What BNL Songs Do You Dislike?

I didnt think it was possible for anyone to dislike For You. Are you sure you hear at the same frequencies as the rest of mankind?! Actually, if i skip any they tend to be the famous ones that i may be perhaps over familiar with... Million Dollars for example, All been done and Old Apartment would be two more, but even then its only occasionally.

Another Postcard and Shopping
Odd, since some of my most played tracks (ie. For You) are also on E2E.

I am a parent.  And I just don't connect with it at all. 

I think pretty much everyone who knows me knows that I can no longer stand Jane.  I used to love it to bits years ago, but then it always seemed to get dragged out at this point in the set list when my back would be aching from having waited in line for hours (d*mn GA shows!), and I grew to despise it.  I could live happily for the rest of my life if I never had to hear it again, lol.

Ooh, forgot about $1,000,000.
If it's not one the two dozen versions I'm skipping over in my music, I'm cursing it as it heralds the end of a show.

I have two classes of songs: Songs I always hated, and songs I came to hate (actually that brings up a third class of songs I hated but came to like).

I liked For You when E2E dropped, but it became very overplayed in 2004-5 as part of the regular "one mic" acoustic sets at almost every show, and on TV appearances etc. It's been unplayed for a while so I'm not as out of love with it, but I got really sick of that one for some reason. What a Good Boy is another one I liked but got down on it after hearing it live a lot. Simple three-chord song with a repeating melody that wasn't as dynamic as other songs. I came back to enjoying this one though. The power of the ending is what makes it enjoyable for me now.

As to songs I just really don't like, it's usually musically rather than lyrical.

From E2E, i thought For You was far superior to Have You Seen My Love, in the folky acoustics genre. The major-chord slow waltz thing did nothing for me.

I never liked Wrap Your Arms Around Me although I stopped hating it and now it's just neutral. I have no idea what I have against it, it just doesn't do anything for me.

I find Everything Old Is New Again a bit slow and dreary in its music, and similarly Wrong Man Was Convicted (these two and wrap your arms form a trilogy of mellow (semi-)story-based almost-ballads that I'm not terribly fond of. I Live With It Everyday is another story-based one that isn't a favourite, but it's more upbeat, and I don't mind listening to it.

BLAM came out with 29 songs and I think they should have pulled the best 15-20 of them for an album. I think the quality was spread a bit thin on that album and it resulted in a bunch of songs I don't really enjoy. A bunch of them are neutral - not bad, just not special or memorable (New Sad, What a letdown, somethign you'll never find, quality), but a few I really don't enjoy.

I really don't like Adrift on BLAM. I DID like it when it was a mid/uptempo number on the Au Naturale tour (sort of captuned on the "Stop Me" CD's E2E version, but that version is still a bit low-energy for me.)

Beautiful might be my least favourite BNL song (maybe). I don't really understand the lyric, I find the melody and tone of the song a bit dry and soft-rapping over fingerpicked acoustic guitar just felt really weird and out of place on this one. I hated this one from the first time I heard it.

Another Spin is just a little... weird to me I think this one is a lyrical thing. I usually like Kevin's folksy homey lyrics that just talk about everyday things (see first verse of Serendipity), but on Another Spin, I just thought it was all for naught (rhyming "Alaska" with "Arts & Crafts Shop"?). Similarly, the line "Sweet potato pie/Is what your mom would always make" comes off written backwards, and the second line of the phrase doesn't even fit sylable wise and ends up crammed in. The two-verse song ultimately doesn't resolve either. A bridge or third verse resolving the song might have helped it in my eyes. Of all the songs cut from albums in their day to become bsides or bonus tracks, this is probably the one I most agree with (almost all of the others I actually like). Notably, this one was sort of not cut, since the "full" Are Men release actually included it and the other 3 "cut" tracks.

A lot of people didn't like AIGT (including Ed apparently?) but I really liked most of it. I sometimes skip How Long just because the lyrics seem minimal and not saying anything to me. Three very short and very general verses and a one-line repeated chorus "don't say how long" (still not sure what that means). I do like this song for its atmostphere, production and relatively different (for BNL) musical sound (the dischordant verse arpeggios). It was a really dark and moody cool song (and opening riff) to start the AIGT preview shows where the song had not been heard before.

Of all the Jim songs, the only one I generally skip is She Turned Away. Again, maybe I just don't like BNL waltzes. Reminded me of Have you Seen My Love. Like How Long, I think this one doesn't quite contain a complete thought or story (I stand to be corrected; I'm admittedly terrible at lyrical interpretation). I respectfully think that the wrong two Hearn songs got cut from AIGT. I understand Jerome and Northern Lights brought a more unique and different sound to the album than the more traditional pop-rock Let There Be Light and AIGT, but I really love those cut songs. Jerome loses me not so much with its quirky content (that is a bit randomly thrown into the album) but with it's quirky lazy rhythm that just doesn't excite me. Northern Lights is a beautiful soundscape to close the album, but as for repeated listening, it's just too much of a lullaby. It puts me to sleep.

I don't think there is a song on Grinning Streak that I don't listen to. I usually skip the outro to Crawl eventually as it goes on for a while.

Not going to go into Snacktime/Holidays since I don't consider those primary songs

Some songs I started out disliking but grew to like including Same Thing (started hating it on BOAPS, but really liked the faster '93 version; came to enjoy the slow one because of that). I started out not liking the Jim tunes In The Drink/Spider; they were musically wierd to me and not what I liked about BNL; but they grew one me after live performance and now they are among my favourites. Another Postcard and Easy are two singles I hated, but upon hearing them live, I far prefer them live. Postcard, which felt really hollow to me as a recording, has (or had w/ Steve) some really nice harmonies in the chorus and the arrangement is fuller and more exciting, and Easy (which I found extremely boring on the album) is a bit more rocking live. I still far prefer to listen to the heavier rock mix I made of it for that "remix" contest back in '07.

I like every song! I do find myself skipping a few of them on occasion though. I suppose my least favourites are:

The King of Bedside Manor, Little Tiny Song, Great Provider, Spider In My Room, and Half A Heart

I could never get into Spider in my Room...and nothing against Kevin Hearn (and the fans that love him) but I can't get into anything he sings either....except Eraser..which is a kids song!