@fmf saidPretty much any mix of songs by the Electric Light Orchestra post the 1979 Discovery album.
What would be a really bad setlist by one of your favourite bands?
In fact I challenge other posters to come up with such a clear and instant decline in quality as Jeff Lynne managed after that disc.
03 Sep 20
@fmf saidChina Girl?
David Bowie in 1990
Laughing Gnome
God Only Knows
Loving The Alien
Dancing With The Big Boys
Win
Right
New York's in Love
Can You Hear Me?
China Girl
Zeroes
Glass Spider
87 and Cry
Bang Bang
Not his greatest (and I prefer Iggy Pop's original) but doesn't deserve to be on your list.
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03 Sep 20
@fmf saidMost of these tracks are covers, when the Beatles were getting into their muse. Not a lot wrong with most of their cover versions.
The Beatles early 60s
Road Runner
Some Other Guy
Love Me Do
A Taste of Honey
Like Dreamers Do
Ask Me Why
Dream Baby (How Long Must I Dream)
A Picture of You
Please Mr. Postman
Sheila
I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Cry (Over You)
Twist and Shout
Hello Little Girl
Why is your Bowie playlist referenced as '1990'? Is there nothing post 90 that warrants inclusion? Or possibly too much!
I agree with Wolfie that China Girl's inclusion is probably a tad harsh. Mind you, I am of the opinion that Bowie's best work by far started with Hunky Dory, and ended with Aladdin Sane. However, I would include 'Watch That Man', the first track from the latter in your list, as Bowie's vocals are bizarrely almost mixed out.
To add to the thread, I would say 'almost anything by The Police that wasn't a single'
04 Sep 20
@blood-on-the-tracks saidWhat's your bad Bowie setlist?
I agree with Wolfie that China Girl's inclusion is probably a tad harsh.
Be as harsh as you see fit.
https://www.mixcloud.com/Box39/119-box-39-presents-guppys-onion-box-of-big-red-records-02-losing-david/
@blood-on-the-tracks saidOne of my favourite Bowie tracks from that era, despite a sub-par mix. There's no reason to think his vocals would be "bizarrely almost mixed out" when he played it live.
I would include 'Watch That Man', the first track from the latter in your list, as Bowie's vocals are bizarrely almost mixed out.
04 Sep 20
@blood-on-the-tracks saidDavid Bowie in 1981 (much more difficult than the previous setlist)
Why is your Bowie playlist referenced as '1990'? Is there nothing post 90 that warrants inclusion? Or possibly too much!
Running Gun Blues
Yassassin
Fascination
Art Decade
Scream Like a Baby
Somebody Up There Likes Me
Moss Garden
Letter to Hermione
Song for Bob Dylan
Weeping Wall
Black Country Rock
An Occasional Dream
Subterraneans
@wolfgang59 saidWhat deserves to be on your list?
China Girl?
Not his greatest (and I prefer Iggy Pop's original) but doesn't deserve to be on your list.
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04 Sep 20
This set of woeful "Bubblegum Country" songs:
Billy Ray Cyrus
- "Achy Breaky Heart"
Brooks and Dunn
- "Boot Scootin' Boogie"
The Oakridge Boys
- "Elvira"
Jimmy Buffet
- "Why Don't We Get Drunk and Screw"
The Irish Rovers
- "Wasn't That a Party"
Eddie Rabbit
- "I Love a Rainy Night"
Toby Keith
- "Red Solo Cup"
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@fmf saidIt's hard to imagine a bad Beatles song. I suppose "Revolution#9" fits. But "Some Other Guy"?
The Beatles early 60s
Road Runner
Some Other Guy
Love Me Do
A Taste of Honey
Like Dreamers Do
Ask Me Why
Dream Baby (How Long Must I Dream)
A Picture of You
Please Mr. Postman
Sheila
I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Cry (Over You)
Twist and Shout
Hello Little Girl
That's one of their earliest live recordings and I think it rocks!
04 Sep 20
@wolfe63 saidLive setlists aside, if I were making a compilation, I'd draw a track or two from each of A Hard Day's Night (1964), Beatles for Sale (1964) and Help! (1965), but I think their more indispensable albumful-type greatness started with Rubber Soul (end of 1965) and Revolver (1966).
It's hard to imagine a bad Beatles song.
If they had played a gig in, say, October 1965, I'd have handed them this setlist:
A Hard Day's Night
If I Fell
Help!
Eight Days a Week
You've Got to Hide Your Love Away
Ticket to Ride
All My Loving
And I Love Her
Yesterday
Can't Buy Me Love
Nothing from the first two albums