Classic FM songs you CANT STAND!

[WestPhillyPunisher]

The pretentious assertion isn't without merit. Robert Plant later regretted a lot of the lyrical content of the song. It's still awesome though, as are Zeppelin. So, yeah, BLASPHEMY!

Well, what about the story that Jimmy Page ripped off the opening guitar riff from someone else’s song?

[Kirby101]

Well, what about the story that Jimmy Page ripped off the opening guitar riff from someone else’s song?

Taurus by Spirit. It's still in Court.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=xd8AVbwB_6E

[TriggerWarning]

This might be seen as blasphemy to some, but I've always found "Stairway To Heaven" by Led Zeppelin to be pretentious crapola. In fact, I've NEVER understood the appeal of that band.

I love Zeppelin but I can't stand the Beatles. I've never understood why they are as revered as they are.

[TriggerWarning]

Smoke on the Water by Deep Purple.

I HATE this song and its riff. Goes back to having to play it endlessly in junior high school band.

[Falcon16]

Smoke on the Water by Deep Purple.

I HATE this song and its riff. Goes back to having to play it endlessly in junior high school band.

Even the Simpsons version?

[Gray Lensman]

I hate most "white guy rap" since too many of the songs overuse high pitched, eardrum piercing sounds. The whiney note from House of Pain's 'Jump Around' and the parrot squawk from Eminem's 'My Name Is' are my two most hated. The effect those two overused sounds have on me is about the same a fingernails on a chalkboard to anyone else.

[WillieMorgan]

Well, what about the story that Jimmy Page ripped off the opening guitar riff from someone else’s song?

It's still ongoing is all that. The original song was by a Californian band called Spirit. There's an unmistakable similarity between the two songs in places. I think I linked it on the Classic Rock Appreciation Thread one time.

Do Nirvana count as Classic FM? If so any of their dirges always get me switching radio stations as well.

[seismic-2]

Michael Martin Murphey singing Wildfire

[ed2962]

This might be seen as blasphemy to some, but I've always found "Stairway To Heaven" by Led Zeppelin to be pretentious crapola. In fact, I've NEVER understood the appeal of that band.

This was going to be my entry. When I was younger I was part of the "Led Zeppelin? Bah, Humbug," crowd. But later learned to respect and even enjoy much of their music. But to this day, I still can't listen to Stairway to Heaven all the way through. At one point I literally owned "Zeppelin 4" on vinyl and never played that song.

[CellarDweller]

Michael Martin Murphey singing Wildfire

OMG I love this song! Especially the longer version with the piano intro and outro.


I prepare myself for anger and calls for my banishment, but I'll say it anyway. There are not enough words for me to say how much I HATE Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody. Stupidest song I've ever heard, and it did not deserve to be resurrected by that stupid Wayne's World movie.

[Iron Maiden]

For me, just about anything by Dire Straits. I find them boring nowadays and I really didn't care much for their stuff anyway. And I'll agree with Stairway to Heaven too.

[numberthirty]

Man, this thread is zero fun.

Next thing you know, someone is going to figure out a way not to like Thin Lizzy.

[GozertheGozarian]

For me it's :
"Walk, like a man" (for #$% sake ! SING like a man!)

Nothing sexist about this.

[TriggerWarning]

Next thing you know, someone is going to figure out a way not to like Thin Lizzy.

Who?

Took me a minute to even think of a song by them. Only one I came up with was The Boys are Back in Town which while not on my utter hate list is one that I don't care if I never hear again.

[GindyPosts]

With a title like "Classic FM songs you CANT STAND!", I guess I was expecting something different.

At least half the music mentioned here were AM Top 40 songs when I was a kid.

I guess it's a generational thing, and for some of those songs, maybe you "had to be there".

I get where you're coming across. Obviously, today, AM radio is comprised of conservative talk, Mexican radio, and sports and is not as much of a means for stations to rely on income when it comes to music, but back when AM was the dominant frequency, it was the bastion for what was popular on the airwaves.