When Yes became Top 40 back in the 80s, they had this cheezoid song that had sappy lines that went something like:
Here is my heart
Waiting for you
Here is my soul
I eat at Chez Nous
My god, what pretensious lapse of logic inspired such an out-of-place line??? I eat at OUR KITCHEN??? W i t F???
Ah, Love will find a way.
“Chez Nous” is French for, roughly translated, “At Our Place”. I suspect it’s the name of a restaurant.
Heh, RealityChuck is right. I love Free Bird until that god awful redneck air guitar solo where Rossington? plays the same damned note over and over and over and well I have to change the station too.
That weird cry thing at the end of Counting Crow’s Rain King. Nearly ruins the song for me!
Well, maybe the barking makes more sense if you know that the song is “Hey Bulldog”.
Anybody remember Sweet?
Love Is Like Oxygen?
Remember how this cool, uptempo rock tune, with a neat guitar lick and singable lyrics degenerated into a completely cheesy disco thing for the last two minutes of the song?
Argh.
I really like Luck Man by Emerson, Lake, and Palmer until the very end when you get that screaching sythesizer. That just blows the ending for me.
Please explain how it resembles cheese. Do you like cheese?
I meant cheesy as in “lacking in aesthetic qualities, having no artistic merit, completely freaking tacky”, and not in reference to the delicious comestible substance.
There is no resemblance between the coda of Love Is Like Oxygen and actual cheese. The characters portrayed herein are not based on any real cheeses, living or dead. No cheeses were harmed in the making of this post.
And yeah. I like cheese. Just not disco cheese.
“As” by Stevie wonder, from Songs In The Key Of Life. A strong contender for one of the sweetest, most intense love songs he ever wrote. It’s all going sooooo well…
…and then he starts barking and grunting the words. Supposed to be passionate, but actually it just sounds like, well, barking and grunting. Oops.
“Tusk” by Fleetwood Mac. It’s groovin’ along, doing nicely, then –
BAM! Terribly abrupt cut to the drumming by the USC Marching Band. They get back into the rhythm after a few seconds, but the momentum has been lost. Why did they do that? They couldn’t segue any better than that?
This is in the nature of a Beatles spoiler, but there’s a book pointing out that quite a number of recordings, even famous ones, are released with errors. If the Beatles have these many mistakes, you can imagine that pretty much everyone else does, too, if you listen closely enough.
The book Revolution in the Head analyzes single Beatle song, makes amazingly astute observations, and points out small errors in dozens of songs. This book, which had rave reviews from major newspapers, etc., will have you running back to your records/CDs to listen all over again.
Maybe the best book written about any rock group.
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure dome decree? Coleridge? No? Douglas Adams even. Or Frankie Goes to Hollywood?
Personally, I liked the keyboard ending of ELP’s Lucky Man. What ruined so many of their songs for me were the godawful lyrics.
"You can tape(?) some blues
and photograph your soul.
You can even dig some diamonds
out of rock n’ roll.
You can change the world,
but if you lose control…
[so far, so good…]
They will take away your T-shirt." huh? 
Someday I’d like to find the karaoke version of their work and just listen to that.
AS much as I love the guitar solo in “We Will Rock You” by Queen, it is off tempo and sounds as if it belongs to another song.
Oh, why is there a party noisemaker in Dylan’s song “Highway 61”, and not in “Rainy Day Women #12 and #35”?
The middle of Yes’ “Starship Trooper”, which is a solo acoustic guitar played at a faster tempo than the rest of the song, just doesn’t seem to fit with the way the rest of the song is played. I like solo acoustic guitar, but the transition into and out of this particular part just seems too abrupt.
Goldie Hawn did a wonderful version of “Hard Day’s Night” on George Martin’s compilation of Beatle tunes, right up until the moment, near the end, when he burps.
And giggles.
:: cringe ::
Art School Girl by Stone Temple Pilots is a groovy little tune until it hits the chorus. Then it abruptly switches to the words I TOLD YOU FIVE OR FOUR TIMES yelled over and over with an unpleasant, grinding guitar riff. It’s like they wrote half the song and then quit. Perhaps there’s a subtle meaning to it that I missed.
My pick:L.A. Woman by the Doors.
Great intro, great segue into Morrison’s vocals, and then…there’s THAT lyric:
If they say I never loved you,
You know they are a liar.
Usually bad grammar in songs doesn’t irritate me that much but this one I just gag on.
I will! “Wo wo wo wo/Wo wo wo wo/My love/Does it good!” Joey Lawrence must have listened to it in utero.