Posted: 16 Dec 2008, 07:49
I felt like making my own thread for this same idea, but reviving this one was probably the better option.
Anyway, I'm usually pretty positive about almost all eurobeat, but I can't love 'em all. To make my high appreciation for the better side of eurobeat a little more present (and also since I never posted in this topic before), I'm gonna prove how much I am capable of disliking a eurobeat song and list my bottom 10 least favorite eurobeat songs of all time with comments:
10. Stimulation / Go Go Girls: It just feels like there's no clear melody at all, just some tacky-sounding lyrics and impressively mediocre backgrounds. It seems to just drag on and on, with me quietly waiting for it to finally end.
9. Hi Energy / Disco Vega: Okay, this track actually has some potential, since the melody is pretty nice. Unfortunately, the sole aspect that makes this one of the worst eurobeat tracks ever for me is the lack of a complete soundworld. The whole package feels as dry as the Sahara Desert, probably because the emphasis is put almost entirely upon the percussion and not the melodic elements. It doesn't really even matter how much everything else works, since the synths and vocals are so non-prominent and backed off by the garage-quality sounds that they wash away as if they weren't even there. This one really left me feeling unsatisfied.
8. Creatures / Lara: The vocals in this track are so terrible, it's hilarious. She sounds like she hasn't taken a single English lesson in her entire life and is strictly reading her lines phonetically. The song itself is ugly enough, but even considering the fact that this woman is Japanese, her pronunciation is definitely miles away from the same league as that of Ai Yamamato or Dr.'s Girl. How this song was ever even released is quite beyond me, as its production values are truly rock-bottom and it's without a doubt the worst Saifam eurobeat track I've ever heard.
7. Back To The Rising Sun / Powerful T.: This song has absolutely NO substance at all. This here, in my opinion, was the starting point of A-Beat C's infamous slump that lasted from the late 170's and into the 180's. Usually a eurobeat song has at least something in it that brings it to life, but not in this case. The synths and production values are amazingly poor, and the melody is so forgettable and nonexistant I can barely remember how the whole track goes, even after looping parts of it several times. It doesn't manage to spark up a single feeling for me except for dry boredom.
6. Lost In The World / Karen: Again, same rules that applied to BTTRS also apply to this track. There whole production feels completely spiritless. Even with some slightly better sounds, this track still falls flat due to its insipid, dull melodic progression that does absolutely nothing to grab my attention while my minds just stalls around, waiting for the next track.
5. Pun Pun Beam / Cindy: This song is basically to me as poor Pagal is to almost everyone else. I usually adore the wild craziness that Live Music Studio injects into their productions, but in Pun Pun Beam, it just doesn't work in any way to me. Where to begin? The intro - it's just unbearably annoying with those pointless "pun pun beam, ba-ba-pun pun beam"'s, plus a rap from Roberto Festari that does nothing except add to it. The rest? Not any better. The melodic progression in this track is insideously random from start to finish; I can't even directly point out any particular key that it's following, as everything is just flushed away in one huge gigantic mess of awfully trebbly synths, unmelodic vocals, and a bunch of notes that feel really out-of-tune and don't form any kind of cohension at all. It's really quite a shame, since Cindy is otherwise one of Hi-NRG Attack's best and most rewarding female aliases, but Pun Pun Beam is definitely quite a train wreck of a song that in my opinion should have never seen the light of day.
4. Bad Boys / Matt Land: Aaargh, to quote myself from a previous episode of SEPH, this song is "CRAP"! I don't want to even take this awful travesty seriously, as I know that the same man behind such classics as Killer Queen, Fever The Night, Captain Fantastic, and Night Flight To Tokyo is worth soooo much more than what this garbage represents.
3. People Like Dancing / Mega NRG Man: I honestly don't even need to comment on this one, as it's already quite obvious that I despise it with a passion. When even the most tremendous fans of Tomas Marin (including myself) find this track to be a tremendous disaster, that's really saying a lot about how much Rodgers & Co. slipped up with this track.
2. You Got Me Spellbound / Leslie Parrish: This song is one of the most prominent reasons I consider SEB 114 to be among the worst Super Eurobeat albums ever released. This track makes This Love look like a timeless masterpiece. I really don't know how Leonardi could screw up Leslie Parrish so badly, but this is proof. What happened? He was still on fire only a year earlier, with epic classics such as Speedway and In The Heart Of Rome, and the fact that he slumped this badly only makes me wonder what he was on when he created this terrible mess. Calling this badly-produced is an understatement; that synthline makes me feel physically sick. I fail to see anything except chaos beyond some muted trumpet randomly thrown in for effect behind a bunch of overstated, non-melodic synth hits. Again, there's virtually no melodic life or cohension in this entire production, but the fact that it's so horribly produced causes it to sound that much worse. Nothing here even makes any remote sense, as the whole package just feels like a bunch of terrible ideas simultaneously samwhiched together into what is apparently a "song".
1. The Cherry Song That Shall Not Be Named: I don't want to even get started with this one. If you want a hint, it was produced at around the same time as You Got Me Spellbound, hence the fact that the production values are so amazingly bad. Unlike the previous song I mentioned, this one actually does have a melody, but it really only adds to the soppy wimpiness it falls for. The synths here are just so disgustingly shrill and badly-developed that it just causes every aspect of the production to sound terrible. This song brings nothing except pain to my ears whenever I listen to it.
Anyway, I'm usually pretty positive about almost all eurobeat, but I can't love 'em all. To make my high appreciation for the better side of eurobeat a little more present (and also since I never posted in this topic before), I'm gonna prove how much I am capable of disliking a eurobeat song and list my bottom 10 least favorite eurobeat songs of all time with comments:
10. Stimulation / Go Go Girls: It just feels like there's no clear melody at all, just some tacky-sounding lyrics and impressively mediocre backgrounds. It seems to just drag on and on, with me quietly waiting for it to finally end.
9. Hi Energy / Disco Vega: Okay, this track actually has some potential, since the melody is pretty nice. Unfortunately, the sole aspect that makes this one of the worst eurobeat tracks ever for me is the lack of a complete soundworld. The whole package feels as dry as the Sahara Desert, probably because the emphasis is put almost entirely upon the percussion and not the melodic elements. It doesn't really even matter how much everything else works, since the synths and vocals are so non-prominent and backed off by the garage-quality sounds that they wash away as if they weren't even there. This one really left me feeling unsatisfied.
8. Creatures / Lara: The vocals in this track are so terrible, it's hilarious. She sounds like she hasn't taken a single English lesson in her entire life and is strictly reading her lines phonetically. The song itself is ugly enough, but even considering the fact that this woman is Japanese, her pronunciation is definitely miles away from the same league as that of Ai Yamamato or Dr.'s Girl. How this song was ever even released is quite beyond me, as its production values are truly rock-bottom and it's without a doubt the worst Saifam eurobeat track I've ever heard.
7. Back To The Rising Sun / Powerful T.: This song has absolutely NO substance at all. This here, in my opinion, was the starting point of A-Beat C's infamous slump that lasted from the late 170's and into the 180's. Usually a eurobeat song has at least something in it that brings it to life, but not in this case. The synths and production values are amazingly poor, and the melody is so forgettable and nonexistant I can barely remember how the whole track goes, even after looping parts of it several times. It doesn't manage to spark up a single feeling for me except for dry boredom.
6. Lost In The World / Karen: Again, same rules that applied to BTTRS also apply to this track. There whole production feels completely spiritless. Even with some slightly better sounds, this track still falls flat due to its insipid, dull melodic progression that does absolutely nothing to grab my attention while my minds just stalls around, waiting for the next track.
5. Pun Pun Beam / Cindy: This song is basically to me as poor Pagal is to almost everyone else. I usually adore the wild craziness that Live Music Studio injects into their productions, but in Pun Pun Beam, it just doesn't work in any way to me. Where to begin? The intro - it's just unbearably annoying with those pointless "pun pun beam, ba-ba-pun pun beam"'s, plus a rap from Roberto Festari that does nothing except add to it. The rest? Not any better. The melodic progression in this track is insideously random from start to finish; I can't even directly point out any particular key that it's following, as everything is just flushed away in one huge gigantic mess of awfully trebbly synths, unmelodic vocals, and a bunch of notes that feel really out-of-tune and don't form any kind of cohension at all. It's really quite a shame, since Cindy is otherwise one of Hi-NRG Attack's best and most rewarding female aliases, but Pun Pun Beam is definitely quite a train wreck of a song that in my opinion should have never seen the light of day.
4. Bad Boys / Matt Land: Aaargh, to quote myself from a previous episode of SEPH, this song is "CRAP"! I don't want to even take this awful travesty seriously, as I know that the same man behind such classics as Killer Queen, Fever The Night, Captain Fantastic, and Night Flight To Tokyo is worth soooo much more than what this garbage represents.
3. People Like Dancing / Mega NRG Man: I honestly don't even need to comment on this one, as it's already quite obvious that I despise it with a passion. When even the most tremendous fans of Tomas Marin (including myself) find this track to be a tremendous disaster, that's really saying a lot about how much Rodgers & Co. slipped up with this track.
2. You Got Me Spellbound / Leslie Parrish: This song is one of the most prominent reasons I consider SEB 114 to be among the worst Super Eurobeat albums ever released. This track makes This Love look like a timeless masterpiece. I really don't know how Leonardi could screw up Leslie Parrish so badly, but this is proof. What happened? He was still on fire only a year earlier, with epic classics such as Speedway and In The Heart Of Rome, and the fact that he slumped this badly only makes me wonder what he was on when he created this terrible mess. Calling this badly-produced is an understatement; that synthline makes me feel physically sick. I fail to see anything except chaos beyond some muted trumpet randomly thrown in for effect behind a bunch of overstated, non-melodic synth hits. Again, there's virtually no melodic life or cohension in this entire production, but the fact that it's so horribly produced causes it to sound that much worse. Nothing here even makes any remote sense, as the whole package just feels like a bunch of terrible ideas simultaneously samwhiched together into what is apparently a "song".
1. The Cherry Song That Shall Not Be Named: I don't want to even get started with this one. If you want a hint, it was produced at around the same time as You Got Me Spellbound, hence the fact that the production values are so amazingly bad. Unlike the previous song I mentioned, this one actually does have a melody, but it really only adds to the soppy wimpiness it falls for. The synths here are just so disgustingly shrill and badly-developed that it just causes every aspect of the production to sound terrible. This song brings nothing except pain to my ears whenever I listen to it.