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re: Bad (or inexplicable songs) from great bands

Posted on 8/30/26 at 9:14 am to
Posted by supadave3
Houston, TX
Member since Dec 2005
32530 posts
Posted on 8/30/26 at 9:14 am to
quote:

'll add GNR My World, even though it's just Axl being dumb and not from the band. I guess it can be added since it's on Illusion.


That’s the first thing that came to mind. Get in The Ring was pretty shitty too but My World is just distorted garbage.
Posted by Tigertown in ATL
Georgia foothills
Member since Sep 2009
30478 posts
Posted on 8/30/26 at 4:48 pm to
quote:

what the frick were the Beatles thinking with Wild/Honey Pie?


The list is long for the Beatles.

Mr. Roboto is up there.
Posted by SoFla Tideroller
South Florida
Member since Apr 2010
42207 posts
Posted on 8/30/26 at 6:52 pm to
Locomotion by GFR was great. WTF is wrong with you?
Posted by Ramblin Wreck
Member since Aug 2011
4583 posts
Posted on 8/31/26 at 1:15 pm to
How about great songs from BAD?
Posted by dblwall
Member since Jul 2017
2131 posts
Posted on 8/31/26 at 2:48 pm to
quote:

Locomotion by GFR was great. WTF is wrong with you?


Yeah that song was so bad it went to # 1 on the Billboard charts.
Posted by GuhGuh1
Member since Aug 2026
68 posts
Posted on 8/31/26 at 3:22 pm to
Let em in. Paul McCartney and Wings. Hate that song with a passion.
Posted by GuhGuh1
Member since Aug 2026
68 posts
Posted on 8/31/26 at 3:23 pm to
Mr. Roboto is a good choice.
Posted by Cdawg
TigerFred's Living Room
Member since Sep 2003
62421 posts
Posted on 8/31/26 at 3:40 pm to
quote:

REM - Losing My Religion


Shiny Happy People was right there

Talk about Cringe fest. I'm pretty sure REM was trying to do for this entire album. I think the only ones I can stomach are Belong and Me in Honey just because the harmonies are great on those two tracks.
Posted by Tigris
Cloud Cuckoo Land
Member since Jul 2005
13280 posts
Posted on 8/31/26 at 6:38 pm to
I'll go with a couple of solid songs with terrible lyrics.

Bernie Taupin was usually adequate as a lyricist but knew nothing about America. Country Comfort (great song musically) had Elton singing:

quote:

Soon the pines will be falling everywhere,
village children fight each other for a share.


That's just weirdly stupid.

Neil Young is one of the great song writers, more for the music but the lyrics can be really good too. But he wrote Cortez the Killer when he was in high school and the lyrics are pretty awful in an otherwise very solid song.

quote:

Hate was just a legend
And war was never known
The people worked together
And they lifted many stones


The Aztecs? Just laughable lyrics.
Posted by rebelrouser
Columbia, SC
Member since Feb 2013
13547 posts
Posted on 8/31/26 at 6:58 pm to
quote:

I should have mentioned Abracadabra by The Steve Miller Band


LOL 8 fans of this absolutely terrible song i see.
Posted by KirbySmartass
Member since Jul 2020
3268 posts
Posted on 8/31/26 at 9:08 pm to
quote:

all the Brent songs are unlistenable. And the Vince songs are even worse. The dead had their fair share of WTF songs


Shut your whore mouth, Brent had some jams, Easy to Love You and Never Trust a Woman both come to mind.
I do hate Liberty from that late era though.
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