own. Today we saw the death of actor David Soul at the age of 80. The Starsky and Hutch star also had a singing career and while I didn't care for it for the most part, I really liked (and bought) his 1977 No. 1 single in the UK Silver Lady

[Zzzptm]

Ah that was Cutty Ranks' Limb By Limb - The jungle music track played by Father Stack in the "New Jack City" episode of Father Ted. Guaranteed to clear the room if we don't have that show involved.

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

I quite enjoyed all of today's choices particularly C'mon C'mon

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

Ah that was Cutty Ranks' Limb By Limb - The jungle music track played by Father Stack in the "New Jack City" episode of Father Ted. Guaranteed to clear the room if we don't have that show involved.

Excellent episode!

[Charger]

My #6 might be a bit of a shocker again...but maybe not.


POLICE - Murder By Numbers

I first heard this song in the movie Copycat (with Sigourney Weaver and Holly Hunter) back in the late 90s. Good movie.
The track has a good melody and lyrics. I bought the album Syncronicity soon after and found it to be extremely dull part from that one song!
I have never been a Sting fan either, his music also falls into the dull category. Nothing there. Kind of like U2.

But I still very much enjoy this one song.

[Vyn]

I never knew David Soul sang. It doesn't immediately grab me but is better than most actors who recorded some tunes.

I like quite a few songs from The Police, then there are others that I will change the station if they come on.

When this came out I was living in Washington DC, and quite involved with the local music scene there. As a fan, to be clear. But did make some acquaintances, one of which introduced me to Justine Frischmann. Who gave me an EP with this on it. I thought, and still think, it's a catchy groove. Sadly for Ms. Frischmann and company, I just couldn't get into any of their other stuff.

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

My number 6

Mountain - Nantucket Sleighride

This is more a case of just being ignorant to their other recordings rather than not caring about them. The tune first came my attention back in the day when the final section was used as the theme for a UK current affairs program back in the 70s and 80s (Weekend World if my memory serves).

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

I think there is an Elastica song I like, but I'm pertty sure it's not that one! A quick google doesn;t enlighten me though!

I think David Soul was a singer before he was an actor, so not like he didn't have form.

[Charger]

I think David Soul was a singer before he was an actor, so not like he didn't have form.

I have to say this was news to me too. And he's not a half bad singer either I see....generic though.

[Zzzptm]

Regarding The Police: They are also a hit-and-miss group with me. Maybe one out of 4 or 5 tracks they do, I want to hear again. My fave of theirs is Message in a Bottle.

Regarding Mountain: they are definitely worth digging deeper into.

Regarding Elastica: That be some obscure, but cool stuff.

Now for my next track, I turn to a band that just had the wrongest possible name for what they were doing:

Heavy Metal Kids, but they played all kinds of stuff, actually leaning into reggae a lot. Frustrating and confusing and this one pretty much the only song of theirs that really does right by 70's hard rock standards.

And I love it.

[Vyn]

I think there is an Elastica song I like, but I'm pertty sure it's not that one! A quick google doesn;t enlighten me though!

I think David Soul was a singer before he was an actor, so not like he didn't have form.

That makes sense RE: David Soul.

The only other songs from Elastica I know about are Stutter and Line Up, because they're on that EP. Looking at Wikipedia it seems their first album was a massive hit in the UK, so I can only imagine a bunch of stuff off of it got airplay.

[Vyn]

Heavy Metal Kids - oh my. That may have been the first time I have ever heard their music, although I have heard -of- them before. I seem to recall avoiding them because, due to the name, I assumed they were something like