# I generally don't like band/performer X, but I really like song Y **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 12, 2010, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-generally-dont-like-band-performer-x-but-i-really-like-song-y/546433 "2010-07-12T19:42:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![tnetennba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tnetennba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tnetennba)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2010, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-generally-dont-like-band-performer-x-but-i-really-like-song-y/546433/41 "2010-07-16T17:47:05Z")
Peter Gabriel/Solsbury Hill ---
**Author:** ![typoink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecb155/32.png) [@typoink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/typoink)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2010, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-generally-dont-like-band-performer-x-but-i-really-like-song-y/546433/42 "2010-07-18T21:12:26Z")
Generally don’t like the Rolling Stones, but a love “Paint It Black,” “Dead Flowers,” and “Sympathy for the Devil.” Weird that a band I otherwise find barely listenable managed to record three of my favorite songs. ---
**Author:** ![tnetennba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tnetennba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tnetennba)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2010, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-generally-dont-like-band-performer-x-but-i-really-like-song-y/546433/43 "2010-07-18T21:31:26Z")
Huh… and I find it odd you don’t like more Stones, since those are fairly representative tracks. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2010, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-generally-dont-like-band-performer-x-but-i-really-like-song-y/546433/44 "2010-07-18T21:33:05Z")
> [@typoink](#): > > Generally don’t like the Rolling Stones, but a love “Paint It Black,” “Dead Flowers,” and “Sympathy for the Devil.” I agree 2/3 here - I don’t think I’ve ever heard Dead Flowers, but I really do like the other two…beyond that, not a fan of the Stones. ---
**Author:** ![Baal\_Houtham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baal_houtham/32/13604_2.png) [@Baal\_Houtham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baal_Houtham)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2010, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-generally-dont-like-band-performer-x-but-i-really-like-song-y/546433/45 "2010-07-18T21:43:15Z")
Most Pat Matheny is vague noodling or meandering chord changes, but “Last Train Home” has bubbled up in my mind weekly for 20 years. Solo Sting is a wank-meister, but if “Last Train Home” isn’t playing in my head, than “Fields of Gold” probably is. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2010, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-generally-dont-like-band-performer-x-but-i-really-like-song-y/546433/46 "2010-07-18T22:58:47Z")
Heh, I also don’t like the Stone but like Paint it Black, Sympathy for the Devil, and … Miss You. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2010, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-generally-dont-like-band-performer-x-but-i-really-like-song-y/546433/47 "2010-07-18T23:03:36Z")
> [@Cornelius\_Tuggerson](#): > > I don’t like the band **Cake** , but I love “Building a Religion” :::::nitpick:::: “Comfort Eagle”, if its the one that goes “he is living comfort eagle he is calling you DUDE!” And Cake almost qualifies with that song for me as well. But just between Comfort Eagle and The Distance, those two songs are _so_ good that it pushes me over the edge into saying I _do_ like Cake, if that makes any sense (I also like a couple of their other songs but those two are on my desert island list.) Cake perhaps has the biggest spread between greatness and suckitude, as Never There and Short Skirt Long Jacket are some of the most aggressively bad songs to make it to commerical rock radio in the last decade or so. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2010, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-generally-dont-like-band-performer-x-but-i-really-like-song-y/546433/48 "2010-07-18T23:31:49Z")
Thought I could like Coldplay after hearing Viva La Vida. Checked out a lot of their other stuff though and I was wrong. Still love that song, though. ---
**Author:** ![MTCicero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a4c791/32.png) [@MTCicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MTCicero)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2010, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-generally-dont-like-band-performer-x-but-i-really-like-song-y/546433/49 "2010-07-19T01:05:23Z")
Coldplay - “Fix You” Bon Jovi - “Born to Be My Baby” Aerosmith - “Last Child” Garth Brooks - “The Dance”, “Friends In Low Places”, and “Long Neck Bottle” Toby Keith - “You Shouldn’t Kiss Me Like This”, “How Do You Like Me Now?”, and “Beer For My Horses” REO Speedwagon - “Ridin’ the Storm Out” ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2010, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-generally-dont-like-band-performer-x-but-i-really-like-song-y/546433/50 "2010-07-19T01:29:18Z")
> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > I’ve said many times that Alanis Morisette should have been a one-hit wonder, as “You Oughta Know” kicked ass (love the Flea bass line) but everything else she did pretty much sucked. For me it’s **Hand in my Pocket** , I bought the tape (tape? WTF) for that track and I’m like ‘what’s the rest of this shit doin on here’. ---
**Author:** ![kidneyfailure](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9f8e36/32.png) [@kidneyfailure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidneyfailure)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2010, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-generally-dont-like-band-performer-x-but-i-really-like-song-y/546433/51 "2010-07-19T01:57:11Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > Have you heard The Ataris’ version? It kicks rump. > > mmm That’s a good cover, but they changed “dead-head sticker” to “black flag sticker.” Now, Black Flag is one of my all-time favorite bands, but I hate it when people cover a song and change some of the words. It’s so goddamn pretentious. ---
**Author:** ![glowacks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/glowacks/32/5548_2.png) [@glowacks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glowacks)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2010, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-generally-dont-like-band-performer-x-but-i-really-like-song-y/546433/52 "2010-07-19T04:14:51Z")
> [@kidneyfailure](#): > > That’s a good cover, but they changed “dead-head sticker” to “black flag sticker.” Now, Black Flag is one of my all-time favorite bands, but I hate it when people cover a song and change some of the words. It’s so goddamn pretentious. Absolutely necessary in this instance though. I’m not saying that Black Flag : Grateful Dead :: 2003 : 1984 is a perfect analogy, but it makes more sense. At very least, a deadhead sticker on a Cadillac in 2003 is not particularly notable. I’ll join the “hate the Eagles, love the members’ solo acts” club. Well, I suppose Hotel California might be OK. I’m also of the opinion that the Rolling Stones are decidedly mediocre besides a few awesome songs like Paint it Black and Sympathy for the Devil. ---
**Author:** ![PookahMacPhellimey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pookahmacphellimey/32/3175_2.png) [@PookahMacPhellimey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PookahMacPhellimey)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2010, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-generally-dont-like-band-performer-x-but-i-really-like-song-y/546433/53 "2010-07-20T17:44:51Z")
Lily Allen is normally a bit too arch for me but _It’s not fair_ is hilarious. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-generally-dont-like-band-performer-x-but-i-really-like-song-y/546433.md?page=2)