Songs you hate by bands you like

Raise Your Weapon - deadmau5. His dubstep isn't the greatest ever (even if the piano/vocals are stellar).

• U2 - Beautiful Day
• The Strokes - One Way Trigger
• The Rolling Stones - Emotional Rescue
• The Doors - Love Her Madly
• The Beach Boys - I Get Around
• Blur - Girls and Boys
• David Bowie - Sound and Vision
• Red Hot Chilli Peppers - The Adventures of Rain Dance Maggie
• Bruce Springsteen - Dancing in the Dark
• Arctic Monkeys - Don't Sit Down 'Cause I've Moved Your Chair

edited 12th Feb '14 5:41:13 AM by tropeslave

You know, it's probably a good idea to explain why you don't like things instead of just listing them.

I do like Pompeii, and a lot of Bastille's work, but "Of the Night" is too much of a jumbled mess for me to remotely enjoy.

Alrighty, we have:

• EXO - Wolf LISTEN AT YOUR OWN RISK. I am not responsible if you fall over in pain.
• ATOLS - ...whatever the hell this is. I don't even know what to say.

...Huh, I was expecting my list to be longer than this. I guess I'll add more if I can think of them.

I do love Ne-Yo, but I don't particularly like "Let Me Love You (Until You Learn To Love Yourself)" (probably because of how overplayed it was).

edited 30th May '14 4:29:14 PM by Spinosegnosaurus77

No one has mentioned Black Hole Sun? I'm surprised. I'm not a big Soundgarden fan, mostly just 'cuz I've never really listened to them, but it's just like their worst song, and it's so different in a bad way from their other stuff.

Creep by Radiohead is so... boring! I used to love it. Then I listened to Paranoid Android. Now Radiohead is my favorite band, I listen to OK Computer on a loop all the time, and I've seen that Thom Yorke has soul, or so he thought when he danced in the Lotus Flower video.

Every Led Zeppelin album after Physical Graffiti is just terrible. I've tired myself out of LZ, sadly, but I mean, PRESENCE. SUCKS. (at least for me) and the only songs I can stand on In Through The Out Door are Fool in the Rain and All My Love, and they sound so dull to me.

I can't stand Sister Ray from the Velvet Underground. I don't know what exactly I hate about it, but I hate that song.

Repentence by Dream Theater is really pretentious and awkward. I can't listen to it at all. This is coming from a massive fan. The instrumentals are actually decent, but the spoken parts are just too stupid. That's my problem with a few of their songs. They can be lyrically pretty dumb despite being really awesome musically.

I'm going to get hate for this. I don't care.

I love Jason Derulo. And I cannot stand "Talk Dirty".

I get that it's supposed to be a fun, silly song, but it's too all-over-the-place for me to even remotely enjoy.

You didn't pronounce it right. It's JAaaaaason DeRuuuuUUuuUuuUuuUUuuuulo.

"The winner takes it all" by ABBA. I like so much of their material, but this one is just dreadfully depressing.

Not a matter of hatred so much as puzzlement: Swans, "The River That Runs With Love Won't Run Dry". Not a bad song, but definitely an odd duck of a track.

Similarly, Wire's "Life in the Manscape" and "Other Moments". There are great tracks on Manscape—"Sixth Sense", "What Do You See? (Welcome)" and "Torch It!" are all legitimately brilliant; and "Children Of Groceries" and "Small Black Reptile" use their production exquisitely—but the sound of the album is frequently hideously dated, and those weaker songs just come off really badly. Of their early work, "Champs" has always struck me as a bit dull.

The obscure but frequently brilliant emo/doomgaze outfit Airs are a bit easier to criticise, but the only one of their songs that genuinely inspires dislike in me is "Heart". A great riff, nice production work, a cool build and a very solid vocal melody ruined by bad lyrics and an unusually out-of-tune vocal performance. Next to songs like the impeccable "White Rose" and the sensuously eerie "Hollow", it just feels unfinished and, well, amateurish.

I usually like Taylor Swift(even if it's kind of a guilty pleasure thing) but "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" was just horrible, I think it's worst trait is how horribly mocking and condescending it sounds.

Honestly, her complaints in that song are a lot more believable than in most breakup songs, particularly in that vein, and the hook is decent if potentially horribly annoying. To me, it's one of her least annoying latter-day singles.

That's basically what Todd in the Shadows said, and that's basically why I find it one of her decent songs.

IMO she's at her best when she just does a straight-up, no frills ballad like "Tim McGraw" or "Back to December".

I'm aware, and I really do not disagree. It's a somewhat petty little ditty, but it has verisimilitude. It's not a power fantasy; it's just a "fuck you." And sometimes that's nice.

If nothing else, it seems more real than a lot of the stuff she wrote without the help of producers and songwriters.

Although they are my favourite band, I don't like the first two Afghan Whigs albums. Just noisy, formless rock with no hooks or direction, a far cry from the talent they would begin to show on "Congregation" and perfect on "Gentlemen".

"Motherboard by Daft Punk.

It's honestly the most forgettable Daft Punk song I've ever heard.

Also, while I love Todd Edwards to death, his remix of Kraftwerk's Numbers suuuuuucks. Probably the worst thing he's made to date.

Yet more!

• I'm a big fan of the country-rock band The Kentucky Headhunters, but most of their Stompin' Grounds album was forgettable. They produced everything way too soft and sanded off all their hard rock edges, so there just isn't any energy to it at all. Not even to a cover of "Singin' the Blues". Some of the songs at least have good lyrics, though.

• I like most of Kenny Rogers' stuff, but "Through the Years", "She Believes in Me", and "Lady" are late 70s-early 80's pop cheese at their worst; and "Islands in the Stream" is way too overplayed. I also think that Sheena Easton's overwrought belting is horribly mismatched on "We've Got Tonight" and completely wrecks the song — which is a shame, because Kenny sounds great on it.

• Most of Patty Loveless' work is amazing, but once I rediscovered Rodney Crowell's "Lovin' All Night", I realized how sexually charged the original is, and how tame and neutered Patty's version is.

• The Dixie Chicks were great, and it's a shame how poorly the country fandom reacted to the controversy. However, I think that "Landslide" is just a boring slog of a song with no pulse to it at all (to be fair, I think the same of the original Fleetwood Mac version), and "Godspeed" was unusually narmy for a Radney Foster song.

• Dwight Yoakam is so eclectic that it's hard not to like at least some of his work even if you're not a country fan. I absolutely love the vast variety of material he has. However, I think that "Turn It On, Turn It Up, Turn Me Loose" was a total misfire. It's just too repetitive (the guitar echoes EVERY SINGLE LINE), and the lyrics just meander.

• Tanya Tucker just got better with age, from the fiery teen star of the 70s, to the struggling young adult of the 80s, to the mature woman she was in the 90s. However, "Would You Lay with Me in a Field of Stone" is faux-poetic bullshit; "Texas When I Die" is a pile of "Texas is the best state in the world because we have country music, beer, and guns!" clichés with a NASTY case of Ending Fatigue (the chorus repeats SIX FREAKING TIMES at the end!); and "Here's Some Love" is just bland. I'm also not a fan of her other two texas songs, "Pecos Promenade" and "San Antonio Stroll".

• The Oak Ridge Boys. For some reason, I just really like these guys. Maybe because they have the best Basso Profundo in country music. But anyway, I hate "Christmas Is Paintin' the Town" (annoying call-and-response with the shrillest kids' chorus I've ever heard), while "Sail Away" is bland and "I Wish You Could Have Turned My Head and Left My Heart Alone" is way too simplistic and repetitive.

• Clint Black was great, although he kinda lost his edge over time. However, I'm still bugged as all hell that his tepid cover of the Eagles' "Desperado" still gets played all the damn time. It only got to #54; why do I still hear it every week?! I'm also not the biggest fan of "When I Said I Do", but I dislike it less than I used to.

edited 5th Jul '14 9:37:35 PM by Twentington

I agree and disagree with a lot of that. Biggest disagree is with "When I Said I Do", but it's 'cause we used that as our dance song at our wedding so MAJOR bias.

Eminem's "party" songs on The Slim Shady and Marshall Mathers LPs, mostly because the production is wack.

Now I'm curious, which ones did you agree and disagree with specifically?

No opinion on the Headhunters, I didn't listen to anything of theirs past the second album. I like pretty much everything Kenny Rogers has done, and "We've Got Tonight" has never bugged me, but "Lady" is weak. I don't remember Patty Loveless' version of that song so no opinion there. I love the original "Landslide",..no cover I've heard (including the Chicks' and Smashing Pumpkins') has come close; haven't heard "Godspeed" so no comment. I like "Turn It On, Turn It Up, Turn Me Loose." I don't remember "Would You Lay With Me [...]" and I don't think I've heard the others, but I agree, "Texas When I Die" has horrible Ending Fatigue. I haven't heard that Christmas song from the Oak Ridge Boys, and those other two songs are forgettable and irritating respectively, but I'd listen to them way before "Elvira"...I've come to loathe that song. I like Clint Black's cover of "Desperado"...it's not as good as the original but I think it's about as good a cover as could've been done.

edited 6th Jul '14 7:38:34 PM by Willbyr