17 striking popular musicians hate playing live
From "like a virgin" to "feel the spirit of the teenager" ...
Skirt around everything you want, but you buy concert tickets for a reason: see your favorite groups play their greatest successes. But unfortunately, not allmusician I like to play the songs that made them famous. In fact, some hatreds squares of hatred, and will firmly refuse to play them, no matter how loud fans commencing for live interpretation. Do you want to avoid these price of heavy tickets and these main disappointments? Here are the songs on the rock legends, the grunge pioneers, the princesses of the pop and more refusal to play concert. And for deeper cuts with deep meanings, check these20 popular songs with secret messages.
1 "Tears in paradise" by Eric Clapton
In recent years,Eric Clapton In fact, in fact, included "tears in paradise" on its construction lists, but the song is still considered aHe will never play. The fans assumed that it was because of the intense emotional pain associated with the track, which was written as a way for Clapton to treat his grief as a result of the tragic death of his four-year-old son in 1991. But When the artist initially retired "tears to heaven" 15 years ago - with "my father's eyes", another song on his son - he said it was actually because he no longer felt the loss. "[The songs] probably need a rest," he saidToday In 2004. "Maybe I will present them from a much more detached point of view."
2 "I kissed a girl" from Katy Perry
Katy Perry has evolved since it broke on the music scene with "I kissed a girl" in 2008 - and the culture so much in general. In an interview with 2018 withCharmPerry acknowledged that the song contains stereotypes that certainly do not age well. "We really changed, in conversation, over the last 10 years," she said. "We have traveled a long way. Bisexuality was not as spoken with regard to the back, or any type of fluidity."
If she had to start again, Perry noted that she rewrites the song. We may have a more awake version to wait with impatience a future LP. And find out more about today's young talents, meetThe 21 most talented musicians under 21.
3 "(You must) beat me for your right (to party!" By Beastie Boys
The problem with the first Major Beastie Boys simple is that the listeners missed the point entirely. The song was ironic - and everyone took itmanner too seriously. For a moment, the group was accompanied by the joke, even to filming aMusical clip who kept the schtick, but they ceased to perform the song in 1987. The problem, as they explained toNPR In an interview with 2011, were they themselves started to forget that "the fight for your right" was destined for parody and yielded in the stereotype of drunk wall that they mocked. "It's almost as if we started getting out of the kind of goofing," says the delayAdam Yauch, "But then it is enough to become, in a certain way." And for more songs, you have not experienced the meaning of, check20 songs that you totally misunderstood, explained.
4 "Wonderwall" by Oasis
Oasis FrontmanLiam Gallagher Has never been one to avoid talking about his mind, so it's not really a surprise that he was so open on his hatred for "Wonderwall", the greatest success of Bang. "Every time I have to sing, I want gag," said GallagherMTV News In 2008. "The problem is that it was a great song for us. You go to America and they are like: 'Are you Mr. Wonderwall?' You want someone to do. "And for more music music to add to your queue, do not miss these40 facts about music that really sing.
5 "Creep" of Radiohead
When you think of hitting songs that hate the hatred to play live, "creep", "the melancholy rock stone of Radiohead is probably the first one that comes to mind. In recent years, however, they are apparently softened a bit. After reintroduced slightlythe song to their list of results - he appeared on the tour for 2016A pool in the form of a moon-guitaristEd O'Brien RecountRolling stoneIn 2017, "it's a good song. It's good to play for good reasons. People like that and want to hear it."
Nevertheless, O'Brien noted that, for the most part, they avoid it. Main singerTHOM YORKE, Who said that the group played only "Creep" once or twice that year, admitted that it sometimes wants to stop smoking halfway.
6 "Big me" by foo fighters
TheEmblematic video For "Big Me", by Foo fighters, parocked a commercial mentos-and fans do never let the group forget it. FrontierDave GrohlHave complained of not being able to play the song without fans harassing them with mentos. "We made a show in Canada and, in the middle of the song, someone threw a bag, and it struck me just in the face," he recalled inAn interview of 2005. "I was so [upset]!" And if you are curious about the advertising that caused the drama, check it amongThe memorable clichés of the 1990s will make you so nostalgic.
7 "Like a virgin" Madonna
Everyone butMadonna This seems obsessed with his age: the pop legend makes new music and sell huge sites and all around presented irrepressible exuberance. Nevertheless, the idea of the diva of more than 62 years who makes "like a virgin" does not feel well. In 2008, she saidA New York radio station that she could not do it (or another single single, "holiday"). "I can not - if someone pays me as $ 30 million," she joked.
8 "Staircase in paradise" by Led Zeppelin
While Led Zeppelin dissolved in 1980, the main singerRobert Plante In recent decades turned around with its solo projects and the song is not on its idle list. He explained his rather succinct reluctance in an interview of 1988 with theLos Angeles Times. "I would break hives if I had to sing this song in every show," said the plant. "I wrote these words and I found that the song of a certain importance and some consequence in 1971, but 17 years later, I do not know. It's just not for me. " And 48 years later, it's still not. And for more information on the Zeppelin LED directory, find them amongSuper popular bands that were the last to join streaming services.
9 "Brass in the pocket" by the pretensioners
Although "brass in the pocket" was the first big blow of pretending, Principal SingerChrissie Hynde has never been a fan. "I never thought it was so great," she said in a2016 maintenance. She did not like the way the song sounded ("I used to worry when I heard my voice"), she hated the way people took it to be a song of " Power girl ", and she did not like it much less" Power girl "role in theMusical clip. The group, which officially gathered in 2016, can still perform the song, but that does not mean the opinion of Hynd on it has changed.
10 "Feel like the spirit of teen" from Nirvana
The fans who saw Nirvana back in the day could have been disappointed not to hear the greatest success of the grunge masters, "feels the spirit of adolescence." To a particular show,Rolling stone reported that omission has inspired a "Strong Choir of Boos". But main singerKurt COBAIN, who died by suicide in 1994, told the magazine that his discomfort with the glory and the crushing success of the song made it play "an embarrassment". "I can hardly, especially in a bad night like tonight, go through" The Spirit of Adolescence, "he said." I want literally throw my guitar and leave. I can not pretend to have a good time playing. "
Oh, then there wasThe 1992 infancy situation in Buenos Aires. The public did not feel the opening deed of Nirvana, Calamity Jane - a feminine grunge punk band - and the scene boxes. Called on the blatant sexism, cobain and company launched all the songs on the game playing at the opening riff for "feel the spirit of adolescence" ... before playing a dark B side, tease several times The public without giving them what they wanted. All the show, not a single radiological shot was played. "This ... complete set [was] one of the biggest experiences I've ever had," Cobainsaid later.
11 "Happy brilliant people" by R.E.M.
While R.E.M. broken in 2011, Principal SingerMichael Stipe has beenspill the wordon a new solo project. But if you end up viewing it, do not expect to hear an interpretation of R.E.M.'S 1991 Smash, "Bright Happy People". Although it is abstricted explicitly from badmouts the song - which, a fun side note, wasalmost the theme song forFriends- Stipe is clearly not a fan. InAn interview of 2003He said that the song "had a limited call for me", but added: "There may be someone who hears someone who hears that for whom this song means everything, to whom this song means represents something in their life that is essential - and I do not want to take them. "
12 "Nothing compares 2 U" from Sinead O'Connor
Sometimes artists discreetly eliminate songs from their power lists; Sometimes they make a real ad. That's whatSinead O'Connor inA since 2015 Facebook Post, in which she explained that she would sing her anymorethe greatest success, because she could not identify emotionally with her. "If I had just sing to please people, I would not do my job, because my job needs to be emotionally available," she wrote. "I would be lying. You will have a lie."
That said, when sheis Capable of exploiting the emotional honesty of the song, it will leave it to the rafters. Case in point: during a rare appearance September 2019 onTardif late show, O'Connor blood "nothing compares 2 u" as a tribute to the end, big, incomparablePrince (Who wrote the song). And for more classics on Heartbreak, here'sThe 100 best rupture songs of all time.
13 "Misery Business" of Paramore
"Misery Business" was an inevitable hit in the summer of 2007, but the lyrics of the song had troubled listeners over the years. One Lyric especially - "Once a W ****, you are no longer" -has come under fire to be anti-feminist. SingerHayley Williams Recognized that she has been cultivated since she wrote the song,saying, "I was 17 year old when I wrote the words in question and if I can somehow illustrate what to grow, get information and become any nuance of" alarm clock ", so it's An agreement with me. " For a moment, paramore made the song with the excised words, but in 2018 the group decided toretire from their game list entirely.
14 "Daddy" of Korn
"Daddy" has never been an easy song for Korn Lead SingerJonathan DavisTo perform, and with good reason: it's about sexual abuse that he has undergone as a child. The version of the album ends with Davis who fell into tears and, for years, the group would not perform "dad" live. So it was news in 2015 when Kornintroduces the song in their game list After two decades. "It's not going to touch me as he did at the time," Davis said. "I buried that. I'm just going to play the song for people who need it."
15 "Speed of sound" by ColdPlay
InAN INTERVIEW OF 2016,Howard Stern Requested Coldplay Singer of leadChris MartinIf one of the shot of the band has become massive blows - and it pointed thisX & Y Single leader. "I think we just did a [bad] recording," he said "sound speed". Beyond that, however, Martin should not like the song, that Coldplay has only played a handful of times in recent years.
16 "Party in the U.S.A." By Miley Cyrus
How muchMiley Cyrus Hates his ear envelope of a single "party in u.s.s.a."? In 2011,Page SIX Reported that the Pop star asked a DJ to play one of his songs - but not that one. And whenJimmy Fallon Tested his "name of this song" skills in 2018 onThe show tonight, shedid not even recognize it. Maybe it's because she has never really connected to the lyrics. CyrusSaid infamous In 2009 that she did not know whatJay Z Song his track referenced because she never heard of it.
17 "Jack and Diane" from John Mellencamp
John MellencampSavilis that his fans want to hear the "little publisher of Jack and Diane", but the troubled story of the song has somewhat lifted on it. You see, "Jack and Diane" was at the origin of an interracial couple, but it does not have a good jacious with record exams originally, Mellencamp toldHuffPostIn 2014. Although he played (part of) his concert, he minimized the success of the song over the years. "I'm not proud of the fact that a song could climb the cards and a song was not:" he said In an interview of 2005. "I am proud of the fact that I could create these songs. It seems to be more important than the fact that this song was a success or that this song was a shot." And for a more incredible musical cover, here is 20 successful songs that you will not believe that this year .