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Popular songs that bands hate playing? (1 Viewer)

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Read something about Radiohead and how they hate the song Creep and will never play it live.

Not sure how true. 

Anyone know of any big songs by bands that they hate playing for whatever reason?

 
Saw Toadies a few years ago. They opened with Possum Kingdom.  Immediately after the singer got on the mic and said everyone who came for that ####### song can leave now, hate that thing. Then cut right into song 2.

 
MAC_32 said:
Saw Toadies a few years ago. They opened with Possum Kingdom.  Immediately after the singer got on the mic and said everyone who came for that ####### song can leave now, hate that thing. Then cut right into song 2.
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:lmao:  I'd thank Mr. Toady for that, save me the trouble of sitting through the swill

 
Robert Plant has only sung "Stairway To Heaven" 3 times in the past 38 years (at 3 Zep reunion shows). He refuses to sing it in any of his solo concerts.

 
Radiohead usually plays Creep a handful or so of times per tour, but I am sure they are definitely not big fans of it. 

Despite being a song that hung around on classic rock radio for decades, Rush was never wild about Fly by Night.  It didn't get played their last 35 years of touring. 

Billy Joel hasn't played Tell Her About It since the 80's, which seems like an odd song for him to not like. 

 
Jonathan Richman refused audience requests for Roadrunner every time I've seen him.  I'm pretty sure he never played it live after the original Modern Lovers broke up but I can't find any verification.  He's 66 years old now and being out all night probably isn't a priority.

 
Eephus said:
Jonathan Richman refused audience requests for Roadrunner every time I've seen him.  I'm pretty sure he never played it live after the original Modern Lovers broke up but I can't find any verification.  He's 66 years old now and being out all night probably isn't a priority.
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Bolded: I just came across that CD today. 

Toadies have a lot of good songs; no need to bag on them.  Possum Kingdom is fantastic as is Hell Below/Stars Above. Motivational is the shizznit. 

I don't have anybody to add here to the thread. I wonder how John Lydon (Johnny Rotten) feels about his great rock n' roll swindle.  

 
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Billy Joel hasn't played Tell Her About It since the 80's, which seems like an odd song for him to not like. 
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I saw him last year at Wrigley Field, and he played for almost two and a half hours. Keeping The Faith and Tell Her About It were just about the only two hits he did not sing. Both of those songs have a horn section, and Billy did not have one with him. I wonder if that had something to do with it.

He also did not play She's Always A Woman, but that was expected considering it is about his ex-wife whose brother swindled Billy out of eight figures of revenue. 

 
Saw Adam Ant a while back.  He played all of his early hits, but Wonderful (a later and marginally more popular song) was omitted from the playlist.  It’s an apology to his former girlfriend Heather Graham.  Maybe it’s just too far outside of his popular hits, but really quite a hit iirc.

 
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Encyclopedia Brown said:
I saw him last year at Wrigley Field, and he played for almost two and a half hours. Keeping The Faith and Tell Her About It were just about the only two hits he did not sing. Both of those songs have a horn section, and Billy did not have one with him. I wonder if that had something to do with it.

He also did not play She's Always A Woman, but that was expected considering it is about his ex-wife whose brother swindled Billy out of eight figures of revenue. 
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Did he do "Just the Way You Are?"  That's also about the same ex (Elizabeth Weber) and has a sax.  

 
I worked with Martha Reeves when she showcased her first solo album and she refused to do any Vandella songs (the lawsuit for her freedom from Motown was pretty ugly). God bless him, Nicky Hopkins worked up a lot of nice covers to fill out her set, but the audience just kept waiting & waiting & waiting and...............bupkes, far as anything they could jump up to. Weird show.

 
wikkidpissah said:
I worked with Martha Reeves when she showcased her first solo album and she refused to do any Vandella songs (the lawsuit for her freedom from Motown was pretty ugly). God bless him, Nicky Hopkins worked up a lot of nice covers to fill out her set, but the audience just kept waiting & waiting & waiting and...............bupkes, far as anything they could jump up to. Weird show.
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If I saw Martha and didn't hear Heatwave, boy would I have been pissed.  

 
rockaction said:
If I saw Martha and didn't hear Heatwave, boy would I have been pissed.  
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That was the thing. We were third on the bill. Chambers Bros were ahead of us and half the Rolling Stones (Hopkins, Bobby Keys, Mick Taylor all week, Keith Richards a coupla night) were in Maaahtha's band, then PFFFFFT......except for publicists' night, it all fell on deaf ears of folks waiting for the Monkey Time. Painful. Grrrreat parties, tho -

 
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