Music So Cheesy It’s Good
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Topic: Music So Cheesy It’s Good
Posted By: stripthesoul
Subject: Music So Cheesy It’s Good
Date Posted: August 30 2005 at 19:59
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Can anyone else think of music that they find so hilariously cheesy
that they actually occasionally enjoy listening to it, bad as it
is? For me it's Journey. Awful as they are, I can't listen
to "Any Way You Want It" without bursting out laughing. Did
anyone ever take these guys seriously? Alice Cooper works too, as
well as any number of 80's hair metal bands (except Van Halen and Guns
N' Roses; I don't like either band but neither is bad enough to descend
into self-parody).
------------- "Feminism is the radical notion that women are human beings." --Cheris Kramerae |
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Posted By: Damen
Date Posted: August 30 2005 at 20:10
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Europe - The Final Countdown ------------- "It's amazing that we've been able to put up with each other for 35 years. Most marriages don't last that long these days." -Chris Squire |
Posted By: tuxon
Date Posted: August 30 2005 at 20:32
Europe started as a progresive rock band, that influence is still audible in that album. great stuff ------------- I'm always almost unlucky _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Id5ZcnjXSZaSMFMC Id5LM2q2jfqz3YxT |
Damen wrote:
Posted By: Reverie
Date Posted: August 30 2005 at 20:40
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Blind Guardian (early stuff anyway; i don't care for the later) And cheesiness is one of the reason i do enjoy listening to Dragonforce, even though i really don't do that often. I should though! |
Posted By: kingofbizzare
Date Posted: August 30 2005 at 21:11
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I pulled out Love Beach for the second time ever last night (the only other time I listened to it was this past winter when I bought it, before I'd heard anything else by ELP except Works v.1) and I really enjoyed it. It's a decent album if you don't look at the title or cover and don't compare it to any other ELP album. Also, I find The Gray Album (a mixture of Jay-Z's Black Album and The Beatles White Album) to be very funny, even though it horrible disgraces The Beatles' original album. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/kingofbizzare/?chartstyle=asimpleblue5"> 
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Posted By: Metropolis
Date Posted: August 31 2005 at 19:47
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Dragonforce are awesome. In the latest issue of Terrorizer,
Herman Li denies that the band are cheesy, 'fraid I've got to disagree
with you Herman. Also Valhalla by Yngwie Malmsteen, that song is so cheesy its unreal. ------------- We Lost the Skyline............ 
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Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: August 31 2005 at 20:41
------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: Shack Man
Date Posted: August 31 2005 at 21:44
video killed the radio star! ------------- Extraordinary how potent cheap music is... |
Posted By: stripthesoul
Date Posted: August 31 2005 at 22:24
Whoever thought these guys would sound good in Yes deserves to be put on the list of worst ideas ever. ------------- "Feminism is the radical notion that women are human beings." --Cheris Kramerae |
Posted By: Zac M
Date Posted: September 01 2005 at 00:19
I totally disagree, Drama is one of my favorite Yes albums; it was a breath of fresh air  .------------- "Art is not imitation, nor is it something manufactured according to the wishes of instinct or good taste. It is a process of expression." -Merleau-Ponty |
Posted By: salmacis
Date Posted: September 01 2005 at 15:39
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I enjoy Journey's music, but I think most AOR bands of their ilk tend to be cheesy a fair bit, particularly late period Styx ('Mr Roboto' The whole 'hair metal' genre is cheese in excelsis- the lyrics, singing, solos and even the song/ album titles and band names themselves are just unintentionally hilarious. I have my doubts whether any of those bands can even play or sing- the solos seem to be a flurry of notes glued together. I can tolerate Twisted Sister's early stuff, because that's heavier than most bands of that genre, and Motley Crue's first two albums- after that, there were too many lumpen power ballads ('Home Sweet Home' I never put Van Halen in that category, as they were superb musicians that had the 70s hard rock sound of bands like Montrose and Ted Nugent but with more polished execution, and the songwriting was usually top notch. Sure, you can blame them for Poison and Warrant and all that stuff, but VH were in a different league to the bands they influenced. Guns 'N' Roses are perhaps the metal band that everyone except me thinks are brilliant- I find Axl Rose extremely irritating, and to me the 'Use Your Illusion' albums are the most pointlessly excessive albums I've ever heard in rock, but at least 'Appetite For Destruction' showed they could play and write decent songs, even if I rarely play it... 'Drama' was a decent album imo, but had a high cheese quotient- 'I Am A Camera' for example...'Machine Messiah' was a great track, but that was the highpoint of the album. Still, it's far better than most Yes stuff since that album. |
) and all of REO Speedwagon's stuff.Posted By: Heptade
Date Posted: September 01 2005 at 15:43
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80s Genesis.
------------- The world keeps spinning, people keep sinning And all the rest is just bullsh*t -Steve Kilbey |
Posted By: AngelRat
Date Posted: September 01 2005 at 15:51
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Any song by ABBA. -------------  |
Posted By: salmacis
Date Posted: September 01 2005 at 17:08
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I have to say The Darkness are pretty cheesy too- the vocals and ideosyncratic lyrics make it a parody, even if they vehemently deny they are a parody. Indeed, they have been in vicious slanging matches with Bon Jovi about their credibility (which I consider the pot calling the kettle black to be honest- I actually prefer The Darkness to Bon Jovi anyway..) and Lemmy of Motorhead (but Lemmy is a 100% rock legend). Elements of heavy metal have always been cheesy- just think of Ian Gillan's stint in Black Sabbath, what with the stonehenge sets and the flying dwarfs and everything, not to mention their album 'Born Again', which is an opus to preposterousness- despite that, I really love it- 'Disturbing The Priest' is one hell of a riff and brilliantly sung by Gillan! Gillan also admits his stint in Sabbath was something of a joke too, which is great! Judas Priest just released a 13 minute ode to the Loch Ness Monster, and again I love it- it has an extremely heavy and slowburning riff. But, the chorus is outrageously bombastic and OTT, and has gained a plethora of damning reviews. Funny- it's my fave track on the album! Iron Maiden, who are one of the more consistent bands in metal, have done some songs bordering on edam in excelsis- 'Bring Your Daughter...To The Slaughter' and 'Women In Uniform'...dear oh dear... Deep Purple's late 80s stuff could be called, to coin a Gong album title, 'Camembert Electrique'- listen to the 'House Of Blue Light' album, with its blustering production and the terrible 'Mad Dog', with a keyboard solo that sounds like it was created using several different telephones... I found some of the last Dream Theater album 'Octavarium' very cheesy- and not in a good way really.
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Priest have done some outrageously cheesy tunes, such as 'Parental Guidance'- which is one of the more horrid songs I've heard by a metal band.Posted By: Citanul
Date Posted: September 02 2005 at 03:13
I have to agree with you on Loch Ness. It's not my favourite song on the album, but I do like it, and don't agree with the bad reviews. ------------- Be or be not. There is no question. - Yoda, Prince of Denmark |
Posted By: Eetu Pellonpaa
Date Posted: September 02 2005 at 03:58
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Posted By: Dragon Phoenix
Date Posted: September 02 2005 at 04:01
There's nothing cheesy about most ABBA songs (I'll grant you I have a dream). Very underestimated band. ------------- Blog this: http://artrock2006.blogspot.com |
Posted By: Matti
Date Posted: September 02 2005 at 05:21
| ABBA has some superb songs! I especially like Visitors , their final album; 'I Let the Music Speak' is nearly symphonic composition, and 'The Day Before You Came' (a single, cd's bonus track) always moves me. It's really nothing to be ashamed of if you like ABBA. |
Posted By: salmacis
Date Posted: September 02 2005 at 08:43
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I'm not an Abba fan at all, but I wouldn't really call it cheesy as such- they did have good musicians in the band and could pen a good pop hook. Genesis in the 1980s defines the term 'cheese'- 'Invisible Touch', 'In Too Deep' and 'Illegal Alien' being the worst offenders. Uriah Heep did quite a few cheesy numbers in the 1980s. Sure, they are my fave band of all, but it's hard to defend rubbish like 'Stay On Top', 'Weekend Warriors' or 'Rockerama', where they seemed to turn into a Def Leppard tribute act. Ah, Def Leppard- one of cheesiest rock bands ever, but that is their appeal, and they have no pretension of being serious. 'When Love And Hate Collide' is perhaps the most ham, and cheese, filled sandwich of a ballad, but everything I've heard of theirs, such as 'Let's Get Rocked', is dumb in the extreme. Still, I do own their greatest hits CD
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Posted By: spectral
Date Posted: September 02 2005 at 08:48
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Be very ASHAMED if you are an ABBA fan. ------------- "...misty halos made visible by the spectral illumination of moonshine." |
Posted By: Eetu Pellonpaa
Date Posted: September 02 2005 at 12:03
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I first misheard that they sing "Viking Warriors". "See the angels fly..." |
Posted By: Ed_The_Dead
Date Posted: September 02 2005 at 12:11
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Well Symphony X is a bit Cheesy, but awesome neverthless Some may like Rhapsody but If You find Symph X a bit cheesy, don't touch that even with a stick! You shall drown in the neverending ocean of cheese... ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/ed_the_dead/?chartstyle=asimpleblue5"> 
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Posted By: Wolf Spider
Date Posted: September 02 2005 at 14:35
You have to be kidding me Symphony X cheesy?  Have you heard them? Spock`s Beard - now that`s what I call cheesy but I like it ------------- http://www.lastfm.pl/user/tomash33 - Last.fm |
Posted By: Ed_The_Dead
Date Posted: September 02 2005 at 16:10
Of course they are a bit cheesy with their fanatsy filled progressive power metal ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/ed_the_dead/?chartstyle=asimpleblue5">
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Posted By: Wolf Spider
Date Posted: September 03 2005 at 08:09
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Every (well almost every) power metal band is fantasy filled...
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Posted By: Ed_The_Dead
Date Posted: September 03 2005 at 08:46
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So You came to the conclusion Yourself! ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/ed_the_dead/?chartstyle=asimpleblue5">
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Posted By: KoS
Date Posted: September 04 2005 at 04:55
| rhapsody is really cheesy but there so cool. without the cheese its just bland |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: September 04 2005 at 12:19
early Manowar is the cheesyest thing on the planet, but I quite enjoyed their albums as a kid... ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: salmacis
Date Posted: September 04 2005 at 16:46
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Ian Gillan with Black Sabbath doing 'Black Sabbath' the song, live in concert. The original version from 1970 was a genuinely chilling, atmospheric song, with a beneficially underplayed vocal by Ozzy Osbourne, which adds to the pathos. However, when Gillan got hold of it, he turned it into a laugh fest- literally. He cackles through most of it like a possessed witch, and Bev Bevan was somewhat lost on the drums as well. By the way, I should add I actually do like some of those 'hair metal' bands I poked fun at earlier, but the cheese value is hard to ignore. Whitesnake: don't get me wrong, I think they are a FANTASTIC band, with David Coverdale who I reckon was one of the best singers that ever lived. But some of the lyrics and album titles- sample; 'Slide It In', 'Come An' Get It'- even the covers (check out 'Love Hunter'!) were just ridiculous bordering on the hilarious! This of course adds to the entertainment value! The Scorpions also were in a similar vein, and there have been few bands cheesier in the metal genre- the album titles such as 'Lovedrive' and the vocals of the nasal/helium enhanced Klaus Meine, lent them a hilarity value. But again, I love their music! I believe Saxon also did a tour of the album 'Crusader' complete with a cardboard set of a castle on the stage too. Little wonder it's been claimed that Saxon were the main inspiration for Spinal Tap! Rainbow's Dio period is doubtless slightly comedic to some, but nothing compared to what followed, with Graham Bonnet delivering one of the ultimate cheese rock anthems ever in 'All Night Long'- one of the dumbest songs ever! Angel Witch, a much maligned NWOBHM band, did a song of the same name with a hilarious chorus of 'You're an Angelwitch, YOU'RE AN ANGELWITCH!' like it was in a football stadium, and as if it made sense! |
Posted By: Trotsky
Date Posted: September 12 2005 at 00:28
The Bangles' Different Light ... is full of cheesy songs like Manic Monday and Walk Like An Egyptian ... I can sing along to every on that album though ...  ------------- "Death to Utopia! Death to faith! Death to love! Death to hope?" thunders the 20th century. "Surrender, you pathetic dreamer.” "No" replies the unhumbled optimist "You are only the present." |
Posted By: acheron
Date Posted: September 13 2005 at 01:02
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Scorpions but hey even Sails of Charon has a prog sound to it, and Uli Jon Roth kicks ass |