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emigre80 
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 Topic: Little things you hate in great songs
Posted: October 06 2015 at 14:12 |
As an accompaniment to little things you like in great songs, let's do a "when great songs go bad" topic. My personal choice? The thing in Revealing Science of God that sounds like a dog's squeaky toy. I love that song but the squeaky toy sound effect makes me want to scream.  |
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dr wu23
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Posted: October 06 2015 at 16:05 |
Uh...the whole TFTO makes me want to scream.
Oh...and that annoying 'cha...cha..cha' part on Relayer.
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One does nothing yet nothing is left undone.
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emigre80
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Posted: October 06 2015 at 16:09 |
 dr wu23 wrote:
Uh...the whole TFTO makes me want to scream.
Oh...and that annoying 'cha...cha..cha' part on Relayer. |
Ummm....it's things you hate in songs you like, not songs you hate. But the cha-cha-chas do grate.
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dr wu23
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Posted: October 06 2015 at 16:11 |
emigre80 wrote:
dr wu23 wrote:
Uh...the whole TFTO makes me want to scream.
Oh...and that annoying 'cha...cha..cha' part on Relayer. |
Ummm....it's things you hate in songs you like, not songs you hate. But the cha-cha-chas do grate. |
Is there a difference.,...?
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One does nothing yet nothing is left undone.
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KingCrInuYasha
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Posted: October 06 2015 at 20:59 |
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That little "sign of the times going in reverse" speech from Ozzy Osbourne's "No More Tears". Everything else about that song rules, but how that's supposed to fit in is beyond me.
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He looks at this world and wants it all... so he strikes, like Thunderball!
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Saperlipopette!
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Posted: October 07 2015 at 04:28 |
The stoned giggles at the end of Ween - Don't Get 2 Close (2 My Fantasy). Its a magical, mystical and almost scary little ditty but these jokers just have to ruin it (its part of the charm though).
Most "sensual" groans and fake orgasms shouts ruins whole song for me as well (Aphrodites Child, Brainticket, Tommy Seebach mm + countless nice tunes from 70's soft porn OST's)
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Meltdowner
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Posted: October 07 2015 at 04:41 |
The annoyingly repetitive vocals on Oldfield's Incantations pt.2 
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zappaholic
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Posted: October 07 2015 at 08:06 |
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Voivod's rendition of "Astronomy Domine" is excellent - except they get the lyrics wrong.
"Oberon, Miranda and Titania" becomes "Oberon, there on the run, Titanian".
I know, English isn't their first language, but it's just as easy to get things right as it is to get them wrong.
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Replayer
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Posted: October 07 2015 at 23:01 |
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The Piltdown Man. 'Nuff said.
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Blacksword
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Posted: October 08 2015 at 14:12 |
emigre80 wrote:
As an accompaniment to little things you like in great songs, let's do a "when great songs go bad" topic. My personal choice? The thing in Revealing Science of God that sounds like a dog's squeaky toy. I love that song but the squeaky toy sound effect makes me want to scream. |
I know the sound you mean, and it never bothered me until you pointed it out. Thanks for that!  Every time I hear it from now on I'll be thinking of Fido chewing on a toy.
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Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy!
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emigre80
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Posted: October 08 2015 at 14:40 |
^ my husband pointed it out to me once and after that I could never un-hear it. Just paying it forward 
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Replayer
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Posted: October 09 2015 at 12:06 |
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The honky-tonk piano section on Wakeman's Merlin the Magician. I'm sure he was just having a bit of fun, but it all sounds so cartoonish.
The toy train effect that interrupts the music during the first half part of Pulsar's song Pollen.
The "haaapy?" audio snippet and dissonant brass synth stabs on Amarok. I get that the album is supposed to be uncommerical and avant-garde, but I find these parts really grating.
On Michael Hoenig's Departure from the Northern Wasteland, the rhythm track that sounds like a washing machine (tikka-tikka tikka-tikka tikka-tikka) between 7:20-12:00 on the title track.
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condor
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Posted: October 09 2015 at 12:33 |
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The interlude in Awaken.
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DDPascalDD
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Posted: October 09 2015 at 15:00 |
More Fool of Me in Selling England by the Pound. Oh wait that's a little song I hate in a great album 
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Guldbamsen
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Posted: October 09 2015 at 15:03 |
The vocals in almost any Eloy tune  The music though is wonderful.
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