Irritating Moments in Good Songs

[Guest Eyeball Kid]

Songs that you like, but there's one little thing about it that bugs you.

 

Because I was listening to it today, I gotta say that, in John Coltrane's A Love Supreme, I can't stand that moment in the first track where they start chanting the album's title. Argh.

[Guest CoreyLazarus416]

In Megadeth's "Holy Wars...The Punishment Due," when Mustaine just picks harmonics before going back into a kick-ass riff. It doesn't sound right at ALL for an all-out metalfest tune like "Holy Wars...The Punishment Due," and doesn't fit the mood of the lyrics in the slighest.

[Guest Edwin MacPhisto]

The ultimate for me comes in U2's "Silver and Gold," an altogether good song off of Rattle & Hum...until Bono starts ranting about South Africa, Little Steven, Artists Against Apartheid, and then urging Edge to "play the blues."

[Guest T®ITEC]

At the end of "Don't Cry", Axl Rose holds a note for about 3000 seconds, and it sucks.

[Guest red_file]

I've always felt that the sitar in "Norwegian Wood" really makes the song sound awful, which is a shame for how good a song it is.

[Guest spiny norman]

I never liked the bridge in Prince's "Diamonds And Pearls". That "D to the I to the A to the M" etc.

 

Otherwise it's my favourite Prince song, but just those few lines. Even the music surrounding it was fine, but those lines really irritate.

[Guest saturnmark4life]

I actually think they screwed up 'we want fun' by AWK for the jackass movie, the original version was better. They added a bit too much. Still, if it gets him on my TV, I can't complain. Oh, and I'll get crucified on the butthole surfers forum for this, but the lyrics of 'The shah sleeps in Lee Harvey's grave' are just so stupid they're almost bad. Almost.

[Guest Nevermortal]

The friggin dolphin noise in "No More Tears". Whoever put that in needs to die.

[Guest Kinetic]

You know that Simon and Garfunkel song, "You Don't Know Where Your Interest Lies"? There's this brief ambient keyboard-y portion between the two verses that drives me up the walls. The verses themselves are great, so I don't know why Paul Simon felt the need to sully an otherwise acceptable song with that ill-fitting nonsense.

[Guest evenflowDDT]

I don't like that weird little whistle sound effect in Public Enemy's "Don't Believe the Hype".

[Guest LooseCannon]

I really, really hate the lyrics to "U-Mass"

[Guest caboose]

I know everyone disses hem but I used to dig Limp Bizkit. Anyway at the end of ReArranged, which is a top song still, right at the end after the main part of the track fades out, Dj Lethal adds all this absolute crap at the end for about 2 minutes, totally killing the vibe of the track.

[Guest The Metal Maniac]

Just about any song where the ending is just kinda thrown out there, like they didn't know how to write an ending.

 

IE:

 

Metallica's "For Whom the Bell Tolls" (What is that ending? It just comes out of nowhere and doesn't seem to fit.)

 

Black Sabbath's "War Pigs". They just speed the track up until it ends. Yay.

 

Practically anything from Iron Maiden's KIllers. It's been a while since I listened to the whole track through, but it seems to me that there's a lot of songs on there that end with the "Ok, everybody just play stuff for 20 seconds at random, then we'll stop." Like at a concert or something. I don't like that.

[Guest papacita]

"Down with the Sickness" by Disturbed...I can't stand most rock songs, but I like this one...right up until the bridge where the singer starts ranting and raving. Issues...

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

Black Sabbath's "War Pigs". They just speed the track up until it ends. Yay.

yeah, but then it goes right into Paranoid. Maybe standing alone, it could seem annoying, but if you're listening to anything off the first two Sabbath albums without listening to the whole things, you need to get your head checked.

[Guest The Metal Maniac]

I see where you're coming from AoO, but I still don't like the end. I'd perfer if it just stopped, really.

 

And no, I don't need my head checked, for the record.

[Guest Plushy Al Logan]

Metallica's "For Whom the Bell Tolls" (What is that ending? It just comes out of nowhere and doesn't seem to fit.)

It's based on an Ernest Hemmingway novel.

 

 

Both versions of Don't Cry: Axl holds a note.

Any song that has a fade out

Master of Puppets: Slow part

[Guest The Metal Maniac]

It's based on an Ernest Hemmingway novel.

 

And?

 

For the record, I did already know that...but what does that have to do with the ending of the song? Did Hemmingway write novels that had endings that didn't fit with the rest of it?

[Guest DARRYLXWF]

Master of Puppets: Slow part

 

What!? That's a great part of the song.

 

But then again, I like almost any slow part to an otherwise powerful tune. My favourite probably being Rime of the Ancient Mariner.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

Fade outs are only acceptable towards the end of a really good solo, like Planet Caravan, for example.

[Guest BAR]

The Kids in 'Another Brick In The Wall (part II)'. I'll listen to the first minute of Waters,then I have to skip.

[Guest CoreyLazarus416]

For the record, I did already know that...but what does that have to do with the ending of the song? Did Hemmingway write novels that had endings that didn't fit with the rest of it?

In the shortest reply possible: yes. His endings just happen. No dramatic build, no grasping of the reader, nothing. Just when you think something big is going to happen, the novel ends. One of the many reasons I fucking hate Hemingway.

 

So, in that sense, the song's end fits the novel's. Hemingway ended his novels abruptly and slightly different than how they started. The ending to "For Whom The Bell Tolls" (the song) is only slightly different than the beginning (E and F# power-chords in the intro; E, F#, and G power-chords at the end).

 

Elv1s, how could you hate the slower part of "Master Of Puppets"? As DARRYL put it, that's a great part (probably the best part, musicianship-wise and drama-wise).

 

Fade-out's are also acceptable when a nice outro riff is being played. See: Pantera - "Walk"; Metallica - "To Live Is To Die"; and The Crown - "Under The Whip."

[Guest red_file]

I was just listening to "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover" and that refrain is really irritating. And the verses are so nice.

[Guest raptor]

"Anywhere" by Evanescence is an incredible song, up until he end where the guitar player busts out in some weird Backstreet Boys-like ending. Messed up shit, that.