Members LARRY L Posted November 30, 2010 Members Share Posted November 30, 2010 Pink Floyd-several songs / albums after the Dark Side come to my mind. They were just chopped up and over produced. They would get into a great groove then all this weird stuff would pop in, and break up the groove almost as if they did not know what else to play. It was just too much. The Beatles started messing around with the "chop" they seemed to manage it better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members LaXu Posted November 30, 2010 Members Share Posted November 30, 2010 That Cranberries song, Dreams I think. The part where the singer does some weird sound akin to a constipated duck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Preacher Posted November 30, 2010 Members Share Posted November 30, 2010 Agreed 100% on Whole Lotta Love.Art School Girl from STP is like that for me. The verses are cool but then...Especially at the break around the 2:00 mark.In case no one remembers...gZiGFVapkMI Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members krusty1053 Posted November 30, 2010 Members Share Posted November 30, 2010 Examples: "Blinded by the Light" where "cut loose like a deuce" became "wrapped up like a deuce", Revved up like a deuce Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members noisebloom Posted November 30, 2010 Members Share Posted November 30, 2010 On the topic of bad lyrics, how about the nearly irony-free "Ironic" by Alanis Morrisette? I never liked her, but I think it's the best example of inaccurate lyrics. But the lack of irony is itself ironic. I don't know if that's a fail or a win. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MrMallet Posted November 30, 2010 Members Share Posted November 30, 2010 My vote goes to "Whole Lotta Love". Arguably the greatest rock groove of all time and the greatest rock solo(s) of all time bookmark an excessive minute and forty-two seconds of druggy sound effects and embarrassing orgasm sounds. If not for the killer Bonzo drum part and (IMO) Page's best solos I'd end the song at the 1:20 mark. What do you got? Kids....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rog951 Posted November 30, 2010 Members Share Posted November 30, 2010 The keyboard part...who the hell mixed it so high? [YOUTUBE]tYlDltwm-JY[/YOUTUBE] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members kayd_mon Posted November 30, 2010 Members Share Posted November 30, 2010 But the lack of irony is itself ironic. I don't know if that's a fail or a win. Haha, it's a win for you for noticing. She still gets a fail though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members gorebreath Posted November 30, 2010 Members Share Posted November 30, 2010 My vote goes to "Whole Lotta Love". Arguably the greatest rock groove of all time and the greatest rock solo(s) of all time bookmark an excessive minute and forty-two seconds of druggy sound effects and embarrassing orgasm sounds. If not for the killer Bonzo drum part and (IMO) Page's best solos I'd end the song at the 1:20 mark. What do you got? Well for one just because you don't like a part in a song doesn't mean it is terrible Secondly that part of whole lotta love is fantastic and builds up the great drum and guitar part directly afterward making those parts more explosive.That being said I feel that the intro to Rush's "la villa strangiato" is painfully major and weak. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members kirs Posted November 30, 2010 Author Members Share Posted November 30, 2010 Kids....... Kids? I was alive when that song came out (albeit in the cradle) and have listened to it all my life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Cats-o-caster Posted November 30, 2010 Members Share Posted November 30, 2010 LAYLA - last part Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members kirs Posted November 30, 2010 Author Members Share Posted November 30, 2010 Well for one just because you don't like a part in a song doesn't mean it is terrible Secondly that part of whole lotta love is fantastic and builds up the great drum and guitar part directly afterward making those parts more explosive. I don't think the song is terrible, I love it. My favorite Zep song and definitely in my top 10 songs of all time, which is why I chose the word "spoiled" over "ruined". I agree the build-up is great, it's just what's there sounds dated and goes on way too long. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members drawdeep Posted November 30, 2010 Members Share Posted November 30, 2010 Revved up like a deuce D'oh! My bad... that at least makes sense- thanks!At least I did not hear it as "wrapped up like a douche" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Chairborne Posted November 30, 2010 Members Share Posted November 30, 2010 Another vote for Layla outro. Is it "Mr. Tinkertrain" by Ozzy that wrecks a nice evil-sounding song with some drippy keyboard break? What's the Zep song off ITTOD with the cool descending riff, but then Percy has to throw in "Ooo ooo I need your love" ad naseum? "Casseroleamba" or something? G n' R "Get in the Ring" with Axl's stupid monologue. Oh yeah, Axl. You bad. Thin Lizzy "Jailbreak," the part with the sirens and all that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Robert Kortus Posted November 30, 2010 Members Share Posted November 30, 2010 Ozzy's "No Moare Tears" Bad-Ass riffing gives way to cheesy synth chords and @#$% WHALE NOISES!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members CanIBDom Posted November 30, 2010 Members Share Posted November 30, 2010 How about the end of Arcade Fire's Wake Up where it turns into the closing credits music of a sitcom? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members undergod12 Posted November 30, 2010 Members Share Posted November 30, 2010 Not the first time I've complained about this one: Tool's 'Jambi' would rate as one of my all time fav Tool songs except for the 'icepick-to-the-eardrum' guitar solo that starts around the 4 minute mark. It has more in common with a dentist drill than anything approaching a pleasant guitar tone and, based on interviews, it seems that they mixed it in a way to purposely hurt the listener (as opposed to the mastering job on Death Magnetic which hurts the listener through sheer incompetence). One of these days I'm going to try taking a dynamic EQ to that song to see if I can't bury that solo into the mix a bit. [YOUTUBE]czg-hdk3I0M[/YOUTUBE] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members almightycrunch Posted November 30, 2010 Members Share Posted November 30, 2010 Revved up like a deuce isnt it ironic?????? dont ya think? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members almightycrunch Posted November 30, 2010 Members Share Posted November 30, 2010 Not to change the whole purpose of the thread, but my ex-wife used to think that Steve Miller, Jet Airliner, was "rico, jed and lionel" lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members fu2jobu Posted November 30, 2010 Members Share Posted November 30, 2010 I'll go along with that, but the worst lyrical error in "Centerfield" is "Put me in, coach". The guy on the team who would be putting him in is the MANAGER, not the coach. Obviously, "manager" doesn't fit the meter of the tune, so an appropriate one-syllable substitute for "manager" would be "skip", which a baseball player might actually say. "Coach" is just wrong in that context.IMO you "gentlemen" should never listen to Rock N Roll again P.S. Baseball does have Coaches and sometimes MANAGERS get thrown out of a game... but who cares anyways, it's Rock N Roll.Let me edit that: In Little League I sure never called the parents running the team managers, they were coaches. Do High School or Connie Mack players call them anything other than coaches? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members thick_mike Posted November 30, 2010 Members Share Posted November 30, 2010 OP had it absolutely right from the start. Isn't there a radio edit of Whole Lotta Love without the Sleepless in Seattle bit? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Yngtchie Blacksteen Posted November 30, 2010 Members Share Posted November 30, 2010 OP had it absolutely right from the start.Isn't there a radio edit of Whole Lotta Love without the Sleepless in Seattle bit?That song would've kicked even more ass if it had gone directly from Plant's "Wanna whole lotta looooooove" to Page's little guitar break. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members drawdeep Posted November 30, 2010 Members Share Posted November 30, 2010 IMO you "gentlemen" should never listen to Rock N Roll again P.S. Baseball does have Coaches and sometimes MANAGERS get thrown out of a game... but who cares anyways, it's Rock N Roll. Let me edit that: In Little League I sure never called the parents running the team managers, they were coaches. Do High School or Connie Mack players call them anything other than coaches? Oh, we are just scratching the surface, I have seen spirited discussions around the baseball inaccuracies in the song. I personally think some of them, like the Coach/Manager distinction, are a bit esoteric, but are you going to tell me anyone over 10 years old actually says "I can be center field?"Oh, and I am certainly capable of overlooking insipid lyrics in the name of poetic license and "Rock N Roll"... I am a Van Halen fan but what the thread is about is things that spoil a song in your opinion and that was one of them for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members fu2jobu Posted November 30, 2010 Members Share Posted November 30, 2010 but are you going to tell me anyone over 10 years old actually says "I can be center field?" I'm sure it happens all the time. Sunday afternoon pickup softball game. Team captain asks "Who can play centerfield?" for every xx amount of times that question gets asked I am fairly certain you will get "I can be centerfield" as a reply rather than "I can play centerfield" a few times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SpaceProg Posted November 30, 2010 Members Share Posted November 30, 2010 Seconded for Grand Funk's "I'm Your Captain/Getting Closer to My Home" To this day I've only managed to listen to that song the whole way through once... and upon doing that, my reaction was: "...What? That felt longer than the actual song itself!" Now I just listen to the song, then when that bit comes, I switch to something else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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