CONFESS!!!! The one song you hate recorded by your all time favorite band

[LynneSin]

We all have our all-time favorite groups or singers. For me it's Led Zeppelin - I worship all things done by Led Zeppelin except one song...


I FREAKING HATE HATE HATE 'STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN'!!! If the song comes on the radio, I flip stations immediately. For me to listen to LZIV, I always skip over that song. I would probably think the fourth album was the best but it has that horrible song on it.

What is your favorite band and what song did they record that you absolutely hate

:D

[felonious thunk]

1. Creep - Radiohead

In one sense it's good because it's the song that made them become known and we may not have had an OK Computer or Kid A without it, but man that song is so below them. Pablo Honey as a CD isn't as bad as it has a rap for, but Creep just isn't a good song.

[Loonman]

2. The Doors - Morrison's poems to music, tracks

Always sounded kind of cheesy to me. I prefer to read his stuff.

"Horse Latitudes" is a crappy song, too.

[THUNDER HANDS]

3. Dancing in the Dark

ugh :puke:

[Vagabond]

9. LOL - me, too! n/t

[Coventina]

4. Dear God - XTC

It sounds really whiny and self-pitying to me.
I love Andy Partridge, I think he's a genius. But I always want to kick him in the butt and tell him to "dry it up" when I hear that song.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

21. Well, I'll give you credit. You're the first XTC fan I've heard of

who hates that particular song. As for me, I don't like.....none of them. We are talking about XTC after all!

[tigerbeat]

52. "Sacrificial Bonfire" - XTC

i love "dear god", but moulding's vocals on "sacrificial bonfire" irritate the hell out of me. i always stop "skylarking" after "dying".

[NicoleM]

5. Mr. Jones by Counting Crows

I don't hate it as much as I used to, though.

[DarkSim]

6. Children of Bodom - The Trooper (Iron Maiden cover)

I hate the Children of Bodom version of "The Trooper" it just simply sucks...

[Droopy]

7. Iron Man by Black Sabbath

The radio just played it to death. It would not have been too bad without the over exposure. I don't understand why they chose that one song to play. There are much better Black Sabbath songs as far as I'm concerned.

[Mistress Quickly]

8. Queen - We Will Rock You n/t

[Westegg]

31. Yes, a plodding song, but...

Brian May's superb guitar solo at the end almost makes up for it. Doesn't help that "We Will Rock You" moves right into "We Are the Champions," which I can't stand. But for me, "Bicycle" is a Queen song I never have to hear again, ever.

[donco6]

54. YES!

Arrrgh! The other one is You're My Best Friend.

[reprehensor]

10. Tangerine - Led Zep.

ugh

[LynneSin]

13. I love Tangerine

:cry:

[Westegg]

28. Me too...

The lyrics aren't exactly deep---what does "Tangerine" even mean, in relation to the rest of the song? Some woman's nick-name? But it's a mellow, melancholy, minor-key acoustic number, and I can still listen to it now, 25 years after I first heard Led Zep III.

[nedlogg]

11. Revolution No.9

By the Beatles on the White album.

I sure wished John had left Yoko at home and out of the studio.

Other than that, there is nothing the Fab Four ever did that was anything short of perfection.

[Parrcrow]

14. I always thought

that was a perfect spot for Hey Jude, which was recorded around the same time and but appeared on an original album.

I could have done without Octopus' garden too.

[Westegg]

29. Try playing "Rev.#9" backwards.

[a_random_joel]

58. Turn me on dead man. Turn me on dead man.

Turn me on dead man. Turn me on dead man.

Paul isn't really dead, guys.

[LuLu550]

56. Yup, me too

I thought there was something wrong with me, because if the Beatles did it, it had to be cool....but I really did not "get number 9 number 9 number 9" and I DID play it backwards, too!

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

12. The Kinks: (Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman

Their 80s comeback hit. It ain't no "Apeman." They did so many good songs that just stayed on albums, and then something like "Superman" breaks out.

The kicker was seeing that song performed by Bert Parks the very last time he hosted the Miss America Pageant. :scared: Oh, the ignominy.

[ScudEast]

15. Smoke on the Water - Deep Purple

What a dirge!!

[afraid_of_the_dark]

23. Welcome to DU!

:hi:

[NormanConquest]

16. TIE--"Louie, Louie" Motorhead

"Chinatown" Thin Lizzy...just filler tracks.

[Rooktoven]

17. Kissing Willy -- Jethro Tull

(Depending on favorite band of the moment)

Gregory Peccary -- Frank Zappa
I second Tangerine by Led Zeppelin
Peggy-O -- The Grateful Dead

[RandomKoolzip]

20. Wow....

"Peggy-O" is one of my favorite Dead songs! I've got a few versions from 1974 that are just heartbreakingly beautiful....So you'd take another version of "Me and My Uncle" or "Around and Around" over "Peggy-O?!?" Weird.

And "Greggary Peccary" is a MASTERPIECE! That one has turned a few friends into rabid Zappaholics. Frank meticulously assembled that one with such excruciating care; it was obvious he thought it was special. One of my favorite Zappa epics.

And "Tangerine?" My god, why do people hate that song? It's so beautiful!

Wow, I'm like your total opposite.

(Never heard the Tull song, so...)

[LynneSin]

22. I'm baffled too

I can't understand what folks have against Tangerine - I absolutely adore the song

[RandomKoolzip]

18. Zappa: "Tryin' to Grow a Chin."

Okay, the song's just not that great to begin with. Then Frank puts out FOUR different versions of the damn thing on four different albums! Sheik Yerbouti, YCDTOSA, vol. 1, YCDTOSA, vol. 6, and the Lather box! It features nothing musically interesting and I've never been a fan of Terry Bozzio's vocal "stylings." So this one I ALWAYS skip over when playing my Zappa CDs.

He also put out three different versions of "Advance Romance," but since that one at least has an extended, improvised guitar solo, you can make the claim that it's an informed decision. The versions of "Tryin' to Grow a Chin" feature no guitar solos, and were all performed by essentially the same 1976-7 lineup...except the one on YCDTOSA, vol.1, which is by the 1979 band with Denny Walley on vocals. Why, Frank? Why not a version of "Inca Roads" from early 1979? Or a "Zoot Allures" from 1982? Or a completely unreleased song, like "Portuguese Lunar Landing?" Or some more early Mothers material? Sometimes I think he was a little out of touch with his fanbase.


My other favorite band, Guided by Voices, has put out LOTS of obvious filler. I have often mulled over making mix tapes of the bad shit and calling it "The Worst of Guided by Voices." It's just that the good stuff is SO good that it makes a drooling fanboy like me pretty forgiving. Although I think that "The Old Grunt" really ruined the flow of one of my fave GbV Cds, "Mag Earwhig!", so I guess I'll vote for that one.

[Colin Ex]

47. Give me a starting point for Guided by Voices.

I downloaded some and I assume I got the filler, because I hated ALL of it.

-C

[RandomKoolzip]

48. If you can download song by song, and their whole catalog is

available (and it's a large catalog, over 20 albums so far), start with any of these tunes:

Echoes Myron
Motor Away
I Am a Tree
Jane of the Waking Universe
Quality of Armor
The Brides have Hit Glass
Glad Girls
Teenage FBI
The Best of Jill Hives
Your Name is Wild

Or get the entire "Alien Lanes" album first. Sorry you didn't like it....sometimes they grow on ya though.

[libertad]

19. Hotel California. n/t

[Gildor Inglorion]

24. The Beatles - "Come Together"

Everyone is entitled to one mistake, and boy, what a doozy that was! I loathe everything about that song. x(

[Richardo]

43. That's a first for me...

....never heard of anyone disliking Come Together before. :shrug:

[Khephra]

25. A "Like a Virgin" remake by Marilyn Manson

And "TV Shit" by Sonic Youth.

[phatkatt]

26. 'Shiny Happy People' - REM

ack

[catzies]

50. Yeah, well I hate all of Automatic for the People. All of it.

I'm such a contrarian it figures that the one album of theirs that found the most commercial and popular acceptance is the one I can't STAND.

[x-g.o.p.er]

27. Anything off of Springsteen's "Ghost of Tom Joad" album

What a terrible collection of music. I thought he was trying to recapture the lightning in a bottle that "Nebraska" was, but it just didn't work. I've had GOTJ since it came out and listened to it twice.

[mac56]

30. The Beatles - "Flying"

What the hell were they thinking?

[a_random_joel]

32. I LOVE that song!

:shrug:

[mac56]

33. a_r_j, you're the first person I've ever known to say that.

And I know *lots* of Beatle fans.

[a_random_joel]

36. Actually, I like it so much

I sampled it for a trip-hop song I was working on. It's got a great laid back funny beat.

Besides I love the weird stuff. You ever hear - You Know my name(so look up the number)?

[Richardo]

39. You Know My Name is the greatest B side EVER!

HA!

[mac56]

40. agreed

The version on the Anthology CD is priceless.

[Richardo]

55. And for those who know the music, here are the lyrics...

Note: These will not make ANY sense to you if you've not heard the record.

The Beatles: You Know My Name (Look up the Number)

You know my name
Look up the number
You know my name
Look up the number
You you know you know my name
You you know you know my name

Good evening and welcome to Slaggers
Featuring Denis O'Bell
Come on Ringo, let's hear it for Denis

Good evening
You know my name
Better look up the number
You know my name
(That's right) look up the number
You you know you know my name
You you know you know my name
You know my name
Ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba
Look up my number
You know my name
That's right look up the number
Oh you know you know
You know my name you know you know you know my name.

Huh huh huh huh
You know my name
Ba ba ba pum
Look up the number
You know my name
Look up the number
You-a you know you know my name
Baby you-a you know you know my name
You know my name you know you know you know my name
Go on Denis, let's hear it for Denis O'Bell

You know my name you know you know you know you know you know my name
Prrr you know my name and the number
You know my name and the number you know you know my name
Look up me number
You know my number three you know my number two
You know my number three you know my number four
You know my name you know number too
You know my name you know my number
What's up with you?

You know my name
That's right
Yeah.

:D

[a_random_joel]

59. Ohh, I thought you were gonna post the lyrics for flying...

Which are here:

[Richardo]

60. Hee!

:D

[a_random_joel]

34. Octopus' Garden

Ringo needs to stick with the drums...

[Richardo]

38. That and "Ob-La-Di-Ob-La-Da"

A preview of how treacly P McC was going to be as a solo act.

[a_random_joel]

42. I like that one

Never fails to get me happy!

[Richardo]

35. Steely Dan: "Rikki Don't Lose That Number" and "Do It Again"...

Overplayed overplayed overplayed.

I even skip over them when I'm listening to the CDs. :puke:

[Westegg]

53. Yep, I skip over them too...

And I love the Dan. Overplay on radio is to blame, I'm sure, but I can never go back to a time when I can hear this songs a-fresh, since I've been having them ground into my brain-pan since I was ten.

[Chovexani]

37. Smashing Pumpkins - The End is the Beginning is the End

On the Batman & Robin soundtrack. I hate that god damn song. But then the movie was a big steaming pile so I guess I can't complain.

The crazy part? There's a different version on the same CD which I really love. :crazy:

[5thGenDemocrat]

41. Grateful Dead

Box of Rain.
John
It's just way, WAY too hippie for me. And I don't think, among my 130 or so Dead bootlegs, that I've ever heard it done without someone singing off-key on it.

[mac56]

44. Off-key singing on a Dead bootleg?!

I'm shocked..shocked, I tell you.

[Westegg]

45. It never happened! Don't believe your ears.

[5thGenDemocrat]

61. Yeah, I know

It's about as likely as Bob Weir forgetting the lyrics to a song he's sung 5,000 times before.
John
I'd suspect it's drug-related myself, but what are the chances there'd be drugs at a Dead show?

[Colin Ex]

46. I fucking HATE "Brick" by Ben Folds.

Everything else Ben Folds and the Ben Folds Five have ever done has been awesome. EXCEPT FUCKING "BRICK."

-C

[Whitacre D_WI]

49. ?

Maybe the instrumental version of "Letter to Memphis" the Pixies put out as a B-side in '91. What a half-assed attempt at filler (fer Chrissakes, the lead just copies the vocal melody from the album track -- no imagination at all).

[IconoclastIlene]

51. Who scared you....Doors B side of single

[Screaming Lord Byron]

57. All these songs suck.

Ooops, sorry. Wrong thread.

[phrenzy]

62. The Smiths: How Soon Is Now

Ironically, the song that got me in to the smiths became the most annoying song that ever left Morrissey's mouth. I think this song is single handedly responsible for Morrissey forever being labeled a "miserablist"