OFF: 10 Most hated
Andrew Apold
mordru at FLITE.NET
Fri Mar 19 22:23:44 EST 1999
>> ah, that song never bothered me. I marginally prefer it to most of
>> the others of that vein, including "Marshall Plan", "Shooting Star",
>> etc.
>"Shooting Shark" is a beautifully written song, great lyrics, GREAT
>guitar work, for a Cult band BÖC has one of the greatest pop artists I
>have ever heard in one Buck Dharma. I think you could easily compare
>"Shooting Shark" to songs like "I Love the Night", "Deadline",the entire
>Flat Out Album, and most definitely "Harvest Moon" from HF, and a few
>more that escape my mind right now :-).
I don't mind Shooting Shark at all. But I was talking about songs of
the "kid discovers guitar, becomes hero and (maybe) dies" variety, and
referring to Bad Company's "Shooting Star", not BOC's "Shooting Shark".
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Andrew Apold
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