Simply Irresistable, by Robert Palmer, although I don’t mind it too much. I think he was making it deliberately ‘crazy’ to indicate how screwed up the woman was making his mind.
On the other hand, there are terrible solos that enhance a song.
Namely, the guitar solo on the Bonzo Dog Band’s Canyons Of Your Mind (by Neil Innes, I think).
It must rank as the absolute worst guitar solo every recorded. Wonderful.
Ah, now I remember. But I never tire of hearing it. 
Well it wouldn’t have been very nice of them to boot him out when Adrian Smith came back… though maybe they should have anyway.
He’s done far worse. Tom Morello has come up with a lot of great riffs and he can make some interesting sounds, but he can’t combine those things to come up with a half-decent solo. He just plays distorted scales that aren’t connected to the song and you just sort of wait for it to end.
Just goes to show you: no musical talent needed in the rock n roll biz. It was true then and it’s true now…
That solo puzzled me for years. I also play flute, and while I could usually pick up various solos by ear, I couldn’t manage to get this one. Then I found out that the Mamas and the Papas used an alto flute (played by Bud Shank), and I realized I wasn’t going to get that sound with a C flute. I stopped trying, but it would have been an interesting exercise to try to create something similar on my C flute–the solo might not sound so out of tune then.
Yes, it is a flute solo. For the most part, it’s not difficult to play, though there are a couple of tricky spots. (I may be biased on the “not hard to play” part; I’ve played it hundreds of times so I may not be an impartial source.) But because it’s not that hard to play, I’d suggest the problem you have is with the production–certainly, when I played it with a friend’s band in public, trying to get the levels just right was a bit of a challenge. You can continue to dislike the solo, but maybe my comments will help you get a handle on why.
As for a response to the OP, I’d suggest Bachman-Turner Overdrive’s “Roll On Down the Highway.” Most good solos should show off some musical and technical skill; simply plucking the same note (a single guitar string) in different rhythms shouldn’t count as a solo.
Pat Benatar did a cover of Wuthering Heights where she interpreted Kate Bush from the overscreeching original to a decently emotive ballad-then about 2.5 minutes in, someone dropped in the ‘generic 80’s power guitar solo’ and the song crashes into the floor like a wet fart.
Forgive me, but most of The Beatles’ early stuff had dire guitar solos, All My Loving being a case in point.
You know what- I finally remembered how the Killing in the Name solo goes, and it’s actually one of his better efforts in my opinion, along with Take the Power back. Those two are about average, many of his others fall way short of that bar.
How about Green Grass and High Tides with about 12 solos (and I’m not exaggerating, I play it in Rock Band.)
Good song but goes on way too long. Those guys had to be on drugs to play it in a concert.
First time I tried to play it on Bass at Medium, halfway through the solo I just dropped the controller and said, “what the @!#$???”. I didn’t fail us out though, it was a mutual fail as everyone, even those who could play other songs on hard, failed.
But yeah, the end solo went on too far for such mediocrity.
Every single song by Phish?
No Phish song is a great song to begin with. The endless solos just make them even more annoying.
OK, point taken.
Most of Janis Joplin’s stuff with Big Brother, etc. is unfortunately marred by the band’s major suckitude, so I’d say any early Joplin songs with solos qualify. Big Brother SUCKED. The Kozmic Blues Band was only marginally better. Sadly, she didn’t get a decent band until near the end when her voice was pretty much shot.
Anything involving Yoko Ono in any capacity whatsoever
Heh, I’ve been known to fast forward all the rest of Baba O’Reilly to get to the solo.
If a spoken-word part counts as a solo, Elvis’s Are You Lonesome Tonight? is one of several that come to mind.
I endorse your nomination. Just imagine what the reject takes sounded like.