Songs you hate by bands you love...
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Topic: Songs you hate by bands you love...
Posted By: Disconnect
Subject: Songs you hate by bands you love...
Date Posted: May 05 2025 at 05:26
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for me...."The World Is My Oyster Soup Kitchen Floor Wax Museum" by King Crimson. Aside from the unforgivable stolen Will Smith lyric 'GET JIGGY WITH IT!', the whole track is unlistenable for me. ------------- "My own response to King Crimson is one of quiet terror." - Robert Fripp |
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Posted By: MortSahlFan
Date Posted: May 05 2025 at 07:22
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Chicago - Free Form Guitar ------------- https://www.youtube.com/c/LoyalOpposition https://www.scribd.com/document/382737647/MortSahlFan-Song-List |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: May 05 2025 at 07:24
| Genesis - Whodunnit |
Posted By: Frets N Worries
Date Posted: May 05 2025 at 07:37
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Pretty much anything from The Final Cut ------------- The Wheel of Time Turns, and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the shadow. Let the Dragon ride again on the winds of time... |
Posted By: Mormegil
Date Posted: May 05 2025 at 07:37
Bingo . . . ------------- Welcome to the middle of the film. |
Cristi wrote:Posted By: Floydoid
Date Posted: May 05 2025 at 07:56
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Pink Floyd - The Dogs of War ------------- "Christ, where would rock & roll be without feedback?" - D. Gimour |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: May 05 2025 at 07:59
I can't say i hate it, it's just nothing special. A New Machine part 1 & 2 are so pointless, they bring nothing to the album, breaking its flow. |
Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: May 05 2025 at 10:03
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I would say "Anything She Does" and "Illegal Alien" by Genesis, off the top of my head. There is much to choose from the 1980s. I don't hate the ones posted before me. In fact I like "The World Is My Oyster Soup Kitchen Floor Wax Museum" quite a lot. It sounds much like a title I would come up for my own project. ------------- ---------- i'm shopping for a new oil-cured sinus bag that's a happy bag of lettuce this car smells like cartilage nothing beats a good video about fractions |
Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: May 05 2025 at 10:16
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Camel - Remote Romance Renaissance - Camera Camera (the whole album, I can't choose the worst track) as Cristi says, A New Machine is the only PF track(s) that I usualy skip. All the Yes/Anderson/ABWH songs when there are "salsa like" percussion ------------- I stand with Roger Waters, I stand with Joan Baez, I stand with Victor Jara, I stand with Woody Guthrie. Music is revolution |
Posted By: Floydoid
Date Posted: May 05 2025 at 10:28
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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. ------------- "Christ, where would rock & roll be without feedback?" - D. Gimour |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: May 05 2025 at 10:36
On the Turning Away is good, and even better live on DSOT. 
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Posted By: Jaketejas
Date Posted: May 05 2025 at 12:38
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Maybe I just don’t get it … but Neurotica by Rush. I would rather do an all day marathon of just Tai Shan, which is actually a nice song, than listen to Neurotica. I’m not a fan of Driven either. It sounds like a sea shanty on steroids. And Roll the Bones … no thank you. I really like Rush up to Hold Your Fire and I like Counterparts and smatterings here and there. |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: May 05 2025 at 13:24
I could make a list of Genesis songs I dislike, but that would be Many Too Many. 
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Posted By: Floydoid
Date Posted: May 05 2025 at 14:13
Agreed, OTTA is pretty decent too. ------------- "Christ, where would rock & roll be without feedback?" - D. Gimour |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: May 05 2025 at 14:52
| 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. |
Posted By: Hrychu
Date Posted: May 05 2025 at 16:08
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Posted By: Steve Wyzard
Date Posted: May 05 2025 at 17:55
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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" |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: May 06 2025 at 02:02
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Some low hanging fruit ELP - Jeremy Bender (the very definition of 'hasn't aged well') Yes - Circus Of Heaven (yuk!) Genesis - Battle of Epping Forest (how can this be the longest track on this album?!) Rick Wakeman - The Breathalyser (just not funny) King Crimson - Indiscipline (I hate the whole album but this is the sh*t cherry a top of the sh*tty cake for me) IQ - Colourflow (just way too much into 80's pop for me) |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: May 06 2025 at 12:02
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Yes - Ritual ------------- 
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Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: May 06 2025 at 14:41
"Neurotica" and "You Bet Your Life" are two of the worst songs Rush ever recorded. "Faithless" is another one. "Virtuality" isn't too hot, either.
Now that's crazy talk.  ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: May 06 2025 at 14:42
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Saga — too many songs to list that were recorded between Heads or Tales (1983) and Full Circle (1999). ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: May 06 2025 at 15:02
It was a slight remix of the title track of White Eagle. I don't think it brought them anywhere near as much moola as scoring for the big US flicks like Risky Business (Edgar initially turned it down because he read the script and thought it sucked but then took the gig at his agent's behest — he asked for more money and the studio agreed.) I'm surprised you dislike it that much. It's a little on the vanilla side, but it's hardly the worst thing they ever recorded. I don't dislike anything recorded by that particular line-up, but diff'rent strokes, as they say. P.S. The other Tatort tracks they supplied were brilliant!  ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: May 06 2025 at 16:00
I can agree with these (and add KC's Fracture to the bunch):
But not with this:
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Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: May 06 2025 at 17:11
It may well be that had this been the first track I heard from an unknown band, I'd have said that this is OK and there's so much worse out there. But from the mighty Tangerine Dream? Expectations expectations... 
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Posted By: Valdez
Date Posted: May 06 2025 at 21:32
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. ------------- https://bakullama1.bandcamp.com/album/maxwells-submarine |
Posted By: Jaketejas
Date Posted: May 06 2025 at 21:37
If you can swing a beer stein back and forth whilst singing, it’s a sea shanty. Geddy Lee’s bass line is difficult but that’s just what I hear.
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Posted By: Floydoid
Date Posted: May 07 2025 at 02:07
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'Take Up Thy Stethoscope and Walk' ------------- "Christ, where would rock & roll be without feedback?" - D. Gimour |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: May 07 2025 at 02:10
Another one i like. I like quite a few of the songs listed on this thread. Oh well...
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Posted By: Floydoid
Date Posted: May 07 2025 at 04:58
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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. ------------- "Christ, where would rock & roll be without feedback?" - D. Gimour |
Posted By: Rick1
Date Posted: May 07 2025 at 08:34
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ELP - Tiger in the Spotlight Genesis - More Fool Me |
Posted By: Progosopher
Date Posted: May 19 2025 at 11:45
A New Machine is my absolutely least favorite Pink Floyd song ever. ------------- The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty" |
Posted By: Progosopher
Date Posted: May 19 2025 at 11:46
Squeeze Box kept me away from Who By Numbers for decades. Overall, though, I like the album a lot. ------------- The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty" |
Posted By: Progosopher
Date Posted: May 19 2025 at 11:49
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My answer is Hot Mango Flush from Jethro Tull's J-Tull Dot Com. An otherwise decent album, but this song is terrible. ------------- The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty" |
Posted By: tdfloyd
Date Posted: May 19 2025 at 18:17
Never understood the hate for "Dogs of War'. Your two favs are mine too but I like this album. A Floyd song to hate would be 'Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving With a Pict'. For Genesis it would be 'Anything She Does'. 'Whodunnit' is fine, it just should have been shorter |