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HemispheresOfXanadu 
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 Posted: April 10 2013 at 13:35 |
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"Give me the freedom to destroy--give me... radioactive toy." (love the song for the guitar work, buuut...)
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Posted: April 10 2013 at 16:02 |
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Wallenstein-Blue Eyed Boys
Caravan-Golf Girl
those spring to mind, must be others
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Tapfret
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Posted: April 10 2013 at 16:14 |
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The obligatory "Your own special way"
PFM - "Is my face on straight". Particularly when they sing the line "As long as you are not sick or poor, a negro or a queer" which ends with a painful falsetto.
All of ELP's "works".
James Labrie, cringe worthy most of the time, outdoes himself rapping on Train of Thought.
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Earthmover
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Posted: April 10 2013 at 16:18 |
 HolyMoly wrote:
I love Porcupine Tree as much as the next guy, but a few of their lyrics make me cringe a little.
"My X-Box is a god to me"
"It's so erotic when your makeup runs"
"I was born in '67, the year of Sgt Pepper and Are You Experienced"
Just a bit obvious and heavy handed, lyrics that kind of stick out when your listening and sound like he's trying a bit to hard to be deep.
My wife, by the way, has said the same thing about Rush lyrics on "Spirit of Radio", which I happen to think are fantastic lyrics. Different strokes and all that.
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"XBOX is a god to me" isn't good on it's own, but Steven is impersonating an average 15 year old kid. I quite like the lyrics of FOABP. "It's so erotic when your makeup runs" I've always loved this too. "I was born in '67, the year of Sgt Pepper and Are You Experienced" Now this really isn't one of Steven's best 
To answer the question, I don't think there are any songs that made me cringe, though there are quite a few boring ones and ones that are just bad. edit: Just remembered Owner of a Lonely Heart. It's even worse when it gets in my head.
Edited by mister nobody - April 10 2013 at 16:19
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presdoug
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Posted: April 10 2013 at 16:29 |
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Quatermass 2-A Long Road
Snoball-Cold Heat
complete albums cringe worthy
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Metalmarsh89
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Posted: April 10 2013 at 16:51 |
presdoug wrote:
Wallenstein-Blue Eyed Boys
Caravan-Golf Girl
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I feel you on Golf Girl. A bit too much for me.
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Posted: April 10 2013 at 16:56 |
MJAben wrote:
Melomaniac wrote:
Another Day by Dream Theater (Images and Words) ; that sax part reminds me of Kenny G !  |
LaBrie's vocals in that song don't work but I always thought the sax part itself was quite nice personally.
As for me, with regards to DT, when Portnoy growls in 'A Nightmare to Remember' or the entire concept for 'The Great Debate'... God that song didn't age well.
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Another Day isn't bad, no harm there. A Nightmare to Remember was fine aside from Portnoy's singing. I prefer Portnoy in Prophets of War, though only marginally. His singing on DT's rendition of Tenement Funster/Flick of the Wrist/etc was his worst though.
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Earthmover
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Posted: April 10 2013 at 16:56 |
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Golf Girl is awesome, guys.
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The.Crimson.King
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Posted: April 10 2013 at 17:13 |
I've been waiting for a thread like this for years...hope I can get some kind of therapeutic relief here...
1) Genesis - Follow You, Follow Me (ick...cheesy love song) 2) Yes - Onward (ick...another cheesy love song) 3) Genesis - Say it's Alright Joe (just plain sucks) 4) Genesis - Your Own Special Way (ick...yet another cheesy love song, the start of the Genesis downfall) 5) ELP - A Taste of My Love (painfully embarrasing lyrics) 6) King Crimson - Peoria (several unendurable minutes of a pointless sax solo, sorry Mel) 7) Jethro Tull - Budapest ("She wouldn't make love but she could make a good sandwich"??? seriously???) 8) VDGG - Firebrand (the "I ride an icy stallion" section is the worst thing Peter Hammill has ever sung...ever) 9) ELP - Nutrocker (it doesn't fit with anything else on this great album and is an awful way to end it)
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presdoug
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Posted: April 10 2013 at 19:40 |
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^I quite like Nutrocker, i think it has class.
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The.Crimson.King
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Posted: April 10 2013 at 19:48 |
^Really? Following their most ambitious and successful classical interpretation with "Nutrocker" just makes it seem even more tame and uninspired to me...oh well... 
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Posted: April 10 2013 at 20:34 |
The.Crimson.King wrote:
8) VDGG - Firebrand (the "I ride an icy stallion" section is the worst thing Peter Hammill has ever sung...ever) |
Eh? ... No!
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Posted: April 10 2013 at 22:56 |
MJAben wrote:
Melomaniac wrote:
Another Day by Dream Theater (Images and Words) ; that sax part reminds me of Kenny G ! |
LaBrie's vocals in that song don't work but I always thought the sax part itself was quite nice personally.
As for me, with regards to DT, when Portnoy growls in 'A Nightmare to Remember' or the entire concept for 'The Great Debate'... God that song didn't age well.
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I love "The Great Debate"! "Are you justified in taking LIFE TO SAVE LIFE <chunk><chunk><chunk><chunk>"
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Belief is not Truth.
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HolyMoly
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Posted: April 11 2013 at 07:57 |
mister nobody wrote:
"XBOX is a god to me" isn't good on it's own, but Steven is impersonating an average 15 year old kid. I quite like the lyrics of FOABP. |
Well, that's kind of the problem for me. It sounds like something a 40 year old would imagine a 15 year old saying, when I doubt any 15 year olds would ever say or think that. But what do I know, I'm a 40 year old too. I will reiterate, though, that FOABP is one of my top 5 PT songs in spite of this lyric. Excellent tune.
Edited by HolyMoly - April 11 2013 at 07:57
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Posted: April 11 2013 at 08:33 |
Holy, I always found Steven's lyric on much of that song as kind of...idiotically clever?! They capture bulls**t teenage rebellion and `don't give a f**k' attitude pretty well....sorry for the swearing, kids! 
On the topic of `songs that make me cringe' and Porcupine Tree, I'm afriad that section of `The Incident' where Steven's singing `I'm taking control, I'm taking control, I draw the la-hine' etc is just embarrasing....like bad teenage emo indie pop....for f**k's sake, Steven, you're a grown man lol! 
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Posted: April 11 2013 at 08:55 |
presdoug wrote:
^I quite like Nutrocker, i think it has class. |
I like it too, don't know the rest of the album
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Posted: April 11 2013 at 09:13 |
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Anything with growls generally makes me cringe.
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HolyMoly
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Posted: April 11 2013 at 09:26 |
Aussie-Byrd-Brother wrote:
Holy, I always found Steven's lyric on much of that song as kind of...idiotically clever?! They capture bulls**t teenage rebellion and `don't give a f**k' attitude pretty well....sorry for the swearing, kids!
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But it seems as if the song/album is meant to be somewhat sympathetic to the situation of such teenagers, so why present it as "bulls**t rebellion", as you said? It just leaves me wondering about either Wilson's intentions or his execution. It's like if my dad wrote a song about me when I was a teenager, and put words in my mouth like "I am so full of angst, and I am engaging in rebellion". Thanks, dad.
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Posted: April 11 2013 at 10:01 |
Aussie-Byrd-Brother wrote:
Holy, I always found Steven's lyric on much of that song as kind of...idiotically clever?! They capture bulls**t teenage rebellion and `don't give a f**k' attitude pretty well....sorry for the swearing, kids!
On the topic of `songs that make me cringe' and Porcupine Tree, I'm afriad that section of `The Incident' where Steven's singing `I'm taking control, I'm taking control, I draw the la-hine' etc is just embarrasing....like bad teenage emo indie pop....for f**k's sake, Steven, you're a grown man lol! |
I concur. Too bad, because the verses to that song are good, but that god-awful chorus, urgh ! I remember thinking, first time I heard it, that it reminded me of something either Dolores O'Riordan from the Cranberries or Alanis Morissette could have come up with.
Indeed a cringe worthy moment on an otherwise good album though.
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Posted: April 11 2013 at 10:16 |
Dayvenkirq wrote:
The.Crimson.King wrote:
8) VDGG - Firebrand (the "I ride an icy stallion" section is the worst thing Peter Hammill has ever sung...ever) |
Eh? ... No! |
I love the rest of the song, but in this section I think the vocal is mixed way too loud. PH is trying for an overwrought, dramatic approach but instead it sounds like he's wailing horribly out of tune.
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