# Songs by your favorite artist you just can't stand **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 2, 2003, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-by-your-favorite-artist-you-just-cant-stand/216391 "2003-12-02T01:58:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lando\_Griffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f17d59/32.png) [@Lando\_Griffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lando_Griffin)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2003, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-by-your-favorite-artist-you-just-cant-stand/216391/1 "2003-12-02T01:58:00Z")
Everyone has a song by their favorite group that they would just rather pretend never existed. Mine - Led Zeppelin/Hot Dong (as well as most of In Through the Out Door) ---
**Author:** ![Lando\_Griffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f17d59/32.png) [@Lando\_Griffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lando_Griffin)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2003, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-by-your-favorite-artist-you-just-cant-stand/216391/2 "2003-12-02T02:01:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lando Griffin \* > **Led Zeppelin/Hot Dong** Oh dammit, that changes things a bit. :rolleyes: Should be ‘Led Zeppelin/Hot Dog’ All together now-“The preview button is my friend!” :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Theios](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e8c25b/32.png) [@Theios](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Theios)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2003, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-by-your-favorite-artist-you-just-cant-stand/216391/3 "2003-12-02T03:01:13Z")
Each and every one of Stings ‘country & western’ songs. Will someone please tell me why he even tries to make these God awful things? I think the worst of the lot is ‘Fill her up’ on ‘Brand New Day’. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2003, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-by-your-favorite-artist-you-just-cant-stand/216391/4 "2003-12-02T03:34:32Z")
Horrid songs by my favorite artists: Beatles - Mr. Moonlight Led Zeppelin - Down by the Seaside ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2003, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-by-your-favorite-artist-you-just-cant-stand/216391/5 "2003-12-02T04:38:49Z")
_St. Anger_ does not even exist in my world. ---
**Author:** ![Ender\_Will](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Ender\_Will](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ender_Will)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2003, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-by-your-favorite-artist-you-just-cant-stand/216391/6 "2003-12-02T05:31:52Z")
I second **Racinchikki** ’s statement ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mullets](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/aeb1de/32.png) [@John\_Mullets](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mullets)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2003, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-by-your-favorite-artist-you-just-cant-stand/216391/7 "2003-12-02T06:00:40Z")
“Surfer Girl.” How could a band as great as the Beach Boys release such a stinker? I’m cheating a bit, seeing as they aren’t my favorite band, but I just can’t think of any bad songs by Creedence Clearwater Revival. ---
**Author:** ![Intaglio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/71e660/32.png) [@Intaglio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intaglio)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2003, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-by-your-favorite-artist-you-just-cant-stand/216391/8 "2003-12-02T13:40:05Z")
Hey Baby by No Doubt. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2003, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-by-your-favorite-artist-you-just-cant-stand/216391/9 "2003-12-02T14:27:26Z")
I don’t think any of my favorite bands have songs I hate, so I’ll have to go with a band I just like. I love every song on **Oleander** ’s February Son except for " Boys don’t cry." That’s a horrible song, why did they cover it? ---
**Author:** ![nineiron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e56c9b/32.png) [@nineiron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nineiron)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2003, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-by-your-favorite-artist-you-just-cant-stand/216391/10 "2003-12-02T14:35:14Z")
“Pet Semetary” (sp?) by the Ramones. “Beth” by Kiss. “The Memory Remains” by Metallica. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2003, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-by-your-favorite-artist-you-just-cant-stand/216391/11 "2003-12-02T15:22:09Z")
Anything post-'80, non-blues (with the exception of two tunes) by Eric Clapton. He’s lost the touch on rock music. Everything he does lately has an almost bubble-gum sound to it. As a blues man, he’s tops, but geez…get a grip and find the rock rhythm, Eric! ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2003, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-by-your-favorite-artist-you-just-cant-stand/216391/12 "2003-12-02T15:52:22Z")
Not my favorite group, but I find I do like Lynyrd Skynyrd, except for that piece of elephant dung called **Free Bird** , with the worst guitar solo in the history of man. For other groups: Beatles – Good Night Rolling Stones – It’s Only Rock and Roll The Who – You Better You Bet Allman Brothers Band – Jessica (Why the hell did the think they needed Chuck Leavell in the first place? His piano solo here is not only bad, it goes against everything that made the Allman’s great.) Pink Floyd – Dogs ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2003, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-by-your-favorite-artist-you-just-cant-stand/216391/13 "2003-12-02T20:54:04Z")
_The Night Santa Went Crazy,_ “Weird Al” Yankovic. While I appreciate a good Christmas satire (Anyone up for a rousing chorus of _It’s Christmas at Ground Zero_?), turning St. Nick into a gun-totin’ psycho who’s wading in the blood of his elves is just _sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo_ wrong… ---
**Author:** ![TeaElle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8491ac/32.png) [@TeaElle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaElle)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2003, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-by-your-favorite-artist-you-just-cant-stand/216391/14 "2003-12-02T21:20:25Z")
_None of the Above_ by Duran Duran It’s a tome to their independence, even from God. The content hurts my theistic heart and the belligerence of it hurts my logical mind, **but** the real beef I have with it is the amelodious tune which hurts my ears twenty times more severely than either mind or heart. ---
**Author:** ![Rubystreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2003, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-by-your-favorite-artist-you-just-cant-stand/216391/15 "2003-12-02T22:41:30Z")
I love Tori Amos enormously, but I cannot listen to “Not the Red Baron” on Boys for Pele, which is an otherwise brilliant album. I think I got all the way through it twice and that’s enough. Nobody’s perfect. Eminem’s song to his daughter Hailie, where he actually sings, on The Eminem Show, sucks. Not only because Em sings (badly, and to often corny lyrics), but because he proceeds to say horrible things about Kim in that song, which should preclude him from ever playing it for Hailie. Kinda dumb, and though I love Em’s work, he’s not always firing on all cylinders. Black Sabbath’s “Changes” is also colossally bad and not heavy and lame. Boo! ---
**Author:** ![WonTon\_Sean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/54ee81/32.png) [@WonTon\_Sean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WonTon_Sean)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2003, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-by-your-favorite-artist-you-just-cant-stand/216391/16 "2003-12-02T23:06:16Z")
A few months ago, **The Beastie Boys** released a song online which dealt with the situation in Iraq and their stance. While the intent of the song was maybe not so bad (whether or not you agree with it), \*The. Song. sucked.\* Sucked beyond any measurable quantity. It was like a black hole, except even more sucky. Yes, sucky is a word. Well, it is now. ---
**Author:** ![Krisfer\_the\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Krisfer\_the\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Krisfer_the_Cat)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2003, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-by-your-favorite-artist-you-just-cant-stand/216391/17 "2003-12-02T23:24:00Z")
I’ll go with \*\*Under My Thumb \*\* by the Rolling Stones. That one just makes me want to smash the radio. ---
**Author:** ![Legolamb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4491bb/32.png) [@Legolamb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Legolamb)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2003, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-by-your-favorite-artist-you-just-cant-stand/216391/18 "2003-12-03T01:30:51Z")
Not exactly my favourite band, but it’s very recent, so Barenaked Ladies’ _“Shopping”_. It sounds like something that writers would churn out for Pop Idol winners, Westlife, or other teen-pop crap. It particularly stands out because I like the rest of _Everything to Everyone_ so much. ---
**Author:** ![Ruiniform](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9de053/32.png) [@Ruiniform](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruiniform)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2003, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-by-your-favorite-artist-you-just-cant-stand/216391/19 "2003-12-03T02:28:47Z")
I love BNL, but can’t stand neither One Week nor Pinch Me. ---
**Author:** ![Mirror\_Image\_egamI\_rorriM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e56c9b/32.png) [@Mirror\_Image\_egamI\_rorriM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mirror_Image_egamI_rorriM)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2003, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-by-your-favorite-artist-you-just-cant-stand/216391/20 "2003-12-03T04:04:32Z")
I love Radiohead with all my heart…except _Exit Music (for a film)_. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-by-your-favorite-artist-you-just-cant-stand/216391.md?page=2)