All things bright and beautiful.
Not quite a song , but I loathe it with a passion
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Try this version. Perhaps a bit too much audience participation but has a well deserved place in my 2025 favourites playlist.
She does a fab version of Yellow Brick Road on the same album.
Yes, Iām familiar with it but less keen, comes across as a bit too over-wrought to these ears.
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I agree. However, I wish I had written it. Worldwide hit.
I guess you could have a couple of Statements around the house and a Naim system in your Bentley and boat if you had, but imagine the shame of writing such an awful excuse for music 
Worldwide hit yes, hugely popular but I absolutely HATE that song, almost more than Fat Larryās Band singing āZoomā which is also truly awful.
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Many musicians write to try to get hits. Few write purely for artistic enjoyment.so if you score a really big hit, the shame surely is the masses liking it rather than the musician writing it! I have long despaired of the massesā taste in music!
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I agree but Iām not sure if it is CdB or the song or both. A Spaceman came Travelling is equally derisible but this version is sublime
so maybe it is CdB that provokes the pins!
CdB is quite possibly the reasonā¦
Hi @glos_olly
It is not who is singing. It is the insipid, imho, ymmv, lyrics.
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One of several hundred reasons we stopped funding that outlet 15 years ago.
Martin
āDat Dereā, written by Bobby Timmons.
Started out as an instrumental, recorded by Art Blakey among others, when it was tolerable. Once lyrics were added it became unlistenable.
Hey Daddy, whatās dat dere? And whatās dat under dere?
Oh Daddy, oh hey Daddy, hey look at over dere!
And what dey doing dere? And where dey go in dere?
And Daddy can I have dat big elephant over dere?
Iāve been reading this post for a bit. Iāve found myself a bit surprised at some of the songs listed. But each to his own, right. I usually donāt take part in the āwhich band, song donāt you like lists. preferring to stay positive about music because Iām a music lover, not a genre lover. But there is one in particular thatās always made my skin crawl! 
I feel sometimes this all depends on where and when your love for music started. Thatās a big part of it for me and this song. My love of music started in the mid sixties and early seventies becoming a pretty big rock fan. A bit of fusion from the Jazz scene as well as the older folk inspired late sixties movement.
Honestly this song is one of the reasons I stopped listening to the radio. āIām Not in Loveā by 10CC came on and I almost wrecked my car. I felt like I needed to take a shower. After nearly a decade of great music I decided that mankind had lost its collective mind. Iām able to tolerate it today but man talk about sappy! Itās a well recorded album with a clear well defined midrange, I love that. The story of how they came up with the sound is truly interesting. But it still gives me that finger nails on the chalk board response. Yikes! 
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I love that song! There is a great version by Carol Kidd, and an even better one by Emily Masser.
But going back to crap, a version of Stingās awful Fields of Gold by Fourplay came on the radio earlier. Complete and utter drivel. It made me feel quite unwell.
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I think it is a great song by a very inventive group. We are all different.
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I can t really argue. As far as the business of making successful music so you can survive itās brilliant! Like I said I like the sound and how they came up with it. It might be the protagonist or character in the song I donāt care for, what a shitty attitude. But then again he might just be saying that to protect himself. Or to maintain a perceived self image. Then it takes on a completely different perspective.
I rather like this version
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After watching a football team thinking they could defend a 1 goal lead against a quality team I was feeling in a masochistic mood and put on Qobuz 24 hours of pop hits.
And then it came on; Barry Manilow Copacabana - ghastly and an ear worm to boot - so you see, the day could get worseā¦.. Tom.
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Bad but nowhere as bad as I Write the Songs which ironically he didnāt.
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