Theme 219 - The One Great Track From A Duff Album - Tech -VOTING (closes 10pm Sun 26th May)

[theDuke]

Forthcoming Nominated Themes List:

220 - 'Ace music vids' - Pick a song featuring it's official music vid that you like (must be the vid the band/artist produced for the song) - theDuke
221 - No. 1 the day you were born - Spacepig
222 - No. 1 on the day you turned sweet sixteen - Brass Neck
223 - Live Alive-O - Live tracks you prefer to the studio original. Any track that is credited as being recorded live despite being overdubbed in the studio is acceptable. - KJS
224 - 'Rock On' All and every genre included - Jemma
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Cream of 2019 Summer rounds, commences Sun 30th June - 5 rounds.
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225 - Anything Celtic, Gaelic, Irish, Oirish, Breton, Cornish or recognisably influenced by such. - Sera69
226 - Me, myself and I - solo material from an artist who was/is a member of an established band. - Helen
227 - "Till the rancid sound of the accordion bursts..." any song featuring an accordion - Gordon
228 - Gettin' horny and blowin' Brass! - any track which prominently features brass instruments solo or as a horn section - Brass Neck
229 - The good life - A song that has a reference to the countryside in it's title. - TheFoe
230 - Bonus tracks - Any track added to a CD album as either an original release 'hidden' track or a re-release bonus track not on the original. This does not include any track which is a remix or a single version, but can be a single b-side that has been subsequently added to a re-released album - Fishy Jim
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Hello one and all.

First up, thanks to Spacepig for holding the fort during my absence on Wednesday, much obliged to you sah.

I had a great night in Cardiff, the weather was perfect, the city is lovely...and i drank too much! Walked loads, even popped inside the Castle while i was there....and in the evening, headbanged away to the muddied trippy sounds of PPC...and made it back home again. Bought a coupla tour editions of their first two albums, and got them signed by all four band members, & even had a chat with a coupla of them. It's been a while since i'd been to any gig...nice to get out of house...and reassuringly...my limited vision didn't pose too many problems with finding my way about at night, i even had to 'guide' my inebriated brother back to the hotel afterwards.....a case of a blind man leading the blind drunk, i think?! Bloody typical!

Okay then...onwards and upwards, it's the Tech meister's turn:

'The One Great Track From A Duff Album'

Straightforward enough, although i must admit...i'm struggling to think of a nom for this one....but i'll find something.

Noms and links as per usual please..the more the merrier, thank you.

Have a fine and lovely week folks...i really really mean it....man! :)

[Craig White]

going by this opener, 'prince charming' should have been killer - instead it was a load of shight!

Scorpios - Adam And The Ants

https://youtu.be/AoXbdG9xyr8

[TheFoe]

Glad you had a good time Duke. :-)

After Tech, 'The Modern World' is a crap album imo, the lyrics in most of the songs sound like a child's written them.

Scorpios - Adam And The Ants
The Modern World - The Jam

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_h8M...

[Tim]

After TheFoe, I remember being sooo disappointed when this album (It's Hard) came out, except for this one track. Even Roger Daltrey said it would have been better if the rest of the record had never been released!

Scorpios - Adam And The Ants
The Modern World - The Jam
Eminence Front - The Who

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xODK_...

[Sera69]

After Tim

A band that have promised so much but never reached the heights of this. The rest of the album is fair to plodding so whatever they were on for this one wore off way too quick.

Scorpios - Adam And The Ants
The Modern World - The Jam
Eminence Front - The Who
Majestic - Wax Fang

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4B6E0...

[Fishy_Jim]

After Sera69

Scorpios - Adam And The Ants
The Modern World - The Jam
Eminence Front - The Who
Majestic - Wax Fang
Losing Grip - Avril Lavigne

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOcKc...

Actually, there are a couple of other OK tracks on the moose-hunting munchkin's debute album, but this one stands out by a mile. I particularly like the 'chunka chunka' guitar moment (you'll know it when you hear it).

[Brass Neck]

From the last Creedence album, Mardi Gras, where the drummer and bassist insisted on writing and singing their 'share' of the songs instead of leaving that in the capable hands and throat of John Fogerty; result a dire album, this Fogerty-penned classic excepted, and implosion of CCR.

Scorpios - Adam And The Ants
The Modern World - The Jam
Eminence Front - The Who
Majestic - Wax Fang
Losing Grip - Avril Lavigne
Someday Never Comes - Creedence Clearwater Revival

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGvPl...

[Helen The Melon]

Tech XXIII wrote: "going by this opener, 'prince charming' should have been killer - instead it was a load of shight!

Scorpios - Adam And The Ants

https://youtu.be/AoXbdG9xyr8"

Oh c'mon, it's got Stand & Deliver and Prince Charming on it too! Great '80s pop.

[Helen The Melon]

After BN

Scorpios - Adam And The Ants
The Modern World - The Jam
Eminence Front - The Who
Majestic - Wax Fang
Losing Grip - Avril Lavigne
Someday Never Comes - Creedence Clearwater Revival
Total Eclipse Of The Heart - Bonnie Tyler

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lcOxhH8...

[Craig White]

"Oh c'mon, it's got Stand & Deliver and Prince Charming on it too!"

your point is.........?

[Tim]

Tech XXIII wrote: ""Oh c'mon, it's got Stand & Deliver and Prince Charming on it too!"

your point is.........?"

Ridicule is nothing to be scared of.

[Gordon]

After Helen

Not only the one great track on the album, but the only decent track they ever recorded... (See also Grand Funk Railroad's Footstompin' Music, The Black Crowes' Soul Singing, Racing Cars' They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, etc., etc.)

Scorpios - Adam And The Ants
The Modern World - The Jam
Eminence Front - The Who
Majestic - Wax Fang
Losing Grip - Avril Lavigne
Someday Never Comes - Creedence Clearwater Revival
Total Eclipse Of The Heart - Bonnie Tyler
Nantucket Sleighride (To Owen Coffin) - Mountain

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqWqC...

Call me Ishmael.

[TheFoe]

Gordon wrote: "After Helen

Not only the one great track on the album, but the only decent track they ever recorded... (See also Grand Funk Railroad's Footstompin' Music, The Black Crowes' Soul Singing, Racing Ca..."

Class song Gordon, and fitting with the recent death of Brian Walden.

[theDuke]

Okay...i'm gunna have to do this one a little differently to perhaps the rest of you; simply because i've never really paid any attention to the lyrics of any song...cos thanks to my poor hearing, i can't hear them most the time. So i tend to go mainly on the music itself, and thus have never really come across an album with just one great sounding song on it. So, i'm opting for an album that was infamously panned by critics & fans alike, at the time. The album Second Coming, caused the band implode soon afterwards.

Personally speaking, as a contented owner of a copy of 2nd Coming, i quite like it.....but i maybe the only one! I think 10 Story Love Song, Love Spreads & Straight To The Man, are all good songs to my ears....whatever they are about! However, apparently this song was the album's only saving grace..as good as it is...so.....I'm beggin' ya!

Scorpios - Adam And The Ants
The Modern World - The Jam
Eminence Front - The Who
Majestic - Wax Fang
Losing Grip - Avril Lavigne
Someday Never Comes - Creedence Clearwater Revival
Total Eclipse Of The Heart - Bonnie Tyler
Nantucket Sleighride (To Owen Coffin) - Mountain
Begging You - The Stone Roses

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KORbJ...

[Craig White]

hmmm! "a quite good song from an album i quite like" isn't really what i was shooting for, duke, but we'll let it go - mainly to give helen something to vote for!

b.t.w. lyrics are immaterial in this theme.

[theDuke]

Yeah, sorry Tech....but this one has got me stumped! I might find something else...we'll see.

[Spacepig]

Stumped too. If I come across a crap album I tend to ditch it, not hang on forlornly looking for a decent track to salvage it with.

[KJS]

After theDuke

From that difficult 2nd album made to order without any time to work the songs live.

Scorpios - Adam And The Ants
The Modern World - The Jam
Eminence Front - The Who
Majestic - Wax Fang
Losing Grip - Avril Lavigne
Someday Never Comes - Creedence Clearwater Revival
Total Eclipse Of The Heart - Bonnie Tyler
Nantucket Sleighride (To Owen Coffin) - Mountain
Begging You - The Stone Roses
Foxhole - Television

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXfzc...

[Gordon]

Spacepig wrote: "Stumped too. If I come across a crap album I tend to ditch it, not hang on forlornly looking for a decent track to salvage it with."

I think it's more common to buy an album on the strength of one song and then find that the rest of it is crap.

[Brass Neck]

I once said something not utterly disparaging on hearing Jimmy Nail's 'Ain't No Doubt' on the wireless; the album turned up on Xmas Day, back to the shop unopened at the very next opportunity.

[Gordon]

I really like that song. I never thought to try the album, though.

[theDuke]

Gordon wrote: "I really like that song. I never thought to try the album, though."

It's better than his other 'hit'..Crocodile Shoes, anyway! :)

[Val]

I like Crocodile Shoes!!!

[Val]

After KJS

I too struggled with this theme. I recalled three albums that were major disappointments for me (John Grant's latest, The Felice Brothers' "Celebration, Florida" and "The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends"). So then I had to go and listen to them again. Thanks for that! I do like this track even though the title is off (as are many others on the album) and it combines the talents of two fab groups.

Scorpios - Adam And The Ants
The Modern World - The Jam
Eminence Front - The Who
Majestic - Wax Fang
Losing Grip - Avril Lavigne
Someday Never Comes - Creedence Clearwater Revival
Total Eclipse Of The Heart - Bonnie Tyler
Nantucket Sleighride (To Owen Coffin) - Mountain
Begging You - The Stone Roses
Foxhole - Television
Helping the Retarded to Find God - The Flaming Lips/Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOPUo...

[Helen The Melon]

Tech XXIII wrote: "......... but we'll let it go - mainly to give helen something to vote for!..."

Ha! Actually, I'm not that keen on "Begging You". There are better songs on that album.

[SussexWelsh]

After Val

Scorpios - Adam And The Ants
The Modern World - The Jam
Eminence Front - The Who
Majestic - Wax Fang
Losing Grip - Avril Lavigne
Someday Never Comes - Creedence Clearwater Revival
Total Eclipse Of The Heart - Bonnie Tyler
Nantucket Sleighride (To Owen Coffin) - Mountain
Begging You - The Stone Roses
Foxhole - Television
Helping the Retarded to Find God - The Flaming Lips/Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros
She Will Be Loved - Maroon 5

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIjVu...

[theDuke]

Evening all.

A slight drop in numbers this week...but we've got 13 songs to muse over, and 4 votes each this time. Should be an interesting playlist..but not sure if i like any of them myself tho!! Val's link didn't work, so i found a suitable replacement.

Da playlist:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list...

Da song list:

Scorpios - Adam And The Ants
The Modern World - The Jam
Eminence Front - The Who
Majestic - Wax Fang
Losing Grip - Avril Lavigne
Someday Never Comes - Creedence Clearwater Revival
Total Eclipse Of The Heart - Bonnie Tyler
Nantucket Sleighride (To Owen Coffin) - Mountain
Begging You - The Stone Roses
Foxhole - Television
Helping the Retarded to Find God - The Flaming Lips/Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros
She Will Be Loved - Maroon 5
Brownsville Girl - Bob Dylan

Da me, saying ta ra for now!

[Craig White]

like the man says, these albums must be big plastic turds - who's stupid idea was this? however my vision was shared by k.j.s. - this is exactly what i was thinking of!

4 - t.elevision
3 - b.oabdylan
2 - t.hejam
1 - c.c.r.

Scorpios - Adam And The Ants
The Modern World - The Jam - 2
Eminence Front - The Who
Majestic - Wax Fang
Losing Grip - Avril Lavigne
Someday Never Comes - Creedence Clearwater Revival - 1
Total Eclipse Of The Heart - Bonnie Tyler
Nantucket Sleighride (To Owen Coffin) - Mountain
Begging You - The Stone Roses
Foxhole - Television - 4
Helping the Retarded to Find God - The Flaming Lips/Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros
She Will Be Loved - Maroon 5
Brownsville Girl - Bob Dylan - 3

[TheFoe]

After Tech

Mountain - 4
The Stone Roses - 3
Wax Fang - 2
Television - 1

Scorpios - Adam And The Ants
The Modern World - The Jam - 2
Eminence Front - The Who
Majestic - Wax Fang - 2
Losing Grip - Avril Lavigne
Someday Never Comes - Creedence Clearwater Revival - 1
Total Eclipse Of The Heart - Bonnie Tyler
Nantucket Sleighride (To Owen Coffin) - Mountain - 4
Begging You - The Stone Roses - 3
Foxhole - Television - 5
Helping the Retarded to Find God - The Flaming Lips/Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros
She Will Be Loved - Maroon 5
Brownsville Girl - Bob Dylan - 3

[Spacepig]

After Johnny

Mountain - 4
Creedence Clearwater Revival - 3
The Who - 2
Wax Fang - 1

Scorpios - Adam And The Ants
The Modern World - The Jam - 3
Eminence Front - The Who - 5
Majestic - Wax Fang - 3
Losing Grip - Avril Lavigne
Someday Never Comes - Creedence Clearwater Revival - 6
Total Eclipse Of The Heart - Bonnie Tyler
Nantucket Sleighride (To Owen Coffin) - Mountain - 8
Begging You - The Stone Roses - 3
Foxhole - Television - 9
Helping the Retarded to Find God - The Flaming Lips/Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros
She Will Be Loved - Maroon 5
Brownsville Girl - Bob Dylan - 3

[Gordon]

After Spacepig

Creedence Clearwater Revival - 2
Wax Fang - 1

Scorpios - Adam And The Ants
The Modern World - The Jam - 3
Eminence Front - The Who - 5
Majestic - Wax Fang - 4
Losing Grip - Avril Lavigne
Someday Never Comes - Creedence Clearwater Revival - 8
Total Eclipse Of The Heart - Bonnie Tyler
Nantucket Sleighride (To Owen Coffin) - Mountain - 8
Begging You - The Stone Roses - 3
Foxhole - Television - 9
Helping the Retarded to Find God - The Flaming Lips/Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros
She Will Be Loved - Maroon 5
Brownsville Girl - Bob Dylan - 3

[Craig White]

who gave moron 5 points?

[Sera69]

After Gordon

4 - Stone Roses - cracking album all round
3 - The Jam
2 - Television
1 - Mountain

Scorpios - Adam And The Ants
The Modern World - The Jam - 6
Eminence Front - The Who - 5
Majestic - Wax Fang - 4
Losing Grip - Avril Lavigne
Someday Never Comes - Creedence Clearwater Revival - 8
Total Eclipse Of The Heart - Bonnie Tyler
Nantucket Sleighride (To Owen Coffin) - Mountain - 9
Begging You - The Stone Roses - 7
Foxhole - Television - 11
Helping the Retarded to Find God - The Flaming Lips/Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros
She Will Be Loved - Maroon 5
Brownsville Girl - Bob Dylan - 3

[Helen The Melon]

After Sera

Jam - 4
S Roses - 3 (definitely not a "duff" album tho')
Mountain - 2
Television - 1

Scorpios - Adam And The Ants
The Modern World - The Jam - 10
Eminence Front - The Who - 5
Majestic - Wax Fang - 4
Losing Grip - Avril Lavigne
Someday Never Comes - Creedence Clearwater Revival - 8
Total Eclipse Of The Heart - Bonnie Tyler
Nantucket Sleighride (To Owen Coffin) - Mountain - 11
Begging You - The Stone Roses - 10
Foxhole - Television - 12
Helping the Retarded to Find God - The Flaming Lips/Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros
She Will Be Loved - Maroon 5
Brownsville Girl - Bob Dylan - 3

[theDuke]

After Helen:

Mountain - 4
The Who - 3
Wax Fang - 2
The Flaming Lips et al - 1

Scorpios - Adam And The Ants
The Modern World - The Jam - 10
Eminence Front - The Who - 8
Majestic - Wax Fang - 6
Losing Grip - Avril Lavigne
Someday Never Comes - Creedence Clearwater Revival - 8
Total Eclipse Of The Heart - Bonnie Tyler
Nantucket Sleighride (To Owen Coffin) - Mountain - 15
Begging You - The Stone Roses - 10
Foxhole - Television - 12
Helping the Retarded to Find God - The Flaming Lips/Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros - 1
She Will Be Loved - Maroon 5
Brownsville Girl - Bob Dylan - 3

[KJS]

After theDuke

I have 9 of the albums the tracks are taken from and IMHO 5 are unlistenable.

The Who - 4
CCR - 3
Bob Dylan - 2
Stone Roses -1

Scorpios - Adam And The Ants
The Modern World - The Jam - 10
Eminence Front - The Who - 12
Majestic - Wax Fang - 6
Losing Grip - Avril Lavigne
Someday Never Comes - Creedence Clearwater Revival - 11
Total Eclipse Of The Heart - Bonnie Tyler
Nantucket Sleighride (To Owen Coffin) - Mountain - 15
Begging You - The Stone Roses - 11
Foxhole - Television - 12
Helping the Retarded to Find God - The Flaming Lips/Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros - 1
She Will Be Loved - Maroon 5
Brownsville Girl - Bob Dylan - 5

[Val]

After KJS

Wax Fang - 4
Creedence Clearwater Revival - 3
The Jam - 2
The Who - 1

Scorpios - Adam And The Ants
The Modern World - The Jam - 12
Eminence Front - The Who - 13
Majestic - Wax Fang - 10
Losing Grip - Avril Lavigne
Someday Never Comes - Creedence Clearwater Revival - 14
Total Eclipse Of The Heart - Bonnie Tyler
Nantucket Sleighride (To Owen Coffin) - Mountain - 15
Begging You - The Stone Roses - 11
Foxhole - Television - 12
Helping the Retarded to Find God - The Flaming Lips/Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros - 1
She Will Be Loved - Maroon 5
Brownsville Girl - Bob Dylan - 5

[Tim]

After Val

Bob Dylan - 4
Mountain - 3
Stone Roses - 2
Television - 1

Scorpios - Adam And The Ants
The Modern World - The Jam - 12
Eminence Front - The Who - 13
Majestic - Wax Fang - 10
Losing Grip - Avril Lavigne
Someday Never Comes - Creedence Clearwater Revival - 14
Total Eclipse Of The Heart - Bonnie Tyler
Nantucket Sleighride (To Owen Coffin) - Mountain - 18
Begging You - The Stone Roses - 13
Foxhole - Television - 13
Helping the Retarded to Find God - The Flaming Lips/Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros - 1
She Will Be Loved - Maroon 5
Brownsville Girl - Bob Dylan - 9

[Brass Neck]

TV - 4
M - 3
J - 2
SR - 1

Scorpios - Adam And The Ants
The Modern World - The Jam - 14
Eminence Front - The Who - 13
Majestic - Wax Fang - 10
Losing Grip - Avril Lavigne
Someday Never Comes - Creedence Clearwater Revival - 14
Total Eclipse Of The Heart - Bonnie Tyler
Nantucket Sleighride (To Owen Coffin) - Mountain - 21
Begging You - The Stone Roses - 14
Foxhole - Television - 17
Helping the Retarded to Find God - The Flaming Lips/Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros - 1
She Will Be Loved - Maroon 5
Brownsville Girl - Bob Dylan - 9

[theDuke]

I hope somebody puts in a vote to sort out those three 14s! :)

[Derek]

After BN and sorry Duke:

Mountain 2
Avril 1

Scorpios - Adam And The Ants
The Modern World - The Jam - 14
Eminence Front - The Who - 13
Majestic - Wax Fang - 10
Losing Grip - Avril Lavigne - 1
Someday Never Comes - Creedence Clearwater Revival - 14
Total Eclipse Of The Heart - Bonnie Tyler
Nantucket Sleighride (To Owen Coffin) - Mountain - 23
Begging You - The Stone Roses - 14
Foxhole - Television - 17
Helping the Retarded to Find God - The Flaming Lips/Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros - 1
She Will Be Loved - Maroon 5
Brownsville Girl - Bob Dylan - 9

[TheFoe]

Perhaps we could club together and get this for Helen?

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Wooden-Troph...

;-)

[theDuke]

Rightyho then..quite a bit to sort out here..so as this round has produced a rather unusual result this week....here be an unusual round up of the results then....

The winner:

Nantucket Sleighride (To Owen Coffin) - Mountain - 23 points - Gordon

The best of the rest:

Foxhole - Television - 17 points - KJS

The battle for 3rd place:

The Modern World - The Jam - 14 points (1 MAX points) - Foe
Begging You - The Stone Roses - 14 points (1 MAX points) - Duke
Someday Never Comes - Creedence Clearwater Revival (NO MAX points)- 14 points - Brass Neck

The host's decision: Foe can have the bronze..i got one last week!

A whole lotta Wooden Spooners!:

Scorpios - Adam And The Ants - Tech
Total Eclipse Of The Heart - Bonnie Tyler - Helen...again!
She Will Be Loved - Maroon 5 - SussexWelsh

The host's comments: Poor Helen isn't having much luck of late...having bagged the hattrick in as many weeks now. But this time, Helen has got a coupla buddies to join her in drowning their sorrows, and er...nice idea Nick..but you might find that trophy flinging it's way back at ya mug, mibbe?! :-S

'Tis odd...but i can't help but think, that if it was our dear Suzy, winning all these wooden spoons..she'd be brimming with joy and proudly displaying that 'trophy' for all to see!!!

Bit of a weird round..wth some rotten stinkers....gawd knows what the rest of the albums are like.....um.......let's move on shall we! :-S

[Helen The Melon]

TheFoe wrote: "Perhaps we could club together and get this for Helen?..."

It needs to have three wooden spoons on it tho'! Yay, a hat trick, what an achievement. I really didn't expect anyone to vote for Bonnie Tyler so I'm not surprised.

[Craig White]

yeah, what was she thinking? bet she wishes she'd went for something by adam and the ants now........d'oh!
yeah never mind, crap round, crap concept, move along folks, nothing to see (or hear) here, let it die in peace!