Five Bands That Hated Their Biggest Hit

[crunchee]

From the Cracked website:

5 Bands Who Hated Their Biggest Hit | Cracked.com

It sounds about right.  BTW, who bought Oasis tickets just in case the Gallagher Bros fight it out onstage and bust up again?

Nelly Furtado recalls Liam and Noel showdown at Oasis gig in Vancouver | The Independent

Edited September 23, 2024 by crunchee

[Travis]

Surprised Warrant’s “Cherry Pie” wasn’t on the list. Jani Lane HATED that song…

[RobB]

Awwwww..! Da poor, wittle wock stars hating on songs that helped make them millionaires. Songs their fans adore. Pwayed, "Stairway...", a few too many times, Wobert Anthony? Awwwwwwww..! West assured that 8 minutes of your hootchie-cootchie, showboating scatting, ruining live renditions of the song you hate is agonizing for the audience, too.

Fook dey bitchez! Give the people their hits. Better still, shut up about it and don't ruin it for us.

Edited September 24, 2024 by RobB

[gorch]

Just as I went to concert. Sweet never liked their first hit Funny Funny, as well most of the bubble gum hits their carrier started off with.

Personally, I can't hear Smoke On The Water any more. That bloody house has been burned down a billion times now and keeps burning.

Added: It's kind of the Keith Richards song of Deep Purple. Call it the KRS disease. Dunny, but I think Hotel California is a KRS for the Eagles. Do Queen suffer KRS with We Are The Champions? Or is it Bohemian Rhapsody? George Michael probably died KRS for Careless Whisper.

What other KRS songs can you think of?

Edited September 24, 2024 by gorch

[princeofdarkness56]

Sweet started out as a pre packaged band by a record company in Britain and the music was written by Chinn and Chapman. Think the Archies, Ohio Express and to an extent the Monkeys. The thing was the guys in Sweet had band experience and a rough edge in their playing and a vision of the direction they wanted to go. When those early songs were played live they really cranked the volume and distortion and it created conflict with the record label. They started writing their own stuff and the rest is history. 

Aerosmith supposedly was not all that thrilled with Dream On. Not that they hated it but it was supposedly written just for the studio and were surprised that it was released as a single. When it became a hit they knew they would have to play it live and it had a different feel from their set at the time and was difficult to play live. 

[velorush]

17 hours ago, crunchee said:

Hated Their Biggest Hit

Oddly, I am in complete agreement with all five artists on all five songs.

[Steve Haynie]

Rick Nielsen hated The Flame when he first heard it.  Now it gets played at every Cheap Trick show. 

I Want You To Want Me was intended as a parody of the kind of song they hated. 

Think about being the guitar player in Survivor who has to keep that 16th note grind going for four minutes, or the guy who gets hired to play Edge of Seventeen for Stevie Nicks. 

[polara]

I assumed Fountains of Wayne would be on there. I read that Chris Collingwood hated "Stacy's Mom." Paraphrasing, but he said when Adam brought the song in, he knew it was brilliant and might be huge, but also knew its jokeyness would pigeonhole them. I believe him, as that band had two songwriters who both wrote great melodies but Chris wrote serious, melancholy songs with kind of opaque lyrics, while Adam wrote funny storytelling hits for (literally) movies and musicals.

[Jakeboy]

Page doesn’t hate Stairway. He loves it. And, for good reason. A perfectly crafted guitar masterpiece. 
 

Aerosmith made Dream On rock harder to fit their set. Listen to the incendiary version on Live Bootleg. 

[scottcald]

On 9/24/2024 at 9:34 AM, Steve Haynie said:

Rick Nielsen hated The Flame when he first heard it.  Now it gets played at every Cheap Trick show. 

I Want You To Want Me was intended as a parody of the kind of song they hated. 

Think about being the guitar player in Survivor who has to keep that 16th note grind going for four minutes, or the guy who gets hired to play Edge of Seventeen for Stevie Nicks. 

Waddy Wachtel and Frankie Sullivan get nothing but respect.  Try playing that, it ain't easy.  I've seen Wachtel in interviews say that sometimes the song gets extended because it's so big with the audience.  So, he could be playing that for like 10 minutes.