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.
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!
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.
Kashmir?? HUH??? NOOOOOOOooooo…
I love Kashmir.
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…
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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 
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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.
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
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.