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It annoys me that Floyd do not recognise Atom Heart Mother's splendour. Nothing wrong with the tune itself though.
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I can be alone on this one but the final guitar solo on Siberian Khatru annoys me. He plays one nice sentence at 8:27 and one like it later but the rest is IMHO poor compared to what he's done at other solos.
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I adore The Revealing Science of God but the squeaky dog toy noises make me a bit crazy.
 
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A couple of things spring to mind -
 
1) Rush's "Different String" fades out too early just as the guitar solo is getting really interesting
2) Transatlantic getting the words of "And You and I" and "Nights In White Satin" wrong on the Kaleidoscope bonus CD ("Letters are written" instead of "Letter's I've written").
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Originally posted by The Dark Elf The Dark Elf wrote:

Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

hard question.... if something really annoyed me... I wouldn't like it. It isn't like there isn't a great mass of music I do love that doesn't annoy me in the least.
I was thinking the same thing. Other than songs I like ending too soon (particularly when a lead fades out just when it heats up), I wouldn't really like a song all that much if I thought it was flawed.
 
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Originally posted by zappaholic zappaholic wrote:

Originally posted by zravkapt zravkapt wrote:

Originally posted by zappaholic zappaholic wrote:


- In Voivod's cover of "Astronomy Domine", Snake gets the words wrong in a couple places: "Oberon, Miranda and Titania" becomes "Oberon, there on the run, Titanian", and "Stairways scare, Dan Dare, who's there" becomes "Stairways scared and death rules there".

Before the CD reissue of Piper in the '90s, nobody knew what the lyrics really were. Also, the members of Voivod speak French as their first language so they just wrote down what they thought they heard.


Yeah, I probably should have mentioned that I'm fully aware English isn't their first language (been a fan of theirs for ages).  Still, to my ears.... kinda jarring.

It doesn't matter if they spoke English as a second language, "Oberon, Miranda and Titania" are moons of Uranus, and are not derived from English words. They were obviously unaware of both Astronomy and Shakespeare. Miranda and Titania come from Latin roots and Oberon is originally...French.Shocked
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Originally posted by zravkapt zravkapt wrote:

Originally posted by zappaholic zappaholic wrote:


- In Voivod's cover of "Astronomy Domine", Snake gets the words wrong in a couple places: "Oberon, Miranda and Titania" becomes "Oberon, there on the run, Titanian", and "Stairways scare, Dan Dare, who's there" becomes "Stairways scared and death rules there".

Before the CD reissue of Piper in the '90s, nobody knew what the lyrics really were. Also, the members of Voivod speak French as their first language so they just wrote down what they thought they heard.


Yeah, I probably should have mentioned that I'm fully aware English isn't their first language - been a fan of theirs for ages, and Nothingface is as near to perfect as I could hope for an album to be.  Still, to my ears.... kinda jarring.




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Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

hard question.... if something really annoyed me... I wouldn't like it. It isn't like there isn't a great mass of music I do love that doesn't annoy me in the least.
I was thinking the same thing. Other than songs I like ending too soon (particularly when a lead fades out just when it heats up), I wouldn't really like a song all that much if I thought it was flawed.
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Originally posted by Finnforest Finnforest wrote:

I could really do without the half minute of clock noises at the beginning of "Time". 


I don't mind the clocks unless I'm trying to drift off to sleep, then they are most unwanted...
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- The very end of TD's Force Majeure track (completely out of place IHMO)
- The narration in Amon Düül II's Deutsch Nepal (ruins the ambiance)
- Most spoken interludes in 70-80's Hawkwind studio / live albums
- The "prehistoric cavern" man voice in Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells Part 2


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Originally posted by zappaholic zappaholic wrote:


- In Voivod's cover of "Astronomy Domine", Snake gets the words wrong in a couple places: "Oberon, Miranda and Titania" becomes "Oberon, there on the run, Titanian", and "Stairways scare, Dan Dare, who's there" becomes "Stairways scared and death rules there".

Before the CD reissue of Piper in the '90s, nobody knew what the lyrics really were. Also, the members of Voivod speak French as their first language so they just wrote down what they thought they heard.

RE: 'Little Wing'. There are lots of songs that fade out just as they're gettin' good. Compare Gilmour's solo at the end of "Comfortably Numb" on The Wall compared to any live version.
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hard question.... if something really annoyed me... I wouldn't like it. It isn't like there isn't a great mass of music I do love that doesn't annoy me in the least.
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Points: 1774 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 24 2016 at 10:04
Originally posted by zappaholic zappaholic wrote:


- In Voivod's cover of "Astronomy Domine", Snake gets the words wrong in a couple places: "Oberon, Miranda and Titania" becomes "Oberon, there on the run, Titanian", and "Stairways scare, Dan Dare, who's there" becomes "Stairways scared and death rules there".


Voivod's lyrics actually make more sense. LOL
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I could really do without the half minute of clock noises at the beginning of "Time". 
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Points: 2822 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 24 2016 at 09:01
The topic here is songs that you like a lot, but there's one really annoying aspect to them that keeps them from being "perfect".

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- In Voivod's cover of "Astronomy Domine", Snake gets the words wrong in a couple places: "Oberon, Miranda and Titania" becomes "Oberon, there on the run, Titanian", and "Stairways scare, Dan Dare, who's there" becomes "Stairways scared and death rules there".
- In Procol Harum's "Conquistador", Gary Brooker pronounces the title wrong (Con-KWIS-ta-dor as opposed to Con-KEES-ta-dor).
- Jimi Hendrix's "Little Wing": just as it really starts to get into gear, it fades out!  It feels like half a song.
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