Songs you hate by bands you love...

The song just grates on me - definitely the worst thing Roger ever composed (IMO) while he was still in the band. By the time they recorded Saucerful; his songwriting had improved immensely.

Edited by Floydoid - 9 hours 49 minutes ago at 09:45

'Take Up Thy Stethoscope and Walk'

I love the WHO… Squeeze Box is a turd
KC is my favorite Band… bude, potato pie, oyster soup, and the entire thrakattakc album are a joke… right?
PINK FLOYDs psych breakfast and furry animals and a pict or whatever… I skip over when I can.
Procol Harum (great band) “Bringing home the bacon” lyrics are awful. Music is good.

I recently went on a full discography listen of the moody blues. Some great classic tracks, songs that are legendary… surrounded by some real clunkers on almost every album.

Edited by Valdez - 21 hours 47 minutes ago at 21:47

I can agree with these (and add KC's Fracture to the bunch):

richardh wrote: Some low hanging fruit Yes - Circus Of Heaven (yuk!) King Crimson - Indiscipline (I hate the whole album but this is the sh*t cherry a top of the sh*tty cake for me)

But not with this:

richardh wrote: Genesis - Battle of Epping Forest (how can this be the longest track on this album?!)

Saga — too many songs to list that were recorded between Heads or Tales (1983) and Full Circle (1999).

Yes - Ritual

Even if one ignores "bonus tracks" and low-hanging fruit ("Are You Ready Eddy") that are continuously mentioned on this site, it's also not hard to come up with a substantial list:

Steve Hackett: "The Hermit", "Ballad of the Decomposing Man"
Pink Floyd: "Free Four"
John Wetton: "Be Careful What You Wish For"
Styx: "First Time"
Barclay James Harvest: "Suicide?"
Queen: "Get Down Make Love"
Peter Gabriel: "This is the Picture (Excellent Birds)"
Kansas: "No Room for a Stranger", "Secret Service"
Manfred Mann's Earth Band: "Resurrection"
Supertramp: "Babaji"
Rush: "Turn the Page", "Witch Hunt", "Tears", "Cygnus X-1"
Alan Parsons Project: "Since the Last Goodbye"
Moody Blues: "House of Four Doors", most of the Octave album
Saga: "Alone Again Tonight", "Don't Put Out the Fire"
Genesis: "Jesus He Knows Me", "Tell Me Why", "Living Forever", "The Waiting Room"
Yes: "Rhythm of Love", "Almost Like Love"
Asia: "Finger on the Trigger", "Emily", "I Will Remember You"

Edited by Steve Wyzard - May 05 2025 at 17:57

Tangerine Dream hadn't done much wrong up until 1982, when they made a soundtrack for "Das Maedchen auf der Treppe", an episode of Tatort, a popular series of whodunnits in Germany. That single with the title track actually charted in Germany, so it brought them some money, which is fair enough, but it was the most boring TD track by some distance I had heard at that point, and I still don't like it (they went mostly downhill from there for quite some time, unfortunately). Chances are this is one of these things that works well as a soundtrack but not on its own (my way of explaining why this was a success after all). It's actually a remix of some material from White Eagle, which is pretty good but takes enough time to let the music develop.

Cristi wrote: Genesis - Whodunnit

I could make a list of Genesis songs I dislike, but that would be Many Too Many.

Floydoid wrote: It was a toss up really - the two parts of 'A New Machine' sound a bit weedy, and the lyrics are nothing special, but there's something about the whole tone of 'Dogs of War' that has always irritated me. IMO there are two excellent songs on MLR - 'Sorrow' and 'Yet Another Movie'. Two more decent tracks - 'Learning to Fly' and 'One Slip'. The rest of the album being pretty much filler.

On the Turning Away is good, and even better live on DSOT.