Big songs you don't like from bands you love

LastMantra

thecolourbox said:

the_jaffa said:

The Drugs Don't Work by Verve

Their only number one, riding on the coattails of BSS but it's got nothing on their normal stuff. Richard Ashcroft solo single tripe really.

I love Verve and have seen them more than any other band but that sticks out as a very low point for me

I actually love that song, that's what got me into liking the Verve in fact! Didn't know them before that song but that one really got me. Having looked at when it was released I was only 10 years old at the time! But I remember thinking... Wow this is different than the normal music they play on radio on breakfast show! 

Vive la difference!

Certainly if that was my worst song I'd be more than chuffed!

Mattharrier

ICBM said:

Free - All Right Now
REM - Shiny Happy People

And if solo artists count... Neil Young - Pocahontas and Cortez The Killer.

How... how dare you?!

I jest, of course - I'm a fairly recent convert to Neil Young, so I heard Cortez the Killer (along with a shit load of his other songs) for the first time last year, so for me it's all fresh and new.

richardhomer

Apart from the title track and (at a push) ‘So Far Away’ - the whole of the Brothers in Arms album. 

ICBM

Mattharrier said:

How... how dare you?!

I jest, of course - I'm a fairly recent convert to Neil Young, so I heard Cortez the Killer (along with a shit load of his other songs) for the first time last year, so for me it's all fresh and new.

The guitar parts are great... the lyrics (as with Pocahontas) are utter drivel and massively annoy me!

Philly_Q

Again a band I like rather than love, but Def Leppard have a couple of absolute stinkers among their greatest hits - Pour Some Sugar On Me and, even worse, Let's Get Rocked.

monquixote

Creep by Radiohead along with everything else on Pablo Honey.

I like Shiny Happy People but I can't stand Everybody Hurts.

CHRISB50

Anything the Manics did post Holy Bible I really cant stand. Which was the era they had all their hits. 

Redlester

Hi Ho Silver Lining by Jeff Beck!!! 

Redlester

Philly_Q said:

Again a band I like rather than love, but Def Leppard have a couple of absolute stinkers among their greatest hits - Pour Some Sugar On Me and, even worse, Let's Get Rocked.

I’m sorry mate, here’s my confession- Let’s Get Rocked is catchy and fun. 

Philly_Q

Redlester said:

Philly_Q said:

Again a band I like rather than love, but Def Leppard have a couple of absolute stinkers among their greatest hits - Pour Some Sugar On Me and, even worse, Let's Get Rocked.

I’m sorry mate, here’s my confession- Let’s Get Rocked is catchy and fun. 

So is Agadoo, but... 

To think a bunch of 30-something British men wrote those lyrics, it's an absolute embarrassment... (I'm still talking about Let's Get Rocked).

But hey, all opinions are valid.  Loads of people hate Cherry Pie (including the guy who wrote it, RIP), but I think it's a work of genius.... and supposedly it was inspired by Pour Some Sugar On Me, so I must be an idiot.

JMS96

monquixote said:

I like Shiny Happy People but I can't stand Everybody Hurts.

Love REM. Hate Shiny Happy People. I used to hate Everybody Hurts until I watched it played live (Glastonbury?) It was an amazing moment - the song revealed itself to me. Now love it. 

Jonathangus

Redlester said:

Philly_Q said:

Again a band I like rather than love, but Def Leppard have a couple of absolute stinkers among their greatest hits - Pour Some Sugar On Me and, even worse, Let's Get Rocked.

I’m sorry mate, here’s my confession- Let’s Get Rocked is catchy and fun. 

I see what you did there. 

gordiji

Philly_Q said:

If @Reverend reads this he'll think I'm insane, but I don't particularly like Stargazer by Rainbow - it's good, but I don't think it's quite the absolute monster classic it's supposed to be.  I love Dio's vocal on it but I think the instrumental bit in the middle goes on too long.  Even when I was 15 I wasn't that crazy about it.

Wow, I particularly love the instrumental/ solo, peak Blackmore for me, especially that fast ascending run which is so accurate & immpossible to play right. (unless you're fastonebaz

Anyway my nomination is  'Walk of Life' which is a surprisingly crap effort for the venerable M. Knopfler and D.S's.

Philly_Q

Jonathangus said:

Redlester said:

Philly_Q said:

Again a band I like rather than love, but Def Leppard have a couple of absolute stinkers among their greatest hits - Pour Some Sugar On Me and, even worse, Let's Get Rocked.

I’m sorry mate, here’s my confession- Let’s Get Rocked is catchy and fun. 

I see what you did there. 

And I totally missed it...

GoldenEraGuitars

Guns n Roses - sweet child o mine 
Oasis - Wonderwall
Bon Jovi - Always 
Bryan Adam’s - summer of 69

Philly_Q

gordiji said:

Philly_Q said:

If @Reverend reads this he'll think I'm insane, but I don't particularly like Stargazer by Rainbow - it's good, but I don't think it's quite the absolute monster classic it's supposed to be.  I love Dio's vocal on it but I think the instrumental bit in the middle goes on too long.  Even when I was 15 I wasn't that crazy about it.

Wow, I particularly love the instrumental/ solo, peak Blackmore for me, especially that fast ascending run which is so accurate & immpossible to play right. (unless you're fastonebaz

There you go see, it's because I'm a rubbish guitar player than I've failed to appreciate it all these years... I'm tempted to backpedal now... but no, that's my honest opinion.

And let's admit it, I like the Long Live Rock 'n' Roll album better than Rising.

Shrews

The Importance of being Idle - Oasis.  

It had been coming for a while, but the song told me their best years were  well and truly gone. Boring, predictable, the end of an era. 

rivercider

Should I Stay or Should I Go - The Clash 

Stuckfast

Rocking In The Free World -- Neil Young. I'm a massive fan even of most of his 'difficult' stuff but that has no merit at all.

Something -- The Beatles. Pure cheese.

Reverend

Philly_Q said:

gordiji said:

Philly_Q said:

If @Reverend reads this he'll think I'm insane, but I don't particularly like Stargazer by Rainbow - it's good, but I don't think it's quite the absolute monster classic it's supposed to be.  I love Dio's vocal on it but I think the instrumental bit in the middle goes on too long.  Even when I was 15 I wasn't that crazy about it.

Wow, I particularly love the instrumental/ solo, peak Blackmore for me, especially that fast ascending run which is so accurate & immpossible to play right. (unless you're fastonebaz

There you go see, it's because I'm a rubbish guitar player than I've failed to appreciate it all these years... I'm tempted to backpedal now... but no, that's my honest opinion.

And let's admit it, I like the Long Live Rock 'n' Roll album better than Rising.

Overall llrnr is the better album but im afraid you'll not be able to appreciate it from the padded cell.