OT - What is a song you cannot stand from an artist you love?
Not a Rod Stewart fan at all. I'm indifferent about most of his music, but I hate Maggie May more than almost anything in this world.
Most rock n roll bands, or artists in this case, failed miserably trying to stay relevant during the disco era.
Everything by Weezer after Blue album and Pinkerton, spare a few recent songs.
I did not expect to see any Weezer comments on here. I'm a big Weezer fan and agree that Blue and Pinkerton were their peak, but there are a lot of good songs on their later albums that are in among the filler.
Island in the Sun
Keep Fishin
Pork and Beans
My Best Friend
The Other Way
The Prettiest Girl in the Whole Wide World
Put Me Back Together
I Want You To
Go Away
(Girl We Got A) Good Thing
Endless Bummer
Several of their covers (Paranoid, Mr. Blue Skies, Stand by Me)
Beverly Hills is objectively terrible and they should have lost their right to record music for it.
No music is objectively terrible. It's meant to entertain and if it entertains someone, good for them. It's not that serious.
I am also a major, major Weezer fan and although I agree that their first two albums were their best, they made a TON of great music after that. The Red Album is fantastic start to finish, I thought the White Album was a lot of fun in a Beach Boys kind of way and Make Believe has a lot of good jams on it, even if you hate Beverly Hills (which I don't, but it's definitely meant to be the "poppy radio song" on the album, there's a place for that).
If we want to go really deep, check out some Weezer B-sides because they're great.
I'm a huge phish fan but there isn't a single song in their catalog that will suck the energy out of a room like Joy, a song trey wrote to memorialize his sister dying of cancer.
I get it, losing a family member young to cancer is horrible, and as an artist he can and should use his music to remember her and process his grief. But literally every time they play it the crowd energy dies entirely and is unable to be resuscitated.
I even saw a show in Philly in, I wanna say 2010, where the encore was just a standalone Joy. That's the kind of shit that will make you, as an audience member, feel like you fucked up somehow.
Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
Dear Phish Phan, someone's written a play about the action / activities / hanging-out-ness in parking lots of fans who follow the band.
Wait huh? What's all this then?
It was about 10 years ago, a student production at Northwestern. An older student who'd been following Phish for years, maybe selling t-shirts to make a living, had written the play about his memories of life in those arena parking lots. Most of what I remember is that they couldn't use Phish music without paying so they had to create Phish-sounding music.
Rush - Roll the Bones.
Rush rapping is an idea that should have never seen the light of day.
This is a great answer. Peak RUSH is some of the best rock/prog rock there's ever been, but some of that later stuff is pretty rough.
They remain #2 all time behind Zeppelin for me.
I have trouble listening to Rush because I can't get past my hatred for that song. Just an awful song.
WHAT?! THAT SONG KICKS SOME GLUDIOUS MAX!
"under the bridge" by red hot chili peppers. Give me anything from the album "by the way" over that overplayed song.
I don't know; I feel like that song was the greatest song of the 90's (or in the conversation, at least).
You're right that it became overplayed and stale, but that was because it was so popular to begin with. I've listened to that song a million times, but I still can't bring myself to skip over it when it comes on Pandora.
Pinch Me, by The Barenaked Ladies
Ugh. Yes.
Money by Pink Floyd
Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash
New car, caviar, four star daydream
Think I'll buy me a football team
Sacrilege!!!
I played the saxophone ? (soprano, alto, mostly tenor, even some baritone sax) for years and years, and the saxophone solo in "Money" (originally played by Dick Parry on the Eclipse album) still blows me away every time I hear it. As much as I tried and tried, I never could get that sound.
Not to mention the soaring, searing guitar solo that follows, by David Gilmour.
Boo this man
Captain Jack by Billy Joel. I celebrate the man's entire catalogue (almost) and Captain Jack is actually a pretty good song, musically speaking, I just can't stand how fucking depressing it is.
“You just sit at home and masturbate” is my anthem though! Vienna and don’t ask me why are two of my favorites. Uptown girl and we didn’t start the fire our god awful. He’s just a great person, too.
We Didn't Start The Fire is bloody awful, as is We Built This City (Starship, and not even Jefferson Starship because someone associated with Jefferson Airplane got wind of that song and said, take my name off, stat).
I am incapable of listening to Uptown Girl without singing along to it. It's one of the best. Top 5 Billy Joel along with Piano Man, the massively underrated Downeaster Alexa and the even more vastly, criminally underrated Blonde Over Blue.
I can never decide which is the other top 5. There are about 15 top 5 Billy Joel songs.
"Lola" by the Kinks
Girls will be boys and boys will be girls
It's a mixed up, muddled up, shook up world, except for Lola
I don't care about the lyrics or the subject, I just think musically it's crap and a huge departure from what made the Kinks an awesome band in the first place.
I've never been one to take music to seriously. I either like a song or I don't. I don't care how much it is played or if "radio" ruined it.
But this topic made laugh, because of my sister. She is the biggest Bob Seager fan I've ever seen, but whenever "Old Time Rock & Role" is played she says that she can't stand it and Seager sold out for radio success.
So every time I'm around her I say "Alexa, play Old Time Rock & Roll by Bob Seager" just to get her goat.
It’s a good thing Alexa doesn’t need to spell. Ha.
See, I'm not a fan of groups or artists, if I like a song I like a song. Also, I don't understand paying money to see someone sing in concert. Big waste of time IMO.
i'm sorry that your opinion is incorrect.
concerts are phenomenal and I go to a number of them a year. Great way to see live music and spend memorable time with loved ones.
I've taken my kids to see Chili Peppers, Pearl Jam, Gwar, System of a Down, Tool, Motionless in White, Ghost, Attila, .... plus many many many more. All are memorable occasions we still talk about when sitting around a bonfire years later.
I agree, taking my daughter, her fiance and my granddaughter to see ZZ Top (I've seen them before), John Fogerty (w/at least his son Tyler and probably also his other 2 kids ---they usually all 3 tour with him in the summer) and George Thorogood & The Destroyers. Outdoors at Soaring Eagle this Saturday, can't wait.
I'll be attending my first concert since seeing Bob Dylan and a month later Mott The Hoople shortly before the pandemic. Longest concert dry spell for me in decades is about to end!
Nice. I took my daughter to Vans warped tour a few years running. My son and I have seen Pink Floyd twice (well, technically one Gilmour concert and one Waters concert but all they played was Floyd songs).
My wife and I have tickets to see Black Crowes in August. I saw them in 1994 when they toured with Lollapalooza, but she's never seen them.
We're also going to see Nine Inch Nails in September. It's a local gig for as Reznor from the area. Hoping for one more concert this year.
Last year had Foo Fighters (whole family) and Rage Against the Machine (my brother and I) on the docket until Covid messed it all up.
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I hear ya.
We had tickets to see Roger Waters last year in Detroit and it got cancelled (or "postponed", as they have termed it) due to covid. I've essentially given up on seeing it rescheduled and haven't even bothered checking in a very long time.
The Roger Waters show in Detroit is July 23, 2022.
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IT IS??? Thank you!!
WOO-HOO, gonna make arrangements for that one tonight!
Did you catch it's NEXT YEAR? Just want to double check.
I have not got mine ticket yet but I know I will.
I saw him when he was performing The Wall and it was really good.
Yes, and I just texted out a couple alerts.
Again, much appreciated info!
(edit: I also see on that link that Genesis will be there on 11/29/21, plus a couple other concerts of interest. That Genesis show, (unless I find them somewhere closer, such as GR) is now on my must-see list.)
I took my son to Lollapalooza when he was around 12. Just during the day, so it was pretty tame, behavior-wise. I took him to see The Cars and he showed me some crazy DJ show with flashing lights and seizure-inducing musical noise. I don't really know what it was. But it was good to share music.
That....is certainly a take.
Holy shit dude, hit yourself in the head with a dictionary.
She's right!
This was the first song I thought of. I love Seger and Live Bullet is easily the album I listen to most, but I hate Old Time Rock and Roll.
Misunderstood by Wilco
i find many of the responses here interesting its not that many of these were bad songs, but rather too many other people liked them and therefore they were overplayed. that is what listening to a classic radio station is by definition. funny.
I get really frustrated by classic rock stations. It's such a massive genre, and they limit themselves to playing the same songs every day.