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Glen Campbell — Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives To Me

We interrupt Request Fest to say "Happy birfday, Glen!"

Wowza. "Footage of Glen waiting to shoot his video, Living in a House Full of Love, in Phoenix, circa 1990.

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16 comments to Glen Campbell — Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives To Me

  • E-6

    Glen could have been an auctioneer.

  • speaking of ugly, Blender Magazine has selected our entire lineup of videos for the month of June and half of July.

    • That list instantly loses any kind of credibility with me when they say they can't understand Loaf's "I'd Do Anything For Love." It's not that hard, folks:

      But I'll never forget the way you feel right now--
      Oh no--no way--
      I would do anything for love
      But I won't do that

      The Loaf would do anything for love, but he would never forget the way you feel right now.

      But I'll never forgive myself if we don't go all the way--
      Tonight--
      I would do anything for love!
      I would do anything for love
      I would do anything for love
      But I won't do that

      The Loaf would do anything for love, but he would never forgive himself if they didn't go all the way.

      But I'll never do it better than I do it with you
      So long--
      So long--
      I would do anything for love
      I would do anything for love
      I would do anything for love
      But I won't do that
      I won't do that

      The Loaf would do anything for love, but he won't do it better than he does it with you.

      But I'll never stop dreaming of you
      Every night of my life--
      No way--

      I would do anything for love
      I would do anything for love
      I would do anything for love
      But I won't do that
      I won't do that!

      The Loaf would do anything for love, but he'll never stop dreaming of you.

      The song is contrived, silly, and frivolous, but it's pretty obvious what Meat Loaf wouldn't do. The whole "but what is it that he wouldn't do?" schtick is a dumb joke that needs to die.

      • I agree that the snark is a bit forced (and stoopid) at points in the piece. I alternated between cringing and nodding.

        • SBG

          I nodded vigorously at #1. The worst of all possible dreck. "We Built this City". Eff you.

        • E-6

          It's a pretty dreadful list, plain and simple. I have two of them, only because they appear on pretty good records: The White Album and Out of Time. I've always been sure to skip over both "Ob La Di" and "Shiny Happy People" whenever I play 'em.

          • SBG

            I've always thought that "SHP" was satire or something. Never understood that one.

            • I've always interpreted SHP as half tongue-in-cheek, half genuine appreciation for simple human enjoyment. I've always thought it was a nice melody either way - I've never had the negative reaction to the song some folks do.

        • Yeah, the list as a whole really isn't that bad, for what it is. My underlying problem with such lists is that they are something like compiling a list of the worst baseball players of all time--and then only including major league ballplayers on the list. I'm millions of times worse than Nick Punto (or Juan Castro, or Willie Bloomquist, or Tony Batista, etc., etc.) at baseball, but I would never get put on such a list because very few people have ever seen me play (and I stopped playing after 8th grade.) A list of the actual 50 worst songs ever wouldn't be any fun, because we probably have each heard very few (if any) of those songs.

          Plus, even if we're limiting ourselves to major label releases, they forgot about this, and pretty much everything in this guy's catalog.

          • I do like some of the songs, and some I like singing along to just because they have good hooks. From a critical perspective, yes, a lot of them are cringe-worthy. But if you sing along really loud, they become more tolerable. It's basically a cheap, but fun, excuse for a column (and really not that deep from a critical perspective). There are certainly worse songs out there even by some of these artists; they just weren't released to the radio.

    • wait...'Sounds of Silence' is considered a bad?

      That list seemed like a list of songs that author did not like, which is different from worst songs ever

      • Which is great. I actually seem to enjoy it more when people don't try and get all high-falutin about their criticisms and just tell me what they like and don't like. But "Worst Songs Ever" is more likely to get readers than "50 Songs This Author Detests"

  • Two words: Muskrat Love.