Classic rock songs you dare to not like.

[astronight]

I can not stand these songs.
Led Zeppelin: Stairway to heaven.
Eric Captain : Layla
Aerosmith : Dream on.
This is not a trash talk about beloved bands or the songs mentioned.
Like when you hear on the radio a countdown list over a holiday weekend of the top 100 rocks tunes might as well stop before top of list because whats the point.
I actually like these songs, just are times, cant make it through them.

[maxedout]

I've never liked Stairway to Heaven anyway. It belongs with Smoke on the Water, Free Bird & Layla as overdone. every single amateur rock band will do at least one of them during their set.

On the subject of overdone songs, I live near Liverpool (just far enough away to escape being a scouser). When John Lennon died I got some very angry looks when I said I was sick of hearing nothing but Imagine on the radio, You'd think he'd never written anything else!

Oh, and Bohemian Rhapsody - I just hate it.

[bloke57]

Agree with all the above.

"Layla" especially - in my university days it seemed to be played about 10 times a night on the bar jukebox. It's not that good!

As for Lennon, not exactly a rock song, but Happy Christmas (War is Over) drives me nuts. It's not what you'd call festive - a real downer - and reinforces John's monomaniacal belief that he personally invented the concept of peace.

[Estreeter]

Originally Posted by maxedout

Oh, and Bohemian Rhapsody - I just hate it.

I'll go along with that 110 %

Originally Posted by bloke57

Happy Christmas (War is Over) drives me nuts. It's not what you'd call festive - a real downer - and reinforces John's monomaniacal belief that he personally invented the concept of peace.

And that

One of the classics I hate ... Sweet Home Alabama

[Sir Honkers]

Originally Posted by maxedout

Oh, and Bohemian Rhapsody - I just hate it.

You do realise that now I have to hunt you down and shoot you like a mangy dog!

[maxedout]

Originally Posted by loosegoose

You do realise that now I have to hunt you down and shoot you like a mangy dog!

If you do it while that piece of pretentious overblown crap is playing I'll gladly run onto the bullet just to make it stop.

Speaking of pretentious - anything by Radiohead except Creep belongs on the list.

I remember hearing about a musical instrument shop somewhere who would fine anyone who picked up a guitar & played any song from a list on the wall - top of the list was Smoke on the Water, 2nd was Stairway to Heaven.

Not a rock song by any stretch of the imagination but, when I was about 9 a huge hit was (brace yourself) Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep. It was written by Lally Stott who lived on the same street as me so everyone local bought a copy & played it incessantly, add to that it was hardly off the radio (it got to no 1 for fucks sake!!!) & i couldn't escape it. My skin still crawls at the mention of that crime against music.



I think I'll have to lie down now for a while until the nausea passes.

[tygrkhat40]

I cannot stand the Bad Company song, "Shooting Star." I hear the first chords and I'm listening to something else.

[wimbo77]

I'm probably going to get butchered for saying Meat Loaf's Bat Out Of Hell. Theatrical rock opera isn't my thing if that's what it's genre is called.

[rigger67]

I think you left Hotel California off the list, mate

I'm not really a rock fan (though I like prog) but a few years ago I joined a covers band as singer having been coerced by a mate who was one of the guitarists.
We played songs by Pink Floyd (great), The Police (yep), Lenny Kravitz (yes !) and a few other "classic rock" numbers. I only contributed one song and that was by Living Color - Love Rears Up Its Ugly Head.

Once when we were rehearsing I asked why we didn't play something like The Beatles or Elvis - both artists I love, like most people I guess. I got shot down as to a man they said "No Beatles, no Elvis, no Stairway and no Smoke On The Water".

Apparently most of the classics are no-goes !

Seems a bit daft being a covers band really .. anyway, I was still DJing soul and jazz which upset them even more

[RLWeed947040]

Any song by Def Leppard simply turns me off.