SONGS YOU HATE (by artists you love)

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My first choice is Woodstock by Joni Mitchell.
Not only that I find it ridiculous to write THEE song on Woodstock without ever having been there. It is really her worst song, I think. It makes me understand why some people hate her.

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Sunday, 3 November 2002 23:36 (twenty-two years ago)

jay z - the takeover

― ep, Sunday, 3 November 2002 23:45 (twenty-two years ago)

- "Jana" by Killing Joke
- "Lost in the Supermarket" by the Clash
- "Mr.Cardiac" by Firewater
- "Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses?" by U2
- "More" by Sisters of Mercy
- "I Wanna Be a Flintstone" by Screaming Blue Messiahs
- "Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner" by Iron Maiden
- "America" by Killing Joke

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 3 November 2002 23:48 (twenty-two years ago)

I love Lost in the Supermarket!

― David Allen, Monday, 4 November 2002 00:08 (twenty-two years ago)

"marquee and the moon", by Sloan, is really and truly awful. To make matters worse, I recently came across a Sloan cover of "This Charming Man" by the Smiths, which made me shudder.

― webcrack (music=crack), Monday, 4 November 2002 00:09 (twenty-two years ago)

I love "Lost in the Supermarket" too.

Maybe Leonard Cohen's "Jazz Police".

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Monday, 4 November 2002 00:59 (twenty-two years ago)

MBV's "Touched"

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Monday, 4 November 2002 01:11 (twenty-two years ago)

"She is Suffering" by the Manics. I used to be indifferent to it, but now I just want to punch it. If one could punch a song, I guess.

― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 4 November 2002 02:59 (twenty-two years ago)

ANYTHING OFF MOBY'S "18"

thank you

― Curtis Stephens, Monday, 4 November 2002 03:28 (twenty-two years ago)

The Beastie Boys, "Alive"

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Monday, 4 November 2002 03:42 (twenty-two years ago)

goodly portions of Thing-Fish

― Tad (llamasfur), Monday, 4 November 2002 09:00 (twenty-two years ago)

"They Killed Him" - Bob Dylan. well actually that's kind of funny. Maybe "Silvio", because some people actually like it.

― Brian the Snorf, Monday, 4 November 2002 09:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Radio Song.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 4 November 2002 09:11 (twenty-two years ago)

"Last Junkie" by the Dandy Warhols triggers homicidal rages in me as effectively as littering.

― kate, Monday, 4 November 2002 12:17 (twenty-two years ago)

"If you become a true Doors fan, "Love Her Madly' is the only song of theirs you'll learn to hate"

..I love "Sylvio" - I absolutely hated it at first .. but it grew on me somehow..

Neil Young has too many to name, but if you dismiss most of his Geffen catalogue, I still hate "Mansion on the Hill"

― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 4 November 2002 12:47 (twenty-two years ago)

no-one's said 'You Know You're Right' - hm!

i dont like 'Destiny' or 'In The Waiting Line' by Zero 7 or 'Too Long' by Daft Punk

― blueski, Monday, 4 November 2002 12:55 (twenty-two years ago)

no-one's said 'You Know You're Right' - hm!

But that's because no one loves Nirvana - not because the song doesn't totally suck.

― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 4 November 2002 12:59 (twenty-two years ago)

"I love 'Lost in the Supermarker'!"

Well, I respect that, but personally speaking, I think it's a steaming pile of crap. Yes, I know Strummer wrote it for Jones. Yes, I know it showcased a theretofore unrealized "sensitive" side, etc. etc.

I just think it's a crap, whinging song....and I wish they'd never recorded it.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 4 November 2002 14:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Just about the whole 'Never let me down' album by Bowie. A crap record too far - the one that stopped me from having to buy every single thing that he produced. Even the 'Labyrinth' soundtrack didn't do that.

― James Ball (James Ball), Monday, 4 November 2002 14:45 (twenty-two years ago)

I love "Lost in the Supermarket" so much that I ripped it off for "I FOund Myself At The Supermarket."

― kate, Monday, 4 November 2002 15:22 (twenty-two years ago)

"Brick" by Ben Folds Five
"Hot Dog" by Led Zeppelin

― nickalicious, Monday, 4 November 2002 19:05 (twenty-two years ago)

"Return" - The Cure
"See You" - Depeche Mode
"Face-Up" - New Order
"Wind It Up (Rewound)" - The Prodigy
"Phorever People" - The Shamen
"Lift" - 808 State
"Bruce Lee" - Underworld
"Dolphin" - Prince
"Magic Johnson" - Red Hot Chili Peppers
"Ain't No Right" - Jane's Addiction

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 4 November 2002 19:16 (twenty-two years ago)

"Beyond the Sunrise" Belle and Sebastian
"Mommy" Ben Folds
"Hat and Feet" Fountains of Wayne
"She" Elvis Costello

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 4 November 2002 20:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Particularly because I'm going to have to hear it tonight (if Morrissey's rationing his Smiths songs to 3 per gig, why oh why....?)

'Meat is Murder'

No it's not, we're bloody omnivores.

― James Ball (James Ball), Tuesday, 5 November 2002 09:31 (twenty-two years ago)

"Thunderbird" - Paul Roland. yech.

― summerslastsound (summerslastsound), Tuesday, 5 November 2002 16:26 (twenty-two years ago)

My Cure choice would be "Mint Car" -- really nothing there at all, that one.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 5 November 2002 19:24 (twenty-two years ago)

nine months pass...

"Poor Boy" by Nick Drake. It really drags the whole album down.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 8 August 2003 20:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Michael Jackson - anything post-Bad (being generous)

― Reginald Dellos Tools (regtools), Friday, 8 August 2003 20:57 (twenty-one years ago)

alphabetically:

AC/DC - "The Jack"
Syd Barrett - "Lanky Part Two"
The Beastie Boys - "Start" and "In a World Gone Mad"
The Beatles - "You'll Be Mine"
Jello Biafra - "Why I'm Glad the Space Shuttle Blew Up"
Big Star - "Mod Lang"
Creedence Clearwater Revival - "Lookin' for a Reason"
The Doors - "Horse Latitudes"
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - "Wait 'Til Tomorrow"
King Missile - "Mystical Shit"
Madonna - "Hanky Panky"
Negativland - anything on their sucky albums
Pink Floyd - "Quicksilver (Water Pipe)" and anything on their last two records
R.E.M. - "Tongue"
Radiohead - "Dollars and Cents"
The Replacements - "Gary's Got a Boner"
The Sex Pistols - "Belsen Was a Gas"
Ween - "Vallejo (live version)"

― Evan (Evan), Friday, 8 August 2003 22:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Some more....

Siouxsie & the Banshees - "The Staircase (Mystery)"
Bauhaus - "Terror Couple Kill Colonel"
The Wonder Stuff - "Here Comes Everyone"
Devo - "Puppet Boy"
Jane's Addiction - "Of Course"
Iggy Pop - "Candy"

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 9 August 2003 01:35 (twenty-one years ago)

"Wild Horses"

― dave q, Saturday, 9 August 2003 17:55 (twenty-one years ago)

B-b-but "Mod Lang" is one of the best things in the Big Star catalogue, at least in my highly subjective and possibly errant opinion.

Everything else on yr list seems right to me, though, Evan.

― M Specktor (M Specktor), Saturday, 9 August 2003 18:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Alex in NYC - How can you hate "Terror Couple Kill Cononel"?

― T. Weiss (Timmy), Saturday, 9 August 2003 20:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I dunno....I just think it's lazy. It doesn't do it for me. From the Bauhaushold, I much prefer "Lagartija Nick," "Dark Entries", "Kick in the Eye", "Bela Lugosi's Dead," "Stigmat Martyr" and "Antonin Artaud" (oops, this is starting to sound like a POX).

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 9 August 2003 23:59 (twenty-one years ago)

usually songs that were ruined by overexposure on classic rock radio - "Ohio," "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction," etc.

HATE Whiskeytown's "Everything I Do"

HATE "Frankly Mr Shankley"

man, there are TONS...

― roger adultery, Sunday, 10 August 2003 05:47 (twenty-one years ago)

nine years pass...

Love: Blondie
Hate: The Tide Is High

Love: Jay-Z
Hate: Empire State of Mind

― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 7 March 2013 22:13 (twelve years ago)

"marquee and the moon", by Sloan, is really and truly awful.

WTF! This is probably in the top 5 Sloan songs.

― Poliopolice, Thursday, 7 March 2013 22:18 (twelve years ago)

Empire State of Mind is unequivocally awful though. No one likes that.

― how's life, Thursday, 7 March 2013 22:32 (twelve years ago)

i feel like every artist i love has a song i hate but right now

pet shop boys - winner

is the winner.

― So: The Answers (or something), Thursday, 7 March 2013 22:38 (twelve years ago)

Particularly because I'm going to have to hear it tonight (if Morrissey's rationing his Smiths songs to 3 per gig, why oh why....?)
'Meat is Murder'
No it's not, we're bloody omnivores.
― James Ball (James Ball), Tuesday, November 5, 2002 6:01 AM (10 years ago)

oh man, he played it at his show in Seattle last night. Such an awful song, their worst.

― kate78, Thursday, 7 March 2013 22:50 (twelve years ago)

I have always hated "lady Madonna" and "get back".
So awful. And god knows I love the Beatles and many macca songs considered terrible...

― AlXTC from Paris, Friday, 8 March 2013 00:55 (twelve years ago)

I'm not here to argue with anyone's choices, but Get Back is soooooooo good.

― Johnny Fever, Friday, 8 March 2013 00:56 (twelve years ago)

"Man Needs a Maid"

― Public Brooding Closet (cryptosicko), Friday, 8 March 2013 05:14 (twelve years ago)

xpost

re : get back, just thinking about the tone of macca's voice makes me cringe !

― AlXTC from Paris, Friday, 8 March 2013 11:48 (twelve years ago)

yeah, never understood the "get back" hate, but to each their own.

― how's life, Friday, 8 March 2013 11:51 (twelve years ago)

I like Empire State of Mind (:-/)

The Blondie one I really don't like is One Way Or Another.

Get Back is just a drag... That era of the Beatles is heinously rootsy.

― dog latin, Friday, 8 March 2013 11:58 (twelve years ago)

ugh yeah Man Needs A Maid is an all-around stinker

― brio, Friday, 8 March 2013 19:33 (twelve years ago)

Prince - "Dolphin"
The Cure - "Push"
The Prodigy - "Funky Shit"
808 State - "Lift"
The Smiths - "Unhappy Birthday"

― "Bellini." (DJP), Friday, 8 March 2013 19:41 (twelve years ago)

Bros - "Cat Amongst the Pigeons"

― OutdoorFish, Friday, 8 March 2013 21:42 (twelve years ago)

Madonna - American Pie

― Johnny Fever, Friday, 8 March 2013 21:42 (twelve years ago)

"I Feel You" by Depeche Mode.
"I Can't Dance" by Genesis
"Come Together" by The Beatles
"Travels in Nihilion" by XTC
"Student Demonstration Time" by The Beach Boys
"B.L.U.R.E.M.I" by Blur
"U96 Girls" by Travis

― The GeirBot (Geir Hongro), Sunday, 10 March 2013 00:43 (twelve years ago)

Bruce Springsteen - Waiting On A Sunny Day

― kornrulez6969, Sunday, 10 March 2013 21:32 (twelve years ago)

Pet Shop Boys - Winner
New Order - Rock The Shack
Radiohead - We Suck Young Blood
The Boo Radleys - Free Huey
Sparks - Young Girls
Blur - Crazy Beat
Suede - Positivity
Brian Wilson/ Beach Boys - Smart Girls/Brian's Back

― Kitchen Person, Sunday, 10 March 2013 21:54 (twelve years ago)

"Smart Girls" would have topped my list too, but I'm not sure unreleased bootlegs should count

― Lee626, Monday, 11 March 2013 00:14 (twelve years ago)

Fair enough. It is probably the worst song I've ever heard by someone I love. Geir already nominated Student Demonstration Time which is a great call, especially as it ruins the flow of one of my favourite albums of all time.

― Kitchen Person, Monday, 11 March 2013 00:52 (twelve years ago)

Morrissey - He Cried

― OutdoorFish, Monday, 11 March 2013 00:54 (twelve years ago)

- "Lost in the Supermarket" by the Clash
― Alex in NYC (vassifer)

nonsense!

― Moka, Monday, 11 March 2013 00:58 (twelve years ago)

PSB -Winner thirded. Everything about it is awful.

― daavid, Monday, 11 March 2013 02:32 (twelve years ago)

Rock the Shack and Slow Jam - New Order

I'm pretty forgiving with regards to New Order but those two songs pushed me over the edge. Truly horrible.

― brotherlovesdub, Monday, 11 March 2013 02:38 (twelve years ago)

from Slow Jam:

The afternoon was very clear
The sun was beating down on me
I got thirsty for a beer
Then I had to go to sea
The sea was very rough
It made me feel sick
But I like that kind of stuff
It beats arithmetic

― brotherlovesdub, Monday, 11 March 2013 02:42 (twelve years ago)

Stole it from an old Ian Curtis notepad

― OutdoorFish, Monday, 11 March 2013 03:00 (twelve years ago)

A pair of blotch-on-their-career abominations from legendary artists, made all the more loathsome because they were so popular:

Frank Sinatra - "Love and Marriage"
Chuck Berry - "My Ding-A-Ling"

― Lee626, Monday, 11 March 2013 03:31 (twelve years ago)

- "Lost in the Supermarket" by the Clash
― Alex in NYC (vassifer)

nonsense!

It's not fucking nonsense. It's a song I've always hated by band I've always loved. Your perception of logic and sense plays no role in the proceedings.

― Alex in NYC, Monday, 11 March 2013 16:32 (twelve years ago)

I hate that song and everything else by the Clash.

― how's life, Monday, 11 March 2013 16:44 (twelve years ago)

Love Roy Orbison but not a fan of Pretty Woman at all.

― aonghus, Monday, 11 March 2013 21:53 (twelve years ago)

"My Dingaling" ftw.
Alex in NYC, good to see you posting again....
What's not to like about Pretty Woman? is it the overexposure?

― m0stlyClean, Tuesday, 12 March 2013 00:40 (twelve years ago)

six years pass...

Tim Buckley - Gypsy Woman

― hoostanbank de reason lyrics mp4 hd video download (unregistered), Monday, 15 July 2019 16:16 (five years ago)

Tim Buckley - "My Ding-a-Ling"

― Mark G, Monday, 15 July 2019 21:28 (five years ago)

Paint a Vulgar Picture - The Smiths
There's a World - Neil Young
Crazy Lady Blue - Todd Rundgren/Utopia
Cousin Dupree - Steely Dan

― Bloody Snail, Monday, 15 July 2019 21:49 (five years ago)

Earth Wind & Fire: I'll Write A Song For You

Kraftwerk: almost anything off The Mix, but especially Pocket Calculator

Steely Dan: Slang Of Ages

ABC: 4 Ever 2 Gether

Prince: Dinner With Delores

The Blue Nile: Sentimental Man

― does it look like i'm here (jon123), Tuesday, 16 July 2019 13:05 (five years ago)

Harry Nilsson “Coconut”

― vmajestic, Tuesday, 16 July 2019 14:25 (five years ago)

“Rock the Shack” by New Order

― dorsalstop, Wednesday, 17 July 2019 18:41 (five years ago)

David Bowie's cover of 'Across the Universe' might be the only bad song he released in the '70s. Also much of his first album is astonishingly bad (way worse than his '80s stuff, which is mostly just boring at its worst).

― Logy Psycho (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 17 July 2019 18:48 (five years ago)

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