“Who elected the people that commited the errors he sings about?” “A truely miserable song,” commented another user in the same thread. Peanut (surely not the Planter’s peanut spokesman, but an impostor) on a Yahoo board. “I was always annoyed by that song,” wrote someone named Mr. “Melodically … It’s almost like a dentist drill.” Some people agree. “I didn’t think it was really that good to begin with,” he told an audience of students at Oxford in 1994. If there’s one way to make Oscar the Grouch grouchier, or kids at school more disinterested and sleepy, it might be to expose him/them to “We Didn’t Start the Fire.” Then again, Joel might agree with them. He added “Most of my mail I get about that song comes from teachers who have said this is the greatest teaching tool to come down the pike since Sesame Street, which means a lot to me, since I once wanted to be a history teacher.” “I wish people could understand that I did not write that song to be a hit – I wrote that one for me,” he told Rolling Stone in 1989. “It's Michael Stipe's transparent attempt at a ‘love’ anthem, like the Beatles’ ‘All You Need is Love’ … only stupid,” writes yet another fan.īilly Joel didn’t write this list (it’s not a song - it’s a list, set to four chords) to be “Cliff Notes for the MTV generation,” as one critic put it. “Really makes me want to punch someone,” says another user. “Possibly the worst song in history,” says someone called rem fan. I think there's an intellectual reason to hate this song and there's a visceral reason to hate this song, and I firmly hate it for both reasons.”Ī quick gander through Amazon’s ratings finds a number of folks that agree with Kelly. “The lyrics irritate me, that fucking jangly riff in the beginning of it makes me insane and the sad French circus breakdown is fucking pompous. “When push comes to shove, the main reason I hate this fucking song is that it's so annoying on every single possible level,” Brendan Kelly, leader of the Chicago punk band the Lawrence Arms, told PunkNews. Just not everybody, and some hardcore fans are vociferous in their hatred. And it was a hit, striking the bottom rung of the Top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. And he channeled that into a song about little more than being happy.
“The guys would give me pieces of music that were so ebullient and bubblegum,” he told The Sun, “that I’d be like, ‘Okay, I accept your challenge and I raise you.” He hearkened back to his earliest record-buying days, when he collected 45 RPM singles by like the Archies and the Monkees. (who were occasionally given to doing strange things) could do was to write a singalong song like “Shiny Happy People.” Michael Stipe blames it all on his bandmates. Perhaps the strangest thing a band like R.E.M. “It's not terrible as ballads go, but it's a pretty lowest common denominator kind of song,” said another in a post titled “Over produced crap.” “This song still makes me wince,” wrote one fan on Amazon. Back in the early ‘90s, as grunge bands like Nirvana were claiming Cheap Trick as one of their forebears, the band’s record company was looking for more hits like “The Flame.” “All those bands would say, ‘We love Cheap Trick, except the stuff they’re doing now,'” Tom Petersson told Rolling Stone. Those who are partial to those energetic rock songs and who did not have teenage crushes in 1988 might go for the beer vendor when Cheap Trick play “The Flame” live.
It’s a song they must play every time they take the stage, wedged in among the spunky tracks of their youth (“ELO Kiddies,” “Clock Strikes Ten,” “Surrender”) and the surprisingly spunky tracks of their dotage (“No Direction Home,” “Long Time Coming,” “ The Summer Looks Good on You”). Nevertheless, they recorded it and had the biggest single of their lives, much less their careers - No. Mired in the deepest commercial funk of their career, the firm of Zander, Nielsen, Petersson and Carlos sought assistance from outside writers, two of whom (Bob Mitchell and Nick Graham) brought them a power ballad that even Elkie Brooks didn’t want. We take it to the people we listen to their voices. Here, we give you a dozen times our favorite artists have given us songs we hate, along with the words of regular fans who took to the internet to express their displeasure. Our favorite artists give us much pleasure, but they are also the ones that can hurt us the most.
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