Part 2 of my conversation with guest Phil Stacey about bad songs from good artists. Listen to the episode below or download directly (right click and "save as").
Show notes:
- Songs we hate by artists we love
- Phil's #6: U2 makes a misstep
- Bono's talking tough
- Jay's #6: A #1 hit from Cheap Trick featuring outside songwriters
- The power ballad became huge for hard rock bands
- Phil's #5: AC/DC hits it big after losing their singer
- Jay's #5: When the biggest band tries to get weird
- Phil's #4: When GNR decided to cover Dylan
- They had lots of bad covers
- Jay's #4: When Aerosmith hit #1 with a soundtrack ballad
- Late-period Aerosmith is tough to take
- Phil's #3: The Smiths get preachy about animal rights
- Let's hear it for Bovine University
- Morrissey with ham-fisted lyrics about vegetarianism
- Jay's #3: R.E.M. had a couple of stinkers
- A version of the song ended up on Sesame Street
- Phil's #2: Punk rock upstarts go acoustic
- Green Day ended up becoming very mainstream
- Jay's #2: Bowie and Jagger with a very '80s abomination of a cover
- Video premiered during Live Aid
- Phil's #1: A definitive low for the Police at their most successful time
- Andy Summers wrote some bad songs every so often
- Jay's #1: Genesis with an all-timer of an offensive song
- The video alone is brutal
- Blame it on Mike Rutherford
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The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Voiceover work is courtesy of James Gralian.
