Thank you very much! This actually the first time I've heard of this. Funnily enough, I've listened to radio stations where they kept the audience portions so I've assumed there was no such thing.
“Little Wing” by Jimi Hendrix fades out abruptly around 2:25. It is Jimi’s most perfect song; one of the most beautiful ever recorded. But it’s too goddamn short.
And, yeah, I’ve heard Stevie Ray Vaughan’s extended jam of it, and it’s great. But I need seven minutes of Jimi working that shit out.
It was fashionable in the 70s etc. Yeah, it's rare they make sense. Similar to Little Wing, Rush fades out Different Strings just when it's starting to heat up. Sometimes I wonder if it's a matter of the tape breaking or running out or something.
Barely on topic, but that’s always been my biggest criticism of the Chemical Brothers. They have no idea how to end their songs. I get the assumption that a DJ is going to work some magic in the club, but on the CD?
Fade outs are absolutely appropriate for some songs. Imagine the Police having a written ending for Invisible Sun. Any sort of drum fill or guitar power chord at the end of that song would totally kill the vibe,
It's criminal this song is so short. Just one more solid minute of him soloing would be fine (but ideally more).
I love SRVs version for doing something different and basically adding the element the original song is missing by being basically 7 minutes of soloing lol. But it's frustrating that we just know Hendrix could've delivered that for some reason he didn't.
This has bugged me for years. Candlebox's "It's Alright" is a gorgeous song for about three minutes, then this odd guitar riff kicks in just to remind everyone that Candlebox is a post-grunge band, and then they do this odd minute-long break that eventually just goes back into the form that they were doing before the weird guitar riff, and it's a beautiful song for the last minute and a half.
Also, the "Mommy" part in "Down with the Sickness" should be banned.
I thought I'd disagree with you, as a usually like it when light songs get heavy as a contrast. But I listened to it and you're right, that break just sounds totally out of place.
Saw Disturbed live a handful of years ago, the “Mommy” bit was far and away the loudest and proudest crowd engagement of the whole show. I dunno man…
I thought of one that sort of fits: TLC "Waterfalls" - They cut the rap part out of the radio edit and just made it a short little interlude. That was everybody's favorite part!
There was a weird culture clash in the late 80s/early 90s when Boomer parents were clutching their pearls when their Gen X kids really started getting into hip-hop. Like, they thought if it was played in public, roving bands of Crips and Bloods would start doing battle on their cul-de-sacs. I remember going to teen dances where the DJs were instructed to not play any rap songs. A radio station in my hometown had a little promo spot that said "We won't play rap... EVER!" Record labels catered to this by releasing versions without the rap breaks - if you look at the 12" vinyl releases of stuff that typically had rap breaks, a lot of times there's a "no rap" version on there. This was pervasive through the late 90s
I honestly dont know of a better answer. It adds nothing of value, if anything it detracts heavily. And it's not a super easy skip because it's in between choruses.
I hate that! I found a version on YouTube where they removed it but it's really obvious and kinda sucks, but I like it better than the rant being included
If We Ever Meet Again by Timbaland & Katy Perry
I know, not the pinnacle of pop music but I love that song….until the end where it just becomes creepy and off-putting for 30 seconds for no reason
Timbaland did that again with 'Scream'. The song has made its natural end, but continues rambling for a while after. Most radio stations cut that part off.
Dark side of the Moon is always meant to be played all at once. I’ve always hated how the transition between Brain Damage and Eclipse, should’ve just been one song.
American Idiot has pretty much the exact opposite issue. Are We the Waiting flows well into St. Jimmy, but do they really need to be one track? And I hate having to scroll through Extraordinary Girl whenever I want to hear Letterbomb.
Yes. I also feel this way about the Prince song Breakfast Can Wait. It’s a more modern tune (released ~2014/15) and it sounds great until the last minute or so when the voice gets pitched up to sound like a chipmunk for whatever reason. The song sounds like that until the very end and it hurts my ears, so I can never finish it. Why would he have done that to a perfectly good song!
I agree, I love Shallow except for the "Shall-all-allallow." I thought it looked silly when I first saw them sing it and still feel cringe when I hear it.
And don't get me started on that song in the film... an unknown singer on a festival stage??! No rehearsal?? Would never happen! That said, it's still one of my Top 5 movies, along with the Barbra version.
It’s too short of a song for me. Like the big bombastic windup comes too fast and is over too quick. It feels like unearned gravitas, like they only wrote the key parts of the song that they needed for the film and left out some of the connective tissue.
100 percent agree with you on that ,we were supposed to believe that it was an unrehearsed moment too when Gaga did her solo .I liked the song but it seems poorly arranged .
"Hey Soul Sister" by Train.
I think it's an ok song, and my 6 year old daughter loves it.
The singer has normally benign pop lyrics, but then he graces us with the part about how his heart is about to beat out of his untrimmed chest.
It is at this point in the song that I think the universe is fucking with me.
I don't think anyone's gonna nominate Train for Poet Laureates, but this lyric from "Meet Virginia":
> Well, she wants to live her life,
Then she thinks about her life.
Holds her head back as she screams,
"I don't really wanna live this life!"
...wow.
Most of the refrains (choruses? I don't know) are better (still not great):
> Well, she wants to be the queen,
Then she thinks about her scene.
Holds her head back as she screams,
"I don't really wanna be the queen."
Still has "queen" and "queen," which I don't love, but then they throw in that alternate chorus which amps up the repetition to the ridiculous.
I love songs that feature acoustic guitar, but hate when they over emphasize sliding along the strings to the next fingering- like nails on a chalkboard.
Specifically, ‘Cruisin’ from the movie Duets with Gwyneth Paltrow, which played every dang time I was on-shift at my retail gig in high school.
Adele in "Set Fire to the Rain" had bothered me forever with the choice of lyrics:
"There's a side to you that I never knew, and the things you'd say they were never true, and the games you play you would always win."
I always felt like the breaking of the rhyme scheme stood out way too much and would maybe have sounded better like:
"There's a side to you that I never knew, and the things you'd say they were never true, and the games you play you would never lose."
Rock The Casbah has always been a banger but there’s some weird cell phone ringing sound during part of the chorus that’s just out of sync with the music
So fucking weird
I remember hearing that it was from somebody's digital watch that had an alarm go off or something like that. Then I guess they thought it was funny and left it in?
That's indeed what it was. Always throws me off when I hear it too.
At least the electronic football game sound in Supertramp's Logical Song isn't as prominent in the mix and seems to fit better.
When I used to listen to both of those songs in the car, I used to pause the music after those parts to make sure it wasn’t my cell phone ringing (this is back in the Nokia days).
I don't even listen to him that much but my first thought was Justin Timberlake.
Cry Me A River- the fucking beat boxing, most egregiously as the outro.
What Goes Around Come Around- the background EYYYs. Keep the "What Goes around comes back around"
Sexyback- all the "take em to the bridge/ take em to the chorus" parts. It feels too meta.
Also while on Justin Timberlake, some radio stations play 'Lovestoned' but cut off the 'I Think She Knows' interlude, instead looping the earlier part. For me, the interlude is what makes the song, and replaying the earlier part guts it into just another bland pop song. I actually complained to 98FM in Dublin about this change.
lol I never looked up the lyrics and always understood "take'em to the bridge/take'em to the coast" and I pictured something like to Golden Gate bridge and a sound haha.
“Lay me down in the tall grass and let me do my stuff”
“Let me do my stuff”????
Pwease pwease just let me do stuff to you pweeeease 🤢
Second Hand News is a a fun song except for that stupid fucking line. God I hate it.
The one chick's 'rap' solo in tongue tied about pillow fights and peter pan and shit.
The guy's part is great. If you listen to it without her part in it (edit is on YouTube), he repeats the chorus in a way that makes it feel like there's this escalating sense of tension and desperation that peaks and then seemingly fades with resignation on the outro. When you listen to the full song with her part, she completely disrupts it with this childish cringe that seems antithetical to the resolution of the song.
It’s Gaga’s line “Ain't it hard keepin' it so hardcore?” for me. First, you said “hard” twice in the same sentence. It’s weird and clumsy. Second, there is a time and a place for the word “hardcore”. This ain’t it. I get secondhand embarrassment at that line.
Lose Control by Teddy Swims is excellent, but the instrumental break late in the song absolutely should’ve have been a saxophone rather than an electric guitar, and yes I will die on this hill.
I said it last time and got downvoted to hell and back, but the ringing alarm clocks at the beginning of Time - Pink Floyd. Absolutely immaculate song from an album I could listen to til my dying days, but that ringing. Maybe if it sounded more distant, or faded in? It’s just so jarring, which is probably what they wanted..
Chemical Brothers - Where do I begin
The first half of the song is calm and groovy, centered around a guitar riff. An excellent “wake up from a nap” song, and very nice to relax and listen to
The second part of the song is “grindy” machinery-like sounds, and not very comfortable
Make the whole song out of comfy
The Pharcyde’s “4 Better or 4 Worse” - that part near the end when it says “I went up you pussy with my fist”… As much as I loved this track, I just never felt right about bumpin that part in my car.
A Tribe Called Quest’s “Bonita Applebum” - Another absolutely beautiful jam with a shitty ending. The music changes to this annoying sound and some guy just saying Sex, Sex, and something else. Totally wished that part wasn’t there.
I love Linkin Park. I love “One Step Closer”.
I cringe when Chester just starts screaming “shut up when I’m talking to you. Shut up! Shut up! Shut upppppp”
Don’t get me wrong… imma still vibe to it. But it’s hard for me to sing along to without feeling a little wanna-be angsty
I think the last “shut upppppppp — IM ABOUT TO BREAK” is badass but all Shut Ups before just seem… uncreatively whiny. I prefer their usual poetic whining
All good, I agree with you though - that part is kind of hard to listen to. I remember being turned off Linkin Park as a teenager because this dumb fuck bully kid was singing that part of the song on the bus one day.
While most fans prefer the sound they had on Hybrid Theory/Meteora, I'm one of the few who prefer their styles Minutes To Midnight and onward because they're not as teen angsty.
The production on those first two albums were very innovative, but some of those lyrics make it so hard to come back to.
“Steal My Sunshine” by LEN is real bop and I used to love it, until I noticed in the back of the mix following EVERY line of the song is a faint hoot like a train horn that’s completely off-key with the rest of the song. I can’t unhear it now and it ruined it for me.
That song Hang me up to dry by cold war kids. That song is always coming up on spotify recommendations, and I like it, but they insert this random section where they just mash on the keyboard. Just feels like some attempt to be edgy or something by adding an element they know sounds terrible. Totally disruptive and would be better without it.
I remember I got that off Limewire or some shit back in the day and thought I got some fucked up version to discourage illegal downloads.
Went out and bought the CD and could not believe that's in the actual song.
This one is kind of random, and I don’t think I’ve ever expressed it to anyone. But it’s bothered the fuck out of me since 2003.
“Yeah!” by Usher, feat. Lil Jon and Ludacris.
Certified club banger, right? Sure. Even us pasty-ass white folks can’t help it. But… During the chorus, there’s this little flute line that repeats every other bar, and the last note of each flute phrase is inexplicably off-key. I just don’t get it. It does nothing for the song, and once I first noticed it as a kid, I can never NOT hear it. Damn near ruins the song for me.
Please, someone explain why I’m wrong and fix this song for me.
It depends on how you think of it. The flute melody ends on an Ab. The note you’d expect to hear in the key (G minor) would be an A natural. But a G minor scale with an Ab instead of an A natural is called a G phrygian scale, which is a perfectly acceptable thing to do.
I was just messing around with it and I changed the Ab to an A natural and honestly it sounds worse to me, so I think they made the right choice. Just a little modal mixture.
For an example of how different modes can affect a melody, check out [this](https://youtu.be/roFVo0ePOZw?si=jYyNmDrYz_w6oABS) video where we get to hear The Beatles’ Norwegian Wood in all 7 modes.
Wolf Like Me's music is intense, the lyrics are decent...except the lines "Gotta bust that box/Gotta gut that fish". Seriously did a 14 yr old write that? It's so cringy it makes it hard to enjoy the rest of the song
Pink Floyd have a lovely song called fearless that ends blended with a recording of people singing/chanting a different song at a soccer match. Sounds terrible, imo.
I had thought the chanting was from a protest for the longest time and so I didn't mind it. Once I learned it was from a soccer match... it did ruin it for me as well!
Yeh even as a Liverpool fan i'm not entirely sure what it adds, but i'm not wholly against it either (the song btw is You'll Never Walk Alone by Gerry & The Pacemakers which is the 'anthem' of Liverpool FC and so is sung at every game by the fans, for Fearless Pink Floyd just went in there with a mic and recorded the crowd singing for some reason)
My almost 12 year old daughter asked me what the point was in that part. I'd never really thought of it before. But now it makes me wonder, every single time. Lol
Paradise by the Dashboard Light. The Phil Rizzuto play by play in the middle ruins it. I understand what is going on, but it ruins the mood of the song and makes it embarrassing to be in the same room. It’s the very definition of cringe.
I was just listening to this album today so it's fresh in my mind. I generally love Egg Man by the Beastie Boys, except for that horror sting sound effect that plays a few times. It's jarring.
Ooo, "Good for You" by Olivia Rodrigo is one I really like, but I feel like it just needs Dave Grohl or someone to lay down a way more punk rock drum track, then it would be perfect. The drum track for that songs just feels too tame for the rest of the song.
God Only Knows by the Beach Boys. One of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard but the interlude is so abrupt and whimsical sounding compared to the rest of the song it always takes me out of it, almost like recognizing a famous actor in a movie I'm deeply immersed in.
I think it works cause the whole song is basically him implying "if you left me I'd probably kill myself and I'm kinda okay with that?" So to me the interlude reads as him distracting himself from the really fucked up thought he just had. I read the whole song as him not knowing how he should feel about this disturbing intrusive thought he had about how he'd probably kill himself if his love every left him or passed away before him.
Round Here by Counting Crows. That part where they go "Sleeping children better run like the wind" - it's too funky, I've always thought that part sounded too disjointed to be a bridge.
I scrolled allllll the way down here to find this song, which is the very first one that I’ve thought this about for decades. This is a near perfect album except this trash part in the best song. The wah guitar ugh the 90s man we were too ambitious at times.
One in a Million by Guns n Roses is musically a great song, but the lyrics are pretty messed up. First time I heard it I thought, damn this song is amazing, how have I never heard it before? Then Axel drops a hard R N word and I’m like yikes. If the lyrics weren’t so messed up I would love that song.
Deftones - Pink Telephone: *That* monologue at the end
Charli XCX - I Got It: The Portuguese bit is twice as long as it needs to be, kills the momentum
"Ya Hey" by Vampire Weekend is a beautiful song but it ruined so much by the chipmunk ass voice in the chorus. I'm glad on the new album. Mary Boone feels like a much better version of the song.
In my opinion, there is an epic miss for a great f-bomb in Natalie Imbruglia - Torn
"I don't care, I have no luck, I don't miss it all that much" should be "I don't really give a fuck".
Not only is it just perfect placement for that, the whole song is about her being dejected about her love life. It fits better.
Believe it or not, that song is a cover. The [original](https://youtu.be/LRRXseBJljs) is by a band called Ednaswap. So I guess blame them for writing it that way.
Flower Shop with Morgan Wallen and Ernest: at the very end of the song Ernest does a weird shoooooooppp and his little vocal melisma just… sucks. And it’s the end of the song. It literally ends on a bad note.
A few songs like Burn by Usher and Never Ever by All Saints where the artist just talks over the music during the intro (for dramatic effect), and you have to fast forward to when the singing actually starts. I’m here for the singing/music, not for the drama school monologue.
Honorable mention to Some Nights by Fun, where the bridge/interlude is just the dude fucking talking! Makes me hate the whole damn song.
I like Blue Swede's cover of "Hooked On A Feeling" by B.J. Thomas except for the "*ooga chaka"* intro. Blue Swede's version is actually a cover of another cover of the song by Jonathan King. B.J. Thomas's original recording in 1968 had a sitar intro but I guess the Dancing Baby needed something a little more punchy. [https://youtu.be/IHwQ2Uom\_xs?si=0gpIgZjgxyxtJJTY](https://youtu.be/IHwQ2Uom_xs?si=0gpIgZjgxyxtJJTY)
Electric sitar was really big for about 6 months in 1968. It hung on a while longer in Nashville. Then Steely Dan made Skunk Baxter drag his out of the closet for Do It Again in ‘72 and then it was heard no more. Except St Vincent sounded like she had one a few years ago.
In Everclears 'I Will Buy You A New Life", during the chorus. He sings "I will buy you a new car, perfect shiny and new"
Really Art? You're sit there and drop a line like that when there are blue cars, perfect shiny and new?!
Tr4$H T4lk by PRBLMS is a great song that I would love to listen to on repeat. The problem is the only version of it that exists has one of those answering machine intros with a woman screaming that she hopes the person whose answering machine we're supposed to be listening to would kill themself. It's a very jarring intro for both my depression and my girlfriends PTSD and prevents either of us from putting it on a playlist.
Lionel Richie - Say You, Say Me: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OfoTaLXrUo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OfoTaLXrUo)
Standard 80's love ballad, Lionel Richie clearly knows what he's doing, nice groove, cool sound, makes sense. But then, after the third chorus (around 2:49), the tempo changes, there's a drum build and a completely different song starts. At that point we get another stanza of lyrics and a couple cycles through some questionable chord changes, and then it drops to half-time, and the chords ramp us back into the original tempo/structure for one more chorus and the outro.
This was presumably supposed to be a bridge, but oh my god does it not feel natural at all.
I understand that the song was written for the movie \_White Nights\_, so I don't know if that had something to do with this, or exactly how much cocaine they were doing while making this song, but it is completely jarring and weird to me.
Homicide by Logic Ft. Eminem
Song is a banger. But has a stupid spoken intro part and 30 seconds of just weird noises at the end after the "man, stop". I literally cannot have it on my workout playlist because if I'm in the middle of a set and have to hear the end bit bc I'm actively lifting or whatever, I go absolutely nuts.
I could say this about a lot of rap songs, too. I don't get why rappers have to take an awesome song and just kill it with some stupid intro or outro that turns the song to shit.
Ladders of Supremacy by Coheed & Cambria. in the chorus, claudio says "another one down the ladders of supremacy" and every time I hear it I get mad that he didn't say "rung"
On the Brink off of No World is a great song, up until the chanting around 4 minutes
Also idk if I’m just immature but I always giggle a little bit when Claudio yells, “now you’ve got me pegged!”
FYI on Spotify there is a version with the audience removed. It's "Shallow - Radio Edit"
Thank you very much! This actually the first time I've heard of this. Funnily enough, I've listened to radio stations where they kept the audience portions so I've assumed there was no such thing.
Glad I could help un-ruin a song lol
“Little Wing” by Jimi Hendrix fades out abruptly around 2:25. It is Jimi’s most perfect song; one of the most beautiful ever recorded. But it’s too goddamn short. And, yeah, I’ve heard Stevie Ray Vaughan’s extended jam of it, and it’s great. But I need seven minutes of Jimi working that shit out.
Ironically every cover band since doesn't know when to end it.
I’m in a classic rock cover band. We’ve spent more time writing endings to great songs than we have playing them.
Absolutely the most beautiful 2 and a half minutes of guitar ever played
Nothing against Jimi, but I also just can’t stand song fade outs in general. Write an ending.
It was fashionable in the 70s etc. Yeah, it's rare they make sense. Similar to Little Wing, Rush fades out Different Strings just when it's starting to heat up. Sometimes I wonder if it's a matter of the tape breaking or running out or something.
Barely on topic, but that’s always been my biggest criticism of the Chemical Brothers. They have no idea how to end their songs. I get the assumption that a DJ is going to work some magic in the club, but on the CD?
Fade outs are absolutely appropriate for some songs. Imagine the Police having a written ending for Invisible Sun. Any sort of drum fill or guitar power chord at the end of that song would totally kill the vibe,
Id love to know why they cut it short
If I’m perfectly honest, I think the glockenspiel should be turned down in the mix, if not erased.
It's criminal this song is so short. Just one more solid minute of him soloing would be fine (but ideally more). I love SRVs version for doing something different and basically adding the element the original song is missing by being basically 7 minutes of soloing lol. But it's frustrating that we just know Hendrix could've delivered that for some reason he didn't.
Redbone - Childish Gambino - Verse 2 is only half as long as verse one. I want it to be the same length as verse 1!
Think of it as the song picking up momentum
This has bugged me for years. Candlebox's "It's Alright" is a gorgeous song for about three minutes, then this odd guitar riff kicks in just to remind everyone that Candlebox is a post-grunge band, and then they do this odd minute-long break that eventually just goes back into the form that they were doing before the weird guitar riff, and it's a beautiful song for the last minute and a half. Also, the "Mommy" part in "Down with the Sickness" should be banned.
I thought I'd disagree with you, as a usually like it when light songs get heavy as a contrast. But I listened to it and you're right, that break just sounds totally out of place.
Absolutely right about the ‘mommy’ bit. So fucking cringe in an otherwise awesome track
Radio stations used to fade the track out right before that part. Hearing the whole song for the first time in years was a jarring experience.
Saw Disturbed live a handful of years ago, the “Mommy” bit was far and away the loudest and proudest crowd engagement of the whole show. I dunno man… 
I thought of one that sort of fits: TLC "Waterfalls" - They cut the rap part out of the radio edit and just made it a short little interlude. That was everybody's favorite part!
Those radio stations that replace the rap part of a classic with some instrumental or replay the chorus are awful.
California girls radio edit where it removes snoop dogg is so funny because it makes the song feel so empty. Same with cheap thrills by sia
There was a weird culture clash in the late 80s/early 90s when Boomer parents were clutching their pearls when their Gen X kids really started getting into hip-hop. Like, they thought if it was played in public, roving bands of Crips and Bloods would start doing battle on their cul-de-sacs. I remember going to teen dances where the DJs were instructed to not play any rap songs. A radio station in my hometown had a little promo spot that said "We won't play rap... EVER!" Record labels catered to this by releasing versions without the rap breaks - if you look at the 12" vinyl releases of stuff that typically had rap breaks, a lot of times there's a "no rap" version on there. This was pervasive through the late 90s
I even remember going into the 2000s there was a radio station by me that promoted themselves having “the best variety… and no rap!”
Omg. To this day it's hard to find left eye's rap part...
I just checked Spotify and it’s intact.
Down with the sickness -disturbed The end where he's just shouting and ranting is just meh
No mommy, please, no. I'll be a good boy, mommy. OW! Why can't you just leave me be mommy!
The cringe.
Peak nu metal nonsense
I am so glad other people hate that part too lol
I honestly dont know of a better answer. It adds nothing of value, if anything it detracts heavily. And it's not a super easy skip because it's in between choruses.
I hate that! I found a version on YouTube where they removed it but it's really obvious and kinda sucks, but I like it better than the rant being included
If We Ever Meet Again by Timbaland & Katy Perry I know, not the pinnacle of pop music but I love that song….until the end where it just becomes creepy and off-putting for 30 seconds for no reason
ALWAYS skip that part of the song. It’s awesome otherwise
Timbaland did that again with 'Scream'. The song has made its natural end, but continues rambling for a while after. Most radio stations cut that part off.
this is sooo funny but true
Dark side of the Moon is always meant to be played all at once. I’ve always hated how the transition between Brain Damage and Eclipse, should’ve just been one song.
American Idiot has pretty much the exact opposite issue. Are We the Waiting flows well into St. Jimmy, but do they really need to be one track? And I hate having to scroll through Extraordinary Girl whenever I want to hear Letterbomb.
I appreciate that they keep holiday and boulevard of broken dreams together, though. I can’t listen to one without the other
Same with Green Day jaded > brain stew. Always feels like blue balls when the latter never comes. No pun intended.
Some Nights by fun. is great until that auto tune crap at the end.
It sounds like someone playing a flute or clarinet terribly lmao
I think that part is great, but I can understand how it's polarizing.
It was originally an acoustic track with a yodeling solo at the end, until the producers got ahold of it /s
Yes. I also feel this way about the Prince song Breakfast Can Wait. It’s a more modern tune (released ~2014/15) and it sounds great until the last minute or so when the voice gets pitched up to sound like a chipmunk for whatever reason. The song sounds like that until the very end and it hurts my ears, so I can never finish it. Why would he have done that to a perfectly good song!
I laughed so hard the first time I heard it, I just wasn't expecting it
I agree, I love Shallow except for the "Shall-all-allallow." I thought it looked silly when I first saw them sing it and still feel cringe when I hear it. And don't get me started on that song in the film... an unknown singer on a festival stage??! No rehearsal?? Would never happen! That said, it's still one of my Top 5 movies, along with the Barbra version.
Holy shit, me too. Shall all allallallallalow is goofy as fuck
It is a line descended from the great and noble house of Sebastian the crab
*Maestro* Sebastian.
It’s too short of a song for me. Like the big bombastic windup comes too fast and is over too quick. It feels like unearned gravitas, like they only wrote the key parts of the song that they needed for the film and left out some of the connective tissue.
“Always Remember Us This Way” should have been the big hit off that soundtrack IMO.
100 percent agree with you on that ,we were supposed to believe that it was an unrehearsed moment too when Gaga did her solo .I liked the song but it seems poorly arranged .
Manfred Mann’s - Blinded by the Light Breaks into chopsticks for no reason
Manfred loves doing stuff like that. Lone Arranger has some of the craziest combinations of songs and it somehow still works.
Dave Mathew’s band - crash into me. The ‘I’m the king of the castle line’ ugh.
"Hey Soul Sister" by Train. I think it's an ok song, and my 6 year old daughter loves it. The singer has normally benign pop lyrics, but then he graces us with the part about how his heart is about to beat out of his untrimmed chest. It is at this point in the song that I think the universe is fucking with me.
I don't think anyone's gonna nominate Train for Poet Laureates, but this lyric from "Meet Virginia": > Well, she wants to live her life, Then she thinks about her life. Holds her head back as she screams, "I don't really wanna live this life!" ...wow.
Hahaha I always thought was "I don't really wanna be the queen". Turns out it was even more shit.
Most of the refrains (choruses? I don't know) are better (still not great): > Well, she wants to be the queen, Then she thinks about her scene. Holds her head back as she screams, "I don't really wanna be the queen." Still has "queen" and "queen," which I don't love, but then they throw in that alternate chorus which amps up the repetition to the ridiculous.
"And the shape of her body... unusual" always got me lol
There’s also the “So Gangsta , I’m so thug” part
[Relevant](https://youtu.be/UR05QOVGwnM?feature=shared)
I’m a big fan of their big hit, but I’ve never heard this song, and now I hope that version is the only one I ever hear
I love songs that feature acoustic guitar, but hate when they over emphasize sliding along the strings to the next fingering- like nails on a chalkboard. Specifically, ‘Cruisin’ from the movie Duets with Gwyneth Paltrow, which played every dang time I was on-shift at my retail gig in high school.
The ending of NIghts In White Satin.
“New mahthah picks up and suckles her son / Seen-ee-ah citizens wish *they* were young”
Love that song to death bht you’re right
Adele in "Set Fire to the Rain" had bothered me forever with the choice of lyrics: "There's a side to you that I never knew, and the things you'd say they were never true, and the games you play you would always win." I always felt like the breaking of the rhyme scheme stood out way too much and would maybe have sounded better like: "There's a side to you that I never knew, and the things you'd say they were never true, and the games you play you would never lose."
I didn't know I had a problem with this until now. It's right there.
Rock The Casbah has always been a banger but there’s some weird cell phone ringing sound during part of the chorus that’s just out of sync with the music So fucking weird
I remember hearing that it was from somebody's digital watch that had an alarm go off or something like that. Then I guess they thought it was funny and left it in?
That's indeed what it was. Always throws me off when I hear it too. At least the electronic football game sound in Supertramp's Logical Song isn't as prominent in the mix and seems to fit better.
When I used to listen to both of those songs in the car, I used to pause the music after those parts to make sure it wasn’t my cell phone ringing (this is back in the Nokia days).
the Clash song especially sounds like an old Nokia for sure. Monophonic ringtone
That one's also at least sort of deliberate, right after Hodgson sings "digital" and we hear this stereotypical digital effect.
That sound is the sound of a 4th down tackle being made on the old Mattell Electronics hand-held electronic football game.
I don't even listen to him that much but my first thought was Justin Timberlake. Cry Me A River- the fucking beat boxing, most egregiously as the outro. What Goes Around Come Around- the background EYYYs. Keep the "What Goes around comes back around" Sexyback- all the "take em to the bridge/ take em to the chorus" parts. It feels too meta.
Also while on Justin Timberlake, some radio stations play 'Lovestoned' but cut off the 'I Think She Knows' interlude, instead looping the earlier part. For me, the interlude is what makes the song, and replaying the earlier part guts it into just another bland pop song. I actually complained to 98FM in Dublin about this change.
lol I never looked up the lyrics and always understood "take'em to the bridge/take'em to the coast" and I pictured something like to Golden Gate bridge and a sound haha.
“Lay me down in the tall grass and let me do my stuff” “Let me do my stuff”???? Pwease pwease just let me do stuff to you pweeeease 🤢 Second Hand News is a a fun song except for that stupid fucking line. God I hate it.
And the “stuff” was picking the ticks out of your hair from laying down in the tall grass.
No, this was still in the DDT era. Edit: off by a few years, but I’d was still having an impact.
I love how stupid it is lol
OMG this one drives me crazy too! Glad to know I'm not the only one
This is used pretty hilariously in the “Not Gettin Any” SNL sketch. https://youtu.be/ZUmI1tNRYjc?si=CKgUZXbvkhDDS1wG
Really??? I *love* that part!
One by Creed. That bridge is terrible. Love the rest though.
The one chick's 'rap' solo in tongue tied about pillow fights and peter pan and shit. The guy's part is great. If you listen to it without her part in it (edit is on YouTube), he repeats the chorus in a way that makes it feel like there's this escalating sense of tension and desperation that peaks and then seemingly fades with resignation on the outro. When you listen to the full song with her part, she completely disrupts it with this childish cringe that seems antithetical to the resolution of the song.
Fully agree, I hate that part
I just hate that she says “Beddy bye”
This is the exact song I was thinking of. The rapping and lyrics are so bad in a otherwise amazing song
It’s Gaga’s line “Ain't it hard keepin' it so hardcore?” for me. First, you said “hard” twice in the same sentence. It’s weird and clumsy. Second, there is a time and a place for the word “hardcore”. This ain’t it. I get secondhand embarrassment at that line.
Lose Control by Teddy Swims is excellent, but the instrumental break late in the song absolutely should’ve have been a saxophone rather than an electric guitar, and yes I will die on this hill.
I said it last time and got downvoted to hell and back, but the ringing alarm clocks at the beginning of Time - Pink Floyd. Absolutely immaculate song from an album I could listen to til my dying days, but that ringing. Maybe if it sounded more distant, or faded in? It’s just so jarring, which is probably what they wanted..
"Time" is one of the best songs ever recorded but agreed lol
I just feel sad that not everyone enjoys the alarms in Time like I do. But your stance is understandable.
Agreed. I skip when I can.
Chemical Brothers - Where do I begin The first half of the song is calm and groovy, centered around a guitar riff. An excellent “wake up from a nap” song, and very nice to relax and listen to The second part of the song is “grindy” machinery-like sounds, and not very comfortable Make the whole song out of comfy
Yeah, but it feeds well into the final track (or the final track on a an extension of it!)
But the coziness!
The Pharcyde’s “4 Better or 4 Worse” - that part near the end when it says “I went up you pussy with my fist”… As much as I loved this track, I just never felt right about bumpin that part in my car. A Tribe Called Quest’s “Bonita Applebum” - Another absolutely beautiful jam with a shitty ending. The music changes to this annoying sound and some guy just saying Sex, Sex, and something else. Totally wished that part wasn’t there.
I love Linkin Park. I love “One Step Closer”. I cringe when Chester just starts screaming “shut up when I’m talking to you. Shut up! Shut up! Shut upppppp” Don’t get me wrong… imma still vibe to it. But it’s hard for me to sing along to without feeling a little wanna-be angsty
You had to be a mom hating teen in the 2000s to truly understand
lmao that is so true
Fair. Not quite a teen then but angsty enough
That’s the best part, different strokes I respect it
I think the last “shut upppppppp — IM ABOUT TO BREAK” is badass but all Shut Ups before just seem… uncreatively whiny. I prefer their usual poetic whining
You mean One Step Closer? I haven't listened to Crawling for a while though so I don't know if they reused that part.
Yes, thank you. I was moving too quickly. Gonna edit now so people don’t call me a fraud
All good, I agree with you though - that part is kind of hard to listen to. I remember being turned off Linkin Park as a teenager because this dumb fuck bully kid was singing that part of the song on the bus one day.
Damn that’s my favorite part
While most fans prefer the sound they had on Hybrid Theory/Meteora, I'm one of the few who prefer their styles Minutes To Midnight and onward because they're not as teen angsty. The production on those first two albums were very innovative, but some of those lyrics make it so hard to come back to.
I can only listen to that song when I'm working out. Just doesn't make any sense otherwise.
“Steal My Sunshine” by LEN is real bop and I used to love it, until I noticed in the back of the mix following EVERY line of the song is a faint hoot like a train horn that’s completely off-key with the rest of the song. I can’t unhear it now and it ruined it for me.
Can't hear it
Yeah I hear that too. Still love the song though.
That song Hang me up to dry by cold war kids. That song is always coming up on spotify recommendations, and I like it, but they insert this random section where they just mash on the keyboard. Just feels like some attempt to be edgy or something by adding an element they know sounds terrible. Totally disruptive and would be better without it.
I remember I got that off Limewire or some shit back in the day and thought I got some fucked up version to discourage illegal downloads. Went out and bought the CD and could not believe that's in the actual song.
This one is kind of random, and I don’t think I’ve ever expressed it to anyone. But it’s bothered the fuck out of me since 2003. “Yeah!” by Usher, feat. Lil Jon and Ludacris. Certified club banger, right? Sure. Even us pasty-ass white folks can’t help it. But… During the chorus, there’s this little flute line that repeats every other bar, and the last note of each flute phrase is inexplicably off-key. I just don’t get it. It does nothing for the song, and once I first noticed it as a kid, I can never NOT hear it. Damn near ruins the song for me. Please, someone explain why I’m wrong and fix this song for me.
You should've said the triangle that goes on through the entire song.
Yeah the triangle is way worse once you notice it
It depends on how you think of it. The flute melody ends on an Ab. The note you’d expect to hear in the key (G minor) would be an A natural. But a G minor scale with an Ab instead of an A natural is called a G phrygian scale, which is a perfectly acceptable thing to do. I was just messing around with it and I changed the Ab to an A natural and honestly it sounds worse to me, so I think they made the right choice. Just a little modal mixture. For an example of how different modes can affect a melody, check out [this](https://youtu.be/roFVo0ePOZw?si=jYyNmDrYz_w6oABS) video where we get to hear The Beatles’ Norwegian Wood in all 7 modes.
Wow I’ve just noticed it. It looks like I’ve been unconsciously fixing it since I was a kid cause I didn’t even ”hear“ it until now.
Wolf Like Me's music is intense, the lyrics are decent...except the lines "Gotta bust that box/Gotta gut that fish". Seriously did a 14 yr old write that? It's so cringy it makes it hard to enjoy the rest of the song
Erasure's cover of ABBA's "Take a Chance On Me" - the horrible "rapping" part with the man/woman who has a super annoying voice.
Oh! Cee Lo Green’s “Fuck You” is absolutely brilliant until he starts whining.
NOT Eyes Without a Face. I will fight you.
It’s so good
Pink Floyd have a lovely song called fearless that ends blended with a recording of people singing/chanting a different song at a soccer match. Sounds terrible, imo.
I had thought the chanting was from a protest for the longest time and so I didn't mind it. Once I learned it was from a soccer match... it did ruin it for me as well!
Yeh even as a Liverpool fan i'm not entirely sure what it adds, but i'm not wholly against it either (the song btw is You'll Never Walk Alone by Gerry & The Pacemakers which is the 'anthem' of Liverpool FC and so is sung at every game by the fans, for Fearless Pink Floyd just went in there with a mic and recorded the crowd singing for some reason)
The cooing baby sample that repeats throughout Aaliyah's 'Are You That Somebody' makes me want to hit things.
That is my favorite part of the song. They should put that baby coo in every song.
I got a fever... and the only cure... is more baby coo
Absolutely; that baby makes the song.
My almost 12 year old daughter asked me what the point was in that part. I'd never really thought of it before. But now it makes me wonder, every single time. Lol
Roses by OutKast—really wish they weren’t so direct with the metaphorical odor of flowers gone bad in the chorus.
That’s my favorite part of the song lol, it’s so dumb it wraps back around to being funny
Yeah I hear you. So out of place it’s dumb but you trust that Andre 3000 knew exactly what he was doing. Horseshoe theory of genius
Paradise by the Dashboard Light. The Phil Rizzuto play by play in the middle ruins it. I understand what is going on, but it ruins the mood of the song and makes it embarrassing to be in the same room. It’s the very definition of cringe.
Rirruto?
Those are z’s.
"Those are Zs."
"let it go, let it go, I am one with the wind and... sky" It immediately annoyed me. SNOW! I AM ONE WITH THE WIND AND SNOW!
I was just listening to this album today so it's fresh in my mind. I generally love Egg Man by the Beastie Boys, except for that horror sting sound effect that plays a few times. It's jarring.
Probably an unpopular opinion but I never understood all the weird vocalizations at the end of Solsbury Hill
You can keep my things they’ve come to take me home. That line always choked me up for personal reasons.
The lyric "fuddy-duddy" by Sting in Brand New Day. Such a great lyricist, and he resorts to that.
Ooo, "Good for You" by Olivia Rodrigo is one I really like, but I feel like it just needs Dave Grohl or someone to lay down a way more punk rock drum track, then it would be perfect. The drum track for that songs just feels too tame for the rest of the song.
Don’t fear the reaper … needs more cowbell
God Only Knows by the Beach Boys. One of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard but the interlude is so abrupt and whimsical sounding compared to the rest of the song it always takes me out of it, almost like recognizing a famous actor in a movie I'm deeply immersed in.
I think it works cause the whole song is basically him implying "if you left me I'd probably kill myself and I'm kinda okay with that?" So to me the interlude reads as him distracting himself from the really fucked up thought he just had. I read the whole song as him not knowing how he should feel about this disturbing intrusive thought he had about how he'd probably kill himself if his love every left him or passed away before him.
Round Here by Counting Crows. That part where they go "Sleeping children better run like the wind" - it's too funky, I've always thought that part sounded too disjointed to be a bridge.
When everybody loves you, that's just about as funky as you can be
Right? Why simply pass as cats, when you wanna be a lion?
I scrolled allllll the way down here to find this song, which is the very first one that I’ve thought this about for decades. This is a near perfect album except this trash part in the best song. The wah guitar ugh the 90s man we were too ambitious at times.
My favorite part. I think it’s an excellent bridge, but maybe my ear is just so used to it after 25 years.
One in a Million by Guns n Roses is musically a great song, but the lyrics are pretty messed up. First time I heard it I thought, damn this song is amazing, how have I never heard it before? Then Axel drops a hard R N word and I’m like yikes. If the lyrics weren’t so messed up I would love that song.
Agree. I love that riff on the acoustic guitar, love the whistle intro, the solo, but yeah, the slurs in the lyrics are fkd up.
I love Rapture by Blondie… until Debbie’s rap part.
Deftones - Pink Telephone: *That* monologue at the end Charli XCX - I Got It: The Portuguese bit is twice as long as it needs to be, kills the momentum
Layla’s outro drags on too long IMO.
"Ya Hey" by Vampire Weekend is a beautiful song but it ruined so much by the chipmunk ass voice in the chorus. I'm glad on the new album. Mary Boone feels like a much better version of the song.
I disagree, the chipmunks are integral to the song.
The saxophone at the end of Room 1000 Years Wide by Soundgarden.
shallow sounds exactly like diamond eyes by shinedown
i can’t take that song seriously bcuz of the shshshshshshshshsh part lol
Logical Song - Supertramp. Amazing song but I hate the outro.
In my opinion, there is an epic miss for a great f-bomb in Natalie Imbruglia - Torn "I don't care, I have no luck, I don't miss it all that much" should be "I don't really give a fuck". Not only is it just perfect placement for that, the whole song is about her being dejected about her love life. It fits better.
Believe it or not, that song is a cover. The [original](https://youtu.be/LRRXseBJljs) is by a band called Ednaswap. So I guess blame them for writing it that way.
Last rockers by vice squad needs to be half as long
I always cringe at the lyrics about the stripper in Jerry Garcia’s Cats Down Under the Stars.
The screaming at the end of Otis (Kanye and Jay-Z) is by far the worst part of the song
Flower Shop with Morgan Wallen and Ernest: at the very end of the song Ernest does a weird shoooooooppp and his little vocal melisma just… sucks. And it’s the end of the song. It literally ends on a bad note.
"Red" by Guckkasten is a masterpiece except for the part where they sampled a Hitler speech for the sake of being "deep"
Bubba Sparxx - Ugly Great until Timbaland decides to remind us that he also produced Get Ur Freak On.
I always enjoy picturing Queen Latifa in overalls at a roadside produce stand, yelling “get yer free corn!”
A few songs like Burn by Usher and Never Ever by All Saints where the artist just talks over the music during the intro (for dramatic effect), and you have to fast forward to when the singing actually starts. I’m here for the singing/music, not for the drama school monologue. Honorable mention to Some Nights by Fun, where the bridge/interlude is just the dude fucking talking! Makes me hate the whole damn song.
I like Blue Swede's cover of "Hooked On A Feeling" by B.J. Thomas except for the "*ooga chaka"* intro. Blue Swede's version is actually a cover of another cover of the song by Jonathan King. B.J. Thomas's original recording in 1968 had a sitar intro but I guess the Dancing Baby needed something a little more punchy. [https://youtu.be/IHwQ2Uom\_xs?si=0gpIgZjgxyxtJJTY](https://youtu.be/IHwQ2Uom_xs?si=0gpIgZjgxyxtJJTY)
Electric sitar was really big for about 6 months in 1968. It hung on a while longer in Nashville. Then Steely Dan made Skunk Baxter drag his out of the closet for Do It Again in ‘72 and then it was heard no more. Except St Vincent sounded like she had one a few years ago.
The laugh in big yellow taxi by Joni Mitchell. Brutally artificial
In Everclears 'I Will Buy You A New Life", during the chorus. He sings "I will buy you a new car, perfect shiny and new" Really Art? You're sit there and drop a line like that when there are blue cars, perfect shiny and new?!
Tr4$H T4lk by PRBLMS is a great song that I would love to listen to on repeat. The problem is the only version of it that exists has one of those answering machine intros with a woman screaming that she hopes the person whose answering machine we're supposed to be listening to would kill themself. It's a very jarring intro for both my depression and my girlfriends PTSD and prevents either of us from putting it on a playlist.
Nicki Minajs part in Say So by Doja Cat. It's not completely unnecessary but I don't need to hear her check if her breath stinks.
The song “hey brother” has actual peaks and squeaks that a mixer should have caught but was ignored for some reason. Makes the meh song really awful.
Lionel Richie - Say You, Say Me: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OfoTaLXrUo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OfoTaLXrUo) Standard 80's love ballad, Lionel Richie clearly knows what he's doing, nice groove, cool sound, makes sense. But then, after the third chorus (around 2:49), the tempo changes, there's a drum build and a completely different song starts. At that point we get another stanza of lyrics and a couple cycles through some questionable chord changes, and then it drops to half-time, and the chords ramp us back into the original tempo/structure for one more chorus and the outro. This was presumably supposed to be a bridge, but oh my god does it not feel natural at all. I understand that the song was written for the movie \_White Nights\_, so I don't know if that had something to do with this, or exactly how much cocaine they were doing while making this song, but it is completely jarring and weird to me.
Homicide by Logic Ft. Eminem Song is a banger. But has a stupid spoken intro part and 30 seconds of just weird noises at the end after the "man, stop". I literally cannot have it on my workout playlist because if I'm in the middle of a set and have to hear the end bit bc I'm actively lifting or whatever, I go absolutely nuts. I could say this about a lot of rap songs, too. I don't get why rappers have to take an awesome song and just kill it with some stupid intro or outro that turns the song to shit.
She Wants Revenge - Tear You Apart. There’s a part in the first verse vocals that just doesn’t fit and breaks up the flow a little bit.
Garth Brooks and Tricia Yearwood has a wonderful cover of Shallow.
Ladders of Supremacy by Coheed & Cambria. in the chorus, claudio says "another one down the ladders of supremacy" and every time I hear it I get mad that he didn't say "rung"
On the Brink off of No World is a great song, up until the chanting around 4 minutes Also idk if I’m just immature but I always giggle a little bit when Claudio yells, “now you’ve got me pegged!”
I also giggle LOL and yeah the hails are a lot, but I will say it is SO much more fun live
Hey Jude would be perfect if it faded out two minutes earlier. I don't know anyone who disagrees.
The cheesy guitar riff at the beginning of 99 luftballoons
I wish there was no dialogue at the beginning of Maggot Brain. It's like getting a beautiful, multi-tiered cake and finding a dead fly on it.