15 things we have to explain about the song ‘Sweet Home Alabama’
Whenever I hear that song I always wonder what they actually did.
Right, including what they did in response to Wallace making them honorary militiamen.
I suspect there is revisionist history at work here.
Duffy’s song Mercy is a rockin’ little number and she really sells it until she gets to the line ". . . I need a man who can take my hand " and then she screeches in a really lame attempt at sounding soulful “YES I DOOOO!”. There’s something so . . .unhip about it, like a drunk PTA lady or something.
Aerosmith’s “Back in the Saddle”. Great couple of intro bars, and a decently good rocker overall but it never recovers from that annoying horse-whinny + “I’m BAAAA–AACK!”, just ruins the song before it gets going.
Hand Me Down World, the Guess Who. Great playing with solid lyrics about the environment except for the egregious clunker 1:50 in
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The REAL worst part of that song is right after the opening riff, when guy says what I always purposely mishear as “Turn it off!” So I do.
Eric Clapton’s “Wonderful Tonight” is such a nice song… and then he completely destroys it with the last verse, in which he gets drunk at a party and has to be tucked into bed.
The sentimentality of the first two verses is utterly lost.
I love “He Lays in the Reins” by Calexico and Iron and Wine. But the moment the opera singing starts, it’s ruined for me.
I’m always compelled to turn it louder, which is often difficult, since I’m usually at max volume to start with.
Ha ha ha! Exactly! 
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Oh - I thought of one!
Matthew Sweet’s Girlfriend: Matthew Sweet - Girlfriend - YouTube
Totally fun hippie/poppy love letter of a song with wonderful main riff, and fun lead guitar work by Robert Quine. But after this fun little seduction song, how does he end it? “And I’m never gonna set you free, no no, I’m never gonna set you free.”
Fucking creepshow territory. I consciously unhear (thanks Gwyneth) that part and don’t include it when I play it.
HAAH it’s true.
I really enjoy Estelle’s “American Boy” until Kanye raps.