Songs you feel you should hate, but somehow love

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Dunno if we've done a thread like this before.. Seems quite old-school ILM. But are there any songs which, on paper, should grate against your music taste and sensibilities but you can't help loving?

This thread inspired by Phosphorescent's 'Song for Zula'. Reed-thin, orchestral lumberjack indie that crawls along at a snail's pace and does very little throughout its 6+ minutes.. It's only a hop, skip and a jump away from something like Fleet Foxes or the Verve's 'Bittersweet Symphony'... And yet some days I just want to listen to it on repeat.

Are there any songs that transcend their individual parts or generific schema and work their way into your heart like this?

Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Tuesday, 28 March 2017 09:16 (seven years ago) link

Nickelback - How You Remind Me :(

paolo, Tuesday, 28 March 2017 12:23 (seven years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iywaBOMvYLI

Wimmels, Tuesday, 28 March 2017 12:54 (seven years ago) link

If that's not quite embarrassing enough, I remember when the following song was briefly (regionally?) popular on the radio, and I recall not only not changing the station when it came on, but even turning it up once or twice. I hate the sentiment, I hate the lyrics, I hate the sub-Everlast white boy rap-folk horseshit that seems to be the blueprint for it, but I put this song alongside "Wagon Wheel" and "Friends In Low Places" as a dumb "happy hour at the campus pub" type-song I've resigned myself to sorta liking despite myself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdEvL6jxUYA

Wimmels, Tuesday, 28 March 2017 13:03 (seven years ago) link

Last one. This one wouldn't be half as embarrassing if not for the, err, "rap" toward the end, which may be one of the most regrettable raps in the history of popular music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdz5kCaCRFM

Wimmels, Tuesday, 28 March 2017 13:05 (seven years ago) link

http://pitchfork.com/tv/56-liner-notes/1957-kraftwerks-trans-europe-express-in-4-minutes/

tk-tk-a-tk
k-tk-tk-a-tk
k-tk-tk-a-tk
k-tk-tk-a-tk
waaaaaaaa
woooooooo
waaaaaaaa
woooooooo

okay, i get the idea, next...

AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 28 March 2017 16:14 (seven years ago) link

oh this is the song in Kill Bill

AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 28 March 2017 16:14 (seven years ago) link

Endless Endless i don't have time for this just give me the highlights

AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 28 March 2017 16:16 (seven years ago) link

omg sorry wrong thread

AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 28 March 2017 16:16 (seven years ago) link

definitely How You Remind Me, also the Macarena, but maybe because that's the first huge pop song phenomenon I remember.

flappy bird, Tuesday, 28 March 2017 16:45 (seven years ago) link

"tear in my heart" by 21 pilots

the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson), Tuesday, 28 March 2017 16:50 (seven years ago) link

everyone should like "toxicity"

the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson), Tuesday, 28 March 2017 17:03 (seven years ago) link

toby keith- red solo cup

i think it's kind of genius tbh

global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 28 March 2017 17:11 (seven years ago) link

yeah wtf Toxicity and all the other singles from that album bang

flappy bird, Tuesday, 28 March 2017 17:21 (seven years ago) link


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