Post a tune you need 'help' appreciating.

[consider_this]

I thought it might be informative/fun to have a thread where we can post songs that we just don't like, but imagine we should - and maybe need a little help from our friends here to help us understand or appreciate them more.

However - to keep it from turning into band bashing and easy prey, the idea is, post something you don't like, from a band that you DO like and enjoy most of their work.

Hoping folks can help each other appreciate what we might be missing and thus enjoy the work more. (I guess there might be some true lemons too, but let's have a go and see).

Please post the song title and artist in your post title, and any thoughts or why you don't like it (if you know) in the body of the post.

If a post makes you think of another song to critique, it would be great if you start that in its own reply.

I'll start...

[consider_this]

1. In The Evening, by Led Zeppelin

From their last album, which was not a fave of mine anyhow, but that particular track, I just do not get - well, except the opening minute is cool and the similar mood break in the middle - but as a whole, I just need some help in appreciating.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

14. That song was too repetitive for me.

It's like they created a simple riff, then they tacked on an interesting introduction and a guitar solo in the middle.

Sorry, I know that I was supposed to help you appreciate it more.

[Kittycatkat]

2. Jefferson Starship "We Built this City". Yikes! How did Jefferson Airplane crash so hard?

[consider_this]

3. Oh, dear!

'fraid I can't help with that one. Never heard before (until now), now glad of that.

May someone else appreciates?

[Kittycatkat]

6. Now here's Grace Slick/Jefferson Airplane at Woodstock, they were sooo awesome. Then Starship?!

https://m.

[happybird]

8. Now, hearing the name 'Jefferson Starship' makes me think of the show Supernatural

(Warning: If you are very sensitive, it’s a little bloody at the beginning, but not too bad)

[Kittycatkat]

11. that's Hilarious! and perfection, they're horrible and hard to kill!

[happybird]

13. I love how Dean's so proud of himself for coming up with the name

and you can feel the eyerolls coming from Sam and Bobby.
It is a perfect name, lol!

[Walleye]

26. I saw Jefferson Airplane in an old movie theater in Rochester, New York in 1967

There was an audience of two or 3000 people and they were very restless for some reason that night a lot of strife around the Vietnam war those days. Gracie slick didn’t look too happy about the venue and I saw the first mic drop ever. At the end White Rabbit of course. I did like the concert but it was a little too short

[mzmolly]

34. Agree.

[IrishAfricanAmerican]

4. My Pal Foot Foot -- The Shaggs

Good luck!

[GemDigger]

5. I can't believe I clicked on that....

and skipped to the middle. It only took about 10 to 15 words.

I am traumatized.

[Kittycatkat]

12. Oh my, that is the worst sound in the world. Pretty sure they played this at Abu Ghraib

as an illegal form of torture. I gotta go, my ears are bleeding.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

16. Never heard that song, or even knew about them.

They sounded like a perfect fit to join the Manson family, trying to help Charlie with his music career, but they apparently never hooked up.

[Kittycatkat]

18. very, VERY creepy. I only listened for a second or two because I couldn't stand it at all.

[Dr. Strange]

33. The story behind the Shaggs is so bizarre.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

36. That was indeed strange!

Their band was formed only to help fulfill a prophecy of their palm-reader grandmother!

[IcyPeas]

7. The Beatles - Hey Jude

I get the impression everyone else loves this Beatle song.

[Kittycatkat]

15. I would listen & probably even sing along to Hey Jude when it comes on the radio,

but it wouldn't be included in my playlist.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

9. Rush - La Villa Strangiato

I liked many songs by Rush back then, but this instrumental always had too many "cartoonish" like sounds for me to enjoy it.

[Kittycatkat]

17. Prog Rock used a lot of disparate sounds in its expression.

Emerson Lake and Palmer sometimes annoyed me because I found them somewhat pretentious. But I gotta say, I really like La Villa Strangiato. I've
listened to it 3 times already and its pretty awesome. I have never been much of a fan of Rush, Pink Floyd and Yes were more aligned to my taste in Prog, but I may give Rush a listen this week.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

19. A lot of my friends liked Strangiato...

... years ago, and they played it frequently, but I didn't enjoy it like they did.

I could recognize their talent as musicians, but that song just didn't do it for me.

Edit: I still like it more than many Rush songs that came out years later, though, when the synthesizer was more prominent for them.

[Kittycatkat]

20. I totally get that!

[Bristlecone]

27. I love that song....

But now that you mention it ie “cartoonish sounds”, I totally see what you mean.

[Walleye]

10. "Stairway to Heaven" Led Zeppelin

[consider_this]

21. I'm sure you will get more replies, but...

for me it is like - first, if you heard it when it first came out, in that time - it was like HOLY WTaF this is amazing!!

It is like an epic in the way it progresses from the softest gentle ballad into the rockinest release, yet it all fits together.
I just love the way it builds, and the mystical themed lyrics seem like the only way this song could be possible.

Another song that seems to take off after that kind of build is by a band that I think of as the 'female' Zeppelin, 'Heart' - the song is Mistral Wind from Dog and Butterfly - had the same feel of what Stairway did, and well, I hope these thoughts of mine might help you appreciate this well loved Zeppelin classic.

[Walleye]

22. I do like the song and the instrumentals. It's the singing that gets on my nerves

True it is quite a record and I do find myself listening to it in spite of that sometimes. I haven’t gotten into Heart but I’ll look it up. Thanks

[consider_this]

23. How do you like The Battle of Evermore

from the same album?

[Kittycatkat]

24. It's a magical mystical haunting journey. Me loves it!

[quickesst]

25. Heart....

...Tribute to Led Zeppelin.

https://m.

[Walleye]

28. OK. I do like that performance.

[quickesst]

30. Thought you would....

[ProfessorGAC]

32. Heart Did A Lot Of Zeppelin!

It comes from their early days when they did many covers as a club band.
There's videos out there of them doing many Zeppelin tunes.
Here's one of my favorites.

[Bristlecone]

29. Thunderstruck AC/DC

Just a horribly rancid, phlegm-filled gargling of lyrics

Brian Johnson was done long before this was set to track.

[Tikki]

31. Led Zeppelin song where the singer sings the words "Babe or Baby" 31 times.

Seem so excessive.

Tikki

[mzmolly]

35. Time Passages