10 Artists Who Hated Their Biggest Hit

[LynneSin]

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10 Artists Who Hated Their Biggest Hit

3. LED ZEPPELIN, “STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN”

In 2002, Robert Plant pledged a donation to a Portland, Oregon radio station that announced its refusal to play Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven,” a song Plant dubs “that bloody wedding song.” Plant's disdain for the song put the kibosh on reunion talks for decades, simply because the singer had it up to here with singing the hit.

Plant put up with the song for at least 17 years after he wrote it, before finally telling the Los Angeles Times, “I’d break out in hives if I had to sing that song in every show” in 1988. When the band played a one-off concert in London two decades later, Plant demanded the song not be played as a finale, and for guitarist Jimmy Page to “restrain himself from turning the song into an even more epic solo-filled noodle.”

I found it amusing how people see that video of the Kennedy Center Honors the year Led Zeppelin was honored. They see Robert Plant tearing up during Stairway and everything thinks he is so happy to hear that song. Really he was probably just in pain and suffering from hearing it yet again.

Some of the others on the list were interesting. And Sinead O'Conner has to realize that if it wasn't for 'Nothing Compares 2 U' no one would probably know who she is.

[IDemo]

1. John Mellencamp, “Jack and Diane”

"Suck'inonna chili-dog, outside the TasteeFreeze." Such a great visualization there...

[John_Doe80004]

2. they left out bobby mcfarrin

don't worry be happy.

he absolutely despised that hit and said so in many interviews over the years

[MrScorpio]

3. I found the Flock Of Seagulls confession especial painful

That hurt me to the core.

[cemaphonic]

4. I am still curious why Plant refers to "Stairway to Heaven" as a wedding song

And I still don't get the "Shiny Happy People" hatred. Good melody, good arrangement, and while the lyrics are dumb if you take them at face value, I always assumed they were ironic. "Stand" is a much more annoying (both music and lyrics) REM hit.

[LynneSin]

5. I thought Stairway was the Prom song and Thank You was the wedding song

I know a few people who used Thank You as a wedding song. I know back in the 70s everyone had a Stairway to Heaven prom

[hibbing]

6. Brass in Pocket

I did not like that song when it first came out, now I don't mind it. I wonder what Arlo Guthrie thinks of Alice.


Peace

[Yavin4]

7. They don't complain about the royalty and licensing fees. n/t

[TexasBushwhacker]

8. No, but I'm sure they get tired of playing them

and in some cases, they don't have a choice about which songs are released as singles.

[ghostsinthemachine]

9. Sure the Grateful Dead didn't much care for "Touch of Grey".....

That brought the "Touchheads" out in force and created a scene larger than the band could handle.

[malthaussen]

10. Most of those artists will be glad to know I never heard of the song, then.

At least, that should follow.

As to "Stairway," I think "Stairway to Gilligan's" is the much superior tune.

As far as Mr Plant's feelings, I remember watching the Association a few years back singing "Along Came Mary," and the gentleman with the American Flag applique on his guitar was visibly wincing at singing such a subversive song.

-- Mal

[LynneSin]

11. Personally I prefer Dread Zeppelin's stairway

Who wants Robert Plant singing that craptastic song when you can have an Elvis Impersonator singing it to a reggae beat!!

[eppur_se_muova]

12. Maurice Ravel, Bolero

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