The Friday Canon

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

It wasn't Simply Red. Sorry.


You have SEVEN ticks from the Red Hot Chili Peppers' surprisingly large range of UK Top 40 hits. Use them wisely.

[Poll #995309]

Normal canon service is resumed next week!

Comments

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

You have got to be kidding me.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

P.S. Tom - you have gmail at the LoP address. Help needed!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

21 hits :(

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Yes - sorry - been in a lot of meetings! I can definitely have a look for it tomorrow.

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

I'm going to be the only person voting here, aren't I?

A criminal writes

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

This WAS going to be the M4n1cs canon but then my meetings went ON and ON and I thought, right, I'm not going to have time for actual conversation, and why should anyone else be happy?

Re: A criminal writes

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

You forgot their latest single, which missed the top 40. It was called - this is the only reason I noticed it lurking ominously in the top 75 in recent weeks - it was called, ahem, BUMP DI HUMP.

[whalefish.livejournal.com]

I have trouble telling one Chilis song from another. Everything from 1999 to 2007 merges into one big musical shit.

[lockedintheatti.livejournal.com]

I managed two, to my eternal shame.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I think this is the only band where I genuinely couldn't pick any. I COULD assume the ones I don't know aren't as bad as "Fly away on my zephyr", for instance, but then they are by the band who made that, so who really knows?

Could it happen again?

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Is there a band with a certain amount of cult appeal now who could go on to sell massive amounts for the next decade and a half a la RHCP?

[lockedintheatti.livejournal.com]

I know poptimism means you shouldn't be embarrassed about liking things, but liking the Zephyr Song is one of the few where I really do. This place is about the only place I'd admit to it too. I'm not even sure why I like it, I actively loathe 99% of the rest of their output.

Re: Could it happen again?

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Oh my god Razorlight.

Okay now seriously

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

Could people start forming sentences regarding the hate?

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

RHCP are the band that keep getting mentioned as a kind of test case for "poptimism" i.e. they're very genuinely popular and I absolutely cannot stand them or see anything redeeming in them. I have to concede that if Poptimism means "finding value in what's popular" then RHCP defeat me, but luckily I don't think it is that (or at least I hope not).

Re: Okay now seriously

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Can I fob you off with a wordless howl of anguish?

Re: Okay now seriously

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

If you need a specific test case, try Can't Stop (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7iiF8U6y_U).

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

There are none I could bring myself to tick but RHCP aren't anywhere the nadir of pop music! They've never enraged me as much as MANY other bands have.

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

(i've said this before elsewhere...)

about 2 years ago my sister suddenly said 'thanks for telling me about the red hot chilli peppers, i love them... etc'

she was CONVINCED that i had been raving to her about them. bonkers in the nut.

Demurs

[koganbot]

The terrible thing is that I've never been able to form my dislike into a hatred.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

There are people who have released worse records than anything by the RHCP, and there are probably people who have had short worse careers, but nobody who has gone on for this length of time at this consistency of badness.

[justfanoe.livejournal.com]

Egad, you lied! This canon IS of a dread and dark nature.

All of my friends in high school loved "Scar Tissue", which I always hated. It's worth mentioning that some of RHCP's earlier work, like that guitar song wot Crazytown sampled, are much better than a lot of the stuff here. I managed to tick "Give It Away", and even that was a fairly borderline tick, but it's got a nice guitar and nice energy.

Re: Okay now seriously

[koganbot]

You see, this song isn't totally uncatchy, the performance is endearingly clumsy, it could be the bright spot in a high-school talent show (God, I sound like Simon Cowell here), but, you know, hearing it twice would simply be time stolen from my life that I would never get back.

[koganbot]

At 8:40 AM Mountain Daylight Time, "Give It Away" has taken a commanding lead (of three ticks). Can "Under The Bridge" mount a comeback?

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

OASIS