Song I Hate

[Lord Pmann]

Aja by Steely Dan

I hate this song with all my heart. It’s very widely considered to be one of the best played and recorded songs ever. The musicians on this song are some of the best in the industry.

I just can’t stand it. It’s not pleasing to my ears. I wish I liked it.

 

[DirkCamacho]

Aja by Steely Dan


I hate this song with all my heart. It’s very widely considered to be one of the best played and recorded songs ever. The musicians on this song are some of the best in the industry.

I just can’t stand it. It’s not pleasing to my ears. I wish I liked it.

Allow me to explain to you why you're wrong.

 

[Superfungurl]

I was a pro musician in the mid 80's playing the bars and so...Every Rose Has It'....I cannot even write the entire title! AaaauuuuugghghghhhghghhH!HH! Oh that cacophany so so horrible and yet so so requested by drunken women with big big big...hair...NOooooooooooooooo!!!!

 

[Massive Grooves]

Aja by Steely Dan

I hate this song with all my heart. It’s very widely considered to be one of the best played and recorded songs ever. The musicians on this song are some of the best in the industry.

I just can’t stand it. It’s not pleasing to my ears. I wish I liked it.

The worst song on this album is still better than anything by the Eagles.

Everything is so relative.

 

[Massive Grooves]

I’m adding Black Hole Sun to my list.

Boring, overplayed, and the video was obnoxious.

 

[Lord Pmann]

Allow me to explain to you why you're wrong.

I’m waiting. I’d love to like this song. I just genuinely hate it. Make me like this song!

 

[StillRain]

Beyonces Texas blah blah song. What a terrible song.

 

[DirkCamacho]

I’m waiting. I’d love to like this song. I just genuinely hate it. Make me like this song!

It was a joke. I was assuming the role of a rock critic with a scholarly essay that gushes over the album, song by song. Including multi-level lyrical analysis and theoretical explanation of every jazz chord.

But no, making you like it would be like making you straight if you’re gay. I wouldn’t even try.

 

[Lord Pmann]

It was a joke. I was assuming the role of a rock critic with a scholarly essay that gushes over the album, song by song. Including multi-level lyrical analysis and theoretical explanation of every jazz chord.

But no, making you like it would be like making you straight if you’re gay. I wouldn’t even try.

Haha. It's one that I want to like. Because I genuinely feel like I'm missing something. I wish someone could say something to make me have an AHA moment.

 

[Leigh81]

How bout 99% of grunge & pop

 

[DirkCamacho]

Haha. It's one that I want to like. Because I genuinely feel like I'm missing something. I wish someone could say something to make me have an AHA moment.

Is it just that song, or Steely Dan in general?

 

[Lord Pmann]

Is it just that song, or Steely Dan in general?

I'm not a fan of them in general. But that particular song is just hard for me to digest.

 

[DirkCamacho]

I'm not a fan of them in general. But that particular song is just hard for me to digest.

Maybe you need stronger drugs.

I'm serious. I went to a Grateful Dead show out of curiousity. I didn't get into it, but everyone around me sure did. Then it hit me, they're all on acid! The Dead on acid is a completely different thing from the Dead not on acid.

 

[Massive Grooves]

I'm not a fan of them in general. But that particular song is just hard for me to digest.

I’m guessing it’s the jazz roots.

Can be difficult for some to get into.

 

[Lord Pmann]

Maybe you need stronger drugs.

I'm serious. I went to a Grateful Dead show out of curiousity. I didn't get into it, but everyone around me sure did. Then it hit me, they're all on acid! The Dead on acid is a completely different thing from the Dead not on acid.

I don't do drugs at all, so probably this!

I’m guessing it’s the jazz roots.

Can be difficult for some to get into.

Funny... I took jazz lessons when I started playing guitar. I learned and played jazz for the first 5 years. I never even liked it. But it was good to know.

I'm curious what it is about The Eagles you hate. Some of their music is so sonically pleasing from a recording perspective. As overplayed as it is, Hotel California was some of the most complexity in dynamic range if any song out there. I don't know that I've ever heard someone test a PA sound system or studio monitors without playing that song. I'd like to hear your thoughts.

 

[Saltfountain]

I’m adding Black Hole Sun to my list.

Boring, overplayed, and the video was obnoxious.

That! So that!

And from the same guy who brought us one of the best Bond themes...

 

[Saltfountain]

Every copy of Human by The Killers needs to be locked in a soundproof vault, dipped in ebola then sealed in concrete...

"are we human, or are we dancer?"

How fucking hard is it to write a line that makes sense? This isn't Come Together levels of drug induced streams of consciousness. This is a shit pop song by a band that can do sooooooo much better...

 

[DirkCamacho]

I don't do drugs at all, so probably this!




Funny... I took jazz lessons when I started playing guitar. I learned and played jazz for the first 5 years. I never even liked it. But it was good to know.

I'm curious what it is about The Eagles you hate. Some of their music is so sonically pleasing from a recording perspective. As overplayed as it is, Hotel California was some of the most complexity in dynamic range if any song out there. I don't know that I've ever heard someone test a PA sound system or studio monitors without playing that song. I'd like to hear your thoughts.

I saw the Eagles live recently and the most outstanding thing to me was their vocal harmonies. They can really sing. Adding Vince Gill upped their game, he brings so much.

 

[Lord Pmann]

I saw the Eagles live recently and the most outstanding thing to me was their vocal harmonies. They can really sing. Adding Vince Gill upped their game, he brings so much.

Agreed! I saw them twice last year and they were so good. Vince Gill is why I started playing guitar. He's just one of the best talents out there.

And when Vince Gill is the third best guitarist on the stage, you've got a hell of a band.

 

[Trekka]

I saw the Eagles live recently and the most outstanding thing to me was their vocal harmonies. They can really sing. Adding Vince Gill upped their game, he brings so much.

Agreed! I saw them twice last year and they were so good. Vince Gill is why I started playing guitar. He's just one of the best talents out there.

And when Vince Gill is the third best guitarist on the stage, you've got a hell of a band.

I see this funny business!
This little flirtation is not going unnoticed.
Are you guys gonna compare axes?
Or... harmonize?

and to answer the OP - I realizer this is a minority opinion - but Rush's Tom Sawyer drives me nuts
*ducks*

 

[ZfrkS62]

Blister in the Sun.

I can't even bring myself to check out any more of their work because of this horrible song.

 

[DirkCamacho]

Blister in the Sun.

I can't even bring myself to check out any more of their work because of this horrible song.

This song gets a lot of ridicule. I'm on a bass player's forum and they all hate it too. But my band plays it and I kinda like it. The part where it gets quieter and quieter, and goes down to a whisper, and then kicks back in full blast, that's fun to play. And people always dance to it.

 

[Massive Grooves]

I don't do drugs at all, so probably this!




Funny... I took jazz lessons when I started playing guitar. I learned and played jazz for the first 5 years. I never even liked it. But it was good to know.

I'm curious what it is about The Eagles you hate. Some of their music is so sonically pleasing from a recording perspective. As overplayed as it is, Hotel California was some of the most complexity in dynamic range if any song out there. I don't know that I've ever heard someone test a PA sound system or studio monitors without playing that song. I'd like to hear your thoughts.

It’s all preference, but I simply cannot stand country music

 

[PhiloDaddy]

There is a Jackson Brown song that as near as I can tell, is like 2 or 3 hours long. It just drones on in boredom and depression… then just when you think it will end and life will immediately get better… he sings “stay… a little bit longer…”. Aaaahhhh!!!! No no no no no!!! Make it stop! Make it stop!!

That's actually two songs. "After the Deluge" and "Stay"...I think...

 

[PhiloDaddy]

It's Only Rock and Roll (but I like it) - The Rolling Stones

(ugh! puke! fuck!)