You know, if I get this much shit for claiming to like the Beatles, imagine how much abuse I’d suffer from if I mentioned I loved Billy Joel.
Funnily enough, I really like Billy Joel - I grew up listening to him because my Mum loves him. Anybody want to rip into me for my love of Roxy Music? (especially the 80s stuff)
No way. In fact, I think ther cover of Jealous Guy is better than Lennon’s original.
Well, I’ll do what I can to get back to the OP.
Creed - “Arms Wide Open” or whatever their first single was. Because then I’d never ever have to hear them again.
Radiohead - “fake plastic trees.”
And seriously, you need to take this crap to the Pit before the mods jump up and down on you. You can say you don’t like the Beatles - that’s your prerogative - but CS is not the place to start insulting everyone who does.
OK, back on topic.
I’d be entirely happy if The Music had never released anything beyond their demo recording of Take The Long Road And Walk It. The first album isn’t bad, but they’ve never improved on that track - even the album version is weaker than the original - and their second album was a major disappointment.
No matter how many hits Enigma have, they’ll still be one-hit wonders because all their albums sound identical.
Imagine how much of it you’d deserve… 
The Beatles? Weren’t they just the front for George Martin?
Counting Crows, “Mr. Jones.” And that wasn’t very damn good in the first place. I’m honestly baffled that they continued to make records after that.
Someone already answered with Here Comes the Sun; another which has meter changes (although never 11/4 - I think it’s just 7/4 and 2/4) is Michelle.
Dislike the Beatles and all, but simplistic? Even their early ‘yeah yeah’ stuff had different chord progressions than anything else going on in pop music then.
Oh, yeah- the OP- I’ll go with the Doobie Brothers Black Water. Everything else makes me change the station.
Yeah, I and 8 million others bought the album on the strength of “Mr. Jones” and were staggered to learn how awful their other songs were. No wonder the second album tanked.
Roxy Music did any number of wonderful songs, and kept getting better and better until the brilliance of Avalon.
Tears for Fears did a bunch of brilliant songs too. I think they are vastly underrated by almost everyone. And vastly overrated by Roland Orzabal.
So, since we’re supposed to be fighting ignorance: The Beatles are the be all and end all.
And, BTW, Dylan really is a genius*.
If you can’t acknowledge those two beginning points, then you’ll find that you’re going to have a very difficult time being taken seriously about anything else.
*Dylan is the one inarguable genius that rock has produced. Whether there are others is something I argue with myself all the time. Whether there can be such a thing as a two-person genius in that Lennon-McCartney is a genius while Lennon and McCartney individually are not is a question that baffles me so much I can’t even argue it with myself properly. If people are interested, I’ll start a thread on it.
AC/DC. Pick a song, they all sound the same.
I agree about Dylan. All other great acts are bands, Dylan stands alone.
They did plenty of other songs that were good - A Murder of One, Goodnight Elizabeth, Mrs Potter’s Lullabye and Anna Begins to name but four. However, I can see why you’d think they were shit if your taste includes the inflamed haemorrhoid on the anus of music that is “Mister Jones”. It’s a horrible, puerile song that makes me want to either flee the room or drive railroad spikes through my eardrums and into my brain.
I don’t. They just never did anything for me. That and the constant re-re-rereleases of their albums have driven me crazy (I worked at Best Buy in 1996-97 when they started releasing the Beatles’ Anthology albums). I’m sure they were very inspirational to a lot of people, but most of the music I listen to was inspired more by Black Sabbath or Judas Priest than anything the Beatles ever did.
As for a band I wish was a OHW, I’d have to go with whoever it was who said Van Halen. I’ve never been impressed with anything they’ve ever done. Ever. And I so don’t care about the whole Eddie/Sammy controversy.
Good thing there was no file sharing when they released that album, or else they never would have made another album.
Maybe it wasn’t such a good thing…
U2 and Lynyrd Skynyrd.
I agree.
You’d better put it in GD or even the Pit because I have enough difficulty with the Lennon-McCartney geniusness. As individuals they range from barely adequate to appalling.
Sean, I agree, but the only Creed song I like is “My Own Prison”, which, indeed, was their first song IIRC.
One of my favorite probably-apocryphal rock stories involves someone accusing Angus Young of making the same AC/DC album a dozen times in a row, and Angus angrily responding that they’d actually made the same album 14 times in a row.
I have a certain amount of perverse respect for acts that so determinedly stick to what they know. George Thorogood is another example.