"Goodnight, Saigon" from Billy Joel. Reached 56 on the Billboard charts, and I have just never liked it.
Great choice. Totally unworthy of an otherwise awesome body of work.
If I had picked Mr. Petty as my choice, this would be the song. I think it’s the only thing he sings that I’ll change the channel on. Ugh.
Now my second favorite singer is Pink and, apart from thinking she’s just generally kickass and I love her voice, most of her writing really speaks to me in a biographical way. Except for “Get the Party Started,” which is okay if you’re in the club and need to get out on the floor, but it’s otherwise quite derivative and just not anywhere near the standard that she sets for her other stuff. And I realize it’s from when she first started and undoubtedly had so much input on it, but yeesh, it’s almost painful to listen to now.
I will pile on R.E.M. For me it’s This One Goes Out to the One I Love. Boring, repetitive, and the phrase “a simple prop, to occupy my time” sounds like he is an arrogant douche. That’s when I started to want to smack Michael Stipe.
Willis Alan Ramsey pulled ahead of the whole Texas Singer-Songwriter crew with his first album. Each song was a gem–even a minor throw-away he called “Muskrat Candlelight.” Recorded by The Captain & Tennille as “Muskrat Love”–it was quite a hit.
Willis has since traveled & sung but never released another album. Thanks to royalties from that song I now do not care for at all?
Rock the Casbah. (Clash)
D’yer Maker. (Zeppelin)
Long and Winding Road. (Beatles)
Nut Rocker. (Emerson Lake & Palmer)
Talk To Ya Later. (Tubes)
Honorary Mention: Cars. (Gary Numan)
More than Words by Extreme. Great band, boring song, although I understand why a lot of people loved it.
I am a big time old school Aerosmith fan, and I absolutely, positively want to miss a thing.
Chuck Berry’s only number one hit was “My Ding-a-Ling.” Let that sink in for a moment.
That’s the funny thing, hit singles tend to be departures for a lot of bands, so you tend to get polarization. I am not a fan of Aerosmith at all. But the songs I do like are songs like “I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing” and “Angel”. ALthough I gotta admit that “Dream On” is an all time classic rock tune. But most of the rest of their music is just garbage rock to me.
Much as I love ABBA (shut up!), I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do makes me wan to put pencils in both ears.
I wasn’t an Aerosmith fan of any stripe until I finally heard “Toys in the Attic” for the first time sometime in the late 90s or even early 00s. Holy crap that album. Anyway, I just kind of had them lopped into the generic radio-friendly formulaic 90s “hard rock” category (“Get a Grip” was released in my formative high school years). Boy was I wrong.
I love The Simple Minds, but you guys across the pond may only be familiar with their worst song, which they didn’t even write - Don’t You Forget About Me.
Compared to I Travel, Promised You a Miracle, Someone Somewhere in Summertime, Waterfront and Belfast Child, it really is dreck.
Are you, by any chance, in training for the command of a Mars Mission?
I love Police but “Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic” just turns me off. Kraftwerk’s “Das Model” is as sexy as the Amish Swim Suit Edition.
Queen has written some magical music, but the whole “Kind of Magic” album, including its No.1-hit, is unbearably mundane. And I can’t return Fatboy Slim’s “Praise You”.
Long and Winding Road is a poor example of the Beatles.
Free Bird. And I don’t mean that ironically. Lynryd Skynyrd did some great work, but the solo at the end if the song is awful.
Elton John is hit or miss, especially his later work, but Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me is horrible.
With or Without You is literally the only song U2 produced off their first 8 albums I don’t like and it got alot of radio play.
For me, “Mississippi Queen” by Mountain. “Theme From An Imaginary Western” is awesome.
Plus, “Radar Love” by Golden Earring. They have so many other better songs (“The Vanilla Queen” live, “Mission Impossible”)
I pretend that U2 disbanded after Achtung Baby.
Genesis-Throwing it all away. Even worse done live with Phil’s chanting. Bathroom break song.
First song that came to my mind when I read the thread title.