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?
They start at about 7:02 on that scale. 
I hope that puts things into perspective a bit.
Yes, I have to change the channel when he gets to the “Na na na nas”.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
Crap. Now I can’t *unhear *it.
You bastard. 
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.
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.
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.
Trust me, you have no idea.
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.
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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.
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.
The annoying, totally-out-of-left-field synthesizer solo that utterly destroys the melancholy mood of ELP’s Lucky Man.
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.
That drum part in La Grange just before the key changes?
I have never mastered that part!
Curse you, Frank Beard.:smack:
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Best part of the song for me…