# 3 songs from a group: love it, like it, hate it **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 21, 2012, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-songs-from-a-group-love-it-like-it-hate-it/632132 "2012-08-21T03:45:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![tomcar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tomcar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomcar)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2012, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-songs-from-a-group-love-it-like-it-hate-it/632132/21 "2012-08-22T03:27:14Z")
> [@goonhead](#): > > **Rolling Stones** > Love: Moonlight Mile > Like: It’s Only Rock and Roll (But I Like It) > Hate: Ruby Tuesday > > **The Kinks** > Love: Celluloid Heroes > Like: Lola > Hate: Tired of Waiting for You Your 2 hates are 2 of my favorite songs by each band 😕 ---
**Author:** ![denquixote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9bd4f/32.png) [@denquixote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/denquixote)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2012, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-songs-from-a-group-love-it-like-it-hate-it/632132/22 "2012-08-22T03:43:46Z")
Neil Young Love: Down to the Wire Like: Heart of Gold Hate: My, My, Hey, Hey or vice versa ---
**Author:** ![Tad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/278dde/32.png) [@Tad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tad)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2012, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-songs-from-a-group-love-it-like-it-hate-it/632132/23 "2012-08-22T03:45:47Z")
> [@tomcar](#): > > Your 2 hates are 2 of my favorite songs by each band 😕 Ditto for me on the Kinks number. But I guess I can see it since they have so many amazing ones. I’ll try it for the Kinks… it’s hard to pick one I “hate,” though. The Kinks: Love(s): [Wait Til the Summer Comes Along](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOiUa7n2_w8); [Little Miss Queen of Darkness](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gr50_jly3-M) (Sorry, couldn’t pick one). Like: [Got to be Free](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_M0jDbmPTc) Hate: [Everybody’s a Star](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpBiP2XdRUI) God that’s a hard one… obviously I’d love to pick Sunny Afternoon and Arthur and Party Line and Village Green Preservation Society and Muswell Hillbillies and Where Have All the Good Times Gone and So Long and Dandy and Young and Innocent Days… literally I could go on forever here. The Kinks rule and I feel almost like I was cheating by just picking a piece of crap later album like Soap Opera. I may as well have just mentioned Misfits or some other dollar bin waste of time. But there’s really just nothing I hate from about 1964 all the way to at least 1973. ---
**Author:** ![Tad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/278dde/32.png) [@Tad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tad)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2012, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-songs-from-a-group-love-it-like-it-hate-it/632132/24 "2012-08-22T03:48:28Z")
> [@denquixote](#): > > Hate: My, My, Hey, Hey or vice versa You obviously haven’t seen him do it with [Boogie Boy and Devo](http://www.myspace.com/video/paul/neil-young-devo/740771). ---
**Author:** ![oreally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7ab992/32.png) [@oreally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oreally)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2012, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-songs-from-a-group-love-it-like-it-hate-it/632132/25 "2012-08-22T04:25:59Z")
I’ll get a few of the biggies out here… Beatles: Love: Hey Jude Like: Get Back Hate: A Day in the Life Who: Love: Eminence Front Like: Baba O’Riley Hate: Tommy (sorry Tommy fans) Fleetwood Mac: Love: Go Your Own Way Like: Never Going Back Again Hate: Tusk (title track) Steely Dan: Love: Bodhissatva (sp) Like: Kings Hate: new stuff (pretty much all of it) ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2012, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-songs-from-a-group-love-it-like-it-hate-it/632132/26 "2012-08-22T06:16:34Z")
Green Day: Love: Boulevard of Broken Dreams Like: Time of Your Life Hate: American Idiot. It would be a generally ignorable but hoppy tune, except the random bad Arnold Schwarzenegger impersonation in the middle of the song keeps grabbing my attention. ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2012, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-songs-from-a-group-love-it-like-it-hate-it/632132/27 "2012-08-22T06:23:21Z")
The Beatles: Love: Let It Be Like: Dear Prudence Hate: Strawberry Fields Forever ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2012, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-songs-from-a-group-love-it-like-it-hate-it/632132/28 "2012-08-22T13:52:27Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Yes, but which _Ke$ha_ songs do you love/like/hate? Ke$ha is ineligible for this poll because she hasn’t made any songs I hate. ---
**Author:** ![divemaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/divemaster/32/78_2.png) [@divemaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/divemaster)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2012, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-songs-from-a-group-love-it-like-it-hate-it/632132/29 "2012-08-22T14:32:32Z")
A couple of groups and individual artists The Beatles Love it: **I Saw Her Standing There** Like it: **8 Days a Week** Hate it: anything from the hippy-dippy, psychedelic phases–oh, let’s pick **Strawberry Fields Forever** Tommy James and the Shondells Love it: **Mony Mony** Like it: **I Think We’re Alone Now** Hate it: **Crystal Blue Persuasion** Elton John: Love it: **Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding** Like it: **Madman Across the Water** Hate it (x 1,000,000): **Benny and the Jets** Jimmy Buffett: Love it: **One Particular Harbour** Like it: **A Pirate Looks at 40** Hate it: **Ragtop Day** ---
**Author:** ![oreally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7ab992/32.png) [@oreally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oreally)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2012, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-songs-from-a-group-love-it-like-it-hate-it/632132/30 "2012-08-22T14:45:41Z")
Jimmy Buffet: Love it: The I-95 song 😉 Like it: Coconut Telegraph Hate it: Gods Own Drunk Billy Joel: Love It: Zanzibar Like It: Still Rock n Roll To Me Hate It: We Didn’t Start the Fire Rolling Stones: Love It: Sympathy for the Devil Like It: Waiting on a Friend Hate It: Angie ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2012, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-songs-from-a-group-love-it-like-it-hate-it/632132/31 "2012-08-22T14:55:41Z")
**The Who** Love It: Dr. Jimmy Like It: Eminence Front Hate It: Squeeze Box **Genesis** (Gabriel only) Love It: Watcher Of The Skies Like It: I Know What I Like Hate It: The Battle Of Epping Forest **The Beatles** Love It: A Day In The Life Like It: Eleanor Rigby Hate It: Yesterday (yes, really) ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2012, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-songs-from-a-group-love-it-like-it-hate-it/632132/32 "2012-08-22T15:37:00Z")
> [@oreally](#): > > I’ll get a few of the biggies out here… > > Beatles: > Love: Hey Jude > Like: Get Back > Hate: **A Day in the Life** 😕 Elaborate please. ---
**Author:** ![happycamper\_5](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/cab0a1/32.png) [@happycamper\_5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/happycamper_5)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2012, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-songs-from-a-group-love-it-like-it-hate-it/632132/33 "2012-08-22T15:51:02Z")
**Radiohead:** Love it: The Daily Mail Like it: Kid A Hate it: Creep **My Morning Jacket:** Love it: Highly Suspicious Like it: Mahgeetah Hate it: Lay Low **The Beatles:** Love it: Lady Madonna Like it: Don’t Let Me Down Hate it: Helter Skelter **Elton John:** Love it: I Feel Like A Bullet (In The Gun of Robert Ford) Like it: Philadelphia Freedom Hate it: Island Girl ---
**Author:** ![Toxylon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f05b48/32.png) [@Toxylon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxylon)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2012, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-songs-from-a-group-love-it-like-it-hate-it/632132/34 "2012-08-22T16:08:41Z")
Queen: Love: Love of my life (studio version!) Like: Fat Bottomed Girls Hate: Don’t Lose Your Head (although a dozen post-1980 songs would qualify as well) ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2012, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-songs-from-a-group-love-it-like-it-hate-it/632132/35 "2012-08-22T16:09:56Z")
> [@Infovore](#): > > **Alan Parsons Project** > Love: Ammonia Avenue > Like: Turn It Up > Hate: When I object: The latter two songs are not credited to the Project, which ended with the departure of Eric Wolfson. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2012, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-songs-from-a-group-love-it-like-it-hate-it/632132/36 "2012-08-22T16:10:51Z")
**Beatles** **Love It:** Hey Bulldog **Like It:** Hello Goodbye **Hate It:** Mr. Moonlight **Led Zeppelin** **Love It:** Custard Pie **Like It:** Battle of Evermore **Hate It:** Down By the Seaside **King Crimson** **Love It:** Elephant Talk **Like It:** Red **Hate It:** Happy Family **Bob Dylan** **Love It:** Gates of Eden **Like It:** Silvio **Hate It:** Gotta Serve Somebody **Beach Boys** **Love It:** Caroline, No **Like It:** Help Me, Rhonda **Hate It:** Louie, Louie (worst cover version of ANY song, ever) **Buddy Holly** **Love It:** Well, All Right **Like It:** True Love Ways **Hate It:** Peggy Sue Got Married **Elvis Presley** **Love It:** Little Sister **Like It:** Return to Sender **Hate It:** Don’t Cry Daddy **Deep Purple** **Love It:** Fireball **Like It:** Burn **Hate It:** Hey Joe ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2012, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-songs-from-a-group-love-it-like-it-hate-it/632132/37 "2012-08-22T16:45:36Z")
**Billy Joel** **Love it:** Until the Night **Like It:** Leningrad **Hate It:** She’s Got a Way About Her **ELP** **Love it:** Pirates **Like It:** Hoedown **Hate It:** Everything on the _ **Love Beach** _ album is a tie **Queen** **Love it:** Tie Your Mother Down **Like It:** Killer Queen **Hate It:** The Game **Squeeze** **Love it:** Up the Junction **Like It:** Vicky Verky **Hate It:** I’ve Returned **Simon & Garfunkel** **Love it:** For Emily, Wherever I May Find Her **Like It:** Cecilia **Hate It:** The Big Bright Green Pleasure Machine ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2012, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-songs-from-a-group-love-it-like-it-hate-it/632132/38 "2012-08-22T16:49:29Z")
Beatles Love: Abbey Road Medley Like: I am the Walrus Hate: Maxwell’s Silver Hammer The Who Love: Tommy Like: Baba O’Reilly Hate: Young Man Blues Pink Floyd Love: Dogs Like: One Slip Hate: Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun Led Zeppelin Love: No Quarter Like: The Song Remains the Same Hate: D’yer Mak’er (Wow, all from the same album!) Mozart Love: K 626 Like: K 620 Hate: Twinkle Twinkle Little Star ---
**Author:** ![Esox\_Lucius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/848f3c/32.png) [@Esox\_Lucius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esox_Lucius)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2012, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-songs-from-a-group-love-it-like-it-hate-it/632132/39 "2012-08-22T17:15:49Z")
The Beatles (from one album) Love: Across The Universe Like: Get Back Hate: Long and Winding Road (the only Beatles song that makes me run away; even McCartney doesn’t like it for the Spector treatment it got, but I don’t see how it could be salvaged in any way) ---
**Author:** ![tomcar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tomcar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomcar)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2012, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-songs-from-a-group-love-it-like-it-hate-it/632132/40 "2012-08-22T18:36:25Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > **Beatles** > > **Led Zeppelin** > > **Love It:** Custard Pie > > **Like It:** Battle of Evermore > > **Hate It:** Down By the Seaside > **Deep Purple** > > **Love It:** Fireball > > **Like It:** Burn > > **Hate It:** Hey Joe Down By The Seaside is a top five Zeppelin song for me. This thread reminds me of what unusual taste I have. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-songs-from-a-group-love-it-like-it-hate-it/632132.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-songs-from-a-group-love-it-like-it-hate-it/632132.md?page=3)