I’ve got a fever, and the only cure is more cowbell.
My nomination is “Born to Run” by the boss. It would probably be my favorite song of all time if not for that damned sax solo.
MUSIC! My favorite subject!
What makes me cringe? Alanis Morrisette doing Uninvited. To wit:
Like anyone would be
I am flattered by your fascination with me
Huh?
I am flat-TERRED by your Fas’nation with me?
Must be strangely exciting
To watch the stoic squirm
Huh?
To watch the stoic sqirrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrm…LMAO
A clear case of someone writing the music first, then doing a “stream of consciousness” type of thing to match the lyrics with the music already written.
And music? DUMMM DUMMM DUMM DUMMMM - 1, 5, 5#, 5 - how unmelodic can you get?
Sorry Alanis, doesn’t cut it with this musician.
Ditto on “Jungleland” for the same reason. Bruce had a few songs like that.
Another, otherwise well-written Springsteen song, “Rosalita (Come out Tonight),” was ruined by this tripe:
We’re gonna play some pool,
Skip some school,
Act real cool,
Stay out all night,
It’s gonna feel alright,
So Rosie come out tonight.
Is it me, or does that sound like a poem a 5th grader would write?
I also dislike the practice of an artist trying to cram a long line in where it doesn’t fit.
One example of this is from Queen’s “We are the Champions”:
You gave me fame and fortune and everything that goes with it
Freddie makes it work for me, though.
A less forgivable example can be found in “Africa” by Toto:
As sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serangetti
We are the World" is enjoyable right up to the point when Cyndi Lauper gets the microphone.
Hey Jude is an awesome tune until the endless repetition of “Naaaah Naah Nah, Nah Nah Nah Nah.”
Prince ends up screeching at the end of The Beautiful Ones. I wish he wouldn’t do that.
I’ve always thought that Layla would be one of the top 5 songs ever recorded, if it hadn’t been for that whole end part. It doesn’t fit, isn’t remotely the same style as the first part of the song, and just makes no sense in general. It should have been a seperate instrumental.
I’m with Netbrain on the Japanese Pop Falsetto thing. Novella is the Worst! They’ve got this really cool Yes meets Rush prog-rock vibe until the singer screaches and ruins it all!
Oooooops! I meant Netbrian. My bad.
Hey, Knowed Out, all Yes songs had nonsensical lyrics. I can’t think of any Yes song that had a clear stream of consciousness on the lyrical end.
The funniest thing is when you visit the Yes official Website and look at Jon Anderson’s page. He actually thinks he’s a brilliant writer with stories posted for you to read. His stories are as bad as his lyrics!
My submission would be Cocaine by Eric Clapton. It’s a pretty cool song and all, but it doesn’t make any sense. Why does he keep saying OK? To wit:
If you wanna hang out you’ve got to take her out; OK.
If you wanna get down, down on the ground; OK.
She don’t lie, she don’t lie, she don’t lie; OK.
I mean, what the hell is that?
clapton is answering each line with ‘cocaine’
If you wanna hang out you’ve got to take her out, cocaine
ok, yer just being funny, right?
and i got sucked in, right?
dammit.
I’m thinking Europe’s “Final Countdown”
The beginning instrumentals are enough to make one want to go charging into the world to do something heroic.
Then the singing starts.
Little of both. About the time I was 10 I went to my parents and asked them to put the “OK song” on the CD player again. They’re like “the what song?” and then yeah… you get the picture…
Thanks for playing, though.
How about the song Radioactive by the burned-out remains of Jimmy page and the firm. Pretty tasty like then the lyrics just stop an the vocalist sings the word over and over ad nauseum. Al the while Page grinds out what has to be the most off key and out of time guitar work since he started playing. Yeech!
Strangely, I always heard it as “…rises like a leprous…”
I know it’s an adjective, but at least it creates a much more evocative image than Olympus… which, I agree, is kinda stupid.
I’ve always been incredibly annoyed by the Beatles’ “Girl”, on the Rubber Soul album. It’s a decent song, until the chorus, when Lennon (I think) clenches his teeth and sucks air through them. Remove that and you’d have a great song. Another more obscure song is “500 Up” by Sloan, on the album Smeared. A really cool song, even the part where Andrew Scott sings, but is ruined by the small bit just before that, when it sounds like an airplane flies overhead.
I’m Goin’ Home by Ten Years After would be ok except for the guitar solo.
What do you mean " :rolleyes: "?
blondie…the tide is high…her cackling “high” or whatever at the end.
OK, I am a large fan of the music of Rush… I own all their albums, have seen them multiple times, etc…
Am I the only person out there who cringes every time Roll the Bones gets to that middle section??
And the rest of the song is so good that I actually manage to forget sometimes that there’s a contrived sounding rap thrown in the middle until all of a sudden… “Jack, relax…get busy with the facts…”
:eek:
So really, am I the only one who notes this? Because it’s a popular song amongst rush fans, yet this section makes it almost unlistenable for me…
-Jon
That drum machine in the first enigma album. Maybe it’s a real drummer, but god it sounds like a toy. Would sound so much better if the whole drum track were just cut.
Any song that has a long, pretentious intro that doesn’t have anything to do with anything. That’s part of why Boston sucks.
YES! Thank you. It really is a great song except for that damned rap. What the hell were they thinking?