Your 2 hates are 2 of my favorite songs by each band ![]()
Neil Young
Love: Down to the Wire
Like: Heart of Gold
Hate: My, My, Hey, Hey or vice versa
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; Little Miss Queen of Darkness (Sorry, couldn’t pick one).
Like: Got to be Free
Hate: Everybody’s a Star
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.
You obviously haven’t seen him do it with Boogie Boy and Devo.
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)
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.
The Beatles:
Love: Let It Be
Like: Dear Prudence
Hate: Strawberry Fields Forever
Ke$ha is ineligible for this poll because she hasn’t made any songs I hate.
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
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
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)
Elaborate please.
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
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)
I object: The latter two songs are not credited to the Project, which ended with the departure of Eric Wolfson.
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
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
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
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)
Down By The Seaside is a top five Zeppelin song for me. This thread reminds me of what unusual taste I have. ![]()