# Parts you hate in songs you love. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 10, 2008, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parts-you-hate-in-songs-you-love/476571 "2008-12-10T16:56:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![ShelliBean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@ShelliBean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShelliBean)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parts-you-hate-in-songs-you-love/476571/41 "2008-12-11T00:46:16Z")
> [@OffByOne](#): > > Lynnyrd Skynnyrd’s “Sweet Home Alabama”. > > You know the part where he says, “Turn it up!”? That’s when I turn it off. > > Does anyone know what this song has to do with KFC? I swear to all that is holy this thread is making me drink. Good lord man! When Sweet Home Alabama comes on you don’t sit down or take your hand off your heart until the song is fucking over, ya hear me? ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parts-you-hate-in-songs-you-love/476571/42 "2008-12-11T01:13:41Z")
> [@ShelliBean](#): > > I am not hearing the birds… They start at about 7:02 on that scale. 😉 I hope that puts things into perspective a bit. ---
**Author:** ![Nutty\_Bunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d07c76/32.png) [@Nutty\_Bunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nutty_Bunny)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parts-you-hate-in-songs-you-love/476571/43 "2008-12-11T01:18:25Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > Okay, I don’t really love this song, but the ending (i.e. last 3/4) of Hey Jude. It would be one of their better of their huge hits\* if they just kept it to a simple 2 1/2 minute pop song. Yes, I have to change the channel when he gets to the “Na na na nas”. > [@Mr. Kobayashi](#): > > The obvious candidate for me is Spandau Ballet’s (shut up) True (shut up); a veritable classic of the 1980s, but why oh why did they stick a gawdawful sax solo in it? It’s so incongruous and filleresque it makes me wonder if they did it as some sort of bet or were feeling sorry for the saxophonist or something. Because it was the 80s and it seemed like every song had a sax part in it. Although I’m a fan of the decade, I always hated that the sax was used as much as the synth. See also: Huey Lewis and the News. I love that song too though. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parts-you-hate-in-songs-you-love/476571/44 "2008-12-11T01:33:59Z")
I’m cool with most of Regina Spektor’s vocal adventures but her scat singing in the middle of “Chemo Limo” pretty much ruins the song for me. ---
**Author:** ![Cugel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cugel/32/1199_2.png) [@Cugel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cugel)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parts-you-hate-in-songs-you-love/476571/45 "2008-12-11T01:38:50Z")
Songs that pad out the end by repetition… They Might Be Giants’ Ana Ng is a good example. Top song, but the last 1:20 or so, it’s easy to imagine the chorus was literally cut and pasted a few times to get it past 3:05. ---
**Author:** ![greatshakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/58956e/32.png) [@greatshakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/greatshakes)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parts-you-hate-in-songs-you-love/476571/46 "2008-12-11T03:45:56Z")
Blondie, the Tide is High. At the end, she cackles “High!” at the outro. I have to turn it down before it gets to that part, ruining my llistening experience. ---
**Author:** ![ErinPuff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dbc845/32.png) [@ErinPuff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ErinPuff)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parts-you-hate-in-songs-you-love/476571/47 "2008-12-11T05:11:07Z")
I love “I Was Meant For The Stage” by the Decemberists, but I hate the last minute and a half, where it just descends into noise and craziness. If I could rearrange it, I’d just make it end on a big-ass C major chord or something. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parts-you-hate-in-songs-you-love/476571/48 "2008-12-11T05:17:07Z")
> [@Ferret\_Herder](#): > > Wilco’s “Less Than You Think” - The song is 15 minutes long, and the last 11 minutes or so are basically an electronic hum. Jeff Tweedy said how he knows most people will hate it, but he finds it cathartic and interesting when he sits down to listen to it. At one point, I recall reading a comment from him that said something to the effect of it making the album a different experience for each listener, each time, depending on when or if you skip the rest of the song. I understand his point but I’ve found that Filter’s similar experiments in long trailing-off songs (“Miss Blue”, “The 4th”) work better for me. I got to see them do this song live during one of their Winter Residency shows here this past February. I gotta say… I skip this song every single time it comes on my iPod, but in person? It was an amazing experience (and maybe cathartic, as well). They started w/ the humming and just started adding different sounds to the mix until it was a huge symphony of white noise. Then the band left the stage and let it hum at full volume for 10 or 15 minutes before coming out for an encore. I have a whole new respect for that track now (and I crank it loud). ---
**Author:** ![ShelliBean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@ShelliBean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShelliBean)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parts-you-hate-in-songs-you-love/476571/49 "2008-12-11T05:45:34Z")
> [@KneadToKnow](#): > > They start at about 7:02 on that scale. 😉 > > I hope that puts things into perspective a bit. Crap. Now I can’t \*unhear \*it. You bastard. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Critical1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@Critical1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Critical1)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parts-you-hate-in-songs-you-love/476571/50 "2008-12-11T06:23:00Z")
Fugees cover of “Killing Me Softly” Lauryn has a beautiful voice and its a great song…except for the totally out of context dumbass call response crap…this was the first song I ever edited for content, there is now a version called the “Shut up and let her sing” mix. turns it from a stupid song with weird messed up changes to a really great version. (you have to chop the end as well) Hansom Boy Modeling School, The Truth, its a great kinda jazzy song and at around the 3 min mark some pissed off rapper comes in and just destroys all the nice sweet feeling you have been getting from the woman who sings the song, add that the rap is over a minute long and it really gets on your nerves. I actually edit songs all the time with Audacity (now and thank you for that wonderful program) its really pretty cool what you can do with a track with some stuff cut out or rearranged. ---
**Author:** ![Promethea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Promethea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Promethea)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parts-you-hate-in-songs-you-love/476571/51 "2008-12-11T08:25:57Z")
Paul’s stupid, stupid yammering ("ummmHMMMN! etc) over the introduction to “C Moon” by Wings, a song I otherwise like. I also hate the bit in the middle of “Satellite Of Love” by Lou Reed in which he informs the listener that he’s “been told/ That you’ve been bold\ With Harry, Mark, and John”. I grit my teeth through it every time I hear it. ---
**Author:** ![Hi\_Neighbor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hi_neighbor/32/494_2.png) [@Hi\_Neighbor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hi_Neighbor)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parts-you-hate-in-songs-you-love/476571/52 "2008-12-11T13:30:31Z")
> [@Hampshire](#): > > The ending piano/guitar instrumental that sounds like it should run during the closing credits of some 80’s Shirley McClain melodrama. No way! That’s my favorite part! Maybe I should post this in that “Things I didn’t know I was supposed to hate” thread. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parts-you-hate-in-songs-you-love/476571/53 "2008-12-11T14:08:44Z")
> [@ShelliBean](#): > > Crap. Now I can’t \*unhear \*it. > > You bastard. 🙂 Trust me, you have no idea. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parts-you-hate-in-songs-you-love/476571/54 "2008-12-11T16:31:39Z")
AC/DC’s Live at Donnington - guys, we know you’re rock legends and whatnot, but couldn’t you cut down on the clapping/cheering just a liiiittle bit ? I swear Thunderstruck has got at least 2 full minutes of crowd noises before the first chord is ever played. Metallica’s Blackened - the whole slow bit in the middle, with the -ion rhymes. Totally breaks the frantic pace of that song. ---
**Author:** ![Art\_Rock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/art_rock/32/525_2.png) [@Art\_Rock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Art_Rock)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parts-you-hate-in-songs-you-love/476571/55 "2008-12-11T21:00:56Z")
> [@Toxylon](#): > > Too numerous to mention. The world would be a better place if by some magic spell pop and rock songs couldn’t last longer than three minutes. :dubious: The \*average \*playing length of my about 650 all-time favourites is five and a half minutes. Not in that personal hall of fame, although close: Deep Purple’s Child in time. The falsetto singing keeps it from getting there. ---
**Author:** ![Improvisor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/50afbb/32.png) [@Improvisor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Improvisor)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parts-you-hate-in-songs-you-love/476571/56 "2008-12-11T21:37:50Z")
Anytime Van Morrison plays saxophone… I think Van Morrison is one of the greatest singers and song writers out there, and I almost universally like his stuff (well, his older stuff anyway)… but he is a god-awful saxophone player. His embrochure is so loose he sounds like a 5th grader honking around on the horn. A newer song ‘Days Like This’ is a good example. A great laid-back groove, good lyrics… and then this terrible solo right in the middle. I always fast forward that part. ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2008, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parts-you-hate-in-songs-you-love/476571/57 "2008-12-12T02:14:18Z")
The annoying, totally-out-of-left-field synthesizer solo that utterly destroys the melancholy mood of ELP’s _Lucky Man_. ---
**Author:** ![HumanMonkeyGod](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c67d28/32.png) [@HumanMonkeyGod](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HumanMonkeyGod)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2008, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parts-you-hate-in-songs-you-love/476571/58 "2008-12-20T09:07:53Z")
**Sublime** ’s “5446/Ball and chain”, when he goes “give it to me… one time” and there’s that whore or porno or whatever clip, and the girl moaning and saying “my pussy” right in the gap… hate it hate it hate it, but it’s one of the coolest songs ever. Consequently, I had to operate on it and the version I have on my mp3 players has a very subdued girl. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2008, 9:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parts-you-hate-in-songs-you-love/476571/59 "2008-12-20T09:23:59Z")
That drum part in La Grange just before the key changes? I have **never** mastered that part! Curse you, Frank Beard.:smack: Q ---
**Author:** ![Art\_Rock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/art_rock/32/525_2.png) [@Art\_Rock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Art_Rock)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2008, 9:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parts-you-hate-in-songs-you-love/476571/60 "2008-12-20T09:34:36Z")
> [@Stephe96](#): > > The annoying, totally-out-of-left-field synthesizer solo that utterly destroys the melancholy mood of ELP’s _Lucky Man_. :eek: Best part of the song for me… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parts-you-hate-in-songs-you-love/476571.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parts-you-hate-in-songs-you-love/476571.md?page=4)