Favorite song from a band you know sucks

[justgladtobehere]

How close to real life in Canada is Kids in the Hall? Is it just a bunch of closed off, depressed, heavy drinkers?

 

[garrow]

Supertramp was another band that was really big in Canuckistan compared to the US, my brother was a big fan and played that shit all the time. They have one good song: Goodbye Stranger

Nah, my man. "Child of Vision"!

 

[swingline]

No love for the Logical song?

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

"Every song BYH and @Junkie have ever liked."--90% of the posters at SJ

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

BYH is gonna show up here and fuck this whole place up

Loverboy gets a bad rap for a lot of reasons, some self-inflicted. The songs were never gonna age all that well being sung by a bunch of middle-aged men going by the name Loverboy, especially once Mike Reno's metabolism just stopped working. But they're the musical version of a mid-rotation starter...did what they did well and had enough chops to mix it up and make shit work despite a lack of top-end stuff. The hits are very good and there's a few really good smaller hits and album tracks. "Queen of the Broken Hearts" is an absolute banger.



And they're STILL together with four-fifths of the original band. It'd be five of five but bassist Scott Smith drowned in 2000. They're all pushing or into their 70s (Paul Dean is 78!!!!) but still playing the hits on the club/county fair circuit and as an opener on the shed circuit. That'd be a win even if they didn't have one of the most popular songs of the '80s in their catalogue. I saw them at a fair in 2013 or so and there were a few thousand people who seemed to be having a pretty good time...until the cowbell opened "Workin' For The Weekend," at which point I swear the roar sounded like 20,000 people. That's gotta be the greatest natural drug of all-time, to know you wrote and performed a song that still decades later instantly makes thousands of people happy. Loverboy won, bitches!!!!

 

[garrow]

Too bad they never got a Behind the Music.

"They were the provincial Canadian bar band that once had the whole world working for the weekend. A staple of the early days of MTV, Loverboy quickly racked up a string of big hits and then, just as quickly disappeared. Now, we'll show you how these Calgary rockers did it their way to the top."

 

[justgladtobehere]

VH1 needs to get back to what it was 25 years ago. Behind the Music, reality shows like Bands on the Run and I love the '80's.

 

[jr/shotglass]

First of all, Supertramp fuckin' ruled.

Now, regarding the thread title -- Orleans somehow turned out three excellent hits. Because I was always in awe of how inept they were on any other song.

 

[swingline]

In my day, MTV played music videos — and we liked it!

 

[Huggy]

Too bad they never got a Behind the Music.

"They were the provincial Canadian bar band that once had the whole world working for the weekend. A staple of the early days of MTV, Loverboy quickly racked up a string of big hits and then, just as quickly disappeared. Now, we'll show you how these Calgary rockers did it their way to the top."

Triumph's implosion was awesome and a subject of at least one great Behind the Music-type show as well as - even this guy who couldn't stand them can admit - a fine doc called Rock and Roll Machine.

 

[cyclingwriter2]

Oh Canada.....

Never heard this until about four years ago, but remembered the SCTV version with Moranis, Candy and Levy as preteens playing it. I thought part of the joke was the song was so bad…was surprised to learn it was a real song.

 

[cyclingwriter2]

My addition. Video cracked me up as a kid and still does. The song is a nice little rocker to boot. The follow up was i can't fight this feeling anymore…as a seven year old I was devastated that the band I thought was so great could fall so fast.