| 1 | ->''"I wrote it in half an hour, to meet a deadline, when I was hungover! I did not realise at the time it would be the ''only'' thing anyone would ever want me to play ''ever again!''"'' |
| 2 | -->--'''Johann Pachelbel''', on his "[[Music/PachelbelsCanon Canon in D]]", ''Radio/JohnFinnemoresSouvenirProgramme'' |
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| 6 | [[folder:General]] |
| 7 | * Many bands and artists that ended up as a OneHitWonder see that one hit song in this light. One specific example is the band Music/AFlockOfSeagulls, who came to dislike "I Ran" because for their entire three decade existence, nobody cared about any other song they released. |
| 8 | * Website/{{Cracked}} presents [[http://www.cracked.com/article_20231_5-iconic-songs-despised-by-people-who-created-them.html "5 Iconic Songs Despised by the People Who Created Them"]], which describes some of the examples below in detail. |
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| 11 | [[folder:Alternative & Indie]] |
| 12 | * From Music/LosCampesinos: |
| 13 | ** Most of the band, especially lead singer/songwriter Gareth Campesinos!, have developed a turbulent relationship with their earliest music, including their debut album ''Hold On Now, Youngster...''. The general trend is that they considered it [[SweetnessAversion too "twee" for their tastes]] -- their first single, "We Throw Parties, You Throw Knives", has only been performed a handful of times (including as an encore for the concert recorded for their 2013 live album ''A Good Night for a Fist Fight'' -- even then, the final verse was cut as Gareth finds it embarrassing), and Gareth has dismissed "The International Tweexcore Underground" as "abysmal". The band has mellowed out over the album in years since, and a few fan favorites remain on their live setlist (including their BlackSheepHit "You! Me! Dancing!"). |
| 14 | ** Gareth and Tom Campesinos! have also expressed some regrets at ''Hello Sadness'', [[https://www.vice.com/en/article/qkmv7w/los-campesinos-rank-their-first-five-records even ranking it even lower]] than ''Hold On Now, Youngster''. While it still contains personal favorite songs, they think as an album, it was too streamlined and engrossed within its [[BreakupSong "breakup album"]] identity, believing they were overcompensating following their previous "tryhard" record, ''Romance is Boring''. Gareth notes that in hindsight, some of the free B-sides released following the album should've made it on the album over some in the final product. |
| 15 | * Music/TheLemonheads' cover of Music/SimonAndGarfunkel's "Mrs. Robinson": It was a single due to ExecutiveMeddling and became one of their biggest hits, but even at the time it came out they refused to play it live. They've since done live performances of the entire ''It's a Shame About Ray'' album and left it off (though it was technically tacked onto that album as a bonus track to begin with). |
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| 18 | [[folder:Classical]] |
| 19 | * Music/GustavHolst had this kind of feeling towards ''The Planets Suite'' because it overshadowed his other compositions. He even refused to write a piece for Pluto after it was discovered. He ended up being vindicated in that choice since [[ScienceMarchesOn Pluto is no longer considered a planet.]] |
| 20 | * According to Website/TheOtherWiki, Edvard Grieg referred to his famous "In the Hall of the Mountain King" from the incidental music to ''Theatre/PeerGynt'' as an "infernal thing reek[ing] of cow-pies and provincialism." He also had an OldShame in the form of a symphony in C minor. |
| 21 | * Camille Saint-Saëns thought that his ''Carnival of the Animals'' would be so popular that it would make him a one hit wonder and thus ruin his standing as a serious classical musician. He only allowed one movement (The Swan) to be published in his lifetime. He consented for the whole work to be published after his death, and not only did it prove extremely popular, but also gained widespread critical praise for its genius. Today, Saint-Saëns is a classical TwoHitWonder, known for virtually nothing else besides "Carnival Of The Animals" and "Danse Macabre". You probably know at least some of it, even if you think you don't: Many parts of it, particularly The Aquarium movement are now {{Standard Snippet}}s. |
| 22 | ** "Danse Macabre" gets musically referenced in Movement XII of "Carnival Of The Animals," which is called "Fossils," suggesting that Saint-Saëns saw the piece he was most famous for becoming just another overplayed favorite of old geezers. "Fossils" also includes allusions to "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star," "Au clair de la lune," "J'ai du bon tabac," Partant pour la Syrie," and "The Barber of Seville," songs from his childhood that had indeed become fossils during Saint-Saëns' lifetime. |
| 23 | * Robert Schumann despised his own "Andante and Variations" for two pianos, two cellos, and one horn for failing to capture the magic of his "Piano Quartet" and "Piano Quintet" just a few years earlier. That, and his friends apparently butchered it every time they attempted to play it at his house. Mendelssohn somehow talked him into releasing a two-piano arrangement, but Schumann absolutely refused to publish the original during his lifetime. His widow, Clara, and Brahms eventually rescued it from the scrapheap and gave it the public premiere it deserved in 1868. |
| 24 | * Darius Milhaud's "Scaramouche" was a rushed job he barely completed over a summer when he was absolutely swamped. He only finished it on time by recycling some of his previous music and working it into the new piece. When it exploded into popularity like nothing he had written before, Milhaud was more than a little perturbed, even refusing to publish it for a short time afterward. |
| 25 | * Music/FryderykChopin never wanted his Fantaisie-Impromptu in C-sharp minor to be published because of its [[FollowTheLeader similarities to Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata]], and asked his friend Julian Fontana to burn it (the Impromptu, not the Sonata). However, after Chopin's death Julian published it anyway and since then it's become one of Chopin's most well-known melodies. One can only wonder what Chopin would be thinking from beyond the grave... |
| 26 | ** He wasn't too keen on publishing his "Rondo in C major" either, which remains his only two-piano composition. Chopin wrote it at the Warsaw Conservatory in 1828 and took it in his portfolio to Paris, but considered it little more than something to pad his resume, so to speak. That it didn't reach the printing press until six years after his death is a testament to his dissatisfaction with it. |
| 27 | * Music/LudwigVanBeethoven is said to have been exasperated with the success of ''Moonlight'' Sonata, saying "Surely I've written better things". |
| 28 | ** Beethoven hated that his Septet overshadowed his First Symphony, which premiered the same night. To his further chagrin, it became one of his most popular pieces, with ensembles all across Europe performing it (violinists loved it because it showed off their skills) and it cast a long shadow over his career. Beethoven made no secret of his wish to burn every copy and passionately turned down a commission later in life to compose another piece in a similar vein. He would be pleased to know that the Septet has, over the years, become one of his more obscure songs. |
| 29 | ** Wellington's Victory became a source of shame for Beethoven as well, though at first he defended it from its critics, telling one "What I shit is better than anything you could ever write!" Over time though, he grew to share their distaste for it, agreeing that it was a case of style over substance. Still, because it was a battle piece, Wellington's Victory became extremely popular, practically resolving Beethoven's financial woes overnight, but he still hated that it was performed as often as it was. |
| 30 | ** On the flip side, he was quite fond of the Grosse Fugue finale to his String Quartet in B-flat Major, op. 130, but his audience was less enamored by it. When he heard that they had applauded the Presto and Alla danza tedesca at the premier instead, to the point where they had to be encored, he reportedly snapped, "Yes, these delicacies! Why not the Fugue?" and then called the listeners a bunch of "Cattle!" and "Asses!" |
| 31 | * Music/SergeiRachmaninoff reportedly hated his Prelude in C-sharp minor, as he wrote it when he was just 19 and still finding his voice as a composer, and yet people were constantly requesting it as an encore at his concert performances for the next fifty years. Most casual listeners would probably be surprised to hear that he ended up writing a full set of 24 preludes in all the major and minor keys (with two exceptions - the G minor and G-sharp minor preludes - the C-sharp minor is performed and recorded more often than all of the others put together). |
| 32 | ** [[Creator/TheMarxBrothers Harpo Marx]] has a story in his autobiography about moving into the apartment next door to Rachmaninoff, being driven crazy by his constant piano practice, and having the management be too much in awe of Rachmaninoff to do anything about it. His solution? Constantly repeat the first four notes of the Prelude in C sharp minor on his harp at maximum volume, and wait for Rachmaninoff to ask for a different apartment because he can't stand to live next to "that mad harpist". |
| 33 | ** In an interview, Music/SergeiRachmaninoff once said that his favorite performance of the C-sharp minor prelude was Music/DukeEllington's. FridgeBrilliance kicks in when you realize... Duke Ellington never played the C-sharp minor prelude. |
| 34 | * Music/PyotrIlyichTchaikovsky reportedly hated ''Theatre/TheNutcracker'', which is quite possibly his best known composition. |
| 35 | ** He also reportedy hated his ''1812 Overture'' and felt it was undeserving of such massive popularity. |
| 36 | * [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Bruckner Anton Bruckner]] composed a symphony that he was so disillusioned with that he didn't see fit to assign it a number, and simply wrote "gilt nicht" ("doesn't count") on the score. It was later known as the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._0_%28Bruckner%29 Symphony No. 0]]. |
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| 38 | |
| 39 | [[folder:Country]] |
| 40 | * Music/TobyKeith: |
| 41 | ** In a 2005 interview with ''Billboard'', Keith said that he wasn't fond of "Upstairs Downtown", the second single from his second album ''Boomtown''. He said he didn't think it had potential as a single, and that he would have preferred to release the album's title track. |
| 42 | ** He has supposedly said that he regrets covering Music/{{Sting}}'s "I'm So Happy I Can't Stop Crying" as a duet with Sting himself. |
| 43 | ** He stated that "Red Solo Cup", his 2010 novelty hit, was "the stupidest song I ever heard in my life." |
| 44 | * Chase Rice [[http://www.rollingstone.com/country/features/chase-rice-talks-new-album-bro-country-past-w488916 said]] in an interview with ''Magazine/RollingStone'' that he is ashamed of his tenure with Creator/ColumbiaRecords, despite it producing the major hits "Ready Set Roll" and "Gonna Wanna Tonight". Rice said of the album that "I was just throwing a bunch of stuff on a wall and seeing what stuck. There is some stuff on there that is the same old shit and I'm tired of that." Those two songs were also the subject of critical derision for being "bro-country" right before that trend started to fade away (coincidentally, Rice was also a co-writer on the TropeMaker, Music/FloridaGeorgiaLine's "Cruise"). His 2017 album ''Lambs & Lions'', his first for Broken Bow Records, has been more warmly received and Rice says that album is more true to who he is as an artist. |
| 45 | * Before becoming one of the biggest {{record producer}}s and songwriters in Nashville in TheNew10s, Shane [=McAnally=] was a recording artist, having done one album for Curb Records in 1999. The album included one Top 40 hit on the country charts, "Are Your Eyes Still Blue". This part of his career is almost entirely forgotten about nowadays, and given his repeated attempts to scrub it from his Website/{{Wikipedia}} article, he probably would prefer it stay that way. |
| 46 | * David Nail supposedly disowned his debut single "Memphis", which would have been on an album for Creator/MercuryRecords that ended up [[MissingEpisode never getting released]] due to a management change. |
| 47 | * Steve Azar, much like the above-mentioned Joe Nichols, recorded an independent album in 1996 before having his BreakthroughHit in 2002. In his case, the album was called ''Heartbreak Town'' and mostly consisted of slick mainstream country-pop unlike the rock and delta blues influences of his later albums. |
| 48 | * Early in his career, Music/LukeCombs sang a duet with another country music artist who chose to incorporate the Confederate flag into the music video. In response, Combs took his name off the song and later expressed regret for appearing in the video. |
| 49 | * Highway 101's little known debut single "Some Find Love" did not chart and was excluded from their debut album. According to the members of the band, this was because it had a much more pop-influenced sound that they instantly disliked. |
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| 51 | |
| 52 | [[folder:Folk]] |
| 53 | * ''Music/AmericanPie'' made Music/DonMcLean a success and then just as quickly killed his career. [=McLean=] got so annoyed that the one song was all anyone ever wanted to hear from him that he began refusing to play it in concert; naturally, attendance dwindled to almost non-existent levels. [=McLean=] was also rather irritated at constantly being asked to interpret the song's admittedly obscure lyrics. |
| 54 | ** "[[MoneyDearBoy It means I never have to work again]]" is apparently his favorite response to that question. |
| 55 | ** [=McLean=] started singing the [[Music/WeirdAlYankovic "Weird Al"]] parody [[ApprovalOfGod of his own song]] ("The Saga Begins") during concerts after that song came out. |
| 56 | [[/folder]] |
| 57 | |
| 58 | [[folder:Hip Hop]] |
| 59 | * Music/KanyeWest is not fond of "Gold Digger", telling BBC Radio in 2013 that he "never really liked that song" and only made it under label pressure to have a radio programming 'hit, further elaborating that "I'm going to take music and try to make it three dimensional… I’m not here to make easy listening, easily programmable music." |
| 60 | ** More controversially, he has also frequently criticized his fifth album, ''Music/MyBeautifulDarkTwistedFantasy'', often cited as his MagnumOpus and one of the greatest albums of all time, revealing in a 2013 video interview with SHOW Studio that "''Dark Fantasy'' is almost like an apology record [...] ''Music/{{Yeezus}}'' and ''808s & Heartbreak'' are so much better and stronger." |
| 61 | *** Further discussing lead single "POWER" in a 2020 interview with GQ, he adds that it "was the least progressive song that I ever had as a single [...] I always felt like "POWER" was my weakest [lead] single that I ever had, because I felt like it was bowing to the expectations. "POWER" represents the "ultimate Kanye West song" rather than something new. Versus "Love Lockdown"? "Can't Tell Me Nothing"? "Diamonds [from Sierra Leone]"? "Follow God"? I always do the songs that people never heard before. But you had actually heard "POWER" before. You heard "Crack Music." You heard "Amazing." You heard that song before! It's just a mix of things I had already done before." |
| 62 | * Music/BeastieBoys explicitly refused to ''ever'' play "Fight for Your Right" at concerts because the very crowd that they were criticizing with the song [[MisaimedFandom adopted it as their anthem]]. |
| 63 | ** They also don't seem too fond of their debut, ''Music/LicensedToIll'' (which "Fight for Your Right" came from), in retrospect. (Much in contrast to the rest of the world; it's still probably their most well-known album). They've mentioned in interviews that they're embarrassed about some of the misogynistic lyrics (joking or otherwise), and it's the only older album in their catalog that they chose not to remaster in 2009. In fact, "(You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party)" again. |
| 64 | ** They also seem to hold disdain for their days as a punk band, given how they collected it all in an album called ''Some Old Bullshit''. |
| 65 | ** They consider their first proper rap single "Rock Hard" amateurish in terms of lyrics and vocal delivery - Adam Horowitz reads the lyrics aloud in the audiobook edition of ''Beastie Boys Book'' and can't get through it without laughing. Interestingly, they still wanted to include it on two-disc compilation album ''The Sounds of Science'', presumably because it was important to the evolution of the group... But {{Music/ACDC}} wouldn't clear the [[{{sampling}} sample of]] "Back in Black" that was central to the song. |
| 66 | * Music/{{Cage}} recorded a violent, drug-oriented album called ''Movies for the Blind''. Though considered a underground HipHop CultClassic by fans and critics, he dismissed it as being too random and fragmented, and said that it glorified drugs. |
| 67 | * Music/{{Eminem}}: |
| 68 | ** Eminem became so sick of "My Name Is" that after a while, he would only play snippets of it at his concerts - often stopping the song to declare that he was sick of it. He eventually clarified that he thinks it's a great record, but resented how it overshadowed his more personal work, particularly "The Way I Am". |
| 69 | ** By 2002, Eminem was highly critical of ''The Slim Shady LP'', complaining that his beat-riding and technical ability on it was "horrible" and that the [[NerdyNasalness high-pitched, nasal voice]] he used to portray Slim Shady sounded annoying and stupid. [[MagnumOpusDissonance It's generally considered to be one of his three best albums, if not his best.]] |
| 70 | ** Eminem also complained that "The Real Slim Shady" was too cheesy. It ended up becoming one of his {{Signature Song}}s. |
| 71 | ** Eminem created his Slim Shady alter-ego in order to 'have an excuse to rap pissed off' but developed a love-hate relationship with the character - being Shady offstage and on for several years, while [[CreatorBreakdown experiencing the pressure of fame for the first time]] and binging on psychedelic drugs, left him LostInCharacter and behaving in irresponsible, violent ways. He was also genuinely upset about the fact that his use of bigotry as VulgarHumor was hurting the feelings of women and gay people. He toned down appearances from the character on and after ''Music/TheEminemShow'', and even killed him off in "When I'm Gone", emerging a couple of years later with his hair its natural dark colour again. However, the next album he released was ''Relapse'', in which Shady comes back from the dead, [[{{Horrorcore}} worse than ever]]. Since then, he's concluded that his "evil twin" will always be a part of him and that he loves him, but their relationship isn't always that easy. |
| 72 | *** ''Music/TheEminemShow'' has only a few Shady appearances, and they portray him in a LighterAndSofter way. On the album's lead single, "Without Me", Marshall opens the song by complaining that people only want Slim (before [[PanderingToTheBase snapping back into character as Slim]]). |
| 73 | ----> ''I've created a monster\ |
| 74 | 'Cause nobody wants to see Marshall no more\ |
| 75 | They want Shady, I'm chopped liver!'' |
| 76 | ** In particular, Eminem has a habit of insulting ''Relapse'', his ConceptAlbum in which he played a SlasherMovie-inspired version of Shady who rapped [[WhatTheHellIsThatAccent in a number of vaguely offensive accents]]. In "Not Afraid", the first single from his ''Recovery'' album has the lyrics "Let's be honest, that last ''Relapse'' CD was "ehhhh" / Perhaps I ran them accents into the ground". |
| 77 | *** Another track from ''Recovery'', "Cinderella Man", has the following lyrics: "Fuck my last CD, that shit's in my trash." |
| 78 | *** Also on ''Recovery'', in "Talkin' 2 Myself", he states that "[[CanonDiscontinuity Those last two albums didn't count]] / ''Encore'' I was on drugs, ''Relapse'' I was flushing them out". |
| 79 | *** ''Hell: The Sequel'''s "The Reunion" is a satirical story about Slim ''abusing his girlfriend'' by forcing her to listen to ''Relapse'' in the car. She whines about the accents, he assures her his rapping is 'mad tight'. Eventually she takes out the CD and snaps it in half, which leads Slim to jam down the accelerator in rage and crash his car. |
| 80 | *** Also on ''Hell: The Sequel'', in "I'm On Everything", Slim reverts to his ''Relapse'' Jamaican accent, then says, "I’ll send a fuckin' axe at you if you insist on a fuckin' accent[[note]](axe-sent)[[/note]]" |
| 81 | *** "Heat" opens with Em asking a girl if she's his ''Relapse'' album because "you've got an ass thicker than those accents". |
| 82 | ** On ''The Marshall Mathers LP 2'': |
| 83 | *** "Bad Guy" and the following skit, "Parking Lot", both express shame about "Criminal", a button-pushing homophobic song that he made in response to being forced to tone down some homophobia in the second verse of "My Name Is". In "Bad Guy", Eminem is murdered by a LoonyFan who plays him "Criminal" to taunt him before murdering him in the names of Stan and the bisexual hip-hop artist Music/FrankOcean - tacitly admitting hip-hop should really belong to the people he made fun of. In "Parking Lot", we return to the skit in the middle of "Criminal", only [[DownerEnding Slim gets hemmed in by cops and shoots himself]], as a metaphor for how there actually were consequences for the stuff he said on "Criminal". |
| 84 | *** "Headlights", where he admits he came to ''hate'' "Cleanin' Out My Closet" (One of his biggest hits off of ''Music/TheEminemShow'', where he constantly jabs and declares ''hatred'' at his mother for his crappy upbringing) after his overdose in 2008. "Headlights" itself is Eminem actually apologizing to his mother for his horrible attitude ''and the song he made to diss her over ten years ago''. He eventually grew to hate the song so much that he flat out refused to perform it ever again, citing his moderating views of his mother as the reason. While he continues to own how much his childhood sucked, he's less inclined to take it out on his mom, nowadays feeling that she did the best she could in a bad situation, and in many ways had it just as bad as he did. |
| 85 | ** Surprisingly averted with ''Revival'', as despite being his most reviled album since ''Encore'', Em himself has not expressed dislike for it (though he's admitted he was unsure about it) and has more or less implied that he did not intend for it to turn out as mediocre as it did, saying, "I spend a lot of time writing shit that I think nobody ever gets." That said, he did take the poor reception to heart, convincing him to write, record and release an entire new album mere months later, which became ''Kamikaze''. |
| 86 | ** Eminem's opinion on ''Recovery'' has also soured: |
| 87 | *** On "So Far..": |
| 88 | ---->''Another one, after ''Recovery'' was so coveted, but what good is a fucking recovery if I fumble it?'' |
| 89 | *** In a 2017 radio appearance to promote ''Revival'', Eminem expressed annoyance that ''Recovery'' [[AudienceColoringAdaptation typecast him]] as having 'gone serious', despite returning to comedic rap on later albums (and even on ''Recovery'' itself, which ended with a HiddenTrack as TheStinger in which the PutOnABus Slim Shady returned). He complained that if you do a new album, people think that's ''all'' you are, forever, and that due to ''Recovery'''s [[ToughActToFollow outsized influence]] some of his fans now didn't understand he was a funny artist or think he lost his sense of humour. |
| 90 | *** On ''Kamikaze'', Eminem expresses distaste for his ''Recovery'' sound and persona numerous times - promising the listener that you'd swear he forgot he wrote "Not Afraid"[[note]]An inspirational and happy song in which Eminem adopts a new [[TheParagon Paragon]] persona to encourage his fans through their darkness, swearing off drugs, drama and shock comedy albums[[/note]], and by bashing a particular FollowTheLeader subgenre of rap that he describes as "a ''Recovery'' clone of me". ''Recovery'' is DamnedByAFoolsPraise on "Killshot", as Music/MachineGunKelly thinks it's Eminem's last good album, despite not being able to count how many albums ago it was. Eminem proceeds to tear into him for his [[InUniverseFactoidFailure arithmetic]], but also his terrible taste in music and [[MisaimedFandom lack of understanding of Eminem's work]]. |
| 91 | ** Perhaps some of the most infamous examples are the racist freestyles that a teenaged Music/{{Eminem}} recorded, after being dumped by a black girlfriend. To this day, he hates the fact that those tapes ever saw the light of day and even made a song ("Yellow Brick Road") to officially apologize for ever creating them. |
| 92 | ** [[WordOfGod Eminem himself]] has confirmed ''Infinite'' as his personal OldShame, citing that he had not found his style yet (and it shows, notably, his [[RefugeInAudacity Slim]] [[EvilIsCool Shady]] persona is nowhere to be found on the album) and that he [[FollowTheLeader sounded too much like Nas]]. |
| 93 | ** In his song "When I'm Gone", Eminem expresses distress over the kind of person he was when he created the Slim Shady character and says he doesn't want to perform that kind of material any more. At the time, he referred to it as 'the death of Slim Shady'. The character was retired for a while, but it didn't stick. |
| 94 | ** Em also seems to be disappointed with his "comeback" CD, ''Relapse''. On "Not Afraid", he actually apologizes for it. However, [[CultClassic fan]] and [[VindicatedByHistory growing critical]] approval for the album has led to him looking on it more fondly in recent years, with him revisiting the ''Relapse'' subject matter in 2017's "Framed" and [[WhatTheHellIsThatAccent rapping style]] in 2020's "Discombobulated". |
| 95 | ** After facing a backlash against his use of a homophobic slur to refer to Music/TylerTheCreator on ''Kamikaze'', Eminem declared that he wouldn't use those words again. Since 2018, he has stopped using them in live performances and also omits other homophobic material (like the verse in "Marshall Mathers" in which he called Music/InsaneClownPosse gay). Mind you, Em had faced backlash from queer-rights organizations since day 1 but initially blew them off, but public attitudes towards LGBT+ people had changed drastically between 2000 and 2018. |
| 96 | * Music/SirMixALot, who wrote "Baby Got Back", has admitted to being incredibly annoyed by the song, as he has re-written it at least 3 times for different shows and has virtually eclipsed the rest of his career. He has since embraced the song's ubiquity, probably because [[MoneyDearBoy it still makes him a lot of money]]. However, he's also had great fun lampooning it--for example, appearing on ''Radio/WaitWaitDontTellMe'' and [[https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129487951 trading jokes with host Peter Sagal]] in 2010 (in relation to a bit about pre-crash Washington Mutual bankers performing "Baby Got Bucks"). |
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| 98 | |
| 99 | [[folder:Metal]] |
| 100 | * Music/IronMaiden hasn't played any song from ''No Prayer for the Dying'' since Music/BruceDickinson's departure in 1993, other than "Bring Your Daughter to the Slaughter" (and this one hasn't appeared since 2003!). Likewise, the only track from ''Fear of the Dark'' that survived in setlists was the title track (another, "Afraid to Shoot Strangers", was sung by Blaze Bayley during his tenure, and then by Bruce himself in the Maiden England tour). |
| 101 | ** On the subject of Blaze Bayley, you're unlikely to hear many songs from his albums ''The X Factor'' or ''Virtual XI''. Bruce did sing some of them in the concerts between his return in 1999 and recording ''Brave New World'' the year after, but that's it. |
| 102 | ** Steve Harris also despises the first two albums that the band released. They still play songs from them, but that's not to say they won't call it the "Jurassic period" or something else along those lines. |
| 103 | *** Paul Di'Anno, who sang on those first two albums, initially looked to be having a promising career out of the band with his projects Battlezone and Killers, but due to various personal problems, they didn't last very long. From the 90s onwards he's been playing the material from the first two Iron Maiden albums because that is what most crowds want to hear. He is completely sick of the songs and freely admits to it in interviews, but notes that he can always make good money touring them. Consequently, many live videos of him doing the songs feature him slurring or getting the crowd to sing certain lyrics. However, Di'Anno's newest band, Architects of Chaos, has gone down well with fans who have noted Di'Anno's enthusiasm for his new music, so he may be able to distance himself more credibly from Maiden in future. |
| 104 | * Music/DevinTownsend: |
| 105 | ** Most famously, he has distanced himself as much as he can from his former Extreme Metal group Strapping Young Lad, stating on his website that he only ever thought of them as a parody of death metal, and had gone through several {{Creator Breakdown}}s as a result of having to summon up the original anger he felt when writing ''Heavy as a Really Heavy thing'' and ''City''. That said, he's still friends with the band members, and has occasionally played what he calls "cover" versions of two of SYL's most popular songs: ''Love'' and ''Detox'', often with a skit pointing out that he doesn't feel the same way about the music as he did back when he recorded it. |
| 106 | ** he also came to dislike the song ''Lucky Animals'' from ''Epicloud'', but for a much more benign reason: his kids and his friends' kids learned the song and began singing to him ad nauseum. |
| 107 | * Frankie Palmeri of Music/{{Emmure}} has said that he thinks that their 2012 album ''Slave to the Game'' sucks outside of a few songs. |
| 108 | * Music/{{Helloween}} refuse to play any songs from the albums ''Pink Bubbles Go Ape'' and ''Chameleon'', both of which were released after Kai Hansen left the band, but before Michael Weikath got fed up with Michael Kiske and kicked him out of the band. Fortunately, the fans don't ''want'' them to play any songs from these albums. |
| 109 | ** Speaking of Kiske, he openly hates metal (despite being one of the most iconic voices of PowerMetal) and only produces light acoustic music these days. He will, however, appear as a guest on some power metal albums, particularly for Music/GammaRay and Music/{{Avantasia}}. |
| 110 | ** Kiske's backlash arguably doesn't apply so much any more, considering he's taken part regularly in a few projects which have been hard rock driven with some power metal roots and Unisonic (a hard rock band which he formed that also includes Kai Hansen) have done covers of Helloween's "I Want Out" and "Future World" live as encores for their sets. That said, his own songwriting is still mostly acoustic music (although his last solo record dates back to 2008, which was before Unisonic were formed). |
| 111 | * The members of Autopsy had mixed success with the band, so they reformed into HardcorePunk band Abcess, just as their early material was being VindicatedByHistory. They were less than pleased when all people wanted to talk to them about was the band they just left, causing them to take shots at their old material. |
| 112 | * Timo Tolkki expressed in an interview his dislike towards the self-titled album for Music/{{Stratovarius}}. |
| 113 | --> "[[http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=70528 That record was just put together from bits and pieces; I really don't like that record. It wasn't how it's meant to be done with us.]]" |
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| 116 | [[folder:Pop]] |
| 117 | * Music/{{Madonna}} has said that if she knew she'd be called the "Material Girl" for almost thirty years, she would have never recorded the song. This is because the song is meant to be a satire of materialism, and [[PoesLaw yet people took it at face value]]. |
| 118 | ** She also has some disdain for [[Music/MadonnaAlbum her first album]], feeling the songs were immature (though still good) and that she had less creative input than she would've liked. |
| 119 | * Music/BobbyMcFerrin has completely disowned "Don't Worry, Be Happy" because of MisaimedFandom: he intended it as satire, but most fans of the song took it at face value. When he signed up with a new record contract, he went through great trouble in negotiation to insure that he never, ever, ever, ever has to play that song ever again. |
| 120 | * Elly Jackson of Music/LaRoux has shown regret over the success of her SignatureSong, "Bulletproof". In an interview she declared she "wasn't keen on it", and that she "wouldn't want to have a hit like that again" due to the fact that it has no personal meaning to her. She also hates the song's SurrealMusicVideo and wishes she could "erase it". |
| 121 | * Music/VanessaCarlton was sick of only being known for the traveling piano in her music video for "A Thousand Miles", so she had the video for "Nolita Fairytale" start with the piano getting destroyed by a passing taxi. (She [[https://www.elle.com/culture/music/a43139/vanessa-carlton-a-thousand-miles/ is fine]] with the song these days.) |
| 122 | * Music/PetulaClark was not the biggest fan of one of her big American hits, "My Love." She does perform it from time to time at concerts, though, usually as part of a medley of '60s hits or in a different style. |
| 123 | * Be careful in mentioning "Boom Bang-A-Bang" or "I'm A Tiger" to Lulu. |
| 124 | * Or "Monsieur Dupont" to Sandie Shaw. |
| 125 | * Music/{{aha}} dislikes their most well-known song, "Take on Me". Magne Furuholmen stated, "We've done better songs. It's great to be recognized, shame it's 'Take On Me.'" |
| 126 | * Music/SimpleMinds: |
| 127 | ** For the longest time, the band disliked "Don't You Forget About Me." In fact in the original recording Jim Kerr intentionally slurred his vocal in parts because he hated some of the lyrics ("I'll be around, dancin' you know it baby" for instance). Jim has come to appreciate the song since then, mainly because he loves the crowd reaction it gets and because he has since rerecorded the song to his liking (For instance the Special Mix by Hu-Mate which appears on Live And Rare). |
| 128 | ** They have never been fond of their debut album, ''Life in a Day'', because they felt it didn't really capture their sound, coupled with how poorly it charted. They recorded the album ''Real to Real Cacophony'' very soon after as a way to make up for it. It was even less successful. |
| 129 | * While "853-5937" was one of Music/{{Squeeze|Band}}'s biggest U.S. hits, both Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook (the band's only constant members and songwriters) hated the song and prevented it from being on any compilations. |
| 130 | * Music/{{Heart|Band}} never wanted to record Creator/RobertJohnMuttLange's "All I Wanna Do Is Make Love to You," but their record label insisted. It became a major hit, so they played it on that tour, but they have not played it since. Ann Wilson has stated that it grossed her out. |
| 131 | ** In fact, Heart very rarely plays any of their 80s output because of all the pressures the record label put on them to record music they didn't like. The only exceptions are "Alone" and "These Dreams", their only two chart-toppers. |
| 132 | * Jeff Lynne, leader of Music/ElectricLightOrchestra, came to detest the music he wrote for the movie ''Film/{{Xanadu|1980}}'', due to how the music was used. He seems to have lightened up about it, though, as he covered Xanadu's theme for the compilation album ''Flashback''. |
| 133 | * Music/RandyNewman expressed regret for writing "Short People", calling it a novelty song and noting that the song's message (a satire against prejudice) was being interpreted literally by listeners. |
| 134 | * Singer-songwriter Music/MandyMoore regrets her teenage IdolSinger years, and has said that she will provide refunds to anyone who bought her first two albums. Her music nowadays is indie folk-pop. Apparently she actually ''did'' refund someone's money for the album ''So Real'' when they called her bluff on a radio show. |
| 135 | * Music/KellyClarkson has been complaining about [[ExecutiveMeddling the studio]] including the song "Already Gone" on her album ''All I Ever Wanted'', because the final cut ended up sounding like "Halo" by Beyonce. Both songs were written by the same songwriter (Ryan Tedder) and have ''the same backing track''. |
| 136 | ** Kelly Clarkson also dislikes "A Moment Like This" since the American Idol executives forced her to record it. Similarly, she also dislikes "My Life Would Suck Without You" since she was forced to collaborate with producer Dr. Luke, whom she'd had bad experiences with in the past. For the latter, Kelly Clarkson also refused to take a co-writer's credit. |
| 137 | * Latin singer Music/RickyMartin hates "Livin' La Vida Loca." Whenever he performs it now, he does it in a different style. |
| 138 | * Music/{{Air|Band}} have expressed displeasure with "Pocket Symphony", blaming their work on Charlotte Gainsbourg's debut for taking up all of their creative effort. |
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| 141 | [[folder: Prog Rock]] |
| 142 | * Music/KingCrimson refuse to play anything from their first few albums live for fear of "...becoming old dinosaurs." Aside from official pronouncements, the period between ''Islands'' (4th album) and ''Lark's Tongues in Aspic'' (5th album) marked the permanent departure of lyricist Peter Sinfield, along with every other band member (and writer) save Robert Fripp himself, and the adoption of a completely new musical style, with a different instrumental line-up. It would be reasonable to infer that royalty considerations, difficulty in adapting the music for the new lineup and desire not to revisit an era that was so carefully abandoned have all played a part. This has not stopped Fripp from overseeing extensive remasters of the early albums. He'd probably deny that money was the prime consideration... |
| 143 | * Music/PinkFloyd: |
| 144 | ** Roger Waters and David Gilmour both expressed disappointment with ''Music/{{Ummagumma}}'', with Gilmour calling it "horrible" and Waters referring to it as "a disaster". |
| 145 | ** ''Music/AtomHeartMother'' got to number 1 in the UK album charts and was taken on tour with a full brass section. But, as the 1970s progressed, the band went off the title piece entirely. Their public statements on it [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom_Heart_Mother#Quotes (see the Other Wiki)]] indicate that they consider it badly done, meaningless and pretentious. They have also stated that during that period (between the departure of Music/SydBarrett and the completion of ''Music/{{Meddle}}'') they had no idea of what they were doing or where they were going. Music/RogerWaters has stated that he wouldn't perform it again even for a million pounds. David Gilmour's attitude towards the suite has since warmed, and in 2008 he guested on a performance of the suite by a tribute band, the suite's co-songwriter Ron Geesin and an orchestra. |
| 146 | ** The band suffered varying levels of this with "Money", the hit single from ''Music/TheDarkSideOfTheMoon'', Roger Waters being most affected. It wasn't for any of the usual reasons, more that it was symptomatic of a major change in the relationship with the fans. Prior to ''The Dark Side of the Moon'', the audience would keep quiet during the quiet pieces and applaud at the end. After the huge success of the album, their vastly increased audiences were a lot louder and rowdier, and spent a lot of time shouting requests to play "Money". (This ultimately led to the incident on the ''Music/{{Animals|1977}}'' tour when Roger Waters spat on a particularly loud and rowdy fan. And the fan ''liked it.''). They probably got over it by 2005, when they performed "Money" as one of the five songs performed during their Live 8 Reunion. |
| 147 | ** David Gilmour hated nearly all of 1983's ''Music/TheFinalCut'', partly because some of the tracks on that album were rejected songs from ''Music/TheWall'' and party because Roger had all but taken over at that point. He liked several of them though, and included 'Fletcher Memorial Home' on their self-picked greatest hits double-album. |
| 148 | ** Music/RogerWaters has mentioned he dislikes the very 1980s production on ''Radio KAOS'', saying he was led into directions he was uncomfortable in as he was distracted by "all that Music/PinkFloyd litigation". |
| 149 | --> ''Between (guitarist/producer) Ian Ritchie and myself, we really fucked that record up. We tried too hard to make it sound modern. I allowed myself to get pushed down roads that were uncomfortable for me. I should never have made that record.'' - '''Roger Waters''' |
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| 152 | [[folder:Rock]] |
| 153 | * Music/{{Devo}} dumped the albums, ''Shout'', ''Total Devo'', and ''Smooth Noodle Maps'' in the crapper, and haven't performed a thing from any of them since reuniting in 1995. |
| 154 | ** Devo's also lambasted their brief foray into CD-ROM gaming, "The Adventures of the Smart Patrol". |
| 155 | ** Comments on the ill-fated [[{{Disneyfication}} Devo 2.0]] project with Creator/{{Disney}} have been more about how absurd it was, and that being the reason why they did it. |
| 156 | * This general concept is parodied amusingly in the Music/BarenakedLadies song "Box Set": "I never thought I'd be regretful/Of all my past success/But some stupid No.1 hit single/Has got me in this mess..." Which is ironic, in hindsight, as that's what "One Week" turned out to be: their stupid No.1 hit single. Not a bad song, but definitely atypical. BNL's reaction? Call their greatest hits collection ''Disc One'' after another line in "Box Set" ("Disc One, it's where I've begun/It's all my greatest hits"), try to name one of the new songs on that collection "One Weaker" ([[ExecutiveMeddling it didn't stick]]), mock it on their next album, ''Everything to Everyone'' ("Kinda like the last time/With a bunch of really fast rhymes/If we're living in the past, I'm/Soon gone."), and move on. They still play "One Week" at concerts, but they often swap it out for an acoustic version. |
| 157 | * Patrick Stump, lead singer of Music/FallOutBoy, played with this trope in a 2013 interview with ''Rolling Stone'' after the band reunited; the backlash wasn't for the band itself or even for the music, but more for the scene they became associated with: |
| 158 | --> "I never wanted to be in an {{emo}} band, and somehow I ended up in one of the biggest emo bands, and for a long time I hated it more than anybody." |
| 159 | * Music/{{Radiohead}} grew to hate their first hit song "Creep" from ''Music/PabloHoney'' because people would show up to their concerts exclusively to hear it, acting indignant until they play it and leaving immediately afterwards. They continued to play it reluctantly, usually stating how they have no respect for the people that want to hear it right before. They eventually cut the song from their setlist altogether for a long period of time, and wrote "My Iron Lung" about it (sample lyrics: "This/This is our new song/Just like the last one/A total waste of time/My iron lung") |
| 160 | ** Ed O'Brien has said the distinctive guitar crunch in "Creep" resulted from guitarist Jonny Greenwood intentionally trying to ruin the even-then despised song during recording. The band felt it improved the song so they [[ThrowItIn kept it in]]. |
| 161 | ** By TheNew10s, the band seemed to have made peace with "Creep" now that they've long escaped its shadow and are known for much more than only it. The song now makes occasional appearances in their setlists, and it's typically very warmly received by audiences. |
| 162 | ** Thom Yorke also dislikes another early hit, "High and Dry"; in his words, "It's not bad...it's very bad." Radiohead hasn't performed it live since 1998. |
| 163 | ** While they weren't particularly hits, the band also quickly disowned the single "Pop Is Dead" and the ''Music/PabloHoney'' album track "Prove Yourself" - they consider the former a poorly written song, and just quickly stopped playing the latter live because they were unsettled by the audience singing along to the repeated line "I'm better off dead". |
| 164 | ** They've also admitted to being slightly disappointed with the way ''Hail To The Thief'' turned out, arguing that the album had about four too many songs and that they recorded and mixed the album too quickly. |
| 165 | * One of the reasons that a Music/LedZeppelin reunion took so long to fully materialize is because Robert Plant came to utterly abhor "Stairway to Heaven" from ''Music/LedZeppelinIV'', calling it "that bloody wedding song." |
| 166 | ** [[AvertedTrope Jimmy Page, though, has shown that he loves it.]] |
| 167 | ** Conversely, Jimmy Page has derided "Living Loving Maid (She's Just a Woman)" as filler. The song reportedly offended his girlfriend. This is probably why their 1990 self-titled box set, which Page produced and compiled, features "Heartbreaker" but not "Living Loving Maid", even though they're SiameseTwinSongs on ''Music/LedZeppelinII'' - on the box set "Heartbreaker" segues into "Communication Breakdown" from ''Music/LedZeppelin1969'' instead. |
| 168 | * The Music/JimiHendrix Experience eventually grew to hate their cover of "Hey Joe" from ''Music/AreYouExperienced''. Famously, during a televised performance on British talk show ''It's Lulu'', Hendrix cut the song short, announced "We'd like to stop playing this rubbish," and launched into an impromptu cover of Cream's "Sunshine of Your Love". |
| 169 | ** Towards the end of his life, Hendrix had gotten tired of guitar-driven psychedelic music, lamenting that he was only known for 'guitar tricks' and not much else while knowing full well that his style of music wouldn't last. At a concert, he had an angry encounter with an audience member who insisted he play "Foxy Lady", responding with "That's what happens when Earth fucks with Space!" before leaving in disgust. [[note]]Hendrix believed in the idea that Earth -- the basic and plain parts of music -- combined with Space -- the uncontrolled bizarre stuff that by itself was nonsensical -- made for the best music.[[/note]] His later live performances found him detached and almost bored. It's believed that had he not died of an accidental overdose, Hendrix would have moved on to a new genre -- ProgressiveRock -- and may have joined with the then-still-in-development Music/EmersonLakeAndPalmer[[note]]Or alternately, gotten into funk; the Band of Gypsies concert shows Hendrix was well aware of contemporary "black" music of the time[[/note]]. |
| 170 | * Al Jourgensen, leader of the pioneer industrial rock band Music/{{Ministry}}, repeatedly voices his complete disgust for their early synth-pop years, especially their debut album ''With Sympathy''. Jourgensen claimed that they recorded "an abortion" due to their record label demanding that they record a synth-pop album and allegedly destroys any copy of the album that he can find. As of recently, he claimed as a joke that he'd sign copies of the record for $1,000, however on a couple of instances fans actually fronted the cash, so he did as he "promised" and signed the record in exchange for their money - which he immediately donated to charity. |
| 171 | ** He also hated the song "Stigmata", which was one of the band's first popular songs - he considers it too simplistic and claims he wrote it at the last minute because [[AlbumFiller the album was running a bit too short]]. He got over his dislike for the song after a while, but it was very rarely played live during the band's career. |
| 172 | * Music/NeilYoung was unwilling to re-release his ''Time Fades Away'' live album due to bad memories of the preceding tour and Young's decision to have the album processed on the unreliable "Compumix," an early computerized mixer (which a worker called the "Compufuck"), hindering any hopes of remastering the album. ''Time Fades Away'' was not released on CD until August 2017. |
| 173 | ** Young also came to accept Lynyrd Skynyrd's barbs in their "Sweet Home Alabama" at his "Alabama" and (to an extent) "Southern Man." Upon hearing it later, Young thought his lyrics for "Alabama" (a treatise about racism) were condescending, accusatory and not well thought out. |
| 174 | * Music/KurtCobain often mentioned in interviews that he thought "Smells Like Teen Spirit" from ''Music/{{Nevermind|Album}}'' was one of the worst songs he wrote and [[MagnumOpusDissonance wondered why even one of what he considered his better songs]] (like "Drain You", which was played at every Music/{{Nirvana}} concert from its writing until the day he died) wasn't a hit like "Teen Spirit". |
| 175 | ** Cobain also hated the polished sound of ''Music/{{Nevermind|Album}}''. |
| 176 | * Speaking of ''Nevermind'', just a few years later, producer Butch Vig was tired of the amount of [[ThreeChordsAndTheTruth simplistic]], loud rock bands he attracted, leading him to form the GenreBusting Music/{{Garbage}}. And the name of his current studio is {{Grunge}}isdead. |
| 177 | * Music/{{Sting}} started to hate how "[[AntiLoveSong Every Breath You Take]]" from ''Music/{{Synchronicity}}'' was being [[IsntItIronic interpreted as a romantic song]]. The first song he released as a solo artist, "If You Love Somebody Set Them Free", was an AnswerSong against "Every Breath You Take", and he refused to play the latter after a certain point except at one concert, where he changed half the lyrics. |
| 178 | * Music/BillyJoel: |
| 179 | ** He got sick of "Piano Man" for a time and refused to sing it in concert. He got over it, though the audience tends to save him the trouble of singing it when he plays it nowadays. |
| 180 | *** Joel has [[WordOfGod clarified]] in his Q+A seminars that it was untrue that he hated "Piano Man", only [[http://www.billyjoel.com/questions-and-answers/being-known-as-the-piano-man-what-positive-or-negative-feelings-do-you-have-for-that-song that he felt bemused as to its popularity and felt the melody was repetitive and never goes anywhere]]. |
| 181 | ** He's not too fond of "Just the Way You Are" either, because it's a love song to his first wife Elizabeth Weber, whom he later divorced. |
| 182 | ** Joel also retired "Uptown Girl" (another love song to an ex-wife, this time Christine Brinkley) from his stage show for a long time, but he eventually reintroduced it. |
| 183 | *** In a 2014 interview, Billy claimed his reasons for not performing "Uptown Girl" very often have more to do with how hard it is on his voice to perform it[[note]]It was written as a [[Music/TheFourSeasons Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons]] pastiche as part of the retro-leaning 1983 ''An Innocent Man'' album, written in a high key using Valli's trademark falsetto/high-pitched singing style[[/note]] than anything against the song or Brinkley (he gets along very well with her, and even sang it for her at a July 2014 concert). |
| 184 | ** While he doesn't outright ''hate'' "We Didn't Start the Fire", he considers it more of a novelty song for him and not one of his finest melodies. [[WordOfGod He has also claimed]] WDSTF is one of his hardest songs to perform as it's difficult for him to remember all the lyrics, and if he misses any of them, "the whole thing falls apart". |
| 185 | ** He is also ashamed of having appeared on the panned self-titled album by the very short-lived rock band Attila, calling it "psychedelic bullshit". |
| 186 | * Music/FiveIronFrenzy came to hate "Combat Chuck" and completely stopped playing it at shows. Eventually, on their farewell tour they reinstated it as part of the "Medley of Power Ballads and Bad Taste". And they even expressed their hatred here, replacing the last part of the lyrics in the medley with "This song sucks/Put it back, Put it back." |
| 187 | * Noel Gallagher of Music/{{Oasis}} describes their third album, ''Music/BeHereNow'', as "the sound of a bunch of guys on coke in the studio not giving a fuck." He also started to dislike "Roll With It", calling it "appalling". |
| 188 | ** This is why "Roll With It" doesn't appear on the band's best of album despite (nearly) being a No.1 single. There are also no songs from ''Be Here Now'' although there were a few that could reasonably have been included (most notably "Stand by Me" and "Don't Go Away", which remains one of the band's biggest hits in the US and is reasonably popular back home; Noel considered another, "D'You Know What I Mean?", which he stated to appreciate, but gave up since "[[EpicRocking its length]] upset the flow of the record"). Liam, incidentally, ''does'' like ''Be Here Now'', in a rare case of BrokenBase extending to the actual creators. (Noel and Liam Gallagher not agreeing on something? [[SarcasmMode Shocking.]]) |
| 189 | ** Liam Gallagher's opinion on "Wonderwall": |
| 190 | --> "[[http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2008/08/31/liam_gallagher_hates_wonderwall_ I can't fucking stand that fucking song! Every time I have to sing it I want to gag. Problem is, it was a big, big tune for us.]]" |
| 191 | ** And now Noel states that "We should have never made ''Standing On The Shoulder of Giants''." (''Be Here Now''[='=]s successor, widely considered the band's low point), claiming he was burned out and uninspired but Liam pressured him into writing new songs. |
| 192 | ** Noel bears a particular hatred for "Sunday Morning Call", to the point where it only appeared on their GreatestHitsAlbum ''Time Flies'' as a HiddenTrack. |
| 193 | ** Noel recorded a commentary track for their ''Time Flies'' music video DVD collection, where he spends quite a bit of time mocking the band's singles from the late 1990s and early 2000s (with particular disdain towards the aforementioned "Sunday Morning Call"), despite at the time defending them heavily in the press. He goes as far as to ask why somebody didn't take him to one side and tell him to "just stop". |
| 194 | * Several Beatles have tried to disown Music/TheBeatles or their work at some point in their solo careers. |
| 195 | ** Music/JohnLennon says "I don't believe in Beatles" at the climax of "God" from ''Music/JohnLennonPlasticOnoBand''. This sentiment is also expressed in some of his writings: "they picked on Yoko, so..." |
| 196 | ** Early on, Music/PaulMcCartney was so desperate to distance himself from The Beatles that his 1973 college tour included no Beatles material--at a time when he didn't have much solo material. Possible subversion later--in the '80s, Paul was presumed to be trying to distance himself from the Beatles when he was also heavily [[CoverVersion covering]] his part of their work. |
| 197 | ** Music/GeorgeHarrison said that his biggest break was getting into the Beatles, and his second biggest break was getting out of the Beatles. |
| 198 | ** John, George and Ringo have all gone on record as utterly detesting "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" from ''Music/AbbeyRoad'' partially because Paul insisted on recording it and re-recording it so many times, and partially because John and George considered it "granny music" to start with. Ringo, on the other hand, is on record as stating that he loathes the song because of the excessive-to-the-point-of-creepy [[LyricalDissonance dissonance between the song and its lyrics]] -- what seems like a cute pop ditty is actually a celebration of a serial killer of the Ted Bundy type. |
| 199 | ** Also worth noting is John's {{parody}} of Paul's biggest hit "Yesterday" from ''Music/{{Help}}'': "Yesterday / I'm not half the man I used to be / That's because I'm an amputee..." Supposedly John never cared for the song and didn't particularly like having his name on it. |
| 200 | *** Paul and their producer George Martin did originally want to release it as a solo song, but ExecutiveMeddling proved otherwise. |
| 201 | ** Jane Asher never wants to talk about her relationship with [=McCartney=] anymore. So don't ask her. |
| 202 | ** John wasn't fond of the way "Help!" (the song) turned out, as its lyrics were meant to be serious. He wanted it to be a piano ballad. |
| 203 | ** John was also unimpressed with the popularity of "Hello, Goodbye!" saying "'I Am The Walrus' was the B side to 'Hello, Goodbye!'" |
| 204 | * Music/EltonJohn's 2002 hit "This Train Don't Stop Here Anymore" is about an aging, weary and lonely rock star, heavily implied to be John himself, reflecting cynically on his life, career and music. While the song is about his life in general, the first verse in particular has some very snarky things to say about his music: |
| 205 | -->All the things I've said in songs\ |
| 206 | All the purple prose you bought from me\ |
| 207 | Reality's just black and white\ |
| 208 | The sentimental things I'd write\ |
| 209 | Never meant that much to me |
| 210 | ** The video for the above -- based around a young Elton John preparing for a gig, and dealing with fans and hangers-on backstage, where it is clear that he is simply going through the motions with little real enthusiasm -- further adds to this reading. |
| 211 | ** Elton ''has'' openly expressed displeasure with his 1986 album, ''Leather Jackets'', claiming it was "one bag of coke after another" and that he was "not a well budgie" when he recorded it. Taupin has voiced displeasure of 1997's ''The Big Picture'' due to its slick production values (though he still likes the songs on it). Elton has also described 1973's ''Don't Shoot Me I'm Only The Piano Player'' as a disposable "bubblegum album" he recorded under pressure while sick with glandular fever and on the verge of a nervous breakdown. |
| 212 | ** By the time of his farewell tour, Elton said he could no longer stand "Crocodile Rock", and he would celebrate never having to play it again after the tour's end. |
| 213 | ** Bernie Taupin has publicly disowned the 1982 album ''Jump Up!'' feeling it was "disposable" save for "Empty Garden", Elton's tribute to Music/JohnLennon. |
| 214 | * Bloodrock turned away from HardRock on their last two albums (partially due to their original lead singer [[TheBandMinusTheFace being replaced]] by a born-again Christian). During live performances, the band often refused to play their earlier songs with morbid or cynical themes such as "Whiskey Vengeance" and "D.O.A." (their only actual hit). |
| 215 | * For a while, Music/{{REM}} tried their best to pretend that "Shiny Happy People" did not exist. Until the group disbanded in 2011, the song was not included on any of the group's best-of compilations despite being one of their highest charting hits, and the band never played the song in concert. Michael Stipe has openly admitted that he hates the song and refuses to discuss it in interviews. Interestingly, Peter Buck, whom one would think would be the type to detest the song the most, has since admitted [[DefiedTrope he doesn't see what all the fuss is about]] and considers "Shiny Happy People" a good song. |
| 216 | * Music/PaulMcCartney seems to have disowned "Spies Like Us", his Top Ten recording from the 1985 [[Film/SpiesLikeUs film of the same name]]. The song has not appeared on any of the numerous best-ofs Paul has released—not even on ''Pure [=McCartney=]'', a 2016 compilation that's his first to have included any post-1984 material. To date, the song's only appearance on a [=McCartney=] album of any sort is the CD reissue of ''Press to Play'', one of his rarest and least sought-after albums. |
| 217 | ** The song also does not appear on the film's soundtrack album (though to be fair, Creator/VareseSarabande [which specializes in score albums anyway, not song sets] could hardly have been expected to be able to license one of the most famous artists on the planet back in 1985 - or indeed today, Sting and Bryan Adams' presence on the ''Film/RacingStripes'' album notwithstanding). |
| 218 | * After Lifehouse had a hit with "Hanging by a Moment", it was common at that time for the members of the band to express their anger in interviews about how everyone would leave right after they played that song. Since then, they've had a number of other hits so it didn't happen much longer, but the song is now always near the end of their sets. |
| 219 | * Charlie Simpson, leader of the British post-hardcore band Fightstar, would like to pretend he was never a member of the boy band Busted. He did make an exception in 2010 to vigorously deny that he would be joining his ex-bandmates for a forthcoming reunion. |
| 220 | ** However, he has grown to appreciate his time at Busted when he finally joined his ex-bandmates in 2015 for a comeback tour and has said that he's not doing the comeback [[MoneyDearBoy for the money]] but because of how much he missed recording and performing music with his fellow bandmates. He has said that though Busted's comeback is long-term, it will not prevent him from continuing to performing music with his own band Fightstar. |
| 221 | * Outside of some Beethoven covers, Vanilla Fudge isn't too fond of their experimental second album, ''The Beat Goes On'', a project [[ExecutiveMeddling force-fed by producer George "Shadow" Morton]]. Bassist Tim Bogert has even gone so far as calling it "the album that killed the band". |
| 222 | * Anthony Kiedis, lead vocalist of the Music/RedHotChiliPeppers doesn't like "The Greeting Song" from ''Music/BloodSugarSexMagik'' very much - it only exists because Rick Rubin told him to write a song about girls and cars. |
| 223 | ** For some time Anthony didn't like performing anything from "One Hot Minute". Originally, this was because Music/JohnFrusciante made it a condition of his return to the band. After John left for the second time, Anthony was still not interested due to associating the album period with his relapse into heroin use. Due to excessive fan demand and the desire of Josh Klinghoffer, the band brought back "Aeroplane" on 'The Getaway' tour in 2016. |
| 224 | * Music/ElvisPresley had a well-documented dislike for many of the songs he was required to record during his movie contract (and for most of the films, too). The book "Elvis: The Illustrated Record" quotes him as once saying during a recording session "What can you do with shit like this?" and refusing an audience request to perform "Viva Las Vegas" during one of his Vegas concerts. Indeed, except for a few exceptions, most notably songs from ''Film/BlueHawaii'' such as "Can't Help Falling in Love" and several songs from his 1950s-era films, Presley generally refused to perform movie songs during his live concerts. He also tended to shuffle off most of his '50s hits either in medley form or in very truncated, almost joking fashion ("Hound Dog" being the prime example), though this is less likely due to distaste for them as it was a desire to focus on more current music. |
| 225 | ** Elvis was also furious when he heard of the existence of ''Music/HavingFunWithElvisOnStage'', an album that Colonel Parker brought out behind his back and was nothing but cobbled together stage banter without any actual music. He ordered to have this cheap cash-in to be retrieved from the stores immediately. |
| 226 | ** Had Elvis been alive when the bootleg album ''Elvis' Greatest Shit'' was released, it's unlikely he'd have disapproved of the content. |
| 227 | ** On a more serious note, Elvis was largely disillusioned with his own career and the state of the world in general and the music industry in particular when he realized people would rather listen to him rather than Fats Domino just because he was white. |
| 228 | ** Elvis didn't exactly ''hate'' "Way Down", but he remarked to Colonel Tom Parker that "This song is only good because it's funny. If it wasn't funny, then it just wouldn't be any good". |
| 229 | * Music/DavidBowie [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_Let_Me_Down#Quote_from_Bowie_on_Never_Let_Me_Down didn't think well]] of 1984's ''Tonight'' and especially 1987's ''Never Let Me Down'', which followed in the stylistic footsteps of ''Music/LetsDance'', his biggest-selling album. ''Never Let Me Down'''s supporting Glass Spider Tour turned out to be the only time he performed songs from it live. "Loving the Alien" (''Tonight'') and "Time Will Crawl" (''Never Let Me Down'') are apparent exceptions, since the former and a rerecording of the latter made his compilation ''[=iSelect=]''; the former also appeared in a stripped-down arrangement on the Reality Tour. |
| 230 | ** His most-analyzed lyrics, "Ashes to Ashes" from ''Music/ScaryMonstersAndSuperCreeps'', seem [[TakeThatMe to express discontent with practically all his previous work]]: |
| 231 | --->''I've never done good things,''\ |
| 232 | ''I've never done bad things,''\ |
| 233 | ''I've never done anything from out of the blue ...'' |
| 234 | ** And then the line that repeats over the coda, "Mama always said / To get things done / You better not mess with Major Tom", also seem to express resentment over the veneration of [[Music/SpaceOddity "Space Oddity"]] within his oeuvre. |
| 235 | ** Asking Music/DavidBowie what he thought of his novelty single "The Laughing Gnome" was only wise if the questioner was tired of life. Or, if he was in an amiable mood, only wise if the questioner wanted to hear a torrent of never-ending sarcasm. |
| 236 | * Although it was released on an EP, the lead track of which was 'Bad Days', Music/{{Space}}'s record company sent [=CDs=] of their cover of 'We Gotta Get Out Of This Place' to radio stations, and it ended up being the song that featured in a car advert, got played on the radio and on TV, and had a video made for it. The band were not pleased and felt that the record company had manipulated them. 'Dark Clouds' also incurred CreatorBacklash, probably because it came out around the time Jamie Murphy was having a nervous breakdown and Tommy Scott had lost his voice, plus Tommy sees it as being 'too wacky'. Before they split up, they played a garage rock version of 'Dark Clouds' at a couple of their gigs. |
| 237 | * Music/{{Blur}}, particularly [[TheQuietOne Graham Coxon]], are not particularly keen on ''The Great Escape'', the album which served as a rival piece to Music/{{Oasis}}' ''Music/WhatsTheStoryMorningGlory''. Damon Albarn said it was 'messy' and one of what he considered to be the only bad albums Blur had done (the others being ''Leisure'', and later ''Think Tank''), and "Country House" became an embarrassment. It probably doesn't help that the album is associated with the Oasis rivalry and the burgeoning 'lad' culture of the time. Perhaps unsurprisingly, they decided to go in a more lo-fi direction for the follow-up, ''Blur''. (That being said, they did play some songs from it at their more recent comeback gigs, including "Country House".) |
| 238 | ** Damon Albarn himself has no good things to say of ''Think Tank'', due to [[TroubledProduction how troubled its recording was]], the fact he had to finish it without [[BestFriend Coxon]], and his own meltdown resulting in a six-year hiatus for the band. |
| 239 | ** And he has even less good things to say from "No Distance Left to Run", from ''13''. In order to ''make that song'', he had to ''[[CreatorBreakdown come to terms with the end of his relationship with Justine Frischmann]]''. |
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| 241 | ** For over 20 years, he refused to perform the song "For Crying Out Loud", even when taking audience requests. In 2003 he sang it on his ''Live from Melbourne'' album, introducing it by saying he hadn't wanted to perform it for years, his current band hadn't practiced it, and he was out of practice with it. His reasoning was revealed during the Last At Bat UK Tour: He felt that it was Jim Steinman's greatest musical masterpiece, and always felt that when he sang it live that he never did it justice. |
| 242 | ** He refused to sing "Two Out of Three Ain't Bad" when it was requested, but would sing it when he felt like it. |
| 243 | ** The album ''Midnight At The Lost And Found''. The only track from that album that he's ever really played live is the title track, and the album is mostly forgotten by most people anyways. |
| 244 | ** He did not play anything from ''Bad Attitude'' since 1984/5 other than its biggest hit, "Modern Girl," which reappeared on the 1998 Best Of tour before being dropped again. A few songs from 'Blind Before I Stop' (the TitleTrack and "Masculine") survived for a few years, but neither of those were performed since at least 1990. Even 'Midnight''s title track was never played after 2003. |
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| 248 | * Music/StephenSondheim has often expressed disdain for his ''Theatre/WestSideStory'' lyrics, especially "I Feel Pretty". In ''Magazine/TimeMagazine'', he commented to the effect that the song in question sounded more like Music/ColePorter than anything an urban Latina would be likely to sing. |
| 249 | ** It's been said that he wrote the deliberately silly "Lovely" in ''Theatre/AFunnyThingHappenedOnTheWayToTheForum'' as a TakeThat to his own lyrics for "I Feel Pretty". |
| 250 | * One of the reasons Music/TomLehrer had such a short "active" musical career was that he quickly learned he was bored stiff by the idea of performing the same set of songs over and over and over. Some of his performances only happened because he wanted to visit the place where they were located. (Australia being a major example.) |
| 251 | * Novelty songs, when they are recorded by artists who primarily do serious work, almost invariably become a major thorn in the side of that artist. Nobody likes seeing the serious compositions they worked so hard to bring to life ignored in favor of some silly thing they did as a joke. |
| 252 | ** Chris Rice has expressed great disdain for his frequently requested "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWFJ_rykyA4 Cartoon Song]]". |
| 253 | ** Music/SteveTaylor, another Christian artist, didn't dislike his song "Lifeboat" until his audience kept screaming for it every night of that album's tour. Since the video featured Steve wearing drag to play the teacher, that was expected of him to do on stage as well, [[SarcasmMode which Steve greatly enjoyed]]. |
| 254 | * Frank Loesser was rather annoyed about "Thumbelina" being one of the most popular songs he'd written. |
| 255 | * Eric Boswell (1921-2009) was rather annoyed about [[SoMyKidsCanWatch nativity hit]] "Little Donkey" - he'd composed many other songs, many of them witty, satirical, irreverent and rooted in his [[OopNorth native Northern England]]. Plus, people kept assuming that he must have been old when he wrote it in 1959, and hence must have died in the mean time. He did admit liking the way that the royalties covered all his bills, though. |
| 256 | * Leslie Fish's ''Franchise/StarTrek'' [[FilkSong filk]] "Music/BannedFromArgo", about a rowdy ''[[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Enterprise]]'' shore leave, proved very popular over the years both with its original lyrics and with the many, many rewrites others have done to the same tune. At this point, Leslie absolutely ''will not'' play it, nor will she abide others playing it or any of the rewrites. On her website, she states that this is the song that she's the least proud of. |
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| 283 | * "Dance with the Devil" by Cozy Powell. "I only cut "Dance with the Devil" for a laugh, but then it escalated until I felt I was losing credibility..." It led to him quitting music and going into motor racing full time for a few months. |
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| 285 | * Music/{{Hawkwind}} (and particularly its writer, vocalist Bob Calvert) never had a problem with their hit single ''Silver Machine'', but a fair bit of ongoing tension arose over Ian "[[Music/{{Motorhead}} Lemmy]]" Kilminster (bass, backing vocal) taking over the lead vocal on account of him having the best voice for that particular song. They did, however, get peeved with fans loudly screaming for it during gigs, the implication being that this is the only thing the band recorded that was worth listening to. One LP used a live version as a closing track. It begins with Dave Brock sarcastically responding to fans demanding the song =- ''Yeah, my mum's got a washing machine!'' and the mix of the track, performed as an encore, gets to the end of ther first verse and chorus =- and then there is a massive explosion followed by silence. |
| 286 | * Former Music/HotHotHeat member Dustin Hawthorne once said of the band's biggest hit, Middle of Nowhere, "I hate ('Middle of Nowhere') and I wish it was never written. I can't deny that it definitely did something good for our career, for sure. But, to me, it's adult contemporary. And it's kind of funny to me, because I grew up playing punk and here I am playing this jackass-sounding song." |
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| 288 | * Ska band Music/{{Madness|Band}} really don't like their 6th album ''Mad Not Mad'', with advertisements for their upcoming twentieth anniversary editions of their old albums implying that they're not going to re-release it, instead deciding to re-release the album ''The Madness'' to which only four out of the seven original members actually contributed. |
| 289 | ** Though in the end, ''Mad Not Mad'' was indeed included in the reissue program. |
| 290 | ** They also dislike their single "Sorry" and consider it a mistake. |
| 291 | * Even though it's one of their biggest hits and the song that got them rolling in the US, Music/DepecheMode hasn't played "People Are People" live since 1988 because lead songwriter Martin Gore thinks the lyrics are too straightforward. |
| 292 | ** Also, they've renounced "It's Called a Heart" and [[HoYay "What's Your Name?"]] as the worst songs they ever recorded. |
| 293 | ** Additionally, DM have all but disowned ''A Broken Frame'', their 1982 sophomore effort, which they consider to be the worst album they've ever released. It was the only record not represented on their 2004 remix compilation, and has been completely absent from the band's live sets since 1986, save for an acoustic version of "Leave in Silence", which surfaced at a few shows on their 2006 tour. They've also refused to include their {{Narm}}-tacular videos from this era ("The Meaning of Love", "See You", "Leave in Silence") on video releases (though, interestingly, they are available on the band's website). |
| 294 | * Music/MatthewGood regrets ever writing "Rico". It's often requested at shows, and his animosity towards it is well known, to the point where one of the Matthew Good fan sites sells a shirt with 'RICO' inside the red 'no' symbol. Matt posted a picture of himself wearing the shirt on his Flickr account. |
| 295 | * One of Music/OingoBoingo's best-known songs, "Weird Science", (the theme song of the [[Film/WeirdScience film]] and [[Series/WeirdScience TV series]] of the same name) was actually despised by the band, who rarely (if ever) performed the song live. Supposedly, the song as it appears on the album was an unfinished version; the band was still working on a final composition when record executives misinterpreted their latest take as the official recording. |
| 296 | * Music/BoyGeorge has shown irritation at the Culture Club song "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?". With a few exceptions aside, he refuses to perform the song live on his solo shows. (The fact that his legal problems made this song a HilariousInHindsight moment for him doesn't help.) |
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| 298 | * British band Music/KillingJoke started with a hard-edged sound in the late '70s, but incorporated synthpop and dance music elements through the '80s. This culminated with synthesizer-driven albums ''Brighter than 1000 Suns'' in 1986, and 1988's ''Outside the Gate'' (a highly controversial release, often regarded by fans as a solo project by singer/keyboardist Jaz Coleman). After some down time, the band reformed with a harder than ever before industrial sound. Still performing today, they don't speak of their 1986 or 1988 releases and have reportedly never since performed any of the material from those two albums. Goths still tend to like the former, but the latter is despised by their entire fanbase and effectively [[FanonDiscontinuity does not exist to them]]. |
| 299 | * Jo O'Meara, formerly of the pop group Music/SClub7, went through a stage of wanting to be disassociated with the band and its squeaky-clean image, referring to their music as "total crap." Since then, however, she's reunited with former bandmates Bradley Macintosh and Paul Cattermole to perform the group's music on tour, and full-scale reunions have followed. We'll probably never know however if her newfound views were entirely due to changing tastes or whether she simply had no choice after committing career suicide thanks to the Celebrity Big Brother racism scandal back in 2007. |
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| 301 | * Music/AliceCooper never performs any of the songs off his 1982 album ''Zipper Catches Skin'' or 1983 album ''[=DaDa=]'' live. Both albums were recorded during a period of particularly heavy alcohol abuse on his part and he allegedly has no memory of making them. It's a shame as there are a couple of gems buried in there. |
| 302 | * Gerard Way, the frontman of Music/MyChemicalRomance has expressed disdain for their first album, and as such, songs from it are rarely played live. He has also stated that he doesn't want to write songs like that anymore because he doesn't want his daughter to perceive him as a "whiny victim." |
| 303 | * Music/WeirdAlYankovic: |
| 304 | ** Al doesn't like his debut album, mainly because it was rushed and recorded in a very short time. He once said he wishes he could go back and re-record it. |
| 305 | ** He doesn't have strong feelings for "Girls Just Wanna Have Lunch", which he did because the execs were pushing him to do a Music/CyndiLauper parody. Thus, it was the only food parody to not make it onto The Food Album, a compilation album also pushed onto Yankovic by his record label (which, along with his similar ''TV Album'' and two ''Greatest Hits'' albums, also falls under this category, as Al has stated he's not fond of compilation albums). Al seems to be mocking the song as he sings it. |
| 306 | ** He also hates one of the earliest hits from his {{Creator/Dr Demento}} days, "It's Still {{Music/Billy Joel}} to Me". This is because rather than being a good-natured parody of Joel's songs/style (as is Al's forte), it's a very mean-spirited and cynical tirade against the singer's music, image, and commercial success. Regarding it as an OldShame, Al hasn't performed it since [[The80s 1980, the year it came out]]. Ironically, [[ActuallyPrettyFunny Joel himself loved the parody]], [[ApprovalOfGod and even performed it at a few of his concerts]]! |
| 307 | ** "Achy Breaky Song" is a parody of Music/BillyRayCyrus's "Achy Breaky Heart", lampooning how overplayed the song had become and listing other widely hated music acts which he claims [[DamnedByFaintPraise wouldn't be as bad as "Achy Breaky Heart"]]. Al later felt bad about this parody and apologized to Billy Ray Cyrus by donating money to his favorite charity. |
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| 310 | * Music/LaurynHill doesn't particularly like her songs anymore, especially the ones from ''Music/TheMiseducationOfLaurynHill''. During performances she often performs unrecognizable remixes that are either sped up too much, too loud, or both. |
| 311 | * Given his taste for the weird, it's not surprising that Music/CaptainBeefheart disowned his 1974 albums ''Music/UnconditionallyGuaranteed'' and ''Music/BluejeansAndMoonbeams'', his two least experimental albums. While he was no stranger to conventional compositions, ("Observatory Crest" is ''very'' conventional, but is considered to be the only "classic Beefheart" track on any of those albums), he felt that the resulting albums were ''too'' conventional. |
| 312 | ** In fact, these albums were blatant sellouts that Beefheart was sure would attract girls and money, but it turned out that the only people who bought them were already fans, who didn't like them. When the albums got bad reviews he suddenly started saying people should return those albums and he'd refund them their money. |
| 313 | * Jason Martin of Music/{{Starflyer 59}} can't stand to listen to his first album, ''Silver'', anymore. |
| 314 | * Music/ChristinaAguilera has all but forgotten her ''Bionic'' album (2010). No tour, two singles.... |
| 315 | ** {{Subverted|Trope}} with ''Bionic''. While Christina quickly abandoned the album due to poor sales and single performance, she's constantly defended its quality, to the point of saying it was ahead of its time and critics just didn't get it (based on recent critical and fan reviews, ''[[VindicatedByHistory she was right]]''.) |
| 316 | ** ''Lotus'' in 2012 plays this trope completely straight, ONE official single with a video (and a single she never performed live. Ever) and a video for her fans published on her youtube. That's it. And unlike Bionic, Christina has nothing to say about Lotus, good or bad. |
| 317 | * Despite being a fan favorite, "Runaway" has been called by the band Music/LinkinPark as "their worst song" and the band has even gone so far as to retire the song from their concert sets. Frontman and co-lead singer Chester Bennington has shown disdain for the song "One Step Closer" as well. |
| 318 | * Music/{{The Rolling Stones|Band}} with 1967's ''Music/BetweenTheButtons''. One interview has Mick Jagger refer to the album as "rubbish," with the exception of "Backstreet Girl." |
| 319 | * Music/FountainsOfWayne, the band behind the hit single "Stacy's Mom", have expressed dislike for the song because out of all their songs in all of their albums, [[BlackSheepHit the one tongue in cheek song they ever did became their biggest hit]]. In order to deter attention away from the song, they stopped, or rarely ever, played it live. The fandom tends to agree with them on this notion, arguing that if it weren't for "Stacy's Mom", the band would have made it huge by this point. |
| 320 | ** Prior to "Stacy's Mom", they released a cover of [[Music/BritneySpears "...Baby One More Time"]] as a BSide to a promo single - when it started unexpectedly getting airplay instead of the A-Side, they quickly had the single pulled out of print (though they also put an mp3 of the cover up on their official site to make up for it). They didn't exactly ''dislike'' the song, they just thought they were in danger of having their big breakthrough be a novelty cover that they couldn't really follow up. "...Baby One More Time" finally saw official CD release again about seven years later, as part of the BSide compilation ''Out of State Plates'' |
| 321 | * The Music/FooFighters have resented their fourth album, ''One by One'', which due to its TroubledProduction they consider rushed and mostly sub-par. |
| 322 | ** Also, Dave Grohl on the band name: |
| 323 | -->'''Dave:''' If I had taken this career thing seriously, I would have thought of something else, as it's the worst fucking band name in the world. |
| 324 | ** For a very long time, they refused to play "Big Me" live because whenever they did, they'd be pelted with Mentos mints, since the song's video spoofed Mentos commercials, frequently making Dave chastise their audience. They started playing it again after Music/{{Weezer}} covered it with great acclaim during their joint "Foozer" tour in 2006. |
| 325 | * Lita Roza had a UK number one hit in 1953 with "How Much Is That Doggie In The Window", but her Creator Backlash began ''before she'd even recorded it'' - she hated the song so much that she would only, and very reluctantly, agree to do one take, and then refused to sing it ever again. |
| 326 | * Music/LouReed was somewhat hesitant to play "Heroin" with the Music/VelvetUnderground after [[MisaimedFandom some fans told him they'd shot up to the song.]] |
| 327 | ** Reed was also not fond about how his 1974 solo album, ''Sally Can't Dance'', turned out, feeling he didn't have much involvement with the production and how the songs were treated. When his record company, RCA, wanted him to make a follow up, he responded by recording and releasing the notorious ''Music/MetalMachineMusic'' album. |
| 328 | * The members of ChristianRock band Audio Adrenaline, only two or three albums into their career, were rather quick to distance themselves from their first album, going so far as to say they wished they could burn all existing copies of it. They would also collectively groan whenever someone brought up their song "Jesus & the California Kid". |
| 329 | * Sandie Shaw hated "Puppet On A String" for decades, although it was a massive hit for her in addition to being Britain's first Eurovision winner - she did have less difficulty with the song in another arrangement 40 years later. |
| 330 | ** British Eurovision participants frequently look back on their Eurovision experience with disdain. Lulu, Olivia Newton-John and Samantha Janus have all expressed dislike for their Eurovision songs, while Michael Ball has stated he’d “rather stick needles in [his] eyes” than ever do Eurovision again. |
| 331 | ** France Gall of Luxembourg doesn't like talking about her 1965 winner, "Poupee de cire, poupee de son," as it brings back bad memories of Music/SergeGainsbourg, whom she felt took advantage of her. |
| 332 | *** Ball still performs his song, "One Step Out of Time," in concert, but it's very sped-up (likely so he can get it over with faster). In a move that could be considered either coming around to it or playing this trope very straight, defending on your perspective, when the cast of the 2012 London revival of ''Theatre/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet'' (which Ball played the title role in) appeared at that year's ''West End Eurovision''...they performed "One Step Out of Time" (and, unsurprisingly, won). The performance featured another cast member singing the song in an impression of Ball's Eurovision performance, only for Ball himself to appear, kill him, and finish the song. |
| 333 | ** It took a while for Katrina Leskanich of Music/KatrinaAndTheWaves to come around on her 1997 winner, "Love Shine a Light." The group's guitarist Kimberley Rew had already written it as a one-off charity single, and none of them had any intention of performing it in Eurovision after submitting it for consideration. However, noticing how the UK's previous Eurovision entry [[note]] Gina G's "Ooh Aah...Just a Little Bit" [[/note]] went to #1 despite only placing eighth in the contest, [[MoneyDearBoy and given the opportunity to receive a recording contract while their career was at a low]], they caved and went (minus, ironically enough, Rew, who by the time of the show ''really'' hated the song). While the experience was fun at the time (if occasionally tedious) and they ''did'' score the UK their fifth [[note]] and, as of 2020, most recent [[/note]] win, their bookings leaned less toward rock and more toward the cabaret circuit and eastern Europe, leading them to feel less legitimate as a rock band. They broke up a year later, and Leskanich had harsh words toward the contest and the song for a while. However, she's come around to it as of late, hosting the Eurovision 50th anniversary special in 2005, agreeing to be interviewed in a BBC Eurovision documentary, actually trying for Eurovision again in 2005 for Sweden, and still performing "Love Shine a Light" at Eurovision events to this day. In fact, it's more or less come full circle for Katrina, since she was very touched by it being covered (both by the Rotterdam Symphony Orchestra and the contestants of the canceled 2020 contest) in the ''Eurovision: Europe Shine a Light'' special. |
| 334 | ** Downplayed with Salvador Sobral, who won the 2017 contest for Portugal. He expressed gratitude for how Eurovision brought him and his sister Luisa (who wrote "Amar pelos dois," the winning song) more exposure and had the potential to start a ripple effect of more legitimate music at the contest, but he also stated that the music at Eurovision is by and large not his style, and it felt awkward being compared to what he termed "fast food music." He's more or less walked his more disparaging comments back, though, saying the majority were made while he was still trying to process his newfound fame and he mostly enjoys it now (or at least doesn't outright dislike it - the majority of songs still aren't really his genre). He even filmed a cameo as a street musician for Creator/WillFerrell's ''Eurovision'' movie. |
| 335 | ** Played more or less straight with Amaia, half of Alfred and Amaia, the then-couple who represented Spain in 2018. She felt she was manipulated by the Spanish producers and that the way she had to express herself at Eurovision didn't reflect who she really was as an artist. She also expressed severe burnout from having to give tons of interviews with fan websites and local news stations on top of rehearsals, promotional appearances, and the like. Her comments mostly rail on the format of ''Operacion Triunfo'', the Spanish reality show she and Alfred won their Eurovision tickets through, which was even more sensationalist and exploitative, but the connection has soured her to the Eurovision experience as well. |
| 336 | ** Similarly, the very low-key Zalagasper (the duo of Zala Kraj and Gasper Santl), who represented Slovenia in 2019, were unused to the hustle and bustle of the Eurovision week schedule, and received some flak from fans when they complained about having to be kept up late at night and in a warm room for the semi-final qualifiers press conference. They also generally felt out of place when compared to the more spectacular Eurovision entrants. But they overall said they were grateful for the exposure and making new fans, as well as generally flying the flag for their country. |
| 337 | ** Plenty of conductors, a good deal of whom were trained in classical music or jazz and therefore not fond of pop music, didn't enjoy doing Eurovision because of how frivolous it all seemed. Aydin Özari, Turkey's 1992 conductor, speaks particularly harshly of his experience, as he didn't enjoy the song and had to deal with Malta's Head of Delegation attempting to exchange points. |
| 338 | * HairMetal band Music/{{Warrant}} are best known for the song "Cherry Pie". But the late lead singer of the band, Jani Lane, went on record as saying that he hates the song (probably because it was written in the men's room in 15 minutes after the label head [[ExecutiveMeddling called and said]] they needed a song about sex on the album). |
| 339 | * Geddy Lee of Music/{{Rush|Band}} has been quite critical of the song "Tai Shan" from the ''Hold Your Fire'' record. Other songs the band has grown tired of are simply not played live any longer (notably "Closer to the Heart", which has been retired after 20+ years on the setlist because they "got sick of it.") |
| 340 | * John Stainer is mostly remembered for his oratorio ''The Crucifixion'', especially the chorus ''God So Loved the World''. Towards the end of his life he came to dislike both. |
| 341 | * Max Bruch came to despise the ''Scots Rhapsody'' (nicknamed by violinists the 'scratch rapidy'). He also had mixed feelings about his ''Kol Nidrei'', as, although he liked the music, it reminded him of a tricky time in his life, as he was stuck in Liverpool and feeling homesick. |
| 342 | * Even at the time of its release, Music/OzzyOsbourne made no bones about publicly disliking ''Speak of the Devil'', since he had only done it because his contract required a double live album that would include a lot of his Sabbath classics (and perhaps also because most of it came from shows recorded when Brad Gillis of Music/NightRanger was filling in after Randy Rhoads' untimely death, which had left Ozzy in a lousy mood that doubtless led to even greater self-medication on his part than usual). His versions actually blew away those his former bandmates had cut on ''Live Evil'', but since it went out of print in 2002 he has not seen fit to allow its re-release in any form, [[CanonDiscontinuity nor does he even include it in his official discography on his website]]. |
| 343 | ** Ozzy has also expressed regret over how ''The Ultimate Sin'' turned out, feeling that his producer at the time (Ron Nevison) was phoning it in, and that the songs on the album wound up sounding too same-y. He has even said that his disappointment with the finished album was part of what led to him going in a heavier direction with its follow-up ''No Rest For The Wicked''. |
| 344 | * At one show of his, [[Music/TheAnimals Eric Burdon]] began the arpeggios of "House of the Rising Sun" to great audience applause. After it died down, he turned to the mike and shouted "I hate this fucking song!" Which didn't stop him from doing an inspired, passionate rendition of it. |
| 345 | * Music/DorisDay called "Que Sera, Sera", "a forgettable children's song." |
| 346 | * Music/ThePixies rarely play "Here Comes Your Man" from ''Music/{{Doolittle}}'' arguably their most commercial song, at concerts, and declined an invitation to perform it on ''Series/TheArsenioHallShow'', only agreeing to perform if they were allowed to play the decidedly more abrasive "Tame." |
| 347 | * Andrew [=McMahon=] of Music/JacksMannequin and Something Corporate [[http://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanhatesthis/something-corporates-konstantine-has-been-haunting-us-for-a hates performing]] the nearly 10-minute long ballad "Konstantine" but obliges because it's the song that gets the greatest fan reaction during his shows. |
| 348 | * Music/TwistedSister have unofficially written ''Love Is for Suckers'' out of their discography. Released in 1987, the album was originally meant to be a solo record for singer Dee Snider, with backup from friends in other bands, but the label insisted it be a full-on Twisted Sister album. The other members of Twisted Sister aren't actually playing on the album, but they did play a few songs in the subsequent tour. However, the situation led to the band disbanding afterward, and they never played those songs again upon their 2001 reunion. |
| 349 | * Music/FrankZappa resented the [[MisaimedFandom fad]] that was created around his BlackSheepHit "Valley Girl" and never performed it live. It's only available on his album ''Music/ShipArrivingTooLateToSaveADrowningWitch'' (1982), as well as a single. |
| 350 | ** Not exactly a creator backlash, as a co-creator backlash, but Zappa never re-released ''An Evening With Wild Man Fischer'' (1968), a LP he produced for singer Wild Man Fischer. Fischer suffered from paranoid schizophrenia and shortly after the release of his debut record he threw a jar at Zappa's then baby daughter Moon Unit. He missed, but Zappa terminated their friendship then and there. The album wasn't released on CD until 2016, when Gail Zappa, Frank's widow, died. |
| 351 | ** Zappa also hated the end result of his ''Music/LondonSymphonyOrchestra'' albums, even postponing the second volume for five years, because he felt the musicians' hearts were never into the project, came in late at sessions and made too many mistakes. He also felt that there hadn't been enough proper rehearsal time and blamed this on the unions who prevented him from making overtime and working long hours. Zappa was also irritated by the fact that many of them went to a pub between recordings. In his opinion this had a bad effect on the performances, especially "Strictly Genteel". |
| 352 | * Music/{{Metallica}} once admitted to not much liking ''...And Justice For All'', feeling they (especially Kirk Hammett) were trying too hard to be taken seriously as musicians (both musically and lyrically) with the album. This was one of the reasons why the band opted for a lighter and more radio-friendly style during The90s and also why "One" was the only track off the album that was frequently played live. They seem to have completely changed their minds about the album ever since, as James has gone on record to state that it's his favorite Metallica album overall. Even the TitleTrack, who Hammett said that fell a bit for them due to [[EpicRocking its length]] ("I couldn't stand watching the front row start to yawn by the eight or ninth minute.") re-emerged in concert. |
| 353 | ** James Hetfield also regrets the band's fashion choices during the ''Music/{{Load|andReload}}'' years, feeling they were trying too hard to look like Music/{{U2}}. He also dislikes the cover art for the two ''Load'' albums. He does, however, like the music on them and has even gone on record to say that he felt "Bleeding Me" had the best lyrics he'd ever written. |
| 354 | ** The band also has plenty of regret for ''St. Anger'', although they felt that channeling the CreatorBreakdown into that album helped them stay together afterwards instead of breaking up. |
| 355 | * Dave Mustaine of Music/{{Megadeth}} openly dislikes the album ''Risk'', often saying that the album was entirely the result of ExecutiveMeddling. Fortunately for him, most of his fans are in complete agreement. |
| 356 | ** He's also criticized ''Youthanasia'', stating that he didn't like the production and the way some of the songs were written (ie. some of its faster songs should've been slower, some of its slower songs should've been faster, etc.). |
| 357 | ** The band as a whole was appalled by the low-budget cover Combat Records created for ''Killing Is My Business... and Business Is Good!'' once the label lost Mustaine's original sketch. Reissues replace it with art more faitful to what Mustaine wanted. |
| 358 | * Music/BrunoMars claimed in a podcast that he hates 'The Lazy Song', he's ashamed that he wrote it, and he won't be performing it live anytime soon. |
| 359 | * Music/ImaniCoppola is not a fan of probably her biggest hit, "Legend of a Cowgirl", though it's mostly due to troubles she had with her label regarding the song. She supposedly hasn't performed it live since 1998. |
| 360 | * If you talk to Hank Williams III, do not ever mention his debut album ''Risin' Outlaw''. He's stated in interviews he can stand one or two songs on it and that's it. He considers his real debut to be ''Lovesick, Broke & Driftin'''. |
| 361 | * The dislike many people have for Creator/HaydenPanettiere's ill-fated 2008 pop single "Wake Up Call" is shared by Panettiere herself - [[http://www.vulture.com/2013/05/hayden-panettiere-on-nashville-season-two.html especially when she realized the similarity between it]] and Creator/ParisHilton's "Stars Are Blind." |
| 362 | * Early in his career, Music/GeorgeJones recorded a couple rockabilly sides as "Thumper Jones". According to an [[http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/the-615/1559863/george-jones-the-billboard-interview-2006 interview]] with ''Billboard'' in 2006, he called the songs "a bunch of shit". |
| 363 | * Christoph Schneider of Music/{{Rammstein}} made it clear [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqFvjWBXvic&hd=1 in an interview]] that he finds "[[IntentionallyAwkwardTitle Pussy]]" to be "completely stupid". |
| 364 | * Mike Doughty has kind of a complicated relationship with his Music/SoulCoughing material: Essentially, he doesn't have anything against the songs themselves, but generally dislikes the original recordings, both because he envisioned many of the songs entirely differently, and because of bad memories of a toxic relationship with his bandmates. However, he regularly includes versions of Soul Coughing songs in his solo performances, and has [[RearrangeTheSong rearranged thirteen of the songs]] more to his liking on his album ''Circles, Super Bon Bon...''[[note]]The official title actually consists of all thirteen rearranged songs[[/note]]. |
| 365 | * When promoting her NewSoundAlbum ''Bangerz'' in 2013, Music/MileyCyrus [[WordOfGod claimed]] that she felt "[[http://www.entertainmentwise.com/news/117838/I-Want-To-Erase-My-Past-Miley-Cyrus-Admits-Shes-Embarrassed-By-Hannah-Montana embarrassed by and disconnected to her previous albums, doesn't even recognize the person]] who recorded ''Can't Be Tamed'' in 2010, and wished she could erase all her older music on iTunes. She also felt that with the album, released on new label RCA under a different management team, she felt she was starting from scratch as a "new artist". |
| 366 | ** This has extended to her ''Bangerz'' tour of 2013-14, where the only songs she performs dating from her teen-pop days are "Party In The USA" and "Can't Be Tamed". When a radio station in Australia [[DiscussedTrope discussed this]] in an interview, [[WordOfGod she expressed]] that she doesn't feel a personal connection with her older material any longer. |
| 367 | * Music/{{Slayer}} has openly admitted to being unhappy with how the first two Paul Bostaph albums (''Divine Intervention'' and ''Diabolus In Musica'') turned out. The former suffered from poor production and relatively stale songwriting, while the latter saw the band implementing significant NuMetal elements into their music in order to keep up with the times, only for NuMetal to significantly decline in popularity a few years later. |
| 368 | ** Kerry King has also expressed some dislike for the album ''South Of Heaven'' and especially the song "Cleanse The Soul", feeling it sounds way too ''happy'' for a Slayer song. |
| 369 | ** King is also openly ashamed of original cover art for the album ''God Hates Us All'' (which showed a battered Bible with "Slayer" carved on its cover), saying that it looked like something a desperate seventh grader would design to shock people. |
| 370 | * The members of Music/{{Genesis|Band}} seem to dislike ''...And Then There Were Three...'' as an album, feeling there were few "magical" moments on it aside from "Follow You Follow Me". Mike Rutherford also feels dissatisfied with his first attempts at lead guitar on the album, at least where Music/TonyBanks' songs were concerned, as he was merely playing back exactly what Tony wanted him to play rather than bringing more of himself into his playing. Despite this, the album is reasonably popular among fans (especially due to its dark and often melancholic tone). |
| 371 | ** Their début album ''Music/FromGenesisToRevelation'', was an attempt to appeal to their producer, Jonathan King, by mimicking Music/TheBeeGees. As the next three albums were released (''Music/TrespassGenesisAlbum'', ''Music/NurseryCryme'' and ''Music/{{Foxtrot|Album}}'') a line was rapidly drawn under that part of their career. The songs from FGTR were rarely if ever performed. Most of the fans agree with this policy and many disregard the album altogether. It's one of the easier Old Shames to find, though, because King, not Genesis, owned the rights to it, and kept reissuing it over and over as the band actually produced records that sold. |
| 372 | ** Their last studio album to date, ''Music/CallingAllStations'', was a modest success in Europe but failed ''hard'' in America, to the point the band had to cancel the North American leg of their tour for it. Much of the blame falls squarely on Ray Wilson, who had replaced Collins as lead singer following the latter's 1996 departure from the group. These days, the band members tend to [[CanonDiscontinuity just pretend it never happened]]; none of the songs from that album were performed on the 2006-07 reunion tour with Collins, ''Turn It On Again: The Tour'', and only sparingly have songs from that album been released on compilations (the title track in particular; "Congo" was also featured on the 2007 ''Tour Edition'' of ''Turn It On Again: The Hits''). Averted, interestingly, with Wilson himself, as he often performs his own renditions of Genesis songs in concert (though he did say his firing from the band was "like death by silence"). |
| 373 | ** Music/PhilCollins also dislikes the lyrics to the song "Match of the Day" from their 1977 EP ''Spot the Pigeon''; as a result, [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes the track is very hard to find on CD]]. |
| 374 | ** Tony Banks is not proud of the lyrics he wrote for "Firth of Fifth"; this is why, when they played the song in later concerts, they only played the middle section (which is an instrumental). |
| 375 | ** The band [[WordOfGod has often in interviews mentioned]] that "The Battle of Epping Forest" from ''Selling England By The Pound'' suffered from shoehorning an over-complex lyric to an overstuffed musical arrangement. Though they felt the lyrics were strong on their own, and the music likewise strong on its own, the end result was not a seamless marriage. |
| 376 | ** ''...Calling All Stations...'', the only album recorded with Collins' replacement Ray Wilson, [[CanonDiscontinuity may as well never have happened]] if the band's attitude towards it is anything to go by. When Collins reunited with Banks, Rutherford and the touring lineup for 2006's ''[[PuttingTheBandBackTogether Turn It On Again: The Tour]]'', they performed exactly zero songs from that album, and only two of its singles ("Congo" and the title track) have been seen on compilations since. |
| 377 | * [[Music/{{Arsis}} James Malone]] doesn't like ''United in Regret'' or ''Starve for the Devil'' very much at all, and the band has not played anything from those albums live in quite a bit. He views the former as uninspired and poorly-produced and views the lyrics as being highly immature and loaded with {{Wangst}}, while he views the latter as being even more uninspired to the point of being half-assed and also hates being reminded of the CreatorBreakdown he was going through at the time it was being written. |
| 378 | * During an appearance on Series/SaturdayNightLive, musician Music/{{Drake}} said he apologizes for being the one who coined the term YOLO ("You Only Live Once"), a phrase that was considered annoying to a good number of people due to its sheer overuse on places like Twitter. Drake himself makes mention of this by saying "I didn't know your annoying friends and coworkers would use it so much." |
| 379 | * Avicii released [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6_MHw6gd-E a video]] mentioning how sick he is of people playing his club hit "Levels" and that he wants everyone to appreciate the other songs that he made. |
| 380 | * Music/{{Godflesh}} frontman Justin K. Broadrick is not particularly fond of the band's 1999 effort ''Us and Them'', calling it an "identity crisis" which heavily deviated from their usual sound. Aside from its opening track "I, Me, Mine" returning to setlists in 2023, no songs from the album have been performed live since the year it was released. |
| 381 | * Music/{{Rihanna}} hates her debut single "Pon de Replay". |
| 382 | * Natalie Maines of Music/DixieChicks said on Website/{{Twitter}} said that she hates the band's first #1 hit, "There's Your Trouble". Which might even include the rest of the group, as the song hasn't been performed live in over a decade. |
| 383 | * Music/{{Yes}} have come to hate their album ''Union'', partially out of its painful origin (the semi-forced merger of the "official" Yes and the splinter group Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe) and partially due to the extremely severe ExecutiveMeddling. Meddling that included replacing parts recorded by band members with studio musicians and including demos that were intended to be re-recorded. With the occasional exception of "Lift Me Up" or "Saving My Heart", the band never plays anything from ''Union'' or even mentions it other than to criticize it.[[note]]Rick Wakeman famously called it "Onion" because it "brought tears to (his) eyes".[[/note]] |
| 384 | * Roger Hodgson of Music/{{Supertramp}} denounced his last studio album with the band, ''...Famous Last Words...'', saying that the album was a last-ditch attempt at resuscitating the band after the success of ''Music/BreakfastInAmerica'' and felt the magic had gone out of the band by then. He also criticized the album's over-slick production and lack of spontaneity. |
| 385 | ** Hodgson has also disowned his 1987 solo album, ''Hai Hai'', an attempt to update his sound with 1980s synthesizers and production along with top-drawer Los Angeles studio musicians to get commercial success as his management left him and he felt the need to make his presence known outside the Supertramp brand name. A week after he released the album, he fell from a hammock, injuring both his wrists. The album flopped, due to Hodgson's injury, mixed-to-poor reviews and the fact he did not (or could not) tour behind the album. He was told by doctors he wouldn't be able to play music again, and he was dropped by his record label and then-current management. Therapy and rehabilation led to Hodgson returning to live and studio work by the late-1990's. (He still performs his songs from ''FLW'' and ''Hai Hai'' live.) |
| 386 | * Ask [[Music/{{Aborted}} Sven de Caluwe]] what he thinks of ''Strychnine.213''. Odds are you'll hear either an apology or an exasperated "OH GOD" in response; he's completely written off the album, and the band has not played anything from the album in over five years. The "won't play anything off of the album live" part is also true for ''Slaughter & Apparatus: A Methodological Overture'', but while he's definitely not a fan of that either, his dislike of it is not quite as intense as his dislike for ''Strychnine''. |
| 387 | * Despite the album being considered one of their best, the members of Hanoi Rocks disliked ''Oriental Beat''. Former bassist Sami Yaffa called it a 'piece of shit' in interviews, while the rest of the band thought the songs were good, but the production was terrible. |
| 388 | * Music/JoelGoldsmith was hired to score the premiere episode of ''Series/StargateSG1'', but MGM tracked in Music/DavidArnold's score from the movie and used it alongside Goldsmith's original music, sometimes blending the two (although the DVD cut is 100% Goldsmith). When this mixture was replicated for the soundtrack album, both composers had their names taken off it (although the small print for the copyright notice still mentions each composer's name for the musical masters, that's the only place they're mentioned). Goldsmith's untampered with score was released by Dragon's Domain in 2018. |
| 389 | * Joel's father [[Music/JerryGoldsmith Jerry]] didn't believe '''everything''' he did needed album release, didn't like the soundtrack album of his music for ''Film/TheRussiaHouse'', because in response to fans believing the albums of his scores were too short he made it longer... but he made it ''too'' long ("''I'' got bored listening to it," he claimed. Many agreed with him). That didn't keep Quartet Records from releasing an ''expanded'' edition (it is needless to say out-of-print and very pricey when you find a copy.) |
| 390 | ** Staying with Jerry Goldsmith: he wasn't too keen on his beloved theme music for ''Series/TheWaltons'', which was written at the behest of the series producers, who wanted a more upbeat theme for the series, rather than the gentler and more period-appropriate music than accompanied the MadeForTVMovie (also scored by Goldsmith) which spawned the series. |
| 391 | * Lindsey Buckingham decided not to follow up Music/FleetwoodMac's ''Music/{{Rumours}}'' (1977), one of the biggest selling albums of all time, with an album [[StrictlyFormula simply repeating the formula of the previous release]]. Instead, taking much of the control of production work, he and the band recorded the deliberately edgy, experimental, often new wave-influenced 1979 double album ''Music/{{Tusk|1979}}'', an album which, while successful, failed to go near the heights of ''Rumours'' in sales or popularity [[note]]The then-inflated cost of $15.98 at a time when single-albums were sold at $8.98, and an embarassment when the record company premiered ''Tusk'' by playing it in its entirety on radio, causing home tapers to get the album for free, didn't help sales[[/note]]. Most of the blame was, however, placed on Lindsey's production and arrangements. ''Tusk'''s single-length followup, 1982's ''Mirage'', brought the band back to the more radio-friendly ''Rumours'' sound and style, somewhat to Lindsey's chagrin as he feared the band were on a standstill and weren't able or willing to progress. Though 1987's ''Tango In The Night'' stayed in the pop vein, Lindsey, again taking control of the production, used more of his experimental tendencies in the album, which made it a more satisfying experience for the guitarist. |
| 392 | * 1970s country music singer Susie Allanson disowned her singing career (which included four major-label albums and four Top 10 hits, including covers of Music/BuddyHolly's "Maybe Baby" and Music/TheBeeGees' "Words") after she became a born-again Christian. |
| 393 | * The late Vanity, best known as one of Music/{{Prince}}'s proteges from the 1980s, disassociated herself from secular music when she became a born-again Christian in the 1990s. She also refused to be addressed as Vanity anymore, instead favoring her real name, Denise Matthews. She went as far as to not even collect the royalty checks from her albums and films despite her mounting medical bills. |
| 394 | * Music/TimMcGraw: |
| 395 | ** He disowned his third GreatestHitsAlbum, because it was both a cash-grab and stalling tactic by his then-label, Curb Records (it came out only ''one studio album'' after his last Greatest Hits package, and at the same time as a reissue of the first two, so it was heavily laden with {{Filler}}). Sadly, this was one of his ''lesser'' issues with Curb before his contract with them ended... |
| 396 | ** [=McGraw=] also said in an interview with Larry King that he never liked his 2000 single "My Next Thirty Years" and has never sung it in concert, despite it being one of his bigger hits. Averted with writer Phil Vassar, who ''has'' done it (along with many hits he's written for other artists) in concert. |
| 397 | * Julian Cope hates the album ''My Nation Underground''. He appreciates the fans who enjoy it but he says it only reminded him of bad times. |
| 398 | * Music/ZacBrownBand's "Toes" had to censor the word "ass" and the line "roll a big fat one" to get played on radio. Zac Brown said that he would rather radio stations ''not'' play the song than play a {{Bowdlerize}}d version. [[ZigZaggedTrope His co-writer didn't mind]]. |
| 399 | * [[Music/JobForACowboy Jonny Davy]] has grown very, very sick of ''Doom''. The reasons are numerous: he's tired of getting shit on for releasing the album, tired of playing material from it, and ''really'' tired of fans who openly disparage their newer material and continually demand that they go back to that sound (mostly on social media, but there are some who have been rude and obnoxious enough to say it to the band in person). "Knee Deep" and "Entombment of a Machine" are still played live very, very often, but he has made it clear that he'd be fine with never playing them again and has openly expressed his distaste for the album to fans who have spoken to him in person. |
| 400 | * Guitarist Jason Falkner of Music/{{Jellyfish}} has had an interesting love/hate relationship with both his time in the band and his stint in PowerPop supergroup The Grays three years after leaving Jellyfish. Though he doesn't seem to have a problem with the material, with Jellyfish he disliked not being able to contribute his own compositions to the band, even as they promised him he would, while he felt that the Grays were overly individualistic, were saddled with much of the same problems Falkner's other bands went through (even while they intended to avoid those problems), that their ''Ro Sham Bo'' album was over-produced and that the way the Grays came together was purely due to ExecutiveMeddling (the four members had an impromptu jam session, a manager erroneously reported to Epic Records that the four of them were "forming a band", and the rest was history. Falkner also felt uncomfortable with the retro clothing and image Jellyfish adopted, feeling they wore their influences too close to their sleeves and feeling he could not relate to the very colorful, cartoonish fashion style Andy Sturmer and Roger Joseph Manning Jr. wanted to incorporate. Jason's natural tendencies to want to be a true solo artist rather than a band member, and [[IAmTheBand write and produce his own material and play all of the instruments himself]] (more of an autonomy-thing than an ego-issue) may not have helped matters. Jason ''has'' however, embraced his Jellyfish legacy, made up with Andy and Roger and has performed Jellyfish hits with Roger more recently (as of 2015). |
| 401 | * Gaetano Donizetti hated how the Neapolitan authorities put on ''Buondelmonte'' [[ExecutiveMeddling against his wishes]] of performing it as ''Maria Stuarda''. Fortunately, the failure of ''Buondelmonte'', and its subsequent withdrawal by Donizetti, allowed him to stage ''Maria Stuarda'' as it was in Milan in 1835. |
| 402 | * Paul Dukas destroyed a large portion of his work due to being dissatisfied with the results, leaving only a handful of others, ''L'apprenti sorcier'' included, for people to hear. |
| 403 | * Music/{{Ride}} has derided the album ''Carnival of Light'', even going as far as nicknaming it ''Carnival of Shite''. Aside from two songs being played at their reunion show, they haven't performed anything from the album since. |
| 404 | * Music/HowlinWolf's album ''Music/TheHowlinWolfAlbum'' is {{Blues}} that mixes PsychedelicRock in the set. The singer himself absolutely hated the record, which the company actually '''acknowledged''' on its album cover! |
| 405 | * [[Music/TheWho Pete Townshend]] once called "Pinball Wizard" "the most clumsy piece of writing I've ever done." |
| 406 | ** In a minor case of CreatorBacklash, Townshend called ''Music/{{Quadrophenia}}'' Music/TheWho's "last great album". The acclaimed predecessor ''Music/WhosNext'' also had Townshend dissatisfied with both the title (that he didn't choose) and the cover (which he described as "a joke in bad taste" that "nearly reeks of urine" - after all, features the band next to an obelisk where they just peed on). |
| 407 | ** Roger Daltrey [[WordOfGod expressed]] [[http://www.thewho.net/linernotes/ItsHard.htm in a 1994 interview]] that ''It's Hard''' "should never have been released", that the material was substandard, and that it only came out at all as the band's label wanted them to make an album and tour. |
| 408 | * Jimmy Olander, lead guitarist of the CountryMusic band Music/DiamondRio, dislikes the band's single "This Romeo Ain't Got [[{{Pun}} Julie Yet]]" from their second album, ''Close to the Edge''. In the band's autobiography, he says that ItSeemedLikeAGoodIdeaAtTheTime. |
| 409 | * Music/InsaneClownPosse likely don't think highly of the shockingly homophobic tune "Slow Your Roll", given their strong anti-bigotry stance. The song was recorded as part of an aborted concept album by their scrapped evil-doer personas, the Soopa Villainz, and leaked onto the Internet completely out of context. (Even in context, it would still make for an incredibly offensive song that is totally out of step with ICP's usual output.) |
| 410 | * If you look up Cirith Ungol's last album, ''Paradise Lost'', on any site that posts user-submitted reviews, you'll probably find an absolutely scathing review by drummer Robert Garven, who cites his negative experiences making that album and his dissatisfaction with the final result as the reasons he left the music industry. |
| 411 | * Music/TheHumanLeague's Phillip Oakey hated "Don't You Want Me" at the time of release, relegating it to the last song on the album ''Dare'' for that reason. He was horrified when the label wanted what he thought of as a [[AlbumFiller "poor quality filler track"]] released as a single, thinking it would spell the end of their recent chart successes. He proposed packaging the single with a fold-out poster of the band, not to help promote sales, but because he thought fans would be disappointed in the song but the freebie would help make up for it. Of course, it ended up being their biggest chart hit yet, and their SignatureSong on top of that. He still finds the song overrated in comparison to the rest of the album, and feels it has a MisaimedFandom as a love song (when he intended it as "a nasty song about sexual power politics"). However, he acknowledges it was key to the band's success... and it's still performed nearly every time they play a live set. |
| 412 | * Jerry Garcia was said to not have been fond of Music/TheGratefulDead's third album, ''Aoxomoxoa'', partially because he thought a lot of the material was too marginal and partially because he felt that the initial mix left the songs he did like too cluttered. Phil Lesh expressed a similar view in his memoir, saying that the album in its original state was "inaudible". Garica and Lesh went back and remixed the album in 1971, [[IncrediblyLamePun with mixed results]] among Deadheads. |
| 413 | * Music/EricChurch said in an [[http://www.ew.com/article/2016/08/15/eric-church-no-1 interview]] with ''Entertainment Weekly'' that he dislikes "Love Your Love the Most" and "Hell on the Heart" from his second album ''Carolina'', because he wrote them with the intent of having radio-friendly songs that would placate his label. According to him, the songs "did nothing for his career" despite hitting Top 10, while the album's third single, "Smoke a Little Smoke", resonated far better with fans [[ChartDisplacement despite a much lower chart ranking]]. |
| 414 | * Music/MarkChesnutt has said that he regrets his decision to record a cover of "[[Music/{{Aerosmith}} I Don't Want to Miss a Thing]]". He had done the song at the suggestion of his RecordProducer Mark Wright, because both of them thought that it would get him noticed again after a period of declining album sales. While the song ''was'' a major chart hit, it did nothing for his career and he admitted that it didn't fit his style; he also noted that he later quit the label after refusing their demands to cover another pop song. |
| 415 | * Music/DreamTheater have expressed their dislike towards ''Falling into Infinity'' due the fact Creator/ElektraRecords [[ExecutiveMeddling pressured them to write more radio-friendly songs.]] Despite being more accessible, the album turned out to be commercial failure, which led to Elektra agreeing to the band's demands of being free of record label's interference for all future albums. |
| 416 | * Music/TobyKeith has a few: He hated that the label chose "Upstairs Downtown" as the second single off ''Boomtown'' instead of the title track; he hated his recording a cover of Music/{{Sting}}'s "I'm So Happy I Can't Stop Crying" as a duet with Sting himself; and he considered "Red Solo Cup" CoolButStupid. |
| 417 | * Gary Barlow has said that he disliked "So Help Me Girl" (a cover of Music/JoeDiffie), saying that it was "bloody awful". |
| 418 | * Music/{{Sabaton}}: |
| 419 | ** The band stopped playing "The Final Solution" for several years at concerts because they got a little freaked out by their fans singing along to and applauding a song about UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust (one that ''condemns'' it in no uncertain terms, but still). They changed their minds in time for the ''Heroes'' tour, and it's become a "flick your Bic" song for audiences. |
| 420 | ** PlayedForLaughs with "Swedish Pagans". Jocke's on-stage reluctance to play it is ''mostly'' a RunningGag: [[https://californiarocknews.com/2018/02/13/sabaton-kreator-wiltern-draft/ he doesn't hate the song, although it isn't his favorite.]] The band stopped also playing "Panzer Battalion" because he got tired of it. |
| 421 | ** Joakim and Pär have said in interviews that they probably wouldn't have written "Panzer Battalion" nowadays because, since then, they've decided not to try to write songs about present or recent conflicts in order to allow for passions to cool and professional historians to study the events ("Panzer Battalion" was on ''Primo Victoria'', which came out only two years after its subject, the 2003 US invasion of Iraq). Since ''Primo Victoria'', the most recently-set song they've published is "Hill 3234", about a 1988 battle from the UsefulNotes/SovietInvasionOfAfghanistan. |
| 422 | * Music/TheClash released ''Cut the Crap'' in late 1985 with a lineup that included neither Mick Jones, who wrote most of the band's music up to that point, nor drummer Topper Headon. It unsurprisingly tanked commercially and was critically derided. Though Joe Strummer defended it at the time and literally insisted in song that "We Are The Clash", he later grew to hate it and referred to the lineup that recorded it as "The Clash Mk II". |
| 423 | * Music/{{Placebo}} stopped playing "Pure Morning" in concert because in Brian Molko's words, "I still think the music is cool but the lyrics make me nauseous. They sound as if they were written by a teenager." |
| 424 | * Music/{{TLC}}: |
| 425 | ** Left Eye openly disagreed with "Creep" despite it being the group's first #1 single. The song is about a girl finding out her boyfriend is cheating, so she goes out and has an affair herself. Left Eye thought that sent a horrible message to their mostly-young listeners, as she felt that two wrongs don't make a right and that it's better to just leave the person than play those kinds of games. She also felt that this flew in the face of the safe sex message that the group had built up with their previous album. Nonetheless, T-Boz and Chili liked the song and outvoted her on it. Left Eye's protest was a rap verse spelling out the consequences of infidelity--illegitimate children, STD's, domestic violence, etc.--but this verse was shifted to the song's remix rather than the radio edit. |
| 426 | ** T-Boz hated the Latin-salsa remix of "Shout" performed on their ''[=FanMail=]'' tour, which was only produced because Latin pop was trendy at the time despite not remotely being their style. She hated it so much that she would leave the stage during Left Eye's rap verse and not come back out until the song was nearly over. |
| 427 | * Music/FrankSinatra was not terribly keen on his SignatureSong "Music/MyWay". He had reservations about "New York, New York", although that was less dislike than fear of overkill. But most of all, he utterly despised "Strangers in the Night", which he called "a piece of shit" and "the worst fucking song" he ever heard. Nonetheless, he kept those songs on his set lists. |
| 428 | * Music/TinaTurner made it no secret that she was never a fan of "What's Love Got To Do With It", even though it was the lead single on her comeback album ''Private Dancer''. She hated the song's message of placing casual sex over romantic attachment, but her manager Roger Davies insisted that the song could make her relevant again after 13 years of obscurity following her divorce from Ike Turner. She trusted his instinct and it paid off in a big way: it was her first #1 single in the US and won three Grammy awards, one of which she gave to Davies to reward his faith. |
| 429 | * Music/{{Psy}} is definitely showing this in regards to "Gangnam Style" completely overshadowing every song that he has released since. [[http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop/7865990/psy-gangnam-style-anniversary-youtube-interview In this interview with Billboard magazine]] he is clearly trying his best to very politely say that he wants to move on and leave it behind. |
| 430 | * Music/{{Trivium}} frontman Matt Heafy called their 2006 album ''The Crusade'' "a very dysfunctional point of our band" and said that he felt that many of the songs were "incomplete". In the same interview, the entire band unanimously named "The Rising" from the said album as the worst song they've made, and openly admitted that it didn't even belong on the album, was written in the middle of recording just to try and wring another hit out of the album, and forced a song that was supposed to be on the album ("Broken One") off and relegated it to a bonus track. |
| 431 | * Teena Marie wasn't too fond of the song "Since Day One" from her 1990 album ''Ivory''; the song was only created as the result of a [[ExecutiveMeddling label-mandated]] collaboration with Jazzie B of the then-popular group Soul II Soul, [[http://www.soulmusic.info/main.asp?S=3&T=36&ART=1498 and she was displeased with both the recording experience and the way Epic Records was treating the album]]. Unsurprisingly, ''Ivory'' ended up being her final album for Epic. |
| 432 | * CountryMusic singer Chase Rice says he's ashamed of his major-label debut ''Ignite the Night'', which contains heavily derided "bro-country" that he brushes off as him throwing stuff at the wall to see what would stick. |
| 433 | * Speaking of "bro-country", Jody Rosen of ''New York'' magazine, who coined the term, later expressed disdain for creating the term, and in particular how it came to be a derogatory term for any output by a male country music artist in TheNew10s. |
| 434 | * Music/JamesBlunt has voiced his contempt for the song that helped put him on the map, "You're Beautiful", even saying that rather than being a story about unrequited love, it is about a perverted drug addict who seemingly keeps harassing a couple in the subway (Something which frankly makes plenty of sense if one analyzes the lyrics carefully). |
| 435 | * Music/SoftCell's version of "Tainted Love" has also been subjected to this, with both Marc Almond and David Ball coming to regard their BreakthroughHit as an "albatross". However, Almond has since embraced the song's success to the point where he used it to mark (no pun intended) his return to the stage following his recovery from a motorcycle accident. |
| 436 | * Scotty [=McCreery=] has spoken out against his last Creator/MercuryRecords single "Southern Belle", a rock-influenced song about hot Southern girls that was at total odds to his style and apparently forced upon him by the label. It bombed, and they dropped him immediately afterward (before he bounced back in 2017 on a new label with "Five More Minutes"). |
| 437 | * Music/MariahCarey expressed dislike towards her first compilation album, 1998's ''#1's'', as she felt her record label was shamelessly cashing in on her being declared as having the most number-one singles for a female artist. As such, they only wanted to feature those songs, even though there were several others Mariah wanted to include that didn't top the charts but she personally liked better than a few that did, such as "Butterfly" and "Breakdown" with Music/BoneThugsNHarmony. She even had to fight to include ''new'' music. Sony relented and released three new singles with the album: "[[WesternAnimation/ThePrinceOfEgypt When You Believe]]" with Music/WhitneyHouston, "Sweetheart" with Music/JermaineDupri, and "I Still Believe," a cover of her mentor Music/BrendaKStarr's biggest hit. Ironically, none of them hit number one themselves; "I Still Believe" charted the highest at #4. |
| 438 | * Music/JakeOwen said in an interview with a Grand Rapids, Michigan radio station that he doesn't like performing "Eight Second Ride" because he doesn't think it fits his style. |
| 439 | * Amy Lee of Music/{{Evanescence}} has voiced countless times her dislike for one of the band's signature songs, ''My Immortal'', on the basis that it was not written about a real event (and thus emotion), and it was mainly ex-guitarist Ben Moody's creature. This was especially evident in live performances in the mid-to-late 2000's and early 10's, when she'd rush through it and sing it almost deadpan. |
| 440 | ** She's a repeat offender in regards to entire albums, too: whenever a new full-length comes out, she has something unflattering to say about the previous one. So when ''The Open Door'' came out, ''Fallen'' was too plain and simple and did not allow her enough creativity; when ''Evanescence'' came out, ''The Open Door'' was too pompous and fantasy-oriented; and finally she admitted that ''Evanescence'' suffered heavily from ExecutiveMeddling, was rushed and left out a whole bunch of material she liked better. And don't even mention poor ''Origin'', the band's only pre-major album that's been demoted to a "dressed-up demo CD" and kept under the rug as much as possible, while the previous two EP's are barely acknowledged at all. The only song truly immune to creator backlash in their catalogue is ''Imaginary'', which has spanned the band's entire recording history and still has a place in Amy's heart. |
| 441 | ** She seems to have softened up a bit in recent years, especially with the re-release of ''Origin'' on vinyl, and the release of ''Synthesis'', which is a collection of reworked past songs. Except for the self-titled album, that is. |
| 442 | * Music/ArethaFranklin admitted that she didn't like her performance of "My Country Tis of Thee" at UsefulNotes/BarackObama's first inauguration. She always hated singing in the cold because the air strained her voice (even though her hat took on a [[MemeticMutation memetic life of its own]]), and she only agreed to it due to the historic significance of the event. She also didn't like (though always performed) "Don't Play That Song For Me (You Lied)", remarking once, tongue in cheek, in concert, that she'd rather sing it as "Please re-record that song for me", because she felt it was rushed and smacked of "One-takeitis". |
| 443 | * Music/CharliXCX has described her album ''Sucker'' as having [[https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/jul/08/charli-xcx-every-single-thing-is-work-for-me-everything-is-music-interview "felt fake"]] to her, saying that it was written less out of artistic integrity and more out of a desire to build on the chart success she had with "Fancy", her breakthrough collaboration with Music/IggyAzalea. Her subsequent work has been far more experimental, focused less on albums than on mixtapes. |
| 444 | ** She also doesn't think too highly of first album, ''14'', recorded in 2006 when she was just, well, fourteen years old and released in 2008. She has called it "fucking terrible Website/MySpace music" and "gimmicky dance tracks", and it has never gotten a rerelease. |
| 445 | * [[Music/OddFuture Tyler the Creator]], in 2018, declared his debut album ''Goblin'' "horrible." He said that, in hindsight, he would have kept only seven songs from it.[[note]]"Yonkers", "She", "Nightmare", "Tron Cat", "Fish", "Analog" and "[=AU79=]"[[/note]] |
| 446 | * By 2012, Acker Bilk had become fed up with playing his most famous piece—"Stranger on the Shore"—after regularly doing so for fifty years after it had become a huge success for him in 1962. |
| 447 | * The only reason [[Music/{{KMFDM}} Sascha Konietzko]] puts up with "Juke-Joint Jezebel": [[MoneyDearBoy "It pays the rent, to this day."]] KMFDM retired it from their setlists in 2003 but apparently stopped liking it ''during the production process''; they wouldn't even have put it on the album, 1995's ''Nihil'', had TVT Records [[ExecutiveMeddling not intervened to force them to do so, certain the song would be a hit]]. Several niche appearances in greatest hits and other compilations later, it was deliberately left off the 2016 hit parade ''Rocks'', since the band felt that it, along with various other hits of theirs like "Vogue", didn't really reflect the true nature of the band. |
| 448 | * Traffic's #2 single "Hole in My Shoe" was hated by everyone in the band except its writer, Dave Mason. Unlike the rest of their material, the song was written solely by one member, and ExecutiveMeddling led to it being a single. Drummer Jim Capaldi would later dismiss the song as "Fucking pop bubblegum" |
| 449 | * Former pop/R&B singer Debelah Morgan has '''very''' vocally denounced her first two albums, referring to both of them in interviews as products of ExecutiveMeddling (the first album especially, where [[LeonineContract she wasn't allowed to have any creative control whatsoever]]). In hindsight, she attributes the failure of these albums to a combination of [[TypeCasting being pushed into an urban style of music due to her ethnicity]] and [[MusicIsPolitics not having enough business savviness at the time to avoid being taken advantage of]]. |
| 450 | * Music/NineInchNails: |
| 451 | ** Despite being seen as a high point of the festival and helping to launch them into the mainstream, Trent Reznor thought the band's performance at Woodstock '94 was terrible due to the numerous technical issues that they experienced. |
| 452 | ** Reznor, while on BBC Radio 1's Rock Show, called "The Perfect Drug" his least favorite of his songs, explaining that it ended up rushed so it could be included on the ''Film/LostHighway'' soundtrack (which he had also produced). This might be partly why, despite it being a fairly popular song among fans, it took until 2018 (twenty-one years after it came out) for it to be played live. He also called the SurrealMusicVideo bloated and over-budget. |
| 453 | ** Trent later called "Down in It", NIN's first single and the first song he ever wrote, a ripoff of Music/SkinnyPuppy's "Dig It". |
| 454 | ** "Everything" from ''Hesitation Marks'' hadn't been performed live as Trent said it has become an "irritant", possibly due to fan backlash from when it was released. He seems to have changed his mind in 2022, when it was performed for the first time on June fifteenth. |
| 455 | * Music/{{Korn}} has gone on record as disliking ''Take a Look in the Mirror'' (which they hastily cobbled together on tour before rushing into the studio to make it) for being a one-dimensional, uninspired album that focused too much on being heavy and too little on much of anything else. Jonathan Davis also personally dislikes ''Korn III: Remember Who You Are'' due to their decision to go back to Ross Robinson for a "RevisitingTheRoots" album to get then-new drummer Ray Luzier integrated into the band, only to have Robinson be so over-the-top and intrusive during the recording process (something that they expected given his style, but not quite to the lengths that he went to) that he sucked every last ounce of enjoyment out of the recording process and made it into something to endure. Davis also specifically pointed out Robinson's decision to bring Davis' wife into the studio without his knowledge or approval when he was tracking vocals for "Are You Ready to Live?" (which was about her substance issues) and had her sit across from him (which actually got Robinson chewed out by Davis' therapist) as something that was massively unwelcome. |
| 456 | * Creator/TarajiPHenson doesn't dislike "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp," the Oscar-winning song she sang with Creator/TerrenceHoward for the ''Film/HustleAndFlow'' soundtrack, but she said performing at the Academy Awards was "awkward" because "We were singing about pimps and whores in front of Creator/HelenMirren!" She also didn't expect it to win, as Music/DollyParton was favored to win the Oscar for Best Original Song that year after decades of {{Award Snub}}s. |
| 457 | * In his autobiography ''Not Dead And Not For Sale'', Scott Weiland was dismissive of his work with {{Supergroup}} Velvet Revolver, calling it a "manufactured band" (as opposed to Music/StoneTemplePilots who met as friends and decided to make music together). He also admits that a major reason he joined Velvet Revolver was that, after being fired by STP, he wanted to show up the rest of the group by making hit albums without them. |
| 458 | * Rosemary Clooney confessed to hating her first number one hit "Come on-a My House". She only recorded it because [[ExecutiveMeddling her executive, Mitch Miller, threatened to fire her if she turned it down]]. She made fun of it in ''The Stars Are Singing''. |
| 459 | * Music/MauriceRavel always regarded ''Boléro'' as one of his lesser works. He had written it as a rhythmic experiment with many orchestral instruments passing the same tune amongst each other over and over again in a continuously rising crescendo, and was not happy when it became his most famous composition. It was reported that at the première, amongst the audience's wild cheers, one woman was heard screaming that Ravel was a madman. His response? That she understood. |
| 460 | * After ExecutiveMeddling by Creator/MetroGoldwynMayer and Creator/{{Showtime}} took Music/JoelGoldsmith's score for the PilotMovie for ''Series/StargateSG1'' and blended it with Music/DavidArnold's score for ''Film/{{Stargate}}'' in the finished product. When the mix was replicated for the soundtrack album, ''both'' composers disowned it. Goldsmith's intended score was released in 2009. |
| 461 | * Jenna Rose [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2R8aHkEu3NM despised]] the video she made for her song "O.M.G." due to how the video sexualized her at twelve years old, and couldn't even watch more than the first thirty seconds or so before shutting the video off in disgust. She claims her producers manipulated her into doing the video and even lied to her about its contents, telling her that the tight angel costume would be edited into a sky background so she'd appear to be flying when it was just played for fanservice. Jenna even apologized for the video ever being up and promoting the idea that sexualizing little girls was okay, though she deleted it from her channel a while ago. |
| 462 | * CountryMusic singer Steve Azar hates his little-known 1996 debut album ''Heartbreak Town'', saying in a 2003 news article that it "didn't sound like me". He also pointed out that his wife was so upset by the album's mainstream sound that she cried when she listened to it for the first time. |
| 463 | * Downplayed with Music/{{Erra}}'s EP, ''Moment of Clarity.'' The band doesn't ''hate'' it per say, but between the TroubledProduction of the EP and then vocalist Ian Eubanks leaving the band in late 2015 led to the band not playing much from the EP after JT Cavey joined. Played straight with their fourth album, ''Neon.'' JT went on Reddit to say that he wasn't fond of the mix of the album. |
| 464 | * Music/{{deadmau5}} admitted on Twitter a couple of weeks ''before'' the release of his 2016 album, ''W:/2016ALBUM/'', that he was unsatisfied with the final product, feeling it was "slapped-together" and inconsistent. He does like some tracks off it -- specifically “Snowcone”, “Whelk Then”, and “No Problem” -- but as it was made during [[CreatorBreakdown a self-destructively depressive episode the previous year]], it wasn't an album that he considers being thoughtfully made from start to finish, and [[MoneyDearBoy he just wanted to get it out ASAP as he had "mad bills" to pay]]. |
| 465 | * Music/{{Poppy}} doesn't look remotely kindly to her time with director and collaborative partner Titanic Sinclair (ironically the period that shot her into mainstream fame), which seems almost entirely to do with Sinclair's history of abusing and stalking past partners catching up with him, including getting her involved with a messy lawsuit from his previous partner Music/MarsArgo, who -- among other things -- alleged that Poppy's aesthetic was [[SelfPlagiarism self-plagiarized by Titanic from her]] as part of an extended plot of psychological torment. Poppy has since broken ties from Sinclair and much of the aesthetic established along with him, hence her drastic GenreShift from bubblegum electropop to HeavyMetal[=/=]pop fusions. |
| 466 | * Mac Davis was always a little annoyed that "Baby, Don't Get Hooked on Me" became a #1 hit, since it was a song that he wrote in one day, after his producer asked him to write a "hook song" (thus making the title some [[PunBasedTitle pun-based]] LiteralistSnarking), and Davis, like many listeners, thought the song's narrator was a conceited jerk. |
| 467 | * Vaudvillian Maggie Cline so hated her biggest hit, "Throw Him Down, [=McCloskey=]!" that she would leave the stage (and still collect her fee) if anyone in the audience yelled it out as a request. Audiences were specifically warned to not do that. |
| 468 | * {{Music/Cupcakke}} has developed a rather tenuous relationship with the hyper-vulgar DirtyRap style that made her famous. When she announced her retirement from music in early 2019 and pulled her catalogue from streaming platforms, one of her reasons brought up was [[ThinkOfTheChildren her awareness and worry of how many of her fans were preteens]], even going so far as to say "I feel as though [[HarmfulToMinors I'm corrupting them with my songs"]]. She eventually recovered [[TenMinuteRetirement and returned to music before the year's end]], but the vulgarity of her work since been conspicuously toned down. |
| 469 | * Music/{{Sia}} [[https://www.google.com.au/amp/s/www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/sias-reject-opus-songwriter-on-reclaiming-adele-rihannas-unwanted-hits-36006/amp/ has admitted that she thinks many of the pops songs she has written are cheesy]], and it was "quite confronting to start writing in that way" after coming from an indie background. |
| 470 | ** Also for Sia: initially with [[Music/DavidGuetta "Titanium"]]. She was absolutely furious because she had written the song for another singer (such as Music/AliciaKeys, Music/KatyPerry or Music/MaryJBlige) but David Guetta released Sia's demo without her permission. After spending a decade as an indie songwriter, Sia was livid that she was now attracting attention from a cheesy EDM track - right after taking a break from music due to health issues. However, Sia said in 2015 that her relationship with the song had changed due to the money she made off of it (for context, just one year before "Titanium", [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AXFUuPde-s&list=PLJU7ZXnMWmyW1w8JybsHu04yYBcNCCK_a&index=47 Sia admitted that she barely had made money from her career]]) and the positive impact it has had on suffering children who feel strong when they listen to it. |
| 471 | * CountryMusic singer David Kersh, best known for "Another You" (written by a then-unknown Music/BradPaisley) and "If I Never Stop Loving You", disowned his entire music career in 2005 in a letter on his website. He was last known to be working as a real estate agent. |
| 472 | * Eric Prydz does not like his BreakoutHit "Call On Me", and has very rarely discussed the song in interviews or in public. The song's bizarre history helps explain his feelings towards it: It was originally a set filler track by Together (consisting of DJ Falcon and [[Music/DaftPunk Thomas Bangalter]]), who declined to release it despite its popularity on the bootleg circuit. The record label Ministry of Sound sought to get around that by seeking a producer who could release a pop-friendly version of the track with its samples cleared, and Eric Prydz agreed to do so [[MoneyDearBoy for a decent payday]]. Despite the song being a major hit, Prydz has preferred to distance himself from it thanks to a feeling that it isn't really his song, and the fact that it is a BlackSheepHit compared to the rest of his discography. |
| 473 | * The punk band Music/XUSBand dislikes their 1985 album ''Ain't Love Grand.'' The album was released shortly after the divorce of co-songwriters John Doe and Exene Cervenka. At the same time, guitarist Billy Zoom was planning to jump ship. With its slick, metal-friendly production, ''Ain't Love Grand'' is considered their weakest effort. In the liner notes to the album's CD reissue, Cervenka admits: "We shouldn't have made a record that year." |
| 474 | * The Music/GooGooDolls used to be a punk band. John Rzeznik said in the band's Behind The Music episode that the band's third album, ''Hold Me Up'', was their first "real" album, effectively disowning their self-titled debut and its follow-up, ''Jed''. Taking this further, the band rarely (or never) plays anything that came before their fifth album, ''A Boy Named Goo'' (which brought the band its first taste of commercial success, despite being in roughly the same PunkRock style as their earlier releases), in concert anymore. |
| 475 | ** Actually, several songs from ''Superstar Car Wash'' (which was released two years before ''A Boy Named Goo''), namely "We Are the Normal" (which singer Johnny Rzeznik has a particularly soft spot for because he wrote it with his idol [[Music/TheReplacements Paul Westerberg]]), "Cuz You're Gone" and "Another Second Time Around" are still commonly played live, and even the title track to ''Hold Me Up'' gets an occasional live play. |
| 476 | ** In recent years, Rzeznik's opinions have changed on their earliest albums. When he was asked by Noisey to [[https://noisey.vice.com/en_us/article/rank-your-records-the-goo-goo-dolls-records-john-rzeznik rank all of the band's records]] for a recurring feature, he didn't put ''Jed'' very high, but ranked their debut ahead of ''A Boy Named Goo'' and recommended that people who want to get into the band start with ''Superstar Car Wash''. |
| 477 | * Piano-rock chanteuse Music/ToriAmos fronted a synth-pop band called Y Kant Tori Read that released a single self-titled record in 1988. The record label stopped promoting it after two months, Tori had fired the entire band except for one member by the time the first video was shot, and Tori had, for a long time, [[CanonDisContinuity acted like it never existed]], with good reason. She seems to have reconciled herself with the album, to the extent that she occasionally plays songs from the album live (particularly "Etienne" and "Cool on Your Island") and the album was ultimately reissued with her blessing in 2017. This may be an example of an artist reconciling with Old Shame. |
| 478 | ** Making matters much worse, the booklet of the album doesn't credit Amos with her full name, but just "Tori". Which led many to believe her name was "Tori Read". |
| 479 | ** There's also the 1987 TV commercial for Kellogg's Just Right cereal that she did because [[IWasYoungAndNeededTheMoney She Was Young And Needed The Money]], and the cheesy but catchy "Baltimore", a song that she wrote and recorded (as Ellen Amos) at age 16 for a Baltimore Orioles theme song contest (she won). |
| 480 | ** Thankfully averted example: she auditioned for the female lead in ''Film/HowardTheDuck''. |
| 481 | * Music/AlanisMorissette once was a bubblegum-pop idol singer of sorts, releasing two albums named ''Alanis'' and ''Now It's The Time''. Later, when she became famous with ''Music/JaggedLittlePill'', she wasn't amused to see her other works were still around. |
| 482 | ** She has somewhat reclaimed one of her old pop songs, "Too Hot", playing it in a reworked version that sounds more like her normal sound. She has said of it (before playing), "This song deserves no introduction." |
| 483 | * Music/MyBloodyValentine do not think much of their non-shoegazing period (everything they released before the ''Strawberry Wine'' EP). |
| 484 | * Before the band Music/{{Hurt}} released their first album ''Vol. 1'', they released two other albums prior to that: their self-titled album and ''The Consummation''. The latter was eventually re-released in 2008 under the name ''The Re-Consummation'', while the former will most likely never see the light of day again because as J. Loren (the band's singer) put it, it was "poorly done and actually diminishes from the intentions behind the songs." Some of the songs from said album were released between Vol. 1 and Vol. II, however, they've confirmed that the songs from both albums are drastically different from the early songs (an interview with the singer states that the self-titled album's ''Summers Lost and Abuse of SID'' is different from Vol. II versions). |
| 485 | * Music/FallOutBoy's first EP releases (their split EP with Project Rocket and ''Evening Out With Your Girlfriend'') are disowned by the band, having been released prior to Andy Hurley taking the reins as the drummer, Patrick Stump taking up rhythm guitar from [[ThePeteBest the other guys that quit]], and Pete Wentz becoming the primary lyricist. They've shown more favor to the song "Growing Up" ([[NostalgiaFilter only due to it being the first song they ever did as a band]]), which showed up on their greatest hits album. |
| 486 | ** For a Take This To Your Grave example, due to Pete and Chris "Hey Chris" Gutierrez's falling out around the time the band went mainstream, the song "Grenade Jumper" is rarely performed during their live shows, even though their relationship has improved since then. |
| 487 | * Jason Martin of Music/Starflyer59 has said that he can't stand to listen to his first album, ''Silver'', anymore. Fans of the band tend to disagree with him--fortunately for them, Jason doesn't hate ''Silver'' enough to do anything to prevent it from being reissued (twice!). On the other hand, there's the pre-''Silver'', six-song demo tape that convinced Tooth & Nail Records to sign ''Starflyer 59.'' Some die-hard fans have occasionally asked Jason about releasing ''that'', and he has answered that the demos were terrible and should never see the light of day. |
| 488 | * Music/{{Cage}} hates his debut album, ''Movies for the Blind'', and considers it too random and fragmented, and says that it glorified drugs. Despite his distaste for the album, it was praised by critics and is considered a CultClassic. |
| 489 | * Judging by interviews it seems that former Music/PanicAtTheDisco guitarist/main songwriter Ryan Ross is pretty embarrassed over Panic!'s 2005 emo-heavy debut ''A Fever You Can't Sweat Out'', which he wrote when he was still a teenager. Probably due to Ross completely rejecting emo [[NewSoundAlbum in favor of classic rock]]. |
| 490 | * ''Door, Door'', the lone album by The Boys Next Door is apparently this to Music/NickCave and the rest of the band (who would later become Music/TheBirthdayParty). This is most likely because it's more commercial-sounding and [[NewWaveMusic New Wave]]-esque than The Birthday Party were, with Nick Cave employing smoother vocals. In one interview, Cave himself called it "one of the worst records ever recorded", and also said "I think my singing style at that particular period was totally repulsive. It was really disgusting". |
| 491 | * The first album by Music/TheDivineComedy, ''Fanfare for the Comic Muse''. Neil Hannon had the album removed from the label's catalog and says the title of their 2006 album ''Victory for the Comic Muse'' is a coincidence. |
| 492 | * Music/{{Coldplay}} have straight-up called their first album, ''Parachutes'', "terrible music". A case where most people (fans, critics, even nonfans) disagree. Aside from their breakout hit "Yellow", you're unlikely to hear any song from there in concert. |
| 493 | ** Chris Martin has also admitted in an interview that "Speed of Sound" is one of his least favorite songs, due to how the recording went. The band does not play it live, specifically for that reason. |
| 494 | * Music/{{REM}} in general and Michael Stipe, in particular, have ''hated'' [[Music/OutOfTime "Shiny Happy People"]] since the day they created it, it seems, due to [[SweetnessAversion its sickeningly sweet tone]]. For the longest time it was never to be found on any compilation albums, and they rarely -- if ever -- played it live. The only compilation album it's appeared on since its initial release is the retrospective ''Part Lies Part Heart Part Truth Part Garbage 1982-2011''... which was released after the band broke up. |
| 495 | ** Guitarist Peter Buck summed up their 2004 album ''Music/AroundTheSun'' thusly: "...[it] just wasn't really listenable, because it sounds like what it is, a bunch of people that are so bored with the material that they can't stand it anymore." Stipe also reportedly said "If we make another record like [''Around the Sun''], it's over" during the process of making their next record, ''Music/{{Accelerate}}''. |
| 496 | * Music/EmilieAutumn reconned her Enchant album from her About Me in 2014. Now if you look for it on her website it is hard to find and she refuses to perform any of the songs like, explained as her Opheliac/Asylum/Fight Like A Girl sound and image is what made her popular on a grand scale. |
| 497 | * Music/{{Nirvana}} came to regret the sound of their breakthrough album ''Music/{{Nevermind|Album}}'', feeling that the mixes -- which they loved at the time -- were an act of selling out on their part. They considered themselves a punk band and felt that ''Nevermind'' was "closer to a Mötley Crüe record than it is a punk rock record", according to Kurt Cobain. |
| 498 | * Music/{{Radiohead}} ended up disowning most of the material they made before ''Music/TheBends'', mainly due to their embarrassment at what they saw as a SmallNameBigEgo attitude of theirs pre-1995, but reserve particularly strong ire for "Pop Is Dead", a non-album single from that era that they considered their artistic low point. They've only ever spoken negatively of it in interviews (if at all), and once they regained the rights to their Creator/ParlophoneRecords catalog, they immediately threw the song into CanonDiscontinuity, refusing to re-release it or its music video in any form. |
| 499 | * Peter Furler of the Music/{{Newsboys}} has said that when he first listened to the finished ''Boyz Will Be Boyz'' album, he actually cried because it was, in his words, "crap". These days, any mention of the band's songs before the (appropriately titled) ''Not Ashamed'' era will generally be met with embarrassment. |
| 500 | * Most members of Music/{{dc Talk}} choose to ignore their first two albums, which were mostly rap-driven and quite a contrast to their later pop/rock work (especially the first album, which is not so much "cheesy" or "dated" as it is... ''bewildering''.) |
| 501 | * Christian artist Randy Stonehill released his first album in 1971. In 1994, when asked by an interviewer if the mostly live album would ever see a re-release, Stonehill responded: |
| 502 | -->"Only when someone makes a serious error in judgment." |
| 503 | * Music/SergeiRachmaninoff's Prelude in C-sharp minor, written early in his career, became his most famous piece. He detested it and often would refuse to play it when he performed. |
| 504 | * OlderThanRadio: Music/RichardWagner insisted that the first three operas he wrote didn't count as his work. The third, ''Rienzi'', is still played today, but the first two are generally considered to be pretty bad. |
| 505 | * The French composer [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Durufl%C3%A9 Maurice Duruflé]] was such a perfectionist that he only managed to publish 14 works in a career spanning 60 years, and still felt enough OldShame about the first one that he ''withdrew it from publication''. |
| 506 | ** Duruflé's mentor, Paul Dukas (most well-known for the tone poem "The Sorcerer's Apprentice"), was similar in this respect. His surviving work only constitutes around half of his total output; he abandoned and/or destroyed the other half for not meeting his personal standards. |
| 507 | * Composer Music/HectorBerlioz had taken to "burning" compositions of his that he disliked, though often the manuscripts were not actually destroyed but filed away. One of these works, the ''Messe Solennelle'', was not rediscovered until 1991. |
| 508 | * Gaetano Donizetti was not really pleased with ''Buondelmonte'' and was determined to have it performed as ''Maria Stuarda''. [[ExecutiveMeddling Wanna know the whole story]]? Neither do I. |
| 509 | * Comedic singer Tony Goldmark (later better known for his shows ''WebVideo/SomeJerkWithACamera'' and ''Podcast/EscapeFromVaultDisney''), as a young teen, put together an album of kids' songs, ''You Bug Me!: Songs Guaranteed to Annoy Your Parents''. Fast forward a decade-plus, and with two more albums and numerous hits on [[Creator/DrDemento "The Dr. Demento Show"]], he does not recommend ''You Bug Me!'' as part of his body of work, even having [[BreakingTheFourthWall an audience member]] reference it near the end of his "second" full-length comedy music album - just so he can shoot the guy for bringing it up! |
| 510 | * Musician in a Comedian's Body Music/StephenLynch shows endless remorse over an early song known to fans as "the Bowling Song" — nothing about it is controversial or offensive, he just doesn't think it's very funny — so the audience inevitably asks for it whenever he plays. He also regrets ever writing "Special Olympics," for more obvious reasons. |
| 511 | * Creator/BoBurnham has admitted his earlier stuff, in general, is inferior to his later work, mainly due to relying mostly on shock value rather than actual satire or making a point. He specifically says he doesn't really like "The Perfect Woman" (a song about how Helen Keller would be, well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the perfect woman]]), mainly because he's concerned it might be used to make fun of a real blind and/or deaf girl. |
| 512 | * The 12th Man (aka Billy Birmingham) feels this way over "It's Just Not Cricket" (his 1984 single, which heavily used Creator/NineNetwork's former WWOS theme in the background), removing it from the 2009 reissue of Wired World of Sports and not including on his personal best of album, "Willy Nilly". However, he followed it up with "The Very Best of Richie" (focusing on his Richie Benaud impressions, which was the only voice in the track) which did include an edited version of it. |
| 513 | * Most of Sawyer Brown's material for Capitol Records in the '80s and early '90s has gone out of print. This may be because they started out as a very lightweight bubblegum country-pop band who dressed in pink and emphasized their dance moves, and didn't take on their [[GrowingTheBeard more mature, polished image]] until around 1991, shortly before moving from Capitol Records to Curb Records. Outside a few tracks, such as their 1989 cover of Music/GeorgeJones' "The Race Is On", the tender Christmas release "It Wasn't His Child", and the three singles from their last Capitol album — which was a commercial comeback after a slump for most of 1989-91 — their Capitol-era releases are particularly hard to come by nowadays. |
| 514 | * This ''might'' apply to country music singer Joe Nichols' 1996 debut album. While 2005's ''III'' was his third album for Universal South Records (now known as Show Dog-Universal), it was his ''fourth'' overall, and by naming it ''III'' he effectively disowned the 1996 album, which he recorded at age 20 — either out of shame or out of the fact that it was on a small indie label and produced no chart singles whatsoever. |
| 515 | ** It should be noted, the album has been re-released ''at least'' twice since Joe became famous. The only reason the first album is forgotten is that the label it was originally released on never actually promoted it, and they closed down shortly after. |
| 516 | ** His GreatestHitsAlbum does not include the Top 10 hit "If Nobody Believed in You", despite including its far more obscure predecessor "Cool to Be a Fool". This may be due to the former's controversial religious-themed lyrics (the last verse references then-contemporary attempts to keep religion out of schools). |
| 517 | * Music/RandyTravis recorded ''Wind in the Wire'' for a Western TV movie of the same name. The label didn't promote the album well, and its singles both tanked miserably at radio (although one went to #10 on the Canadian country music charts). It was also his first album not to be produced by longtime producer Kyle Lehning, and most of the contributing songwriters were complete unknowns. This album is widely considered one of Travis's worst. Even Warner Bros. Nashville's then-senior VP of marketing agreed, saying that it was an "angst" period for the label. |
| 518 | * Music/GeorgeJones didn't like to talk about the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MQX0ZiDkoM rockabilly]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac1VRXyfTDo records]] he did in the 1950s as "Thumper" Jones. |
| 519 | * Originally, country music duo Bomshel consisted of vocalist Buffy Lawson and fiddler Kristy Osmunson. This lineup released a three-song EP and a cut from the ''Film/EvanAlmighty'' soundtrack, with all four songs charting. After Lawson left because of CreativeDifferences, Kelley Shepard took her place and the Shepard/Osmunson lineup went on to release a full album. As soon as Shepard took over, the duo promptly disowned three of the four Lawson-era songs, keeping only "Bomshel Stomp" before disbanding in 2013. |
| 520 | * Music/MartinaMcBride and producer Paul Worley both criticize her 1993 single "Life #9" in the liner notes to her GreatestHitsAlbum. Worley referred to it as a "country disco phase", and Martina thought that it didn't fit her style. Worley himself also said that he was embarrassed by his slide guitar and six-string bass solos on her BreakthroughHit "My Baby Loves Me", and joked that they "somehow never got erased". |
| 521 | * Rodney Atkins' first single, the 1997 flop "In a Heartbeat", had him singing in a Music/RoyOrbison-esque voice while wearing a cowboy hat and sporting a blond mustache not unlike Music/AlanJackson or Music/TracyLawrence. Dissatisfied with his material at the time, Atkins asked the head of his label for a change in producers. After a long hiatus and two failed singles in 2002, Atkins did one album (2003's ''Honesty'') as a visual and vocal {{expy}} of then-labelmate Music/TimMcGraw to minimal success. Another hiatus followed, after which he found his niche in 2006 as a baseball cap-wearing purveyor of positive, life-affirming uptempos (e.g. "If You're Going Through Hell (Before the Devil Even Knows)") and easily relatable songs about fatherhood and family (e.g. "Watching You", "Cleaning This Gun (Come On In Boy)"). Even though the title track to ''Honesty'' was a Top 5 hit, Atkins and his fans often treat "If You're Going Through Hell" as the true start of his career. |
| 522 | * Music/GeorgeStrait: |
| 523 | ** He disowns his second single "Down and Out", and adamantly refused to put it on the otherwise career-spanning ''Strait Out of the Box'' box set in 1995. |
| 524 | ** Strait also hated his first music video, for "You Look So Good in Love", so much that he asked for it to be withdrawn. He has very rarely done a music video ever since, and the few that he has done are mostly {{Performance Video}}s. |
| 525 | * For some reason, Music/TravisTritt's 1995 GreatestHitsAlbum is lacking "Nothing Short of Dying" and "Lord Have Mercy on the Working Man", even though both were Top 5 hits. However, the latter may be justified in it being a MassiveMultiplayerCrossover. Even more jarring when "Put Some Drive in Your Country", which was a far lesser hit, ''is'' on said album. Also, in his autobiography, he also said that he was never a big fan of his debut single "Country Club" because he didn't think it fit his style. |
| 526 | * Gary Harrison, co-writer of Music/TrishaYearwood's 1992 single "Wrong Side of Memphis", said in an interview with ''New Country'' magazine that he didn't like the song because "it just sort of drones, there's really no chorus to it[…]I never really thought there was a song there to begin with." |
| 527 | * Richard Young, the rhythm guitarist of Music/TheKentuckyHeadhunters, said that he was not happy with the band's third album, 1993's ''Rave On!!'' This was their first album [[TheBandMinusTheFace after the departure]] of brothers Ricky Lee and Doug Phelps, then the lead singer and bassist respectively; taking their places were Mark S. Orr and Anthony Kenney. While Kenney had played in a prior incarnation of the band in The70s, Orr was widely derided by fans, critics, and even the rest of the band for his more raspy singing style. He only stuck around for one more album (''That'll Work'', a collaboration with blues pianist Johnnie Johnson) and a cover of "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away" for a tribute album to Music/TheBeatles before Doug rejoined in 1995, assuming his brother's former role as lead vocalist and largely returning the band to their signature sound. It does seem that the band has reconciled with Orr, as they covered a track from ''That'll Work'' on a second collaborative album with Johnson in 2015, and Orr wrote the track "Beaver Creek Mansion" on the next album. |
| 528 | * Music/TraceAdkins withdrew his 2011 single "Brown Chicken Brown Cow" after only nine weeks, and later apologized for releasing it. Apparently, country radio was not ready for a novelty song about farm animals spying on a couple having sex in a barn, replete with a groanworthy {{pun}} of a title... |
| 529 | * While Music/TaylorSwift is proud of the fact that she writes all of her own lyrics, she has admitted that some of her older songs from when she was a teenager have not aged well, as they deal with emotions that she would handle differently as an adult: |
| 530 | ** "Picture to Burn" is often cited for this reason. And when she re-recorded her older material, she changed the particularly problematic line "I'll tell [my friends] that you're gay" to "You won't mind if I say...(hook)" |
| 531 | ** In "Better Than Revenge," she rants about another girl "stealing" her boyfriend. Swift has since admitted in retrospect that it was a very immature take on relationships, because if your partner leaves you for someone else, that is a choice ''they'' made. |
| 532 | * Music/JennetteMcCurdy stated in a podcast with Nerdist that she generally hated her brief foray into country-pop music. In 2009, she was signed to Capitol Records Nashville, who tried to largely take control over what she produced. They apparently forced her to constantly plug them in interviews and say that she "grew up with country music"...even though she didn't. This likely had played a large hand in her album (initially slated for a Summer 2009 release) to be pushed all the way to 2012. However, this was more of a case of her disliking the process of touring and being controlled by Capitol Nashville; she seemed okay with actually writing and recording the music and even did Website/YouTube covers long before she was signed to any label. |
| 533 | * Music/DiamondRio lead guitarist Jimmy Olander is ashamed of the band's 1993 hit "This Romeo Ain't Got Julie Yet", which he wrote, due to its terrible {{pun}} of a title; in the band's autobiography, he says that ItSeemedLikeAGoodIdeaAtTheTime. |
| 534 | * Music/TheBandPerry released a very pop-oriented single in late 2014 titled "Live Forever". The band made no small talk of the fact that the single was part of a new image for them (read: lots of yellow and loud pop production), but the single underperformed so horribly with fans and radio that they ended up losing their record deal with Republic Records. All of the references to the single were scrubbed from their social media, and even the single itself was taken off iTunes for a time. Their late-2016 signing with Creator/MercuryRecords seems to take the positioning that "Live Forever" never happened... although it probably doesn't help that their inaugural Mercury single "Comeback Kid" did even worse. |
| 535 | |
| 536 | * Ralf Hütter has dismissed his work on the first three Music/{{Kraftwerk}} albums (ditto ''Tone Float'' by Organisation, the band he and Florian Schneider were in prior to Kraftwerk) and refuses to license them for any official reissues. Thus, any [=CDs=] of these albums to date have been "gray market" releases. |
| 537 | ** Hütter was also so embarrassed by the band's "hippie" appearance on the cover of ''Music/{{Autobahn}}'' that the "rearview mirror" was airbrushed out of reissues of the album, and the band image on the back replaced by a later band photo (from the band's "robotic" phase; incidentally, a different lineup of the band that is featured on said album!). It seems he's no longer embarrassed by the image anymore as the 2009 remastering of ''Autobahn'' restores the original picture. |
| 538 | *** He's also may have warmed up to the original albums, stating that he's dug up additional artwork for each of those albums and is probably readying a box set for them. |
| 539 | * Jeremy Dawson and Chad Petree, the producers of Shiny Toy Guns, seem to have disowned their old trance productions as Cloud2Ground, Slyder, RRDS, etc., some of which appeared in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIII'' on the Rise FM station. |
| 540 | * Music/BoardsOfCanada have refused to acknowledge any of their releases prior to ''Twoism''. They consist of a mix of good-quality tracks and some that...probably justify the band's attitude towards them. They're still highly sought-after by fans, though. |
| 541 | * {{Music/Aviators}} called his debut, ''Reflections of a Dream,'' "terrible" in the liner notes of ''A Dream Revisited''. |
| 542 | * Before becoming one of the top UsefulNotes/{{Synthwave}} artists, Mitch Murder produced [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness a 90's-style instrumental hip-hop/G-funk album]] that has never been released, and will likely stay that way for this reason. |
| 543 | * [[Music/{{VOCALOID}} LamazeP]]'s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSlHsVKlZSY remix]] of [[Music/{{BEMANI}} "Second Heaven"]], used in ''VideoGame/SoundVoltex'', was so reviled by players that he [[http://remywiki.com/Second_Heaven_Lamaze-REMIX#Trivia personally apologized for it on Twitter]]. |
| 544 | * Music/FrankZappa wanted to forget producing Music/WildManFischer's first album "An Evening with Wild Man Fischer" (1968) ever since Fischer, who suffered from schizophrenia, threw a bottle at his then-infant daughter Moon Unit and missed. Zappa quickly threw Fischer out and broke all contact with him. He never re-released the album and to this day it can only be found on vinyl. This was particularly awful for Fischer because it was the best-selling album in his entire low sales career. |
| 545 | * Music/CaptainBeefheart: Beefheart felt particularly embarrassed by the albums ''Music/UnconditionallyGuaranteed'' and ''Music/BluejeansAndMoonbeams''. These two records were an attempt to sound more "commercial" than his usual avant-garde output, but failed miserably, even among his fans. Beefheart even said people should bring them back to the store and demand their money back. |
| 546 | * Music/{{Swans}}: |
| 547 | ** Frontman Michael Gira has been outspoken in his distaste for the band's only major label album ''The Burning World'', which had a radio-friendly LighterAndSofter sound that won over neither the established fanbase nor mainstream audiences. While Gira does like a few of the songs (particularly "God Damn The Sun", which he considers one of his best songs) and has included them on compilations, he has only sparingly allowed the full album to be reissued and [[DenialOfDigitalDistribution it is the band's only studio album not available to stream or download]]. |
| 548 | ** Despite being one of the band's [[BlackSheepHit biggest commercial hits]], Gira dislikes the band's cover of [[Music/JoyDivision "Love Will Tear Us Apart"]] due to dissatisfaction with how his vocals and the production turned out. |
| 549 | * Music/JamesNewtonHoward isn't too fond of his work when he first began scoring films in the mid-1980s, so anyone expecting albums for the likes of ''Head Office'', ''8 Million Ways to Die'', ''Nobody's Fool'' and ''Campus Man'' will be in for a long wait (1987's ''Five Corners'' and ''Russkies'' are his oldest scores to get album release). |
| 550 | * Carter Burwell and Music/ThomasNewman have these with ''[[Film/WaynesWorld Wayne's World 2]]'' and ''Film/RevengeOfTheNerds'' respectively; Burwell because he a) had to write a Kenny G-soundalike and b) then had to ''re''write the piece "because (it) could be interpreted as making fun of Mr. G", He doesn't even mention ''Wayne's World 2'' on his website. Newman because he had to arrange "Daisy, Daisy" in a Japanese style for a bicycle race. |
| 551 | * Creator/VareseSarabande would very much like to forget that their first soundtrack release was ''Film/TheFirstNudieMusical''. The movie's writer/composer/co-director/co-star Bruce Kimmel reissued it on compact disc on his ''own'' label Kritzerland. |
| 552 | * Michael Longcor's "Privateer" is the only thing that survived from a bad space opera novel he wrote in college. The song itself is rather good. He'd prefer not to talk about the rest of the novel... |
| 553 | * Music/BobSeger refuses to allow his early albums (anything before 1975's ''Beautiful Loser to be precise) to be reissued. Oddly, many fans regard titles like ''Mongrel'', ''Back in '72'' or ''Seven'' to be as good as, if not better than, Seger's more commonly-available later stuff. |
| 554 | ** However, Seger's ''Live Bullet'' album ''has'' been kept in print, and it includes versions of some of those early songs - such as "Turn the Page" and "Katmandu" - which went on to become staples of classic rock radio. |
| 555 | * Similarly to Bob Seger above, Music/NeilDiamond won't allow most of his Bang Records recordings from the 1960s to be reissued, even though many people believe that's the best stuff he ever did. |
| 556 | * Although the album cover is one of the most iconic logos in the history of rock music, Music/TheGratefulDead album ''Steal Your Face'' is considered the worst live album by the band. The two main criticisms were its poor sound quality, which required studio overdubs, and its emphasis on songs rather than the band's signature improvisational jamming. It's frequently referred to as ''Steal Your Money'' by fans, critics, and the band themselves. When Creator/RhinoRecords released two box-sets containing their main studio and live albums, they opted to exclude this album and instead release the separate five-disk ''Grateful Dead Movie Soundtrack'' to represent that time in the band's history. |
| 557 | * Tony Wakeford of neofolk band Sol Invictus has stated his previous band Above the Ruins was "shite and a product of a really bad period in my life", as he was involved with the National Front at the time (a political affiliation which he has since disowned) and this was reflected in the lyrics. |
| 558 | * Music/BobDylan's [[SelfTitledAlbum self-titled debut]] ''Music/BobDylan'' is a bit of an old shame to the singer as it is merely a CoverAlbum where he was still trying to find his own voice. It's often overlooked and more or less CanonDiscontinuity in his catalogue, especially compared to the SurprisinglyImprovedSequel that was ''Music/TheFreewheelinBobDylan''. |
| 559 | * Averted by Music/{{Typhoon}}, who sell music they made as teenagers alongside the music they make now. |
| 560 | * Nate Ruess of the band Music/{{Fun}} admitted in 2015 that he feels this way about the lyrics of ''Some Nights'' (released three years earlier), he was disappointed with the lyrics since his tastes have changed since then. (This is evident in his solo album. For example, he makes several references to God and the afterlife in ''Grand Romantic'', in contrast to ''Some Nights'' which contained the anti-religious song "One Foot".) A somewhat downplayed example, since he is still proud of ''Some Nights''. |
| 561 | ** Also overlaps with CreatorBacklash since Nate did not like the media attention that Fun. got after ''Some Nights''. |
| 562 | * Music/TheKillers, "Get Trashed" a song recorded by the band before the release of their breakout album ''Hot Fuss'' and seemingly expunged from their canon. It sounds like it was recorded on a tin can, and Brandon's vocal delivery is awful in it (fortunately he got a lot better in their future work). It’s almost a meme in the "Victims" fandom that "Get Trashed" is absolutely the last Killers track ''anybody should seek out''. |
| 563 | * Music/MarilynManson would like everything not included on his official albums to be forgotten (about 30 songs). He lost the rights to 21 of these in a lawsuit (that's why you pay your bandmates, no matter how much of an ass they are, and how uncooperative they are), and he could do nothing when eleven of them were "remastered" and re-released. It flopped, killing the second set of songs remastering. However, you can find some of them, intentionally leaked, and all of the other songs on Website/YouTube (from old cassettes). He said in his autobiography that the song "She Isn't My Girlfriend" was the worst song he ever wrote. With songs like "Dune Buggy", "Magic Eight Ball" and "Suicide Snowman", that's saying a lot. However, a few good songs were lost, like "Choklit Factory" (it's about Jeffrey Dahmer and has Wonka references) and "Negative Three" were tossed to the side. Oh, and one song is about child molestation and uses ''Literature/TheCatInTheHat'' quotes. It's called "Red (In My) Head", and due to BileFascination, you're going to look it up. |
| 564 | * Industrial artist Al Jourgensen -- frontman of Music/{{Ministry}}, and member of Revolting Cocks (aka [=RevCo=]) and Lard -- has been known to [[BerserkButton physically destroy]] any copies of Ministry's ''With Sympathy'' and ''Twitch'' albums that he encounters at clubs or signings. Both albums are considered by fans and critics to be decent, if not exceptional, synthpop/darkwave albums (much closer to Music/{{Kraftwerk}} and Music/Front242 than to his later work), and ''Twitch'' in particular has a strong following. However, he's developed a substantial hatred for them; particularly ''With Sympathy'', which he refers to as "an abortion", and claims it was the result of [[ExecutiveMeddling the record label forcing him to go for a more commercial synth-pop sound]]. |
| 565 | * Steve Harris of Music/IronMaiden is apparently not too fond of the first two albums, ''Music/{{Killers}}'' and ''Music/{{Iron Maiden|Album}}'', the latter more so due to shitty production. |
| 566 | * Music/JudasPriest have largely abandoned their debut album ''Rocka Rolla''. Most of the material was hastily written, as the band's label had insisted that they use all-new material instead of recording their own previously-written songs like 'Victim Of Changes'. They ceased performing material from the debut altogether very early on. However, their feelings towards this album have since softened, and the song 'Never Satisfied' was included in the setlist for the band's retrospective ''Epitaph'' tour, with singer Rob Halford mentioning to the audience that their first album featured some great material. |
| 567 | ** There's also the controversial glam-infused ''Turbo'' and its unfocused follow-up ''Ram It Down'', although the song 'Turbo Lover' has remained a setlist staple, and 'Blood Red Skies' was performed on the ''Epitaph'' tour. |
| 568 | ** Mentioning ''Jugulator'' and ''Demolition'' would also be a bad idea. |
| 569 | ** Halford and John 5 would both like to never speak of their hilariously bad IndustrialMetal collaboration project 2wo, who released a single album in 1998 named ''Voyeurs''. Halford was so embarrassed by it that in 2002, he made the whole album available free for download so people wouldn't have to pay for it. |
| 570 | * Music/{{Pantera}}'s first four albums, recorded during their eighties "hair metal" phase, have been kept out of print since their initial vinyl release. The band's website does not even acknowledge them, starting the discography with 1990's ''Cowboys From Hell''. This policy is also followed by most of the fanbase. They did license a song from this era, "Proud To Be Loud", for use in ''Film/DonnieDarko''. However, to avoid having their name attached to it, it was credited to The Dead Green Mummies. |
| 571 | ** Some of the material, [[VindicatedByHistory especially in recent years]], has received appreciation from fans and casual listeners. ''Projects In The Jungle'', ''I am the Night'' and ''Power Metal'', all have a couple of songs that hold more in common with traditional Music/JudasPriest-style HeavyMetal (as opposed to the {{Thrash|Metal}} sound in the 1990s) than the LighterAndSofter debut album, ''Metal Magic'' ('70s-style GlamRock in the vein of Music/{{Foreigner|Band}}, EddieMoney and Music/{{KISS}})). ''Power Metal'' is even the band's highest rated album on The Metal Archives! Drummer Vinnie Paul has even stated in interviews that while the band is long past that stage of their career, he still has a fondness for the material and greatly enjoyed recording and performing it. |
| 572 | * Music/JobForACowboy's demo and first EP more or less served as the TropeCodifier for modern {{Deathcore}}; once the band realized what they had created, they decided that they wanted no part of it and changed their sound to death metal at least partially because they wanted to distance themselves from their early days as much as possible. In spite of that, they have re-released ''Doom'' and still play songs from it live, but that's more due to fan expectations than anything, and they've also expressed a desire to drop everything from that era from their live setlists. |
| 573 | * Shock rocker Music/AliceCooper's early psychedelic period of 1969-70 and his bizarre experimental years of 1977-83, as well as his "hair metal" years of 1986-91 (except for "Poison", his biggest post-seventies hit[[note]]From the same album (''Trash'') "House of Fire" still gets on occasional airing and "Bed of Nails" and the title track from the album survived as occasional live songs into the 2000s[[/note]]) are largely ignored by the man himself as well as most fans. |
| 574 | * Music/AliceInChains began as a hair metal act (seeing a pattern here?). After ''Facelift'' was released, they began to deny this and avoided answering questions about it in interviews. While they were never officially published during that period, there are a few demos floating around the internet. Even then, however, their attempts to deny it were completely pointless from the get-go, as ''Facelift'' still had very prominent traces of their glam days (the second half in particular, but even "We Die Young" was one step away from being a Cinderella or Skid Row song). |
| 575 | * ''Cold Lake'', the 1988 album from {{Thrash|Metal}}/GothMetal innovators Music/CelticFrost, was a bizarre foray into [[The80s Eighties]] HairMetal that the band has refused to re-issue. |
| 576 | * Music/{{Megadeth}} and their 1999 release, ''Risk''. It emerged after the commercial success of ''Cryptic Writings'' when Dave Mustaine decided that they would go further in the direction of radio-friendly metal and away from the thrash-heavy sound of ''Rust In Peace''. Mustaine admits that it didn't do that well and wasn't particularly good. Part of the problem with ''Risk'' is that Dave had little control on how it was handled. Not helping was the fact that both ''Cryptic Writings'' and ''Risk'' were produced by Dann Huff, an ex-member of a hair-metal band who at that point was mainly (and still is) a ''country'' producer. |
| 577 | ** Mustaine admits that the last sentence is not true and that he is [[MisBlamed as much to]] blame for ''Risk'' as [[ExecutiveMeddling anyone else]]. Basically, when ''Cryptic Writings'' was released to commercial success, he got a little bit too happy with the reception that he decided to continue let outside songwriters do his work. |
| 578 | ** Amusingly, the title of the album came from a comment [[Music/{{Metallica}} Lars Ulrich]] made in an interview where he said that Mustaine didn't take enough risks with his music. |
| 579 | ** ''Risk'' did have Megadeth's cover of "[[VideoGame/DukeNukem3D Grabbag]]" in some foreign versions, so it's not all bad. |
| 580 | * Anthony Kiedis of Music/RedHotChiliPeppers seems to have a contempt for ''The Red Hot Chili Peppers'', ''The Uplift Mofo Party Plan'', ''Freaky Styley'', ''Mother's Milk'' and ''One Hot Minute'' albums and rarely plays anything from them live. He has allowed the band to tease the songs but never sings them. In one case in the late 2000s, the rest of the band were really up for playing their 1989 single "Knock Me Down," until Anthony adamantly refused to sing it. |
| 581 | ** He has also stated outright that he regrets "The Greeting Song" (from ''Music/BloodSugarSexMagik''), saying that the only reason why it exists is that producer Rick Rubin pressured the band to include a love song on the album. |
| 582 | ** John Frusciante also somewhat regrets the ''Mother's Milk'' and ''Music/BloodSugarSexMagik'' periods because of his guitar style, loud personality, and discomfort with the massive fame it pushed them into. He doesn't regret the heroin period as it caused him to become more introspective and put his life into perspective. However, he has only a passing interest in re-releasing the solo album he released for drug money, ''Smile From The Streets You Hold'', which remains out of print as of 2013. |
| 583 | * Music/DirEnGrey would prefer you to forget that they were La:Sadie's, an unsuccessful VisualKei band. They would also prefer you forget about former bassist and bandleader Music/{{Kisaki}}, as they would have never achieved success with him around. |
| 584 | ** Music/{{Kyo}} in particular loathes at the very least the band's first full-length album ''GAUZE'', having said in some interviews that he hates the lyrics he wrote for the album's songs, as well as performing them live. Nevertheless, the album was briefly brought out of live retirement from 2013-14. |
| 585 | * Music/OzzyOsbourne made no bones about disliking ''Speak of the Devil'', a double live album of (mostly) Black Sabbath covers he was contractually obligated to do when it was released in 1982.[[note]]Even if it was notably superior to ''Live Evil'', his former band's version of the same, released around the same time[[/note]] Since it went out of print 20 years later, he's done everything possible to [[CanonDiscontinuity pretend it never happened]], including not even mentioning it on his website. |
| 586 | * The Kennedy Veil openly despises ''The Sentence of Their Conqueror'' and are quite happy to tell people that it's a terrible album that they have no intention of ever re-releasing or playing material from again. As far as they're concerned, ''Trinity of Falsehood'' was their true debut, and everything before it was a footnote in history and, for Gabe Seeber, an example of what he grew from as a drummer. |
| 587 | * Christopher Bowes of Music/{{Alestorm}} has expressed embarrassment at the latter half of the band's first album. In particular, he hates Set Sail and Conquer and especially Death Before the Mast, on which he described his vocals as a "stupid warbly low voice". |
| 588 | ** On a social media post commemorating the tenth anniversary of their second album, Black Sails at Midnight, the band described it as "featuring everyone's favourite songs such as Keelhauled and...uhhhh, Keelhauled" and stated that they didn't think it was worth releasing a remaster for like they did with their first album. |
| 589 | * Music/LornaShore refuses to touch anything prior to ''Maleficium'', and even then, they no longer play anything off of that album aside from "Godmaker", and even that only shows up in headlining sets. ''Psalms'' and especially ''Flesh Coffin'' are the only earlier releases that they completely stand behind. |
| 590 | * This is basically the reason why the remaining members of Music/{{Lostprophets}} disbanded and reformed under the name Music/NoDevotion, as they publicly stated they wanted absolutely nothing to do with the now-disgraced frontman Ian Watkins, who was outed and convicted as a paedophile in 2012. |
| 591 | * Music/{{Japan}}'s first album ''Adolescent Sex'' is an old shame for Music/DavidSylvian, who has long past moved from its camp synth glam rock to sophisticated ambient music. He wishes the album hadn't been released, mainly because they didn't have much control over the way it was handled. |
| 592 | ** Sylvian seems to dislike the way he's so associated with Japan, referring to this period as 'childish things'. The reason people like Japan so much has to do with the fact that he wrote songs back then, as opposed to sprawling ambient pieces. |
| 593 | * Music/GaryNuman feels this way about his album ''Machine and Soul'', calling it "the most 'non-Numan' Numan album I've ever made", and stating that it represented "the bottom of the barrel". |
| 594 | * When asked about her role in the 2003 musical ''Film/FromJustinToKelly'' (widely considered [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_considered_the_worst#2000s one of the worst films of the 2000s]]), Music/KellyClarkson famously responded, "[[TwoWordsAddedEmphasis Two words: Contractually obligated!]]" Clarkson had zero acting or dancing experience prior to the film, but her contract with ''American Idol'' stipulated that she would have to star in a musical if she won the contest. She recognized the movie as the shallow cash-in attempt that it was, and now prefers to forget that she was ever in it (and she's never really pursued acting since, with all her subsequent appearances being cameos as herself - with the exceptions of her appearances on ''Series/AmericanDreams'' as Brenda Lee and her guest role on ''Series/{{Reba}}''. [[TheDanza As a young woman called Kelly]]). |
| 595 | ** Surprisingly, despite mostly containing the pop fluff she (pun not intended) broke away from on her sophomore album, Clarkson doesn't seem embarrassed about her debut album ''Thankful'' and actively plays several of its songs live to this day. |
| 596 | * If you run into Music/CyndiLauper, don't mention your favorite song is "Film/TheGoonies 'R' Good Enough." She refused to include it in any of her albums until 2003, by which time she had caved to fans and (gradually) began singing the first verse and the chorus (but no more) at concerts. Even the music video is considered by Lauper to be an Old Shame experience, as she butted heads with perfectionist [[PrimaDonnaDirector Richard Donner]] (who also directed the movie). Says something [[ParodyAssistance Lauper provided vocals for "Taffy Butt,"]] a parody of said song from a Season 2 episode of ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'' which parodied the movie. |
| 597 | * Music/KatyPerry started out making [[ChristianRock Christian gospel-rock music]] under her real name Katy Hudson, releasing a self-titled debut album in 2001. [[CanonDiscontinuity All mentions of this album have been excised from her official website and promotional materials]] as it doesn't quite fit with her current musical output that includes the singles "Ur So Gay" and "I Kissed A Girl". |
| 598 | * The 2000 single "Most Girls" seems to be this for Music/{{Pink}}, perhaps due to its more cookie-cutter, pop/R&B crossover sound. It seems to be entirely omitted from Greatest Hits collections despite being a top five hit. |
| 599 | * Polish singer Ewa Sonnet [[BestKnownForTheFanservice first got famous for her nude modeling]], a fact she tried to downplay when her singing career took off. |
| 600 | * Japanese pop star Momoe Yamaguchi debuted on the scene in 1973 with a series of hits with suggestive lyrics like "You can do whatever you want with me; it's okay if rumors start that I'm a bad girl." In later years, her early hits embarrassed her so much that she stopped performing them live. |
| 601 | * Prussian Blue, a white nationalist pop duo consisting of twin sisters Lynx and Lamb Gaede, made media headlines in the mid 2000's, but they have since renounced their former views. In 2012, four years after the girls stepped away from music, Lamb was quoted saying, "I’m not a white nationalist anymore. My sister and I are pretty liberal now." The girls chalked up their previous views as the result of being raised and homeschooled by a white nationalist mother who was very active in the community and foisted her bigotry onto her daughters. They distanced themselves from her once they were able to start thinking for themselves. |
| 602 | * Music/CeeLoGreen was originally in a rap group called Goodie Mob, who were in league with Music/{{Outkast}} and had a similar style. However, he ''hated'' the group's overly-pop third album, ''World Party''. He left the group as a result and went on to record two solo albums before forming Gnarls Barkley with Danger Mouse. |
| 603 | * Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus seem to regard most of their early songwriting efforts this way. Mostly the Hep Stars and Hootenanny Singers efforts, as well as the Music/{{ABBA}} songs written before they knew what kind of band they were going to be. Benny seems especially embarrassed, though, going so far as joking about making a "Worst of" album for ABBA. |
| 604 | ** The duo feel that strongly about Ring Ring's Swedish B Side "Ah Vilka Tider" that it is the only song from the period they left off the Ring Ring Deluxe Edition. Regarding the album Ring Ring, they did not release it in the UK until it was released on CD, not even at the height of their popularity in the late 70s. The 'hit single' Ring Ring was available as a bonus track on the UK version of Waterloo and several other tracks were on Greatest Hits. |
| 605 | ** The duo have displayed dislike of "Santa Rosa", "Ah Vilka Tider", "I Saw It In The Mirror", "Dum Dum Diddle", "Summer Night City" and "You Owe Me One". Some of their unreleased songs that appeared as part of the ABBA Undeleted medley - notably Here Comes Ruby Jamie and Just Like That - had sections cut out because they were too embarrassed to release them. |
| 606 | * Before he was in Music/AceOfBase, Ulf Ekberg was in an 80s neo-nazi skinhead punk band [[IntentionallyAwkwardTitle called Commit Suiside]]. It got him in trouble when the Swedish tabloids found out about it's past existence as Ace of Base started to achieve fame in the 90s. Ulf has stated he regrets his skinhead days as a big mistake, and he once said of the whole thing "I told everyone I really regret what I've done. I closed that book. I don't want to even talk about it, that time does not exist in me any more. I closed it and I threw the book away 1987. I took the experience from it, I learned from it. But that life is not me. It's somebody else." Many Ace of Base fans prefer to pretend Commit Suiside [[LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain never existed]]. |
| 607 | * Long before she joined the Music/BlackEyedPeas, Stacy "Fergie" Ferguson was part of an all-female group called Wild Orchid, which formed in 1990 and had some modest success with the hit single "Talk To Me" in 1997. Due to a change in the group's sound, faltering sales, and a bad breakup, Ferguson went into a spiral of drug use and depression that eventually ended when her bandmates staged an intervention and then ended with her leaving the group. She has only come out to talk about this once, in a 2006 Entertainment Weekly interview, explaining that it was a very bad time for her, professionally and personally. |
| 608 | * Music/MandyMoore's first two albums, ''So Real'' [[note]]''I Wanna Be With You'' doesn't count, given that it's literally ''So Real'' with the songs rearranged and new cover art.[[/note]] and her self-titled album, were late-'90s/very-early-'00s bubblegum pop recorded to capitalize on the popularity of Music/BritneySpears. Nowadays, Moore is a folksy indie-pop singer who actually writes her own music, and has completely disowned her days as a TeenIdol. She went so far as to offer refunds to everybody who bought her first two albums, starting with the hosts of the radio show where she made that announcement. |
| 609 | * Music/BritneySpears generally isn't all that ashamed of her past as a bubblegum pop TeenIdol, but she does regret the red outfit she wore in the video for "Oops, I Did It Again". |
| 610 | * For Music/{{Guster}}, they're a bit ashamed of their first single, "Happy Frappy," from their first album, finding it extremely trite. While plenty of other material from their early albums still get play, they all but refuse to acknowledge "Happy Frappy" at all; There are only two known times they've played the song live since 1998. |
| 611 | * Ask Music/GirlsAloud which music video they hate the most, and they'll answer with "No Good Advice", as it was their second video and they were basically dancing around in tinfoil around a car and phone booth with very bizarre flashing effects. |
| 612 | * At 2012's London Film And Comic Con, Creator/HaydenPanettiere stated that while she's appeared in some things that didn't turn out the way she hoped (she didn't say ''what'' things, however), she hasn't done anything onscreen she's truly regretted... but she '''has''' admitted to being embarrassed about her pop single "Wake Up Call," not least when she realized how close it was to Creator/ParisHilton's "Stars Are Blind" ("At that point I was a puppet, basically. It wasn't me"). |
| 613 | * Moya Griffiths, the singing voice of ''Series/{{Terrahawks}}'''s Kate Kestrel, wasn't fond of the experience. Especially when "SOS" was released as a single. |
| 614 | * Music/ArianaGrande views her first single, "Put Your Hearts Up", as such. The song is noticeably different in its tone and themes from her other work and has a more childish and bubblegum-oriented quality to it. She has said in a 2014 interview with Rolling Stone magazine that she was miserable during the making of the music video, and called the song "straight out of hell". Grande even has had the song hidden on her Vevo page to get fewer people to notice it. |
| 615 | * Before joining [[Series/AgentsOfSHIELD S.H.I.E.L.D.]], Creator/ChloeBennet was a pop star in China. She isn't proud of it at all. |
| 616 | * Model-turned-actress Creator/EmilyRatajkowski scored her big break with her {{Fanservice}}-y appearance in the video for "Blurred Lines" by Music/RobinThicke, Music/{{TI}} and Music/PharrellWilliams. She now regards the video as [[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/emily-ratajkowski-blurred-lines-video_55eaf67ee4b093be51bbabba?cps=gravity_2425_-6510585343314198763 "the bane of [her] existence,"]] mainly due to how people keep asking her about it years later. |
| 617 | ** As of 2019, Pharrell himself is not particularly proud of the song either, saying that [[https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-50052155 it caters to a chauvinist culture and didn't realise that some of his older songs also catered to that exact culture]]. |
| 618 | * {{Music/Kesha}} is not proud of the drunk party anthems that made her famous, such as "Tik Tok", "Your Love is My Drug" and "Die Young", especially considering she was under the control of a heartless producer that basically abused her. It's no surprise that the album she released after moving on from him [[NewSoundAlbum has a more eclectic and ballady edge, and more introspective, personal lyrics.]] |
| 619 | * Willow Smith [[https://toofab.com/2018/06/04/willow-smith-whip-my-hair-really-terrible-experience-jaden-parents/ seems to feel to this way towards "Whip My Hair"]], as of June 2018, she deleted the song's video from [=YouTube=]. |
| 620 | * Music/{{Shakira}} is ashamed of an old telenovela she did as a 17 year old in Colombia, ''El Oasis'', and along with removing it from circulation is constantly going after clips of it that surface online. |
| 621 | * Zigzagged with Music/JasonDonovan on his PWL hits from 1989-1991. While he always looked back fondly on being a pop singer and enjoyed it , he actually wasn't too comfortable with being a heartthrob pop singer too, as he wanted to become a serious and cool rock star in the first place instead. |
| 622 | ** Speaking of the latter, he barely talked about his fourth album "[[NewSoundAlbum All Around the World]]" after its release, possibly due to ExecutiveMeddling by Creator/{{Polydor}}. |
| 623 | ** He also mentioned in a few later interviews and his autobiography that suing the magazine "The Face" back in 1992 was the biggest mistake of his life. |
| 624 | ** He also admitted that "Nothing Can Divide Us" (his first single) was his least favorite single to make. |
| 625 | ** Jason Donovan also admitted that starring in the 1994 film "Rough Diamonds" was a mistake. |
| 626 | * Music/ScottWalker disavowed every album he made in between his first five solo albums and the mid-70’s reunion of Music/TheWalkerBrothers, as they were recorded during a severe [[AudienceAlienatingEra career slump]] (nicknamed “the wilderness years”) where he exclusively performed GenreMotif/EasyListening covers instead of singing his own songs or engaging in the moodier and more experimental sound of his third and fourth albums. For the remainder of his career and lifetime, Walker refused to ever reissue his wilderness years albums and effectively [[CanonDiscontinuity purged them from his discography]]. |
| 627 | * Music/LadyGaga's song "Do What U Want", a duet with Music/RKelly, was controversial enough when it came out given both its sexualized lyrics and the rumors that Kelly was a predatory pedophile (prevalent even then, especially after a well-publicized trial in 2008 that ended in an acquittal), but at the time, Gaga dismissed the rumors. Then came the 2019 documentary ''Surviving R. Kelly'', which detailed Kelly's crimes and set off a chain of events that ended with Kelly going to prison. After watching the documentary, Gaga stated that she regretted ever working with Kelly, calling it an example of how "explicitly twisted" her mind was at the time, and [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes had the song removed]] from digital music services and all new pressings of ''Artpop'', the album it was released on. The only version that Gaga and most of her fans will acknowledge is a remix that replaces Kelly's verses with new ones by Music/ChristinaAguilera. |
| 628 | * Music/{{Lorde}} is quick to disown her breakout single "Royals". In a 2014 interview with ''The Daily Record'', she said it sounded "horrible" and "none of the melodies are good," comparing it to a ringtone from a Nokia cell phone in 2006. |
| 629 | * Music/PinkFloyd aren't particularly fond of their albums from the period after Music/SydBarrett left and before their classic era. Music/RogerWaters, in particular, said that the album ''Music/AtomHeartMother'' was a good case "for being thrown into the dustbin and never listened to by anyone ever again!" A 1992 BoxSet, called ''Shine On'', had every album between ''Music/ASaucerfulOfSecrets'' and ''Music/{{Meddle}}'' (and also ''Music/TheFinalCut'') left out (''Music/ThePiperAtTheGatesOfDawn'' was missing too - not because the band doesn't like it, but because was given a re-release earlier in the year that the label didn't want the box set to compete with). Fortunately for fans that still like these albums, the 2007 set, ''Oh, by the Way'', retains all of these and even gives ''The Final Cut'' a bonus track. |
| 630 | * Music/MikeOldfield's 1975 recording of "Don Alfonso", an early 20th-century comedy novelty song, falls into this trope. The single was pulled worldwide before many copies were sold, and the accompanying video was rarely seen until it appeared on a 2004 DVD. Apart from that, and the early Creator/VirginRecords compilation ''V'', the track has never appeared on any other compilation. This is especially notable considering some of the musical skeletons-in-closets that were dusted off and presented in ''Boxed'' (e.g. Mike Oldfield and David Bedford's attempt at a duet in "Speak Tho' You Only Say Farewell"). |
| 631 | * Music/{{Muse}}'s early demo tapes, especially ''This Is A Muse Demo'', which they've had people outbid the fans for on two occasions so no one can hear it. |
| 632 | * Music/JethroTull's Ian Anderson seems to feel this way about the band's 1973 ConceptAlbum, ''A Passion Play'' (feeling it was over-arranged and lacked humor), and to 1975's ''Minstrel In The Gallery'' (considering it well-recorded and produced, but too dark lyrically). His use of soprano and sopranino saxophones in general on the 1972-74 material come under fire, too, as he decided he didn't really like the sound or feel comfortable playing the instrument, and only tried them to see if he could develop a love for it or find a way to make it a pleasant experience for himself. [[note]] The only track Ian unreservedly likes from their "sax" period is ''Warchild'' (not the whole album, just that track) and said in an interview that "That track was the one I was looking for - unfortunately, you can't keep repeating yourself too often in this game!" [[/note]] |
| 633 | * Music/{{Rush|Band}} is on record as saying they'd love to forget their first live album, ''All The World's a Stage''. |
| 634 | ** Neil Peart has also expressed a desire to distance himself from Creator/AynRand, whose influence was notable (but not absolute) in some of the band's early work. Notably "The Trees" and to a lesser extent the album "2112" have themes that resonate with Objectivists. |
| 635 | * Ex-Music/{{Supertramp}} vocalist/guitarist/keyboardist Roger Hodgson had, by 1987, felt so disconnected from the music industry and lacking in self-esteem following his 1983 departure from the band that, under the advice of his management, he deliberately produced a commercial pop album with designs on getting a hit single to make audiences aware of his presence outside of the Supertramp brand name. with L.A. session musicians, very 1980s-style production values and heavy use of synths and drum machines. The result, ''Hai Hai'', was critically and commercially unsuccessful, and Hodgson felt he had made an album he really didn't believe in and made for all the wrong reasons. On the week the album was released, he fell out of a hammock, breaking both of his wrists, and his doctors told him he would never play again. He naturally could not fully promote the album as a result, and his managers, label, and advisors had to leave him. He fought back with physical and spiritual therapy, with the help of his family. to the point that he fully recovered by 1993. He still performs select songs on ''Hai Hai'' on rare occasions, but still has a critical opinion of the album and its making. |
| 636 | * Myles Yang has already grown to hate ''Quiet World'' and views it as the thing that got Native Construct's name out there and little else, and their upcoming second album is intended to be the album that accurately reflects what he wants the band to be. |
| 637 | * Music/RickWakeman quit Music/{{Yes}} for the first time following the band's infamous album ''Tales from Topographic Oceans'' and the tour that followed. In subsequent years, he has continued to express dislike of the album. |
| 638 | * Johnny Ramone didn't speak well of Music/{{Ramones}}'s ''End of the Century'', partially because he and the rest of the band had a terrible time working with ControlFreak producer Music/PhilSpector. |
| 639 | ** Dee Dee Ramone regrets recording his [[NewSoundAlbum rap album]] ''Standing in the Spotlight''. However, one song that originated on said album, "The Crusher", was unexpectedly revived for ''Adios Amigos'', the band's final studio album... albeit sung by Dee Dee's replacement C.J. Ramone, and rearranged slightly to downplay the hip-hop influences. |
| 640 | * UsefulNotes/LosAngeles punk band Music/XUSBand was in a bad place by 1985. Songwriters/leaders John Doe and Exene Cervenka were divorced. Billy Zoom wanted to leave. Parting company with longtime producer [[Music/TheDoors Ray Manzarek]], they teamed up with Michael Wagener, who was known for working with... German heavy metal bands. The resulting record, ''Ain't Love Grand'', with its slick, radio-friendly production, is not one that the band is proud of. Since then, they've mostly ignored ''Ain't Love Grand'' in live shows, except for "Burning House of Love", which is the only well-regarded song on the album and became the biggest hit they ever had. Exene Cervenka has since admitted, "We shouldn't have made a record that year." |
| 641 | * After releasing their first EP and breaking into the early '80s hardcore scene, Music/BadReligion then went on to make ''Into the Unknown''... a prog-rock album. Everyone in the band widely regards it as one of the worst mistakes they've ever made. It has never had a second printing [[note]]Well, not on its own anyway: The 2010 vinyl box set ''30 Years Of Bad Religion'' consisted of every studio album they'd released at the time including ''Into The Unknown''... but it'll most likely never be officially available outside of that set, let alone in any digital format[[/note]], two of the members walked out during the recording of the first song, and they followed it up with an EP titled ''Back To The Known.'' Curiously, [[http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:kxkbikp6bb59~T1 Allmusic gives it four and a half stars.]]. While songs from the album have been played live in recent years, with "The Dichotomy" even being a constant on the band's 2019 tour, there's still no word on a re-release. |
| 642 | * Buffalo hardcore band Every Time I Die hate their debut EP ''Burial Plot Bidding War'' so much when asked to give his favorite song, lead singer Keith Buckley said: "Having a favorite song means you like something on it...and i don't." |
| 643 | * The last verse of "I'm Not A Loser" by Music/{{Descendents}} gives us several blatantly homophobic lines such as "you fucking homo" and "you suck, Mr. Buttfuck." The band has since apologized for those lyrics, claiming they were just ignorant kids at the time (in their defense, societal attitudes and information related to homosexuals have changed a lot since the The80s, when the song was written). |
| 644 | ** That didn't stop Music/{{Sublime}} from covering "I'm Not a Loser" a decade later with unaltered lyrics. |
| 645 | * David Johansen, the lead singer of the Music/NewYorkDolls, adopted the alter-ego Buster Poindexter in the late 1980s, singing pop, lounge, and easy listening music. He scored a big pop hit with "Hot Hot Hot" in 1988, accompanied by [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhZba-P7R18 a music video]] featuring Creator/BillMurray. Johansen continued performing as Poindexter through the 1990s. By 2000 he abandoned the Buster Poindexter persona, never performed as him or performed any of his songs again and referred to "Hot Hot Hot" as "the bane of my existence" due to its endurance as a summer party anthem. |
| 646 | ** Ironically, in the "Hot Hot Hot" music video, Johansen seems to treat his time in the New York Dolls as this. He opens the music video by talking about how he used to be a member of the Dolls, shows the viewers old Dolls vinyls ([[VindicatedByHistory with bargain basement price tags]]) to showcase the "crazy outfits" he used to wear before mentioning that he's now interested in a "more refined and dignified situation". However, that monologue is also interpreted as Johansen saying that he wants to do something different thanks to [[FollowTheLeader how extensively the Dolls' act was being copied]] by all the hair metal bands that were all the rage at the time. |
| 647 | ** In 2015, Johansen [[https://people.com/celebrity/david-johansen-buster-poindexter-at-cafe-carlyle/ threw on the Poindexter persona one more time]] for a one-off performance and even performed "Hot Hot Hot" again, though he admitted he still has some embarrassment about it and didn't have plans to regularly return to the character. |
| 648 | * Music/TheSexPistols: The comedic Holocaust song "Belsen Was A Gas" has been scorned by both Johnny Rotten (who wrote the lyrics) and Ronnie Biggs (who sang it) for being in "extremely bad taste." |
| 649 | * After several years of gradually increasing fan controversy and discomfort on her own part, Hayley Williams of Music/{{Paramore}} declared in 2018 that she would no longer perform the band's first hit "Misery Business" live, (after previously performing it in bowdlerized form for a while) because its gloating declarations of victory over a female teenage romantic rival encouraged misogynistic tropes about teenage girls inevitably hating one another and competing for boys. |
| 650 | * Invoked by [=SeeYouSpaceCowboy=] on ''Songs for the Firing Squad''; as per Connie Sgarbossa, it wasn't a clever-sounding title with no real meaning. Instead, it was a reference to the fact that they were done with the retro [=MySpace=] mathcore/"white belt grind" (which was the style on ''Songs'') sound that had made them famous, and Connie spelled it out in a podcast by saying that they had taken that style as far as they could and were already quite sick of it. |
| 651 | * Music/ChildishGambino has mentioned being embarrassed by his pre-''Culdesac'' work, in which he was essentially trying to be an even more nasal Music/LilWayne. It wasn't until ''EP'' that he began tackling the style he's popular for today, and it wasn't until ''Because the Internet'' that he started being taken seriously for it. |
| 652 | * In a rare case of a musician actually disowning his ''entire musical career'', acclaimed actor Creator/MarkWahlberg has no interest whatsoever revisiting his career as white rapper Marky Mark. In an interview, he described coming across a Creator/VH1 retro-'90s special in which he appeared, and apparently he didn't find it as funny as the [=VH1=] commentators did. |
| 653 | -->'''Mark Wahlberg:''' Oh my God, how am I going to explain this to my kids? |
| 654 | ** Though he did some [[ActorAllusion self-lampooning]] in ''Film/RockStar''. During the credits, his character says he'll leave rock and attempt to do rap. While "Good Vibrations", by Marky Mark, is playing in the background. |
| 655 | * Music/DrDre: |
| 656 | ** He helped found the gangsta rap genre, but that didn't erase his earlier work with the World Class Wrekin' Cru, where he was pictured on the album insert in mascara and lipstick. Music/EazyE was kind enough to [[NeverLiveItDown remind everyone about it]] on a [[TakeThat diss track]]. |
| 657 | ** Dre was also not a fan of his earliest output with Aftermath Records, the record company he founded after leaving Death Row Records in 1996. In particular, his work with The Firm[[note]]A rap {{supergroup}} consisting of Music/{{Nas}}, Music/FoxyBrown, AZ, Nature, and Cormega, with Dre as their main producer[[/note]] and the compilation album ''Dr. Dre Presents: The Aftermath'', as none of the new artists featured caught on (his success with Music/{{Eminem}} and Music/FiftyCent came later). When Dre reunited with Music/SnoopDogg for the widely-acclaimed comeback album ''2001'', Snoop had gone through an AudienceAlienatingEra of his own and Dre said at the time, "I tried doing my thing without him, he tried doing his thing without me, and it just didn't work as well," and the two have remained regular collaborators ever since. |
| 658 | * Music/{{Common}} has renounced his older songs with anti-gay lyrics. |
| 659 | * The Music/BeastieBoys don't seem too fond of their debut, ''Music/LicensedToIll'', in retrospect. (Much in contrast to the rest of the world; it's still probably their most well-known album.) They've mentioned in interviews that they're embarrassed about some of the misogynistic lyrics (joking or otherwise), and it's the only older album in their catalog that they chose not to remaster in 2009. In fact, they've explicitly refused to ''ever'' play "(You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party)" again. |
| 660 | ** They also seem to hold disdain for their days as a punk band, given how they collected it all in an album called ''Some Old Bullshit''. |
| 661 | ** They consider their first proper rap single "Rock Hard" amateurish in terms of lyrics and vocal delivery - Adam Horowitz reads the lyrics aloud in the audiobook edition of ''Beastie Boys Book'' and can't get through it without laughing. Interestingly, they still wanted to include it on two-disc compilation album ''The Sounds Of Science'', presumably because it was important to the evolution of the group... But {{Music/ACDC}} wouldn't clear the [[{{sampling}} sample of]] "Back In Black" that was central to the song. |
| 662 | * Music/WuTangClan members RZA and GZA had solo careers prior to the group's formation as Prince Rakeem and The Genius respectively. Both have expressed disdain over the image they were given and honestly, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTPB9inzOPU you can't]] blame them. GZA in particular has a lingering hatred of the record industry that is a [[RecurringElement running theme]] in most of his music, feeling that his pre-Wu Tang career was sabotaged by ExecutiveMeddling from industry hacks who didn't understand his music. |
| 663 | * Music/JayZ has admitted that the lyrics in "Big Pimpin" strike a nerve with him nowadays, considering that his views on relationships have changed drastically since then. |
| 664 | * Music/PharrellWilliams stated in his March 2014 interview with ''GQ'' that he is not proud of his 2006 solo debut album ''In My Mind,'' saying that all the songs about the rich and famous lifestyle served no long-term purpose and that he was living in the wrong state of mind. |
| 665 | ** Nonetheless, [[https://twitter.com/fucktyler/status/436747655897567232 this Tweet]] from Music/TylerTheCreator (who considers Pharrell one of his primary hip-hop influences) shows that at least one person's life was better off for that album. |
| 666 | * Similar to Mark Wahlberg above, Laika CEO and animator Travis Knight (director of ''WesternAnimation/KuboAndTheTwoStrings'') [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y14dDzGPFbs isn't exactly proud of his short-lived career as a rapper.]] |
| 667 | * At the end of ''{{Series/Jackass}} 3D'', Johnny Knoxville offers his castmates a choice - he can press the plunger that will end the movie, or they can all listen to Steve-O's rap album. Everyone, [[SelfDeprecation including Steve-O,]] laughs at that comment. Tellingly, he titled it ''The Dumbest Asshole in Hip Hop'', so it was probably as much of a joke to him at the time he made it as it seems to have become later on. |
| 668 | * Fabo of the group [=D4L=] [[http://www.complex.com/music/2016/01/fabo-d4l-laffy-taffy-10-year-anniversary admitted]] that he hated their only big hit, "Laffy Taffy". The song is often lambasted as one of the worst examples of "ringtone rap" from the mid-noughties. |
| 669 | * Most of the performers for the [[UnintentionalPeriodPiece incredibly '80s]] [[UsefulNotes/TheApartheidEra anti-Apartheid]] protest song "Sun City" rarely bring it up anymore, with the obvious exception of the song's creator Steven Van Zandt. This is despite the critical praise it received at the time. |
| 670 | * ''Music/VanHalen III'' is an old-shame for the band, as it got the worst reviews of their career. It was the only album they ever recorded with Music/{{Extreme}} singer Gary Cherone. Van Halen considered carrying on with Cherone, but they never got past a few demos. |
| 671 | * Music/CheapTrick released the non-album single "Up the Creek" in 1984, which appeared on the soundtrack of the [[Film/UpTheCreek film of the same name]]. But despite the fact that it cracked the top-40 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart, it didn't appear on any Cheap Trick compilations until 2015. Both drummer Bun E. Carlos and songwriter/guitarist Rick Nielsen have derided the song in interviews. |
| 672 | * The members of Music/NoDevotion will never play Music/{{Lostprophets}} songs live after their lead singer Ian Watkins was convicted of sex crimes against children. |
| 673 | * Music/ElvisPresley: Arguably the most notorious, yet atrocious concert album in his career is ''Music/HavingFunWithElvisOnStage'', a 35-minute collection of nothing but Elvis cracking jokes with the audience, without any music or context of what is going on? Not only is the record painfully unfunny, but a lot of it is also technically not even a joke, just Elvis saying random things in interaction with his audience. Half of the time he is clearly just rambling, before deciding his jokes are falling flat or his story isn't going anywhere. The record was released without Elvis' permission and just to have his manager make a quick buck. When Elvis found out he immediately asked for and succeeded in getting this humiliation removed from the stores. It's still a collector's item for Elvis fans as it is extremely rare and a BileFascination. |
| 674 | * Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley had a band before Music/{{KISS}} called Wicked Lester. They recorded a self-titled debut album, but before it could be released internal strife in the company and Wicked Lester dissolving blocked it. Once KISS began to take off, Gene and Paul purchased the rights to the Wicked Lester recordings to prevent the album from being released as a cash-in. According to them, it was out of embarrassment about how bad they were. In one interview Stanley shows a picture of them in bad glam makeup and says "This is when Lily Tomlin was in the group!" |
| 675 | ** The 1981 Kiss RockOpera ''Music/MusicFromTheElder'' is often dismissed as an embarrassment and a misstep by Simmons and Stanley, as well as guitarist Ace Frehley, who departed the band after the album's release and commercial failure, and producer Bob Ezrin. In spite of this, the Simmons ballad "A World Without Heroes" was performed at the band's ''MTV Unplugged'' appearance. |
| 676 | ** There is also the case of ''Carnival of Souls'', released with [[InvisibleAdvertising no serious promotion]] in the middle of the band's successful reunion tour with original members Frehley and Criss in 1997. The album is hardly ever spoken of by band members and holds the distinction of being the only full-length release in the KISS catalog to have never had any of its songs played live. Being considered the band's "grunge" album probably explains this, especially since it was released three years after Kurt Cobain's death. |
| 677 | ** Despite it being their biggest commercial hit, Kiss did not play the song 'Beth' during periods when Peter Criss was not in the band, only reviving it as a semi-staple in much later years with Eric Singer on vocals. |
| 678 | ** "I Was Made for Lovin' You" is openly disliked by most of the band, with Gene Simmons even calling it his least favorite KISS song. According to Paul Stanley it was made as a bet to show how easy it was to make a hit disco song. Despite this, it remained a concert staple of theirs for decades, albeit with a different arrangement that de-emphasizes the disco elements. |
| 679 | * There are Music/TheBeatles' repeated efforts to keep "The Star Club Tapes" off the market. Now, those tapes were homemade, low-quality, and possibly violating EMI's copyright. This is noted here because ''it wasn't EMI'' trying to stop the Star Club Tapes... |
| 680 | ** John Lennon felt "Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite" from ''Music/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand'' was the worst thing he'd ever written because he just put some lines from an old carnival poster to music. |
| 681 | ** John similarly was embarrassed about "You Can't Do That" and "Run For Your Life", two songs that are about abusive relationships, the latter explicitly being about a boyfriend threatening to kill his girlfriend if he catches her with another man. |
| 682 | * {{Music/Aerosmith}} isn't too fond of their sans-Perry/Whitford period in the early '80s, although have a begrudging acceptance that it led to them reuniting and getting sober. |
| 683 | ** Joe Perry is on the record as saying he doesn't like ''Just Push Play'' or ''Done With Mirrors'', the latter which he described in the Pump documentary as "a waste of time, plastic, and music". |
| 684 | * In 1970, before launching his solo career as a singer-songwriter, Music/BillyJoel formed an acid rock keyboard-and-drums duo, Attila, with former Hassles bandmate John Small. They released only one self-titled album, ''Music/{{Attila}}'' before breaking up. All Music Guide critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine has described it as "the worst album released in the history of rock & roll -- hell, the history of recorded music itself." (the website also, as a joke, [[http://web.archive.org/web/20130101062857/http://www.allmusic.com/404 used to feature the album in its 404 page]]) Joel himself later called it "psychedelic bullshit." The few Joel fans who have actually heard the album tend to consider it SoBadItsGood or a GuiltyPleasure. |
| 685 | ** Joel is similarly embarrassed by the two albums the Hassles recorded in the late 1960s and has blocked attempts to re-release them. For what it's worth, ''Music/{{Attila}}'' is generally well-liked among fans of heavy psych and has become something of a CultClassic in recent years thanks to renewed interest in the genre caused by a minor heavy psych revival. Ultimately, Joel decided to include two Hassles songs and one Attila song on his 2005 box set ''My Lives''. |
| 686 | ** For his solo career, Joel hated ''Cold Spring Harbor'', which was the only album released before he was signed to Creator/ColumbiaRecords. The mixing on the album was notoriously terrible, most notably the fact that it was mixed at the wrong speed, making Joel sound like a chipmunk. Nevertheless, this album had the popular love ballad "She's Got a Way." |
| 687 | ** Within his established body of work, Joel feels this way about "Captain Jack", even though a bootleg live version from a Philadelphia concert was his breakout hit before "Piano Man." To him, it represents a [[AudienceAlienatingEra amateurish period]] of his songwriting, and he's kind of embarrassed it became a hit. By 1980 he was barely performing it live, except in Philadelphia. In more recent years when he's done it, he's usually just played it and told the audience to sing it for him, which they still do quite readily. |
| 688 | * [[Music/LedZeppelin Robert Plant]] hated his rendition of "Innuendo" at the 1992 [[Music/{{Queen|Band}} Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert]] so much that [[BuryYourArt it's since been omitted on video releases]], instead skipping ahead to his rendition of "Crazy Little Thing Called Love". |
| 689 | ** Led Zeppelin, in general, felt their reunion appearance at the Philadelphia leg of 1985's historic Live Aid concerts was an unmitigated disaster, to the extent that they forbade it from appearing on the official DVD release in 2004. (It should be noted, by the way, that the band themselves are by no means the only ones to express this opinion.) |
| 690 | * Music/BryanAdams does not like his 1978 debut release "Let Me Take You Dancing" because, to remix the song for disco, his vocal track was sped up so he sounded like a chipmunk. |
| 691 | * Music/DeepPurple have largely ignored their early albums, [[{{EarlyInstallmentWeirdness}}a weird mix of melodic prog-pop with some classical influences]]. With Ian Gillan as the new lead singer, the band moved onto heavier and bigger things, establishing their now-trademark hard rock sound that somewhat survived also during David Coverdale's run as a frontman, although with a bluesier vein. However, the [[{{CanonDiscontinuity}}heavily AOR-oriented "Slaves and Masters", sung by Joe Lynn Turner]] is rarely, if ever, brought up. |
| 692 | ** The dislike (or contempt) towards "Slaves and Masters" is one of the [[{{BrokenBase}} few things]] Deep Purple fans can agree upon. |
| 693 | * Music/{{Heart|Band}} have disowned "All I Wanna Do Is Make Love to You" and refuse to play it live any more due to the BrokenAesop the song embodies - that it's okay to intentionally use someone to get pregnant during a one night stand due your husband's infertility without getting their consent or disclosing your relationship status and that unprotected sex with a complete stranger is an acceptable risk to that end. Note that this song was recorded in ''1990'' - [=AIDS=] was well documented by that stage making the song's message even more dubious. With the rise of DNA testing/counseling in recent times, the chances of getting away with something like this in modern times is unlikely. Heart has gone on record to say the message of the song is "hideous" and they felt under pressure to record it as a favor to Creator/RobertJohnMuttLange who wrote the song. |
| 694 | * Following the Confederate Flag controversies of the 2010s, Music/TomPetty repudiated and apologized for his use of Confederate imagery during the "Southern Accents" tour. |
| 695 | * Music/LivingColour isn't too proud of their song "I Want to Know", an ObsessionSong that has "creeptastic" lyrics according to the guitarist of the band. During a show in 2019, he mentioned that if he had known the "me too" movement would have been a thing years later, he would have never written creepy lyrics, and has vowed never to write lyrics like them anymore. |
| 696 | * In 1967, rock/soul icon Music/VanMorrison's debut album with Bang Records was a MoodWhiplash mixture of uptempo rave-ups and brooding lyrically adventurous songs. Morrison and producer/label owner Bert Berns had major artistic disagreements. Berns wanted Morrison to be some sort of a cross between Mick Jagger and Neil Diamond. Morrison was moving into a more poetic, jazz-influenced direction. To make matters worse, without Morrison's permission they tried to jump on the 1967 psychedelic bandwagon by calling the album ''Blowin' Your Mind'' and releasing it with an ugly, would be-"trippy" cover. When Berns, who had chronic cardiac issues, died suddenly, Morrison wanted out of his contract. The label said he owed them about three dozen songs, so he recorded a bunch of deliberately, unreleaseably awful songs ("The Big Royalty Check," "Ringworm," "Want a Danish," "Here Comes Dumb George"). This ended up backfiring on him in the early '90s when the cash-strapped rightsholders began licensing them out...on "Greatest Hits" compilations, no less. [[note]] Van has since come around to "Want a Danish" as in his own words "At least it gives potential friends a clue as to what I'd like as a snack sweet!" [[/note]] |
| 697 | * Because of a restrictive contract with [[Creator/VerveForecast Verve Folkways]], Music/LauraNyro had no artistic control over her 1967 debut album ''More Than A New Discovery''. A set of otherwise-impressive compositions worthy of being deemed jazz standards, the album was effectively defanged by way of bland orchestrations and outdated "doo-wop"-style backing vocals. Nyro herself was not even permitted to play piano, as per the specifications of the contract. She managed to break the contract with Verve subsequent to the album's release, signing instead with Creator/ColumbiaRecords, on which she released ''Eli & The Thirteenth Confession'', a soaring jazz-soul collection over which Nyro had complete control. Thus, she subsequently regarded that album, and not her actual debut album, as her first. |
| 698 | * Music/DepecheMode's 1981 debut album "Speak and Spell" is full of frothy, lightweight synthesizer-pop tunes, mostly the handiwork of Vince Clarke (who left the band after the first album to form Yazoo and later Erasure). By the late 1980s, the band - whose sound had by then long since matured into the dark shadings they would become known for - was rarely performing anything from that first album live, to the point that when they played "Speak and Spell"'s best-known song, "Just Can't Get Enough," at the concert filmed for their live concert movie "101", it was a VERY big deal. |
| 699 | ** Songwriter Martin Gore would also later distance himself from "People Are People" - which was the band's first hit single in North America - saying it was too simplistic. By the '90s, it too was largely gone from the band's concert set list. Ironically "People Are People" and "Just Can't Get Enough" still receive a fair amount of radio airplay, even in the U.S. |
| 700 | ** Speaking of Martin Gore, there was also that period circa 1984-1985 when he enjoyed dressing up in women's clothing (including black lace slips). He still finds that difficult to live down to this day. |
| 701 | * Long before he launched himself to stardom on British television, Creator/RickyGervais was a 22-year old performing in an [[The80s 80's]] [[NewWaveMusic New Wave]]/electropop duo called Seona Dancing. The group had a pair of (extremely) minor hits and featured Gervais dressing like Music/DavidBowie while sporting massive hair. The band's debut single "More to Lose" was a massive, era-defining hit...[[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff in the Philippines]], but bombed spectacularly in the UK. The duo's music video for the second track, "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXhSqmfRTfY Bitter Heart]]", was filmed for 300 quid in a scummy parking garage near the Creator/{{BBC}} offices. Predictably, TV interviewers mentioned it in every interview he did soon after the video was discovered. Gervais is reportedly still embarrassed by it, and many note that for a guy who seemed oddly resistant to being famous when he first debuted in ''Series/TheOfficeUK'', he sure tried his best to become a superstar as a young man. |
| 702 | * The members and former members of Music/DuranDuran don't agree on everything these days, but they, too, do agree on their worst video: "New Moon on Monday". They had to cut their Christmas holidays short and spend all of a cold day in some castle in northern France making the video which would be the only remnant of the album's original concept. By the end of the day, John Taylor says the whole band was pretty much in the bag, even Nick Rhodes.[[note]]That's why he dances slightly at the end, one of the few times he ever did in public[[/note]]. He says all of them will walk out of the room if the video's on. |
| 703 | * ''Vanishing Vision'' by Music/XJapan is a peculiar case: the old shame isn't the music, but the cover, which is a drawn depiction of a rape. Even though none of the album's lyrics go so far as to glorify rape, the cover art makes ''Vanishing Vision'' X Japan's only album to never have been widely re-released. |
| 704 | * American songwriter Music/IrvingBerlin, known for classics such as "God Bless America," wrote an anti-war song called "Stay Down Here Where You Belong." However, a few years later, the United States entered what was then known as [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarI "The Great War"]] and Berlin wrote his more well-known, patriotic songs. As a result, Berlin was so openly ashamed of his earlier song that Groucho Marx repeatedly antagonized Berlin by performing "Stay Down Here Where You Belong" in his presence. Music/TinyTim also recorded it on his 1968 debut album. |
| 705 | * Juan Luis Guerra and his group 4:40 released their first album around 1984, which was very experimental and quite different from the poetic merengue and bachata songs they would be known for later. Said album didn't sell well, and they also didn't like to mention it, beginning their official discography with the one where they first get their characteristic sound, released in '86. |
| 706 | * Music/MichaelBolton would prefer it if people forgot he was ever a hard rock singer, but 1985's ''Everybody's Crazy'' is still regarded as a classic of its type. |
| 707 | * Music/TayZonday of "Chocolate Rain" fame made the songs "Roll Your Dice" and "Traffic Machine" private on his [=YouTube=] channel because he doesn't like them anymore. |
| 708 | * Ernest Hogan, a black musician and vaudeville performer, and one of the founding fathers of ragtime music, wrote a song called "All Coons Look Alike to Me". It became one of his biggest hits - and also his biggest shame, as much of its popularity was owed to [[MisaimedFandom white racists who failed to understand what the song was about]]. Adding to his shame, the song singlehandedly inspired an entire genre of music called "coon songs", which were basically songs by racist whites that defamed blacks. |
| 709 | * Ira Gershwin named the title song of the 1933 Broadway flop ''Pardon My English'' as the worst lyric he ever wrote. (The 1993 studio recording tastefully omits it.) Ironically, the lyrics were missing until a copy was discovered in his personal papers after his death. |
| 710 | * Like Hayden Panettiere above, Creator/GlennClose has never said anything that suggests she sees any of her screen work as falling into this trope. However, before any reporters get to talk to her during media junkets, they are warned by publicists not to ask her about her time with the traveling choral group Up With People. |
| 711 | * Melissa Moore has come to regret doing XXX Maniak back in the 2000s. Per Melissa, the project was intended to be a StealthParody of porngrind and goregrind inspired by her time working in the shipping department at Relapse Records and her bemusement and dismay at the sheer amount of orders for releases in those genres that they got, and the idea was to make a band to mock the kind of people who bought those releases that they wouldn't get was satirical. Unfortunately, while most of those people didn't get that it was mocking them, plenty of them also thought that Melissa was into a lot of the fringe things they were into, and that, coupled with her eventual transition to female, made her come to greatly regret that project. To paraphrase Melissa, the fun that was had at the expense of scummy porngrind fans was not worth the bad karma that XXX Maniak brought. |
| 712 | * Kimberly Goss, who did vocals on the album ''The Cainian Chronicle'' by black metal band Ancient, hated her time with that band and left after just a few dates on their first tour. She would call their music "terrible and forgettable" and claim that the band was too focused on partying more than making music. It didn't help in later years that Ancient's guitarist, Aphazel, would bash her in interviews as well. With that being said, in recent years her tone about Ancient has been less harsh, and she's been more open talking about the album with fans these days. |
| 713 | * "Jordan, Minnesota" by Music/BigBlack was a RippedFromTheHeadlines song about a child abuse ring in the titular American town - Music/SteveAlbini came to regret writing the song when he learned that the news reports he'd taken at face value were later proven to be false. |
| 714 | * Bob Geldof admits “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” is terrible, believing that he is “responsible for two of the worst songs in history”, one of which is “Do They Know It’s Christmas?”. |
| 715 | * Clem Castro of the Filipino pop-rock band Orange & Lemons admitted in an [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUPqDYG0O18 interview]] that he later came to resent their breakout single "Pinoy Ako"--which was used as the theme song for ''[[Series/BigBrother Pinoy Big Brother]]''--as it was too "masa" (read: mainstream) and thus did not reflect the band's image; not helping matters was the allegations that the band plagiarised the melody from the new wave song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Frxl-xONLHk "Chandeliers"]] by The Care. Castro then claimed that he eventually mellowed out and moved on from the "Pinoy Ako" debacle especially as the song did put them on the map regardless. |
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