# Are there songs the artists regret making?

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**Created:** [February 11, 2009, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-songs-the-artists-regret-making/485363 "2009-02-11T14:44:24Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 19, 2009, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-songs-the-artists-regret-making/485363/81 "2009-02-19T17:15:26Z")

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The Every Breath You Bake?

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**Post date:** [February 19, 2009, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-songs-the-artists-regret-making/485363/82 "2009-02-19T20:24:50Z")

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The **Foo Fighters** dislike their album _One by One_, and Dave Grohl has said that “Four of the songs were good, and the other seven I never played again in my life. We rushed into it, and we rushed out of it.” ( from [Foo Fighters - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foo_Fighters#There_Is_Nothing_Left_to_Lose_.281998-2001.29))

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**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2009, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-songs-the-artists-regret-making/485363/83 "2009-02-19T23:51:14Z")

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I understand that Sheryl Crow thinks “All I Wanna Do” is a really lame song, and never expected it to be released as a single, let alone be her first (and still defining, probably) big hit.

She’s right, too- the song sucks.

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**Author:** ![Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aji_de_gallina/32/260_2.png) [@Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aji_de_Gallina)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-songs-the-artists-regret-making/485363/84 "2009-02-20T02:34:00Z")

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I really hope the “The Police” regrets making “Mother” and burnt the master tapes.

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**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-songs-the-artists-regret-making/485363/85 "2009-02-20T04:15:41Z")

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> [@furt](#):
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> Springsteen has said he regrets the way that Born in the USA is arranged, in that by making it sound upbeat and anthemic, he pretty much invited the widespread misinterpretation of the song.

Of course, I strongly suspect there would have been much less misinterpretation if anybody had been able to understand a word he was saying 😉

Seriously, what does he expect when the only intelligible line is “Boooooorn in the USA!”, which is then repeated ad nauseum until that one line is drilled into everybody’s head and becomes the only part of the song they remember?

As a standup comedian I once heard put it, “Bruce yells everything, and mumbles everything else.”

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