Embarrassingly Bad Parts Of Otherwise Good Songs
 

Ever have a song you really like except one part that's so bad or flat out dumb that it's embarrassing? This is the place to discuss them.

One that comes immediately to mind for me is "New York City Cops" by the Strokes. I love this song but god damn is the vocal intro retarded. I feel shame for Julian Casablancas every time I hear it.



Ow!

I mean: Agh!

No, I didn't mean that at all.

:rolleyes:

Plenty! Now I just have to remember which ones...but I'll enjoy everyone else's in the meantime. :D

I like that intro! I think it's meant playfully, to mock his own vocal ticks, that he uses throughout that album.

So...Coheed.


It may be miniscule, but you'll notice it around 0:58.

I cannot stand the way he says "baby." So much so, I try my best to fast forward throught that part. It's a great song,

..Actually there's alot of words he pronounces oddly in the song.

It's so self-consciously playful though, I just find it painful to listen to.

LOL. Seriously, I literally laughed out loud at that. :laughing:

Actually I found his voice pretty funny in general.

The of Yndi Halda's Enjoy Eternal Bliss album is one of the most painfully unfitting things I have ever heard.

This is a pretty standard reaction to Claudio, lol.

LMFAO! :rofl: I laugh as a fan of Coheed, because I know exactly how you feel! That one word always bugged the shit out of me. I've been a fan of theirs for many years but was put off a bit by the last album, don't listen to them nearly as much now (ok hardly ever). But there are moments in some of their older tracks that made me cringe a little too, though not this bad. I may think of them later.

No particular song but I hate it when hip hop tracks have a skit as part of the track, like at the end of the song or the beginning or something. The majority of skits are annoying anyway, without having them built into the actually track. At least separate them, it just makes it awkward and annoying if you want to use them in a playlist or something!

The way he pronounces "eventually" as "oventually" shortly after that part was pretty hilarious too.

I thought it'd be a lot worse. As yet another fan of Coheed, I'm sure I could come with with parts of songs that are more embarrassing than this one.

That "Woah Oh, Oh woah oh ou ah ou awh" or whatever part in Blood Red Summer was always embarassing to me...but I just skimmed through the song on YouTube and I guess I'm more used to it now. Not one of my favorite songs of theirs though, to be sure. One of the first really poppy ones.

There's a part in "Junesong Provision" that bothers me.

Let me try to find what you were talking about in "Blood Red Summer," though.

It's around 3:45 I think, maybe it was 2:45. Something :45.

In my opinion, the song is far too light for Coheed and Cambria as well as the video.

Other than the bridge, I'm not fond of the song in general.

It isn't comparible(sp?) to most of their other work. That song is just embarassing in general.

Yeah I agree, it really put me off when that album came out...too pop. But I liked the album a lot as a whole when it came out. Just not as much anymore.

I never minded the Whoah oh oh Whoah oh oh part.

Actually, No World For Tomorrow was chocked full of embarrassments.

Say what you will, but this is a waste of space, dammit. When I thought of House Atlantic getting owned, I was thinking something ALOT more epic.

While "On the Brink" is an outstanding track, they somehow figured it would be cool to do the "Hail!"'s.

I forget the actual number of them, and I remember that each hail was to represent a planet in the Keywork. Starts around 3:46, and lasts untill 4:44.
Horrible.


I haven't been a Coheed fan since about IKSSE3.

Yeah, both those songs suck I'm sorry to say.

Well aside from the "Hail!", I think On the Brink is great.

This is a norwegian minor hit from the 90s which is okay I think but .. What the hell is going on at 2:08 and on? What the hell were they thinking? :F

:laughing:

It's like a musical cheese war!

At least it makes the following refrain sound good in comparison. Maybe it was just a strategy ;)

Is it just me or can you picture the keyboardist just going down the row of instrument selection buttons pushing each one in succession for that bridge part.

"Hmmm... okay piano... oh, now electric piano... now bells... now synth wash. Man this sounds great!"

I didn't notice anything weird about the song...seemed consistent throughout.

Didn't you notice anything weird about the bridge part after 2:08?

The part starting at 2:00 always bugged me,especially when it was over and he does that awful scream at around 2:06.

Listening to it again, I guess it's a little weird and weak, but overall it really doesn't hit me over the head. Probably because I'm not used to listening to stuff like this...nothing about the song appeals to me so one cheesy part isn't going to stand out much from the rest. :p:

Remember "Groove is In the Heart" by Dee-Lite?

I hated the whachamacallit solo, sounds like a cartoon sound of falling and rising. ? Me confuse self, can think not of name of thingy.

Slide whistle

Seems to fit within the context of a silly song, IMO. I can see it as annoying, but the whole song is embarrassing in itself. :p:

I always liked the song. I would dance to the beat and then embarass the hell out of myself during that solo by doing things I shouldn't have done on the dance floor.

OH! WAIT! Embarassing to the BAND, not ME...

Okay how about Slightly Stoopid's song "Till It Gets Wet." After releasing the previous album, Everything You Need, this song on the following release, Closer to the Sun, completely sours the entire album, let alone the dub reggae dancebeat it is sung to.

Everything You Need is one of my all time favorite albums though. I feel betrayed.

The

part of "Hey You". It's one of the finest examples of darker Pink Floyd right up until that point. It gets almost... cheery.

.....in comparison to the rest of this abortion, it is a pretty trifling thing to get upset by.

.....Elvis Costello has good songs with a few cambrian moments.

blasphemy.

the best strokes songs.

I loathe the "di-di-di-di" in Here Comes The Sun.

The guitar solo in Hysteria by Muse.

One of the most awesome riffs in the history of riffdom, topped with an incredible, nay, amazing song - and then that guitar solo.

Matt may be a great singer, and a great pianist, and a great riffer - but he should leave solos to those who can play them, IMHO.



/grabs coat and runs from legions of angry Muse fans who actually rather like the solo... :D

1. The spoken French portion of 'United Abominations' by Megadeth. They're saying 'We need a new bicycle.', if my French doesn't fail me.
2. Sabaton, 'Reign of Terror ': "Night time, prime time! Ancient legacy of crime!" Please, stop! You're embarrassing me!
3. The "Oh no!" from Black Sabbath, the song. The rest is good, but that part sounds cheesy.

^ Still better than the French part from Talking Heads' "Psycho Killer" [tho it's my favorite part ] and nothing's wrong with Megadeth's French portion also.

I don't know where you got the "bicycle" from, but that's what they're saying:

-Unissez votre revolution ------- Unite your revolution
-Nous avons besoin d'un nouvel ordre mondial ------- We are in need of a new world order

Your French is failing you BIG TIME!

Maybe that's why French people routinely throw things at me. :bonkhead:
I mis-heard the last part of 'nouvel' and the 'o' of 'ordre' as 'velo'.