Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Excellent slideshow of famous songs hated by the artists who wrote them

From Spinner.com. Check the full piece here, below is a sample.

Beastie Boys "Fight for your right"
It's hard to imagine the irony of this song being lost on anybody who's seen the caricatured gold-chained chumps partying in the accompanying video, but this song's ubiquity must have damaged the context. Not only do the Beasties say in the liner notes of 'The Sounds of Science' that the song "sucks," but Mike D laments that the guys pounding their fists and singing along "were oblivious to the fact that it was a goof on them.

Robert Plant "Stairway to heaven"
Led Zeppelin would possibly be back together if it weren't for "that bloody wedding song," as Robert Plant refers to 'Stairway.' He told the Los Angeles Times in 1988, "I'd break out in hives if I had to sing that song in every show. I wrote those lyrics and found that song to be of some importance and consequence in 1971, but 17 years later, I don't know. It's just not for me." And how about those Satanic back maskings, Mr. Plant?

Madonna "Like a virgin"
There are divas, and then there are divas who are so diva, they can refuse to sing the songs that earned their diva status in the first place. Actually, there's only one, and her name is Madonna. "I'm not sure I can sing 'Holiday' or 'Like a Virgin' ever again," she told New York radio station Z100. "I just can't -- unless somebody paid me, like, $30 million or something. [Like if] some Russian guy wants me to come to the wedding he's going to have to a 17-year-old, you know it." They don't call her the Material Girl for nothin'.

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