A song part that either brings down or ruins a song you'd otherwise like

Pop music must be tough for you, I can think of so many songs … “Caravan” was the first one that came to mind:

Here is La-La Live!

:grinning:

There are some songs that seem to be superfluous to the music. One example is Parents, which has a great three-and-a-half bridge upon which the song is just the crust wrapped around it. Similarly, Hunting Girl is a song that just cannot stand up to the breathtaking intro that leads into it, and you mostly just muddle through the first part of Comfortably Numb in order to get to the end-piece.

And in a reversal of the OP, for a disliked number save for one little saving grace - the end of Steve Miller’s meh “Fly Like an Eagle” has that wind sound accompanied by a repeated single keyboard note that calls to my mind floating spacecraft. (Which, I spose, creates a bit of a metaphorical conundrum for the title, which is about an eagle.)
(Oh well - gallic shrug.)

Finally - I knew there was an exception, somewhere, to what was otherwise, yes - ingrained disdain for the lalas.
Elvis Costello’s “The Element Within Her” is maybe his most beautiful song.*

*meh actually “Shipbuilding” would also be a contender.

Heh - but don’t get me started on this crapola.

It’s “South Side of the Sky”, and while I agree that the la-las go on for a bit too long, that song is such an absolute banger that the bridge could go “we love Hitler!” and I’d still give it a pass. :grin:

True, it’s a great number, and also a dozy title blunder. :slightly_smiling_face:

Yeah, I can picture Jon barking something stentorian in German.

Yeah. I call Sympathy for the Devil “the woo-woo song.”

This could have been a great song. But every instrument is just wrong.

At 2:30

And I will receive somebody with open arms, open eyes, open up the sky and let the planet that I love shine through.

For cryin’ out loud you know—wait, the sun is a star, not a planet. Is this about letting Venus shine through or…?