Awful songs by bands you love

Banned Tosspot said:
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Yeah, clear in second place in my favourites of theirs.

“Fuckin’ In The Bushes“
“Who Feels Love?”
“Gas Panic!”
“Roll It Over”
are all high up in my favourite tracks of theirs.
 
Bob Dylan - Hurricane.

I mean, the story and lyrically is amazing. But I just find it too tedious to listen to more than once.
 
It's a tricky one, isn't it? When you truly love a band, you're loathe to say, well, that was shit.
I wouldn't say I'm an unconditional fan, but for a band some of whose songs I'm very fond of, I've always felt that Prefab Sprout churned out some absolute schmaltz; true, authentic shit, sometimes on the same CD as their best songs. “Venus of the Soup Kitchen” is so bad it's embarrassing to listen to. How could Paddy McAloon have convinced them all to record that, then, having recorded it, released it? How could a songwriter so talented have written it in the first place? The lyrics make me cringe.
O.k. Rant over.
Two or three months back, I was having lunch with a couple of friends, and they stared at me, open mouthed, for a second, when I said that I've never rated either Abbey Road or Let It Be. I've always felt that they both suffer by comparison with the mid-period stuff, starting from approximately Rubber Soul and running through to Sergeant Pepper. And there's a few songs on those last two albums that I'd frankly ditch. Again, “Octopussy's Garden” is just downright embarrassing to me. When I think of the great songs that they gave Ringo to sing over the years…
 
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Summerbuzz said:
No, I had bit of a morning head on, but honestly. Love Me Do. It's horrible. Back it up with Can't Buy Me Love, She Loves Me, Eight Days A Week and so on... and you start to lose track of which bout of painful over-excited bout of hollering and heavy handed playing is which.
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I take your point, though. Nobody could seriously make out that Love Me Do, I Wanna Hold Your Hand, She Loves You are great music, could they? I actually find them quite listenable, even if they are jingles, because of the combination of those two voices, which was unique, and which you'd recognise any time, anywhere. Unlike yourself and @Stoned Rose, I don't think that the band are overrated, but I think their lasting reputation depends almost entirely on the mid-period stuff. The great mystery is how they developed from those first three albums to be producing stuff like Rubber Soul and Revolver within about three years. George Martin himself has gone on record as saying that he didn't understand it. Imo, it was a quantum leap. As I've just posted, I'd ditch their last two albums, as well. Which many will disagree with, doubtless.
 
Not a band, but a solo artist.

Peter Gabriel's third album (commonly known as Melt).
Press play, and it's just killer track after killer track.
Totally awesome, and then, you slam into a brick wall with the last track.

BIKO.
A dirge about an activist, who'd been murdered by the South African's authorities. I'm sure he (PG) stands by it, but for me, it ruins (possibly) one of the greatest albums of all time

 
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