What are some songs that bands regret writing/recording?

Rob Zombie has successfully suppressed the re-release of the first two White Zombie records, when they were a Lower East Side scumrock band...

And there's the entirely common phenomenon of artists recording a song so popular that even they come to hate it. "I'm never playing THAT song again..."

Bruce Springsteen has said in interviews there are parts of The River he shouldn't have released, though he didn't go into specifics.

Larry Mullen Jr. was not a fan of U2's The Passenger project.

Jarvis Cocker dismisses a lot of the early Pulp records.

The song came to my nigga Pollard in a dream. Dude was like, "I don't care too much for it but R.Ocasek and his supermodel wife think it's da bomb." They record it for Do The Collapse. TVT Records play Pollard remixes for radio that make Pollard wanna done puke. GBV fans mercilessly make fun of the song calling it the "prom theme." Pollard eventually bans it from the live show and even trys to verbally disown it.

and fails?

"The song, Hold On Hope? I disomgh it. I diswole it. I diswlogh it. Ah damna."

I think they like it again, now.

Miriam Makeba and "Pata Pata," I've heard

Cliff Holmes and "Playground in My Mind"

There were times when Sonic Youth hated Goo, and didnt play it live, but those days are over.They sad it was badly produced,compared to Dirty, but of course, now everyone knows that Dirty is more polished but less good.

Yeah, this is the first thing I thought of. "Paul Revere" especially.

NO! really? i didn't know that.

I was always curious about this period of White Zombie. Never heard it! Mainly I was just hoping that it was better than their other stuff, cuz I don't really like em, but my brother does, so I wanted to find out how they REALLY sounded.....the song "Rat Mouth" always seems to pop up in people's converstations.

I think Steve Albini disliked the whole "Lungs" EP.
J. Mascis wasn't too fond of "Bug".
Plus I'd say that "Smells Like Teen Spirit" definitely counts.

They used to refuse to play it. Don't know if they still do.

I believe that he has disowned it to such an extent that not only does he refuse to sing it any more, but has donated it's royalties to charity.

i remember hearing how courtney from the dandies used to be in a hair metal band.

that's a great song though, do they really hate it? anyway I still think ?Summerteeth is a more interesting and experimental record than YHF.

I remember Simon telling either Costas or Tom Snyder that the lyrics to "I am a Rock" embarrass him.

I can understand that, as it sounds like a Paul Young album. Dreadful title too.

They were on "Austin City Limits" in the very recent past and played it.

Pantera was a spandex-'n-big hair glam band before getting tough and metal. Mention their early days to a bandmember for a free knuckle sandwich.

Mark Eitzel was rumored to hate the first American Music Club album so much that when fans presented it to him for autograph signing, he'd smash it right it front of 'm as they'd look on, horrified.

And yes, uncle Bob Pollard is very vocal about hating "Hold on Hope" and the skating-rink anthem it later became.

and i care because? rod stewart blows.

Nick and his merry men were highly indignant about being filed under Goth from the very moment the label was devised. Unfortunate then, that this early indie hit perfectly encapsulates so many key Goth themes. I've heard a BP live recording where Cave introduces it with something like "Here's the song you all love so much which we all hate so much".

One of their greatest moments, though.

heh...I saw Flaming Lips many years ago, and they introduced "She Don't Use Jelly" with the *exact* same line...

Hit singles which were later, if not immediately, disowned by the artists - at least key members if not the whole bands (but more likely the whole bands):

Small Faces - Sha-La-La-La-Lee
Squeeze - Bang Bang (though more recently they've apparently been sympathetic)
Duran Duran - My Own Way
Tears for Fears - The Way You Are
Depeche Mode - It's Called a Heart
Blur - Bang
The Lemonheads - Mrs. Robinson
Radiohead - Pop Is Dead
Radiohead - High and Dry
Pulp - Mis-shapes (supposedly)
Oasis - Sunday Morning Call
The Prodigy - Babys Got a Temper
McFly - Party Girl

The most maddening example, already mentioned, is (or was) Stay Together.

Damon also wrongly reflects on Think Tank as having "some bollocks". The only not great track is Crazy Beat, no. 1 hated song by Blur fans, so I assume he's on about that.

Also I have a suspicion the Chemical Brothers aren't that keen on It Began in Afrika.

The Boo Radleys really came to resent Wake Up, Boo to the extent that they spent the rest of their career(reunion notwithstanding) trying to get away from it.

Kraftwerk have pretty much disowned their first three records. In their mythologised rewriting of their own history, Kraftwerk begins with Autobahn.

Personally I'd disown everything after Computer World. By that stage, Ralf and Florian were more into cycling than making new music.

Squeeze's 'Bang Bang' is fucking terrible. Took an equally dodgy Todd Rundrgren cover to convince them to play it again

there’s the whole thing with the beta band disowning their debut album as soon as it was released

Stay Together is easily one of the best Suede songs. Always wondered why it is that one in particular that became so contentious

I used to think the Clash regretted "Train in Vain," since it wasn't included in the album's track list, but I think that was due to its last-minute inclusion.

Been imagining if Graham Coxon got cancelled and everyone had to assume Think Tank was the only album worth listening to (apart from the best song)

*inclusion on the album

Frank Sinatra didn't write "My Way", obv, but he always hated the sentiment of the song.

I'm sure when Russell Rael sang "when do I get to sing My Way? when do I get to feel like Sinatra felt?" he meant "when will I sing a song I hate?"

The Beta Band s/t fiasco is a big shame because the album is really terrific. T

I was watching the/a recent Suede doc, and Brett Anderson makes a point of saying he does not disown "Head Music," but then a few minutes later says he *does* disown "A New Morning."

Sinatra really hated “Strangers in the Night.” Poor guy hated two songs that he was expected to song every night.

*sing every night

Sounds like Suede felt "Stay Together" was weaker lyrically than musically. Still a bit surprised, I don't think it's lacking in any way

Yeah tbh if there's a more disowned Suede single it's Positivity

Initially Brett Anderson liked the song and considered it one of his favourites on the album prior to its release. However, his views on the song would later change, saying: "When I first wrote it I thought it was a masterpiece but soon realized that many people were genuinely offended by it."[2] On the meaning of the song, Anderson said it's about "someone who's really close to me, who doesn't have much in life but manages to deal with it incredibly well."[3]

It's a cute and benevolent song, which I mean as a (ahem) positive. It sure epitomises the 'pop star gets clean, starts writing songs that make it obvious' cliche, but there isn't a more genteel and sweet example out there I don't think.

He shouldn't disown Head Music at all - except Elephant Man but that isn't his song anyway