# Songs you like by artists you don't **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 4, 2004, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-like-by-artists-you-dont/222661 "2004-01-04T16:56:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2004, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-like-by-artists-you-dont/222661/1 "2004-01-04T16:56:49Z")
Call 'em “few like wonders”. Examples for me: “1999”, “Little Red Corvette”, & “When Doves Cry” - Prince. I’m not a big Prince fan, but I do respect his talents. “Back in Black” - AC/DC. Not really a metal fan. If there was ever a perfect match of voice to style, it’s Brian Johnson. What about you? ---
**Author:** ![Patr100](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@Patr100](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patr100)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2004, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-like-by-artists-you-dont/222661/2 "2004-01-04T17:28:44Z")
I really didn’t like Christina Aguilera but I have to admit that I would always stop and listen to “Beautiful” . Written by Linda Perry from FourNon Blondes, I believe. ---
**Author:** ![Skwerl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Skwerl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skwerl)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2004, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-like-by-artists-you-dont/222661/3 "2004-01-04T18:15:48Z")
I typically despise the singer Brandy. But her song from a couple years ago, “What About Us” (or something like that), was really good, I thought. ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2004, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-like-by-artists-you-dont/222661/4 "2004-01-04T18:50:25Z")
“Hotel California” by the Eagles. The song is a classic, but I despise this ultimate vanilla-flavored band that completely wussified rock AND country for decades to come. “Candy” by Mandy Moore. While I’m not a fan of pop in general, this is one cute, flirty, catchy little song that I’ll always listen to if it comes on the radio. (And I will listen to the faster, sexier dance songs from the pop girls, but not the ballads, and nothing by the guys.) I’m sure I’ll come up with more later. ---
**Author:** ![Mephisto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/48db29/32.png) [@Mephisto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mephisto)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2004, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-like-by-artists-you-dont/222661/5 "2004-01-04T18:53:08Z")
Marylin Manson has a few songs I like. “Love Song” I think is one of them. “Beautiful People.” His cover of “Sweet Dreams.” There are a few others. Yet, for the most part, I think Marylin is a terrible, over-rated singer. Still, I can’t deny that he has a few songs that I really like a lot. That Aguilera person has a few good songs, too, even though I mostly can’t stand her. I don’t know what the songs are called, though. Not “Beautiful,” but the other one that’s on the radio. ---
**Author:** ![Adjustable\_Beavis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Adjustable\_Beavis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Adjustable_Beavis)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2004, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-like-by-artists-you-dont/222661/6 "2004-01-04T19:00:34Z")
Holding Back the Years by Simply Red. ---
**Author:** ![saramamalana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/74df32/32.png) [@saramamalana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saramamalana)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2004, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-like-by-artists-you-dont/222661/7 "2004-01-04T19:14:55Z")
I don’t really care one way or another about Justin Timberlake, but “Rock Your Body” just caught me. ---
**Author:** ![Rmat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85e7bf/32.png) [@Rmat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rmat)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2004, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-like-by-artists-you-dont/222661/8 "2004-01-04T19:28:39Z")
Celine Dion doing “Here, There & Everywhere” (No one was more surprised than I) ---
**Author:** ![Burrido](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Burrido](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Burrido)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2004, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-like-by-artists-you-dont/222661/9 "2004-01-05T00:27:32Z")
Generally I hate rap, but I actually count “California Love” by Tupac as one of my favorite songs. ---
**Author:** ![TeaElle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8491ac/32.png) [@TeaElle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaElle)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2004, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-like-by-artists-you-dont/222661/10 "2004-01-05T11:24:24Z")
Spice Girls “Holler” is a silly, dirty song with a great beat. “You Shook Me (All Night Long)” by AC/DC is just fun. Celine Dion’s “To Love You More” is fun to sing along with, as a soprano. I can’t help but to dance to NSync’s “It’s Gonna Be Me.” ---
**Author:** ![Bimble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b2d939/32.png) [@Bimble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bimble)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2004, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-like-by-artists-you-dont/222661/11 "2004-01-05T11:33:23Z")
Can’t STAND Madonna m’self - her voice sounds like a squeaky cart going over gravel, but the “Ray of Light” album was SUPERB!!! … but maybe that was the whole “William Orbit Thing…” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Rex\_Fenestrarum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rex_fenestrarum/32/7265_2.png) [@Rex\_Fenestrarum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rex_Fenestrarum)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2004, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-like-by-artists-you-dont/222661/12 "2004-01-05T13:37:37Z")
Britney Spears’ "Breathe On Me " from her new album. As seems to be common in this thread, “no one was more surprised than myself”. ---
**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:** [January 5, 2004, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-like-by-artists-you-dont/222661/13 "2004-01-05T13:42:39Z")
“Copacabana” by Barry Manilow. Hate everything else he’s ever did, but the song is hilarious (especially the way he sings, “And she lost her mind”). ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2004, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-like-by-artists-you-dont/222661/14 "2004-01-05T18:01:17Z")
I can at least offer my sympathies to many people here. I hate Celine Dion, but I LOVE “It’s All Coming Back to Me Now.” And I like “Copacabana.” And I hate to admit that I like Christina Aguilera’s “Fighter.” ---
**Author:** ![Rubystreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2004, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-like-by-artists-you-dont/222661/15 "2004-01-05T21:32:50Z")
I really dislike Everclear but the song “Santa Monica” came into my life while I was living in CA and it stuck with me. ---
**Author:** ![Gamaliel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b487fb/32.png) [@Gamaliel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gamaliel)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2004, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-like-by-artists-you-dont/222661/16 "2004-01-05T23:29:06Z")
Don’t care much for either Garth Brooks or Kiss, but I really liked Brooks’ cover of “Hard Luck Woman”. ---
**Author:** ![widdershins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f0a364/32.png) [@widdershins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/widdershins)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2004, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-like-by-artists-you-dont/222661/17 "2004-01-06T12:41:21Z")
“Beautiful” - Christina Guilera. Shows that she can be good when she doesn’t go the Mariah Carey route and bombard you with her voice. I hope she learns some subtly as she gets older. “Hey Ya!” - Outkast. I rarely like much hip-hop, but when a song stand out from the pack like this one, and doesn’t sound like every other rap song out there I go for it. “I Am The Bull God” - Kid Rock “Hell In A Bucket” - The Grateful Dead “The Perfect Drug” - Trent Reznor (NIN) “On The Border” - The Eagles “Numb”, “The Fly”, “Until The End Of The World” - U2 “My Favorite Mistake”, “If It Makes You Happy” - Sheryl Crow ---
**Author:** ![Breezy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b3f665/32.png) [@Breezy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Breezy)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2004, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-like-by-artists-you-dont/222661/18 "2004-01-06T17:04:24Z")
I can NOT stand Shania Twain. I think her voice sucks any time I see her try to perform on TV shows and stuff, and it doesn’t sound much better on the radio. I think that her song writing skill SUCK, as her songs are ALWAYS cheesy and annoying. And at the same time, everytime one comes on the radio, I find myself singing cheerfully along to it. EEEEEEEK! ---
**Author:** ![moi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@moi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moi)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2004, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-like-by-artists-you-dont/222661/19 "2004-01-06T19:01:48Z")
Recently rocked out while driving down the interstate to Rod Stewart’s “Maggie Mae.” What the crap? It must be my mother’s genes; he’s one of her favorite singers. ---
**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:** [January 7, 2004, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-like-by-artists-you-dont/222661/20 "2004-01-07T00:17:58Z")
Well, I don’t really “like it”, but I can stand to listen to “The River” by Springsteen. Anything else of his causes the station to change or a CD to get played. * * * Frostee Rucker? Sounds like a nice ice-cream treat. You might very well ask, “I’ll have a Frostee Rucker, please.” Of course, you’ll want to hold the nuts. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-like-by-artists-you-dont/222661.md?page=2)