Great Artists... Terrible, Terrible Songs! Ten Classic Rock Stinkers 

That was awful

Did you forget his collaboration with Michael Jackson "say say say". McCartney should have stayed with Denny McClain who was underated under McCartney's star.

@@johnxgalt8312 Oh man, thanks for the memory. >_< I just thought of another awful song by an amazing group, Disco Strangler by the Eagles. 1979. As a 15 yr old recent convert to Rock and Roll I felt obligated to pretend to like the song because it kind of made fun of disco. But I knew the truth, IT STUNK.

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It got completely vindicated when used by Liana Blackburn dancing to it. That video is on youtube, and it's one of the hottest things you'll ever see.

Must be one of the worst Queen songs ever?1

i love tea for one

Its the only song on Presence I really listen to! Its a fabulous blues prog with great solos and Plant vocals. All the rest on Presence is turgid attempts at rock. Nobody's Fault But Mine is the only other song I'll listen to but only because of the solo and drums...

always liked pages guitar work on that track @@KeithLindquist

@@roywatson8133 The finest song on Presence.

top stuff @@boomer3150

Totally agree I like that song, mother. By the police, I think in its pathos it’s pretty funny and not unintentionally so I would argue. The guitar part is still pretty cool even though I can see how it wouldn’t annoy some people.

I'm American and I LOVE British humour! Best type of humour in the world.

I think we could perhaps get to grips with it by a firm hand and have a mass debate about MY Ding -A-Ling

I m not familiair with the other tracks, there is so much music, I ll never get around to it unfortunately, appearantly some can. TEA FOR ONE is a darling of mine, PRESENCE as a whole always has been to me. ACHILLES LAST STAND alone is worth everything. Though I m inclined to search out for different stuff, I m afraid some autism is active here, I often love to re listen old beloved stuff instead of jumping on to anything else, I might not do it cause of including this gem. Well at least someone with an appropriate name shares my taste. For a moment I feel less lonely now. Cheers Bro

@@jonblackers4339 All classics have timeless appeal and Zeppelin is definitely timeless. Cheers.

Agreed! 100% It's my go-to track on Presence.

I don't share that experience but I still like the song, especially given its place on the album in the middle of Side A. it takes the frantic energy hinted at in Synchronicity and bumps it up a couple notches.

@@bossfan49 I agree. I like Mother and it's place on the album. It fits nicely with Miss Gradenko and Walking In Your Footsteps.

I love it too. It brings a nice, 80's King Crimson like proggy aggression to the album.

I’ve always liked it and like you,it hits close to home! I love the ringtone idea😂

Love "Tea for One"...I would much rather hear it than "Since I've been..." Both good tunes, but "Tea..." is better IMO.

Shame the promising intro you mentioned turned into a 9-minute dirge that has nothing much to offer. Another stinker on the album is the one with a crap title, Royal Orleans. As for D'yer Mak'er from Houses of the Holy, it's a harmless novelty song with a great drum sound but it does go on a bit too long.

@@Railway_Railfan Think I might have to agree with you on that. There's just something about TFO that is very compelling. For me I think it's the idea of time moving slowly. When Plant sings "...Twenty four hours seem like a life time..." I can relate to that (and other lyrics in the song).

Yeah agree...Tea seems to convey more emotional pain than "Since I've been...", but both great Zep blues.

After ALS Tea For One is my fave track off Presence.The dirge like feel is relative to the lyrics and works perfectly.Plants world weary vocals and the lazy light night feel of the bass drums set the mood.Pages soloing is superb, atmospheric and restrained.No it doesn’t have the dynamics of Since I Have …but it doesn’t need to.

Hot Dog is always on my Zeppelin playlist, catchy as a MFer, that one

​@@dust-dogagree with you on the catchy, just thought he'd pick it. Surprised at tea for one though. Doesn't matter, it's all good.

Favorite Zep song by far.

And sadly wrong; it occupies 11 minutes 52 seconds on The London Chuck Berry Sessions, dog-rodgering an already bum production.

One to avoid then...

If you can find it - one of those cheap 70's Chess releases no one was interested in at the time and fewer are now.@@classicalbum

Glad you enjoyed it

​@@DadgeCityso do I :)

The song is brilliant.

I absolutely buy into the “children’s song” theory about this album. When you view it this way, you can enjoy it much more.

Sting insisted Andy sing it and that it be included on the LP. It's deliberately what it is. The less intelligent listeners get confused by levity and the avant-garde.

Love the comment about it being " groundbreaking"😂😂😂

If Brian Eno wrote it. I wonder if he would think differently 😅

One of the most out of place songs on an album in the history of rock. Terrible. Not a pallet cleanser. A pallet destroyer.

I bet the three band members had a wonderful scrap arguing over its inclusion 😊..my money would have been on Stewart Copeland!!

The song IS horrible, which is to say it perfectly encapsulates how many of us feel about our mothers. Best worst song on the list.

'Young Bob' !

Yeah, Robert Cray is on fire at the moment!👍

My Ding-a-Ling was originally a hit for Dave Bartholomew in the early 50s covered by Chuck Berry in 1972.

I'm certainly glad that all of the songs you recorded were better.

@@bobbybishop368 A well worded swipe. Nicely done. In truth, you're right. Some of the songs I recorded really were better. Thank you for being glad about that. My band just didn't have the big RCA machine behind us, pushing the latest one. Regardless, that's an immaterial point. Music, like all forms of entertainment, is subjective. If you like his work, then your opinion is right for you. As is my right, I happen to disagree. If you read my statement, it's clear I said what I believe instead of blithely saying it was all garbage, thereby dismissing your right to disagree with me. The truth is, Elvis actually did record a lot of dreck after 1963. Wooden Heart, anyone? The proof is in the fact that he disappeared from the public eye, save for a vast number of generally bad movies, each one attracting smaller and smaller numbers of box office returns. As I have always said, though, you don't have to be good to be popular and you don't have to be popular to be good. How many singers or bands sell millions of records, yet you personally, don't understand their popularity? The same applies to Elvis. He practically disappeared from the charts after 1963 and was even considered a has been in the music industry. Until his '68 TV special, many had forgotten his name. On the other hand, modern audiences will recognise The Beatles, for example, but Elvis is only a household name for those who are older. Whose music is withstanding the test of time and quality? It's not Presley, despite his enduring popularity with his hardcore fans. Is Elvis important to 20th Century music? Absolutely, yes! While he didn't invent Rock 'n' Roll, it was he with Scotty and Bill and Sam Phillips who made the new form acceptable to the mainstream audiences. Without Presley, it's possible the music revolution would have stayed almost hidden. But is Elvis the most enduring of all the Rock singers and bands that came after? Being objective and completely honest, only to his existing fans. Every singer and band will record stinkers. Elvis just did that with a lot of his recordings. In the end, to each their own. Even though the number was fabricated, the album title "50,000,000 Elvis Fans Can't Be Wrong" is correct for those who are his fans. Those who aren't his fans are also correct.

Congratulations.

@@bobbybishop368 Why, thanks.

​@@bobbybishop368the usual ret@rd response. Elvis fans better reach him ASAP

Agreed! 100% It's my go-to track on Presence.

It becomes obvious on songs like "Mother" and "Be My Girl (Sally)" that there was a reason Sting was the principal songwriter for The Police.

@@danielmaher7108 They are so bad that they are good !

Thank you too!

Yes I agree. Hot Dog is my least favourite Zep song, just feels like a throwaway B-side rockabilly pastiche. Tea for One is supposed to be brooding and listless, as Barry hinted I think it is about Jimmy Page’s increasing addiction to heroin which he would struggle to shake off for the best part of the next decade.

Agree, this song is horrible. Go it alone from Leather Jackets is not much better.

Really? Dachau Blues? Ella Guru? What about I Love You Big Dummy from Decals

I always avoid mentioning Trout Mask Replica. If people can't bring themselves to admit how utterly wretched it really is, that's their problem.

You are so welcome!

Lol so, so bad. I highly encourage watching the Todd in the Shadows episode on here that covers that album. It's absolutely hysterical

Agreed 110%. Smart girls IS an abortion. Yet The Beach boys were doing AS WORSE with many songs in their 90s catalog.

I really enjoy Page's soloing on the song

Agreed! 100% It's my go-to track on Presence. I actually thought he must be joking at first when I heard him mention it on his list.

Me as well

Unbearable indeed

Another Genesis clunker: Who Dunnit

I don't hate that song. But If I never have to hear Invisible Touch again, I'd be all the better for it

@@MoviesNStuff Wasn't the same after Peter Gabriel left!

@@simonpearn479 True! Still Duke, Wind and Wuthering, and A Trick of the Tail are great albums

Yes. The 80's were the Genesis of corporate musical sellouts that nobody with any taste had the Heart to listen to.

@@noyfb4769i see what you did here.

I like that song

Didn't know that! Wasn't Robert also injured in a separate car accident just prior to recording the Presence album?

I've done it

I keep that song on my Halloween playlist. I love how unhinged it is

@@hdervish2497 Yep .. Danny Elfman vibes .. like an Oingo Boingo thing or something.

Summers was hanging out with Robert Fripp, hence this song.

@@tucachannel4228 Yeah when I was a teenager I had that record "I Advanced Mask" .. Really good stuff.

Except that was the best thing on THAT album!😂

​@noyfb4769 hm, I'd say "On the Turning Away" is better, Learning to Fly is great however!

​@noyfb4769 I would have said the Dogs of war from AMLOR is a truly awful tune.

Hmm.......................have mixed feelings about Learning To Fly.....................it's one of the more decent songs on the fairly mediocre Momentary album, but it just goes on way too LONG!

I've never heard it, but the title sounds like a kids' song!

Mary Whitehouse was years ahead of her time - only now is she beginning to be appreciated by the bien pensant. Those of us in the know have understood and admired her from day one. It gives us a smug feeling, akin to having followed a mega band when they were still doing the pub circuit.

@@robertcook2572 Mmmm yeah, okay what ever floats your boat

@@robertcook2572 Listen to DEEP PURPLEs MARY LONG, please.....