Horrible Songs By Great Artists

[Aegir]

The Girl is Mine is the song that made me realize that not everything released by the Beatles is infallibly amazing.

[lance]

You gotta learn to open your mind and love it FOR being crap, just as if you had a retarded child.(apologies to any retards on this board--I'm being serious anyway.)

[punkinhead]

-Macca's Helen Wheels
-Ringo's No No song
-Dig a Pony always got old to me
-pretty much all the output (official) by the Beach Boys in the 90s is unbearable to me...still havnt listened to Bummer in Paradise all the way through...it's like a hangover and i cant drag my cd player to the toilet.
-I really only like half of Hail to the Theif album by Radiohead
-Bruce's solo stuff is really not for me. I can't stand his take on Don't Worry Baby, I don't like Rock and Roll Survivor, always liked Manalow's IWTS over Bruce's, only enjoyed the BB/Bruce take of Disney Girls (as opposed to his newer recordings), I used to like Tears in the Morning (totally can't stand it now)
-Never enjoyed Elton's Boarder Song
-I kinda feel like half of Sgt. Pepper's (whole album) lyrics are just cheap poetry from 1967. (mostly Fixing a Hole (which I do like), the verses of Getting Better, Lovely Rita, and Good Morning Good Morning)


Just to dance with you, hmmm, I kinda like this song, prolly my least fav on HDN.

[the captain]

^ Does that imply that you believe Bruce Johnston is a "great artist"? Wow, I couldn't agree with that at all. I'd put him more in the category of "talented guy in a sometimes-great band."

[Alex]

"Happy Endings" by Little Richard and The Beach Boys is pretty unbearable overly-sentimental Disney-esque crap!

[punkinhead]

yeah, i guess i forgot what section i was typing in, I do like his stuff with the BB though.   

[mikee]

I'm reluctant  to overly criticize hits that I may not like because they clearly have their place.  There are others who have enjoyed them and who would I be to say they are "bad"?  However (imo) there are some songs that do not belong on the album they appeared on.  They might be ok b sides or rarities but detract from the record they came out on.  An example is Noel Redding's  "She's So Fine" on  Hendrix's 'Axis - Bold As Love'.  So is Redding's  "Little Miss Strange" on "Electric Ladyland".  Noel was a good musician, but to me it is a given if you were playing in Jimi's band or on one of his records that you were there as a sideman and you were there to support him.  I remain astounded with the audacity  suggested by the existance of those tracks on those albums.  Another example would be 'Mother' on the Police's 'Syncronicity'.  Andy Summers song is interesting in it's way, but it does not fit on this album.  It would have been an excellent B side.           

[the captain]

But clearly Jimi was willing to let Noel have his tracks. I mean, they're there. It's not like Noel could use some power and influence over weak little nobody Hendrix! (Btw, I LOVE those songs. No kidding. Not just being difficult. I think they add a great pop touch to albums that can otherwise meander a bit too much for my taste.)

[mikee]

But clearly Jimi was willing to let Noel have his tracks. I mean, they're there. It's not like Noel could use some power and influence over weak little nobody Hendrix!

My understanding is that is exactly what happened.  Hendrix was a soft  touch and easily taken advantage of  - despite the power he theoretically wielded when he made it commercially.  No way should the JHE have been any kind of a democracy. 

(Btw, I LOVE those songs. No kidding. Not just being difficult. I think they add a great pop touch to albums that can otherwise meander a bit too much for my taste.)

I don't hate the songs at all.  I even like "Mother" for what it is.  I just  feel that it  interupts the 'Syncronicity' album like 'Trancedental Meditation' would have if it had been stuck in the middle of 'Friends'.  (Even as it is 'TM' stands out like a sore thumb at the end of the record - and I like the song a lot.) 
In the case of the Hendrix L.P.s, I feel that  Noels stuff would have been better suited on his own album.  He should have been helping Hendrix instead of pestering him and  pressuring him, in order to put his lead vocals and lead guitar on Jimi's records.             

[mikeyj]

How about these Beatles songs - "You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)", "Revolution 9" (should we even count that as a song?), "Wild Honey Pie", "Why Don't We Do It In The Road?" All horrible songs (if you want to call them that) in my opinion

[the captain]

Each individual Beatle went on to a long, distinguished career of putting out mostly mediocre-or-worse songs, in my opinion.

[mikeyj]

Each individual Beatle went on to a long, distinguished career of putting out mostly mediocre-or-worse songs, in my opinion.

Yeah I agree Luther... of course there were still shining moments, but on the whole I agree... and of course there are other Beatles songs that aren't all that good but those are the ones that came to mind immediately.

[Sheriff John Stone]

How about these Beatles songs...."Why Don't We Do It In The Road?"....in my opinion

I know it's your opinion, but, don't know about that one....

[mikeyj]

I know it's your opinion, but, don't know about that one....

Yeah that's cool if you like it but I just think it's awful... I would rather listen to Summer of Love on reverse... okay, maybe I wouldn't go that far, but whenever I'm listening to The White Album, that's one I always skip.

[Aegir]

I like all those songs. I like every officially released Beatles song, though (Love doesn't count).

[lance]

I like those songs in their contexts, You Know My Name as a b-side, the others as filler on a double album, I don't think they're great songs, but I enjoy 'em. Maxwell's Silver Hammer, Hold Me Tight, Ask Me Why, I Only Want To Dance With You, When I Get Home, You Like Me Too Much...Those songs are awful. (to me)

[the captain]

I like all those songs. I like every officially released Beatles song, though (Love doesn't count).

I recall you said something like this about the Beach Boys, too, that you like everything they did. I don't mean to criticize or question that, but do you feel that way about other bands you love? Do you like everything by every band you love, and nothing by others? I ask because it is interesting to me. For me, it's a grab bag across most bands: I can't think of a single band from whom I love everything. I could find something I like in most songs by a band I love, but I wouldn't say I love the songs.

[Aegir]

Just bands I'm obsessed with or was obsessed with. I used to be obsessed with the Beatles before I was obsessed with the Beach Boys.

[the captain]

But you like every song by bands you are or were obsessed with? I have been obsessed with Zappa, and there are probably hundreds of songs from him that I'm either ambivalent about or don't like. I find your 100% dedication ... well, unnatural. Kind of creepy, even. (And again, sorry, I don't mean to sound like a jerk. Just trying to understand it.)

[MBE]

I guess there are bands considered great I just don't care for. Yet for maybe the two dozen careers I follow closely I can't say I like all of anyone's stuff. Still I am more likely to listen to a bad album by an artist I like then a "good" one by someone who holds no interest for me.

[The Heartical Don]

Another Bruce Springsteen one: 'When You're Alone' from Tunnel Of Love. It could have been a decent country tune, but the sheer repetition of the title makes me laugh all of the time...

[Big Bri]

Genesis with the song "Invisible Touch". yuck!
When I first heard it back in 1986 I thought,"What happened to the band that wrote "Supper's Ready","Dance On A Volcano" and all those albums from 1970 to 1980?" 
And 5 years after Invisible Touch they would do "I Can't Dance".......double YUCK!!

Genesis were never the same after both Gabriel and Hackett left.

Brian

[phirnis]

The first one they did without both Gabriel and Hackett is actually my favorite Genesis album: And There Were Three.

That said, I even like Invisible Touch quite a bit, but that's probably just me being slightly obsessed with American Psycho when I bought that record. Still some of their eighties songs strike me as great in their very own right, most notably Mama, Home By The Sea, and parts of Duke.

[lance]

Invisible Touch was actually the second album I ever bought....insert gay ashamed smiley here...

[Big Bri]

Phirnis,
  Funny you should mention "...And Then There Were Three".That's also my Favorite Genesis album.
It's also one of the most cohesive albums as far as the track listing.Not ONE song on that album is bad!! From the first song "Down and Out" to "Follow You,Follow Me",no album has meant more and taken me back to being a teenager in the late 1970's then ATTWT.Awesome album!

Big Bri

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