Gimme Five

by / on November 7, 2012 at 8:42 am / in Gimme Five, Pop Music, Rock Music, The Sucks Series, Uncategorized

Gimme Five: Songs where Fleetwood Mac, well, sucked

When looking for entries by Fleetwood Mac in Something Else! Reviews’ regular Sucks Series, there was plenty of blame to go around. After all, more than dozen different songwriters have moved through the band’s ranks.

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by / on October 31, 2012 at 7:49 am / in Gimme Five, Holiday Cheer, Pop Music, Rock Music

Gimme Five: Halloween favorites, from Warren Zevon to Talking Heads to Michael Jackson

Stuck for a playlist while you while away the minutes between tonight’s zombie apocalypses? We’re here to help, with a group of songs that matches this holiday’s fun mixture the macabre with the silly.

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by / on October 18, 2012 at 7:50 am / in Folk, Gimme Five, Rock Music, The Sucks Series, Uncategorized

Gimme Five: Songs where Bob Dylan, well, sucked

It is fair to say that the most difficult comparison Bob Dylan ever faces is with his former selves. Still, over the years, there have been some selves that were undoubtedly worse than others.

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by / on September 27, 2012 at 8:30 am / in Gimme Five, Pop Music, Rock Music, The Sucks Series, Uncategorized

Gimme Five: Solo Beatles records that, well, sucked

For all of the promise that greeted their time apart — we’ll get four Beatles albums a year now! — the reality was far different as Paul McCartney, John Lennon and George Harrison embarked on solo careers.

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by / on September 12, 2012 at 8:13 am / in Gimme Five, Progressive rock, Rock Music, Uncategorized

Gimme Five: Solo albums from members of Pink Floyd

Nobody is going to accuse Pink Floyd — whether collectively, or apart — of inundating the market with product. The group has only issued three projects in the last 30 years, while its members have been just as stingy with solo albums.

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by / on August 17, 2012 at 8:21 am / in Gimme Five, Pop Music, Rock Music, The Sucks Series, Uncategorized

Gimme Five: Songs where Supertramp, well, sucked

Supertramp’s golden era is generally understood to have been between 1974-79, spanning Crime of the Century through Breakfast in America. Perhaps predictably, none of our selections come from that period.

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by / on August 10, 2012 at 8:30 am / in Gimme Five, Rock Music, The Sucks Series, Uncategorized

Gimme Five: Songs where Chicago, well, sucked

It would be easy enough to fill this list with songs from Chicago’s turn-of-the-1990s slickster years. And just as easy to heap scorn on their post-Terry Kath slump in the late 1970s. Instead, we did both.

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by / on July 31, 2012 at 8:30 am / in Gimme Five, Progressive rock, Rock Music, The Sucks Series, Uncategorized

Gimme Five: Songs where Genesis, well, sucked

There was the Peter Gabriel era, the Phil Collins-led edition, and then that Ray Wilson album. We’re not getting into which one was better — only when Genesis didn’t quite live up to our expectations.

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by / on July 20, 2012 at 8:21 am / in Gimme Five, Pop Music, Rock Music, The Sucks Series, Uncategorized

Gimme Five: Songs where the Beach Boys, well, sucked

The Beach Boys have been showered with accolades since belatedly reuniting again with Brian Wilson, the results of which became their first original full-length album in decades.

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by / on July 14, 2012 at 7:50 am / in Blues, Gimme Five, Pop Music, Rhythm and Blues, Rock Music, Uncategorized

Gimme Five: All-time favorite posthumously released albums

The news that there could be as many as two more albums from Amy Winehouse, a year after her passing, got us to thinking about posthumous releases.

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