Dave
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I generally cannot stomach anything by Rod Stewart but since he did one song with The Corrs, I was "forced" to accept at least that. So his song "Ooh La La" from WHEN WE WERE THE NEW BOYS with The Corrs playing backing is at least acceptable.
(But I made sure to purchase a used disc so as not to give the over-rated foghorn any of my money!)
Harry
I had the same attitude when I wanted THE OSBOURNES, the Soundtrack from their TV series complete w/ a Parental Advisory sticker... A used copy has served me well, as though the previous owner stuck in the player and solved whatever bizarre curiosity he had about whatever song/songs were on it just to eschew it... (Daughter Kelly Osbourne's "Papa, Don't Preach", perhaps...?)
My reason for this purchase outside of my listening sphere after Ozzy's tenure/association with Black Sabbath (the only place where I can stand listening to this morbid bat-eater) was the inclusion of Pat Boone who did Osbourne's "Crazy Train" on IN A METAL MOOD: NO MORE MR. NICE GUY, Pat's collection of interpretations of heavy metal songs he did a very credible song of covering... Boone and the Osbourne were briefly next door neighbors as each song on the soundtrack features narrations by Ozzy and family... And bits of Pat Boone's "Crazy Train" were heard and used as pay-on/play-off notes during episodes of the TV show...
Quite a contrast between how Oz sounds of late (the notorious, life-long drinking and drug use & abuse) and how he'd been able to pull it off having an OK voice to have fathered a singing career--his own songs on there ("Dreamer", "Mama, I'm Coming Home" and his own "Crazy Train") are tolerable, at best...
The CD comes with a Greeting Card (Osbourne Greeting Cards) which took me to realize it's perforated portion of the CD booklet, w/ the sentimental message: "I love you more than life itself...but you're f*@%ing mad...--a catch-phrase heard by Ozzy himself, made between an couple of the songs... That luckily got left intact by the disc's former owner...
Some of the other songs there are John Lennon's "Imagine", The Cars' "Drive", Eric Clapton's "Wonderful Tonight", The Kinks' "You Really Got Me", and System Of A Down's cover of Black Sabbath's "Snowblind"... Lastly is a Bonus Track, Chevelle's "Family System"... Luckily all for a fraction of what a new copy would cost, which this store I had bought this at also had, but this used copy had been very well-preserved...
-- Dave