Songs you hate by bands you like

Patty Loveless is one of the best country singers ever, but she had no business covering Rodney Crowell's "Lovin' All Night". She took a very sexually charged song and turned it into a cutesy shuffle that has about as much sexual energy as a Raffi song.

She also had no business covering "Tear Stained Letter" or "Busted" either.

edited 8th Jun '17 8:18:48 PM by Twentington

Despite liking Modest Mouse, I personally think that We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank is probably one of their weaker albums. I do think has some good stuff on it, but compared to their early stuff, it's just okay.

We Were Dead is p good, but Strangers to Ourselves is complete shit.

Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen. It's fun to sing along with in the car with your mates, but I don't actually like it much at all as a song. It just feels all over the place. I don't get why this is one of their big ones.

That Girl by Mental As Anything. The only song off their new EP I really don't like. The lyrics are kinda funny, but the song is just slow and dreary, and Martin Plaza's mumbling doesn't help.

I think you just answered your own question.

At least stuff happens in that song. It doesn't drone on aimlessly for hours like We Will Rock You/We Are the Champions does.

Sure, stuff happens, even good stuff, but I guess to me it just doesn't feel connected. It's just...bits and pieces.

"Who Dunnit" by Genesis. As someone who adores the Gabriel, Hackett and Collins eras, and would be willing to defend bits of the Wilson era^note Mostly forgettable if anything. Congo is the one that left the most impression there., I just cannot defend this existing on Abacab, and right after perhaps my favorite Collins-era Genesis song (Dodo/Lurker). The only song by the band I flat out gave up listening to all the way, and it just came across to me as incredibly banal.

The entire side one of Queen's Hot Space. It was an experiment, sure, but one that fell flat on its face. It's not even Freddie's best or even most memorable vocal work by a long shot, and while I didn't mind the synthesized instrumentation of the 80's, having them without May's guitar and Deacon's bass is pretty jarring. And while we're on topic, I don't hate it so much, but it's kind of annoying to me that "We Will Rock You/We Are the Champions" were the only songs on News of the World that have all that airplay, and disproportionately compared to their output in general. I contend it's their most hit-and-miss album of the seventies, but I much prefer "It's Late" and "Melancholy Blues" over the first two tracks.

Revolution 9 from the Beatles. I liked a few of the filler songs on the White Album, but Revolution 9 is pretentious, barely listenable, garbled noise to me. Also worth mentioning is Wild Honey Pie.

edited 20th Jul '17 2:48:17 AM by GrafVonTirol

Prophet's Song by Queen. This song literally gives me a headache whenever I listen to it.

And Imagine by John Lennon. The lyrics are bunch of straw nihilistic commie bullshit.

edited 28th Dec '17 2:47:58 PM by heliosKAISER

Hey, I like imagine.

Zac Brown Band: THE ENTIRE GODDAMN WELCOME HOME ALBUM. What a fucking snooze that was.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prlf5y5iRv0 John Lennon - So this is Christmas

I had to learn how to perform this song in sign language for our Christmas program at my school. It wasn't that bad until the children started singing. Then it just became kind of obnoxious and overbearing.

Doesn't the joke go they were there to drown out Yoko?

I can't stand Smells like Teen Spirit by Nirvana. It feels like all the bad parts of 90's punk rock.

Not the biggest fan of Evanescence anymore, but I still cringe every time I hear "Lose Control".

"Piece of Art" by Kira ft. Gumi isn't bad per se, but it's so forgettable it might as well be. Disappointing from an otherwise creative artist.

"The Climb" by No Doubt. It's just too long. It's the one song I skip on "Tragic Kingdom". If it was not on that album it would be in my opinion flawless.

How about a whole album? I actually dont mind the Van Hagar era on Van Halen, in fact, there are a lot of songs I like, but I cant get into any of the tracks on OU 812, not even the album cuts. I've tried, but the whole album does nothing for me.

Gotta do more.

"Wake Up" by Three Days Grace is both offensive and boring

The original version of "-ERROR" by niki is a good song, but the tuning is awful.

Complain thread?

Sweet Song by Blur.

No wonder even Damon Albarn doesn't feel comfortable with Think Tank.

Annie Lennox's cover of Whiter Shade of Pale.

Birds and Just Like Noah's Ark by Elton John. I actually quite liked a lot of his early-to-mid 2000's records, but I overplayed them and they do get more hokey and unpleasant to listen to as time goes on - and these songs are the bane of my existence in particular.

The album version of Have You Seen Me Lately by Counting Crows. They eventually turned the song into a really pretty acoustic number when they play it live, and this version in comparison sounds so tone-deaf. It has its moments, but Counting Crows did it better later on in their careers.

See the Light from Green Day. 21st Century Breakdown is already an album I don't like (Save "East Jesus Nowhere" which is fantastic), but finishing it with that song is quite the insult.

I've gone back and forth on Bohemian Rhapsody - now I specifically like it because it's such a weird, unlikely thing to be considered a singalong classic.

On a similar note I think I nominated "Wicked Little Critta" by They Might Be Giants a while ago, for not having much of a tune and being entirely based on the premise that certain phrases are inherently funny when sung in New England accents - turns out it's actually pretty fun in the context of a live show. I still kinda feel like it should have been a b-side or something though.

Edited by MikeK on Sep 11th 2018 at 7:23:57 AM

It may make me an unromantic grouch, but I have never been particularly enthused about Can't Help Falling In Love. There are like eight lines of mush to that song.

A lot of the Teens of Style remakes could count, but the 2015 version of "Los Borrachos" by Car Seat Headrest is especially bad, stripping most of what made the Monomania version good (although that's still the worst track off that album).

I suppose some more traditional examples would be "Dishes (Pulp Cover)" by Jeff Rosenstock and "Whaddit I Done" by Animal Collective, two tracks that ruin what could have been incredible albums.

See, I've always been the opposite way about that song. I can't stand Elvis for the most part, but I love that song. Spiritualized's interpolation of it on "Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space" definitely helps.

edited 12th Jun '18 1:10:58 PM by golgothasArisen