SONGS YOU HATE (by artists you love)

Maybe Leonard Cohen's "Jazz Police".

thank you

..I love "Sylvio" - I absolutely hated it at first .. but it grew on me somehow..

Neil Young has too many to name, but if you dismiss most of his Geffen catalogue, I still hate "Mansion on the Hill"

i dont like 'Destiny' or 'In The Waiting Line' by Zero 7 or 'Too Long' by Daft Punk

But that's because no one loves Nirvana - not because the song doesn't totally suck.

Well, I respect that, but personally speaking, I think it's a steaming pile of crap. Yes, I know Strummer wrote it for Jones. Yes, I know it showcased a theretofore unrealized "sensitive" side, etc. etc.

I just think it's a crap, whinging song....and I wish they'd never recorded it.

'Meat is Murder'

No it's not, we're bloody omnivores.

AC/DC - "The Jack"
Syd Barrett - "Lanky Part Two"
The Beastie Boys - "Start" and "In a World Gone Mad"
The Beatles - "You'll Be Mine"
Jello Biafra - "Why I'm Glad the Space Shuttle Blew Up"
Big Star - "Mod Lang"
Creedence Clearwater Revival - "Lookin' for a Reason"
The Doors - "Horse Latitudes"
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - "Wait 'Til Tomorrow"
King Missile - "Mystical Shit"
Madonna - "Hanky Panky"
Negativland - anything on their sucky albums
Pink Floyd - "Quicksilver (Water Pipe)" and anything on their last two records
R.E.M. - "Tongue"
Radiohead - "Dollars and Cents"
The Replacements - "Gary's Got a Boner"
The Sex Pistols - "Belsen Was a Gas"
Ween - "Vallejo (live version)"

Siouxsie & the Banshees - "The Staircase (Mystery)"
Bauhaus - "Terror Couple Kill Colonel"
The Wonder Stuff - "Here Comes Everyone"
Devo - "Puppet Boy"
Jane's Addiction - "Of Course"
Iggy Pop - "Candy"

Everything else on yr list seems right to me, though, Evan.

HATE Whiskeytown's "Everything I Do"

HATE "Frankly Mr Shankley"

man, there are TONS...

Love: Blondie
Hate: The Tide Is High

Love: Jay-Z
Hate: Empire State of Mind

"marquee and the moon", by Sloan, is really and truly awful.

WTF! This is probably in the top 5 Sloan songs.

Empire State of Mind is unequivocally awful though. No one likes that.

i feel like every artist i love has a song i hate but right now

pet shop boys - winner

is the winner.

Particularly because I'm going to have to hear it tonight (if Morrissey's rationing his Smiths songs to 3 per gig, why oh why....?)

'Meat is Murder'

No it's not, we're bloody omnivores.

― James Ball (James Ball), Tuesday, November 5, 2002 6:01 AM (10 years ago)

oh man, he played it at his show in Seattle last night. Such an awful song, their worst.

I have always hated "lady Madonna" and "get back".
So awful. And god knows I love the Beatles and many macca songs considered terrible...

I'm not here to argue with anyone's choices, but Get Back is soooooooo good.

"Man Needs a Maid"

xpost

re : get back, just thinking about the tone of macca's voice makes me cringe !

yeah, never understood the "get back" hate, but to each their own.

I like Empire State of Mind (:-/)

The Blondie one I really don't like is One Way Or Another.

Get Back is just a drag... That era of the Beatles is heinously rootsy.

ugh yeah Man Needs A Maid is an all-around stinker

Prince - "Dolphin"
The Cure - "Push"
The Prodigy - "Funky Shit"
808 State - "Lift"
The Smiths - "Unhappy Birthday"

Bros - "Cat Amongst the Pigeons"

Madonna - American Pie

"I Feel You" by Depeche Mode.
"I Can't Dance" by Genesis
"Come Together" by The Beatles
"Travels in Nihilion" by XTC
"Student Demonstration Time" by The Beach Boys
"B.L.U.R.E.M.I" by Blur
"U96 Girls" by Travis

Bruce Springsteen - Waiting On A Sunny Day

Pet Shop Boys - Winner
New Order - Rock The Shack
Radiohead - We Suck Young Blood
The Boo Radleys - Free Huey
Sparks - Young Girls
Blur - Crazy Beat
Suede - Positivity
Brian Wilson/ Beach Boys - Smart Girls/Brian's Back

"Smart Girls" would have topped my list too, but I'm not sure unreleased bootlegs should count

Fair enough. It is probably the worst song I've ever heard by someone I love. Geir already nominated Student Demonstration Time which is a great call, especially as it ruins the flow of one of my favourite albums of all time.

Morrissey - He Cried

- "Lost in the Supermarket" by the Clash
― Alex in NYC (vassifer)

nonsense!

PSB -Winner thirded. Everything about it is awful.

Rock the Shack and Slow Jam - New Order

I'm pretty forgiving with regards to New Order but those two songs pushed me over the edge. Truly horrible.

from Slow Jam:

The afternoon was very clear
The sun was beating down on me
I got thirsty for a beer
Then I had to go to sea
The sea was very rough
It made me feel sick
But I like that kind of stuff
It beats arithmetic

Stole it from an old Ian Curtis notepad

A pair of blotch-on-their-career abominations from legendary artists, made all the more loathsome because they were so popular:

Frank Sinatra - "Love and Marriage"
Chuck Berry - "My Ding-A-Ling"

- "Lost in the Supermarket" by the Clash
― Alex in NYC (vassifer)

nonsense!

It's not fucking nonsense. It's a song I've always hated by band I've always loved. Your perception of logic and sense plays no role in the proceedings.

I hate that song and everything else by the Clash.

Love Roy Orbison but not a fan of Pretty Woman at all.

"My Dingaling" ftw.
Alex in NYC, good to see you posting again....
What's not to like about Pretty Woman? is it the overexposure?

Tim Buckley - Gypsy Woman

Tim Buckley - "My Ding-a-Ling"

Paint a Vulgar Picture - The Smiths
There's a World - Neil Young
Crazy Lady Blue - Todd Rundgren/Utopia
Cousin Dupree - Steely Dan

Earth Wind & Fire: I'll Write A Song For You

Kraftwerk: almost anything off The Mix, but especially Pocket Calculator

Steely Dan: Slang Of Ages

ABC: 4 Ever 2 Gether

Prince: Dinner With Delores

The Blue Nile: Sentimental Man

Harry Nilsson “Coconut”

“Rock the Shack” by New Order

David Bowie's cover of 'Across the Universe' might be the only bad song he released in the '70s. Also much of his first album is astonishingly bad (way worse than his '80s stuff, which is mostly just boring at its worst).