# 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:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Achilles\_Last\_Stand](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a87d85/32.png) [@Achilles\_Last\_Stand](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achilles_Last_Stand)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2003, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-by-your-favorite-artist-you-just-cant-stand/216391/41 "2003-12-04T18:57:49Z")
I remember opening the Flying in a Blue Dream CD by Joe Satriani, all psyched and ready to listen to it. The tracks on that CD ROCK,…except one, The Phone Call. Now I know that all the Satch fans who read this are gonna get annoyed with this, but, sometimes Joe Needs to shut his mouth and play guitar. I was amused by the bluesy 12 bar progression on the banjo with the neat little lead, but the singing is PAINFUL. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2003, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-by-your-favorite-artist-you-just-cant-stand/216391/42 "2003-12-04T20:28:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Cat Fight \* > \*\* > Led Zeppelin- Kashmir (to the point where I barely minded that Puff Daddy sampled it) \*\* Amazing how well these lyrics I wrote fit with Kashmir. Try singing along next time! “Dull, repetitive. Dull repetitive. Dull repetitive. Dull, dull RE-petitive!” Repeat as necessary, unfortunatly. As for my favorite groups, I am having difficulty coming up with examples. I’m just too easy to please. Weak, I know. * * * She told me she loved me like a brother. She was from Arkansas, hence the Joy! ---
**Author:** ![Number](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/number/32/242_2.png) [@Number](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Number)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2003, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-by-your-favorite-artist-you-just-cant-stand/216391/43 "2003-12-04T20:58:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by BwanaBob \* > **The Who - "Squeezebox"** This is exactly what I thought of when I saw the thread title. The song starts out well, but the chorus is hopelessly irritating. Stone Temple Pilots’ _Art School Girl_ is similarly ruined. I’m sure they’ve had worse ones recently, but I pretty much gave up after Tiny Music. I agree with **neutron star** about _Calling All Girls_, but I’ll also include the three songs that precede it – _Action This Day_, _Put Out the Fire_, and _Life is Real_. I don’t hate the entire Hot Space album like some people do, but the middle of it is dreadful. ---
**Author:** ![Achilles\_Last\_Stand](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a87d85/32.png) [@Achilles\_Last\_Stand](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achilles_Last_Stand)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2003, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-by-your-favorite-artist-you-just-cant-stand/216391/44 "2003-12-04T21:14:53Z")
Kashmir?? HUH??? NOOOOOOOooooo… I love Kashmir. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2003, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-by-your-favorite-artist-you-just-cant-stand/216391/45 "2003-12-04T21:52:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by John Mullets \* > \*\*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. \*\* Well let me jog your memory a bit: I Put A Spell On You, _DUH-duh-duh, duh-duh-duh, DUH-duh-duh, duh-duh-duh_, BECAAAUUUSSSEEE your mine! - DUH-duh-duh, duh-duh-duh, DUH-duh-duh, duh-duh-duh\* repeat again and again for five whole minutes… ---
**Author:** ![Agrippina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@Agrippina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agrippina)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2003, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-by-your-favorite-artist-you-just-cant-stand/216391/46 "2003-12-04T22:29:04Z")
_Grapefruit Diet_ by “Weird Al” Yankovic on his _Running With Scissors_ album. It’s an OK song, but he’s did the “Hey, I’m so fat, let’s make fun of it!” already with the song _Fat_. It was funnier (if not a little politically incorrect today) then. If he had just did the song where it was only about food, I wouldn’t care. But the “making fun of the fact that I’m [the character] fat” is something you can only do once successfully. Any other time it’s just annoying. ---
**Author:** ![Katisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bcef8e/32.png) [@Katisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katisha)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2003, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-by-your-favorite-artist-you-just-cant-stand/216391/47 "2003-12-04T23:46:43Z")
I actually rather like “Squeeze Box,” but “You Better You Bet” drives me nuts – not least because it has this annoying tendency to lodge itself in my head for _days._ The Beatles: I can only listen to “Tomorrow Never Knows” when I’m in a very particular mood. But I’m not in it that often. And I don’t _hate_ “Oh Darling,” exactly, but I usually lose patience with it about halfway through. And I don’t know _what_ possessed Steeleye Span to cover “To Know Him is to Love Him.” ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2003, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-by-your-favorite-artist-you-just-cant-stand/216391/48 "2003-12-04T23:58:53Z")
The Pogues have only ever made one bad song, but boy, is it a doozy: “Summer in Siam.” Pity is, the video they made for it is really beautiful, just so long as you turn down the volume. ---
**Author:** ![Pixiesnix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/898d66/32.png) [@Pixiesnix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixiesnix)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2003, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-by-your-favorite-artist-you-just-cant-stand/216391/49 "2003-12-05T04:59:20Z")
> [@](#): > > Yeah, it’s a long one, but the last 15 seconds is the best part of the song. Simply because of those last 15 seconds, I consider it a pretty rockin’ track. That part actually woke me up. But it’s just not worth it to sit through the rest of the song. But I guess you could make a sandwich while you waited. ---
**Author:** ![Chimpsmack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Chimpsmack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimpsmack)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2003, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-by-your-favorite-artist-you-just-cant-stand/216391/50 "2003-12-05T05:01:12Z")
> [@](#): > > I hated the whole album that had the “Dogs of War” track on it. What was it called? I can’t even remember, I got rid of that crap. You’re thinking of _A Momentary Lapse of Reason_ (which I’m actually listening to right now… Dogs of War isn’t great, but Learning to Fly and On the Turning Away are guilty pleasures 😉 ) As far as a song I hate by one of my favorite groups, I’d probably have to stick with Pink Floyd and say The Trial. ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2003, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-by-your-favorite-artist-you-just-cant-stand/216391/51 "2003-12-05T06:00:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Chimpsmack \* > \*\*You’re thinking of _A Momentary Lapse of Reason_ (which I’m actually listening to right now… Dogs of War isn’t great, but Learning to Fly and On the Turning Away are guilty pleasures 😉 ) > > As far as a song I hate by one of my favorite groups, I’d probably have to stick with Pink Floyd and say The Trial. \*\* You could probably add most of the final 1/4 of The Wall to The Trial IMO. ---
**Author:** ![bluecanary](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bluecanary/32/3614_2.png) [@bluecanary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bluecanary)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2003, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-by-your-favorite-artist-you-just-cant-stand/216391/52 "2003-12-05T13:15:15Z")
Andrew WK - Make Sex (why oh why did this have to go on the album. Elevating it from worst B-side to worst album track!) New Pornographers - Testament to Youth in Verse Easyworld - Junkies and Whores (not counting all the crappy ‘experimental’ B-sides they’re doing nowadays) The Darkness - The last track on the album. It’s gash! Ozma - Your Name ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2003, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-by-your-favorite-artist-you-just-cant-stand/216391/53 "2003-12-05T13:35:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lando Griffin \* > \*\*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) \*\* I love _Hot Dog_, as well as The Rolling Stones’ _The Girl with Far Away Eyes_. I find both hilarious, in a musical fish-out-of-water sense. Two of the greatest rock bands of all time doing country tunes… The two songs that drive me crazy are the studio versions of _The Sultans of Swing_, and _Heavy Fuel_ by The Dire Straits. Both are lifeless tripe, but I’ve never heard a live version of either that I didn’t love. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-by-your-favorite-artist-you-just-cant-stand/216391.md?page=2)