# What beloved classic rock/pop song do you hate? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 29, 2013, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-beloved-classic-rock-pop-song-do-you-hate/659602 "2013-05-29T02:43:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2013, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-beloved-classic-rock-pop-song-do-you-hate/659602/101 "2013-05-29T18:18:59Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > Every. Single. Song. By. The. 'Stones. No exceptions whatsoever. > And throw in \*American Pie \*as well. > > If every single recording of these songs just suddenly disappeared, I can’t imagine anyone missing them. And it’s not that I’m sick of hearing them on the radio; I don’t normally listen to a station that would play them. Thought I was the only one. Never never never never could stand Mick Jagger’s…whatever the hell he was doing. Certainly not singing. You can throw me in with the Eagles haters, too - but that’s only due to massive overexposure. “Seven Bridges Road” I still think one of the best songs I know. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2013, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-beloved-classic-rock-pop-song-do-you-hate/659602/102 "2013-05-29T18:22:50Z")
> [@UncleMoose](#): > > Without even thinking about it, my hand hits the station selector before it even gets to the lyrics… Along those lines, there was a popular rock song (Billy Joel?) that started “One…two…one twooo three four…” and that’s all the farther I ever got, in the history of it airing, before changing the station. So I’ve never heard the whole thing. Another one I just thought of - that song that goes “Ooooh that smell!” ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2013, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-beloved-classic-rock-pop-song-do-you-hate/659602/103 "2013-05-29T18:24:16Z")
all the above. most of the below too. kill ugly radio. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2013, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-beloved-classic-rock-pop-song-do-you-hate/659602/104 "2013-05-29T18:55:39Z")
> [@Implicit](#): > > “Stairway to Heaven” by Led Zeppelin makes me cringe. 1st one I thought of! Horribly overrated IMO. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2013, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-beloved-classic-rock-pop-song-do-you-hate/659602/105 "2013-05-29T19:16:03Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > Round about 1989, I decided to get serious about never hearing Free Bird again. > > … > > It’s been a nice 24 year streak. My Free Bird story: When I was a 16-year-old CIT\* at a summer camp, I helped one of the counselors DJ a dance. I knew he hated Free Bird with a vengeance. I switched labels on two cassettes, so about halfway through the dance he played it without intending to. Two notes into the song, he jumped up and chased me out of the mess hall and into the woods until we both ran out of breath. (\*counselor-in-training, a.k.a. indentured servant) ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2013, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-beloved-classic-rock-pop-song-do-you-hate/659602/106 "2013-05-29T19:19:52Z")
> [@WordMan](#): > > \*\*… > I’ll take a risk and put out **Crosby, Stills and Nash - Teach Your Children Well** - glorious harmonies and uplifting songcraft, but I can’t get past the dreck of the Summer of Luv lyrics and my cynical view of a group that turned Laurel Canyon hippie folk into big business… I agree…but Jerry Garcia’s wonderful pedal steel guitar work on that song deserves special mention as well. ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2013, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-beloved-classic-rock-pop-song-do-you-hate/659602/107 "2013-05-29T19:52:54Z")
I’ve never heard a Rod Stewart song that I liked. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2013, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-beloved-classic-rock-pop-song-do-you-hate/659602/108 "2013-05-29T20:00:16Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#): > > I agree…but Jerry Garcia’s wonderful pedal steel guitar work on that song deserves special mention as well. If there’s a God, his fingers were on those strings. The sound can only be fairly described as “luminous.” I don’t mind the song, either. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2013, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-beloved-classic-rock-pop-song-do-you-hate/659602/109 "2013-05-29T20:11:29Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#): > > My Free Bird story: When I was a 16-year-old CIT\* at a summer camp, I helped one of the counselors DJ a dance. I knew he hated Free Bird with a vengeance. I switched labels on two cassettes, so about halfway through the dance he played it without intending to. Two notes into the song, he jumped up and chased me out of the mess hall and into the woods until we both ran out of breath. And hopefully out of earshot as well! ---
**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:** [May 29, 2013, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-beloved-classic-rock-pop-song-do-you-hate/659602/110 "2013-05-29T20:12:18Z")
_Kashmir_, or however its spelled. Dull, repetitive, dull, repetitive. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2013, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-beloved-classic-rock-pop-song-do-you-hate/659602/111 "2013-05-29T20:13:13Z")
Crosby Stills and Nash - I love them, except for Marrakesh Express. The thought of all those happy, peppy hippies off on a grand tour of Morocco (to eat cakes of hashish till they go into a coma) while the rest of the world slaves away making a living fills me with rage. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2013, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-beloved-classic-rock-pop-song-do-you-hate/659602/112 "2013-05-29T20:18:09Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > _Kashmir_, or however its spelled. Dull, repetitive, dull, repetitive. I like it! It reminds me of riding on a camel across the sand dunes. I know some young people who were entranced by this song when it was sampled, some years ago, by P. Doody or whatever the hell his name is, in some rap song. They were surprised to find out Kashmir was an actual song on mom’s old Led Zeppelin album. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2013, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-beloved-classic-rock-pop-song-do-you-hate/659602/113 "2013-05-29T20:35:52Z")
Boys of Summer by the Eagles. In fact almost any later “softer” songs by established groups and artists. Rod Stewart, Bruce Springsteen, Bryan Adams, etc… Bleah Season In the Sun (kill me now, let me die alone!) ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2013, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-beloved-classic-rock-pop-song-do-you-hate/659602/114 "2013-05-29T20:37:32Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#): > > Boys of Summer by the Eagles. Just Don Henley’s fault. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2013, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-beloved-classic-rock-pop-song-do-you-hate/659602/115 "2013-05-29T20:40:45Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > Just Don Henley’s fault. :smack: point still stands, tho sort of Robert Plant making the Honeydrippers songs grated on my nerves, too. Neil Young after CSN&Y tho, now that I like. And somehow, CS&N didn’t ever sound as good to me after. Go figure ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2013, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-beloved-classic-rock-pop-song-do-you-hate/659602/116 "2013-05-29T20:52:03Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > “Old Time Rock and Roll” by Bob Seger. > > It grates on my cerebellum and makes me want to smash my radio with a sledgehammer. Yes. Bleccccchhh. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2013, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-beloved-classic-rock-pop-song-do-you-hate/659602/117 "2013-05-29T20:57:42Z")
Morbo: > [@](#): > > Along those lines, there was a popular rock song (Billy Joel?) that started “One…two…one twooo three four…” I believe that would be “Matter of Trust.” The song isn’t bad, IMHO, but my tastes, of course, aren’t everybody’s. I’ll cast another vote for “Imagine.” I can’t believe how beloved that idiot hippie song is. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2013, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-beloved-classic-rock-pop-song-do-you-hate/659602/118 "2013-05-29T20:58:34Z")
Ooh … Barracuda! ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2013, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-beloved-classic-rock-pop-song-do-you-hate/659602/119 "2013-05-29T23:26:51Z")
> [@dwyr](#): > > I will always hate “I Will Always Love You”. Back when the song was a hit, someone played that on full volume for something like 5 hours. The neighbors had the person arrested and charged with - get this - terrorism. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2013, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-beloved-classic-rock-pop-song-do-you-hate/659602/120 "2013-05-29T23:30:30Z")
> [@dnooman](#): > > You said that just to hurt me. And maybe Jeff Lynne, depending on your level of disdain for him. > > As I always say “Better to be a Rutsey to a Peart, than a Best to a Starr” or the opposite of that. Who the fuck cares? > > Seriously though, Roy Orbison, Tom Petty, George Harrison, and Bob Dylan all got together and picked some loser to fill out the band? They know skill, and they hired it. He has way less solo cred and recognition, but he was needed. > > From Wikipedia which is like the bible of the internet or something: > > “Wilbury” was a slang term first used by Harrison during the recording of Cloud Nine with Jeff Lynne. Referring to recording errors created by some faulty equipment, Harrison jokingly remarked to Lynne, “We’ll bury 'em in the mix”. Thereafter, they used the term for any small error in performance and the term was used again when the group were together. Harrison suggested “The Trembling Wilburys” as the group’s name; instead, Lynne suggested “Traveling”, with which the group agreed. Their video was lampooned on the original “Beavis and Butthead”. One of them said, “The Traveling Dingleberries? I had one of those once. It traveled all over my butt.” 😛 Two sappy “love songs” that in one case isn’t: “I Can’t Fight This Feeling”, REO Speedwagon “More Than Words”, Extreme. Folks, a song about a man telling his SO that she’s history unless she has sex with him is NOT appropriate for weddings. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-beloved-classic-rock-pop-song-do-you-hate/659602.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-beloved-classic-rock-pop-song-do-you-hate/659602.md?page=7)