Songs you hate by artists you love

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There has probably been a thread for this, but I can't find it. I want only songs you actively despise from artists you consider yourself a fan of.

mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 14 July 2019 22:10 (five years ago)

Why I was thinking about this: The Wrong Girl by Belle & Sebastian.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=6d9sHXnT3ks

mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 14 July 2019 22:12 (five years ago)

And here is Silence by Pulp, a track they have tried to delete from history, and with reason

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=3o-8QOTEUOc

(lots of 80s Pulp is brilliant though)

mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 14 July 2019 22:16 (five years ago)

AC/DC - Mistress for Christmas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7doBMyEH_Ug

shared unit of analysis (unperson), Sunday, 14 July 2019 22:49 (five years ago)

Oh wow, I didn't realise Pulp had suppressed a B-side when compiling stuff. "Silence" is... kinda interesting.

Nag! Nag! Nag!, Sunday, 14 July 2019 23:34 (five years ago)

Let's get this one out of the way

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sfc4aLUBJZo

Zeuhl Idol (Matt #2), Sunday, 14 July 2019 23:35 (five years ago)

Michael Jackson - "The Girl is Mine"
Neil Young - "A Man Needs a Maid"

Herman Woke (cryptosicko), Monday, 15 July 2019 00:57 (five years ago)

Led Zeppelin - "Living Loving Maid"

Un Poco Loco Moco (rushomancy), Monday, 15 July 2019 00:58 (five years ago)

The Boo Radleys - 'It's Lulu' and 'Free Huey'

frame casual (dog latin), Monday, 15 July 2019 01:30 (five years ago)

Bruce Springsteen--Waiting On a Sunny Day

And he plays it at just about every show.

kornrulez6969, Monday, 15 July 2019 01:52 (five years ago)

Michael Franks - popsicle toes

brimstead, Monday, 15 July 2019 01:57 (five years ago)

Bob Dylan “To Make You Feel My Love”

I almost think it’s a pisstake

an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Monday, 15 July 2019 02:25 (five years ago)

The Who, “It’s Your Turn,” the worst song from their worst album, a half-assed corporate-rock throwaway (that Townshend doesn’t even play on because he was in rehab).

Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 15 July 2019 02:28 (five years ago)

Let's get this one out of the way


I’ve always been baffled by the hate for this. It’s funny, it’s goofy, and it keeps the album from being po-faced.

Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 15 July 2019 02:34 (five years ago)

Pet Shop Boys - Winner

kitchen person, Monday, 15 July 2019 03:09 (five years ago)

Leonard Cohen – Jazz Police

van dyke parks generator (anagram), Monday, 15 July 2019 05:11 (five years ago)

VDGG - When She Comes is a truly shit retread of former glories and I can't believe they put it out in the same year as Still Life

imago, Monday, 15 July 2019 06:19 (five years ago)

you know what, it's still better than "meurglys iii". ok so hammill has a 15 minute ode to his guitar, which isn't a good start. also he's kind of a shit guitar player. i know he has his fans, but it's like trying to listen to neil young solo in 17. also there's a lengthy reggae section, which isn't necessarily disqualifying, but it's perilously close to frank zappa reggae, which is one of the worst sounds on the planet, i mean actually worse than reggae mike love.

generally though hammill is one of those songwriters who even when he's doing a shit song i love him; he's endearingly shit. that goes double for chris judge smith, btw, though "christmas can be terrible" is even worse than christmas!

Un Poco Loco Moco (rushomancy), Monday, 15 July 2019 07:06 (five years ago)

Hammill has no shit songs, When She Comes and Meurglys III are both great.

van dyke parks generator (anagram), Monday, 15 July 2019 08:08 (five years ago)

The first four minutes of Meurglys III begin like they're going to be the greatest VDGG song of all. The rest of it doesn't quite live up but it makes one hell of an introduction

imago, Monday, 15 July 2019 08:20 (five years ago)

I love Neil Young and I hate "Like A Hurricane"

L'assie (Euler), Monday, 15 July 2019 08:21 (five years ago)

The Doors - Hello, I Love You

Valentijn, Monday, 15 July 2019 09:37 (five years ago)

I loved Suede (mkI) but have always hated "The Power".
Also, the Beatles's "Get Back" (the song). Almost fingernails on a chalkboard level...

AlXTC from Paris, Monday, 15 July 2019 10:12 (five years ago)

Autechre's Lowride is a glimpse into a horrible alternate universe where they went all acid jazz.

The Pingularity (ledge), Monday, 15 July 2019 10:20 (five years ago)

"Bull in the heather" - Sonic Youth

. (Michael B), Monday, 15 July 2019 12:59 (five years ago)

I’m sure every fan (of any band) can name one of these. Recently when I saw Rammstein live it reminded me again how lame Du Hast is.

Siegbran, Monday, 15 July 2019 13:02 (five years ago)

Hard to know where to start, but Husker Du's "Turn on the News" springs to mind; that might represent the biggest disconnect between what I think of it and what most everyone else thinks of it.

clemenza, Monday, 15 July 2019 13:03 (five years ago)

Wow, I was just thinking about how much i love "Bull in the Heather" the other day!

blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Monday, 15 July 2019 13:05 (five years ago)

Yeah, me too

Ask Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 15 July 2019 13:13 (five years ago)

I don't mind "Waiting on a Sunny Day", "Crush On You" is the only Springsteen song I actively despise.

van dyke parks generator (anagram), Monday, 15 July 2019 13:14 (five years ago)

Hard to know where to start, but Husker Du's "Turn on the News" springs to mind; that might represent the biggest disconnect between what I think of it and what most everyone else thinks of it.

It may be the obvious pick, but for me the one I hate by this band is “The Baby Song.”

Ask Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 15 July 2019 13:17 (five years ago)

Autechre's Lowride is a glimpse into a horrible alternate universe where they went all acid jazz.

sure but I still dig the rhythm of that song. it sounds pretty great before the piano bit comes in.

my pick for Ae is "Stud" - sounds like nails on a chalkboard. and it's the longest track on the album!

frogbs, Monday, 15 July 2019 13:22 (five years ago)

would also like to mention Ween's "Spinal Meningitis" which actively skeeves me out to the point where I pretty much have to skip it. not a bad song just one that hits its mark a little too well

frogbs, Monday, 15 July 2019 13:23 (five years ago)

I love Bull In The Heather and Lowride

frame casual (dog latin), Monday, 15 July 2019 13:36 (five years ago)

Trying to think of an Ae track I actively hate and it's hard. I either love it or I'm not keen on it. Or at least up until Confield. Cfern and Pen Expers hurt my brain quite a lot

Blur - Mr Robinson's Quango and Ernold Same are really dire

Talking Heads - Stay Up Late (I don't really like songs about babies on the whole)

Beach Boys - Cherry Cherry Coupe (sounds like the Cherry Coupe is really slow and clapped out)

frame casual (dog latin), Monday, 15 July 2019 13:44 (five years ago)

Also, the Beatles's "Get Back" (the song). Almost fingernails on a chalkboard level...

― AlXTC from Paris

There are a few Beatles songs I hate, mostly late songs. (I think "Love Me Do" is fucking stupid, but I don't hate it necessarily.) Ballad of John and Yoko. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da. Probably others.

Un Poco Loco Moco (rushomancy), Monday, 15 July 2019 13:47 (five years ago)

Two More Highly Regarded Songs I Hate by Artists I Love ("hate" is overstating it--strongly dislike would be more accurate--but I have to narrow this down, else I'd just be listing "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" and stuff like that):

Dylan - "Ballad of a Thin Man" (like it conceptually, just hate the sound of it; everyone else would pick "Rainy Day Woman," which sometimes is my favourite Dylan song)

Beatles - "Drive My Car"

Velvet Underground - "Venus in Furs," or at least half of it

clemenza, Monday, 15 July 2019 13:47 (five years ago)

(not directed at rushomance...it's a very hateable song)

clemenza, Monday, 15 July 2019 13:49 (five years ago)

I struggle with XTC's version of All Along The Watchtower also Super Tuff and especially My Weapon

MaresNest, Monday, 15 July 2019 13:57 (five years ago)

To stay on classic 60s pop-rock, the Stones "Street Fighting Man" has always sounded horrible to me. Never understood why it's so highly regarded. It's a tuneless mess.

AlXTC from Paris, Monday, 15 July 2019 14:07 (five years ago)

I dislike/hate the following Cure songs:

Meathook
So What
Push
A Thousand Hours
Closedown
Wendy Time
Dredd Song
Club America
Mint Car
Return
Strange Attraction
Where The Birds Always Sing
Us or Them
This. Here and Now. With You.

brigadier pudding (DJP), Monday, 15 July 2019 14:26 (five years ago)

all pretty uncontroversial except Push

imago, Monday, 15 July 2019 14:28 (five years ago)

I like so many of the songs mentioned on this thread.

Orpheus Knutt (Tom D.), Monday, 15 July 2019 14:29 (five years ago)

I love Mint Car

frame casual (dog latin), Monday, 15 July 2019 14:30 (five years ago)

XXP - I agree, I've seen fairly robust dislike for Push on ILM in the past, it is baffling to me, the live version from Glastonbury '86 basically made me a lifelong fan.

MaresNest, Monday, 15 July 2019 14:31 (five years ago)

I struggle with XTC's version of All Along The Watchtower also Super Tuff and especially My Weapon

I must be the only one who loves the Watchtower cover, it almost feels like they're trying to slaughter a sacred cow. it's pretty groovy to me though

the other two I don't really consider XTC songs...those were both Barry Andrews' songs right? I don't remember what either of them sound like.

the one I'd pick is "Wounded Horse"...I actually like when Partridge deliberately tries to sound obnoxious but it actually grates on me here

on a similar note I think The Police are a great example of this phenomenon - every album seems to have That One Song that people can't stand. "Be My Girl - Sally" is the one for me, especially since it borrows from an earlier (and actually quite great!) song they did as Strontium 90, one which they should've just covered ouright

frogbs, Monday, 15 July 2019 14:44 (five years ago)

Orbital - Snivilisation would be improved if they had binned 'Quality Seconds'

help yourself to another slice of apple ... crumble (Willl), Monday, 15 July 2019 14:58 (five years ago)

"The Flame" by Cheap Trick seems too obvious to mention but yet here I am.

justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Monday, 15 July 2019 15:04 (five years ago)

'Lazer Beam' by Super Furry Animals. Hard to believe it was one of the first songs Gruff wrote for the band.

afriendlypioneer, Monday, 15 July 2019 15:12 (five years ago)

Orbital - Snivilisation would be improved if they had binned 'Quality Seconds'

― help yourself to another slice of apple ... crumble (Willl), Monday, July 15, 2019 3:58 PM (fourteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Nah that track's quality and it only lasts a matter of seconds, so..

frame casual (dog latin), Monday, 15 July 2019 15:13 (five years ago)

Bob Dylan “To Make You Feel My Love”

I almost think it’s a pisstake

― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Sunday, July 14, 2019 10:25 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Mazzy Tsar (PBKR), Monday, 15 July 2019 15:14 (five years ago)

On a J-pop tip, Hold Your Hand by Perfume

Zeuhl Idol (Matt #2), Monday, 15 July 2019 15:48 (five years ago)

Oh wow, I didn't realise Pulp had suppressed a B-side when compiling stuff. "Silence" is... kinda interesting.

btw Pulp have never compiled any of their pre-1992 material (Fire control it, and Jarvis asked people not to buy their reissues and compilations [which skip other b-sides too]), and still have 10 b-sides (including remixes) uncompiled from the Different Class era, about a dozen (inc mixes) from the Hardcore era, and 8 or so (ie all of them) from the We Love Life singles. Plus also-uncompiled non-B-side tracks like All Time High, My Body May Die, et al.

quelle sprocket damage (sic), Monday, 15 July 2019 16:12 (five years ago)

"Quality Seconds" rules, it basically does hardcore Moby better than Moby

brigadier pudding (DJP), Monday, 15 July 2019 17:36 (five years ago)

Lowride is tite as hell!!!!

brimstead, Monday, 15 July 2019 17:38 (five years ago)

it’s not acid jazz it’s soft serve electro for cruising in a futuristic city

brimstead, Monday, 15 July 2019 17:39 (five years ago)

Also I freely admit that my antipathy towards "Push" stems from reading the lyrics in an Italian lyric book that came with the "I'm a Cult Hero"/"I Dig You" 7" flexi-single in the back and inventing a mournful, ominous-sounding song in my head for it and being shocked by the discrepancy when I actually heard the song. I would probably like it if it was in a minor key.

"Mint Car" is a festering bag of sick which has only 2 redeeming qualities:

  • its uniformly-excellent b-sides ("Home", "Waiting", "A Pink Dream")
  • it's not "Return"

brigadier pudding (DJP), Monday, 15 July 2019 17:42 (five years ago)

(If they had dropped the 4 WMS songs off the album and included "Adonis", "It Used To Be Me", "Home", and "A Pink Dream" in their place, I would defend that album.)

brigadier pudding (DJP), Monday, 15 July 2019 17:43 (five years ago)

^ agree on Mint Car (and Return), and on Home & It Used To Be Me, I can't remember how Adonis/A Pink Dream/Waiting go though

I love Push though!

Colonel Poo, Monday, 15 July 2019 17:49 (five years ago)

"Sabotage", Beastie Boys
"It's Oh So Quiet", Bjork

A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Monday, 15 July 2019 17:55 (five years ago)

I can't remember how Adonis/A Pink Dream/Waiting go though

"Adonis" is "From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea"-lite (in terms of repetition/insistence of musical motif; it's a mellower song overall) with the chorus that starts "Dream yourself awake"
"Waiting" is a midtempo syncopated jam driven by acoustic guitar with electric guitar solo ornamentation and some of Jason's best early drumming
"A Pink Dream" is an uptempo pop-rock song led by acoustic guitar and "Mint Car"-esque vocals, only they work on this song

brigadier pudding (DJP), Monday, 15 July 2019 18:02 (five years ago)

I dislike/hate the following Cure songs:

So What

A Thousand Hours
Closedown

― brigadier pudding (DJP), Monday, July 15, 2019 3:26 PM

Agree with most of your choices (though don't quite hate them) but I think "A Thousand Hours" is really great
"So What" and "This Here And Now With You" are fun
I get why people might not like "Closedown" but it grew on me.

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Radiohead - "Inside My Head" is just shockingly bad.

Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 19 July 2019 16:58 (five years ago)

elvis costello - sunday's best

mott the hoopleheads (voodoo chili), Friday, 19 July 2019 17:02 (five years ago)


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