Name a song that you like by a band or performer you normally DO NOT like.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

NOT a "one hit wonder" thing...this might be ONE song by a band or performer with an ass-load of gold records, and for whatever reason, they're just not your cup of tea.

But there's the matter of that ONE LITTLE EARWORM that crept into your brain. Maybe you were lucky and bought the song for 99 cents on iTunes. Maybe you blew 20 bucks on the CD and realized you were NEVER gonna like ANYTHING BUT that ONE song.

Let's hear it. I'm all ears.

:evilgrin:

[steelemagnolia]

1. I like Stairway to Heaven and I don't normally care for Led Zeppelin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKg4g9zMeHI

[mitchum]

2. "Take It To The Limit" by the Eagles

I absolutely detest everything else by the Eagles, but that song is sublimely beautiful. Everything is perfect.
One of my ten favorite records.

[mac56]

3. Okay, you asked for it.

Huey Lewis And The News. I absolutely deplore them.

BUT

they've recorded two songs that are just stellar.

(1) A cover of "It's All Right" by Curtis Mayfield And The Impressions (a capella)

and

(2) "Let Her Go And Start Over"

There. I said it, and I'm glad.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

18. My one HL&TN song is...

...Jacob's Ladder.

I even bought the Bruce Hornsby original out of guilt, thinking that I "should" like Hornsby's version better, but I think it's Huey's single greatest performance, period. I do like their version of "It's Alright," but found 95% of the band's output...especially the played-to-death MTV stuff...to be a gi-normous pain in the wazoo.

:evilgrin:

I actually got to a point in life where I could say "All I want from tomorrow is to get it better than today." I've got "Jacob's Ladder" on one of my favorite mix CDs, which also includes songs from John Mellencamp's "Scarecrow," Eric Clapton's version of "Love Minus Zero No Limit" from the Bob Dylan Tribute Concert, and Johnny Cash's version of Soundgarden's "Rusty Cage."

:toast:

[acmavm]

30. I agree with the Huey Lewis part but the song I like is Walking on a Thin

Line.

So relevant then, so relevant now.

[Guava Jelly]

4. I got it

http://youtube.com/watch?v=705LEH3j2g0
Jaded by Aerosmith

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ih6PEhhR4UM
Closer To The Heart by Rush

[Dr. Strange]

5. Tonight, tonight, tonight by Genesis.

[mreilly]

6. "Brian Wilson" by Bare Naked Ladies

This song is a good one; most of the rest of their stuff is pure shit - especially "If I had a Million Dollars." Their geeky, annoying personas plus the fact they were jammed down our collective throats by a Boston radio station for several years made me despise this band. Except for the aforementioned song, of course.

[gbate]

38. That is one of my favorite songs.

[kwassa]

7. Paula Abdul "Vibeology"

great funk tune, it would be much better in someone else's hands, but I still like the song. She can't do many things.

http://us.video.aol.com/player/launcher?ar=us_en_video_748x541_full&mode=1&pmmsid=1938763

http://video.aol.com/video-detail/paula-abdul-vibeology-live/2291156929

[Jade Fox]

24. From the same CD.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbU1fKXxqvY

I think that CD was better than most of Abdul's stuff because of the people who produced it.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

8. To Hell With The Devil By Stryper.

Mock me if you must, but I found it to be a kick ass song.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

9. Oh, I'm Also Not An Alanis Fan, But The Acoustic Version Of 'You Oughta Know' Is One Of The Most

powerful songs I've ever heard.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

10. Killer In Me By Smashing Pumpkins

(hey, we can post more than one, right?)

[ghostsofgiants]

13. It's called "Disarm" actually.

</nitpicking> :P

[Generic Brad]

11. "Tainted Love"

You know the one. The 80's version. When I bought the LP I thought I would like the rest of Soft Cell's music. Was I wrong!

How could such a sucky band come up with such a damned good song?

[Bennyboy]

12. Bitter Creek by the Iggles.....

Tuesday's Gone Skynard

[otherlander]

14. "Won't Get Fooled Again"

"Ruby Tuesday"

[ghostsofgiants]

15. "Good Vibrations" by the Beach Boys.

Though I don't dislike them per se, just not all that into any of their other music.

Also: "November Rain" by Guns 'n Roses. Most epic power ballad ever.

[ordinaryaveragegirl]

20. I'll second "November Rain"

I'm not a GNR fan either, but that song is damn good.

[OmahaBlueDog]

16. I'm embarrassed to even admit this

I hate most disco music

I despise Barry Manilow

... but I like "Copacabana"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

17. I had an ex-girlfriend...

...who would get into a fight with me if we listened to anything but Barry Manilow (yes, it's a L-O-N-G story)...

So I remember "Looks Like We Made It," "Weekend In New England," "Daybreak," "Can't Smile Without You," "Somewhere In The Night," "Ready To Take A Chance Again," "Mandy," and "Copacabana" as the soundtrack to one of the most intense, off-the-wall, angst-ridden years of my life.

Those songs still haunt me, years later.

:scared:

[The Animator]

19. I consider it a self-betrayal to admit this, cause this singer is such a douche.

But I actually like "How Do You Like Me Now?" by Tobey biggest douche in the universe Keith

[OmahaBlueDog]

21. Same singer, different song

"I Should Have Been a Cowboy"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

22. I recently got exposed to that douche by a bigger douche

...the song "I Love This Bar...it really has the spirit of a typical Sammy Hagar song but it just sounded a little more moronic, and I looked at the credits and voila...written by Toby.

I can't imagine people buying entire Toby Keith albums and listening to them and saying things like "You know, I really liked his LAST album, but on the NEW one he's really outdone himself!"

:rofl:

[lildreamer316]

23. That song was actually a bigger hit

for Toby than it was for Sammy...Sammy did a cover of it just to be funny.
Toby had a top 10 country chart hit with that about two and a half years ago.

[Jade Fox]

25. "One of These Nights"- the Eagles.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXMXqkFOHlk

Can't abide most of their other stuff.

[Liberal Veteran]

26. The Real Slim Shady - Eminem

[Richardo]

27. Here's a few: 'Jungle Love' by Steve Miller Band;

'Mr. Blue Sky' by ELO
'Gloria' by U2

[Tikki]

28. Always admired Barbra as a person...not so much into her music...

but she has taken an already beautiful song and turned it into perfection....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g25Ej032ofI


Tikki

[abq e streeter]

29. Off the top of my head--Styx: Too Much Time On My Hands

Never heard anything else by them that didn't annoy the hell out of me, but this one works. Probably will think of more ( from other bands , not Styx) after going to put laundry in dryer...

[Fire Walk With Me]

31. "North Star" and other songs on Fripp's "Exposure" album, sung by Daryl Hall.

I loathe Hall and Oats, but the man can actually sing, given music-oriented material.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

35. "Some Things Are Better Left Unsaid" from "Big Bam Boom"

I have Fripp's "Exposure," as well as Hall's "Sacred Songs" (also including Fripp), but my favorite Hall vocal is on "Some Things Are Better Left Unsaid." I'm a sucker for that heavily phase-shifted guitar and Hall's "OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO..." right before the final section. It's tougher than the average Hall & Oates song, not their typical "Philly / Blue Eyed Soul" offering. The video was pretty cool...close-ups of the guitar strings shimmering as G.E. Smith hit them and such.

I thought that "Big Bam Boom" was pretty much the last gasp of Hall & Oates as artists who mattered.

:toast:

[SKKY]

32. I don't get Radio Head. I really don't...

But there's something about "Karma Police". I really like that song.

[Forkboy]

33. Ireland by Garth Brooks.

[x-g.o.p.er]

34. Touch Me, by the Doors

Not a fan of THe Doors at all, but I really like that sond.

[Skittles]

36. "You Were Always on My Mind" - Willie Nelson

a beautiful love song - yes INDEED

[MilesColtrane]

37. "Live to Tell" -Madonna

Came out in 1986 and was used effectively in the Sean Penn/Christopher Walken movie "At Close Range".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvRttd5ESx8

[gbate]

39. Crosstown Traffic by Jimi Hendrix.

[argyl]

40. "Rebel,Rebel" by David Bowie. And mainly for Mick Ronson's guitar work.