Inspired by a very similar thread by @BigJimBob, this could be a terrible idea. A thread of terrible links if nothing else. The Beach Boys’ Barbara-Fe**ing-Ann was recorded for the Party album, which was a way to keep Capitol happy while Brian was in the studio working on Pet Sounds.
55 years later it’s still the idiot’s choice of their best song.
I went for the worst live version I could find, just to be on the safe side. I’m sure M**e L**e think it’s great. It was a hit, after all.
It’s not the worst song they made, but the worst hit. Yes, worse than Kokomo – which at least has Carl’s lovely, breezy voice singing ‘we’ll get there fast and then we’ll take it slow’.
So OK, bring it on!
I love the Mighty Zep….but I really hate this song: clumsy, naff – if this is comedy, it’s not very funny…if this was serious, what on earth were they thinking?
I give you….Hot Dog!
Great shout. That’s one of those ‘take the boxing gloves off Jimmy, and play it again’. That said, there’s D’yer Maker. And The Crunge…
Better than most of their stuff 😉
With Led Zeppelin for me personally it’s easier to mention the ones I like rather than the other way round. ‘Babe I’m Gonna Leave You’, ‘Immi(Peter)grant Song’, ‘Ramble On’, ‘Friends’…er…that’s more or less it. Always found them rather clunky, unsexy and- for a band so influenced by the blues, strikingly unrhythmical and ploddy. Mainly from the terrible drummer.
I like “Living Loving Maid” and “Bron-Y-Aur Stomp.”
2 out of 200 ain’t bad … it’s a better strike rate than Madonna or Phil Collins. Pop ’em on a 2-track CD single and I’m there.
I remember reading somewhere that ‘Living Loving Maid’ was Page’s least favourite Zep track.
Yes, forgotten about ‘Bron yr Aur Stomp’. Good one that. Add it to the list.
Presumably you’d like Gallows Pole if you like Bron Y’aur Stomp
I quite like the song but it’s ruined by that unsubtle sledgehammer drumming. It almost ruins ‘Bron yr Aur Stomp’ too.
Not liking sledgehammer drumming sort of counts them out comprehensively. You must love Dyer Maker
That song is on a loop in Hell.
@deramdaze So you like TWO of their songs, and one of them is Bron-Y-Aur-Stomp. That’s reasonably left-field for someone who isn’t a fan.
And one of them’s from 1970. Heaven forfend!
“Let It Be” is from 1970.” “McCartney” too.
You wouldn’t want to be upturned there from a Time Machine ‘cos you truly would be at the fag end of the Golden Age but it’s clinging on.
Could always stomach it until Jimi dies and then emigrate, of course. That would be the best bet.
Don’t hate it as such, just heard it too much. Whilst it is representative of their sound, there is SO much more to Slade than Merry F***ing Christmas Everyf***ingbody
Fucking football………..
Here is a slight diversion on this thread.
I used to love pretty much everything Free did at the time they were active. Except for Don’t Say You Love Me, which I hated with a vengeance. I just couldn’t understand how they could record anything so unbelievably awful. I’m sure if I got my copy of Fire And Water out now Side 2 Track 2 will show a lot less wear than the rest of the album, from being skipped.
But now more than 40 years on it’s one of my absolute favourite tracks by them. Side 2 Track 3, Alright Now, while I don’t hate it, is a song I never need to hear again.
Did anyone else catch Bob Mortimer on Desert Island Discs?
Apparently his ex girlfriend ended up going out with Paul Rogers’ brother, Jake.
The result… Bob loves Free but hates, ‘My Brother Jake’.
Coming soon to an episode of WILTY, no doubt!
Rosanne Cash has been a huge favourite in our house for more than 25 years, but neither my wife nor I can stand Tennessee Flat Top Box, which she performs pretty much every time we go to see her live.
Love Tennessee Flat Top box but only her old mans version.
I’m a big fan of the Searchers, but they insisted on doing a version of bloody Young Girl when in concert. Why?! They had so many great tunes of their own, and it wasn’t even in their usual jangly genre. And it went on for flippin’ ages too, with encouragement of audience participation…with me sat there, arms folded, grumbling to anyone who would listen. I put this in the past tense because the band are sadly winding up at the end of March.
Jughead by Prince, off the Diamonds and Pearls album. Prince’s ventures into rap/hip-hop territory were, with a few honourable exceptions, pretty embarrassing and unworthy of his sublime talents. Jughead is the absolute nadir, a track even uglier than its title suggests. Absolutely horrible. I’m blaming the ‘rapper’ Tony M, or The Notoriously B.A.D. as I prefer to call him.
Dylan -Silvio, thankfully dropped in recent years. Rainy Day Women and Blowing in The Wind.
That long and boring ballad off ‘Blood on the Tracks’. The one about a card game. I never did find out what happens in the end…
Eh? Lily, Rosemary etc? One of his finest, best on the album. Love it.
You people…..
To each his or her own I guess. I love almost every other epic Dylan song- even ‘Tempest’- but this one bores me silly. I skip it every time.
Bores me too.
I nearly always listen to the album on CD because it’s easier to skip.
I have a playlist on my iPod/computer. Up To Me replaces it. Much better.
I think English Rose by The Jam is pretty much what was asked for. Famously awful track by a great band, off All Mod Cons.
‘So no bombs can ever keep me from she’.
Oooh, don’t know about that, it showed a vulnerability to Weller’s songwriting at least…and it was one of the first songs I learned to play so I have a soft spot for it.
Weller was so embarrassed by it that there is no mention of it in the track listing on the original vinyl release.
I think it was Al Needham on chart music who said he misheard the lyric as “no bums” and took it to be a defiant statement of heterosexuality.
I have always thought it was ‘no bonds.” Which makes sense or does it?
Said it before and will say it again. Love Costello, detest Deep Dark Truthful mirror yet he continues to play it live.
Also dislike Adam raised a Cain which is a godawful track on a fine album.
Fascinating. I don’t love Adam Raised A Cain, but I wouldn’t say I hate it. Darkness is great though. One of Bruce’s best.
Has that thread been done? Songs I hate and skip on albums I love?
Agree it sticks out on Darkness as a sub-standard album that without it is pretty well perfect. But mediocre rather hateworthy.
Great live – so powerful.
I’ve never had a problem with Adam Raised A Cain.
There is a substandard track on Darkness… and that is the woeful dirge titled Factory.
Yes – wasn’t it strange that when Lucinda Williams finally decided to put a Springsteen cover on one of her albums, she chose, of all tracks “Factory”. Bizarre.
Isn’t it apt for song about working in the factory to be a dirge?
I love that song. My father worked in a shit job in a factory to allow me the life I’ve had and it always makes me think of him, with gratitude.
Ultravox. Vienna. Ugh!
Oh Paddy, what were you thinking?
That album was songs written for other people, wasn’t it? Would be interesting to know the provenance of that song because without that its definitely a WTF moment.
Just a children’s song?
Love Bruce, hate Dancing In The Dark. It was just played on the radio and I thought of this thread….!
Lotta people hate that one. Funnily enough I have the 12 inch dance remix of that song. Dunno what possessed me.
The nadir was that video with the staged hauling uop of the young lady to dance with him but I guess you can’t start a fire without a spark.
Bet no one told her life was gonna be that way.
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Wasn’t that young lady his first wife?
Actually I just googled it and am amazed to find out it was Courtney Cox – I had no idea.
There ya go, Dancing In The Dark provides illumination.
Newz to me and perhaps you @SteveT is that Brian Da Palma directed the video and rhat Broos didnt know who she was thinking she was just a fan that had been selected.
Yebbut wasn’t she pretty well a complete unknown at the time?
Sex Pistols…Anarchy In The UK.
Steve Jones guitar sound can always add a lift to a bad evening but…this track is shit.
Cooks clunky drums, terrible phased guitar and the less said about the lyrics the better.
First division punk band play fourth division punk song.
No one’s mentioned Jazz Police by Leonard Cohen.
The worst thing he ever did on one of his finest albums.
F’king Jazz Police…
Good call! Have that particular album on vinyl, which makes skipping songs harder.
Indeed, over on the Steve Hoffman forum, “Jazz Police” is used as an accepted generic term for a terrible song on a great album, e.g. “yeah, that track’s a real Jazz Police”.
I love Steve Earle, but this is just drivel, unless I’ve completely missed the point…
Basic rocker about Condeleeza Rice being hot despite Steve being a lefty. As a rocker ok live see above Dylan and Silvio but as with Zimmy heralded a period of creative decline.
I may have mentioned my affection for The Mighty Tull here before, but this is so unforgivably, indescribably, incalculably, spectacularly SHITE that only a band as brilliant as the Tull could have produced it. None of yer “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer” grade Maxwell House watery shite, this is full strength triple shot full caffeine shite of the finest quality.
Hahaha. This didn’t appear as a preview in Updates but I knew what it would be before I clicked on the thread. Not a Tull fanatic but I have a few albums. This was where I stopped being interested in any new releases.
And strangely enough, the recent 3CD retrospective chose this as the track to represent Rock Island, a pretty decent album which certainly includes much better songs than this.
I actually think Ian likes it. Bizzare.
New Order – Jetstream. A song so stillborn they had to get whatshername from Scissor Sisters in on BVs to give it a pulse.
Guilt Is A Useless Emotion, from the same album, was somehow even worse.
Back to the OP I need a new thread: “Perfect example of song by a band you can’t stand”.
“Everybody Hurts” – miserable, dull dirge.
Dead right – yet they apparently can’t abide by Shiny Happy People which I think is toppermost of the poppermost, thus nature is balanced.