Terrible Songs in Wonderful Shows (or vice versa)
Terrible Songs in Wonderful Shows (or vice versa)
WiCkEDrOcKS
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
#0Terrible Songs in Wonderful Shows (or vice versa)
Posted: 11/5/05 at 12:32pm
Can you name any really bad songs in great shows or any great songs in really bad shows?
I'm trying to think myself....
Smaxie
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/26/05
#1re: Terrible Songs in Wonderful Shows (or vice versa)
Posted: 11/5/05 at 12:37pm
No beating up on "This Was a Real Nice Clambake" y'all.
As far as a great song in a terrible show, "Here's That Rainy Day" from Carnival in Flanders is way up there...
Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop.
#2re: Terrible Songs in Wonderful Shows (or vice versa)
Posted: 11/5/05 at 12:38pm"Streets of Dublin" from A Man of No Importance. This score does nothing for me, but that song is so thrilling.
"They hear drums, we hear music."- Passion.
#3re: Terrible Songs in Wonderful Shows (or vice versa)
Posted: 11/5/05 at 12:42pmForgive me...I love AIDA...but I couldn't stand "Like Father, Like Son."
"I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about." - Oscar Wilde
#4re: Terrible Songs in Wonderful Shows (or vice versa)
Posted: 11/5/05 at 12:45pmi HATE HATE HATED Aida but loved Every STory
"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed
#5re: Terrible Songs in Wonderful Shows (or vice versa)
Posted: 11/5/05 at 12:48pm
Several songs in "One Night Stand" - including "Don't Kick My Dreams Around" and "There was a time" are great songs in this clunker of a show.
And you can't talk about great songs in bad shows without mentioning Carrie.
And I'll add "Stop Time" from BIG
"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men" - Willy Wonka
#6re: Terrible Songs in Wonderful Shows (or vice versa)
Posted: 11/5/05 at 1:07pm
Bad songs in good shows:
You Won't be an Orphan For Long, ANNIE
Jeanie's Packing Up - BRIGADOON
A Man Doesn't Know - DAMN YANKEES
The Rumor/Topsy Turvey - FIDDLER ON THE ROOF
Henry Street - FUNNY GIRL
Hippie Life - HAIR
Knight of the Woeful Countenance - MAN OF LA MANCHA
My Name - OLIVER
I'll Never Be Jealous Again - THE PAJAMA GAME
Bloody Mary - SOUTH PACIFIC
I Love to Cry at Weddings - SWEET CHARITY
Good songs in bad shows:
The Journey Home - BOMBAY DREAMS
Anthem - CHESS
Everybody's Girl/Final Dance - STEEL PIER
Most of TABOO
Gimme Gimme/Only In New York - THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy."
-Charlie Manson
#7re: Terrible Songs in Wonderful Shows (or vice versa)
Posted: 11/5/05 at 1:10pm
Wonderful- W*cked
I LOVE the score, but I HATE HATE HATE that song!!!
I also like Only in New York, but I think that TMM was a good show.
MARGARET: "Clara, stop that. That's illegal." - The Light in the Piazza
"I'm not in Bambi and I'm not blonde!" - Idina Menzel
Updated On: 11/5/05 at 01:10 PM
"I'm not in Bambi and I'm not blonde!" - Idina Menzel
#8re: Terrible Songs in Wonderful Shows (or vice versa)
Posted: 11/5/05 at 1:11pmBoth of the wizard's songs are god-awful.
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy."
-Charlie Manson
popular_elphie
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/3/05
#9re: Terrible Songs in Wonderful Shows (or vice versa)
Posted: 11/5/05 at 1:12pm
"Rüffhousin' mit Shüffhausen" in DRS - really like the show, hate the song.
I can't think of a bad show at the moment.
#10re: Terrible Songs in Wonderful Shows (or vice versa)
Posted: 11/5/05 at 1:16pm
Munky- i agree with most of what you said except for Night of the Woeful...
i love it
"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed
#11re: Terrible Songs in Wonderful Shows (or vice versa)
Posted: 11/5/05 at 1:38pm
Terrible Song in a Wonderful Show:
"Autumn" from TITANIC
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
#12re: Terrible Songs in Wonderful Shows (or vice versa)
Posted: 11/5/05 at 2:21pm
Great song in a miserable wreck of a show:
"If I Could Fly" from Dracula
"Nothing's lost forever. In this world, there is a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we've left behind, and dreaming ahead." -Tony Kushner's Angels in America
JoMarch
Featured Actor Joined: 9/22/04
#13re: Terrible Songs in Wonderful Shows (or vice versa)
Posted: 11/5/05 at 2:45pm
I really like Dancing All The Time from that awful Big. I also think Someone Like You and Bring on the Men are pretty good songs but the musical they come from is pretty weak. 
#14re: Terrible Songs in Wonderful Shows (or vice versa)
Posted: 11/5/05 at 3:14pm
My Name is a bad song? I always kind of liked it - well, I guess it depends on how it's donet. If the guy playing Bill Sykes is mean enough,and the orchestrator doesn't soften up the "clanging" sounds (forgive me for not knowing the musical term) the song definitely can work.
I'm also surprised you'd say A Man Doesn't Know -- not the best lyrics, but the melody is nice -- it's certainly not a "terrible" song.
I would have to go with:
Clambake (I know, but it IS a terrible song)
Something Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad ('nuff said)
That damn song in Evita that I can't think of the name of on the concept recording (and I think the movie soundtrack) about the bug spray...the name'll come to me....
One More Kiss from Follies (not because it's so bad, but because the rest of the score is so great that the song just drags it down for me)
Good songs in bad shows:
Memory in Cats
About four songs each in Sunset Boulevard and Aspects of Love
Mama A Rainbow in Minnie's Boys (Man was I disappointed when I heard the rest of that score! There were maybe two other songs that were decent, the rest were pretty blah - but Mama a Rainbow is just WOW).
Hi, Shirley Temple Pudding.
#15re: Terrible Songs in Wonderful Shows (or vice versa)
Posted: 11/5/05 at 3:17pmI also like "Rich Is" from Minnie's Boys.
"They hear drums, we hear music."- Passion.
#16re: Terrible Songs in Wonderful Shows (or vice versa)
Posted: 11/5/05 at 4:30pm
I'm going to reiterate a lot of other people's comments, but...
Good songs, bad shows
-Dancing All the Time (Big)
-Memory (Cats)
-A lot of Taboo
Bad songs, good shows
-Lullaby (Scarlet Pimpernel...OK, I think it's a good show)
-I Love to Cry at Weddings (Sweet Charity)
-Something Bad, Wonderful and A Sentimental Man (Wicked)
Extremely unoriginal, I know. Maybe I'll be back :)
#17re: Terrible Songs in Wonderful Shows (or vice versa)
Posted: 11/5/05 at 4:35pmThe Overture / Hushabye Mountain/ Anything Jan Maxwell in Chitty Chitty Bang Me.
"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."
To Kill A Mockingbird
To Kill A Mockingbird
MusicalMan2
Chorus Member Joined: 6/17/05
#18re: Terrible Songs in Wonderful Shows (or vice versa)
Posted: 11/5/05 at 4:40pmum... excuse me, but Throughly Modern Millie and Sunset Blvd are NOT bad shows. They both won the Tony for Best Musical and they were greatly deserved. I just noticed that someone mentioned those shows under their "good songs, bad shows" category.
#19re: Terrible Songs in Wonderful Shows (or vice versa)
Posted: 11/5/05 at 4:48pm
GOOD SONGS/BAD SHOWS
"Way Too Far"~THRILL ME
"Only in New York"~THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE
"On the Farm"~NEW GIRL IN TOWN
"You Won't Succeed On Broadway"~SPAMALOT
"MY Little World" and "Tug Boat"~THOU SHALT NOT
"I Don't Want It"~THE IMMIGRANT
"It's Only Love"~THE SCARLET PIMPERNAL
BAD SONGS/GOOD SHOWS
"Rare Songbirds on Display"~SIDE SHOW
"Second Chance"~STEEL PIER
"The Lady's Paying"~SUNSET BOULEVARD
"Why We Like Spelling"~THE 25TH...BEE (even if it's only on the cast album)
"The More We Dance"~DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS
"Bird Inside the House"~MARIE CHRISTINE (probably the only song LaChiusa's ever written that I dislike)
Updated On: 11/5/05 at 04:48 PM
#20re: Terrible Songs in Wonderful Shows (or vice versa)
Posted: 11/5/05 at 5:04pm
Matter of opinion, Mr. Musical Man. You're excused.
The Overture / Hushabye Mountain/ Anything Jan Maxwell in Chitty Chitty Bang Me.
Are these good songs in a bad show or bad songs in a good show? I hope you mean the former...
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy."
-Charlie Manson
#21re: Terrible Songs in Wonderful Shows (or vice versa)
Posted: 11/5/05 at 5:08pm"Where Was I When They Passed Out Luck?" is a great song from "Minnie's Boys." A lot of the score of the misbegotten Lucille Ball vehicle "Wildcat" is terrific, including the standard "Hey, Look Me Over," "Give a Little Whistle," and "Tall Hope." The Harold Rome score for "Destry Rides Again" (which is not exactly a bad show but is certainly less than wonderful) is magnificent.
#22re: Terrible Songs in Wonderful Shows (or vice versa)
Posted: 11/5/05 at 5:22pm
Bad Songs/Good Shows
-'Wonderful' and 'A Sentimental Man' in Wicked (Although, Joel Grey made 'Wonderful' work live out of sheer personality)
-'Rent' in Rent
-'Dog Eats Dog' in Les Mis
-'Last Night of the World' Miss Saigon
Good Songs/Bad Shows
-'Memory' in Cats
-'Only in New York' in Thoroughly Modern Millie
-'Anthem' in Chess
-'Seeing is Beliveing' in Aspects of Love
It's unoriginal, I know.
Who's stoned? I am merely travelling incognito.
#23re: Terrible Songs in Wonderful Shows (or vice versa)
Posted: 11/5/05 at 6:19pmAw, I don't think "Rent" is a bad song. Actually, it's one of my favorite songs in the score.
A little swash, a bit of buckle - you'll love it more than bread.
roquat
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/25/05
#24re: Terrible Songs in Wonderful Shows (or vice versa)
Posted: 11/5/05 at 11:33pm
Sorry, but I like "Wonderful" from WICKED. I like it a hell of a lot more than just about everything in the second act of that show, except "For Good" and "No Good Deed."
"That's How Young I Feel" is the only clunker in MAME.
"Sarah Brown Eyes" from RAGTIME--it's dull and stops the show dead.
"The Motherhood Song" from HELLO, DOLLY
"Maison des Lunes" from BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
I ask in all honesty/What would life be?/Without a song and a dance, what are we?/So I say "Thank you for the music/For giving it to me."
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