OT - What is a song you cannot stand from an artist you love?
Potentially controversial opinion: I love RATM, but can't stand How I Could Just Kill a Man
We all live in a yellow submarine
Yellow submarine, yellow submarine
We all live in a yellow submarine
Yellow submarine, yellow submarine
- Michigan fans
Love Bob Seger. Hate Old Time Rock and Roll. Also, Rocker from AC/DC and Stan from Eminem. There are plenty more, but those jumped right into my brain as soon as I saw the question.
Nothing Else Matters by Metallica. Unforgiven is not my jam either.
And, of course, the entirety of St. Anger, but that's a given.
"Shakedown" - Bob Seger
His sell out song.
I feel that way about "Like a Rock" but probably because he did sell it. As a former ad person, I think advertising kills songs. For example, whenever I hear Blondie's "One Way or Another," I now think of Swiffer.
Fun fact: It was his only Billboard #1 song.
I rest my case.
What is your case? Do you have a problem with people selling their product? Are you some kind of communist?
Turn on Your Heart Light
Phil Collins, Susudio
Aerosmith, “don’t want to miss a thing.” Such a horrible stain on their catalogue.
Though I generally like Aerosmith, they have quite a few popular songs I'd consider stains on their catalog. Dude Looks Like a Lady, Janie's Got a Gun, Love In an Elevator, Angel, Livin' on the Edge, Crazy, and a few others that will quickly get me changing the dial.
Overplayed, overrated, or both on a lot of their big songs, but they do, to their credit, have a lot of very good albeit more obscure deep cuts.
Janie's Got a Gun never really bothered me, but yeah, we're on the same page. A couple of my faves of theirs that are lesser-known are Movin' Out, Train Kept-a-Rollin, and Uncle Salty.
Pearl Jam…Bugs
Arc & Evacuation are much much worse
While pretty much all later period U2 is very hit or miss for me, I'm going to single out "Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of" because of that horrible fake trumpet sound at the end. I realize this might sound nit-picky and maybe it's just the music major in me, but I was always like, "Guys, you're U2. You can't afford to hire a trumpet player for like 30 seconds of song time??"
Fun fact: I remember buying the album at midnight at that little Tower Records that used to be on State St. back in the day.
Radiohead - Creep
Actually just kidding....as much I've gotten into them and appreciate them and consider them all-time great level, I haven't formed the opinion of the die-hards that that song is horrible and the album almost as bad.
Agreed, it’s actually a good song. I think most die hards like it, just not the album it’s on (Pablo Honey).
Radiohead is my favorite band but there are a few songs I hate, mostly when Thom gets too glitchy. For example, Pull/Pulk Revolving Doors (Ammesiac), The Gloaming (Hail To The Thief), and Feral (The King of Limbs).
Agreed, it’s actually a good song. I think most die hards like it, just not the album it’s on (Pablo Honey). Even Thom and Jonny have come around on it after hating it for a long time.
Radiohead is my favorite band but there are a few songs I hate, mostly when Thom gets too glitchy. For example, Pull/Pulk Revolving Doors (Ammesiac), The Gloaming (Hail To The Thief), and Feral (The King of Limbs).
"Hey Jude"
I don't like skits on rap albums. They're stupid and break up the flow of the album. The best of them are only okay to listen to once, but you're stuck with them forever unless you create a playlist and omit them.
I don't hate these songs but
AC/DC You shook Me All Night Long, Metallica Enter Sandman, Van Helen Jump is over played
Led Zeppelin Kashmir (ducks) I love the music but it's too long.
I'm one of the biggest Fall Out Boy fans, but I absolutely can't listen to My Friends Know What You Did In the Dark or Centuries one more time or my ears will bleed.
The Boss-Tunnel of Love
Queen-Another One Bites The Dust
J.Geils-Freeze Frame,Centerfold
You shook me all night long - AC/DC
so. .... so .... so ... overplayed.
Don’t stop believin’ - Journey
Journey is just plain bad, though
Cure - Friday I’m in Love. They had to have been forced to make that song at gun point. Absolutely the antithesis of a Cure song
Sex hair by mouse rat.
Bruce Springsteen's "Mary Queen of Arkansas"
"Stand" by R.E.M.
Shiny Happy People - R.E.M.
OK. So anybody here old enough to remember Michael O'Donoghue's SNL routine: "This is my impression of Tony Orlando and Dawn with long razor sharp red hot steel needles plunged into his eyeballs"?
Well, that's my reaction every single time I hear "Hey Jude".
Words cannot begin to describe how I detest that song.
Most of you have probably never heard of Melanie. She sang at Woodstock, alone at night in a rainstorm in front of 500,000 people. She was a provisional act, she was not sure she would be called up to sing. When she was called up because the originally scheduled act refused to play in the rain, she was scared to death.
The audience loved scared-to-death Melanie. When it started to rain harder during her set, they lit candles in the rain to overcome the gloom and darkness. When you light a lighter (or your cellphone app flashlight) at a concert, it started with Melanie that night at Woodstock.
She wrote a song about it: Lay Down (Candles in the Rain).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZqE8JubN18
It is one of my favorite songs. It gives me chills.
She is also very charming and appealing, I'm a big fan of hers personally.
On the other hand, it is probably a good thing that most of you have never heard of her. Because she also wrote (IMO) two of the most crap, annoying songs ever: Brand New Key (I've got a brand new pair of roller skates) and What Have They Done to My Song Ma.
These were both B-side / throw-away songs that she wrote quickly, mostly as mindless amusing album filler. But their mindlessness caught on with the zeitgeist of the early '70s, and they became big hits that (regrettably) defined her more than Candles in the Rain. Even she found them annoying.
Unfortunately, you probably have heard these two ear-worm songs, as they still show up on the radio and in commercials to this day. Whenever I hear them, I just hum Candles in the Rain to myself to drown them out.
Loved her. What a cutie she was. And yeah, "Brand New Key" can grate on you. Of course, she wasn't singing about roller skates...and that makes her singing it more listenable by several orders of magnitude.