“Fuck You” by Cee Lo Green is infectious, lowbrow singalong fun until it is utterly ruined for me by the “I tried to tell my mama” part where he slips into baby voice replete with blubbering squeals.
“Home” by Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros is a song I came to know and like from its use in a Comcast commercial, because I am lame. Upon hearing the full song for the first time, I took an immediate dislike to the spoken interlude. “Jade” “Alexander” “Do you remember that day you fell out of my window?” “I sure do, you came jumping out after me” “Well, you fell on the concrete, nearly broke your ass, and you were bleedin’ all over the place…”
“Stuck Like Glue” by Sugarland is a pleasant enough pop/country song until near the end when the singer takes on some sort of staccato affectation that sounds vaguely like a Caribbean accent. It is like she had a stroke about two-thirds of the way through the song.
I know what you mean (about the middle of Echoes by Floyd), but it really builds up the tension and the way the tension is released is one of my favourite pieces of music.
The same thing happens on Supertramp’s first album which came out around the same time.
No kidding! It’s so stupid. Thankfully, we have Sound Studio. The whole pointless interlude is removed on our version. (and we got it from an NFL commercial. I guess commercials are good for something after all.)
Big Audio Dynamite’s E=MCsquared has far too much sampling from some lame ass British gangster movie. A little goes a long way - a lot goes too far. I have to get on the ball and see if I can find some software to remove it. or petition John Lydon to release a version without it.
Because we are in the Christmas seasons, I mention my wife hates any version of Sleighride where they whinny at the end,
IIRC, it was originally something unintelligible (or just something else). Fans heard ‘bruce’ and would sing the song that way, eventually Jeff started using ‘bruce’ as well and it made it’s way into a recording.
ETA: Per wiki (and other sources saying the same):
"A common mondegreen in the song is the perception that, following the title line, Lynne shouts “Bruce!” In the liner notes of the ELO compilation Flashback and elsewhere, Lynne has explained that he is singing a made-up word, “Grooss”, which some have suggested sounds like the German expression “Gruß,” meaning “greetings.”[5] Lynne has explained that originally he did not realize the meaning of the syllable, and he just used it as a temporary placekeeper to fill a gap in the lyrics, but upon learning the German meaning he decided to leave it in.[5] After the song’s release, so many people had misinterpreted the word as “Bruce” that Lynne actually began to sing the word as “Bruce” for fun at live shows.[6][7][5]
ELO engineer Reinhold Mack remembers the genesis of the term differently, stating that Lynne was actually singing “Bruce” as a joke in advance of an Australian tour “referring to how many Australian guys are called Bruce”
I would like to think that Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap might be a good song if they, like, ended it, instead of that endless repetition of the chorus that goes on fucking forever with essentially no changes. The other song that strikes me as oh, come on, just end it already, enough with the relentless refrain, is Queen’s Another One Rides the Bus.
I don’t think I’ve seen it mentioned yet… the little “Hello CD listeners” crap that Tom Petty stuck onto the end of “Running Down A Dream”. It just completely ruins an otherwise enjoyable song and album.
That would be surpirising, in that, in my experience, cassette versions have had the bonus track or two that the albums didn’t, as was the case with the Police album “Synchronicity”, Big Black’s “Headache”, among tons others. Quite curious if you can name me even one exception to this.
The whole point of the “Hello CD listeners” interlude is that it is an equivalent time filler to getting up and turning over the record (or cassette, unless you had an auto-reverse deck). So it makes perfect sense for it not to be on the cassette version.
But it should not have been tacked on to the end of “Running down a dream”, it should have just been a separate track (as @Thudlow_Boink pointed out.)
