Songs that are dismissed by the band but favored by you

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Have we done this previously? Examples for me would include:

Pink Floyd - "See-Saw" (referred to by the band as "The Most Boring Song I've Ever Heard, Bar Two") and "It Would Be So Nice" ("rather awful, wasn't it?" - Nick Mason)

The Beatles - "Sun King" ("Another piece of garbage" - John Lennon) and "Birthday"

― Joe (Joe), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 19:34 (twenty years ago)

XTC - "Dear God"

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 19:39 (twenty years ago)

REM always swore off "Catapult" but it sounds as good as anything else on Murmur to these ears.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 19:43 (twenty years ago)

Joe Walsh has said if he knew that he would have to play "Funk #49" for the rest of his life, he wouldn't have written the song or at least spent more than ten minutes on the lyrics.

― earlnash, Wednesday, 22 June 2005 19:46 (twenty years ago)

"Dig for Fire" by the Pixies. My fave song of theirs (and a single); they never play it now and rarely did then.

― On a Strict El Cholo Diet (Bent Over at the Arclight), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 19:50 (twenty years ago)

Jack White on "There's No Home For You Here"

"Maybe I will like it more as I go along."

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 20:04 (twenty years ago)

Blur - "Bang"

Joe Walsh has said if he knew that he would have to play "Funk #49" for the rest of his life, he wouldn't have written the song or at least spent more than ten minutes on the lyrics.

What stopped him from writing new and better words for it?

― Ben Dot (1977), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 20:13 (twenty years ago)

"Revol" by the Manic Street Preachers.

― Ark Hopping (avoid80), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 20:17 (twenty years ago)

Jonathan Richman usually disses the first Modern Lovers album as being derivative and contrived. I agree, although your average ILMer seems to like it. He still does Pablo Picasso though.

― everything, Wednesday, 22 June 2005 20:26 (twenty years ago)

REM always swore off "Catapult" but it sounds as good as anything else on Murmur to these ears.
-- joseph cotten (josephcotte...), June 22nd, 2005 1:43 PM. (joseph cotten)

I love that song. They don't like it? Well...It doesn't have the best lyrics, but the music's great!

― Aja (aja), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 20:28 (twenty years ago)

"World War" by The Cure. Described by Robert Smith as "nonsense", they didn't include it on the CD version of Boys Don't Cry. Not their best song by a long shot but I still think it rocks.

― Seb (Seb), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 21:46 (twenty years ago)

the entire Mercury Rev BOCES album.

― donut e-goo (donut), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 21:50 (twenty years ago)

"Revol" by the Manic Street Preachers.

Played on two of the three most recent dates I went to, so they can't be that worried by it.

― Si.C@rter (SiC@rter), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 21:51 (twenty years ago)

Pinkerton
"Shiny Happy People"
"Born Slippy: NUXX"

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 22:25 (twenty years ago)

Al Green has dismissed "Sha-La-La (Make Me Happy)" as pop fluff or something along those lines. He also made some kind of dismissive remark about "Full Of Fire," something about how all it took to get a hit was to speed up the BPM.

― Lingbertt, Wednesday, 22 June 2005 22:41 (twenty years ago)

Hmm, you man dismissed cos they didn't like it, or because they resented playing it (see Smiths - Charming Man, or Radiohead - Creep)? Maybe there's a fine line.

― paulhw (paulhw), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 22:54 (twenty years ago)

OTM about Jonathan Richman (Pablo Picasso is awful but everything else from that era is class); Blur (Bang is a great song, better than a lot of stuff on Leisure); Beatles (Sun KIng is perfect shoegaze music for the 60s); Shiny Happy People - fuck it it's grebt.

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 22:56 (twenty years ago)

"Revol" by the Manic Street Preachers.

Played on two of the three most recent dates I went to, so they can't be that worried by it.

Really? Wow, that makes me happy. I definitely remember reading several interviews where they claimed to despise that song, but I've always liked it.

― Ark Hopping (avoid80), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 22:57 (twenty years ago)

(Is there an inverse thread of this one? Songs you loved but now hate?)

― PB, Wednesday, 22 June 2005 23:00 (twenty years ago)

From Zappa's liner notes on Freak Out!:
"Go Cry on Somebody Else's Shoulder: is very greasy. You should not listen to it. You should wear it on your hair."
"Motherly Love: Trivial poop."

"I'm Not Satisfied: ... is okay and safe and designed that way on purpose."

Of course, this was all a blatant bit of passive-aggressive "I dare you to take me seriously."

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 23:03 (twenty years ago)

x-post, I'm an idiot, wrong thread...........

― PB, Wednesday, 22 June 2005 23:04 (twenty years ago)

"Heartbreak Beat" by the Psychedelic Furs. Not great, but not deserving the band's vitriol.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 23:18 (twenty years ago)

"Oddyssey" by Kiss. Clearly the best thing they ever did.

Also, "Buffalo Soldier" and "Blind Willie McTell" to thread!

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 23 June 2005 00:02 (twenty years ago)

"Oddyssey" by Kiss. Clearly the best thing they ever did.

yer ears work funny, geir :-)

my pick -- anything off of ministry's with sympathy -- esp. "revenge" and "work for love"!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 23 June 2005 00:05 (twenty years ago)

Blur - "Bang"

I thought it was Bernard Butler who dismissed this?

― keith m (keithmcl), Thursday, 23 June 2005 00:24 (twenty years ago)

first two primal scream singles

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Thursday, 23 June 2005 00:24 (twenty years ago)

"It was the first time the group played it together and we just switched the tape on and didn't take it terribly seriously. And I just fell onto a piano and began to bang away. We kept the tape because it had some unnameable appeal." Interviewer: "And people kept the piano away from you after that?" Morrissey: "People kept away from me after that!"
- Morrissey on "Death Of A Disco Dancer", Sounds, June 18, 1988.

― jcartledge (jcartledge), Thursday, 23 June 2005 00:25 (twenty years ago)

'Cherchez La Ghost'

― Guy Incognito (Guy Incognito), Thursday, 23 June 2005 09:33 (twenty years ago)

"Dream On" Aerosmith
"The Message" Grandmaster Flash & the Furious 5

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Thursday, 23 June 2005 09:44 (twenty years ago)

I have a real soft spot for Dogs Are Everywhere by Pulp, which is on all those dodgy Fire compilations they hate.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 23 June 2005 09:49 (twenty years ago)

Well, they redid it as a "Common People" b-side, so I think they are secretly proud of that one.

I always liked "It's only love", but John Lennon was nearly going to call it "That's a nice hat", so keen he was on the song...

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 23 June 2005 09:53 (twenty years ago)

Did they? Was it CD2 or something?

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 23 June 2005 11:40 (twenty years ago)

The remix of Sunlight Bathed the Golden Glow by Felt, with the added strings. Lawrence described it as a two bob job, but I've always preferred it to the original.

― flowersdie (flowersdie), Thursday, 23 June 2005 11:46 (twenty years ago)

The Mission cannot stand playing "Wasteland" anymore, but I still love it.

Don't you sort've think U2 must be bored to tears by "Pride (in the Name of Love)" by now?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 23 June 2005 17:02 (twenty years ago)

I get annoyed whenever Stipe & Company dis "Shiny Happy People" the same way I do when Woody Allen acts all embarrassed about movies like "Bananas." Many artists just cannot assess what it is they do well.

― Taylor, Thursday, 23 June 2005 17:54 (twenty years ago)

Millencolin are pretty dismissive of their entire For Monkeys album, which they consider rushed and phoned-in, but "Lozin' Must" is actually one of the best songs they've ever done.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Thursday, 23 June 2005 18:08 (twenty years ago)

Madchen, yes, there is an acoustic version of Dogs Are Everywhere on CD2 of Common People. If I could find my copy of it anywhere, I would copy it for you. It's not much cop though.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 23 June 2005 18:29 (twenty years ago)

Alex Van Halen (or Eddie, or both) considered "Dancing in the street" the worst thing Van Halen ever recorded. Bullshit: way-propulsive Moroder-metal a year ahead of ZZ Top, with cool cowbell & better use of synths than anything off 1984. Their best '60s-classic cover, I call it.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Thursday, 23 June 2005 19:08 (twenty years ago)

...& OMGWTF the radio's playing it right fucking now!!!

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Thursday, 23 June 2005 19:12 (twenty years ago)

I see to recall Robin Guthrie (Cocteau Twins) calling Treasure an "abortion."

Didn't Slowdive apologize for their 5 EP (their foray into ambient techno), or am I remembering that incorrectly?

― Ernest P. (ernestp), Thursday, 23 June 2005 22:10 (twenty years ago)

I see to recall Robin Guthrie (Cocteau Twins) calling Treasure an "abortion."

This is the same term used by Al Jourgensen to describe Ministry's With Sympathy.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 23 June 2005 22:19 (twenty years ago)

I probably decided to buy some purple vinyl Heavy Stereo crap instead of CD2. Blah.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Friday, 24 June 2005 08:53 (twenty years ago)

I see to recall Robin Guthrie (Cocteau Twins) calling Treasure an "abortion."

Yup, none of the three really liked it, especially after it received all of those "pre-Raphaelite/voice of God" reviews. Later on they admitted to it being just "okay" and them having exaggerated a bit, but they think their best work was on Head Over Heels. I entirely agree with them.

The Aerosmith guys don't like "Dream On"? That's the only song of theirs I can tolerate -- probably because I never even knew it was them until recently. It sounds nothing like them to my ears.

― Ian Riese-Moraine eats nation-states for breakfast! (Eastern Mantra), Friday, 24 June 2005 11:06 (twenty years ago)

Lou Reed didn't like "Loaded" - leading to lots of other people pretending they didn't like it either

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 24 June 2005 11:08 (twenty years ago)

R.E.M. should be the last people to judge R.E.M. in 2005.

― Kyle Anderton (Kyle Anderton), Friday, 24 June 2005 11:14 (twenty years ago)

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