"The worst song that everyone likes ever"

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

katstevens said this about "House Of The Rising Sun"

But what's your nomination?

Comments

[strange-powers.livejournal.com]

I tend to think the song has been bound up in the context of the author for you, whereas most people are hearing it as a pop record first and a document of its own birth second. I totally agree that Curtis is a one-note performer, but if you hit a note that no-one ever really has before then you're worthy of attention. Love Will Tear Us Apart is notable because it is the junction of the destructive post-punk Joy Division were so great at, and the modern rock song.

I also suspect that the song you want would not have been the success that LWTUA has continued to be. The song sounds like a struggle for expression, like a fight to get a point across when there's no longer impetous to do so, but it sounds like pop most of all. The fumbling and mumbling, the hopelessness of the song is the very aspect that catches the imagination, not Curtis' suicide, and on that point I must refute the allegation of incompetence. It's their sound. And I honestly couldn't begin to give a stuff about the issues between the band members if something this great came out of their strife.