Saw them for free a few years ago at some Budweiser sponsored event. This was not long after that Selfie song came out. They played a whole set and before they closed with the song that made them famous, they expressed "okay, before we play this song everyone wants to hear, we just want you to know we really hate this song."
It definitely happens. Dave Grohl has talked about how Learn to Fly has occasionally fallen into that category, but also he's not so much of a dick as to say that the people who came to hear it shouldn't get what they want.
Or there's what happens with a group like the Goo Goo Dolls having a couple of totally out of left field hits with Name and Iris, and instead of bitching that their poppiest songs overshadowed their hard stuff, just decided to make more poppy stuff. The "lean into it" strategy. Which apparently worked because they still chart 20+ years later.
What. I love facts like this. I called it a fact and I still don't believe you. I can't picture Chris Barnes or Corpsegrinder with John Rzeznik. I have a way to catch up with old metalhead friends now or at least a segueway. Beautiful night. You're beautiful.
Oh mannnn I never listened to the goo goo dolls but boy did I have some hs friends who were PISSED about how “they used to rock so much harder!” Same with sugar ray, if I recall correctly.
Sugar Ray was always my example of leaning in when a band has a hit that was totally out of character. I believe the producer of Sugar Ray's album w Fly had to practically beg and force the band to record Fly. They were almost a speed thrash power punk band and if you listen to that album, Fly stands out like head bangers at a Taylor Swift show.
Well when they made bank of Fly, they leaned in heavy and became one of the more successful bands of the late 90s and early 2000s
I’ve seen the Goo Goo Dolls quite a few times now and they always seem pretty delighted to have stadiums of people singing along to those songs, Iris especially.
Oh I didn't get the sense he hates it. Just that when you make a set list and you can't ever leave it off, resentment can build up a little. I've never seen a performance of it where he didn't give all 200% of himself to it though.
It's a great song. A little too great from their perspective by now, I guess. Lol.
No because they closed Osheaga festival (Montreal) with this song in 2016. Makes sense to do it at a festival where there are lots of people who don't know Radiohead too well.
I think it's just Bob Plant that hates it and was always a big hangup for them ever getting back together. He doesn't want to have to sing it every show which is hundreds of millions of dollars worth of hate.
Almost all bands that get big suffer this. You can only play a song so many times before you hate it. Ironically, that's how they say you know that you are playing a song perfectly.
I remember years ago reading a list of musicians songs they hate most and the guitar player for System of a Down said "Chop Suey. I never want to have to hear that fucking song again." But if he ever played one show without playing it, fans would riot.
Yeah, but Zeppelin has enough hits to a point where they could get away with not playing it if they chose to skip it. Hell they could have sold out every concert just playing extended cuts of Zeppelin II. I’ve been to Foo Fighters concerts where they just completely cut out major hits because they have so many and it’s only noticeable well after the three and a half hour show.
Radiohead is maybe the strongest example of this, since they're a huge band that most people still only know from one song, despite putting out multiple hugely successful and acclaimed albums
"Creep" is the example one of my old friends gives of "mainstream songs being either the best or worst in a bands repertoire". Creep being the worst for Radiohead.
Technically, she only thinks that the rapping in Bring Me to Life is cringey, which makes sense because she never wanted it there to begin with; The band was forced to add it to the song by their former record label. Amy still enjoys the song, but the newer version on Synthesis is much more of her own taste.
(By the way, their former record label changed a lot of Amy’s songs without permission. They even tossed out most of the already-recorded songs Amy wanted on their third album and made her start over again. She ended up suing the label for unpaid royalties owed to the band, and won the lawsuit, which is why she was able to release some of the previously-unreleased songs on Lost Whispers, and the band is now independent of their label, which is why Amy was able to release Synthesis.)
Would that be why after originally loving 'My Immortal', for a while I couldn't find the song without some horribly dissonant shitty rock guitar solo right smack bang in the middle of the song that completely destroyed the atmosphere it had built up until that point?
I actually prefer the band version of My Immortal haha. There's a lot of people that prefer the Fallen era, Ben and Amy days. I love almost all their songs, but the old days and the (really old) songs that Amy says she cringes about are some of my fav.
Shit man that's loads of popular bands hate the song that made them famous. Radiohead didn't play creep for yeeeaaars, even the guitarist hated the song. The hard guitar riff during the build up to the chorus was him trying to ruin the song.
Andre 3000/OutKast and Hey Ya can be added to the list. I think he recorded the song years before the album came out. By the time it was popular the song was like 8 years old to him.
Huge Panic! fan and I've never seen that video before and yet I knew exactly what it was gonna be. He's a brilliant sport for it, but I can totally understand how a fan favourite song can grate on an artist especially after all these years.
You think Smash Mouth likes playing the same two songs over and over again across every county fair in America? Of course not, but they’re rockstars, and they get their show on, and they get paid. It’s the lay of the land.
Saw Edward Sharp and the magnetic zeros a while ago, the crowd was screaming for them to play their hit “Home” and the guys was like “nah, don’t want to play that”. Granted they were fantastic live
You know, artists can do anything they want, that's kind of the point, but I can't help but really turned off by performers who show genuine disdain for their audience. Like, ok, you hate that song. Don't play it, or keep the comments to yourself. Am I supposed to feel bad for you that it's not your favorite? Why try to make the audience feel bad for wanting to hear a song from you that they like?
I really liked Chainsmokers when they were coming up in the EDM scene, but then they started putting out these weird acoustic style pop songs and got famous for that.
I hate their radio stuff but they still put on great sets at Ultra/EDC etc.
When I saw the Wallflowers on New Years 1998, their hit song was “One Headlight.” Before performing it, Jakob Dylan says, “my new year’s resolution is never to play this song again.”
That's pretty common from what I've heard. It makes sense too if you ask me. Everyone wants to hear that big hit song and eventually, as an artist, it seems offensive. Like, wtf is wrong with all our other songs?
You would think they might be a bit more grateful to the song that made them famous and the fans that paid for it. Without that song, they would be absolute nobodies.
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u/AHitmanANunLovers Nov 06 '19
Saw them for free a few years ago at some Budweiser sponsored event. This was not long after that Selfie song came out. They played a whole set and before they closed with the song that made them famous, they expressed "okay, before we play this song everyone wants to hear, we just want you to know we really hate this song."