OT - What is a song you cannot stand from an artist you love?
Yes, they still jumble those two songs together and it infuriates me. Makes people think they're the same song - they are not!
Enter Sandman by Metallica, it's an alright song I just heard it so much growing up on the radio and other places that I've come to not like it very much.
This and AC/DC's "You shook me all night long" are the greatest examples of how radio overplay can kill a great song!
Good point - I'm too young to have listened to it when it first came out, and I don't listen to "Classic Rock" stations, so these are still just good songs to me
Second this
I love Metallica but “Enter Sandman” is what came to my mind the second I saw this thread title.
That whole album irritates me to no end. Not a song on it I like.
Killem All, Ride the Lightning, Master of Puppets, And Justice for All ..... and then come out with that pop-rock garbage album?
I literally stopped paying attention to Metallica in 1991 because of the black album. Still listen to the first 4 albums quite a bit but Ito me, they died as a band when that album came out.
Metallica 1991 was disappointing, but not because it wasn't aurally pleasing. They were trying to expand their audience, obviously at the expense of their established base. I was disappointed too, but that was due to the stylistic changes. I wanted another Master of Puppets.
I personally found Guns N Roses transformation from Appetite to Illusion far more egregious. There is no place on Appetite for a November Rain ballad, which would've been better suited on a Nelson or a Wilson Phillips record.
We must be of the same cut. I have dear friends who will fight me over this exact argument. They started listening to Metallica when I stopped. I insist that I have the better taste! ; )
Wonderful Tonight by Eric Clapton
Sappy, unimaginative crud that is somehow beloved and beyond overplayed.
Agreed. I think Clapton peaked around 1968 and was effectively done by the mid-'70s.
I'm not really a Clapton fan and he doesn't come up much in conversation for me, but this seems as good a place as any to ask:
Doesn't the song 'Layla' contain one of the coolest guitar riffs ever written, but the last half of the song is total trash? Am I the only one who thinks this? Or do most people think this?
It's funny how people hear things differently. The outro on "Layla" is actually played by the late Duane Allman. Many music critics consider that to be one of the greatest pieces of music ever written!
Glad I asked! That's definitely interesting to hear. I am trying to think of other songs which have huge thematic shifts mid-song, and I can't think of any I really like both halves of...
Jupiter - I love the "I vow to thee my country" theme with the cellos (might be the single piece of music most likely to give me goosebumps), but the majority of the brass dominated parts of the song are kind of 'meh' to me.
The Flag by BNL - The first part whch describes the messed up/abusive relationship is totally sad and lovely, and then the "there goes a forest and there goes a bluebird" part of the song I don't get.
Miller's Angels by Counting Crows - Don't like the last half.
Flake by Jack Johnson - Don't like the second half.
etc etc
So maybe it's just me and I like songs to be monothematic or something.
Yeah, I certainly wasn't saying you were wrong. Honestly I'm not a huge fan of the original verison of "Layla" myself. I love Clapton's unplugged version of that song though!
And, of course, I love the original Layla and can't stand the unplugged version. Overplayed and overrated. I don't really like that album at all, but Running on Faith is a good song.
The back half of Layla was written by the drummer, Jim Gordon, but Duane’s slide work was sweet. Gordon played the piano, too.
another great classic rock fast/slow piece is Oh Well, Parts 1&2 by Fleetwood Mac off of their stupendous Then Play On album. Everyone knows the rocking part 1, but part 2 is slow and beautiful with great Peter Green acoustic guitar work.
I actually think the second part is the best part of the song. Then again I'm an Allman Brothers fan.
If we're talking real Layla and not whatever the fuck that was on the Unplugged Album, then yeah I'm with you. It's a cool piano part and I really dig the guitar layered over it, but it goes on too long.
I agree with you 100%. Great guitar riff. The rest of the song is boring and doesn't fit.
Any votes for "I Shot the Sheriff"? Takes me back to high school but not much of a song.
Start Me Up. It’s a bottom tier song by one of the greatest bands, yet it is played much more frequently than so many better Stones songs.
It’s gotten to be such a topic of frustration that my father and I refer to other songs as X band’s “Start Me Up.”
If I didn't hear "Start Me Up," how would I know the game was about to kick-off?
I hate this only because during college all those incessant "Start-Up" student orgs would play this song from an iHome at a table on the diag
I’m currently a student at Michigan and I can honestly tell you if orgs still did that I would be forced to avoid the diag all fall for my own mental health.
Not as bad as 'Dancing in the Street' - which is a Mick Jagger song (not the Stones). Nonetheless, that duet & accompanying video between David Bowie and Jagger has to be the [DESCRIPTION DELETED] song/dance/video creation since the dawn of time. It's so bad that Family Guy included the entire video in one episode. You know it's bad when FG includes a cut of your video. When the entire thing is included... Holy shit that was bad.
[Edited @ 6:50 pm to remove offensive/homophobic description. A repeat of this may earn further consequences. -rob f]
Are you not familiar with Rock Me Tonight by Billy Squire?
It's only ahem, "gay", in the context of how Billy was portrayed in the video. Back in '84 men weren't wearing pink shirts and dancing like that.
By today's standards, there's really nothing that's a big deal in that video.
Some would say that video was the beginning of the end for Squier.
I remember Microsoft used that song in the ad campaign for Windows 95 (the first version of Windows to include the Start Menu). They ran those ads ALL. THE. TIME. That song would be stuck in my head for years afterwards.
EDIT: Now you all shall suffer as I suffer.
Whenever I think of that song this commercial pops in my head.
The commercial pales next to Gates and Ballmer dancing at the Windows 95 launch party.
Empire State Of Mind - Both the Alicia Keys version and the Jay-Z/Alicia Keys version.
So overused.
Notre Dame Victory March by Michigan Marching Band.
Conversely, "Across the Field" by MMB is the best thing to ever happen to that sousaphoney nonsense
Brilliant. You answered the question AND linked it to Michigan football.
The double feat warrants double points.
The Cure - Friday, I'm in Love
There are a lot of examples that I could give, but here's a fairly accessible one -
I enjoy Queen. I hate "We Are The Champions". It is played EVERYWHERE and it just isn't that good, in my opinion.
I have one friend in my group who thinks Fat Bottom Girls is the best song ever and the rest of us hate it. Also not a fan of We are the Champions.
I happen to like Fat Bottom Girls. And the song is great as well.
Rod Stewart-Do ya think I’m sexy is just awful.
Rod Stewart is awful … so yeah.
You don’t like Rod? You just need to get in touch with your more sensitive side.
Yup. Songs I like by Rod Stewart = 0
Early Rod Stewart was awesome, both with Faces and post-Faces. From the disco era forward, Rod Stewart absolutely sucked.
Which, speaking of disco, reminds me: yesterday was the 42nd anniversary of the famed "Disco Demolition Night" on 7/12/79 at Comiskey Park. The Tigers "swept" the ChiSux due to the field being made unplayable in the aftermath of this:
I went to Comiskey the following night with some buddies, there still were shards of broken disco records everywhere in the concourse, in the stands, and even in the dirt outside the foul lines.
Enjoy the above video, it includes explosive footage of the festivities and participants, interviews with Sox owner Bill Veeck, Tigers skipper Sparky Anderson, Ron LeFlore, and a couple Sox players.
Too bad they didn't get some words of wisdom from WLUP's Steve and Garry (..."?scumbag loser idiots!", as their radio intro went).
Early Rod Stewart is, in fact, awesome. Wasn't there an ongoing joke on mgoblog that Brian used to use that basically said 'what's Rod Stewart 1972 and what's Rod Stewart 1996'? I forget the later year, but the idea is that Rod Stewart in 1972 was incredible but afterwards was wack.
In this instance younger Rod is better.
Just like younger Brian was better
/ducks
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Discovered Faces a few years ago. They're really good.
The New Duncan Imperials, a Mojo Nixon-esque band that played in Ann Arbor in the 90's, though they were from [Chicago], used to play Rod Stewart songs whenever their rowdy fans would steal their set list. Even though they did it as a joke, they made Rod Stewart rock. A lot of Rod Stewart is pretty good if you get over the fact that it is Rod Stewart.
His Maggie May and Every Picture Tells a Story stuff is classic. After his disco album Blondes…, including Do You Think I’m Sexy, he is dead to me. :)
Love Srewart but yes that song is just weird